Forbidden Area, Netherworld Blood Sea!

In the valley of the ninth island, Huang Wushen, who had been facing the mountain wall, just stood up and turned around. Xie Yue was already standing behind him, his eyes fixed on Huang Wushen.

"Senior Brother, if you wanted to see me, I would have met you. This is Kunlun's forbidden area; how could you just enter?" Huang Wushen faced Xie Yue, his eyes still closed. "If I hadn't closed the restrictions, would you have forced your way in?"

"Enough nonsense!" Xie Yue's brow twitched. He stared directly at Huang Wushen. "When Master handed Kunlun over to your care, no one in the world dared to oppose Kunlun. But now, not only has someone broken my Great Sumeru Positive and Negative Nine Palaces Formation, but even some minor demonic cultivators dare to stir up trouble. Never mind me; I think anyone can barge into Kunlun now!"

After Xie Yue finished speaking, before Huang Wushen could reply, he suddenly saw a vast expanse of sword light in the eastern sky, like ten thousand horses galloping. Even from a distance, he could feel a chilling pressure. "Great Five Elements Annihilation Sword Formation!" Xie Yue's expression changed drastically again, a terrifying murderous intent flashing in his eyes. "You've actually made disciples cultivate such a deadly sword formation?!"

"Senior Brother, you blame me?" Huang Wushen said silently. "Although you severed your six senses and entered seclusion to cultivate the Perfect Lotus Platform Dharma Flower Art, remaining unaware of the world's changes for fifty years, you have now emerged. Seeing that the Great Sumeru Positive and Negative Nine Palaces Formation has been broken, and that Kunlun is once again deploying such deadly sword formations, you should know that Kunlun is in a perilous situation. Yet you still insist on forcing your way into this forbidden area. If you forcibly break the restrictions, it will only make matters worse."

"Perilous?" Xie Yue said coldly. "Tell me, who broke Kunlun's Great Sumeru Formation?"

"Yuan Tianyi of Luofu. I am no match for him."

"Yuan Tianyi!"

With a boom, as these three words left his mouth, nine white lights erupted around Xie Yue's body, like a blooming white lotus. The rocks touched by the light turned to powder. At the same time, Xie Yue's temples throbbed violently, his voice filled with unspeakable anger and sharpness. "Luofu... Yuan Tianyi always acts according to his whims, but he has always adhered to the principle of 'I don't offend others, and others don't offend me.' How could he have attacked Kunlun! Huang Wushen! You must have provoked him!"

"It is my fault." Huang Wushen lowered his head and slowly turned to face the mountain wall. "Senior Brother, do you remember? When we made mistakes back then, Master would make us face the wall and reflect on our actions."

"What exactly do you want to do? As long as we maintain the status quo, Kunlun would be the foremost power in the world." Xie Yue took a step forward, his body radiating light. "Starting sixty years ago, you spared no effort to increase the cultivation of our disciples as quickly as possible, eradicating demons and devils on a large scale. Are you trying to leave behind some great achievement to be remembered for a thousand years? You say I can see you whenever I wish, but you say it so lightly! Fifty years ago, I wanted to see Junior Brother Xuan Yuan and Junior Brother Qing Li, but you said they had important tasks. Fifty years later, can I still not see them?"

"Are you suspecting that I have already harmed them?" Huang Wushen's expression remained unchanged. "Now is the time for you to know."

After Huang Wushen finished speaking, he flicked his fingers, and thirteen streams of colorful light shot into the mountain wall before him. Like keys, they opened a forbidden area within Kunlun's forbidden area, a secret palace where the Great Transformation Heavenly Golden Lotus resided, connected to Kunlun's spiritual veins.

"Huang Wushen, what are you doing! This is the Jade Pool, where the Great Transformation Heavenly Golden Lotus is located. How can there be blood fiend demonic energy!"

This secret palace was located within the mountain's belly, directly beneath the Jade Pool filled with sweet nectar. As Xie Yue followed Huang Wushen a few steps behind, his face completely changed, and he was about to make a move.

"Senior Brother Xie Yue, what are you doing!" But at that moment, a Daoist priest in a black Daoist robe strode out from the secret palace ahead and shouted at him angrily.

"Junior Brother Xuan Yuan!" Xie Yue was stunned. Since achieving mastery of the Perfect Lotus Platform Dharma Flower Art, Xie Yue had never felt his Primordial Spirit shake so violently as he did today.

Because the stern-faced, righteous-looking Daoist priest standing before him was the junior brother he had suspected Huang Wushen of harming fifty years ago, Xuan Yuan, who, like himself, was listed among the Ten Great Golden Immortals by cultivators!

And Xuan Yuan before him had a faint ashen color in his eyes, and his magical power fluctuations were weak and mixed, as if his Primordial Spirit had been severely damaged from continuous fierce battles.

Xie Yue, Xuan Yuan, Qing Li, as well as Huang Wushen, General Luo, and others, had entered Kunlun around the same time. Among the many disciples, Xie Yue and the other nine were outstanding, with the highest cultivation, and were known to the world as the Ten Great Golden Immortals of Kunlun. Among these ten, Xie Yue, Xuan Yuan, and Qing Li had the best relationship. Xie Yue was slightly older and had entered Kunlun the earliest. Sixty years ago, all Kunlun disciples believed that Sect Leader Xuanji would pass the position of Sect Leader to Xie Yue, but no one expected that Huang Wushen would eventually receive the succession.

After that, Xie Yue never saw Xuan Yuan and Qing Li again. When he asked Huang Wushen, Huang Wushen merely claimed they had important tasks and could not meet Xie Yue. Since Xie Yue began his seclusion fifty years ago, he had suspected that the two had been secretly harmed by Huang Wushen. Cultivators endured more loneliness than ordinary people and had fewer close friends. Therefore, upon suddenly seeing Xuan Yuan again, even with Xie Yue's cultivation, he couldn't help but lose his composure, his body trembling.

"How can you be here?" But in an instant, Xie Yue recovered and asked Xuan Yuan, "And who could have injured you to this extent!"

"Qing Li is also here." Xuan Yuan turned around and looked at Xie Yue, whom he hadn't seen for sixty years. Xuan Yuan's eyes also held many unspoken and indescribable emotions. "Senior Brother Xie Yue, your cultivation has advanced further. Your temper is also less impetuous than before. Otherwise, with your temper from sixty years ago, you would have already made a move just now."

"I..." Xie Yue thought of Qing Li, and then of their youth, the time they spent cultivating together in Kunlun, and a myriad of emotions surged within him, rendering him speechless for a moment.

"The Great Transformation Heavenly Golden Lotus... one of them has withered!"

Entering the forbidden area within Kunlun's forbidden area, Xie Yue, seeing the Great Transformation Heavenly Golden Lotus connected to Kunlun's destiny and spiritual veins for the first time, was once again deeply shaken!

Walking another hundred zhang forward, there was a palace surrounded by talismans for suppressing demons, many of which even Xie Yue couldn't fully recognize. Yet, even so, Xie Yue felt waves of malevolent energy emanating from within.

"Could it be that an extremely powerful demon or fiend is imprisoned inside?"

Xie Yue's heart was filled with doubt and uncertainty. As he followed Huang Wushen and Xuan Yuan into the palace, his vision turned red, as if he had stepped into some netherworld formation. Before he could clearly see his surroundings, a flash of blood-red light and a surge of terrifying demonic energy struck him.

This blood-red light moved with astonishing speed, several times faster than an ordinary flying sword. But before Xie Yue could react, several white flames ignited on the blood-red shadow.

Xie Yue's Perfect Lotus Platform Dharma Flower Art had already reached the realm of "Law arises from thought."

Xuan Yuan was right. If Xie Yue had made a move just now, even if he had tried to stop him, it would have been a case of mind and hand moving simultaneously, with five or six powerful incantations unleashed in rapid succession.

Earlier, on the outermost island, Xie Yue's ability to instantly refine and kill the seven Primordial Spirits of Yuanchen was also due to this astonishing casting speed.

When the white flames attached themselves, the blood-red shadow was instantly riddled with holes, emitting a horrifying shriek that made one's scalp tingle.

"Netherworld Blood God Son!" But Xie Yue was instead startled. The Lotus Platform Pure Flame he unleashed with a mere thought could burn all five elements in the world. Upon contact, it could even cause the Primordial Spirit to be consumed by flames. Yet, this blood-red shadow was not completely refined. As the blood-red shadow writhed and screamed, Xie Yue saw clearly that it was a Netherworld Blood God Son, refined from soul, vital blood, and malevolent energy!

It was rumored that only those who understood the ancient "Blood Scripture Art" knew how to refine this Netherworld Blood God Son. This Blood God Son needed to be nourished with fresh blood daily. Once refined, not only was its speed several times faster than an ordinary flying sword, but if it struck a person, ordinary cultivators could not resist it, and would be pierced through, their vital blood drained, leading to death. Moreover, the Blood God Son itself possessed immense strength, resembling a peeled blood-red humanoid figure, capable of grappling with ordinary magic flying swords with its bare hands.

This Blood God Son was already as tall as an adult. And even after being burned by Xie Yue's Lotus Platform Pure Flame, it had not been completely incinerated, clearly indicating that it had been nourished with an unknown amount of fresh blood.

Suddenly, Xie Yue thought of someone, and his heart was so shaken that he didn't even care about the unburnt Netherworld Blood God Son.

Just as the Netherworld Blood God Son was about to pounce on Xie Yue, a long streak of dark light shot across, shattering the Netherworld Blood God Son into pieces, making it vanish into nothingness.

"Eastern Emperor Black Gold Shuttle, Junior Brother Qing Li? Is that you?" Xie Yue's gaze followed the trajectory of the dark light, looking at the man sitting on a cushion like green jade, dressed in wood-grain colored hemp clothing, and slowly uttered this sentence, his eyes filled with an unknown mix of joy and sorrow. "Huang Wushen, what exactly is going on? How can there be such a pool of Netherworld Blood Sea in Kunlun's forbidden area!"

The man dressed in wood-grain colored hemp clothing, appearing to be only twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, with slender eyebrows, a delicate face, and clear eyes, was Junior Brother Qing Li, who had entered Kunlun with Xie Yue, cultivated with him, but had not been seen for sixty years, his life and death unknown. He was ranked among the Ten Great Golden Immortals and cultivated the Supreme Jade Purity Dao Law.

At this moment, through the heavy blood mist, with several Netherworld Blood God Sons circling around him, Qing Li, who was facing Xie Yue from a distance, had a pool of blood before him, dozens of zhang in circumference, entirely red, churning with terrifying demonic energy!

The demonic energy condensed within the Yuan Chen Yin Mei Luo Tian Primordial Spirit was not even comparable to a single drop of blood from this pool! This pool was entirely the legendary Netherworld Blood Pool, which could only be condensed by refining the fresh blood and fierce souls of millions of living beings!

If a cultivator had weaker cultivation or a weaker true heart, just standing in this hall would likely cause them to be invaded by the blood energy and demonic energy, and fall into the demonic path!

"Ru Wuxin's Primordial Spirit is not completely destroyed." Huang Wushen slowly said these words as he turned to face Xie Yue.