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As the phantom's words slowly faded, the entire space seemed to be abruptly compressed by some invisible force. The phantom twisted and warped, eventually condensing into a strange and intricate Blood Rune. It was no larger than a palm, with bloody light flowing across its surface and an eerie aura faintly emanating from within.

Immediately afterward, the Blood Rune exploded, transforming into countless hair-thin crimson threads that shot toward Zhang Tie, Li Xingyun, and Guan Xuehan like a sky-covering storm!

They moved so fast that they nearly surpassed the limits of the naked eye, leaving behind only a sky full of bleakly beautiful red streaks.

Zhang Tie's pupils contracted slightly, but he remained calm despite the shock.

He raised his right hand like lightning, spread his fingers, and pressed forward through the air as icy spiritual power surged out from within him.

"Condense!"

With his low shout, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth before him instantly froze. A massive ice wall several feet thick and over a dozen zhang both wide and tall appeared out of thin air. Crystal-clear and radiating biting cold, it stood like an impregnable city wall between the three of them and the sea of bloody light.

However, something happened that made Zhang Tie's brows immediately knot together.

The incoming blood threads seemed to have no physical form at all. Faced with the heavy ice wall, they did not pause in the slightest, passing through it as phantoms passed through water. In the blink of an eye, they slipped through soundlessly, and the ice wall failed to impede them at all!

Instead of slowing, the blood threads accelerated and reached the three of them in an instant!

Li Xingyun and Guan Xuehan did not even have time for expressions of alarm to fully emerge. They