"Zhang Chen, you were right. I was too extreme."
Gu Chen's violent struggle ceased, and his body slowly returned to the form of an ordinary prison warden. Yet on the left side of his waist and abdomen remained a bizarre sunken wound. Even a body as advanced and perfect as Gu Chen's could not repair it in a short time.
"Was that the Second Apostle—Guizhong?" Gu Chen asked after calming down.
"Yes. A being second only to Azathoth. I couldn't see through that kick either. Its force was clearly quite ordinary, and its speed was nothing remarkable, yet the Great Dao contained within it made it impossible for Gu Chen to evade and inflicted severe injuries."
"I can't explain it either..." Gu Chen recalled Guizhong's movement just now. It had been exceedingly strange.
"Let's leave this place for now."
Zhang Chen and Gu Chen exchanged a glance and swiftly departed from the First Generation Blood Ancestor's tomb chamber. Unbeknownst to them, when Zhang Chen had controlled Gu Chen and activated the "Dragon Devouring Arm," an unnoticed void mark had been left inside the tomb chamber.
Just as the two were leaving the Bixun River through the passage, a void opening from a dimension entirely different from the Zero Realm gradually emerged within the First Generation Blood Ancestor's tomb chamber. Tentacles flickered in and out of sight within it.
The ones who sensed it at the same time were Guizhong, who was about to leave the Blood Realm, and Gu Chen, who had obtained the Blood King's Persona and become connected to the Blood Realm.
"Damn it, Azathoth's aura! What is that bastard doing here?!"
Guizhong sent the weakened Ashatini into the Ghost Realm through a ghost gate. He then immediately returned along the original path to the entrance of the