Withering and Flourishing Both Have a Price, Life Must Be Redeemed with a Fortune

Within the Blood Sea Withered Glory Realm, deathly silence permeated everything.

Empress Xuanyin had become skeletal remains within the sea of blood, while the bizarre blood mist formed from the Odd Fortune Palace Master's explosion was withering away.

The deaths of two Chaos Realm Peak experts were like two heavy hammers striking viciously upon the souls of every survivor. The horrifying sight of one withering to death and the other exploding at the height of prosperity had already become their nightmare.

First Prince Lei Hao's face was pale as paper, his lips trembling uncontrollably and his pupils unfocused.

His greatest support, the right-hand men he had relied upon to fight for victory, had vanished in an instant. This was not merely a devastating blow to his strength, but the complete collapse of his psychological defenses.

In a single day, he had fallen from being the most likely victor to one of the lesser figures... Looking at the enormous skeletal remains floating and sinking atop the churning sea of blood, he seemed to see his own future end.

"Xue Yin, thank you for turning the tide and saving me from disaster! Lei Zhan will never forget this grace for all eternity!" Lei Zhan tightly gripped the warm, scorching Heart of Thunder Source, which contained supreme power. Feeling that majestic force pulse in his palm, the fear in his heart had long since been replaced by overwhelming ecstasy.

He looked at Blood Hidden Elder's back, his gaze incomparably fervent and filled with unprecedented reliance and reverence.

Xue Yin was the retainer he had hired, his greatest trump card, and the greatest stroke of luck on this journey!

To hire a Chaos Realm Transcendence expert as a retainer with merely some resources—his luck was simply heaven-defying!

Delighted, Lei Zhan decided that after the