Bloodfiend Hall, southern Luofu Realm.
Nether Blood sat in the main hall, his expression dark.
A fierce ripple suddenly spread through the void ahead. Without warning, two figures stepped out of it.
Nether Blood shot to his feet. Just as he was about to demand an explanation, his gaze fell on one of them, and his face changed instantly.
The newcomer was Qin Jue. Beside him stood a gray-haired old man.
The old man merely stood there casually, with no fluctuations of laws leaking from his body, yet Nether Blood felt a shudder that came from the very level of life itself.
Even the surrounding space showed faint distortions before this old man.
Nether Blood immediately guessed the other party's identity.
Qin Jue stepped forward and spoke to Nether Blood.
"Nether Blood, this is my master, Senior Liu Yuan, Realm Lord of the Heavenly Mystery Realm."
Nether Blood's legs went weak, and he dropped straight to his knees, pressing his forehead against the cold floor.
"This junior, Nether Blood, pays respects to Senior Liu Yuan!"
Liu Yuan spoke indifferently.
"Rise. You said a cultivator at the early Hunyuan Grand Unity stage has arrived in the Luofu Realm?"
Nether Blood stood up, his manner respectful to the extreme.
"Reporting to Senior, it is indeed so! That man's surname is Zhou."
"The moment he appeared, he annihilated Azure Cloud of the Celestial Pole Sect with a single punch."
Nether Blood paused, then continued.
"Azure Cloud was at the peak Saint stage. Before that man, he did not even have room to resist and was directly reduced to nothingness."
"Not only that, he forcibly took eighty percent of our fortune."
"This junior and the others truly had nowhere left to turn, which was why we sought Senior Qin Jue's aid."
After hearing this,