The Death Abyss fell silent.
Pangu wiped the blood from his face and grinned. "That felt good! I wasn't even satisfied yet, and it's already over?"
"The real fun is still ahead." Su Changqing sheathed his sword and looked toward the throne. "True Lord, I won the first round."
"And what of it?" The Card Lord smiled faintly. "That was merely an appetizer."
"The real game has only just begun."
With a stroke of the golden brush, fifty-four card phantoms lit up above the throne.
"For the second round, I will wager a secret with you."
"What secret?" Su Changqing asked.
"The whereabouts of the Dark South Heaven Gate," the Card Lord said slowly. "That trace of aura within you might escape others, but it cannot escape me."
Su Changqing's pupils narrowed slightly.
"If you lose, you leave that sword behind," the Card Lord said indifferently. "And your life."
"Fine." Su Changqing tightened his grip on the hilt. "Turn over the card for the second round."
The Card Lord swept his golden brush, and a card phantom flew from the throne, landing before Su Changqing.
The card turned over-[Blood River of Ten Thousand Bones].
"For the second round, I wager that you can walk out of the Blood River alive."
The instant the card lit up, the void beneath Su Changqing's feet split open, and a long, blood-red river appeared out of thin air.
White bones rose and sank on its surface, bloody waves towered into the sky, and countless remnant souls struggled and howled within the river.
"The Blood River!" Pangu's expression changed. "It's a killing weapon the Card Lord forged by refining hundreds of millions of living beings. Even a Six Revolutions God-Fiend couldn't escape once inside!"
"Couldn't escape?" Su Changqing sneered. "Then I'll slaughter my way through."