On the road.
Tao Kun spoke in a low voice. "What about the Blood Robe Sect?"
"After today, there will be no Blood Robe Sect left in this world." The woman replied indifferently. Red light flashed in her eyes as she swept Tao Kun with her gaze. "This is the only time. There won't be a next time."
"Yes."
Cold sweat poured down Tao Kun's forehead.
The instant he was caught in that red light, he felt suffocated, as though a primeval beast had fixed its eyes on him.
The Blood Robe Sect's exposure had become an established fact.
Next, the Heavenly Realm Division of Jizhou and the various major sects would surely join forces to hunt down the Blood Robe Sect.
He had actually been foolish enough to try to rescue them.
No demon would ever like a foolish slave.
After thinking everything through, Tao Kun clamped his mouth shut and followed behind the woman, vanishing into the depths of Yandang Mountain.
After setting fire to the corpses of the Blood Robe Sect disciples, everyone's eyes turned to Wei Qing once more.
Tantai Yue spoke first. "Is there any clue in the Central Hall about how to get out?"
Wei Qing had just been about to shake his head.
"I know this."
Yun Tianheng's voice suddenly rang out.
"That's wonderful, Brother Tian. What should we do next?" Joy rose in Wei Qing's heart.
"Go directly to the place where the Demon King is sealed. They forcibly opened a teleportation array there leading to the outside world. You can leave through that array, but..."
At this point, Yun Tianheng paused slightly and did not continue.
"Is there some danger?"
"Danger? Not exactly. However, activating that array requires demon blood and their soul power as a medium before it can be opened." Yun Tianheng gently shook his head as he explained.
"This..."
Wei Qing was speechless for a moment.
If this requirement were in the outside world, it would not be difficult to meet.
But where could he find a demon now?
"As for soul power, I have a way. The blood of those traitors who have not yet been burned to ash should be worth trying as demon blood." Luo Liuli's voice came from deep within his sea of consciousness.
"Junior understands."
"Wei Qing?"
Seeing that Wei Qing had not answered her question and was instead standing there in a daze, Tantai Yue spoke again.
Once Wei Qing came back to his senses, he flashed to the side of the burning pyre.
He swung the Soul Severing Blade and severed Qin Yang's right arm as he lay among the corpses. Purple blood slowly welled from the stump and dripped onto the ground, making a corrosive sizzling sound.
"Wei Qing, what are you trying to do?"
Tantai Yue watched this scene, utterly puzzled, as she stared at Wei Qing holding the severed arm.
Wei Qing pointed at the still-dripping purple blood. "This is one of the keys to getting out."
"A way to get out?"
"We can really leave."
As soon as he said this, everyone present trembled, and all their gazes focused on Wei Qing.
"There is an array connected to the outside world at the place where the Demon King is sealed. Opening it requires two things—demon blood and demon soul power."
"We don't have pure demon blood, but the half-demon blood in these human traitors should work." Wei Qing raised the severed arm in his hand. Purple blood continued to drip from the stump, pooling on the ground.
"As for the soul power required, I have a way once we reach the place of sealing."
"If that's the case, there's no time to waste. Let's set out."
"Let's go."
"We're getting out!"
After Wei Qing revealed the method, the stifling atmosphere became lively at once.
Everyone followed Wei Qing through the ruins. The closer they got to the Demon King's seal, the thicker the demonic energy in the air became.
"We're here."
Wei Qing stopped before a stone platform covered in blood vines.
The Soul Severing Blade swept across. Foul-smelling liquid sprayed from the severed vines, revealing an array beneath, covered in ancient runes.
At the center of the array was a sunken groove shaped unmistakably like a palm.
The severed arm was pressed into the blood groove. Purple blood flowed along the channels in the runes, and everywhere it passed, the runes turned a glaring, blood-red color!
The next moment.
The entire stone platform suddenly sank! The ground split open in a huge fissure, and four bronze pillars burst from the earth.
A ferocious demon was carved into each bronze pillar.
As the four demons opened their eyes, blood-red light flickered in their savage pupils.
Four torrents of terrifying demonic energy swept over like waves. The black mist condensed in the air into sinister ghost faces that let out shrill, piercing howls.
"Guard your minds!"
Wei Qing shouted fiercely. He held the Soul Reaper Blade before him, and golden light rippled across its body, cleaving the onrushing demonic energy in two.
The crystal ball in Nangong Ruyan's hands lit up. Ice-blue true essence formed a barrier around everyone. The demonic energy slammed into the ice barrier, giving off a corrosive sizzling sound.
"Senior."
As soon as the words left his mouth, a streak of red light flew from the center of Wei Qing's brows and condensed into a hazy, graceful figure in the void.
Luo Liuli did not want to reveal her existence yet. Only Wei Qing could see her figure among those present.
With a light lift of her slender hand, a terrifying suction force pierced through the Demon King's sealing array a hundred meters away and plunged straight into the earth.
"Who is it? How dare you spy on me!"
The earth shook violently. The seal erupted with monstrous demonic energy, and an enraged roar made everyone's eardrums ache as the sand and stones across the entire wasteland bounced and rattled.
"Qingzi, what's happening?" Jun Wushang and the others' expressions changed drastically. They all drew their weapons. "Could it be that the Demon King is about to break free of its seal?"
"Annoying."
Luo Liuli snorted coldly. Her delicate fingers suddenly curled inward, and the suction force surged explosively. A heart-wrenching scream immediately came from within the seal. "Aah—! Luo Liuli, how could it be you... Back then, you should have..."
The voice cut off abruptly, as though its throat had suddenly been strangled.
A sharp glint flashed through Luo Liuli's eyes. Her gaze pierced through layer upon layer of arrays and locked directly onto the Silver Moon Demon King deep within the seal.
Every scale on the latter's body stood on end, and its three demonic eyes trembled frantically—it would never forget that, two hundred years ago, Luo Liuli had cleaved away half its true body with a single sword strike!
If another Demon Emperor had not saved it then, it would have fallen by her hand long ago.
"Looks like you know something." The corners of Luo Liuli's lips curled slightly, but the smile did not reach her eyes. "Very good."
"No... I don't know anything."
The Silver Moon Demon King felt as though it had fallen into an ice cavern and desperately shook its head in denial.
Back then, not a single demon targeted by this female death-god had been left with an intact corpse.
It wished it could tear its own foul mouth apart. Why had it chosen to say so much in front of this Baleful Intent?
Luo Liuli said coldly, "Soul power. Will you do it yourself, or shall I?"
"I... I'll do it myself."
The once world-shaking Demon King Silver Moon was now before Luo Liuli like a mouse that had seen a cat, obedient beyond measure.
"Hiss..."
Silver Moon pressed its sharp claw against the center of its brow, and a strand of silvery-gray mist was slowly drawn out.
The extraction was clearly excruciating. Its enormous body convulsed nonstop, and blood vessels crawled across its three demonic eyes.
"Is... is that enough?"
Silver Moon lay weakly on the ground. It no longer possessed even the slightest trace of a Demon King's majesty.