Facing the boundless sea of blood surging over the heavens and earth, He Gu and the others were terrified, but they did not truly retreat. Instead, they all stood not far behind Qin Fengming.
They clearly intended to fight Zou Rui alongside Qin Fengming.
Hearing the young man on the sacrificial altar speak so abruptly, everyone's expression froze, and puzzled thoughts surfaced in their hearts.
Everyone in the Three Realms knew how many years Qin Fengming had been alive. How could a human cultivator who had cultivated for less than five thousand years possibly know a powerful figure who had descended from the Upper Realm tens of thousands of years ago?
However, many of the cultivators among Saintly Venerable Ji Shuang's group were not surprised.
At the beginning, many cultivators who had pledged allegiance to Zou Rui had wanted to capture Qin Fengming and deliver him to Zou Rui, asking him to treat his injuries and refine pills.
Yet more than a hundred years ago, Zou Rui had suddenly revealed a painting. It contained only a somewhat hazy figure. Although the figure was blurry, any cultivator who had seen him recognized that the person in the painting was Qin Fengming, the most renowned figure in the Three Realms.
At that time, Zou Rui's order had been to capture or kill Qin Fengming and collect the items on his person.
No one knew why Zou Rui had issued such an order. As far as everyone could tell, someone must have informed him of Qin Fengming's deeds, and Zou Rui did not want the Three Realms to have someone with such astonishing Pill Dao attainment.
Yet after thinking it over, they felt something was off. If someone had informed him, they would not have made Qin Fengming's portrait so blurry. There had