The Southern Border battlefield lay under a deathly hush.
Hundreds of Great Sages from the Imperial Dynasty and all eight Heavenly Sages stood frozen, their eyes locked on Li Yun and the Blood God Statue in his palm.
Blood Veins writhed across the dark-red statue. An eerie light pulsed within it, and the remnant will of the Blood Ancestor refused to lie dormant. Threads of Evil Aura spread in every direction, carrying a horror strange enough to overturn an entire Star Domain.
Everyone's nerves were stretched taut. No one dared draw a full breath.
Ye Xuan was dead, and every member of the Blood God Cult had been wiped out. This statue, the source of it all, was the only remaining threat.
They had no idea what might happen now that the Blood God Statue was in Li Yun's hands.
Suspicion swirled through their minds, tangled with fear, awe, and unease.
But what happened next overturned every expectation.
Li Yun stood at the center of heaven and earth, his fingertips lightly tracing the flowing Blood Veins on the statue's surface.
After only a few minutes,
Li Yun's gaze sharpened, and his five fingers snapped shut!
Crack—
The crisp sound of breaking rang through the silent world!
Before the dumbstruck eyes of every Imperial Dynasty cultivator, the Blood God Statue—a supreme treasure to the Blood God Cult and even to many others—shattered in Li Yun's hand.
Crimson shards scattered across the sky. The Blood Ancestor's sinister thoughts, sacrificial Dao Resonance, and uncanny Divine Power hidden within them were crushed by Li Yun's Heaven's Will Dao Resonance. In an instant, they vanished like smoke and were utterly erased from the world.
The pupils of the hundreds of Imperial Dynasty experts contracted as towering waves surged through their hearts!
No one had expected