The Counterattack Began!

Exhaustion—a boundless weariness welled up in Lu Xunyang's heart.

His hair had turned entirely white, his body was withered, and his divine power had vanished.

His single eye was cold, already shriveled and lifeless.

"Truly... fate has not gone my way."

He looked up into the sky. The enormous Blood Sun embryo had already broken free of its shell. A red-eyed baby, its body covered in bloody marks, floated slowly before it, staring at him.

"What good would mutual destruction do you? Even if I, Lu Xunyang, die, I can still kill you."

Lu Xunyang looked calmly at the red-eyed baby.

"Are you really going to place all your hopes on the Dream Eater?"

He seemed to have reached a venerable old age. With every word he spoke, the dry skin on his body trembled.

He looked toward the boundless, fathomless Land of darkness.

That was where the Dream Eater's true form resided. At last, he let out a long sigh.

"Since things have come to this, there's only one way: offer my blood to Heaven."

BZZZT!!!

Brilliant rays burst across his already withered body, as if draining every last drop of his vitality. He looked more powerful—and more decrepit—than ever.

He had failed.

Chen Yan's plan had failed. Lu Xunyang had not taken Chen Yan away.

His adopted son, Zhang Ting, and his disciple, Shen Yiwei, were about to perish completely inside the Dream Eater.

"My life, Lu Xunyang's, was enough to outshine all those of past and present, to stride freely across the world.

"But I never became an Ancestor or a Sect Founder. I was no match for the Lord of Qi and Blood, nor for the founding Lord Xia.

"Now I've reached the abyss, and there's no climbing back to the boundless heights."

He spoke with