Too late

"This is insane!"

Seeing Edel's crazed expression, Jiang Xinglan retorted, "Achieve eternal life? More like become a blood slave! A life of barely surviving, controlled and feeding on blood, is that meaningful?"

Edel cackled, "What can you achieve in a hundred years? Even with wealth, it's only for a century. Can you become a Martial Saint? You're all just mortals struggling at the bottom. Who knows when invaders from the Outer Domain might come and wipe out your entire Human Race!"

"But by submitting to the Blood God, you can gain eternal life! This might be your only chance, a chance I've desperately sought my entire life. I'm willing to share it with you!"

"As long as you kneel and surrender, you will receive the Blood God's favor, gain power, eternal life... Who in this world doesn't desire eternal life... Foolish people, you should cast aside your worldly attachments and return to the eternal abode. Come, surrender..."

Edel's seductive voice and the effects of his illusion magic made the three present feel their minds waver. Anyone else would have likely knelt and surrendered by now.

Due to the potent illusion magic of Edel, Lin Qinghan, a Grade 3 Sorcerer, was struggling to resist. She increased the output of her mental energy, activating the hundreds of inscriptions on her Sorcerer's Staff. A green light spread out again, barely keeping the three of them conscious.

"Utter nonsense!"

Upon hearing Edel's words, she pulled a silver-white liquid tube from her pocket, filled with a special Scorching Sun Yang Essence that could suppress evil.

She threw it out, and it exploded into a shower of silver-white light particles. With a forceful push from her Sorcerer's Staff, a mirror's surrounding energy field was torn apart. The light particles rained down on Edel, causing him to smoke all over and the mirror to crack.

Edel hadn't expected her to throw out something so effective against Yin Evil. His mind faltered, and his body was corroded with many spots, causing him to cry out in pain.

But this couldn't stop him.

In the blink of an eye, he activated the Blood Demon form of the Blood Demon Illusion God. Blood mist surged violently around his body, transforming him into a demonic head. The injuries on his body began to heal.

The Blood Demon Illusion God had two abilities: illusion magic and its ultimate form, the Blood Demon. After casting it, his strength would surge, his body would heal automatically, and he could use it to escape. Edel intended to buy the Blood God the last bit of time, so he unleashed it. Combined with him hiding within the Blood God's energy field, he was difficult to deal with for the moment.

"Break!" Suddenly, Jiang Xinglan unleashed her full power. The boiling Internal Energy within her surged, channeling into her right-hand short blade. It seemed to possess the power to shatter mountains as she struck the blood shield, forcefully creating an opening and slashing at Edel's chest.

Squelch! Edel cried out in pain, but the bloody wound on his chest quickly began to heal automatically. He desperately guarded the mirror, preventing anyone from breaking through.

Jiang Xinglan's continuous bursts of power could barely break through the energy shield and injure Edel, but his recovery ability was too strong. Several times, his injuries were healed. He was unkillable, and they couldn't break through his defense to reach the mirror and destroy it.

Boom! Jiang Xinglan's blade, Lin Qinghan's sorcery, but the situation had reached a stalemate.

Jiang Xinglan knew this couldn't go on. The Blood God was about to emerge. She quickly found an opening to send a command to her tech watch: "Send ten Laser Flyers over! And make it fast!"

She hadn't intended to use laser cannons before, but the situation had clearly escalated. If they were truly going to bring out the Blood God, it was a very dangerous matter.

Even if other Martial Warriors arrived now, it would be useless. Only laser cannons could suppress it, but they required some time.

Suddenly, the area around the mirror began to shake violently, and blood energy surged out exponentially.

Everyone looked at the mirror, feeling the increasingly dense evil energy emanating from it. It was as if an invisible hand was tearing at the boundary between reality and the void. They all took a deep breath, realizing the Blood God was emerging faster than expected, and they were running out of time.

"Hahaha. You think this can stop me?"

Edel's voice carried a hint of mockery. "The arrival of the Evil God is a foregone conclusion. All your struggles are futile..."

"Hmm... What are you doing?"

Just as Edel was reveling in his triumphant madness, he noticed Chen Xia bombarding the blood energy shield around the mirror. Something seemed to be changing.

The blood energy shield was something even Jiang Xinglan could only barely break through before it quickly regenerated. How could Chen Xia possibly do anything?

However, to everyone's surprise, with every punch Chen Xia threw, although the energy shield didn't break, streams of Qi energy continuously penetrated it, reaching the mirror.

Crack! The mirror was slowly shattering.

Edel froze. "How is this possible? He can penetrate the energy shield and touch the mirror?"

"This is..." At this moment, Jiang Xinglan and Lin Qinghan were also stunned. They watched as Chen Xia's punches, like cannonballs, shattered the mirror. What was going on? Could it be...

Jiang Xinglan had heard Chen Xia mention he knew a Seven Injuries Fist before, but she hadn't paid it much mind. Now, it seemed Chen Xia's talent was astonishing. This Qi energy had such strong penetration power.

"If I break this mirror, your Blood God won't be able to come out!" Chen Xia turned to look at Edel, his fists striking relentlessly. The Seven Injuries Fist energy within him continuously erupted, even a hint of Blood Yang appearing on his fists, though it was mixed with the blood mist, making it indistinguishable.

Bang bang bang! Under Chen Xia's assault, the mirror was showing signs of complete destruction, causing Edel's expression to change drastically.

Damn it!

Seeing that Chen Xia was about to shatter the mirror, rendering all his efforts futile, Edel roared and transformed into a wave of red energy, exploding towards Chen Xia.

"Stop him!" Seeing Edel charging at Chen Xia, Lin Qinghan used the power of her Sorcerer's Staff to slow him down. Jiang Xinglan instantly rushed over and swung her blade at Edel's head. Edel immediately retracted, continuing to hide within the energy shield.

He used his body to protect the mirror, allowing the weakened Qi energy from Chen Xia to strike him, healing automatically as he stubbornly defended.

However, upon seeing the situation within the mirror, Edel suddenly sneered, "It's useless. It's too late."

Suddenly, a nauseating smell of blood filled the air, and the room temperature plummeted. The three could see their own breath misting.

"Hahaha!" Edel, clad in a Black Robe, laughed maniacally. "It's too late."

"The Blood God's descent is unstoppable. You are all doomed."

"Our Night God Sect will surely prosper! And I will receive the Blood God's first embrace and gain eternal life."

As the space around the mirror began to distort, a blurry figure gradually appeared.

A blood-red, skeletal hand reached out from the slightly shattered mirror, followed by a second arm.

These two evil, long arms grabbed the frame of the mirror, and a blood-red head and half a torso instantly crawled out.

The Blood God's towering form was covered in flowing blood. Its contorted face had two red, hollow eye sockets.

As its two withered blood-red arms appeared, the air in the entire hall became viscous, filled with a thick, nauseating smell of blood.

Chen Xia felt his blood surge as if about to burst through his veins, and countless piercing wails echoed in his ears.