The Ancient Demon Path! One Dead, One Suppressed, One Gravely Wounded!

The instant the runes left their bodies—

An unprecedented sense of utter exhaustion, as though every ounce of strength had been drained away at once, swept through Qin Yan and Su Liuli like a tsunami!

Boundless weariness and darkness surged over them like a tide, drowning their consciousness.

Their vision went black at the same time. With nothing left to hold them up, they slumped forward and collapsed to the ground, completely unconscious.

The terrifying power they had borrowed vanished entirely as the Dao Essence runes were stripped away.

Wielding power so far beyond their own level for so long, combined with their desperate battle against a formidable enemy, had already pushed their bodies and minds to the limit.

Now that they had abruptly lost that support, falling unconscious was their bodies' most instinctive means of protecting themselves.

Blood Absolute did not spare another glance at Qin Yan and Su Liuli, who lay unconscious on the ground.

As far as he was concerned, once he reclaimed the power of Dao Essence, the two youngsters merely needed time to recover. They would be fine.

For now, there was something more important he needed to confirm.

His enormous, blood-red figure stirred slightly.

He took a seemingly casual step forward, and the rules governing the entire blood-colored world seemed to warp and fold with it.

The next instant, his figure had crossed an endless distance and appeared elsewhere in this space, at its very heart.

It was utterly silent here. Only impenetrable darkness and an unbearably oppressive weight filled the air.

Ahead lay not solid ground, but a bottomless "Blood Pool" that seemed to lead straight into the Nine Netherworld.

Yet the "blood" in this pool was no longer ordinary. Its dull hue was almost black, its texture as thick as ink, and