Blood God Palace's Young Master, a Reincarnator?

"Could this girl be connected to the Lin Family?"

Chen Changqing wondered inwardly.

Sweeping his immense divine sense farther into the distance, he saw that several thousand li behind the girl's starship, seven pitch-black warships were tearing through the void in an exceedingly arrogant formation.

A blood-red banner hung from those warships, embroidered with a clawing, fanged character for "Blood."

At the prow of the leading warship stood a sinister young man in a blood-red robe, his hands clasped behind his back. His aura had astonishingly reached the Great Sage Realm. At that moment, he sneered in the direction of the fleeing girl, as though watching prey that could not escape his palm.

"Heh heh..."

"Remnants of the Lin Family, do you think fleeing to the Purple Star Domain will save you?"

"The Chen Family has not entered the world for a million years. They stopped meddling in the affairs of the Great Desolate Realm long ago."

"Even if they have now announced their return, do you think they would stand up for a long-declined vassal family like yours?"

The blood-robed young man's voice echoed through the void, brimming with mockery.

Meanwhile, sensing the pursuers drawing ever closer behind her, the girl's pretty face grew increasingly pale. She bit down hard on her lips, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, yet she was wholly unaware of it.

In the void behind her, the outlines of the seven blood-colored warships became clearer and clearer.

She could feel those several divine senses filled with killing intent locking onto her position. There was simply no way to shake them off.

More importantly, the true essence within her body was nearly exhausted. The starship was slowing down bit by bit.

She lowered her head to look at the Purple Azure Token in her hand and tightened her grip slightly. Almost despairingly, she asked in her heart, "Ancestor, the people from the Blood God Palace are about to catch us..."

"Does our Lin Family truly still have a chance?"

"A million years have already passed. Will the Chen Family... really help us?"

Her sea of consciousness fell silent for a moment before a faint mental voice, so weak it was nearly imperceptible, finally sounded.

That voice was incomparably frail, like the last spark of a candle guttering in the wind. "Don't worry!"

"Since the Chen Family has returned to the world... they will definitely act."

"But..." The girl looked at the warships drawing nearer behind her, her eyes reddening. "I'm afraid we will not last long enough to reach the Chen Family."

"You must hold on!"

That mental voice rose slightly, only to immediately fade again, becoming even weaker and intermittent.

"Th-this place is... already... very close to the Purple Star Domain..."

"As long as we create a big enough disturbance, they will definitely... definitely be able to noti..."

Before the words were finished—

That mental voice vanished completely into the depths of her sea of consciousness, like a kite with its string cut.

"Ancestor! Ancestor!"

The girl called out twice in her heart, but received no response at all.

At last, tears spilled from her eyes, mingling with the bloodstains on her face as they dripped onto the token in her hand.

Her ancestor had fallen asleep again.

If not for her ancestor using the power of his remnant soul to block the pursuers for her several times along the way, she could never have escaped alive to this place.

With every move, her ancestor's soul power had been depleted by another fraction.

This time, he likely could not hold on any longer and had been forced into slumber.

The girl fiercely wiped away her tears with the back of her hand.

Deep within those eyes obscured by bloodstains, the surging hatred was like blazing fire being ignited, instantly devouring all her weakness and fear.

"Ancestor is right. I cannot give up!"

"I absolutely cannot give up."

"The blood debt of my Lin Family... must be repaid!"

With that thought, those agonizing scenes uncontrollably surfaced in her mind.

Collapsing halls, the screams of her clansmen before their deaths, severed limbs strewn across the ground...

She had watched with her own eyes as her father was shattered by the blood-robed young man's palm strike. She had watched as her mother pushed her into the teleportation array, only to be swallowed by the spell from behind.

That night, at the Lin Family's ancestral grounds, blood had flowed into rivers.

The girl's eyes grew redder and redder, and an overwhelming hatred that could no longer be suppressed erupted completely from the depths of her heart!

The emotions she had forcibly repressed for so long exploded entirely at that moment, like a wild beast trapped in a desperate situation unleashing its most frenzied roar.

"Ah—"

She suddenly leaped from the starship and sped toward the Purple Star Domain without looking back.

Behind her, that battered starship suddenly erupted with dazzling light, every formation pattern on its hull flickering madly...

Then—

BOOM!!!

A world-shaking explosion detonated in the silent void.

The terrifying shockwave from the starship's self-destruction turned into a visible ring of ripples, sweeping in every direction with the force of dry weeds and rotting wood.

The void was torn open with countless black cracks, while several nearby meteors were instantly pulverized into dust.

The girl was hurled away by the blast wave, spraying out a mouthful of blood. The clothes across her back were shredded completely, exposing a mangled, bloody wound.

Yet she gritted her teeth and forcibly steadied herself. Gathering the final thread of true essence remaining in her body, she screamed hoarsely toward the Purple Star Domain.

Her voice was rasping and mournful, carrying boundless hatred and the resolve to stake everything on a single throw as it carried far through the void.

"The Blood God Palace bullies others with its power and slaughtered every member of my Lin Family!!"

"Lin Yue Ru of the vassal Lin Family—"

"Begging the Chen Family's seniors to save me!!"

Riding the aftermath of the explosion, her voice boomed through the void like thunder and traveled far into the distance.

"Not good!"

On the seven warships behind her, the expressions of several Blood God Palace experts changed drastically.

"Young Master! That woman is actually this insane! She dared to directly blow up her flying vessel! Such a huge disturbance will be easy for the Chen Family to detect!"

"If it draws out the Chen Family's Quasi-Emperor Realm expert, we will be in danger!"

Unexpectedly—

The blood-robed young man merely smiled unconcernedly.

"What is there to fear? It is only the Chen Family! As for that Quasi-Emperor, he is merely an old bag of bones putting on a fierce front."

In his previous life, that Chen Family Quasi-Emperor had acted the same way, pretending to be powerful enough to make others wary. In truth, he had only half a breath left.

In the entire Chen Family, only that rumored Evergreen Divine Son was somewhat capable. But he had only recently broken free of the Divine Source at this time. His strength was nothing to fear at all!

Several Blood God Palace experts frowned, intending to offer a few more words of advice, but in the next instant, they all froze in place.

Because at some unknown point, another person had appeared beside the girl.

A youth dressed in azure robes, who looked no more than eighteen or nineteen.

He stood there casually in the void, without the slightest aura emanating from his body, holding a Purple Azure Broken Sword covered in cracks.

The youth had handsome, refined features, while his eyes were as deep as though they reflected the stars of eternity, their calmness chilling to the core.

When the aftermath of the explosion reached within three feet of him, it was as though it had struck an invisible barrier, silently dissipating into nothingness.

The shattered fragments of the starship streaked past him one after another, yet not a single piece could touch the corner of his clothes.

The people of the Blood God Palace looked at one another, and an ominous thought arose in all their hearts at once—

Someone from the Chen Family?

They had arrived so quickly?