Five fingers clenched tight.
The sound of knuckles cracking in rapid succession echoed through the deathly silent main burial chamber, as though it had lit the fuse of battle.
At the center of the blood pool, the Heaven-Swallowing Demon Leech's scarlet beast eyes, each as large as buckets, stared fixedly at Su Yueli below.
It had lived for centuries, yet this was the first time it had seen a mortal martial artist without the slightest ripple of spiritual power dare to act so brazenly before it.
The dignity of a Ninth-Realm Great Demon could not be provoked.
"Roar—!"
The Demon Leech let out a muffled roar. Its immense fleshy body writhed violently as dozens of thick tentacles slick with green, highly toxic mucus tore through the air and smashed down toward Su Yueli.
Before the tentacles even arrived, the dense, bloody poisonous miasma had already corroded the air with a sizzling hiss.
"Come on."
Rather than retreat, Su Yueli advanced. Beneath her mask, the corner of her lips curled into an icy smile.
Boom!
The pure physical force field of the Heaven-Shaking Realm erupted in full at that instant.
Within several yards around her, space itself faintly warped under the terrifying pressure of her physical body, visibly distorting to the naked eye.
Facing the sky-filling tentacles capable of shattering high-grade defensive artifacts, Su Yueli neither dodged nor evaded. She met the Ninth-Realm Great Demon's frontal blow head-on with her right fist.
Bang—!
A dull, thunderous crash, like two mountains of black iron colliding, exploded through the main burial chamber.
The violent shockwave became a tangible blast of air, sending the already shriveled cultivators around them skidding along the ground for dozens of yards.
Yet the anticipated sight of Su Yueli being smashed into pulp did not appear.
The instant the