After putting away the Blood Gu Token, Xu Yan took out a pill and swallowed it. For the foreseeable future, he would devote his entire attention to the Sword-Comprehension Stone, striving to comprehend sword intent and break through to the first sword dao realm as soon as possible.
More than a hundred thousand li away from the Netherworld Domain.
An ink-dark mountain range stretched as far as the eye could see, like a true dragon lying across the land, with several thousand li between its head and tail.
Gray-black mist shrouded the entire range. Streaks of red light flickered within it from time to time, lending it an even eerier air.
In the deepest, most secluded part of this mountain range stood a dark red hall.
The hall was over ten zhang tall and looked utterly dilapidated. Strange runes covered its entire structure, densely packed in their hundreds of thousands. Viewed from afar, these eerie runes could be seen faintly tracing the outline of a blood-red ghostly face.
The moment Xu Yan took the Blood Gu Token out of his Storage Ring, the dilapidated hall suddenly blazed with blood-red light, and the runes upon it began moving rapidly. Yet this lasted only a single breath before everything returned to normal.
At that very moment, a hideous head suddenly rolled out of the hall. After tumbling several times, it fixed its eyes on a certain direction beyond the outskirts of the Netherworld Domain.
A few breaths later, the hideous head turned its pale eyes and muttered hoarsely:
"Blood Gu... the Blood Gu Token. The last Blood Gu Token has appeared. Surely it should be my turn this time! But why am I missing a stretch of memories... damn it... who cut off my head?!"
The hideous head roared as it