Blood Saber Heaven Tilts

Inside the forbidden area, there was a deathly silence.

Xue Yugang was slumped on the ground, his eyes wide open, his pupils reflecting the world-ending scene in the water mirror. His body trembled uncontrollably.

This was not fear, but a stupor brought on by the complete shattering of his beliefs.

One punch.

Just one punch.

Blood Saber Peak, with its hundreds of years of heritage, had lost half of itself.

The sect's foundation he had been so proud of, his last resort, the Blood Shadow Array, was as fragile as a joke before that punch.

"Heh... hehe..."

From the blood pool, the emaciated skeleton suddenly let out two dry laughs, filled with self-mockery and bone-chilling cold.

Xue Yutang, the once arrogant young master of the Blood Saber Sect, the ambitious man who had orchestrated the plot to sacrifice the martial artists of Qingzhou.

At this moment, he finally understood what kind of monster he had provoked.

That was no longer martial arts, but mythology.

That was not human power, but a natural disaster.

As if awakened by the laughter, Xue Yugang suddenly turned his head, scrambling to the edge of the blood pool, his voice choked with tears, "Brother! What do we do? What are we going to do? He... he's coming!"

"What are you shouting about!" Xue Yutang suddenly roared. His eyes, burning with madness and hatred, fixed on his younger brother. "Do you want to live?"

Xue Yugang shivered under his gaze and nodded frantically.

"If you want to live, go ask Father to come out of seclusion!" Xue Yutang's voice was hoarse and resolute, every word squeezed from between his teeth.

"Father?" Xue Yugang's face instantly turned even more ghastly than a dead man's. "But... but Father is in closed-door cultivation, attempting to break through to that legendary realm. If we disturb him, he'll go berserk!"

"Go berserk?" Xue Yutang suddenly grinned, his smile more bitter than a cry. "If we don't ask him to come out now, he won't even have the chance to go berserk! The Blood Saber Sect is about to be torn down, what's the point of his seclusion anyway?!"

He roared, "If you don't go, then just wait for him to come out and collect our corpses for us!"

These words were like a basin of ice water poured over Xue Yugang's head.

The hesitation on his face vanished without a trace, replaced by an extreme desire to survive.

"I... I'll go! I'll go right now!"

Xue Yugang no longer cared about his demeanor. He scrambled to his feet, using his hands and feet, and stumbled towards the deepest part of the forbidden area, a region that even he rarely dared to enter.

At the end of the forbidden area was an incredibly heavy obsidian gate.

The gate was covered in mottled blood-colored runes, emitting a heart-pounding pressure.

Xue Yugang knelt before the stone gate with a "thump." He bit his finger, using his vital blood to quickly outline a complex formation on the ground.

"Unfilial son Xue Yugang, humbly requests Father to emerge from seclusion!"

His voice was mournful and tearful as he recounted everything that had happened after Soul Severing Cliff, exaggerating as he went.

"Father! If you don't come out soon, the Blood Saber Sect will be wiped out!"

"Big brother has been crippled, the Blood Shadow Array was shattered by a single punch, even the mountain gate... half of it has been dismantled!"

"That demon is about to kill his way in! Both my brother and I are going to die! The Blood Saber Sect's foundation of hundreds of years is about to be destroyed! Father!!"

As he wailed, he repeatedly kowtowed his head against the ground, quickly making his head bleed. He looked utterly miserable.

Inside the stone gate, in a dark secret chamber.

A middle-aged man in a dark red robe, with a stern face, sat cross-legged.

His vital energy surged like a dragon, and with every breath, countless streams of blood energy churned. It was clear he was at a critical juncture of breakthrough.

This was the master of the Blood Saber Sect, once the pillar of the Qingzhou martial arts world – the Blood Saber Ancestor.

When Xue Yugang's voice reached him through a secret technique, his tightly closed eyes suddenly snapped open, a flicker of annoyance at being disturbed flashing within.

But when he heard the content of Xue Yugang's tearful complaint, that flicker of annoyance instantly turned into shock, and then disbelief.

The Blood Shadow Array was broken? The mountain gate was dismantled?

An aura of extreme ferocity erupted, and the obsidian gate, which could withstand thousands of troops, exploded in response!

The Blood Saber Ancestor's figure, cloaked in overwhelming rage, instantly appeared before Xue Yugang.

He grabbed his incompetent son and, with a flash, appeared beside the blood pool.

Upon seeing the figure in the blood pool that was barely recognizable as human, even the Blood Saber Ancestor's pupils constricted sharply.

"Tang'er!"

His voice was filled with shock and heartache, and then this emotion transformed into overwhelming fury towards Xue Yutang.

"You scoundrel! Look at the mess you've made!" The Blood Saber Ancestor roared, his hair bristling with anger. He pointed at Xue Yutang and bellowed, "I put you in charge of the Blood Saber Sect to bring glory to our ancestors, not to turn the sect into this disgrace! You're useless and only cause trouble!"

He trembled with rage, wishing he could strike down this son who had ruined a perfectly good hand.

Facing his father's thunderous wrath, Xue Yutang's emaciated face no longer held its usual pride or madness; only a deathly silence remained.

Just as the atmosphere between the father and his two sons became extremely oppressive, calm footsteps began to echo from the entrance of the forbidden area, approaching unhurriedly.

Tap, tap, tap.

With every step, it felt like they were stepping on the hearts of the three people.

Lu Shaoyou, shouldering the iron staff, slowly walked into the forbidden area. His gaze swept over the churning blood pool and then over Xue Yugang, who was slumped on the ground.

Finally, his eyes landed on the Blood Saber Ancestor, whose aura was wild and violent.

He didn't even spare another glance at Xue Yutang, as if he were just an insignificant piece of furniture.

"Where is the Dragon Vein Earth Key?"

Lu Shaoyou spoke, his voice indifferent.

Upon hearing this, Xue Yutang and Xue Yugang both looked confused. They had no idea what he was talking about.

However, the Blood Saber Ancestor's expression changed drastically at that very moment!

The Dragon Vein Earth Key!

How could he possibly know about the Dragon Vein Earth Key?!

These four words were the deepest secret of the Blood Saber Sect, the absolute core of the "Divine Sect Plan"! Throughout the entire Blood Saber Sect, besides himself, no one else knew!

Who exactly was this young man before him?

A thought flashed through the Blood Saber Ancestor's mind like lightning.

Demon Suppressing Division! Great Gan Dynasty!

Could it be... the Divine Sect's plan had been exposed?

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind in the blink of an eye. The Blood Saber Ancestor forcefully suppressed the turmoil in his heart, his eyes becoming extremely solemn and cold.

"I don't know what you're talking about," he said in a deep voice.

"Is that so."

Lu Shaoyou's lips curled into a cold smile.

He saw no point in wasting more words.

The next moment, he moved.

No one could see his movements clearly. He simply raised his left hand casually and unleashed a palm strike towards the blood pool.

A massive palm print, condensed from golden true qi, appeared out of thin air. Carrying the might of roaring dragons and elephants, it instantly slammed onto the blood pool.

"No—!"

In Xue Yutang's sunken eye sockets, extreme fear finally appeared. He wanted to escape, but found himself locked by an invisible force, unable to move.

The blood pool exploded with a roar, and blood splashed into the sky.

Xue Yutang within the pool, along with his unyielding roar, was directly crushed into a pulp by this palm strike, thoroughly merging with the blood.

"Tang'er!" The Blood Saber Ancestor's eyes split open with rage. He never imagined that the other party would actually attack as soon as he said it, right in front of him!

The moment his mind faltered, Lu Shaoyou's figure flickered like a ghost.

Lingbo Weibu (Wave-like Steps)!

His figure appeared before the slumped Xue Yugang. The Qi Mei Cudgel in his hand seemed to move casually, poking forward.

Pfft.

A bloody hole appeared in the center of Xue Yugang's forehead. The fear and confusion on his face were frozen forever.

It was incredibly fast!

From the moment Lu Shaoyou made his move until the Xue brothers met their demise, the entire process took no more than a single breath.

The Blood Saber Ancestor didn't even have time to react.

When he came back to his senses, all he saw were the cold corpses of his two sons.

"Ah—!"

Endless rage and hatred, like a volcanic eruption, instantly consumed the Blood Saber Ancestor's reason.

"You little bastard! I will make sure you die without a burial place!"

He roared maniacally, blood qi surging around him. The terrifying pressure of a Half-step Transcendent was unleashed without reservation, causing the entire forbidden area to tremble violently.

"Blood River Surges!"

He formed seals with both hands, and streaks of blood-red runes gushed out from his body. He then agitated the vast, hidden blood evil energy beneath the forbidden area, transforming it into a true river of blood that surged towards Lu Shaoyou.

Divine Sect Plan? To hell with it!

His sons were dead, and all he wanted now was revenge!

However, facing this attack that was enough to make any peak Xiantian martial artist despair, there was no ripple of emotion on Lu Shaoyou's face.

He slowly raised the Qi Mei Cudgel in his hand.

The Twelve Dragon-Elephant Power was poured into it.

"Suppress!"

One strike was brought down.

There was no earth-shattering roar. The roaring river of blood, under this strike, was like a stream suppressed by a giant mountain, instantly becoming stagnant, and then shattering inch by inch.

The Blood Saber Ancestor felt as if struck by lightning. He spat out a mouthful of blood and was sent flying backward, crashing heavily against the mountain wall.

"How…how is this possible…"

He felt the meridians within his body shattered by the single blow, his eyes filled with despair and confusion.

He was a Half-step Transcendent, just one step away from communicating with heaven and earth, a being whose true qi had already liquefied! How could he… not even withstand a single strike from the opponent?

Lu Shaoyou walked forward slowly, looking down at him, and asked again, "Where is the Dragon Vein Earth Key?"

The Blood Saber Ancestor looked at this young man, who seemed like a god or demon, and suddenly let out a bitter laugh.

He knew he was going to die today.

"Hahahaha… Kill me then!" A hint of determination and madness flashed in his eyes. "But don't get too smug! You've ruined the Divine Sect's grand plan, and the Divine Sect will not let you go!"

"In heaven or on earth, you will have no place to be buried!"

Before his words finished, he suddenly took out a jet-black token from his embrace and, using his last ounce of strength, crushed it fiercely!

"I'll be waiting for you in hell…!"

Crack!

The moment the token shattered, the Blood Saber Ancestor's body also exploded, turning into a mist of blood.

Lu Shaoyou frowned slightly, letting the blood mist wash over him.

He walked to where the Blood Saber Ancestor had self-destructed.

There, quietly lying was a bronze-cast, palm-sized ancient key shaped like a dragon scale.

"Could this be the Dragon Vein Earth Key?"

Lu Shaoyou picked it up, feeling the ancient and vast aura contained within it, and whispered.

Then, he also took out the demon-suppressing command token that Qin Wuya had given him from his backpack.

He injected his true qi into it and gently crushed it.

Having done all this, he turned and left the forbidden area.

The Divine Sect?

Things seemed to be getting more interesting.