Sun Yao's hand, which was holding the blood jade walnut, suddenly stopped.
Inside the sealed room, the crackling sound of the burning torches seemed to vanish instantly.
The air is viscous.
"What did you say?"
Sun Yao slowly raised his head, speaking slowly and deliberately.
His internal energy, at the Earth Realm First Level, surged, transforming into an invisible giant wave that rushed straight towards the cat-faced masked figure opposite him.
Blood Cat remained motionless, a sharp laugh emanating from behind its scarlet mask that scraped against one's eardrums.
"Lord Sun, you heard me correctly."
"If you want to gain something, you must first learn to lose it."
You are the core of this great formation; you are the 'god' of this City of Calamity and Chaos.
To unlock a miracle, one naturally needs a sacrifice closest to the bloodline of the 'god' as a key.
Blood Cat leaned forward, almost touching Sun Yao's face across the stone table.
"This is also your pledge of allegiance to my Blood Baleful Intent Hall. A guarantee that leaves you with no way out."
Blood relatives!
The Warlords!
These two words were like two red-hot iron rods, branded deep into Sun Yao's mind.
Two faces flashed through his mind.
One of them is Sun Jie, his son on whom he placed high hopes, and the successor to his empire.
The other one... is Sun Xin, his daughter who always opposes him and is arrogant and ignorant.
Sacrifice Sun Jie?
impossible!
The thought flashed through his mind for a moment, then he immediately extinguished it. It was his root, the continuation of his future.
So, only...
Sun Yao's breathing became heavy.
Even tigers don't eat their cubs, yet Sun Yao, in order to take that step, is willing to personally send his own daughter to the altar as a sacrifice?
What? You can't bear to part with it?
Blood Cat's laughter was full of mockery.
"Just a disobedient daughter."
Her presence will only cause you trouble.
"Let her contribute her final value to your unparalleled achievement of breaking through the Earth Realm before she dies. Isn't this the best ending for her?"
"Lord Sun, what you desire is supreme power and unparalleled views overlooking the entire Qing Province."
All you need to give up now is a disobedient daughter.
"This deal is a great bargain."
Blood Cat stood up, walked around the stone table, and went behind Sun Yao, placing his hand on his shoulder.
"Once you join the Blood Baleful Intent Hall, what kind of woman won't you have? What kind of offspring can't you have? Don't let this womanly compassion ruin your path to heaven."
Every word was a devil's whisper, striking the most greedy part of Sun Yao's heart.
yes...
She's just a daughter.
She's still a disobedient daughter.
As long as one can restore their foundation, break through the limitations of their talent, and receive assistance from the Blood Baleful Intent Hall.
In the future, he will be the true ruler of the southern border of Qing Province, and even the Demon Suppression Bureau will have to show him respect.
At that time, everything that was lost can be regained a hundredfold or a thousandfold.
The surging blood and qi within Sun Yao's body gradually subsided.
He sank back into the large armchair, remaining silent.
Click.
A crisp sound.
The blood jade walnut in his hand was cracked from being squeezed so hard.
He looked up at the Blood Cat.
"At midnight three days from now, I will send her... to where she is meant to go."
at the same time.
It is in a desolate land, countless miles away.
This is a solitary island jutting out from the seabed in the depths of the Northern Nether Sea, a place where even birds have vanished.
The island has no vegetation, only black volcanic rocks and billowing sulfurous fumes gushing from the cracks in the ground.
The sky is an eternal dark red, and the enormous spatial rift is a hideous scar on the horizon.
At this moment, in the center of this isolated island, on a throne built from the bones of countless living beings, several enormous figures that blot out the light of day stood silently.
On the left is a one-horned demonic bull, hundreds of feet tall, whose nostrils spew out sulfurous flames with every breath, melting the ground into lava.
On the right is a distorted humanoid figure made entirely of shadows, with no fixed shape, ready to merge into the darkness at any moment.
Before the throne, an extremely alluring woman leaned against the throne. Her face was exquisitely beautiful, but her lower body was a huge snake tail covered with dark blue scales.
Their gazes were all focused on the constantly churning and twisting spatial rift directly in front of the throne.
Deep within the crevice, one can vaguely see thick, black chains, even thicker than mountains, binding an indescribable, terrifying being.
" Bone-Eroding, a mere human from the Spirit Realm, I destroyed a wisp of your remnant soul and forced you to pay with a drop of demonic blood. You're truly regressing as you age."
The woman with the snake tail licked her scarlet lips, her voice alluring and seductive, yet it caused the surrounding sulfurous fumes to condense into frost.
A furious roar echoed from the spatial rift, shaking the entire Bone Island.
"That's no ordinary human! His armor and the lightning magic he uses both carry the power of ancient laws that restrain us!"
A semi-transparent phantom was projected from the crack, which was the appearance of the Bone-Eroding Demon General. However, it was a hundred times more solid and a hundred times more violent than the wisp on Liu Qingyun's body back then.
"Excuse."
The shadow-form demon let out a hissing, cold laugh.
"The blood sacrifice in the City of Calamity and Chaos has reached its final stage. The resentment of ten thousand lives is enough to break the last three chains of law binding your true form. If you make another mistake this time..."
That's enough.
The unicorn bull, which had been silent all along, spoke in a deep, resonant voice, interrupting the argument.
"This time, it was an agreement personally reached between the Demon God Cult and us. It concerns whether we can break free from this prison and return to the mortal realm. We cannot afford to fail."
A beam of light was projected from the single eye of the One-Horned Demon Bull.
On the screen, it was a scene of Su Yu, wearing the [ Pagoda Mystic Iron Armor ], triggering the [ Sha Lightning Destroys the World ] to wipe out Liu Qingyun along with the remnant soul of the Bone-Eroding Demon General.
"This lightning technique... is indeed strange." The snake-tailed woman withdrew her alluring demeanor, her expression turning solemn. "It's not heavenly lightning, but rather Baleful Intent Lightning originating from destruction, specifically designed to shatter the soul."
"And this armor," the One-Horned Demon Bull's voice was deep and thunderous, "... the power of Buddhist vows, the essence of Xuan Iron... and a trace of... the aura of the Prison Suppression."
" Prison Suppression?"
The moment this word was uttered, even the most arrogant Bone-Eroding Demon General fell silent.
"Whatever he is!"
The roar of the Bone-Eroding Demon General echoed from the crack once more, its resentment and madness almost overflowing.
"When my true form descends, the first thing I will find is this human!"
"I will shatter his bones inch by inch, extract his soul, and burn it with ghostly flames of the underworld for ten thousand years!"
"This time, I will show him what true... hell is!"
The words had barely left his mouth.
Deep within the rift, the enormous shadow bound by countless chains suddenly opened its eyes.
Those were a pair of eyes.
There were no pupils, no whites of the eyes, only two slowly rotating, blood-red vortexes that devoured all light.