"Ah!"
The Bone-Eroding Demon General out a shrill, mournful howl.
The moment the dark gold chain touched his brow, it ignored his physical defenses and burrowed into his sea of consciousness.
His massive, forward-moving body suddenly froze.
The severed bone blade stopped three inches from Su Yu's forehead, unable to advance any further.
The Prison-Suppressing Soul Chain directly bound his fragmented primordial soul.
An irresistible dragging force came.
Su Yu's Purple Mansion transformed into a formidable prison, intending to forcibly drag this demon into it for suppression.
The Bone-Eroding Demon General saw the majestic purple-gold prison, the countless suppressed evil spirits, and the instruments of torture representing the rules of heaven and earth.
It was an absolute suppression from the depths of the soul.
The Bone-Eroding Demon General struggled frantically.
The remnant soul emitted a sizzling, burning sound as the chains tightened around it.
With every second he was imprisoned, his will weakened.
"You want to suppress me? Dream on!"
The Bone-Eroding Demon General completely descend into madness.
He deliberately severed the portion of his remnant soul that was bound by the chains.
The pain of severing a remnant soul is a hundred times more agonizing than the physical torture of being slowly sliced apart.
But he did not hesitate.
Once he's dragged into that golden prison, he'll never be able to escape its clutches.
They gave up most of their original essence in exchange for a moment of freedom.
Having lost the support of most of his remaining soul, Sun Yao's physical body began to collapse on a large scale.
The dark red stratum corneum peeled off piece by piece, revealing the rotting flesh beneath.
However, the remaining core remnant soul of the Bone-Eroding Demon General controlled its collapsing body, gathering all its power into the bone blade on its right arm.
He wanted to take Su Yu down with him.
Su Yu groaned as his soul was attacked, and blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.
He watched the bone blade fall again.
The distance is too close.
Too fast.
Su Yu suddenly raised his left hand to meet the sharp bone blade, while his right hand gripped the hilt, drawing the long sword halfway out of its sheath.
The bone blade sliced open Su Yu's left palm, blood spurting out, the tip less than a finger's width from his carotid artery.
The half-drawn blade reflected the demon general's twisted and crazed face.
The bone blade pierced his left palm, tearing flesh apart.
Su Yu did not pull his hand back; instead, he clenched his fists tightly around the bone blade.
Dark golden blood flowed down the bone blade, dripping onto the scorched ground with a hissing sound.
The gravity field of the Prohibition Blood Formation surged again the moment the blood touched the ground.
The Bone-Eroding Demon General's movements were delayed for less than half a breath.
That's enough.
With his right hand gripping the hilt, the long sword was fully drawn from its sheath.
There were no flashy flashes of blade, no overwhelming shockwaves. Su Yu simply gripped the knife tightly and, with the most basic movement, thrust it forward.
The blade pierced precisely into the Bone-Eroding Demon General's brow.
The full Saber Intent from the Great Perfection of " Demon Suppression " poured in.
"Ah!!!"
The Bone-Eroding Demon General let out a scream powerful enough to tear eardrums. The core remnant soul, hidden deep within Sun Yao's body and already extremely damaged, was firmly pinned down by the dark Saber Intent.
The power of suppression transformed into invisible shackles, wrapping around it layer upon layer.
The Bone-Eroding Demon General struggled frantically, controlling Sun Yao's mutated body to retreat desperately, but the bone blade in his left palm was firmly clamped by Su Yu and could not be pulled out at all.
Instead of retreating, Su Yu stepped forward, taking a step ahead.
The blade penetrated another inch.
"You... let go!"
The voice of the Bone-Eroding Demon General had become distorted, mixed with Sun Yao's remaining screams and the Demon General's own roars, twisted beyond human comprehension.
Su Yu remained silent.
His left hand was bleeding profusely; the bone blade had cut into the bone.
The excruciating pain spread from his palm all the way to his shoulder, but his expression remained unchanged throughout.
Step two.
The blade pierced through the brow bone and reached inside the skull.
Dark golden light overflowed from the seven orifices of the Bone-Eroding Demon General, and the Great Demon Suppression Saber Intent rampaged through his sea of consciousness, crushing the last barrier of his remnant soul inch by inch.
The Bone-Eroding Demon General ceased its struggle.
It's not that they've given up voluntarily, but rather that they've already struggled to the point of exhaustion
His massive body withered and shrank at a visible rate.
Large chunks of dark red keratin flaked off, revealing the flesh and blood beneath, already charred by the Lightning Punishment.
The flesh and blood no longer wriggled and repaired themselves, but turned into ashes, which drifted away in the wind.
"Ants..."
The Bone-Eroding Demon General's voice grew weak, as if it came from a very distant place.
Yet the resentment and malice emanating from his words were intense to the extreme.
"You think you've won by killing a wisp of my remnant soul?"
Su Yu stared at his unfocused, scarlet eyes, without answering.
"My true form is..."
The Bone-Eroding Demon General's body had collapsed more than halfway, leaving only a charred shell that barely maintained a human form.
His voice suddenly became clear, filled with hysterical madness.
"Just wait, I will come to Qing Province in person."
At that time, you, everyone around you, every living being in this city...
"All of these will become part of my reforging..."
Su Yu gently turned his wrist, Bone-Eroding Demon General's words came to an abrupt halt.
The last remnant of his soul was completely shredded by the dark Saber Intent, turning into a wisp of black smoke that rose from Sun Yao's withered body, struggling to escape upwards.
Su Yu raised his left hand.
Dark gold blood seeped continuously from the wound in his palm, and his fingertips glowed with a purple-gold light.
The remaining power of the Prison-Suppressing Soul Chain emerged from the void, and the broken chains precisely wrapped around the wisp of black smoke.
You are not qualified to leave a last message.
Su Yu uttered five words.
The purple-gold light at his fingertips suddenly surged.
laugh.
The wisp of black smoke emitted a final, piercing shriek as the chains tightened around it, a sound like metal scraping against glass, before vanishing completely in an instant.
Sun Yao's body lost all support and crashed forward, slamming heavily at Su Yu's feet.
The dried-up corpse crumbled into pieces, and the carbonized flesh turned to ashes.
[Ding! Slayed the remnant soul of the Bone-Eroding Demon General, Earth Realm Third Layer, reward: 150,000 Slaughter Points!]
[ Slaughter Points: 160500]
Su Yu sheathed his sword.
His left hand hung limply, and drops of dark golden blood dripped down, the wound so deep that bone was visible.
His right arm trembled incessantly as he continuously channeled his Saber Intent, and a dull, burning pain shot through his meridians.
He looked down at his injured hand.
The wound was extremely deep.
Within his sea of consciousness, the golden light of the Purple Mansion flickered intensely. The backlash from continuously unleashing extreme killing moves and forcibly deducing the sword technique erupted in full force at this moment.
But he remained standing firm and did not fall.
Su Yu slowly turned around.
The entire secret palace was completely destroyed. The dome was smashed open, and moonlight poured in from the hole, which was dozens of feet high, illuminating the rubble, ashes, and dried-up blood pool on the ground.
The runes in the grand formation were all extinguished.
Without the remnant soul of the Bone-Eroding Demon General to sustain it, and without the supply of Sun Yao's primordial power, this Blood Sacrifice Grand Formation, which had offered up 100,000 lives as sacrifices, was completely destroyed.
Su Yu's gaze pierced through the billowing dust and landed on a stone pillar in the corner of the secret hall.
Sun Xin is still locked up there.
The black iron chains pierced through her collarbone, pinning her firmly to the stone pillar. She was covered in blood, her breath so faint it was almost imperceptible.
But her eyes remained open.
There was no fear, no despair, and not even the relief of surviving a disaster in her eyes. She simply stared at Su Yu, as if confirming whether what she was seeing was real.
Su Yu stepped forward.
He cleaved the chains in two with a single stroke.
The black iron shattered with a crack, and Sun Xin's body slid down the stone pillar. Su Yu stretched out his right arm and caught her steadily; his arm, which had been trembling just moments before, was now as steady as Panshi.
"You've come."
Sun Xin's voice was hoarse and unrecognizable, almost unrecognizable from its original tone.
"Um."
"My father..."
"Dead."
Su Yu's answer was concise and to the point, without any unnecessary comfort or deliberate embellishment.
Sun Xin remained silent for a few moments.
A single tear slid down his pale cheek and dripped onto Su Yu's blood-stained sleeve.
Just this one drop.
"Thanks."
She said softly.
Su Yu did not respond, but gently helped Sun Xin lean against a section of still intact stone wall, and then took out a bottle of medicine from his waist and handed it to her.
After doing all this, he stood up and looked at the hole that had been punched through the ceiling.
The moonlight poured down, casting a long, slender shadow on the ground.
The threat of the Bone-Eroding Demon General kept echoing in his mind.
Is the true form about to descend?
Su Yu gently squeezed his bloodied and mangled left hand, and a sharp pain clearly came through.
He raised his eyes, his gaze piercing through the hole, across the vast night sky, and looking towards the mountain range in the north of Qing Province, shrouded in black mist year-round.
"Then let's go."
"I'm waiting!"