Suppressing Prisons and Subduing Demons reached the subtle realm, an ultimate killing move, the Prohibition Blood Formation

Black mist churned.

A massive hand covered in red hair gripped the rough bluestone rim of the well.

Its nails scraped the stone, throwing up a long trail of blinding sparks.

Rumble!

The ground shook harder, and the roaring from the bottom of the well made everyone's eardrums ache.

"Kill him first!"

Lin Xiao turned his wrist.

His heavy sword traced a fierce arc of light, cleaving straight toward Liu Tianjue's neck.

They absolutely could not wait for that monster to climb all the way out.

Su Yu reacted just as quickly, his black-and-gold saber carving a semicircle through the air.

His divine sense spread out, enveloping the entire battlefield.

Within his perception, the dark cyan Qi and blood on Liu Tianjue's body circulated extremely quickly, forming a closed loop without a single blind spot.

He could find no vulnerable point or weakness.

As both powerful fighters suddenly attacked at once, Liu Tianjue's white hair whipped wildly against the wind, and the brocade robe covering his upper body burst apart inch by inch.

His dark cyan, corded muscles were fully exposed to the air, bulging veins coiling across his chest and arms.

"You two think you're enough?"

Liu Tianjue crossed his arms in front of him.

Clang!

Clang!

Two deafening clashes of metal erupted.

Lin Xiao's heavy sword struck Liu Tianjue's left arm.

Sparks flew everywhere.

It failed to cut even his skin.

Su Yu's black-and-gold saber struck the ribs on his right side, but its sharp edge was forcibly bounced away, leaving only a faint white mark.

Body refinement spirit realm second level!

A mid-grade body refinement cultivation technique, Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent!

Liu Tianjue took their combined attack head-on without retreating even half an inch.

The next instant, he violently shook both arms.

Savage Qi and blood power burst from his body, and a tangible wave of air expanded wildly in every direction.

Lin Xiao was blasted three steps backward, the webbing of his hand splitting as blood dripped down the saber's hilt.

Using the recoil, Su Yu forcibly twisted at the waist in midair and stamped both feet heavily onto the ground, pulverizing the hard bluestone slabs.

His feet left two pits half a foot deep in the ground.

Formidable.

His physical defenses alone could already ignore slashes from ordinary weapons.

Lin Xiao forced down his surging Qi and blood, his chest heaving violently.

He could not break through those defenses.

Wear him down with hit-and-run attacks?

There was not enough time.

That red-haired monster would climb completely out of the dry well within ten breaths at most.

Join forces to attack a weak point?

Liu Tianjue would never give them that opportunity.

Outside the courtyard walls.

The hands of more than a dozen Demon Suppression Guards shook wildly around their sabers, while the presence of the red-haired monster in the dry well behind them grew increasingly terrifying.

Black slime dripped from its red hair, corroding the ground and raising wisps of white smoke.

With Liu Tianjue seemingly impervious to blades and spears ahead of them as well, despair rapidly spread through the crowd.

"It's over, it's all over!"

A young Demon Suppression Guard's legs went weak, his saber tip drooping toward the ground as he kept backing away.

Shing!

A steel saber left its sheath.

The back of the blade smashed directly into that Demon Suppression Guard's chest, knocking him to the ground.

Covered in blood and grime, Tang Shan held his saber in both hands and stood at the very front.

"Grip your sabers!"

Veins bulged on Tang Shan's forehead, his voice tearing.

"We are the Demon Suppression Guard!"

The Demon Suppression Guard who had been knocked down swallowed, bit his lip hard, and forced himself to grip his saber's hilt.

At the center of the battlefield.

Liu Tianjue let out a savage laugh and took the offensive.

"Rock-Shattering Palm!"

The air was forcibly compressed, erupting with the piercing boom of a sonic barrier as the wind from his palm swept up flying sand and stones and rushed straight at Su Yu's face.

Su Yu ducked to evade it, and the fierce wind swept just over his head.

Bang!

A wooden pillar as thick as a thigh behind him was blasted clean through, snapping apart as more than half the roof collapsed with a crash.

Tiles struck the ground in a chorus of shattering sounds.

Su Yu steadied himself and swept his divine sense over Liu Tianjue again.

His defenses at the second level of body refinement were indeed extraordinarily powerful; conventional methods could not break through Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent.

Even an attack with divine sense could not kill him in a single strike.

Only an overwhelming advantage in sheer force could shatter this turtle shell in an instant.

A translucent gray panel appeared before Su Yu's eyes.

[Host: Su Yu]

[Cultivation: mortal realm ninth layer (Qi refinement), spirit realm first level (spirit refinement)]

[Cultivation techniques: Suppressing Prison and Subduing Demons (Mortal), supreme grade, perfection; Spirit-Seizing Art (Spirit), low grade, beginner]

[Martial arts: Vajra Fist, subtle realm, ultimate realm...; Gale Saber Technique, subtle realm, ultimate realm...]

[Current Slaughter Points: 420]

The Slaughter Points he had earned from killing Yin Jiuyou were just enough to complete a thorough qualitative transformation.

His intent stirred slightly.

"System, allocate points."

"Put them all into Suppressing Prisons and Subduing Demons!"

[Consumed 400 Slaughter Points. Supreme-grade cultivation technique Suppressing Prison and Subduing Demons (Mortal) extrapolated to the subtle realm!]

[Current Slaughter Points: 20]

Boom!

An incomparably domineering, supreme power exploded inside Su Yu on the spot, and his dark golden prison-suppressing spiritual Qi violently contracted and collapsed.

His muscle fibers snapped one by one, and the system's mighty power intervened, rebuilding his body into a more perfect form, while the thunder deep within his marrow grew ten times more violent than before.

The surrounding rubble shook and jumped into the air as excruciating pain swept through his entire body.

Su Yu clenched his teeth without making a sound, rough dead skin flaking from his body.

Beneath it lay tough skin gleaming with a dark golden sheen, while his extremely viscous Qi and blood surged and roared through his veins.

His supreme-grade mortal realm cultivation technique had fully entered the subtle realm.

[Ultimate killing move comprehended: Absolute Prohibition Blood Formation (Mortal)]

As the system notification flashed past, the prison-suppressing Qi and blood inside Su Yu erupted into complete turmoil.

Dark golden spiritual Qi mingled with boiling Qi and blood power and burst from his body.

Humm-

Within a radius of three zhang around Su Yu, the air suddenly became incomparably heavy.

Several insects flying through the air were pinned firmly to the ground and burst into green juice on the spot.

Suspended dust instantly fell to the ground as an invisible, blood-colored gravitational field descended with a crash.

Liu Tianjue was just about to press his advantage, striking at Su Yu with Rock-Shattering Palm again.

He stepped into that three-zhang blood-colored area.

Bang!

Suddenly, Liu Tianjue's legs buckled violently, his kneecaps grinding under an unbearable burden.

The bluestone slabs beneath his feet cracked inch by inch, and the ground directly collapsed into a deep pit.

Gravity within this space had increased a full tenfold, and the once incomparably swift and fierce Rock-Shattering Palm instantly stalled.

Liu Tianjue's movements slowed to less than half their speed, his entire body sinking into a viscous mire.

"What did you do?!"

Liu Tianjue's eyes bulged.

The speed and strength he took such pride in had been forcibly stripped away, and he desperately activated Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent.

The dark cyan muscles covering his body spasmed wildly, his meridians bulging one by one.

He tried to break free of this strange restraint, but could only inch forward.

Right then, Su Yu turned his left hand.

With a hiss, most of the black-and-gold saber's blade sank into the hard bluestone ground.

He drew his right arm back to its limit, pouring the subtle-realm prison-suppressing Qi and blood inside him into that arm without reserve.

An ultimate killing move.

Vajra Demon-Subduing Fist.

Qi and blood extended half an inch beyond his knuckles, becoming a scorching, blood-colored branding iron.

This punch drained all the air around Su Yu, forming a brief vacuum.

The surrounding air rushed madly toward his fist, letting out a piercing shriek.

Bang!

His fist slammed squarely into the center of Liu Tianjue's chest.

Crack-

A teeth-grating sound of breaking bones rang throughout the courtyard.

That layer of dark cyan defense, comparable to refined steel, shattered on the spot under the combined assault of the Prohibition Blood Formation's absolute suppression and Vajra Demon-Subduing Fist.

The dark cyan defensive line of Qi and blood instantly collapsed, and the force of the punch pierced his skin, reaching straight into his internal organs.

Violent spiritual Qi rampaged wildly through Liu Tianjue's body, shredding his meridians inch by inch.

Before their very eyes, a clear fist-shaped dent sank deep into Liu Tianjue's chest, and a section of his back suddenly bulged outward.

His broken spine pushed up against his flesh, and dark red blood mixed with fragments of internal organs sprayed wildly from his mouth.

Terror consumed all of Liu Tianjue's thoughts; he had cultivated Vajra Demonic Baleful Intent for most of his life.

Yet it could not withstand a single punch from a mortal realm ninth layer martial artist, and his burly body was sent flying backward in an instant.

He smashed through three courtyard walls in succession before crashing heavily into the ruins a hundred meters away.

Bricks and stones tumbled down, burying most of his body.

Amid the flying dust.

Dead silence fell over the entire scene.