Blood Burning Realm Rupture amid the Void Obliteration Forest's Carnage

In the Western Territory the Void Obliteration Domain, the night was as black as ink, and a damp and oppressive atmosphere permeated the air. The distant moonlight was obscured by layers of dark clouds, with only intermittent flashes of lightning tearing through the night sky, illuminating the dense forest known as the "Withering Soul Forest." The trees here towered into the clouds, their branches like twisted veins, their surfaces flowing with dark red patterns, as if the earth itself was bleeding. The wind whispered low, carrying a faint murmur, like the still-murmured lamentations of the dead.

In this eerie forest, a caravan clad in blood-patterned armor moved slowly forward. It was the Blood Blade Hall's merchant caravan—the third most ruthless and brutal faction within the Nine Alliances Gang. More than ten giant soul carts, pulled by spirit beasts, glided through the forest. Each cart was engraved with blood-red runes, the runes shimmering with a suppressed crimson light. Inside the carts were barrier cores, spirit vein stones, and several Soul Annihilation Crystals—all extremely precious resources of the Void Obliteration Domain.

The leader at the front was a tall and burly man, clad in dark gold heavy armor, with the Blood Blade Hall's emblem—a skull pierced by a broken blade—engraved on his shoulder. He was none other than [Li Chuan], the deputy leader of the Blood Blade Hall, Annihilation Dawn Realm · Middle Stage, wielding the "Blood Hell Rending Halberd," his eyes glowing with scarlet light, and his aura of killing intent was so intense as he moved forward.

Li Chuan whispered sharply, "Speed up! We must reach 'Nightmare Bone Ferry' tonight. If our rendezvous there doesn't receive the goods, the old master will be furious."

The dozen or so Blood Blade Hall guards behind him responded in unison, their steps steady, yet none daring to slacken their pace. The air was thick with the mingled scents of blood and spiritual energy, and each time a spirit beast stomped the ground, it would kick up a cloud of red dust.

A night breeze blew, and a young guard lowered his voice and cautiously said, "Li Chuan... recently the Nine Alliances Gang has been plagued by incidents, and people from the Dragon Abyss Association and the Heavenly Sha Alliance have been disappearing one after another. Do you think... our shipment might also be..."

Li Chuan's gaze turned cold, and he sneered, "Hmph, those trash asked for it. Daring to touch the Nine Alliances Gang's goods, I'd like to see who they are! If they really have the guts, I Li Chuan, will be the first to grind them to dust!"

As soon as he finished speaking, his spiritual pressure surged, the surrounding leaves turned to ash, and the spirit beasts let out low growls, seemingly sensing the intimidation emanating from their superior.

But deep within the shadowy forest, unnoticed by them, a subtle spatial fluctuation swept by. The wind seemed to pause for a moment, and a chilling aura lingered in the shadows. The air seemed to await some ominous premonition.

The wind froze in the Withering Soul Forest, and a sudden low hum came from the depths of the void, as if the cracks in the heavens and earth had been forcibly torn apart. Then, the atmosphere of the entire forest suddenly stagnated. It was the feeling of spiritual energy being instantly drained—the flow of energy and spiritual breath in the air was suddenly swallowed up by some higher-level power.

Li Chuan frowned, then suddenly looked up, his blood-red pupils flashing with killing intent in the darkness. The forest mist ahead subtly distorted, and shadowy figures emerged one after another. As the mist dissipated, more than a dozen figures slowly stepped out, their steps extremely light, yet each step caused the earth to tremble slightly. It was a terrifying spiritual pressure that could crush space without needing to be released.

They all wore jet-black cloaks, with a spiral-shaped emblem embroidered on their chests—the mark of the "Liu Yuan Practitioners." Each masked figure was surrounded by spiritual energy, like a silent tide from the abyss. Further ahead stood a towering figure, clad in a grey-silver battle robe, his eyes a deep blue like an ancient well, his entire being seemingly blending into the night. He was none other than [Lin Hong], one of the most powerful Liu Yuan Practitioners of the Annihilation Dawn Realm · Supreme.

He looked up and smiled slightly, his voice deep and resonant like cold iron striking the void. "Heh... Li Chuan of the Blood Blade Hall, a lackey of the Nine Alliances Gang, actually dared to transport Soul Annihilation Crystals in the Withering Soul Forest. You've got some nerve."

Li Chuan snorted coldly, raising the Blood Hell Rending Halberd, its sharp edge crackling with crimson lightning. "Hmph, Lin Hong. You scum who can't stand in the light, dare to block the path of my Nine Alliances Gang? Look closely—this flag, the Blood Blade Hall's blood flag, who dares to block it?"

His words were like thunder, accompanied by a violent spiritual pressure that swept in all directions. The blood mist, hundreds of feet high, boiled and churned, as if the entire forest was trembling. However, the group of Liu Yuan Practitioners showed no fear. Instead, they simultaneously lifted their hoods, revealing pairs of indifferent eyes that gleamed with a gray-blue light. There was no anger or desire in those eyes, only pure indifference and control.

Lin Hong laughed coldly, "Blood Blade Hall? Ha, the Nine Alliances Gang's tactics in the Void Obliteration Domain are nothing more than dogs fighting each other. Do you think you can move freely in our 'Liu Yuan' territory with just a few truckloads of goods?"

Li Chuan, his halberd flashing through the air. "Domain? You bunch of filthy rats, you dare to talk about a domain?!"

The Blood Blade Hall guards behind him drew their spirit blades in unison, crimson patterns crawling across their bodies like living blood snakes. Instantly, a low, mournful war drumbeat resounded throughout the forest, the prelude to the resonance of the spirit array.

Lin Hong indifferently raised his hand, and behind him, more than a dozen masked men at the Severed Observation Realm · Supreme simultaneously released their spiritual pressure—the invisible "Observation Domain" intertwined into a net, the starlight was swallowed, the world turned into gray mist, the trees twisted, and the void cracks spread like a spider web.

"The Nine Alliances Gang... in our eyes, are nothing but a bunch of greedy corpses. Today, your lives, your goods, and those few Soul Annihilation Crystals all belong to Liu Yuan."

Li Chuan took a step forward, and a burst of spiritual light erupted, shattering the ground for dozens of feet. He grinned maliciously, "Since that's how it is... then come and take it! Let's see if your 'abyss' is deeper than my 'blood'!"

The spiritual pressures of the two collided instantly, like thunder crashing down upon the world. All the light in the forest was extinguished in that instant, leaving only a mixture of blood and ash.

Night fell completely silent.

The next instant, the heavens and earth collapsed with a deafening roar.

With a Li Chuan raised the Blood Hell Rending Halberd high with both hands, and the ground beneath his feet instantly shattered. He forcibly ignited his own bloodline with the power of Annihilation Dawn, and in an instant, millions of blood patterns rose to the surface of his skin as if they were alive, roaring and converging into the dark red halberd. The air began to distort, and waves of blood-red light surged into the sky like a tidal wave, transforming into a huge blood moon that hung above the forest top.

"Blood Halberd Domain: A Thousand Layers of Soul Burial!"

With Li Chuan's deep incantation, the Blood Moon suddenly shattered, unleashing endless crimson light that formed a scarlet barrier. The forest, the air, and even the cracks in spacetime were swallowed by the blood energy. In his hand, the Blood Halberd split into ten thousand phantoms, each carrying a muffled hum, like the orderly beating of war drums by a hellish army. In that instant, heaven and earth transformed into a blood prison, and all light was dyed crimson.

Opposite him, Lin Hong slowly raised his hand, a dark starlight igniting deep within his eyes. It was not light, but the folding of the void itself.

"Foolish mortals... In the depths of the Annihilation Abyss, light and blood are nothing but false illusions."

His whisper was extremely soft, yet it was like a low-frequency vibration echoing through the nine heavens, piercing the consciousness of every Blood Blade Hall cultivator.

The next moment, the air began to disintegrate—not shatter, but "collapse."

"The Annihilation Abyss Observation Domain - The Realm of Oblivion."

As Lin Hong gently clenched his palm, the surrounding space suddenly reversed, and countless mirror worlds emerged from the void. Each mirror reflected the Blood Halberd Domain of reality, but collapsed in the instant of overlapping and reversal. That was the "Observation Domain" of the Severed Observation Realm —observation is destruction, observation is silence.

The Blood Halberd Domain and the Annihilation Abyss Observation Domain overlapped at the same instant.

The heavens and earth emitted a piercing tearing sound, as if the universe was being ripped apart.

Li Chuan roared, wielding the Blood Hell Rending Halberd. Thousands of blood halberd phantoms blasted out simultaneously, transforming into Sea of Form that crashed towards Lin Hong. The blood-red light carried the wails of souls, tearing through the air like billions of blades sweeping across.

However, at that moment, Lin Hong merely raised his eyes slightly—the vortex in his eyes slowly rotated, and the sea of blood suddenly solidified.

All the blood and spiritual energy, and even the erupting malevolence, instantly reversed, swirling back towards the cultivators of the Blood Blade Hall as if time were flowing backward.

"This... this is impossible--!"

The pupils of a guard at the Only Book Realm · Supreme contracted. Before he could react, the blood-red halberd phantom on his chest exploded from within him, turning into countless rays of light that tore him to pieces.

Li Chuan gritted his teeth and roared, his blood surging. "Reverse time and space? You dare to fight me to the death!"

With a stomp of his foot, the ground of the entire Blood Halberd Domain undulated like ocean waves, and thousands of blood blades transformed into long chains that bound and locked the space, cutting the structure of the Annihilation Abyss Observation Domain in reverse. The radiance of the blood moon surged back, tearing through layers of illusory images and forcibly counteracting the oppressive force of the collapse.

Boom--!!

With a deafening roar, the entire Withering Soul Forest was torn open by a rift tens of thousands of feet wide. Blood waves and dark abysses exploded simultaneously, and shockwaves swept across hundreds of miles, turning mountains to dust, causing spirit beasts to weep, and the sky to collapse.

At the center where the two forces intersect, a terrifying "twisted sphere" remains in the void. Inside, countless fragments of mirror worlds and crimson lightning are intertwined, forming a catastrophic vortex that is constantly collapsing and reorganizing.

Li Chuan knelt on the ground, blood flowing from the corner of his mouth, his eyes still burning with a fierce light.

"Lin Hong —you think you can destroy me all by yourself? Blood Blade Hall is not a bunch of spineless cowards!"

Lin Hong's voice was cold and calm. "To destroy you, I alone am not needed."

Before he finished speaking, more than a dozen Abyss Liu Yuan Practitioners at the Severed Observation Realm · Supreme behind him simultaneously raised their hands, their palms forming an array in the air. Instantly, thousands of obsidian runes appeared in the Annihilation Abyss Observation Domain, then fell together like a meteor shower falling from the night sky, directly crashing into the core of the Blood Halberd Domain.

At that moment, the entire world turned gray and white.

Sound, color, presence—all have vanished.

When the light returned, the thousands of feet of forest had been transformed into a massive vortex of scorched earth, the ground burned to the color of lava, and the air filled with the stench of ash and blood. Li Chuan's blood armor was already shattered, his body covered in cracks, and his Blood Hell Rending Halberd was broken in two.

Yet his eyes remained fierce, and his voice, though hoarse, was filled with fighting spirit. "Liu Yuan Practitioners... I will rather die than let you succeed--!!"

The next instant, he pointed his finger, and his bloodline burned away instantly, his entire body bursting forth with a final crimson light. That was the Blood Blade Hall's most forbidden reversal technique—[Blood Burning Realm Rupture], forcibly tearing apart heaven and earth at the cost of his own life.

Boom!!!!

A red storm powerful enough to destroy a city erupted, instantly engulfing the dozen or so Liu Yuan Practitioners in front of Lin Hong. The void twisted, and all things fell silent.

The heavens and earth roared, Withering Soul Forest completely crumbled.

At that moment, all colors were stripped from the world, leaving only a chaotic light of Ultimate gray-white. The air was compressed into liquid, mountains were folded into the void, and the sky exploded outward like a shattered mirror. All sound was swallowed up, leaving only a silent catastrophe spreading.

The power of Blood Burning Realm Rupture spread from Li Chuan as its center, turning thousands of miles of mountains and forests into a blood-red storm, with surging energy tearing the heavens and earth apart. That storm was not a simple explosion of Spiritual Qi, but a "phase annihilation" between the bloodline origin and the spatial layer - time was collapsing, cause and effect were reversing, and all things were rewritten as ashes.

Lin Hong remained expressionless, his eyes turning into pure Annihilation Abyss black. He spread his arms, and the Annihilation Abyss Observation Domain opened once more, attempting to use its invisible power to seal off the exploding Blood Prison vortex. However, as the rune array in his hand flickered, Li Chuan's roar, accompanied by blazing blood light, rose into the sky.

" --Blood Halberd Soul Burning!!"

Boom--!!!

The strike was silent; even the tremors of heaven and earth were erased by the light.

An endless expanse of crimson, cracked with burning light, appeared, like a galaxy ablaze. The boundary of the Annihilation Abyss Observation Domain was pierced, and Lin Hong's figure was instantly engulfed by the blood-red light. Gray-black energy and crimson flames intertwined to form a terrifying antimatter vortex, which devoured the entire Withering Soul Forest in just a few breaths.

Forests turn to dust, rivers evaporate, and space tears apart, collapses, and swallows itself inch by inch.

From the outside, the forest that was originally thousands of miles wide suddenly disappeared into the night, replaced by a constantly flickering curtain of light in the void, like a crack in reality.

A moment later.

At the heart of that destruction, the blood mist still churned. The spatial layers repeatedly collapsed and closed, emitting a low rumble.

Within the blood mist, a battered figure slowly rose from the scorched mud. It was Li Chuan.

His body was covered in scorch marks, his armor was shattered into pieces, his left arm had been burned to ashes, and his internal energy was so chaotic that he was on the verge of collapse. Yet his scarlet eyes still burned, revealing an indomitable ferocity.

"Lin Hong... you... are not worthy to die with me."

He gritted his teeth and growled, barely managing to extend his only remaining right hand to smear the blood-stained markings on his chest. The blood slid down his palm, transforming into a faint light that outlined an ancient incantation.

The spell array lit up, as if it were drawing away his last bit of life force. Li Chuan let out a low roar and took out a dark golden pill from his storage crystal core. The pill was covered with countless complex forbidden patterns, each of which was spontaneously combusting and flashing with a ghostly light.

"The Blood Soul Forbidden Pill —if I don't die, the Nine Alliances will surely unleash a storm..."

He swallowed the pill in one gulp.

In an instant, the cracks on Li Chuan's body began to shimmer with bloody light, his skin was covered with new blood patterns, and the broken meridians in his body regenerated at a terrifying speed. Although his aura was no longer at its peak, it stabilized again. The dying spiritual pressure slowly recovered, transforming into a cold and oppressive power.

The winds of the surrounding world have finally returned. They blow away the ashes, stirring up crimson specks of light, like countless weightless fireflies floating in the air. The entire Withering Soul Forest is now nothing but a dark, crimson ruin, the ground collapsed into a huge crater, at the bottom of which are still flickering spatial rifts leading to the unknown Annihilation Abyss below.

Li Chuan sat cross-legged on the blood-red scorched earth, his eyes closed, the blood-red patterns on his body constantly writhing, devouring each other with the remaining Spiritual Qi around him. His breathing gradually stabilized, and his body returned to a state where he could move again.

The night wind, carrying the sweet, metallic scent of blood, howled over the ruins.

He muttered to himself, his voice hoarse yet filled with hatred:

"Lin Hong... you think you can kill me? You... you'll never know that the blood debts of the Nine Alliances Gang are never repaid in just one way—it's a life for a life, a life for a life, a life for a life."