Fated Blood Meal? Crushed with One Hand!

The night wind howled, Jinling City rushed past beneath our feet.

Xiahou Yuan, like a giant black bat, lifted Xiahou Ying by the shoulder with one hand and leaped wildly between the rooftops of buildings. The dark red blood energy within his body, belonging to the Third Level of the Blood Refining Realm, transformed into a tough membrane, imprisoning Xiahou Ying tightly within it, making her unable to move even a finger.

Xiahou Ying's face was deathly pale as she let the cold wind whip across her cheeks like knives, her heart filled with bitterness and self-reproach.

"I'm sorry..." she murmured to herself.

In that desperate situation in the alley, she had no choice but to secretly slip the last hope her brother had left her—the letter, 100,000 yuan, and the Profound Grade Blood Refining Method —to Dongfang Yueming.

She only hoped that her classmate, who was always aloof and seemed indifferent to everything, would understand the seriousness of the matter after reading the letter.

"With that 100,000 yuan and the Profound Grade cultivation technique, he should be able to leave Jinling City and go to another base city to live in anonymity..."

"Or, he might be smart enough to take the letter to the Han Family and ask for help..."

Xiahou Ying closed her eyes, trying to grasp at this faint glimmer of hope amidst her despair.

However, a piercing laugh, like a sharp blade, mercilessly shattered her hopes.

"Young Miss, you're not praying that the boy named Dongfang Yueming will run away with what you gave him, or even go to get help, are you?"

Xiahou Yuan abruptly stopped on the top floor of an unfinished, abandoned building. He casually tossed Xiahou Ying onto the rough cement floor, looking down at her with a mocking gaze in his eyes, which faintly revealed vertical pupils.

"How... how did you know?!" Xiahou Ying's heart sank.

"Heh, you think your little tricks can fool me?" Xiahou Yuan stuck out his scarlet tongue, licked his sharp teeth, and his expression became extremely cruel.

"The reason I didn't kill him on the spot and take the things back was not because I was merciful."

"It's because... he simply can't escape!"

Xiahou Yuan slowly squatted down, admiring the growing fear in Xiahou Ying's eyes, and said, word by word:

"You probably don't know yet, but that Dongfang Yueming has long been on the patriarch's 'list of pets'."

"Moreover, he was personally designated by Young Master Zhang as his first 'blood meal' after breaking through to the Blood Refining Realm!"

"Boom!"

These words struck Xiahou Ying like a bolt from the blue!

"Blood food?! Blood food that my brother specified?!"

Xiahou Ying felt a sudden dizziness, and her breath caught in her throat.

She originally thought that by handing over the resources to Dongfang Yueming, she was giving him a way out. But the reality was that he was already in the deepest part of hell, coveted by monsters in human skin!

"It's hopeless... utterly hopeless..."

Xiahou Ying slumped to the ground, her eyes completely vacant. Even she, the eldest daughter of the Xiahou Family, couldn't escape the clutches of this evil; what could a commoner martial artist with no background possibly use to resist?

"Despair, suffer. This is the fate of you inferior creatures..." Xiahou Yuan thoroughly enjoyed this mental torment, and he laughed Zhang Kuang.

However.

Just as his laughter reached its peak!

"Yeah?"

A flat, emotionless voice suddenly rang out in the empty floors of the unfinished building.

"Who?!"

Xiahou Yuan's laughter stopped abruptly, and the hairs on his body stood on end in that instant!

As a powerful expert at the Third Level of the Blood Refining Realm, coupled with the superhuman sensitivity of Variants, he was completely unaware of when someone had approached!

Not only him, but even Xiahou Ying, who was slumped on the ground, suddenly raised her head and looked incredulously in the direction from which the sound came.

A tall, slender figure slowly emerged from the shadow of the supporting pillar ahead.

There was no earth-shattering burst of energy or blood.

There was no sound of air being torn apart.

There wasn't even the slightest ripple of spatial fluctuation!

He walked casually, yet it seemed as if he had traversed a distance in space. One second he was ten meters away, and the next second he was already standing in front of Xiahou Yuan.

[Heaven Grade Ultimate Technique - the Ends of the Earth Are Within Reach]!

When the faint moonlight illuminated the face of the newcomer, Xiahou Ying's beautiful eyes widened to their limit, as if she were seeing the most incredible illusion in the world!

"The Yueming in the Dongfang...?!" she exclaimed in shock.

"How could it be you?!"

Xiahou Yuan's pupils also dilated in shock. He stared intently at the young man in the black hooded sweatshirt in front of him, his mind momentarily blank.

How could a useless person at the Fifth Level of Blood Nourishing Realm appear before me so quietly?

Are you surprised?

Dongfang Yueming kept his hands in his hoodie pockets, looking at Xiahou Yuan with indifferent eyes, as if he were looking at a corpse.

"I just heard you say that I'm the blood sacrifice your young master has reserved?"

"Court death!"

After a brief moment of astonishment, Xiahou Yuan was filled with boundless shame and anger. Although he didn't know what strange concealment method this kid had used, Blood Nourishing Realm was still Blood Nourishing Realm! Compared to him, a Blood Refining Realm, they were nothing but trash!

"Since you've delivered yourself to my doorstep, I'll deal with you beforehand!"

"Roar--!"

Xiahou Yuan let out a superhuman roar, and his body instantly underwent a grotesque transformation!

His bones grew taller, his skin was covered with a layer of dark red, hard scales, and his hands transformed into sharp claws. A thick blood aura belonging to the Third Level of the Blood Refining Realm, carrying a nauseating stench, suddenly erupted within this unfinished building!

I'll tear you to pieces!

Xiahou Yuan, now transformed into Variants, exerted tremendous force with his legs, causing the concrete ground beneath his feet to crack inch by inch. He transformed into a gust of bloody wind, his sharp claws aimed straight for Dongfang Yueming's head!

Faced with this overwhelming and deadly attack.

"Get out of the way!!!" Xiahou Ying screamed in despair.

However, Dongfang Yueming did not dodge; instead, he slowly withdrew one hand.

"Since you find pleasure in cannibalism..."

His eyes turned cold.

"Buzz--!"

A terrifying surge of energy, indescribable in words, suddenly awakened within Dongfang Yueming's body!

It wasn't bright red blood, but a pure, Liuli- like luster, seemingly imbued with the vitality of the Great Dao Vitality! And deep within that Liuli luster, a dazzling divine radiance suddenly burst forth!

[Top-Tier Perfection: Blood Contains Divine Radiance]!

The moment the divine light shone, Xiahou Yuan's originally violent dark red blood energy, like snowflakes meeting the scorching sun, emitted a "sizzling" sound and was instantly suppressed and even melted!

"What... what kind of qi and blood is this?!"

Extreme horror flashed in Xiahou Yuan's eyes as he stood in mid-air. He felt his blood trembling and surrendering!

But the arrow was already on the bowstring, and it had to be released!

"Die!!!"

"Great Compassion Seal."

Dongfang Yueming didn't even bother to pronounce the full name of this Heaven -Heaven Grade fist technique. He simply raised his right hand casually, made a fist with his five fingers, and slowly smashed it towards Xiahou Yuan's sharp claws.

The profound meaning of [Ten Directions of Annihilation] was not used.

It's just the purest, Heaven Grade fist technique.

"Boom--!!!"

The moment their fists and claws collided, there was no stalemate where they were evenly matched.

Amidst Xiahou Yuan's desperate roar, his prized, Variants claws, capable of severing alloys, along with his entire scale-covered arm, made contact with Dongfang Yueming's fist the instant...

It's like a fragile, dry twig encountering a heavy hydraulic press!

A muffled "bang!"

Xiahou Yuan's entire arm, along with half of his body, was smashed into a shower of bloody, flying pieces of flesh by the terrifying destructive power contained in that punch!

His massive, mangled body flew backward like a tattered sack, smashing through three load-bearing walls before finally being buried in a pile of rubble, where he fell silent.

One punch, instantly killing Blood Refining Realm Variants!

silence.

Inside the unfinished building, there was a deathly silence.

Only the mournful sound of the night wind whistling through the broken windows could be heard.

Xiahou Ying sat blankly on the ground, staring blankly at the back of the figure slowly retracting its fist.

Her worldview was utterly shattered at that moment.