The Legendary Red Lotus Karmic Fire, the Heroine's Father Arrives to Save the Day
At that moment.
In the far south of the Youxuan Dao Domain, at the Su Lineage.
Inside a grand hall where divine splendor flowed and the fragrance of pills lingered.
At the center.
A middle-aged man was refining pills in front of a pill furnace.
The man was thirty-four or thirty-five, handsome and distinguished, with a tall, slender figure. Draped in an exquisite cloak, he looked refined and noble.
The head of the Su Lineage, Su Xinghe!
"Patriarch, something has happened at the Xiao Clan! The fourth Attendant, Liang Chen, is dead!"
An elder hurried in and spoke gravely.
Su Xinghe's heart jolted. He spun around to face the elder.
"What did you say?!"
"Is my Yingying all right?!"
The elder gave a bitter smile.
"Liang Chen's life stele just shattered, which means he has died.
The young miss's life stele, however, is completely intact."
Su Xinghe's sword-like brows knitted tightly.
Liang Chen was a Saint King Realm expert.
The Xiao Clan couldn't even muster a single Pill Sea Realm cultivator now. How could anyone there have killed him?
But since Liang Chen was dead.
It meant his Yingying's situation was probably far from reassuring either.
The next moment.
Su Xinghe tore open the void and stepped inside, vanishing from sight.
After all, his precious daughter was involved. There was no time to lose!
Inside the Xiao Clan's reception hall.
Ji Song looked at the faint, insubstantial soul and chuckled.
"Divine Flame Venerable, it's no disgrace for you to die at my hands."
Then he extended a finger.
The power of profound laws swept forth like a raging torrent.
Accompanied by countless rays of divine radiance and carrying the majestic might of heaven, it turned into a streak of blazing light that thundered down toward Divine Flame Venerable!
Its momentum was vast, its might unrivaled!
Everywhere it passed.
The void shattered, laws fell into chaos, and yin and yang were overturned!
Divine Flame Venerable wore a helpless expression.
In his prime, he would not have feared Ji Song.
But now he was only a remnant soul, with less than one percent of his strength remaining.
Against a Supreme Realm expert at his peak, he had no room to fight back.
Looking at Xiao Han.
Divine Flame Venerable sighed softly.
"So be it. I've fed on your magic power for three years and made you a laughingstock. Let this be my repayment to you today."
As he spoke, he burned his soul in exchange for an ultimate surge in power.
Divine Flame Venerable's cultivation, which had only been at the Foundation Establishment Realm, instantly soared to the Supreme Realm Fifth Heaven.
An overwhelmingly vast pressure burst from his body and swept through the entire hall!
It stood against Ji Song's terrifying pressure, which seemed as boundless as heaven and earth.
Even so, it was still much weaker by comparison.
At the same time.
Divine Flame Venerable raised a hand, and a flame as scarlet as blood suddenly appeared before him.
The flame was shaped like a red lotus.
It was searing hot and bewitchingly blood-red, radiating a terrifying presence of destruction.
It burned away the sins and karma of the world!
Gu Xuanjin's gaze sharpened.
"Red Lotus Karmic Fire?!"
"Divine Flame Venerable, you've really given me a surprise."
Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
It burned karma, scorched sins, and destroyed souls and spirits!
One of the eight legendary divine fires.
A wondrous thing born from the origin of Avici Hell.
Once it touched someone, it could not be extinguished. They could only endure it until it burned away all their sins.
Divine Flame Venerable ignored Gu Xuanjin.
Using himself as fuel.
After driving the Red Lotus Karmic Fire's power to its limit.
He charged straight at the blazing streak of light that could destroy heaven and earth!
Boom-
In the void.
Red light and divine light collided fiercely.
A dazzling radiance and an earth-shaking blast erupted at once.
Heaven and earth lost their color!
The world fell silent!
The powerful collision left the entire reception hall in ruins.
Countless tables, chairs, and decorations were pulverized into dust!
Ji Song formed a barrier shimmering with divine light.
He shielded everyone from the Gu Clan within it, keeping the scattered Red Lotus Karmic Fire from touching them.
With the very last shred of power he had before his soul vanished.
Divine Flame Venerable shattered the void before him, which had been left extremely fragile by the collision.
He created a void passage with a random destination.
Then threw the bewildered Xiao Han and Xiao Xueying inside.
"Run! As far away as you can!"
Seeing this.
Ji Song's expression changed slightly, and he immediately moved to shatter the spatial passage.
Divine Flame Venerable let out a low shout.
He burned away the last of his soul completely, holding back Ji Song as he tried to destroy the void passage.
"You want to escape? It won't be that easy!"
Gu Xuanjin snorted coldly.
He decisively used the power of the Supreme Sword Bone.
The next moment.
A brilliant silver-white sword light burst from his chest!
Sword Qi sharper than anything in the world spread out in an instant.
The illusory, ethereal, and supremely mysterious laws of the sword surged like a tide.
They formed a silver-white immortal sword gleaming with divine light.
Peerlessly domineering and sharp to the extreme!
It seemed capable of cleaving heaven and earth and destroying the sun and moon!
With a piercing whistle, the silver-white immortal sword tore through the void and shot toward the void passage!
Boom-
The immortal sword smashed the void passage to pieces.
Xiao Han and Xiao Xueying tumbled out of the void!
Within the Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
Seeing this, Divine Flame Venerable sighed helplessly.
Then his soul burned away completely.
Without anyone controlling it, the Red Lotus Karmic Fire floated quietly in the void.
Gu Xuanjin came before the Red Lotus Karmic Fire.
He stored it in the System Space.
Once matters here were settled, he would return and take his time refining it.
Then he turned his indifferent gaze toward Xiao Han and Xiao Xueying.
"You two, it's time to be on your way."
Gu Xuanjin pointed a finger through the air.
Vast magic power condensed into two sharp longswords.
Bearing boundless sharpness, they sped toward the pair!
Xiao Xueying shielded Xiao Han behind her.
A flute, translucent and emerald-green like jade, quietly appeared in her hand.
But before she could activate it.
The void in front of her abruptly shattered.
A tall figure stepped out.
The newcomer was a handsome, distinguished man draped in a cloak, with an extraordinary air of nobility.
The powerful presence surrounding him was no weaker than Ji Song's.
Gu Xuanjin's two sharp swords were crushed before they could even reach him.
Seeing the man, Xiao Xueying's face lit up with surprise. "Father?"
"Yingying, how are you? Are you hurt?"
Su Xinghe anxiously checked Xiao Xueying over.
Only after finding that his precious daughter was not seriously hurt did he breathe a sigh of relief.
As for the disheveled Xiao Han standing nearby, he paid him no attention.
"I'm fine."
Xiao Xueying shook her head.
She then sent a voice transmission to Su Xinghe, briefly explaining what had happened.
After hearing Xiao Xueying out.
Su Xinghe's heart grew exceedingly heavy.
He had not expected them to have offended the Gu Clan. Things were a little troublesome...
Looking at the man who had suddenly appeared.
Gu Xuanjin frowned.
Was this the terror of heavenly Dao fortune?
Whenever the protagonist was at death's door, someone always jumped out to protect him!
And Su Xinghe's cultivation was no weaker than Ji Song's.
It looked like he had no choice but to call for backup!
With that thought, Gu Xuanjin quietly crushed the jade slip in his hand.
A moment later.
Su Xinghe looked at the young man across from him, dressed in white-and-gold brocade and carrying a serene, otherworldly air.
He smiled.
"Seeing you once is better than hearing of you a hundred times! The Gu Clan's divine son truly is extraordinary, like a sword immortal!"
Gu Xuanjin said calmly, "I'm deeply honored to receive such praise from Patriarch Su."
He glanced at Xiao Han, a faint flicker in his eyes.
"But I'm curious.
Patriarch Su, you sent your own daughter to the Xiao Clan when she was little.
Were you after something belonging to the Xiao Clan, or did you want to learn some secret?"
"What do you mean by that, Divine Son?"
Su Xinghe narrowed his eyes.
Seeing that Su Xinghe would not admit it.
Gu Xuanjin merely chuckled softly and said no more.