Within the vast, boundless mountains, apart from the rustling mountain winds and bare rocks, there was nothing else in sight.
"Rumble~~~"
Suddenly, a deafening roar rolled in from the distant horizon where heaven and earth met.
This immense sound resonated throughout the heavens and earth. Along with this thunderous sound, a golden light, like a golden lightning bolt, shot forth with lightning speed.
A thousand miles behind the golden lightning, a sea of blood surged and churned, sweeping forward. Its speed was incredibly swift, not lagging behind the golden lightning in the slightest.
This red sea of blood was incredibly vast, spanning ten thousand miles.
Although the sea of blood had not yet approached, a bloody stench already permeated the surroundings. Within the crimson sea of blood, tens of millions of skeletal bones appeared faintly, looking extremely eerie.
In the center of the red sea of blood, a tall altar, approximately a thousand feet high, stood erect.
This tall altar was concealed within a layer of red light, appearing extremely mysterious.
"haha, Xiahou Zongying, you suffered a blow from my Senior Brother's Myriad Sorrow Palm and didn't immediately perish. You even managed to escape this far. I imagine you're at your wit's end. I advise you to surrender obediently. For the sake of past connections, the Star Ancestor might spare your life."
Suddenly, a earth-shattering roar rumbled forth from the tall altar deep within the sea of blood. This sound was long and distant, transmitted solely by profound magical power without any sound transmission technique.
Within the golden light, which was rapidly fleeing a thousand miles away, a pale Middle-aged Man stood.
His face was completely devoid of color, his eyes were extremely gloomy, and his lower lip was bleeding from being bitten by his teeth. But he didn't notice it at all.
At this moment, he was forcefully suppressing the backlash within his Physical Body, desperately urging himself to flee along the light.
Hearing the words of persuasion from behind, this Middle-aged Man showed no unusual reaction.
Taking advantage of the Nine Serenities Palace Star Ancestor's absence, this Middle-aged Man risked taking two rare profound treasures from the Nine Serenities Palace. Unexpectedly, he ran into a patrolling Nine Serenities Palace inspector.
Unable to explain himself, he was forced to fight several Cultivators of the same rank. Although he managed to escape from the heavily guarded Nine Serenities Palace by relying on a secret technique, he was still injured by the Nine Serenities Palace's Senior Brother Yan.
Now he was being chased all the way to this place.
If he were at his peak, the Middle-aged Man would naturally not care about the Cultivator of the same rank chasing him. But now that he was severely injured, it was difficult for him to be his opponent.
"Xiahou Zongying, as long as you hand over those two rare profound treasures, I guarantee I will plead with the Star Ancestor, Old Ancestor, to spare your life and suppress you under Myriad Gloom Mountain for ten thousand years. Otherwise, I don't need to explain the consequences."
Seeing that the person in front showed no intention of stopping, another persuasive remark came from within the boundless sea of blood.
Just as these words were uttered, the golden lightning in front suddenly converged. The white-robed Middle-aged Man suddenly stumbled forward rapidly in the air, and after taking a few hurried steps, he stopped at an altitude of ten thousand feet.
At this moment, his face was extremely distorted, his teeth were deeply embedded in the flesh of his lower lip from clenching, and the veins on his neck were bulging.
On his pale face, a flush now appeared.
The white-robed Middle-aged Man seemed severely injured, but a hint of madness flickered in his eyes.
Just as the white-robed Middle-aged Man stopped, the boundless sea of blood, amidst a rumbling roar, had already approached to within a thousand feet.
The continuously surging bloody seawater abruptly halted as if encountering an invisible wall, no longer advancing an inch.
"haha, Xiahou Zongying, it seems your injuries are no longer suppressible. Will you let me act, or will you voluntarily hand over those two rare profound treasures? If I personally act, you will have no chance of survival. You should think this through carefully."
As the earth-shaking roar spread across the wilderness, the tall altar in the center of the sea of blood flickered, and the thousand-foot-high altar suddenly vanished, disappearing into the boundless sea of blood.
In just an instant, a red light flashed at the edge of the sea of blood, and the tall altar reappeared. A Young cultivator, with a blue light flickering around him, appeared on the altar.
This Young cultivator had a slight smile on his face, his eyes intently fixed on the white-robed Middle-aged Man a thousand feet in front of him.
"Hmph, asking me to hand over the rare profound treasures is wishful thinking. These two treasures originally belonged to my beloved sister, but they were forcibly seized by the Nine Serenities Palace. In the end, even her life was not spared. Although I cannot avenge her blood feud, taking out her most cherished items will give me some closure for her."
The white-robed Middle-aged Man snorted coldly, his eyes icy as he spoke in a deep voice. His tone revealed extreme hatred for the Nine Serenities Palace.
"Hehe, even if you stole them, with your current state, do you really have the ability to preserve these two items?"
Facing the white-robed Middle-aged Man, the Young cultivator appeared extremely relaxed. Although he admitted he was not his opponent in normal times, he no longer had any scruples now that the other party was severely injured.
"haha, even if I can't personally offer them before my sister's grave, you, the Nine Serenities Palace, will never possess these two rare profound treasures!"
After the white-robed Middle-aged Man finished speaking, he burst into laughter, looking up at the sky. As he laughed, he opened his mouth and spat out a ball of essence blood, with golden runes continuously flashing within it. Then, a circular object flew out from his chest, instantly expanding to a hundred feet in size.
The essence blood touched the huge circular object, immediately emitting a dazzling golden light. This golden light grew with the wind, instantly enveloping the hundred-foot-sized circular object.
"Ah, what are you doing? You... you... you want to use this Honghuang Xuan Treasure to break open this Mi Luo Realm? Even at your peak, you couldn't do this. Now, with your heavily injured Physical Body, it's questionable whether you can even activate this Honghuang Xuan Treasure for a single strike."
Suddenly seeing the opponent actually unleash a Honghuang Xuan Treasure, the Young cultivator on the altar couldn't help but be greatly alarmed, his thoughts flashing incessantly.
"Hmph, whether it can be broken or not, only trying will tell."
The white-robed Middle-aged Man did not pause at all. As the essence blood and the Honghuang Xuan Treasure merged, the Middle-aged Man even opened his celestial cover, and a golden miniature figure, about a foot tall, appeared out of thin air with a flash of golden light.
This golden miniature figure was completely unclothed, but its face was identical to that of the white-robed Middle-aged Man, as if it were the white-robed Middle-aged Man shrunk several times over.
As soon as the golden miniature figure emerged, the white-robed Middle-aged Man's entire body suddenly withered rapidly, and in an instant, it transformed into a ball of essence blood, suspended in front of the golden miniature figure.
The golden miniature figure's face was distorted. With a wave of its small hand, the ball of essence blood, like a blood arrow, shot towards the hundred-foot Honghuang Xuan Treasure.
The white-robed Middle-aged Man had actually abandoned his Physical Body, integrating all his essence into that Honghuang Xuan Treasure.
"Ah~, you're cutting off your own path to survival, trying to sacrifice yourself to this Honghuang Xuan Treasure..."
As a cry of alarm rang out, the ten-thousand-mile sea of blood immediately roared, and the thousand-foot-high altar erupted with a sky-obscuring red light. The sea of blood suddenly rose with hundreds of hundred-foot blood-colored Dragons, shooting forward.
On each Dragon, countless skeletons were attached...
"Hmph, it's already too late..."
As the golden miniature figure's words spread, its hands suddenly waved towards the sky. The hundred-foot Honghuang Xuan Treasure immediately revealed a destructive, chilling Qi, and a thick, yellowish light pillar, dozens of feet in diameter, suddenly appeared.
It struck towards the sky. As this strike was unleashed, the entire heaven and earth trembled, and an incomparable energy fluctuation suddenly rose, as if it would destroy the entire sky.
"Rumble~~~"
A colossal sound that reverberated through heaven and earth suddenly erupted, as if the entire world had collapsed.
Along with this sound, a massive rift, approximately a thousand feet wide, suddenly appeared in the high sky. The rift was extremely dark inside, and within the darkness, thick lightning bolts occasionally flickered.
With the appearance of this rift, a huge suction force suddenly emerged. The golden miniature figure and the Honghuang Xuan Treasure near the rift were effortlessly sucked in, disappearing without a trace in an instant.
When the golden miniature figure unleashed the Honghuang Xuan Treasure, the Young cultivator on the tall altar in the sea of blood already knew it was impossible to block the Honghuang Xuan Treasure's strike. Without hesitation, the ten-thousand-mile sea of blood churned and rapidly retreated in the direction it came from.
Its speed was two points faster than when it arrived.
Since Xiahou Zongying had already used an Immortal Realm forbidden technique, sacrificing his own essence to his Honghuang Xuan Treasure, which he had nurtured for tens of thousands of years, the power of this strike was already difficult to fathom. It was very possible that it could even break open this Mi Luo Realm.
Although those hundred-foot blood-colored Dragons rapidly retreated under the Young cultivator's urging, dozens of them still failed to do so, being sucked into the huge spatial rift and disappearing in an instant...
Three months later, within a majestic hall nestled amidst a mist-shrouded mountain range, several people were seated, and a Young cultivator stood in front.
"What? Xiahou Zongying actually used the essence blood feeding spirit technique to cleave open the Mi Luo Realm? With the powerful might of the Void Domain, Xiahou Zongying must have perished, but those two rare profound treasures and his Honghuang Xuan Treasure will surely remain. If Old Ancestor knows that our Nine Serenities Palace lost these two rare profound treasures after regaining them, he will certainly not let it go easily."
"Although the chance of those two rare profound treasures remaining in the lower Realm is extremely small, as long as there is a slight possibility, we must search for them. Junior Brother Zou Rui, it seems only you can undertake this arduous task."
One of the pale-faced Old Ancestors spoke with a somber expression but an extremely calm tone.
Upon hearing this, the Young cultivator who was previously on the red sea of blood's altar immediately changed his expression dramatically, his countenance flickering incessantly.
"Hmph, if Old Ancestor knows about this, Xiahou Zongying escaped from your hands. I don't need to tell you the consequences, do I?"
Seeing the Young cultivator's expression, a green-robed Cultivator seated nearby spoke up.
Upon hearing this, the Young cultivator's expression changed even more dramatically. After considering it, he gritted his teeth and said:
"Alright, I, your Junior Brother, will go search in those lower Realms. If I can find anything, I hope my Senior Brothers can help break open the Realm and allow me to return."
"That is natural. With this destiny astrolabe, as long as you can find those two rare profound treasures and activate this astrolabe, we will certainly know and welcome you back to the Mi Luo Realm."
After everyone finished speaking, they all rose and headed towards a heavily guarded valley in the distance...
