Countless rifts continuously opened across heaven and earth, and a vast river of blood surged ceaselessly from them.
Behind those rifts, where the nine heavens and nine earths should have been,
There was now only strangeness.
The land, mountains, and oceans were, in the blink of an eye, submerged by an endless sea of blood.
Heaven and earth, in that instant, were dyed crimson...
Gulp...
The sound of swallowing echoed again...
Chen Luo, high in the sky, gazed at the world of blood sea before him, his eyes devoid of joy or sorrow, as if he had understood everything.
Bang!
Suddenly, an explosion erupted!
A vast and boundless spatial passage tore open in the firmament. No longer a river of blood, but a sea of blood poured into the world from beyond the passage.
This endless sea of blood and corpses was as if a world had been slaughtered.
As the passage fully opened, the eruption of the vast blood sea was instantaneous.
When the blood sea at the other end of the passage had drained, the power of the void and existence continuously poured into the world. And finally, from beyond the passage, a headless corpse fell.
Plop...
The mangled corpse plunged into the blood sea that drowned heaven and earth.
Chen Luo looked at the corpse with a grave expression, for it emanated a tangible, domain-level fluctuation.
But at this moment, it was already a dead man.
Bang!!!
In the next moment, a series of explosions resounded throughout heaven and earth. In an instant, seventeen massive voids began to pour an endless sea of blood and corpses into the primordial land.
The thick scent of blood made the world appear like a purgatory.
But the faint sound of gulping grew more frequent.
It was as if some life form was devouring something.
As seventeen more Void Refinement stage corpses plunged into the blood sea, a voice echoed leisurely through heaven and earth:
"Heaven gives birth to all things to nourish man!"
Hum!
The endless blood sea that covered the entire world churned under some great power.
After a moment, a colossal blood-colored vortex, spanning the entire mountain and sea, fully formed.
And within the depths of the vortex, a gaze had been fixed upon Chen Luo since the first rift appeared!
"Man is the sole thing to repay heaven!"
Hum!!
The vortex spun faster and faster, but the center of the vortex remained surprisingly calm.
And a figure stained with blood slowly rose from the vortex.
"Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill!"
It was a youth clad in black and white Daoist robes. His face was simple and honest, and he bowed his head slightly, appearing quite harmless.
But at this moment, Chen Luo felt as if everything around him had become a restraint.
An endless malevolence seemed poised to tear him to shreds in the next instant!
"Yuan...shi...." Chen Luo gritted his teeth and uttered the youth's name, and he would truly begin to face the ultimate challenge of this world!
The youth slowly raised his head. Upon his seemingly simple face, a pair of blood-red eyes filled with malevolence looked at Chen Luo:
"Outsider, return my food to me."
"I herd heaven and earth, accelerating the flow of time, all to accumulate food!"
Following Yuan Shi's gaze, malevolence began to gather towards Chen Luo's chest, the very place where the souls of all beings in the primordial land resided!
Without hesitation!
In an instant, qi, blood, spirit, and domain power erupted within Chen Luo's body!
Boundless light exploded in this world of blood!
Within the radiance, a golden humanoid figure emerged, clad in formidable dragon armor and bearing a treasure wheel of myriad profound lights.
With golden, immortal eyes filled with fighting spirit, it looked at the monster that had schemed against the entire world for eons:
"True Manifestation! Supreme Unfettered Form!"
"Yuan Shi! If you want their souls, step over my corpse first!"
Endless pressure at this moment pushed back the oppressive malevolence, causing even the blood sea that obscured heaven and earth to tremble.
Yuan Shi looked at Chen Luo's transformation with interest:
"So that's how it is! This is the realm after Void Refinement! If I had possessed this realm back then, the void outside wouldn't have been able to swallow me!"
"However, as I am now, I no longer need it!"
The blood-red, sinister eyes greedily gazed at Chen Luo, who exuded a sacred and immortal aura.
With that, Yuan Shi spread his arms towards this world of blood sea with a frenzied expression:
"Outsider! If you wish to fight! Then I shall let you experience utter despair!"
"Dao Integration! Heavenly Wrath World-Destroying Form!"
Boom!!!
In the firmament, myriad bolts of lightning descended upon Yuan Shi in unison!
Beneath the firmament, the endless blood sea surged madly towards Yuan Shi!
Reflected in the boundless blood sea, these lightning bolts also turned blood-red and ominous.
Heaven and earth seemed to converge at this moment!
But this blood sea, filled with severed limbs, and the strange blood-colored lightning brought only terror and despair to the world.
Under extreme pain and calamity, the lightning dissipated, and the blood sea collapsed.
And a monster, whose aura rivaled Chen Luo's, stood tall in the firmament.
This monster had four heads and eight arms. Each head wore a sinister grin.
Each arm clutched a corpse dripping with blood.
Unquenchable black flames burned around its body, and its exposed flesh was covered with the faces of struggling beings.
As the four-faced monster stepped forward, darkness erupted from beneath its feet.
The malevolence at this moment had solidified into substance. It was the wails and suffering of trillions of beings across endless ages, the most intense emotions that life could display in despair!
For a time, heaven and earth became tri-colored.
Above the blood sea, golden and black light tore the sky in half.
That truly transcendent power caused the four directions of heaven and earth to tremble.
The four-faced monster uttered layered, strange sounds, but upon careful distinction, it was Yuan Shi's voice:
"Outsider! Your journey! Ends here!"
Chen Luo remained silent. With his left hand held vertically and his right hand clenched into a fist,
He struck his palm with his fist.
"Open!"
Chen Luo's right arm was suddenly raised high. As his right hand withdrew, a divine sword burning with starlight was abruptly unsheathed!
His figure flashed!
Bang!!!
The endless blood sea exploded violently, and at the very center of the blast radius, the four-headed, eight-armed monster was desperately parrying Chen Luo's descending divine sword.
The two clashed, their figures flickering between heaven and earth. With every collision, tens of thousands of miles of blood sea trembled!
Gulp...
Amidst their battle, the sound of life forms being devoured continued to echo.
But both remained tacitly silent.
Yuan Shi desired the soul pearls within Chen Luo's chest, while Chen Luo wished to slay the disgusting monster before him!
The eight blood-stained arms continuously collided with the starlight divine sword.
Each impact was the most fundamental contest of power and speed between the two!
Yuan Shi, with the entire world as his backing, believed he had long secured victory.
But as the battle continued, his expression grew increasingly grim. The sinister smiles on his four faces gradually turned to solemnity. This youth before him was actually growing stronger in the midst of combat!
After once again blocking Chen Luo's billions of strikes within a second with his corrupted bloody hands!
Crack....
With a crisp sound, Yuan Shi's expression changed for the first time!