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Chapter 423 - 423 417 The Crimson Gate


423: Chapter 417: The Crimson Gate 423: Chapter 417: The Crimson Gate Like a vicious dog pouncing on its prey, Murakami Taro, who had been rushing straight towards Chen Hai, was also startled and froze on the spot due to the earth-shattering noise.


His bloodshot eyes cleared up slightly.


“Sect Master…” Seemingly somewhat bewildered, Murakami Taro’s gaze fell on the eerie figure of Yukizo Hayato.


“Chen Hai?


How could you be here?” The next moment, he noticed Chen Hai’s presence.


Although First, Senior Sister Ono Sari, then the Iga School of Ninja, the two groups he contacted to deal with Chen Hai, had ultimately vanished without a trace.


But Murakami Taro just assumed that there was a skilled protector behind Chen Hai!


He had never connected the unknown strongman who had killed Ono Sari to Chen Hai.


There’s no helping it; Chen Hai’s age was too deceiving.


A student who had just entered university, no matter how Murakami Taro looked, he could not believe that Chen Hai, who still had a hint of childishness on his face, had the ability to silently take out his Senior Sister Ono.


But now, Chen Hai appeared here suddenly…


“So it was you who killed Senior Sister Ono, Hirano Keiji and Uchida-kun also died at your hands!”


“It turns out, there is no senior expert behind you; the truly powerful one is yourself.”


“No wonder, the daughter of the Ye Family was willing to marry you…”


In that instant, Murakami Taro had an epiphany, all the previous confusions he had were answered at this moment.


His eyes full of hatred, he stared intently at Chen Hai, and if looks could kill, Chen Hai would have already been torn to pieces countless times by now.


But in the next moment, some force seemed to affect him again!


He who had just regained a bit of clarity and whose gaze had cleared up slightly, his face showed signs of struggle, and soon, he became bewildered again, lost in confusion.


“Sect Master of Snow Mountain, did you block the passage?


Is this your doing?”


Ignoring the half-human, half-dog Murakami Taro, Chen Hai’s gaze fell directly on Yukizo Hayato.


He had never truly trusted this guy.


Under Yukizo’s lead, he had come here, precisely because he felt that this cave might not be simple.


Only under the threat of death did he force this guy to accompany him, traversing through the rock crevices and stepping into this cave.


Even then, following behind Yukizo, he was stepping exactly on his footprints all the way here.


In hindsight, Chen Hai had been extremely cautious and careful.


But even so, distracted by the dog-like Murakami Taro for just an instant, just a slight lapse in attention, he was still caught in Yukizo Hayato’s scheme!


“Young friend, accept your fate.


Once you enter Dog Cave and are sealed in this stone cave by the Dragon-breaking Stone, your death is certain!”


“In this End of Magical Era, even if you have cultivated to the realm of a True Man, with your talent given by the heavens, what can you do?”


“As someone from Japan, I absolutely cannot allow the existence of a Yanhuang powerhouse that could threaten our country.”


“To be able to use my dying body to fight a True Man is such tremendous luck!”



With a face bearing traces of obsession and madness, while speaking these words at the same time, Yukizo Hayato sat down cross-legged directly on the cold ground.


The next moment, several crisp ‘pop pop pop’ sounds were heard.


As if something had exploded, blood holes began appearing in his chest, back, and limbs.


Blood surged like a tide, gushing out from within his body.


The blood flowing from his body spilled onto the ground, and in what seemed to be a fairly flat cold surface, the Blood Light continued to burst forth.


A series of blood-red patterns, quickly lit up by the blood of Yukizo Hayato.


These patterns, like living creatures, intertwined and entangled with each other.


In just less than an instant, an extremely peculiar blood-colored design began to take on a faint outline.


“Sacrificing oneself, what kind of evil ritual is this?”


The Dragon-breaking Stone suddenly fell, completely sealing the exit, and although Chen Hai’s complexion looked terrible, he wasn’t particularly panicked.


After all, although he had not completed his fasting, he should be able to survive for a few months without eating or drinking!


With such a long time as a buffer, with his abilities, there was a great possibility that he could break open the cave exit again.


But now, seeing the state that Yukizo Hayato was in, he truly started to feel nervous!


With a wave of his hand, vast expanses of flames burst forth from thin air, completely engulfing Yukizo Hayato, who was seated cross-legged.


According to his plan, he intended to turn him to ash before Yukizo Hayato’s ritual could be completed.


Unfortunately, the evil ritual of Yukizo Hayato seemed not to be so simple!


At the moment when Chen Hai’s flames rolled towards him, a blood curtain as thin as a cicada’s wing appeared out of nowhere.


With this blood curtain as a barrier, no matter how fierce his flames were, they couldn’t cross it, as if it were a line of demarcation, and they couldn’t truly harm Yukizo Hayato’s body.


The Yukizo Hayato who sat cross-legged on the cold ground, his current state seemed extremely strange.


Perhaps because his blood had already been drained, his once robust body started to wither at a speed visible to the naked eye!


His Shikigami, the Snow Woman, a vessel for his Divine Soul, appeared faintly behind him!


The pure Soul Power within him was also rapidly draining away, flowing into the blood patterns on the ground.


In just the blink of an eye, the Snow Woman, as a result of the loss of Soul Power, had become incredibly faint, as though it would disperse at any moment.


Ever since he had entered the Object Controlling Realm and could command Flame Power, Chen Hai encountered enemies and, with his flames, he was nearly invincible.


But now, his Flame Power was actually blocked by such a thin blood curtain…


This scene left Chen Hai incredibly surprised, slightly taken aback, and he became momentarily lost in thought.


“Rumble…


Rumble…”


While he was lost in thought, the pattern made up of the blood-red lines on the ground finally condensed into shape.


It was a sinister doorway formed purely from blood, and the very moment this blood-colored portal took shape, a corner of the door began to open slowly, bit by bit.


At this time, the Yukizo Hayato sitting cross-legged on the ground, seemed as if all his spirit, qi, and mental strength had been exhausted.


His body, which already appeared skeletal, completely turned to ash and was obliterated on the spot.


“This is…


the door to the True Realm…”


Seeing the blood-colored door being slowly pushed open, Chen Hai recognized its origin with a single glance.


When he first entered the Object Controlling Realm, the doorway he had glimpsed, compared to the blood-colored door before him now, seemed to have some distinct differences.


But after merely sensing it for a moment, he was certain that essentially, the two were fundamentally the same.


The very moment the portal appeared, Murakami Taro had already shrunk back into the farthest corner of the cave.


As if he had seen the most terrifying thing imaginable, goosebumps covered his entire body and he couldn’t stop shivering.


As for Chen Hai, he tried to burn the blood-colored door with flames.


After confirming that his flames could absolutely not touch the thing, he refrained from any superfluous actions, merely watching the doorway.


He, too, was a bit curious to see what would happen after the door was opened!