How did a bastard like him become an immortal?

"Damn it, how can this Blood Demon be so monstrous? What kind of thing has been mixed into the battlefield?"

Zhang Tianyu, with his bronze body covered in scars, staggered out of the thick, blood-red fog, his expression filled with terror as he stared in horror at the blood-red mist behind him.

In that thick fog, he encountered a strange-looking blood mosquito. Its method of sucking blood was peculiar and terrifying. It did not bite people with its mouthparts as usual, but rather, its mouthparts were scattered throughout the blood fog.

This kind of demonic mosquito had never appeared on the battlefield before; it only mutated after that blood-red upheaval.

Xuan Yue beside him wasn't in much better shape. Her hair was disheveled, and a few ruthless glints flashed across her gentle face. Her face was covered in blood, and several swollen sacs were visible.

Hearing Zhang Tianyu's angry outburst, he also cursed repeatedly.

"It's all that damned Li Muyun's fault. He was so ruthless. If we hadn't all been carrying the sect's life-saving jade talismans, we would probably have been killed by Li Muyun."

Both of them suffered shattered souls and spirits, their nascent souls were broken, and their auras were weakened by Li Muyun's Void Devouring Finger. They only managed to survive thanks to the sect's life-saving jade talisman.

"This Li Muyun is so domineering and arrogant, he's not even human. How dare he act so recklessly in the territory of the Sun Moon Empire? I wish I could see him again..."

Zhang Tianyu's tone remained firm and assertive, showing no sign of backing down.

"Sigh... well, our energy is waning right now, let's just try to survive on this battlefield. That strange blood-soaked figure was really terrifying..."

After venting her anger, Xuan Yue calmed down and recalled her experience on the battlefield. A look of fear washed over her, and she was momentarily speechless.

He was a holy son of the Xuan Yin Sect, a Nascent Soul cultivator, yet he was so frightened by the blood mist on the battlefield that he couldn't speak properly.

Zhang Tianyu, who was always arrogant and fierce, remained silent, his eyes flashing with seriousness. In the past, he would have definitely mocked Xuan Yue for her heavy yin energy, saying she was like a woman.

But he wasn't much better off in front of that strange blood-soaked man.

The two prodigies, both Nascent Soul cultivators, chatted like ordinary people, talking about how evil the strange blood-red man was and how powerful he was, as if only in this way could they show that it wasn't that they were afraid, but that the strange blood-red man was too evil.

"That was at least a Death King at the Void Refinement Realm, who was swallowed whole by Zhang Tianyu!"

Xuan Yue was speaking when she suddenly seemed to remember something. Her voice trembled, her pupils dilated, and she stared at Zhang Tianyu.

Startled by Xuan Yue's words, Zhang Tianyu's thick eyebrows furrowed into a deep frown, and he swallowed nervously.

"Probably not. After all, once such an evil creature is born, it will shake the heavens and earth, and cause a sea of ​​blood to flow..."

"How could it not be? Didn't you see the skin on the bloody man's stomach?"

Upon hearing this, Xuan Yue was somewhat impressed with her own courage. She clutched her chest, took a few breaths, and cautiously looked around, as if afraid that the strange blood-soaked figure would reappear.

"Is it really the Thousand-Faced Ghost? Then the situation is completely different. This kind of ghost can transform into a human by collecting a thousand faces, just like an ordinary human. It only takes human form when it eats or peels off its face. Its path to immortality is not yet cut off..."

Zhang Tianyu murmured to himself, lost in thought, as he recited the ancient texts' descriptions of the Thousand-Faced Demon.

Xuan Yue nodded slowly. Both of them fell into a deathly silence. They had finally managed to escape from the blood mist and should have been grateful for their narrow escape, but witnessing such a terrifying existence had extinguished their spirits.

Both of their physical bodies and nascent souls were destroyed by Li Muyun, and now they are just remnants of their bodies formed from their remaining energy.

Gone are their former formidable strengths. On this perilous battlefield, both of them have lost their composure and calmness as cultivators.

Cultivators are just ordinary people with powerful cultivation levels. Ordinary cultivators tend to neglect the tempering of their minds and character. Only after stripping away the outer layer of strength do they realize that without strength to rely on, they are no different from ordinary people.

This is a true reflection of the two at this moment. In the two major sects, the two, who are known for their sharp and straightforward nature and their gentle and thoughtful nature, have both lost their usual demeanor. They are terrified just by catching a glimpse of that strange blood-red figure from afar.

"Let's go... I have a bad feeling about staying here any longer."

Zhang Tianyu hesitated to get up, and after adjusting his breathing for a moment, he just couldn't sit down again.

The two were merely crippled bodies; their strength and potential were far inferior to their former physical prowess, at best equivalent to a low-level Nascent Soul cultivator.

In particular, when Zhang Tianyu used the Nine Yang Secret Technique and the Sun Wheel Immortal Technique, the intense heat that erupted directly burned through his limbs and bones. It might not be visible on the outside now, but once his true essence was circulating, it was like a dilapidated house with drafts everywhere, leaking from east to west, and he couldn't unleash his original combat power at all.

Xuan Yue wasn't much better off. His original physical body, after being tempered by the Xuan Yin Technique, quickly developed into the Xuan Yin Body, an excellent vessel for nurturing Yin energy, which greatly benefited his Xuan Yin Technique.

Now that the body is destroyed, although it can still use the Xuan Yin energy, both its true essence and the power of its spells will be reduced by 30%.

This led to the two, who had always disagreed and looked down on each other, surprisingly joining forces, all because of their common enemy – Li Muyun.

The two hurried forward, filled with anxiety and fear. They would hide whenever they saw a surge of blood energy. After traveling some distance, they spotted three blood-red figures in the distance.

The terrifying rumors about the bizarre blood-soaked figures instantly resurfaced in their minds.

Without any hesitation, the two turned and ran, their true essence surging and escaping without stagnation, instantly transforming into a ray of light and a gust of cold wind, disappearing into the distance.

Indeed, the blood-red shadow looked too much like a human, which terrified the two of them. They were afraid that if they hesitated for even a moment, they would be targeted by the terrifying thousand-faced ghost, crawling on all fours and tearing off their own faces to become one of the thousands of faceless ghosts.

"No, how could there be three Thousand-Faced Demons?"

Halfway through her escape, Xuan Yue's heart stirred, and she suddenly remembered the details from earlier, as three bloody shadows appeared in a blazing light.

This thousand-faced ghost is a monstrous creature of heaven and earth. One of them is already a source of natural disasters and calamities, and hundreds of ghosts run rampant. How could three of them appear at the same time?

Zhang Tianyu paused upon hearing this, exhaled, and looked somewhat suspicious.

"In all the records, there are only a handful of these thousand-faced ghosts in the mortal world. I have never heard of them existing at the same time. How could there be three of them at the same time? Could it be someone's prank?"

At this point, both of them showed a hint of shame and indignation. They were the holy sons of a major sect of the Sun Moon Empire, top geniuses, yet they were frightened by this shadow and turned to run away.

If this gets out, how will we save face?

The two pondered for a moment, increasingly feeling they couldn't bear to lose face, and cautiously continued along the path they had previously taken.