I have changed my destiny and become an unparalleled immortal.

Just then, a lazy, teasing voice slowly came from the large blue stone beside the blood pool.

"Oh, who's got such a temper? Isn't this the little bat with the missing arm from Falling Star Valley back then?"

That voice! That tone!

Xue Wuyai was struck as if by lightning, and the magic power he had gathered halfway instantly dissipated.

He turned his head sharply, staring intently in the direction from which the sound came.

I didn't even notice this person.

On the large blue stone, a man was sitting with his legs crossed.

He was only wearing an open black robe over his upper body.

Her silver hair danced wildly, and between her brows was a strange, blood-red butterfly mark.

"Gu...Gu Yun?"

Xue Wuyai's pupils instantly shrank to the size of pinpoints, as if he had seen a ghost in broad daylight. His voice became sharp and distorted, even carrying a trembling tone of fear that he himself was unaware of.

"What are you doing here?"

Xue Wuyai clutched his blood-red prosthetic limb tightly.

Eighteen years ago in Falling Star Valley, the painful memory of being drained of his life essence by this monster and rubbed against the ground surged into his mind like a tidal wave.

That was the biggest nightmare of his life.

"Thanks to you, I'm still alive and well. But your arm..."

Gu Yun picked at his ear with his little finger and slowly stood up from the bluestone.

The violent and oppressive aura emanating from him, unique to the Great Wilderness Body, weighed on Xue Wuyai's heart like a mountain.

"Looks like the food at Blood Fiend Valley hasn't been very good these past eighteen years. A prodigy like him hasn't even grown a real arm?"

"Shut up!"

Bloodless, whose sore spot had been hit, went mad instantly.

Fear was replaced by humiliation and anger at that moment.

He suddenly realized that this was not the Forbidden Spirit Abyss of the Cangyuan Secret Realm, but their Blood Fiend Valley's main camp.

"Gu Yun! Do you think this is still eighteen years ago? I'm now in the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm!"

Xue Wuyai's eyes turned bloodshot as he laughed wildly, his divine sense instantly locking onto Gu Yun.

"Hahaha! As expected! You still have no spiritual energy! You, a body cultivator without any magical power, dared to venture alone into the forbidden heart of my Blood Fiend Valley. It's like choosing the path to hell when there's one to heaven!"

"Today, I'll settle both old and new scores! I'll cut your flesh and blood inch by inch, boil it into oil, and use it to burn as a sky lantern!!"

"A sea of ​​blood, a floating pagoda! Die!"

Xue Wuyai no longer held back, unleashing his full power as a mid-stage Golden Core cultivator.

The entire underground cavern instantly turned into a vast sea of ​​blood.

Hundreds and thousands of blood-red ghost faces floated in the sea of ​​blood, sweeping over Gu Yun and Gu Chengfeng in the blood pool.

Faced with such an attack that could instantly kill an ordinary early-stage Golden Core cultivator.

He simply stood before the blood pool, looking at Xue Wuyai, who was caught up in a frenzy, as if he were an idiot, a mocking sneer curling at the corner of his mouth.

"Little bat, times have changed."

Gu Yun stood with his hands behind his back, not even moving, but simply snapped his fingers lightly in the void using his divine sense.

"Snapped!"

A crisp snap of fingers stood out remarkably clearly amidst the clamor of the sea of ​​blood.

"Buzz!!"

The next instant, a sudden change occurred.

Hundreds and thousands of golden array patterns suddenly erupted on the rock walls of the entire underground cave, and these array patterns intertwined into a golden net with Gu Yun as the center.

The Bloodless Ocean, a menacing sea of ​​blood pagoda.

The moment it touched the golden net, it was instantly vaporized into a cloud of white smoke with a hiss.

"What?"

Xue Wuyai's pale face froze instantly, his eyes almost bulging out.

He watched helplessly as his prized Golden Core technique was easily blocked by a layer of array light barrier, without even touching a single hair of Gu Yun's head.

"A formation? A defensive formation?!"

Xue Wuya screamed as if he had seen a ghost.

"This is impossible! You clearly don't have a single trace of magic power, how could you possibly set up an array of this level?! Even if you could set up an array, what would you use to activate it without spiritual power?!"

Gu Yun stood behind the golden light curtain, looking like a nouveau riche, casually taking out a handful of spirit stones from his storage ring and tossing them around in his hand.

"I really have no magic power."

Gu Yun grinned, revealing his gleaming white teeth, his eyes turning cold.

Why should I tell you?

After saying that, Gu Yun's eyes sharpened, and he activated his divine sense once again.

"Since you're already here, why don't you help me test the Heavenly Thunder Formation and see if its power is enough!"

"change!"

"Boom!!"

The array patterns inside the cave instantly turned from gold to purple.

A destructive aura of thunder and fire erupted from the rock walls on all sides, locking Xue Wuyai firmly in the center of the formation.

"not good!"

Xue Wuya felt a chill run down his spine as the shadow of death instantly enveloped his entire body.

He finally understood that the monster before him was no longer the brute from back then.

"Enemy attack! A formidable enemy is lurking in the forbidden area!!"

Just a second before the endless lightning and fire struck down, Xue Wuyai crushed the highest-level protective jade talisman without hesitation, and his shrill scream instantly echoed throughout the entire Blood Fiend Valley.

"It's too late."

Gu Yun waved his hand coldly.

For every spirit stone that turns to dust, a bolt of purple lightning strikes down.

"Back in the Azure Abyss Secret Realm, I could only rely on my physical body to withstand your magic, becoming your target. Today, I'll let you taste that feeling!"

Gu Yun's lips curled into a cold smile.

"Thunderfall, fall!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Dozens of bolts of lightning converged into a waterfall of lightning, completely tearing apart the protective blood-red light surrounding Xue Wuyai.

"puff!"

Xue Wuyai coughed up a mouthful of blood and was cleaved from mid-air like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily into the hard rock and creating a large, human-shaped crater.

"No... I am an elder of Blood Fiend Valley... How could I possibly fall into your hands again..."

Xue Wuyai was charred black, and his prosthetic limb had been struck by lightning and disappeared without a trace. He struggled to get up, his eyes filled with fear and despair.

Eighteen years.

Eighteen years ago, he was beaten to the ground by this man and had to cut off his own arm to save his life.

Eighteen years later, he became a high-ranking mid-stage Golden Core cultivator, thinking he could finally avenge his previous defeat. However, his opponent defeated him with just one formation, turning him into a dead dog.

This comprehensive, dimensional-reducing attack completely shattered Xue Wuya's Dao heart.

Just then, the light in front of Xue Wuyai suddenly dimmed.

A foot clad in a coarse black boot stomped heavily on his chest.

"Snap!"

The sound of the sternum cracking was crisp and piercing.

"Little bat, it's been eighteen years, how come you haven't grown at all?"

Gu Yun looked down at Xue Wuyai from his high position, slowly bent down, grabbed Xue Wuyai by the throat, and lifted him out of the pit with one hand like a dead dog.

"Uh... let... let me go..."

Xue Wuyai's legs were limp in mid-air, and he felt like an ant trying to shake a tree.

The suffocating despair he felt eighteen years ago washed over him once again like a tidal wave.

"Weren't you just yelling that you were going to boil me into blood oil and burn me like a sky lantern?"

Gu Yun's smile grew wider, but there was no smile in his eyes. He clenched his right fist tightly, and his knuckles cracked repeatedly.

"I didn't bring a tinderbox today, but I can twist your head off and use it as a chamber pot!"

After saying that, Gu Yun's right arm bulged with veins, and terrifying pure power gathered into a fist, which, with a sonic boom that tore through the void, smashed straight toward Xue Wuya's face.

If this punch lands, let alone Xue Wuyai, who is in the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm, even a rockery made of fine steel would instantly turn into dust.

Xue Wuyai closed his eyes in despair, the shadow of death completely engulfing him.

He sighed, recalling the words on the jade pendant.

Gu Yun's eyes sharpened, and his right fist, which was about to smash into Xue Wuyai's face, was abruptly deflected in mid-air.

"Bang!"

Gu Yun punched Xue Wuyai in the shoulder.

He directly shattered the true essence that was about to form a protective barrier, and then, like throwing away trash, casually tossed the half-dead Xue Wuyai into a corner behind him.

He looked up, his gaze turning cold as he stared at the massive gap in the dome.

Amidst the churning, blood-red miasma, countless extremely powerful demonic cultivators emanated their auras.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

Dozens of dazzling blood-red sword lights pierced through the air and arrived first, transforming into more than a dozen Golden Core stage cultivators wearing the robes of Blood Fiend Valley elders and exuding murderous aura.

Behind them, hundreds of elite disciples of the Blood Fiend Valley, all at the Foundation Establishment stage, completely surrounded the sky above the underground cavern.

The entire Blood Fiend Valley came out in full force.

"boom!!"

Inside the cave thousands of feet underground, Gu Chengfeng swallowed the last drop of ancient malevolent energy from the Divine Transformation Blood Pool.

Accompanied by a roar.

The three-headed, six-armed ancestral witch phantom behind Gu Chengfeng solidified completely, then transformed into a dark golden stream of light, which suddenly pierced into his chest, turning into an ancient totem mark.