Proving Immortality Starting with Hextech Runes

The figure of Li Ming, the master of Xuan Shui Palace, hovered above Meteor City, his black robe as dark as night and his aura as deep as the abyss.

"Li Ming?! How could you possibly..." At the bow of the bone boat, Xue Fen's sinister smile froze instantly, as if frozen by ice.

The violence and greed in his eyes were replaced by unbelievable horror, and a hint of fear flashed deep in his pupils.

Li Ming's gaze calmly swept over the crumbling city defense array below.

Especially the enormous, blood-red gap in the southwest corner, and the massive tail of the demonized dragon whale poised to plunge into it.

His eyes were calm and still, yet everything that passed through them seemed to freeze in place.

"break……"

A single word was uttered lightly from Li Ming's mouth.

There was no earth-shattering momentum, no world-destroying spiritual pressure eruption.

However, as the word fell...

The terrifying blood vortex, nurtured by Granny Blood Dove's nascent soul essence, instantly turned into wisps of green smoke and quickly dissipated into the air.

The demonic dragon whale's massive tail, which had solidified in front of the gap, along with the violent bloodlust power attached to it, silently disintegrated.

Blood Lord let out a muffled groan, retreating several feet along with the dragon whale beneath him. Their auras surged, clearly indicating a severe backlash.

At the Kun position of the array eye, Lin Miaoyin and all the array hall disciples felt the terrifying suction and corrosive force that had almost torn the array platform apart suddenly disappear.

High in the sky, the shock on Xue Fen's face was quickly replaced by rage.

"Playing tricks! Li Ming, so what if you force your way out of seclusion? You're still severely injured, and you're forcibly activating the Profound Water Law. Let's see how long you can last!"

He absolutely did not believe that Li Ming could fully recover. The power he was displaying at this moment must be due to the exhaustion of his original strength and the exhaustion of his last breath!

"The river of blood surges to the heavens, and ten thousand souls devour the gods!" Blood Burn roared fiercely, and suddenly lifted his hands upwards.

A blood river that blotted out the sky surged out from the void behind him.

This time, the blood river was not only filled with the faces of vengeful spirits, but also condensed into countless twisted and wailing blood-red demonic shadows, exuding a terrifying aura that eroded the soul.

The river of blood transformed into a giant wave, carrying a destructive will to bury everything, and crashed down on the suspended Li Ming!

He will use his strongest power to completely crush this seemingly powerful illusion!

Faced with this towering wave of blood that would make even ordinary mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivators pale, Li Ming remained calm.

He didn't even make any defensive or dodge movements; he simply raised one hand.

With long, slender fingers and distinct knuckles, palm facing down, he gently pressed down on the roaring, foul river of blood.

Time and space seemed to be compressed and distorted under his palm.

The raging river of blood, powerful enough to submerge mountains, crashed into an indestructible barrier when it was still a hundred feet away from Li Ming.

boom!!!

The roaring, blood-red river of waves began to crystallize instantly at the point of impact.

Dark red blood, distorted faces of vengeful spirits, and roaring demonic shadows, in an instant, solidified into a blood-red glacier stretching across the heavens and earth.

Sunlight penetrated the ice, refracting an eerie and cold red light.

"puff!"

The cruel grin on Xue Fen's face froze completely, as if struck by a massive hammer blow.

He spat out a mouthful of dark purple reverse blood, the surging demonic flames around him instantly weakened, and his aura plummeted.

His innate divine power was instantly shattered and backfired, damaging his Dao foundation.

"Impossible!" he roared, his voice filled with disbelief, fear, and a hint of desperate madness.

Li Ming's gaze didn't even linger on Xue Fen for a moment, as if crushing an insignificant ant wasn't worth his attention.

His gaze swept indifferently toward Granny Blood Dove, who was driving the Blood Fiend to frantically erode the array patterns.

Granny Blood Dove was still reeling from the freezing of the Blood River and the injuries inflicted by Blood Burn when she suddenly met Li Ming's emotionless gaze. A chilling cold instantly froze her soul.

"No... Senior, please spare me..." The thought of begging for mercy had just arisen.

Li Ming's right index finger pointed slightly downwards in her direction, almost casually.

"Certainly……"

The blood-red demonic light surging around Granny Blood Dove, her face contorted with fear, the hand seals she made with her withered claws, even the surging nascent soul power within her body…

Everything, everything, froze instantly under this one word!

Immediately afterwards, Li Ming made an extremely slight downward stroke with his index finger in the air, as if cutting paper.

laugh!

A tiny, almost invisible ripple of space silently swept across Granny Blood Dove's still body.

There was no resistance, no sound.

Granny Blood Dove's body, along with the magical artifact in her hand, vanished silently, as if cast into the dust of nothingness.

The infamous Blood Dove Granny, the fourth elder of the Blood Sea Sect, who was at the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage, has perished.

These two seemingly casual gestures completely shattered the remaining fighting spirit of the Blood Sea Cult.

"Run!!!" Blood Lord let out a shriek, all traces of ferocity gone.

He slammed his hand on the head of the demonized dragon whale beneath him. The dragon whale let out a painful and terrified roar, turned around recklessly, and stirred up a huge wave, about to dive into the deep sea.

The frozen crimson glacier in the sky shattered with a deafening roar, turning into countless ice crystals that fell like a tragic rain of blood.

Li Ming's gaze finally fell on the fleeing Blood Lord and his mountain-sized demonized dragon whale.

He slowly raised his right hand, his five fingers spread wide, his palm facing the direction in which the Blood Lord had fled.

"Destroy..."

It's still just a plain and unremarkable word.

Before Blood Lord and the demonized dragon whale could even scream, they were dragged into the endless deep sea by an irresistible and terrifying force.

Only a huge, deep whirlpool remained on the sea surface, and it took a long time to calm down.

The battlefield fell into a deathly silence.

Bloodburn stood alone at the bow of the broken bone boat, surrounded by shattered blood river ice crystals and the deathly silence of his followers.

He clutched his aching chest, watching the blood dove vanish in an instant below, and the Blood Lord dragged into the abyss, never to live again.

Looking at the figure in black robes suspended high in the sky like a god, all ambition, violence, and arrogance were crushed to dust at this moment, leaving only a bone-chilling cold and despair.

He knew he was finished...

The Blood Sea Cult's century-long scheme proved as fragile as a joke in the face of true divine power.

Li Ming's gaze finally fell on Xue Fen.

That gaze remained calm, yet it made Xue Fen feel as if he had been stripped naked and thrown into the freezing snow, his very soul trembling.

"You..." Bloodburn's throat was dry as he tried to say something.

Li Ming did not give him a chance to speak.

He didn't even lift a finger again; his lips merely moved slightly, uttering a single word:

"Disperse..."

As soon as the word was uttered, every massive bone that made up the bone boat, no matter how hard its material or how many evil runes it was inscribed with, instantly disintegrated and scattered into the sea.

The Blood Sea Sect's elite disciples on the boat, who couldn't even scream, were instantly torn apart by the chaotic spiritual energy currents and the pressure of the deep sea.

Blood Burn shot into the sky the instant the bone boat disintegrated, narrowly avoiding a fall, but the last glimmer of hope in his eyes was completely extinguished.

He didn't even dare to look at Li Ming again, and an extremely dense burst of blood light exploded around him.

It then burned its life essence, transforming into a fierce blood rainbow, and fled desperately towards the distant sea at a speed beyond its limits.

Li Ming did not pursue, but simply watched indifferently as the blood-red rainbow disappeared into the horizon.

The Blood Fiend Spirit Trapping Array that shrouded the sea outside Meteor City shattered inch by inch the moment Xue Fen fled, and the massive net vanished silently like a burst bubble.

The spiritual energy between heaven and earth quickly resumed its flow.

The crumbling defensive array of Meteor City, with its huge gap in the southwest corner, had lost all its bloodlust. Although the array patterns were broken and the light was dim, it was finally no longer on the verge of collapse.

After a deathly silence, deafening cheers erupted atop the city walls.

Countless cultivators wept, knelt and kowtowed, and shouted "Palace Master's Holy Might!"

Elder Ling Yu suppressed the churning blood and the sharp pain in his chest, gazing at the figure suspended in the air with eyes filled with excitement and indescribable awe.

Su Qingxian's taut fingertips finally loosened from the strings, and the Jiaowei Guqin emitted a faint hum.

The worry on her beautiful and refined face had not completely disappeared; instead, she looked at the Palace Master of Liming with even greater intensity.

She could clearly sense that beneath that seemingly profound aura lay a subtle undercurrent of emptiness and weariness.

Li Ming's forced departure from the pass came at a price far greater than it appeared on the surface.

"Ling Yu, Su Yatou, Elder Gu." Li Ming's voice reached the three of them, tinged with weariness.

"Come with me."

As soon as he finished speaking, he didn't move, but the space around him distorted slightly.

The next moment, he, Ling Yu, Su Qingxian, and Elder Gu disappeared from the city wall and appeared in the Xuanyuan Hall deep inside the Xuanshui Palace.

The hall was spacious and solemn, with only a deep blue water sphere magic circle slowly rotating in the center emitting a soft light that illuminated the figures of the four people.

The palace doors closed silently, shutting out the noise of the outside world.

"Palace Master!" Ling Yu could no longer hold back and knelt on one knee, her voice trembling with deep remorse.

"Your subordinate is incompetent and failed to protect the city, causing the Palace Master to emerge from seclusion prematurely and disturbing your peaceful cultivation..."

Su Qingxian and Elder Gu bowed simultaneously, their expressions solemn.

Li Ming slightly raised his hand, and an invisible force lifted the three of them up.

"It's not your fault. The Blood Sea Sect has been plotting this for a long time, using despicable methods, and has been further fueled by external forces."

"While my seclusion is of utmost importance, how can I stand idly by and watch the fate of Meteor City perish?" His voice was calm, revealing neither joy nor anger.

"Senior, your injuries..." Su Qingxian couldn't help but ask, her tone full of concern.

"It's alright." Li Ming interrupted calmly, his gaze falling on Ling Yu. "How is the battle going? Tell me in detail."

Ling Yu took a deep breath, suppressing her injuries and emotions, and began to give a clear and organized report:

"Reporting to the Palace Master, the Blood Sea Sect has mobilized its entire forces this time, with the three demons, Blood Burner, Blood Venerable, and Blood Dove, arriving together, along with a large number of elite disciples and demonized sea beasts."

"Many key points of the city's protective array had already been destroyed by spies, and the core of the southwest Kun position was even buried with a Blood Sea Eroding Spirit Array. If the Palace Master hadn't intervened in time, it would probably have collapsed..."

He recounted in detail how the Blood Sea Sect used the three-month period to set up the prototype of the Blood Fiend Trapping Spirit Array, the seven Blood Fiend Crystal Condensation Nodes, and the tragic final battle.

After Ling Yu finished speaking, the hall fell into a brief silence.

"Hmm." After a long while, Li Ming finally spoke.

His gaze swept over the three of them, finally settling on Ling Yu: "The Kun position array eye has been defiled, its foundation damaged. The great array needs to be completely reconstructed. Elder Gu."

"Your subordinate is here!" Elder Gu immediately bowed.

"You are in charge. Gather the power of the entire palace's array formations and ensure that the palace is restored to its original state within three months, while reinforcing all weak points. Any necessary resources can be drawn from the internal treasury."

Li Ming's voice carried an unquestionable determination.

"Your subordinate obeys! I will certainly not fail the Palace Master's trust!" Elder Gu replied solemnly.

"Ling Yu." Li Ming's gaze turned to the Grand Elder.

"Your subordinate is here!"

"Your injuries are serious; you need to recover as soon as possible. The city's defenses, post-battle reorganization, compensation for the wounded and injured, and the suppression of remaining enemy forces must all be coordinated."

"Although Blood Burning has fled, his ambition remains. We must always be vigilant against his return, or other forces taking advantage of the situation." Li Ming spoke slowly, but every word carried immense weight.

"Pay special attention to thoroughly investigate the traitors and eliminate them completely. The Blood Sea Eroding Spirit Array was able to be silently embedded in the core of the Kun position, which is definitely not something a disciple of the Array Hall could do."

"There must be a higher-level mole lurking inside. Better to be wrongly accused than let one slip through."

Ling Yu's heart tightened, and he nodded emphatically: "Understood! We will eradicate these lurking individuals completely, leaving no future trouble!"

"puff!"

Suddenly, without warning, a mouthful of blood spurted from Li Ming's mouth.

The blood was dark red, and as soon as it left the body, it emitted a terrifyingly powerful energy and an aura of decay.

"Palace Master!"

"senior!"

Ling Yu, Su Qingxian, and Elder Gu were shocked and rushed forward instantly.

Li Ming's body swayed almost imperceptibly, and his black robe fluttered even without wind.

He raised his hand and casually wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his robe sleeve.

Forcibly interrupting a life-or-death crisis concerning one's path to enlightenment, and then, with a severely injured body, forcibly activating the fundamental laws to unleash thunderous methods to suppress a powerful enemy, the price is indeed far beyond what outsiders can imagine.

"It's alright." Li Ming's voice remained calm, but it was much lower and hoarse than before.

"It's just a backlash from an old wound."

He stopped the three people who wanted to step forward, his speech quickening, carrying an undeniable urgency:

"My foundation is damaged, and I need to find a place to go into seclusion immediately to suppress the damage and stabilize my realm."

"This time... the return date is uncertain."

"All matters within the city are entrusted to you. Ling Yu will be in charge of external affairs, and Elder Gu will be in charge of internal affairs."

"Su girl... The intelligence and musical secrets of the Illusionary Sound Sect are of great use in eliminating traitors and stabilizing people's hearts. I hope you will provide more assistance."

His gaze lingered on Ling Yu one last time, his eyes filled with a sense of entrustment and an indescribable complexity:

"Remember, defend the city, defend... the foundation. Await my return."

"Take care, Palace Master!" Ling Yu and the other two bowed in unison, their voices heavy with sorrow.

After Li Ming had been gone for a long time, Ling Yu slowly straightened up, her face as solemn as iron.

He glanced at the bloodstains on the magic circle, then looked at the spot where Li Ming had disappeared, and said in a deep voice:

"The Palace Master's command is of paramount importance. Elder Gu, repairing the great formation is of utmost urgency!"

"Sect Leader Su, to eliminate the traitors, we need to rely on your sect's secret techniques. As for..."

He paused, his gaze sweeping out of the palace, as if piercing through the layers of palace walls to the treacherous sea to the southeast that had swallowed countless lives.

"As for my young friend Xu Ping'an..." Ling Yu's voice carried a hint of sigh and determination.

"Once the city has calmed down a bit, I will personally lead a team to re-explore the Burial Soul Vortex! We must find them alive, or retrieve their remains to comfort their spirits!"

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He recounted in detail how the Blood Sea Sect used the three-month period to set up the prototype of the Blood Fiend Trapping Spirit Array, the seven Blood Fiend Crystal Condensation Nodes, and the tragic final battle.

After Ling Yu finished speaking, the hall fell into a brief silence.

"Hmm." After a long while, Li Ming finally spoke.

His gaze swept over the three of them, finally settling on Ling Yu: "The Kun position array eye has been defiled, its foundation damaged. The great array needs to be completely reconstructed. Elder Gu."

"Your subordinate is here!" Elder Gu immediately bowed.

"You are in charge. Gather the power of the entire palace's array formations and ensure that the palace is restored to its original state within three months, while reinforcing all weak points. Any necessary resources can be drawn from the internal treasury."

Li Ming's voice carried an unquestionable determination.

"Your subordinate obeys! I will certainly not fail the Palace Master's trust!" Elder Gu replied solemnly.

"Ling Yu." Li Ming's gaze turned to the Grand Elder.

"Your subordinate is here!"

"Your injuries are serious; you need to recover as soon as possible. The city's defenses, post-battle reorganization, compensation for the wounded and injured, and the suppression of remaining enemy forces must all be coordinated."

"Although Blood Burning has fled, his ambition remains. We must always be vigilant against his return, or other forces taking advantage of the situation." Li Ming spoke slowly, but every word carried immense weight.

"Pay special attention to thoroughly investigate the traitors and eliminate them completely. The Blood Sea Eroding Spirit Array was able to be silently embedded in the core of the Kun position, which is definitely not something a disciple of the Array Hall could do."

"There must be a higher-level mole lurking inside. Better to be wrongly accused than let one slip through."

Ling Yu's heart tightened, and he nodded emphatically: "Understood! We will eradicate these lurking individuals completely, leaving no future trouble!"

"puff!"

Suddenly, without warning, a mouthful of blood spurted from Li Ming's mouth.

The blood was dark red, and as soon as it left the body, it emitted a terrifyingly powerful energy and an aura of decay.

"Palace Master!"

"senior!"

Ling Yu, Su Qingxian, and Elder Gu were shocked and rushed forward instantly.

Li Ming's body swayed almost imperceptibly, and his black robe fluttered even without wind.

He raised his hand and casually wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his robe sleeve.

Forcibly interrupting a life-or-death crisis concerning one's path to enlightenment, and then, with a severely injured body, forcibly activating the fundamental laws to unleash thunderous methods to suppress a powerful enemy, the price is indeed far beyond what outsiders can imagine.

"It's alright." Li Ming's voice remained calm, but it was much lower and hoarse than before.

"It's just a backlash from an old wound."

He stopped the three people who wanted to step forward, his speech quickening, carrying an undeniable urgency:

"My foundation is damaged, and I need to find a place to go into seclusion immediately to suppress the damage and stabilize my realm."

"This time... the return date is uncertain."

"All matters within the city are entrusted to you. Ling Yu will be in charge of external affairs, and Elder Gu will be in charge of internal affairs."

"Su girl... The intelligence and musical secrets of the Illusionary Sound Sect are of great use in eliminating traitors and stabilizing people's hearts. I hope you will provide more assistance."

His gaze lingered on Ling Yu one last time, his eyes filled with a sense of entrustment and an indescribable complexity:

"Remember, defend the city, defend... the foundation. Await my return."

"Take care, Palace Master!" Ling Yu and the other two bowed in unison, their voices heavy with sorrow.

After Li Ming had been gone for a long time, Ling Yu slowly straightened up, her face as solemn as iron.

He glanced at the bloodstains on the magic circle, then looked at the spot where Li Ming had disappeared, and said in a deep voice:

"The Palace Master's command is of paramount importance. Elder Gu, repairing the great formation is of utmost urgency!"

"Sect Leader Su, to eliminate the traitors, we need to rely on your sect's secret techniques. As for..."

He paused, his gaze sweeping out of the palace, as if piercing through the layers of palace walls to the treacherous sea to the southeast that had swallowed countless lives.

"As for my young friend Xu Ping'an..." Ling Yu's voice carried a hint of sigh and determination.

"Once the city has calmed down a bit, I will personally lead a team to re-explore the Burial Soul Vortex! We must find them alive, or retrieve their remains to comfort their spirits!"