The horned giant instinctively looked at the Black Lotus Beauty.

Seeing the complex emotions flickering in the other person's eyes, a look of recognition, he asked:

"Do you know him?"

"Yes! She is the ancestor of our Styx lineage. I have seen her in the records of our sect! She is the master of the Styx Ancestor."

The one who supposedly perished in the ancient war.

The horned giant was stunned.

The master of the Styx Ancestor?

That legendary God Emperor?

"But why is she here?"

"have no idea."

The beautiful woman shook her head.

"But she's guarding the Emperor's Ginseng!"

The moment the beautiful woman finished speaking, the gaunt figure moved.

Her head slowly rose from her chest, and her withered neck bones made a cracking sound.

Her eyes opened. There were no pupils in those eyes, only two dark red lights burning deep within.

"Intruders".

Her voice was forced out of her throat, hoarse and hollow, like a corpse that had lain in a coffin for countless years finally speaking.

"I have been guarding this thing for billions of years."

"Have you all come here to die?"

The horned giant instinctively took a step back.

The beautiful woman did not back down; instead, she took a step forward and bowed with her hands clasped in greeting.

"This junior pays respects to the Ancestral Master. I am a disciple of the Styx Ancestor, and I was unaware that the Ancestral Master was here. I have offended you greatly."

The gaunt figure's gaze fell upon the beautiful woman, and he remained silent for a moment. Then, a very slow smile suddenly appeared on her lips, a smile devoid of any genuine joy:

"The Styx. That traitor."

Is he still alive?

The beautiful woman's expression changed drastically.

"Back then, when I passed on my mantle to him, he turned me into a protective object and sealed me here to guard this Emperor Ginseng for him!"

What a heartless and cruel beast!

A layer of cold sweat appeared on the beautiful woman's forehead.

She finally understood.

This Guixu Secret Realm is not a natural secret realm at all.

This was a scheme personally orchestrated by the Styx Ancestor.

He refined his master into a protective artifact, sealing her deep within a secret realm, using her remnant soul to guard the Emperor Ginseng.

It opens once every three thousand years, attracting countless cultivators to enter, where their flesh and souls nourish the shrine, gradually eroding her remnant soul in the carnage.

Once the remnant soul is completely exhausted, the Emperor Ginseng will mature, and the Styx Ancestor will be able to take it away effortlessly.

All of them who came in were sacrificial offerings.

Having figured this out, the beautiful woman retreated abruptly.

But it was too late.

Suddenly, the gaunt figure stood up from the stone platform. As she stood up, her body swelled up rapidly. Her dry flesh stretched open, her bones twisted and deformed, and her gray hair turned into a sky full of blood streaks. In a few breaths, she transformed into a blood-red monster several meters tall.

Her hands turned into claws, her feet into hooves, and her back split open, from which countless blood-red tentacles emerged.

The horned giant had no time to think and threw a punch.

The dark red fist energy slammed into the blood-red monster with a whooshing sound. The monster didn't even dodge; the fist smashed into its chest, creating a bloody hole. But the next moment, the hole healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

She raised a giant claw and slammed it down on the horned giant.

The horned giant parried with his arm, but was sent flying backward by the claw, crashing through several rock walls before finally coming to a stop.

The beautiful woman's black lotus flower spun wildly around her, its petals enveloping her entirely in a black cocoon.

The crimson monster's tentacles lashed out, each strike taking away several petals.

Her black lotus petals peeled away layer by layer, becoming thinner and thinner, more and more brittle.

"We can't fight her head-on! She's protecting the Emperor Ginseng. If we attack it, she'll definitely come back to defend!"

The beautiful woman roared.

The horned giant crawled up from the rubble, most of its scales broken, and dark red blood seeping from multiple wounds.

He gritted his teeth and charged toward the stone platform, but the tentacles of the blood-red monster intercepted him halfway and pulled him back.

The beautiful woman's black lotus suddenly bloomed, all the petals bursting open at the same time, transforming into countless black blades that shot towards the blood-red monster.

The monster was pierced by the sharp blade, and its body paused for a moment. The horned giant seized this opportunity to rush to the stone platform and punched the Emperor Ginseng.

The runes on the surface of the Emperor's Ginseng suddenly lit up, and a dark purple beam of light shot out from the bead, striking the horned giant in the chest.

His armor shattered completely, his sternum collapsed, and he was pinned to the rock face.

However, his punch also hit the Emperor Ginseng, and a tiny crack appeared on the runes on the surface of the Emperor Ginseng.

The crimson monster let out a mournful roar, and its form began to flicker erratically.

The beautiful woman was slightly taken aback when she saw this scene. She hadn't expected that the Emperor's Ginseng seemed to be the weakness of this blood-red monster.

Seizing the opportunity, she broke free from the shattered black lotus and formed an extremely complex hand seal, a secret technique of the Styx lineage, specifically used to suppress remnant souls.

Her hand seal landed on the blood-red monster's forehead. The monster struggled violently, its blood-red tentacles lashing wildly, severing the beautiful woman's left arm and piercing her right shoulder, but she held on tightly to the hand seal and refused to let go.

The horned giant struggled to fall from the rock wall, half of his chest caved in, but he could still move one hand.

He staggered to his feet, rushed to the Emperor, and grabbed him with all his might.

The sword pierced the crack.

The moment Emperor Ginseng was pulled into the horned giant's arms, an extremely terrifying energy erupted from Emperor Ginseng.

The shockwave sent the two flying, and all the other cultivators who were watching from a distance were killed!

The beautiful woman crashed into the stone wall, breaking three ribs and two meridians, causing her cultivation level to plummet from the peak of the God King realm to the mid-stage of the God King realm.

The horned giant was propelled out of the cave by the shockwave and crashed into the open ground outside. Half of its body was embedded in the rock, its left arm was completely destroyed, a charred hole was burned into its chest, and its cultivation level dropped to the early stage of God King.

Deep within the cave, the Emperor's Ginseng fell to the ground with a thud, continuously emitting wisps of blood mist.

The blood mist slowly dissipated, coalescing in the air into a blurry human figure.

The cave returned to silence, leaving only ruins and dust on the ground.

Beside the cave wall, the beautiful woman lay on the ground, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, her breath faint.

The horned giant was embedded in the rock outside the cave, and the burns on its chest were slowly healing.

Both are still alive, but they have lost the ability to continue fighting.

They each lay down in their respective positions and began to circulate the divine power within their bodies to heal their injuries.

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