Skip this! Just tell me who to kill!

Inside the main hall of the imperial palace in Fire Cloud City.

A blood-red phantom suddenly appeared behind Qin Muyuan, resembling a predatory beast, and crashed into his body with a chilling ferocity.

In an instant, the blood shadow erupted within his body, then rapidly crystallized, expanded, and solidified!

Countless crimson and translucent blood crystals emerged from under every inch of Qin Muyuan's skin, overlapping layer upon layer, spreading and climbing like living things.

In the blink of an eye, a perfectly formed blood crystal armor covered his entire body, with faint red light flowing between the crystal layers.

In his hand, the originally pale and translucent pure bone nail was also simultaneously enveloped by blood-red crystals.

Blood crystals spread from the hilt of the sword towards the tip, quickly covering the entire bone nail, and then condensed into several sharp, blade-like, crystal-red spikes!

The blade was crimson and translucent, faintly gleaming with a blood-red aura!

At this moment, Qin Muyuan's aura changed drastically, as if a blood god had descended!

Two streaks of light flashed and lit up on the panel—

[Blood Sea Level 6 (Perfect) → Blood Sea Level 7 (Breakthrough)]

[Blood Sea Seventh Level (Breakthrough): After absorbing blood, a blood shadow will condense behind you. If the absorbed blood originates from yourself, the blood shadow will enter a berserk state and merge with your body to form a blood-red crystal armor.]

"Let's fight!"

Sensing the powerful boost that the crimson crystal armor provided, Qin Muyuan's fighting spirit swelled to its peak.

With a lift of the pure bone nail covered in crystalline prisms, the sword blade, gleaming with a blood-red cold light, instantly pointed at Song Chengshan.

Sensing the change in Qin Muyuan's aura and seeing the blood armor that had materialized, Song Chengshan's expression turned extremely solemn.

"What kind of martial arts is this?!"

The fighting style Qin Muyuan is currently employing, whether it's his incredibly powerful body that seems to have consumed a demonic blood-seed pill, or his physical strength.

Whether it was the technique of turning the whole body into stone, or the blood shadow that appeared at this moment, it completely overturned Song Chengshan's impression of martial arts practitioners.

In his mind, martial arts practitioners were nothing more than simple-minded, physically strong fools who didn't understand any profound techniques.

However... what Qin Muyuan showed in front of them was not like that!

This undoubtedly made Song Chengshan hesitate.

It wasn't that they were wary of Qin Muyuan's current combat strength, but rather of his background and family history.

The fact that someone can use such a wide variety of complex techniques suggests that their family background might actually be quite impressive.

He is definitely not just a scion of an ordinary noble family, as I knew from the intelligence!

"Qin Muyuan."

Song Chengshan's gaze was icy as he coldly swept over Qin Muyuan, and he said in a deep voice:

"It's not too late to back down now!"

"This war is over. From now on, the Fire Cloud Kingdom can be ruled jointly by the two of us."

"I—will pass the throne to you!"

"And I remain hidden behind the scenes..."

"Foolish!" Qin Muyuan interrupted Song Chengshan before he could finish speaking.

"Kill you, and the entire Fire Cloud Kingdom will be mine!"

Bang!

The moment he finished speaking, Qin Muyuan gave Song Chengshan no chance to talk and charged at him!

A gust of wind exploded beneath his feet, and he seemed to ride the wind, transforming into a blood-red shadow that charged straight at Song Chengshan.

"Absolutely arrogant!"

Seeing that Qin Muyuan didn't even give him a chance to speak, Song Chengshan's expression darkened again.

In the hundreds of years that I have been the ruler of a country, no one has ever dared to speak to me like this.

No one has ever adopted such a posture that suggests they can easily kill themselves!

"I'm only wary of your background. Do you really think you can beat me on your own?"

Enraged, Song Chengshan glared at Qin Muyuan, who was charging forward, and fiercely swung out his claws, which were wreathed in a chilling spiritual light.

Behind him, the Dragon-Swallowing Gu shadow also mimicked his movements, unleashing a terrifying claw strike at Qin Muyuan that was powerful enough to shatter stone tablets!

"It's useless, useless, useless!"

Qin Muyuan paid no attention to Song Chengshan's claw attack, his gaze fixed only on the Dragon-Swallowing Gu Shadow that had triggered its echo form.

The force erupted at this moment as if it had been given an enema.

The Blood Crystal Bone Nail, with its crimson crystal spikes, slashed fiercely at the Dragon-Swallowing Gu Shadow!

Grin.

A pure, blood-red, cold light suddenly shone in the hall, like a meteor falling from the sky!

The next second, the sharp edge of the crimson bone nail clashed violently with the claw strike of the Dragon-Swallowing Gu Shadow—

Clang!

A deafening roar of wood and stone clashing exploded, and a violent shockwave sent the stone pillar that Song Chengshan had broken flying into the air.

It was accompanied by a crisp "snap" sound.

The shadow of the Dragon-Swallowing Gu behind Song Chengshan suddenly cracked at the point of contact with the bone nail the instant it collided with the bone nail.

The crack spread rapidly, extending like a spider web towards the Devouring Dragon Gu Shadow, as if the ice surface had shattered and cracks had sprung up everywhere.

Click, click, click—

The sounds of shattering erupted one after another, growing more frequent and louder!

Finally, with a piercing cracking sound, the Dragon Devouring Gu Shadow completely disintegrated!

One sword!

With a single sword strike, the Dragon-Swallowing Gu Shadow was cleaved into countless afterimages!

At the same time, Song Chengshan's fierce claw attack on Qin Muyuan was like a mud ox entering the sea, firmly locked by that layer of blood-red crystal armor!

Before the claw strike even arrived, several scarlet blood lines, resembling living creatures, suddenly emerged from the surface of the blood-red crystal armor.

Like a venomous snake coiling around Song Chengshan's fingers, it instantly tightened its grip, bringing the attack to an abrupt halt.

The next instant, the bloodline seemed like a hungry wolf that had smelled blood, and suddenly pierced into Song Chengshan's five fingers, frantically sucking his blood!

Glug glug.

Blood flowed into Qin Muyuan's body through the bloodline, and in the next instant, Qin Muyuan's wrist, which he had cut himself, began to heal rapidly.

His face, which had become somewhat pale due to the rapid blood loss, quickly regained its color.

"What?!"

Song Chengshan felt the loss of blood in his body, and his face turned pale instantly.

magic!

This person is definitely a demon!

This scene finally convinced Song Chengshan that the terrified shouts that erupted when the Fire Cloud Army fought Qin Muyuan in the square in front of the palace were true.

Qin Muyuan... is definitely not human!

It is the devil!

A bloodthirsty demon!

"Ahhhhh!"

Song Chengshan let out a battle roar, and with a rip of his left claw, severed the bloodline that was continuously drawing blood from him.

He quickly tapped his toes and retreated several steps away.

"Dragon-Devouring Gu Shadow, condense it again!"

With his face pale, Song Chengshan formed hand seals, and the shadow of the Dragon-Swallowing Gu reappeared behind him.

This time, however, the form of the Dragon-Swallowing Gu Shadow became much more illusory.

The Dragon Devouring Gu Qi surrounding Song Chengshan also became slightly weaker.

This clearly shows that Qin Muyuan's sword strike shattered the Dragon Devouring Gu Shadow, which had a significant impact on Song Chengshan.

"This feeling is wonderful!"

Meanwhile, Qin Muyuan, who was opposite Song Chengshan, had a satisfied smile on his face.

After absorbing the blood of Song Chengshan, a cultivator, Qin Muyuan felt that his own power... had actually increased by another degree!

He looked up and saw Song Chengshan suddenly stuffing a Demon Blood Seed Pill into his mouth.

Qin Muyuan grinned.

Reflected by the blood crystals of the crimson armor, the originally pure and innocent smile suddenly appeared incredibly ferocious in Song Chengshan's eyes.

"Blood sacrifice to the Blood Emperor, skull offering to the God Emperor! Kill! Kill! Kill!"

Then, to Song Chengshan's horrified gaze...

Qin Muyuan suddenly uttered a strange incantation, and then, as if encouraged, charged at him again!