The situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and the complexion of the green-clothed man in the sky abruptly darkened as he spat out.

A fierce wind suddenly arose from the nearby void, howling loudly!

A massive green storm burst out, reaching up to the heavens and down to the ground, mixed with countless Wind Blades that emerged in the wind, flickering in and out of sight, and pounced toward Jin Chao.

Jin Chao's expression changed slightly, and he retreated with a flash, waving his hands and sending out two dazzling beams of golden light, which intersected and slashed at the green storm above.

The sky-covering green storm suddenly dissipated, vanishing as if it were a flower in a mirror or the moon's reflection on the water, leaving Jin Chao dumbfounded.

The green-clothed man took the opportunity to blur his figure and withdraw from the engagement with Jin Chao, retreating dozens of yards away.

"Since the Undying Tree and Evil King Mirror have already been suppressed, there's no deep hatred between you and me, there's no need to pursue a vendetta to the bitter end, right?" said the green-clothed man.

"Everybody has to pay a little price for their own mistakes, don't they?" Jin Chao scoffed coldly.

"Then let's see if you have the ability to make me pay that price," the green-clothed man sneered in response.

As his voice fell, the green light on his body surged, and his body suddenly swelled and enlarged, revealing his monstrous true form as an immense green giant bird.

With a flap of its wings, countless violent hurricanes rose around it, stirring the surrounding void into chaos and keeping Jin Chao at bay.

"Fellows, the journey is long and arduous, we shall meet again!" said the green giant bird in human language, its voice deep and resonant, echoing through the skies above Guanghan City.

One of its huge and sharp claws violently swiped at the white mark left by the Great Wilderness Star River Pearl.

A piercingly sharp Space Power exuded from its claw, shredding the already chaotic void airflow inch by inch, and tearing the space open under this force, revealing a crack about a yard long.

The body of the green giant bird quickly shrank and turned into a streak of green light that shot into the spatial crack, disappearing from sight.

Jin Chao appeared in front of the spatial crack with a flash but did not pursue.

With a trace of Space Divine Power in the Kunpeng bloodline, it could survive in Void Turbulence, not something Jin Chao possessed.

…

Elsewhere, while everyone was distracted by the green-clothed man, Yuan Wuji and the others sped away, rapidly approaching their escape from this dire situation.

But just then, accompanied by a flash of blood-colored light, Luo Qi abruptly appeared in front of the four.

"After all the effort it took to get here, why the rush to leave?"

"Get out of the way!" Yuan Wuji did not stop moving, his arm flicked.

A whip-like blood-colored blade light fell down, aiming for Luo Qi's head, with a bloodthirsty aura filling an area of several dozen meters.

Luo Qi didn't dodge, slightly moving his arm.

A purple bell appeared in front of him and with a gentle shake, a purple halo, along with the crisp sound of the bell, swiftly swept over Yuan Wuji and the others.

In an instant, Yuan Wuji and the others' bodies stiffened, feeling as if the Blood Puppet Armor on their skin had come to life, continuously contracting inward and bonding with their flesh. Where it touched their skin, they experienced a burning pain. Upon scanning with their Divine Sense, they realized that the exterior of the armor was peeling their skin and embedding deep within their flesh.

The blood-colored blade light abruptly stopped, and in the next moment, it exploded violently.

At the same time, Wulu somehow appeared behind Yuan Wuji and the four, raising a hand and producing a Blood-colored Jade from which three figures wrapped in red light emerged – Xue Jiao, Tu Sheng, and Zhong Ling.

Yuan Ming noticed the commotion and looked over, his face revealing a look of surprise.

However, when Xue Jiao and the others appeared, their faces showed no shock. They immediately scattered and raised the Black and White Command Flags, beginning to cast.

At this time, Luo Qi waved his sleeve, sending out the Daluo Chessboard which burst forth with dazzling Black and White Spiritual Light.

"Formation start!"

Following Luo Qi's shout, the Daluo Chessboard erupted, the Black and White Spiritual Lights intertwined and created a phantom chessboard hundreds of yards large in mid-air, trapping Yuan Wuji and the others within it.

Black and White Spiritual Light swirled around the four, freezing the void as if it was solidified, immobilizing their limbs and rendering both their Mana and Divine Soul Power motionless.

"Luo Qi, you ungrateful wretch, don't forget who helped you enter the Time Cave!" Blood Realm Venerable roared upon witnessing this scene.

Yuan Wuji also wore a glum expression: "Blood Realm is right, Luo Qi. We have no past grudges, and even though we've been enemies just now, it was only to win the chance to travel overseas. Now that the Black Armored Demon is dead, we don't need to continue fighting, and you haven't been harmed by us, so why stop us?"

"Heh, Fellow Daoist Yuan, you've been longing to go overseas, and now that you've finally had the chance, it's ruined by us. If we let you leave, who knows if you'll harbor resentment. Besides, I have some questions I'd like to ask Fellow Daoist Yuan, so I had to stop you," Luo Qi said with a slight smile.

Yuan Wuji frowned, "What do you want to ask?"

"Simple, I want all the intelligence Fellow Daoist Yuan has about the Blood Puppet Armor," Luo Qi's smile grew wider.

Hearing this, Yuan Wuji thoughtfully glanced at Wulu, who remained unfazed and didn't even lift his head.

"How about it, for Fellow Daoist Yuan, this request shouldn't be too much, right?" Luo Qi called back Yuan Wuji's attention.

"I can give you the intelligence, but how can you ensure you won't turn on me after obtaining it?" Yuan Wuji asked.

"Fellow Daoist Yuan, you should know that the choice is not in your hands right now," Luo Qi said with a shake of his head.

Yuan Wuji's expression darkened further, and he glanced at Yuan Ming and the others who were flying towards him. Suddenly, he sighed and raised his hand to produce a Jade Scroll.

"Fine, the information you want is here, catch."

With that, he flicked his finger, and the Jade Scroll instantly transformed into a streak of light that flew toward Luo Qi.

Seeing this, Luo Qi suddenly formed a spell, and the shadow of the Compass that trapped Yuan Wuji and the others shifted, making way for the Jade Scroll.

But at that moment, the voice of the Blood Shadow suddenly rang in Yuan Ming's ear.

"This isn't right, this is the Blood Scroll Technique from the Blood Transformation Technique, you must not let him touch the Jade Scroll!"

Yuan Ming's mind raced, and he immediately called out a warning, "Island Master Luo, there's something wrong with the Jade Scroll!"

Luo Qi was startled, and his spell hand signs changed rapidly. The light from the Chessboard flared up, and two pieces of white chess pieces emerged from nowhere, hurtling towards the Jade Scroll. They collided with it amid a clang like that of metal against stone, causing the surrounding air to tremble violently.

Just as the chess pieces touched the Jade Scroll, a blinding Blood Light suddenly exploded, accompanied by countless wailing souls. It turned into a Blood Shadow, emitting a pungent smell of blood, easily penetrating the two white chess pieces and rushing at Luo Qi.

Luo Qi didn't panic in the slightest and quickly shifted his spell.

The Chessboard illusion flashed, and two black chess pieces appeared out of thin air.

Unlike the white pieces, the black pieces conveyed a sense of illusion as if they were not solid, meeting the Blood Shadow head-on.

Wretched screams filled the air as the Blood Shadow was knocked backward, its form dissolving, and the filthy Blood Light also scattered.

Yuan Ming, witnessing this, managed to glimpse some of the mysteries of the Daluo Chessboard.

This Chessboard illusion's main purpose is to trap, while the black and white chess pieces are meant to kill. The white piece is solid, the black piece is void; their attacks have different focuses.

"Since you refuse to see reason, don't blame me for being ruthless!" Luo Qi waved his arm, and black and white chess pieces appeared out of thin air and struck towards Yuan Wuji and the others. The menacing force even made the group show fear.

However, faced with this situation, Yuan Wuji suddenly smiled.

"Enough, enough. Having raised them for so long, it's time to reap the harvest."

No sooner had his words fallen than the Blood Puppet Armor on Yuan Wuji's body began to squirm. Four tendrils as thick as a grown man's thigh shot out, not targeting the white chess pieces, but rather impaled the bodies of the three Blood Realm Venerables.

The Blood Realm Venerables did not expect Yuan Wuji to turn on them and hadn't even thought to defend themselves. They were both shocked and angry, looking at Yuan Wuji in disbelief.

"Big brother, why…" Lan Xiao coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Yuan Wuji's smile faded, yet he didn't turn back, "If you have to blame someone, blame Luo Qi. Otherwise, I wouldn't have had to move against you so soon. I really detest doing this!"

After speaking, the three Blood tendrils on his back writhed together, completely piercing through the bodies of the three Blood Realm Venerables.

The black and white chess pieces arrived with a crash, colliding at one spot, with the gust sweeping out, even reaching those outside the illusion of the Chessboard.

However, when everyone looked toward the chess pieces, Yuan Wuji's figure was nowhere to be seen.

"He's up there!" Yuan Ming spoke up.

Everyone looked up and saw that Yuan Wuji had somehow broken free from the Chessboard and was suspended in mid-air.

Yuan Wuji's appearance had greatly changed, his body enshrouded in surging Blood Light that condensed into a long silk robe draped over his shoulders. His face was also covered in Blood Light, revealing new facial features, and his aura climbed steadily until it unexpectedly broke through the Nascent Soul boundary and reached the Returning to Void Realm.

"Senior brother?" a shocked exclamation came from within the Shura Blood Devouring Map.

Yuan Ming's gaze sharpened as he examined Yuan Wuji's current appearance.

Now much younger-looking, he seemed as if he were a man in his early thirties. Long hair cascaded over his shoulders, his Phoenix Eyes expressed neither joy nor sorrow, and a small blood-red mole at the corner of his eye added a touch of rakish charm.

Luo Qi's pupils shrank as he was shocked by Yuan Wuji's transformation, "You're not Yuan Wuji! Who on earth are you?"

"Yuan Wuji? He was nothing more than my Puppet," the Blood Demon Ancestor scoffed.

At these words, Luo Qi furrowed his brow as if he had not heard of the name Blood Demon Ancestor, but inside the Shura Blood Devouring Map, the Blood Shadow was extremely excited.

"Is it really Senior Brother? He has actually achieved Returning to Void? Hahaha, Master was right, Senior Brother is indeed a prodigy of heaven, destined to bring great prosperity to the Blood Transformation Sect!"

Hearing this response, Yuan Ming felt a stir in his heart as his mind raced.

The Blood Shadow and the Shura Master were from the same era, and the person he referred to as senior brother would naturally be from that era as well. While the Six Desires Venerable had lived so long by relying on Soul Cultivation Divine Power, how had the Blood Demon Ancestor survived until now? What method had he used?

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