Shui Gu’s opinion on Ye Chu practising the Soul-Devouring Yuan Transformation Art was excessively critical. Ye Chu had also asked him about it, but Shui Gu dismissed it with a single line, “Having committed sins, one must face them eventually.” This sentence once enraged Ye Chu to the point of exploding. You are the one who committed sins, you committed sins for a thousand years!
Tan Miaotong, seeing Ye Chu’s eyes bulging with anger, covered her cherry lips and giggled secretly. Seeing Ye Chu about to jump up and duel Shui Gu, Tan Miaotong then gently reached out to hold Ye Chu. Her red lips parted slightly as she whispered in Ye Chu’s ear, “You cannot beat him!”
Only then did Ye Chu react. Looking at Shui Gu’s seemingly smiling yet not smiling expression, Ye Chu shuddered. He instantly halted his steps and withdrew his outstretched hand. “Eh, shouldn’t you be going to cause trouble for the Blood Guards? What are you still doing here?”
Shui Gu did not say much more. With a sweep of his arm, Ye Chu and Tan Miaotong soared into the air. The three shot away like riding clouds and mist, their speed extremely fast, truly flying as if treading upon clouds.
Ye Chu and Tan Miaotong exchanged a glance, secretly clicking their tongues in their hearts. Their understanding of Shui Gu’s strength deepened further. To be able to carry two people and ride clouds and mist, he was truly like the legendary immortal beings.
Shui Gu was still yawning. The three flew through the clouds, crossing who knew how many li in a short time. Before long, the three shot down from the void, landing on solid ground outside a farmhouse.
Shui Gu looked at the farmhouse before him, then glanced at Ye Chu and Tan Miaotong and said, “Follow behind me!”
Having said this, he strode towards the farmhouse. With one kick, the farmhouse door instantly disintegrated. As the door burst apart, seven or eight cultivators abruptly stood up from within. Leading them was a middle-aged man in a blood-coloured robe. He had a hooked nose, his blood qi surged turbulently, and his oppressive aura bore down upon the three. Sensing this majesty, Ye Chu’s expression changed. This aura was too terrifying. Between its vast tremors, it seemed capable of crushing the void. The person before them was at the very minimum at the peak of the Sovereign realm.
Shui Gu paid no heed whatsoever to the aura erupting towards him from the other party. He strode towards the man. “You are a Silver Blood Guard among the Blood Guards?”
A single sentence put the seven men on high alert. The hooked-nose man stared at Shui Gu and said, “Who is Your Excellency? How do you know of my Blood Guards? And how did you find this place!”
“Three of your Blood Guards died at my junior brother’s hands!” Shui Gu replied, his gaze falling upon the crowd.
Hearing Shui Gu’s words, the seven men’s expressions changed drastically. They exchanged glances and all saw the terror in each other’s eyes.
“Who is Your Excellency?” the hooked-nose man asked.
“The one who will send you Blood Guards to hell!” Shui Gu said. “I wonder if you have heard of ‘One Sleep, Eternal Ages’? Of course, if you have not heard of it, I can let you know of another place: Heartless Peak!”
“What! You are from Heartless Peak!” the hooked-nose man cried out in terror, his face instantly turning deathly pale. His gaze fixed directly upon Shui Gu. “You are that madman’s disciple?”
The others, seeing their leader like this, exchanged glances and all saw the confusion in each other’s eyes. They did not know what Heartless Peak was, nor what place could make even their Blood Guards turn so pale.
But the hooked-nose man was different. He held a certain position within the Blood Guard organisation and could access some secrets. Others might know of Heartless Peak, and what they knew of it was merely a special peak of Qingmi Mountain. But he knew this was the place the Blood Guards feared and dreaded the most.
They feared not the Sacred Lands, but that madman of Heartless Peak, and the other few madmen of Heartless Peak. Looking at the drowsy appearance of the man before him, he was likely that madman who could enter others’ dreams.
The hooked-nose man’s face was drained of blood. He also had some understanding of this person. The upper echelons of the Blood Guards had once said this person had likely already entered the Dao. His strength was absolutely comparable to the upper echelons of the Blood Guard organisation. He was merely a Silver Blood Guard. How could he be a match for the person before him?
“My Blood Guard organisation has no grievances or enmity with your Heartless Peak. Why does Your Excellency kill my Blood Guard people? My Blood Guards are not to be trifled with either.” The hooked-nose man forced himself to summon a bit of spirit.
“No grievances or enmity?” As Shui Gu spoke, his gaze suddenly fixed upon one of the Blood Guards. This Blood Guard did not even have time to react before his body instantly burst apart, as if filled with explosives, his flesh and blood spraying in all directions. “What about now?”
The hooked-nose man looked at the Blood Guard who had died horribly, his fists clenched tightly. Had he not known how terrifying the person before him was, he would likely have already struck out.
“Your Excellency’s strength commands our admiration. If the Blood Guards have inadvertently offended Your Excellency in the past, please forgive us.” The hooked-nose man practically gritted his teeth to utter these words of submission. Their Blood Guards had always stood high above others. When had they ever been forced into such a state?
“Forgive? I have only killed a few people so far! That is far from enough!” Shui Gu suddenly smiled. “Didn’t the leader of your Blood Guards tell you that ‘One Sleep, Eternal Ages’ and you are mortal enemies? The kind that will not rest until one side is dead. In the past, Heartless Peak and your Blood Guards may have had no grudges, but since I am at Heartless Peak, Heartless Peak is your nightmare.”
The hooked-nose man’s expression instantly changed drastically. These words placed Heartless Peak and the Blood Guards in opposition. In the Sentiment Domain, there were not many powers the Blood Guards revered. Even Sacred Lands they feared not. But Heartless Peak was definitely one of them. That old madman was too terrifying. So terrifying that merely hearing the legends made one’s hair stand on end.
Heartless Peak was not a Sacred Land. It was merely one of the one hundred and eight peaks of Qingmi Mountain. But ever since the old madman took charge, it instantly changed. This was a transcendent existence. No one knew how deep its foundations were. No one knew what significance it truly represented.
A saying circulated among the Blood Guards: Better destroy a Sacred Land than provoke Heartless Peak. Although the hooked-nose man did not know how this saying came about, it was enough to make him revere Heartless Peak.
He had once overheard upper-level Blood Guards say that Heartless Peak was one of the forbidden zones of the Sentiment Domain.
A forbidden zone! From the Ancient Nightmare Forbidden Zone, the Divine Palace and others, one could see the chill that forbidden zones represented. Yet they actually treated Heartless Peak as one of the forbidden zones as well. This was too shocking.
But this only shocked the hooked-nose man. The next words from the Blood Guard upper echelons made the hooked-nose man treat Heartless Peak as an absolute scourge.
“That madman of Heartless Peak once forcibly resisted the Heavenly Mansion and the Demon Palace, then retreated unscathed!”
This news had once made him dizzy, so shaken he could not control himself. What kind of places were the Heavenly Mansion and the Demon Palace? They were absolute powers that had inherited who knew how many tens of thousands of years, eternally shaking heaven and earth, the most formidable forces in the world. Although the Sacred Lands of the Sentiment Domain were strong, before them they were at most a branch. The Heavenly Mansion and Demon Palace themselves were composed of many Sacred Lands.
A colossal entity forged by the combined efforts of successive Supremes, within which was condensed the heart’s blood of numerous invincible Supremes of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths. Possessing Supreme heritage, it was already terrifying beyond compare. And they were forged by the combined efforts of several Supremes. One could imagine how terrifying they were.
In history, the figures who dared to forcibly resist these colossal entities like the Heavenly Mansion and Demon Palace, apart from the Red Dust Female Saint, that absolute figure comparable to the Heavenly King and the Demon Emperor, who else could forcibly resist these colossal entities and retreat unscathed? But that old madman had done it.