CHAPTER 755: CHAPTER 179: NINE ORIGIN SOUL SEA, ENDLESS ICE PALACE

"Threaten me? If I had no capability, that might be one thing, but how could I let a self-righteous woman like you escape?!"

Zhou Yan’s voice echoed through this part of heaven and earth.

Previously, he had made his move in an instant. At an interval that none of the cultivators could grasp, he instantly killed the Soul Pearl carrying the Soul of the White Cloud Saintess, letting her soul drift beyond the heavens and extinguishing her being.

Such ruthless destruction of beauty, devoid of any mercy, left all present cultivators inexplicably terrified, drawing a sharp intake of breath.

Especially those who prided themselves on their noble lineage and looked down on Zhou Yan with disdain. They all silently lowered their proud heads, afraid Zhou Yan would notice their earlier provocative looks and target them.

The cultivators who came here were all outstanding, but being outstanding didn’t equate to being foolish. Zhou Yan’s repeated display of overwhelming invincibility made them realize that Zhou Yan might have mastered the Supreme Dao of this domain—perhaps his strength had surpassed the Sword Void Nine Transformations Realm, coupled with Thunderhawk King’s combat experience at the Venerable Level... To them, it was a complete annihilation.

Knowing the timing was an attribute of the wise, and a hero wouldn’t suffer immediate losses. With such thoughts in mind, even the unruly cultivators now kept their tails between their legs.

Zhou Yan had just slain the Soul of the White Cloud Saintess when he discovered that the breaking of the mysterious pearl resulted in a sky-high wave of blood.

The endless Blood Killing Aura, combined with the assault of the man infuriated by his repeated failed strikes from the Heavenly Tribulation, shook the earth and heaven, leading to a catastrophic breakdown. At that moment, the point of Time Origin suddenly mutated.

Just then, the endless Blood Killing Aura spread out, forming a huge tidal wave that unexpectedly revealed a powerful figure of a woman. This phantom, bloodied and robed in crimson like the Fires of Nirvana surrounding her, was overwhelmingly mighty.

"How dare you harm a direct disciple of the ’Red Cloud Earth Venerate’! You’re asking for death!"

Suddenly, a thunderous roar rang out. A mountain in the Ancient Ice Glacier exploded with a boom, instantly crushing many genius cultivators under the tide of bloody aura, pulverizing them.

Bones flew skyward, and blood flowed across the land.

Even Xiao Fei, standing quite a distance away, nearly got caught and shattered. Fortunately, her alertness and formidable strength allowed her to instantly sidestep, avoiding this unnecessary disaster.

The tidal wave of blood charged towards Zhou Yan, cutting off almost all his retreat routes.

This attack was the arrival of a Venerable Void Soul, risking the defiance of the ancient glacier’s internal rules to obliterate Zhou Yan instantly.

In that very moment, Zhou Yan realized that it must have been the Jiang family or those supremely high Sword Venerates who were unwilling to face the failure of their setup and would stop at nothing to kill him there.

Zhou Yan’s thoughts turned. He immediately figured out that those who provoked him would come batch by batch, buying time for one formidable Venerable Spirit after another to descend and attempt to strike him down—if this assault of the Red Cloud Venerable’s Spirit failed.

Sparing no sacrifice of a Venerable Realm Spirit just to kill him, Zhou Yan saw how frantic and hysterical they had become after Xuanyuan Ancestor disrupted their grand scheme!

Zhou Yan also deduced that if this assassination failed, more continuous Venerable Spirits would descend to kill him.

Zhou Yan suddenly grasped everything, his heart stirring. The Thunderhawk Sword Soul and Divine Monkey Sword Soul all converged back into his body, his figure continuously retreating to avoid the brunt.

If he could delay it briefly, the laws of this world would rise up to slay these Supreme Void Souls. They couldn’t make extended moves.

At this moment, not only was Zhou Yan engulfed in the midst, but the cultivators behind him were also enveloped within the deadly range. The Red Cloud Venerable Spirit seemed deranged, intending to obliterate everything.

"Break out, avoid the Thunderhawk King!"

A cultivator bellowed, immediately employing a powerful final-resort technique that cracked open a void in the endless sea of blood.

But he struggled immensely.

However, his shout awakened the rest of the dazed cultivators.

But the blood sea surged like a giant wave, each attack immensely overpowering like that of the Demon Heart Sword Body, leaving everyone feeling utterly powerless.

As the blood sea pressed down like a canopy of heaven, crushing everything in its path, no amount of resistance from many cultivators could withstand it.

The Venerable Void Soul descends here, simply invincible. Even the rules of the Ancient Ice Glacier didn’t manage to take effect immediately, appearing briefly stalled by an external force.

Zhou Yan, sensing this change, knew then that probably many Venerables had intervened.

That’s why Zhou Yan new more clearly than ever that he must not fall here.

Zhou Yan exploded with the Thunderhawk Sword Soul, instantly summoning the Ninety-nine Heavenly Tribulations, sending Thunder Soul-locking Lightning in all directions around him to forcefully bombard a wide area with the Heavenly Tribulation.

But at that moment, the sea of blood fiercely shook, and in one fell swoop shattered the Void of the Ancient Ice Glacier, creating a black hole in this part of heaven and earth that annihilated any signs of the Heavenly Tribulation’s emergence.

Clearly, even the Venerables were greatly wary of such Heavenly Tribulation techniques, hence preemptively eliminating the nascent form of Tai Chu Heavenly Tribulation.

The appearance of a black hole reversed space, sucking in many cultivators instantly. Thousands of men and women cultivators were drawn in, instantly reduced to dust, resulting in massive casualties.

This mighty method weighed heavily on Zhou Yan’s heart. However, at that moment, the Space-Time Origin point suddenly burst into radiance, revealing the deadly space of a black hole.

At the same time, the sea of blood crushed down again, fracturing the earth, making terrifyingly deep trenches in the snow covering thousands of meters.

Zhou Yan clenched his teeth, his figure swiftly derviating into the Void Sword Body constitution, instantly threading through space, entering the Space-Time Origin point even though it was extremely perilous there—he wouldn’t just wait to die in this place.

Zhou Yan was the first to rush into the Space-Time Origin black hole point. Seeing this, other cultivators, witnessing the indiscriminate and wide-ranging crush of the blood sea and the frenzied, unreasonable spirit of the Red Cloud Venerable, hesitated only slightly before they all fled towards the Space-Time Origin point.

The blood sea, like a soul-reaping ghost, was overwhelmingly powerful, completely beyond the cultivators of the Sword Void Nine Transformations Realm to counter. Any further delay would surely result in their annihilation.

Entering the Space-Time Origin point, while perilous, still held a sliver of survival chance.

Cultivators who come to this place are mostly exceptional individuals, and they invariably weigh what is more or less critical.

Among them, several cultivators moved too slowly and were swept away by a wave of blood, dying instantaneously and vanishing like black smoke, their lives dissipating and merging into the Dao.

At that moment, a Cold Ice Rune Ancient Array suddenly appeared in the void, spinning like the "卍" symbol and descending swiftly to execute a Suppressing Kill.

The endless Blood Sea suddenly shattered, and a Venerable Void Soul within it, like a streak of Blood Light, shot towards the sky attempting to escape but was struck by the rune in an instant, completely annihilated, shattering Ten Thousand Dao.

In the void, there came a terribly mournful howl, the agonized cry of Red Cloud Venerable that shocked the Four Fields Star Domain and the Ten Thousand Dao Star River.

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"Contemptible woman, if I still had the combat power of Lei Yan King, a single finger would be enough to kill you ten million times! Damn it, to be driven to such a state by a mere ghost of a Sword Venerate from Earth Spirit Heaven! Red Cloud Cave Heaven? I, Zhou Yan, will remember your power!"

Zhou Yan felt some anger in his heart.

However, he quickly calmed down and stepped out of the lofty aura of Lei Yan King, no longer influenced by his past personality.

"Now, I am merely in the realm of Sword Void Nine Transformations, too low of a realm. Even in this Ancient Ice Glacier, only because I have crossed the Ninety-Nine Heavenly Tribulations and elevated my combat realm, can I contend with them."

"Once outside, the realm will immediately revert to the Sword Void Nine Transformation realm. Just as Gles said, I must show my true form. It’s normal to be oppressed when one’s strength is inferior."

"Getting angry for this reason and unable to let go of Lei Yan King’s past identity and pride, eventually, my temperament would surely become twisted."

Zhou Yan murmured to himself, quickly adjusting his mindset and no longer allowing the achievements of Lei Yan King to influence him.

"Nevertheless, this woman is indeed vile. It seems, outside there must surely be a Supreme wanting to suppress the Supreme Dao Rules of this Ancient Ice Glacier, right? But this place is a space-time rift; if suppression was easy, Xuanyuan Ancestor would not have pushed it away from the Star River but would have helped me suppress it directly!"

"Before coming in, I also saw the fleeing ghost of that despicable Red Cloud woman being suppressed and killed, truly delighting my heart."

"Just now, Gles had only just left and these people have already killed their way here, this matter is quite worth pondering."

Zhou Yan murmured to himself and then exhaled a breath of turbid air, no longer considering these things.

He and Xiao Fei were separated because of this chaos, but Zhou Yan was not worried about Xiao Fei’s safety. Xiao Fei was very strong, with enough resources to ensure her survival; as a genuine Xuanjin Level genius, she wouldn’t fall easily.

"We... we’ve entered the point of Time Origin... this, this seems like Tai Chu... the aura of the Tai Chu era..."

In front of Zhou Yan, a slightly chubby young man spoke with a quivering voice, his face pale and his whole body trembling.

"Damn it; this is the Nine Origin Soul Sea! No, the Endless Ice Palace... it’s over, we’re finished!"

Next to the young man, a thin, tall young man turned completely pale with fear.

But in an instant, two bloodstained green-clothed cultivators appeared beside them, one male and one female, with somewhat similar features.

As soon as these two entered this place, their souls shuddered, their soul bodies trembled, and their eyes revealed colors of fear and despair, even more unbearable than the two before.

"It’s over, all over; Nine Origin Soul Sea, Swallowing Heaven Land. Endless Ice Palace, Soul Burying Land. There’s really no way out this time."

The blood-soaked green-clothed woman said with a tragic expression.

"I had always said not to come here, the Extreme Cold Ice Soul Stone is of no great use to us siblings, Qing Lan, you just wouldn’t listen, now, we’re dead, certainly dead," the green-clothed man sighed, his voice lonely and his eyes filled with despair.

"I’m sorry, brother; Qing Lan has dragged you down."

The green-clothed woman’s voice was filled with intense self-blame.

"Enough, to have encountered Lei Yan King and still be alive is already a miracle. After all, he is a bringer of destruction, wherever he goes, extinction follows. We are at least still alive... alive, alive."

The green-clothed man sighed deeply and said with a bitter smile.

However, he couldn’t finish his words, his eyes suddenly widened, his gaze turning somewhat frantic and fearful as he looked ahead.

But after a moment, the fear and panic in his eyes vanished.

Realizing that this place was a land of absolute death, the green-clothed man even lost his original fear of Lei Yan King.

"Brother, how come—uh, Lei Yan King, my brother and I mean no offense to you. But if you are resentful, then kill us, since this place is already a land of death."

The green-clothed woman initially intended to apologize, but then suddenly gave up, instead speaking indifferently without any luster in her beautiful eyes.

Zhou Yan looked on with curious eyes. In this place, he had encountered four cultivators who, after sensing the aura of Heaven and Earth here, had immediately fallen into despair!

These people, despite being Upper-class Plane geniuses who had endured life and death struggles, why were they so feeble?

Zhou Yan did not sense any dangerous aura in this place, so he was even more puzzled.

"The Nine Origin Soul Sea will devour all divine souls possessing Divinity, converting them into pure Soul Power, just like harvesting seeds in a Breeding Ground using a Magic Treasure. And the Endless Ice Palace was a Forbidden Land of death for the Jade Fox lineage in the Tai Chu era.

In the past, many Demon Venerate Jade Foxes with strong bloodlines appeared in the Endless Ice Palace, but as many powerful beings coveted this land, the Jade Fox lineage encountered a catastrophe of clan extermination. Eventually, in their fury, the Jade Fox lineage opened the Forbidden Land of the Endless Ice Palace; the original being suppressed there was the Jade Fox ancestor on the brink of crossing into immortality but became a Demon Heart Jade Fox, thus releasing a killing god. The destruction of the Tai Chu era thus began."

"Since then, every time the Endless Ice Palace appeared, all life within the palace would be extinguished."

The green-clothed woman, seemingly aware of Lei Yan King’s ’crude and shallow’ nature, ’lacking in insight’, directly began explaining softly.