CHAPTER 379: CHAPTER 379: SEA OF BLOOD

"Is this the Immortal Palace?" Chen Guan looked at the scene before him, his expression extremely complex.

Unlike the legendary Immortal Mountain Jade Palace, Chen Guan saw no Immortal Palace here. There were none of the exquisite pavilions or jade towers; not even a single stone building or brick house was present.

Sea of Blood!

As far as Chen Guan’s eyes could see, there was an endless sea of blood. Even the sky was painted in the color of blood.

More terrifying was the countless spirits submerged in the sea of blood, rising and falling as they struggled like cursed souls and fierce ghosts in the hellish sea of blood.

"Could it be that the golden Great Luo Dreaming Butterfly leads to the Immortal Realm, and the purple Great Luo Dreaming Butterfly leads to the Demon Realm?" Just as Chen Guan was pondering this question, he suddenly heard a woman’s voice resounding from the void.

"Blood Spirit Banner... rise..."

The next second, Chen Guan saw countless massive space vortexes appear in the sky. Countless spirits from within the sea of blood flew up, resembling blood shadow fierce ghosts, disappearing into those vortexes.

Between the blood-colored sea and sky, countless blood shadows ascended into the heavens, falling in reverse like a torrential downpour. The scene was unimaginably shocking.

Chen Guan felt a gravitational pull dragging his body toward the nearest space vortex. He struggled to resist but couldn’t break free.

Almost instantly, he too was sucked into the vortex.

The scenery before Chen Guan’s eyes changed, and soon he clearly saw the situation ahead.

Immortal Mountain Jade Palace, exquisite pavilions, and jade towers, the sea of clouds rolling; strange flowers and rare herbs were all over the mountains, countless fairy maidens and celestial soldiers-like beauties and handsome men either flying in the sky or standing atop the Immortal Mountain, showcasing a magnificent scene of an Immortal Mountain and Immortal land.

If it were just these, Chen Guan would believe this should be the Immortal Palace that the King of Du visited back then.

But now, these fairy maidens and celestial soldiers-like figures were each holding weapons, fighting fiercely along with their companions.

In the sky, the sea of blood was raging, and countless blood shadow fierce ghosts charged out from the sea of blood, attacking the Immortal Mountain Jade Palace.

Half of the Immortal Palace Jade Tower had collapsed, and the corpses of fairy maidens, celestial soldiers, and pets lay everywhere.

Blood flowed like rivers, and sounds of slaughter shook the heavens.

Above this endless slaughter, a woman in purple armor stood haughtily above the nine heavens, arms crossed, looking down at the Immortal Palace like a Demon King of Armageddon, indifferent as the waves of blood shadow fierce ghosts engulfed the Immortal Palace, causing more and more people to die in the massacre.

The Female Demon Queen was indifferent to everything, overlooking all beings, with a blood banner floating behind her, the blooming blood light connecting with the blood sea that covered the sky; it seemed that the blood sea was its power.

Those fairy maidens and celestial soldiers burst forth with sword light and spear aura, their sword light was earth-shattering, and the spear aura swept like divine dragons, each displaying astonishing divine power, killing countless blood shadow fierce ghosts.

Yet, amid the torrent of blood shadow fierce ghosts’ onslaught, people continued to fall.

The dead fairy maidens and celestial soldiers, their bodies glowing with blood light, turned into blood shadows that were absorbed into the sea of blood, where new blood shadow fierce ghosts were nurtured, joining the battle anew.

Within the Immortal Palace, a man in white wielded a sword that emitted ten thousand rays of sword aura, like the sun instantly annihilating the diving blood shadow fierce ghosts. Under the omnipresent sword light, the blood shadow fierce ghosts melted like snow.

Chen Guan, bathed in that sword light, felt a burning pain that startled him greatly, causing him to retreat hastily toward the sky.

"This isn’t a dream!" Chen Guan was both shocked and terrified. Luckily, he hadn’t rushed down like the other blood soul fierce ghosts; he remained floating in the air, or he would’ve died just now.

He had heard stories of souls departing to roam the Immortal Palace, in which if the soul perished, one would truly die.

Fortunately, Chen Guan was currently a spirit body, allowing him to float in the air, which amounted to having the ability to fly; however, his flying speed was clearly much slower than that of the other blood shadow fierce ghosts.

He desperately approached the blood sea in the sky, narrowly escaping with his life, thankful that he was far from the man using the sword light.

"Jin Taohua... do you really mean to kill us all..." The man in white pointed his sword at the Female Demon in the sky, questioning harshly.

Chen Guan was momentarily stunned when he heard the name shouted by the man in white.

Because he had heard this name before, not only heard it but it was like thunder in his ears.

Someone had made a ditty specially for Jin Taohua, which Chen Guan seemed to remember as "Under the peach blossom tree is the Peach Blossom Fairy, killing and beheading to exchange for wine money, born lustful to bring calamity to the world, filling the world with evil, the Female Demon."

Jin Taohua could be said to be the foremost among the surviving demons now; counting only female demons, Jin Taohua could be considered the greatest across the ages.

For Jin Taohua, slaughtering cities was as simple as eating and drinking.

"If this Female Demon is Jin Taohua, then this place isn’t the Immortal Realm but a Grotto Heaven Secret Realm..." Chen Guan leaned close to the blood sea, secretly observing the surrounding situation.

It was said that Jin Taohua had once been a Great Grotto Heaven-level master, but her inherent lust and bloodthirst led to several powerful factions jointly pursuing her, ultimately driving her to the Fallen God Cliff.

People thought that Jin Taohua had died there, but unexpectedly, she survived, starting over, and when she reached the peak of the Grotto Heaven level again, she reemerged to wreak havoc, slaughtering and destroying cities, committing countless atrocities.

Fearing King Heaven’s punishment, Jin Taohua always stayed within the Grotto Heaven, never ascending to the Great Grotto Heaven.

As long as she stayed in the Grotto Heaven Secret Realm, hardly anyone in the Divine Land could do anything to her, allowing her to act freely, still untouched to this day.

Several major factions repeatedly attempted to encircle and eliminate her, but she always escaped cleverly, then intensified her killing sprees.

Chen Guan once thought that as long as he was invincible within the Blessed Land, no one could do anything to him, precisely because of Jin Taohua’s precedent.

Previously thinking this was some Immortal Land, now knowing Jin Taohua’s identity, he roughly pieced it together.

"Isn’t this the Celestial Void Palace?" Chen Guan saw the largest palace in the Immortal Palace, with a plaque inscribed with "Celestial Void Hall" in large characters.

The Celestial Void Hall could only be within the Celestial Void Palace, which was the power of the King of Palace among the Ten Celestial Kings, with branches of the Celestial Void Palace in many Grotto Heaven Blessed Lands.

Chen Guan remembered that the Celestial Void Palace was among the forces that once besieged and exterminated Jin Taohua, further confirming that this must indeed be the Celestial Void Palace.

"Otherwise, what? Gong Shanchuan, do you still expect me, the world’s top Female Demon, to spare you?" Jin Taohua said disdainfully.

"The ones who besieged you were me and irrelevant to other disciples in the palace. You and I should fight; life and death by fate, spare the innocent," Gong Shanchuan said.

Jin Taohua’s disdain deepened: "You are talking to a Female Demon who kills without a blink about sparing the innocent. Don’t you find it ridiculous?"

With that, Jin Taohua waved her hand, causing the blood shadow fierce ghosts to rush even more fiercely, accelerating the deaths of Celestial Void Palace members.

Gong Shanchuan wielded the sun-like sword light again, but he could only kill a wave of blood shadow fierce ghosts, while the blood shadow fierce ghosts from the Blood Spirit Banner seemed endless.

After using the sun sword light only a few times, Gong Shanchuan was already severely depleted of Primordial Energy.

"Jin Taohua... I, take all the blame... kill me... just kill me... they are innocent... let them go..." Gong Shanchuan roared at the sky.