54: Blood Butterfly weeps! My son...is he purifying?

"Heh... Hehehe..." She suddenly began to laugh low, her voice hoarse and broken like the cry of a night owl. Blood-tears fell like broken strings of beads, continuously rolling down and dripping onto her blood-stained lapel, blooming into strange, eerie blood flowers. "Good... Very good... 'Destroyed it yourself'... Very good... 'Get lost'..."

She suddenly raised her hand! Using every last ounce of her strength, she thrust it fiercely into the hideous wound on her chest! Her fingertips dug into the flesh, and she forcibly ripped out a piece of meat wriggling with blood-colored runes! Blood, a mixture of ice-blue and crimson, gushed out like a fountain!

"Argh—!!!" The intense pain made her let out an inhuman scream! But in her eyes... only deathly madness remained!

"Jiang Linfeng... Today's humiliation... Today's pain..." She tightly gripped that piece of flesh, her blood-red pupils staring fixedly at the figure within the starlight, her voice like a cold wind blowing from the Nine Netherworlds, "This Palace... will remember this!"

"Wait until This Palace's... blood runes reach Major Achievement... and Chaos returns to one..."

"I will certainly make you... kneel... and beg This Palace... to brand you with a blood seal!"

"I will certainly... take that vile maid... and grind her bones to ashes!"

"I will certainly... take that bastard... and refine him into a blood pill—!!!"

The resentful curse, like the most malicious venom, squeezed out from between her teeth! She slammed that piece of wriggling flesh onto the ice soul divine talisman on her forehead, which was on the verge of shattering!

Buzz—!!!

The divine talisman's blood-light flared brilliantly! It instantly devoured that piece of flesh! The dark red blood threads seeping from the cracks in the talisman's body surged wildly, coiling like living things! A more violent, more desperate aura of destruction erupted!

"Blood Escape! Soul Burning!"

Boom—!!!

Ning Yudie's broken body was instantly enveloped in a thick blood-light! Within the light, countless spectral shadows of resentful souls shrieked and struggled! She gave the Qingyun Ruins one last resentful look before her figure suddenly exploded, turning into a mournful streak of blood-colored light! It tore through the Void Realm and vanished into the horizon in an instant, leaving behind only the scent of blood drifting in the air and... a bone-deep... resentful curse!

The moment the blood-light vanished!

The pillar of pure starlight enveloping the Qingyun Ruins slowly retracted. The sky returned to clarity, and the stars twinkled, as if the world-destroying blood-fiend and resentment from a moment ago... were just a nightmare.

At the entrance of the Thatched Cottage.

Su Ningxue clutched her chest, where the Jade Peach Blossom Mark glowed with flowing light, dispelling the remaining chill. She looked in the direction where Ning Yudie had disappeared, her deer-like eyes filled with a hint of lingering fear and... complexity. As a fellow woman... she could actually feel Ning Yudie's bone-deep... desperation and... madness in that final moment.

Luo Yan held Star Universe, gently patting him. The little fellow seemed to sense the threat had vanished; his pure star-eyes curiously observed the night sky that had become tranquil once more, his little mouth babbling as he reached out his small hand to grab the flowing starlight.

Jiang Linfeng withdrew his gaze, and the chaotic starlight on his fingertips dissipated. He looked down at his son, who had calmed down in his arms, and his gaze instantly became incredibly soft. Star Universe seemed to sense his father's gaze, breaking into a toothless smile as pure starlight danced joyfully around his tiny body.

"Star Universe... well done." Jiang Linfeng gently stroked his son's small face, his voice low and warm. That cry just now, which purified the blood-fiend and drew upon the Star Origin... was by no means an accident! This child's Star Dao Body... its potential... was far beyond imagination!

He turned around and carried Star Universe back into the Thatched Cottage. The hearth fire was warm, and the tea fragrance remained. Su Ningxue hurried forward and carefully took Star Universe from him.

"Sect Master... she..." Su Ningxue hesitated.

"Just a mad butterfly." Jiang Linfeng's voice was flat, his gaze falling on the warm, flowing emerald peach blossom on her chest. "Pay her no mind."

He walked to the table and picked up the cup of 'peach blossom star soul tea' that had not yet cooled. The tea was clear and green, with starlight flowing and peach blossoms floating, its Dao charm naturally formed. Taking a light sip, the warm Chaos medicinal power nourished his Divine Soul, smoothing away the last trace of slaughter-filled aura.

"Ningxue."

"Here, Sect Master!" Su Ningxue quickly responded.

"This tea... shall henceforth be the Qingyun Sect's... etiquette for receiving guests." A cold arc curved at the corner of Jiang Linfeng's mouth. "If there should be... any more uninvited guests..."

His fingertip lightly tapped the rim of the cup, producing a crisp sound.

"Then please let them... taste... my son's... Star Purifying World Might!"

Inside the Thatched Cottage, the hearth fire crackled. Amidst the hazy tea fragrance, Su Ningxue looked at the Sect Master's unfathomable profile, and the peach blossom mark on her chest felt slightly hot. She nodded vigorously, her deer-like eyes filled with determination and... a hint of secret pride.

She... was the Sect Master's Medicine Cauldron! She could brew tea for him! She could protect... this pure land!

Within the Ice Soul Divine Palace, a mournful blood-light tore through the Void Realm and slammed hard onto the palace floor built of ten-thousand-year profound ice! The blood-light dissipated, revealing Ning Yudie's battered and broken body!

"Pfft—!!!" Another large mouthful of foul blood sprayed out! She fell heavily onto the cold profound ice floor. The cross-shaped blood scar on her chest had completely burst open, leaving a mangled mess of flesh where countless blood-colored runes flashed and collapsed frantically. Each flash brought a heart-wrenching pain! The ice soul divine talisman on her forehead was covered in cracks, and dark red blood threads coiled like venomous snakes, crazily devouring the last bit of Ice Soul Origin! The backlash was like ten thousand ants eating her heart, frantically tearing at her Divine Soul!

"Argh—!!!" She curled up on the cold profound ice, her body twitching violently from the intense pain. Blood-tears mixed with ice crystals rolled down continuously, staining the ice surface beneath her red. Her beautiful face was distorted by pain, and in her blood-red pupils, only endless resentment, despair, and... bone-deep... icy loneliness remained!

She had lost!

She had lost utterly!

Even her last bit of dignity... had been crushed to powder!

That man... his gaze toward her... was like looking at dust!

That vile maid... yet she was branded with a saint rune... and held in the palm of his hand!

That bastard... he could actually draw upon the Star Origin... to purify her blood-fiend!

"Jiang... Lin... Feng..." She bit her lower lip hard until she tasted the heavy scent of blood, her voice hoarse like sandpaper rubbing together. "Su... Ning... Xue..."

"And... that... bastard..."

Every name was like a poisoned dagger, stabbing fiercely into her heart!

"This Palace... wants you all... dead!"

"I want your... Divine Souls annihilated!"

"I want you all... to never be reincarnated for all eternity—!!!"

She suddenly raised her hand! Her sharp nails stabbed fiercely into the hideous wound on her chest! Deeper! Harder! Foul blood, a mixture of ice-blue and crimson, surged out! She dipped her fingers in her heart-blood, mixing it with her falling blood-tears, and like the most deranged lunatic, she began to draw even more frantically on the mangled wound of her chest! One by one, blood-colored runes—even more twisted, more complex, and emitting an ominous aura like the abyss—were forcibly branded onto her white bones!

"With my soul as a sacrifice! With my blood as a guide! Merging the resentment of all spirits! Forge... the Chaos Blood Hell!"

"Wait until This Palace's... Blood Hell reaches Major Achievement..."

"I will certainly... wash Qingyun in blood! Leaving not even a chicken or dog alive!"

"I will certainly... make you... kneel... at This Palace's feet... and repent—!!!"

The mournful curse echoed in the cold profound ice palace like the wailing of a vengeful ghost. Blood-light flashed frantically at her chest, illuminating her beautiful yet... fragmented face, which was distorted by pain and madness.

A single drop of cold blood-tear silently dripped onto the profound ice beneath her, blooming into a... flower of despair.