Nine Nether Heavenly Emperor
Chapter 243: The Return of Demonic Qi

Chapter 243: Chapter 243: The Return of Demonic Qi

"The man! The one riding the black tiger, isn’t he the renowned Great General Qin Shihu of our Heavenly Mist Empire? I heard his outstanding son, Qin Ao, a one-star Martial Sect Realm genius, fell inside the blood-colored void after being sucked in!"

"Ah!"

"Hiss!"

Sighs of lament and sharp intakes of breath echoed throughout the crowd below. In just a few days, the blood-colored void appeared outside Frost City, swallowing up various young geniuses. In such a short time, so many talents had perished within it—these were the future overlords from different powers of the Heavenly Mist Empire!

An ill omen! Indeed, the emergence of this blood light foretold the advent of calamitous signs!

Some martial artists even felt relieved because their ages spared them from being drawn into that blood-colored void!

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Shi Feng’s figure darted rapidly through the blood-colored world. He was unaware that his vigorous fighting within this realm brought grief and joy to the outside world, old men burying young. For Shi Feng, these people sought their own deaths by coming to him, and he simply expedited their journeys to the afterlife.

But at the moment, Shi Feng sensed something. It seemed as if something had been following him since a while ago, yet when he turned to look, he discovered nothing.

"Young man, do you feel it too?" At this time, the Sacred Flame spoke.

"What exactly is following me?" Shi Feng asked, surveying the surroundings with an icy expression. This sensation of being tracked without being able to identify the pursuer’s location made him uncomfortable.

"This being feels the same as you. I too sense something following you, but as to what existence it is, this being also cannot discern," said the Sacred Flame.

"What thing! Show yourself before this young master!" Shi Feng demanded, staring ahead with a cold shout, but after a moment, there was still no movement, not a ripple of disturbance.

"Could it be a master of concealment?" Shi Feng wondered, furrowing his brow. If he couldn’t sense it, then this concealment technique must be exceptionally sophisticated.

It was like that evil object that had controlled Li Ru’s body before, which also possessed a highly adept hiding technique.

"Burn for me! I refuse to believe I can’t smoke out that ghostly presence!" Shi Feng roared in a low voice, activating the Sacred Flame within him. Centered on himself, he unleashed a fierce burst of blood-colored blaze in all directions. The entire blood-colored void instantly turned into a blood-colored sea of fire, raging furiously.

"There!" Under the ravaging blood-colored sea of fire, Shi Feng immediately located the position of the unknown creature. The entire blood-colored sea of fire swiftly converged towards that spot, engulfing it in roiling flames.

The Bloodthirsty Sword had already appeared in Shi Feng’s hand. He slashed downwards, and simultaneously, a blood-colored flame giant sword materialized in the void. Following Shi Feng’s motion, it swept down towards the area engulfed by the blood-colored flames.

"Boom!" In the Void, a fierce roar erupted as if the sky itself were being shattered, Shi Feng stood with the Blood Sword in hand, towering in the Void, silently watching the savage energy rampaging and surging wildly beyond.

The energy dissipated, the flames slowly vanished, and then, Shi Feng saw a white figure slowly emerge from beyond, and after a moment, he saw a man in a moon-white robe, "It’s you!"

This man was the same one who had fought with him and the Big Sword Young Man over the Blood-colored Battle Armor in the underground square, only now he sported a sinister smile and looked somewhat evil. There was a big hole in the moon-white robe, but the flesh underneath was unharmed.

"Hehe!" The man kept his hands behind his back, and upon seeing Shi Feng, he did not speak but simply chuckled twice. Then, with a move of his right hand, he struck out a palm from afar, a giant palm print formed of black fog condensed in the air before him and then violently slapped towards Shi Feng.

"Demonic Qi?" Inside the huge palm print of black fog, Shi Feng felt a familiar power, a force that was extremely similar to that of Long Ao, but Shi Feng also felt an even more powerful force within.

Not just Long Ao, but even the Evil Spirit that had possessed Li Ru had a very similar power!

Shi Feng dared not underestimate it and with a low shout, cried, "Kill!" He thrust his Blood Sword forward fiercely, a white Sword Qi striking out from the Blood Sword and shooting forward, colliding with the oncoming Demon Fog Palm.

"Boom!" The two powerful energies collided, and once again a fierce roar erupted in the Void. Immediately after, the Demonic Qi palm print and the white Sword Qi both vanished.

Then, the man in the moon-white robe, seeing his attack broken, looked at his own hand and body, shaking his head in disappointment, and muttered to himself, "After being suppressed by those two for so many years, is this all the power I have left? And this body is too weak!"

After that, the man in the moon-white robe lifted his head, looked anew at Shi Feng on the other side, and said indifferently, "Although you are of low strength, this seat is currently in need of a Demon Servant, you’ll suffice! Serve as my Demon Servant, and I shall grant you supreme honor!"

"Honor my ass!" Shi Feng coldly shouted, his body racing towards the man in white, his sword slashing down even harder. Once again, a Flame Giant Sword appeared in the Void, and with Shi Feng’s motion, it furiously chopped down towards the man in white.

Shi Feng had already realized that this man in white was no longer the person he was before and had likely been taken over by something.

The white-robed man formed a Sword Finger with his right hand and pointed sharply at the Void, instantly shattering the Flame Giant Sword heading towards him like glass.

And at that moment, Shi Feng was already close, lunging at the white-robed man with a thrust of his sword, and suddenly, a series of white Sword Shadows emerged in the Blood-colored Void, sweeping towards the white-robed man like a tempest, striving to annihilate him.

"Hmph!" Seeing the dense Sword Shadows coming at him, the white-robed man let out a cold snort. His Sword Finger thrust forward again, obliterating the white Sword Shadows in its wake, and then, the Sword Finger collided fiercely with the tip of the Bloodthirsty Sword.

"Clang!" Shi Feng instantly felt a powerful and mysterious force from the Bloodthirsty Sword, the whole person was sent flying backward by the shock.

The white-robed man’s body also staggered backwards repeatedly, but he stopped after about a dozen steps, looked at his fingertip, and then at the distant Blood Sword, and realized, "No wonder this sword looks so familiar. I remember now, you are that person’s Inheritor!"

While flying backward, Shi Feng also quickly stopped and naturally heard what the man had said, and the person he mentioned led Shi Feng naturally to think of the Blood Pattern Tribe.

"Is this person from the Blood Demon Clan?" Shi Feng asked Sacred Flame through a soul connection.