Return to the battlefield beside the Dark Abyss.
The screams continued for a moment, but Guimu ultimately didn't completely lose his mind in the face of immense fear and shock. He gritted his teeth and made a decisive move...
"Crack—Boom!"
With a deafening, tearing sound, the massive withered tree was completely split apart from the middle section, which was most severely engulfed by the black sea of fire!
The unburnt upper part of the tree trunk, carrying a powerful aura of death, detached itself, quickly twisting and condensing in the air, eventually transforming once again into the figure of the purple-robed man.
At this moment, Guimu's face was ashen, his aura was extremely weak, and his figure appeared somewhat illusory and unstable.
He stared intently at the other half of his body, which was burning in the Undying Flame and gradually turning to ashes, his eyes filled with despair and resentment.
"No!!! No..."
With half of his true body destroyed, it was foreseeable that his cultivation would regress. But what was more fatal was that with half of his origin lost, his lifelong hope of touching the highest threshold of the Taixu Realm was completely extinguished!
This extreme contrast of falling from the clouds to the abyss was something that Guimu simply could not accept at this moment.
The black flames burned swiftly and thoroughly. In just a few seconds, the half-withered tree, which had lost the control of the ghost tree's consciousness, was completely decomposed and purified in the black flames, leaving not even ashes behind. It directly transformed into the purest spiritual energy of heaven and earth, dissipating into the air.
The flames gradually died down...
A figure gradually emerged from the center of the dissipating black flames.
He was a man who looked to be around thirty years old, with sword-like eyebrows and bright eyes, a well-defined face, and an extremely handsome appearance. He was no less handsome than Zhu Xuan, a famous beauty on the continent.
He was dressed in a clean and tidy black robe, with no energy fluctuations around him, as if the terrifying black flames that had burned away half of an eighth-realm expert's body had nothing to do with him.
Behind him, Shen Yunhao was floating in mid-air in a lying position, his eyes closed and his face pale. He had obviously suffered a serious injury inside the Ghost Wood and had completely fallen into a coma.
The black-robed man's face was expressionless, like an unchanging deep pool. He slowly raised his pair of black and red eyes and looked at Gui Mu, whose body was trembling slightly not far away, whether from fear or anger.
His voice wasn't loud, but it clearly reached the ears of everyone present.
"I'm taking this person with me. Will you... try to stop me?"
His tone was flat, without the slightest hint of murderous intent or threat, as if burning half of someone's body was just casually swatting a mosquito, utterly insignificant. He asked the question so calmly.
Gui Mu felt his heart bleeding, but... even if he had ten more lives, he wouldn't dare to utter a single "no" in front of this person.
Before deciding to hunt down Shen Yunhao, the Blood Sect's higher-ups had already considered all possibilities and calculated all the powerful individuals who might come to their aid.
The intervention of people like Shangguan Jingming and Zhu Xuan was all within the scope of the contingency plan.
But no one could have imagined, nor dared to imagine, that the Demon Emperor Ye Wushang would actually lend a helping hand! Even more so… that his true form would personally appear here!
Ye Wushang's question also seemed rather superfluous.
The person he wanted to take away, even if everyone present, including Ouyang Jingfeng, Luo Yuchen, and even the entire Tai Xuan Dao Sect's hidden resources, combined... might not be able to stop him!
Faced with the bland question, Guimu's facial muscles twitched a few times, but he finally clenched his teeth and retreated to the side in a huff... He didn't even have the courage to meet those heterochromatic black and red eyes.
With such a vast disparity in strength, any form of resistance would only bring humiliation upon himself. It was already a stroke of luck that the other side didn't burn him to death with a single fire.
There is no doubt that Ye Wushang definitely has this ability.
Just then, a deep, hoarse, and mysterious voice, whose gender was indistinguishable, suddenly echoed between heaven and earth.
"Demon Emperor... what is the meaning of this? If you want to take people away, just take them away. Why resort to such drastic measures, destroying half of my sect elder's true body and severing his path to cultivation?"
Ye Wushang, who was about to leave with Shen Yunhao, paused slightly.
He raised his eyes, his indifferent gaze seeming to pierce through layers of spatial barriers, precisely locking onto a certain point in the void. His tone was subtly colder than before:
"I haven't settled accounts with you yet regarding the matter of evil spirits and blood... If you have any objections..."
He paused slightly, his voice not loud, yet it seemed to carry an air of domineering arrogance:
"You can stand up and speak!"
Evil spirits and blood energy are a terrifying taboo and threat to all demon races in the world.
As the Emperor of all demons, Ye Wushang's attitude toward this matter is perfectly reasonable.
The voice from the other end of the void remained silent for a long while, seemingly weighing the pros and cons, before finally speaking again, this time with a hint of suppressed anger: "...Fine! Today, I admit defeat! But this matter is far from over!"
Faced with these harsh words that seemed almost like an attempt to salvage the situation, Ye Wushang didn't even raise an eyelid, simply replying:
"I'll be waiting for you anytime... if you dare to come."
Before he finished speaking, a barely perceptible ripple appeared in the space around him. The next instant, the figures of both of them, along with the unconscious Shen Yunhao behind him, vanished without warning, leaving no trace.
As Ye Wushang left, the mysterious aura emanating from the depths of the Blood Sect receded like the tide, quickly disappearing without a trace.
In the arena, only the ghostly, pale-faced Ghostwood remained, along with a scene of devastation and a battlefield still shrouded in terrifying energy fluctuations.
Gui Mu's face was gloomy as he felt the emptiness and weakness within his body, his very essence severely damaged. His heart was bleeding, and all he wanted was to leave this place that had shattered his dreams as soon as possible.
But just as he moved, a clear voice came from behind him:
"Elder Guimu, this place is within the territory of my Central Continent. Your Blood Sect's actions...aren't you showing a great disregard for my Azure Sky Sword Pavilion?"
Gui Mu paused for a moment, then slowly turned around.
Ouyang Jingfeng, the Pavilion Master of the Azure Sky Sword Pavilion who had been secretly watching the show, had somehow appeared before them, standing with his hands behind his back, his green robe fluttering slightly, exuding a calm and composed aura.
Behind him, Luo Yuchen, Qiu Hanmo, and several other high-ranking members of major sects who had noticed the commotion also appeared one after another, creating a subtle confrontation.
In fact, the moment Gui Mu appeared, Ouyang Jingfeng, as the host, was already considering whether to lend a hand.
However, the situation was complicated at the time. The Ten Thousand Poisons Sect and the Blood Sect appeared one after another, and the Demon Vine was also involved. After weighing the pros and cons, he hesitated.
Unexpectedly, the Demon Emperor Ye Wushang appeared out of nowhere, resolved the dispute with swift and decisive means, and took Shen Yunhao away.
Now that the main culprit has been rescued by the strongest demon, as one of the leaders of the righteous path, if he remains silent in the face of the demon sect elders acting so recklessly on his own territory, wouldn't people think that the Azure Sky Sword Pavilion and even the entire righteous path are afraid of the Blood Sect?
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