As the blue void swept through, all life in its path dissolved into a mass of darkness, only to reappear as withered bones.

"Break!"

A flicker of Fear flashed in Balao Na’s eyes. With a furious roar, the essence blood in his body began to boil. Blood Flame erupted from all over him, forcefully shattering the Silver Divine Lock as he rapidly retreated.

The blue void stretched down and enveloped Balao Na.

Terrible streams of darkness instantly emerged from Balao Na’s body, threatening to devour him.

This was the same terrifying darkness, a fearsome power that had once gravely wounded even the God of Darkness, wielder of the Dark Power.

Balao Na roared, and his body exploded, scattering into streaks of blood-red light that flew in every direction.

One by one, the streaks of blood-red light were consumed by the darkness, erupting in Blood Flame before disappearing completely.

Ding Xiaoxue’s body trembled, and a small patch of her lustrous black hair turned snow-white in an instant.

A single streak of blood-red light managed to escape the blue void, vanishing in an instant.

Balao Na was no God of Darkness, and Ding Xiaoxue was no Spirit Saint wielding the Void Blue Night of old. In the end, the attack had failed to kill Balao Na.

Shu Feng watched Ding Xiaoxue in the distance, a complicated expression in his eyes. ’Ding Xiaoxue! She actually became the master of the [Void Blue Night]!’

Shu Feng knew perfectly well that the girl with the beautiful, endearing smile had always wanted to be a Swordsman, not a Spiritual Spear Master.

The [Void Blue Night] appearing in Ding Xiaoxue’s hands clearly meant that many things had happened to her in the past year. Her cultivation had also reached the Spirit Master Peak, only one step away from the Great Spirit Master realm.

"Death to the master of the [Void Blue Night]!"

A vicious glint flashed in the eyes of a Marquis-level Blood Demon. Wreathed in blood-red light, it shot toward Ding Xiaoxue as a crimson streak, its claw aimed at her heart.

The Seven Great Holy Spears were all Spiritual and chose their own masters. Once a master fell, the spears would lie dormant for a time until they found a new one.

Even a powerhouse in the Spirit Saint Realm was not guaranteed to be acknowledged as a master by one of the Seven Great Holy Spears.

A flicker of exhaustion crossed Ding Xiaoxue’s eyes, and she stood perfectly still.

The hundred-meter-tall hungry ghost in the void suddenly opened its mouth and inhaled. The Marquis-level Blood Demon was instantly caught in a fierce wind and sucked into the ghost’s stomach. It let out a choked scream and then went silent.

Wu Zhongchao’s face was pale. With a wave of his hand, two ten-meter-tall Diamond Golem Puppets inscribed with countless mysterious Demon Patterns appeared at once.

The two Diamond Golem Puppets suddenly sprang into action, pouncing directly on the Marquis-level Blood Demons.

The two Diamond Golem Puppets possessed astounding Defense Power, extreme speed, and Infinite Strength. A single punch was enough to send a Marquis-level Blood Demon flying.

With the two Diamond Golem Puppets serving as meat shields, the Spirit Venerable Realm Powerhouses from Blue Star took out one Famous Gun after another and began blasting away at the Marquis-level Blood Demons.

"Retreat!"

After one Marquis-level Blood Demon was blasted to pieces, the remaining Blood Demon powerhouses scattered in all directions.

Wu Zhongchao was a terrifying existence standing at the Peak of the Three Great Realms, and who knew how many trump cards he still had hidden. Now that Duke Balao Na had fled, for the other members of the Blood Demon Clan to remain was to court death.

A ripple shimmered in the air as the Steel Beast, already in its Two-stage Transformation, appeared. Like a bolt of lightning, it viciously slashed at a Viscount-level Blood Demon.

"Get lost!"

The Viscount-level Blood Demon roared, thrusting its claw forward. A wave of Blood Flame coalesced around its talons and blasted toward the Steel Beast.

BANG!

The Steel Beast’s slash shattered the Viscount-level Blood Demon’s flaming claw attack and, with the same momentum, continued on to slash wildly at the Blood Demon’s body.

The Viscount-level Blood Demon sneered. Its body dissolved into a wisp of mist that scattered on the wind, evading the Steel Beast’s terrifying slash. It then swiftly reappeared behind the beast and viciously clawed it, gouging out a bloody hole.

The combat power of a Viscount-level Blood Demon was already comparable to a Grandmaster of the Human Race’s Spirit Sect Realm. If not for the suppression from the Heart of the World, this Blood Demon’s strength would be even more terrifying.

At that moment, a ripple appeared in the void, and Hassina emerged. Wielding [Heavy Rain], she slashed down. The phantom of an overlord dragon materialized behind her, and the blade, glowing with a terrifying Spiritual Light, slammed viciously into the Viscount-level Blood Demon.

The Viscount-level Blood Demon cried out in pain as a wound deep enough to expose bone was carved into its back.

The Steel Beast’s tail, like a sharp sword, suddenly shot out. Fast as lightning, it stabbed upward into the Viscount-level Blood Demon’s lower torso. With a violent twist, it ripped out a shower of mangled flesh and blood.

The Viscount-level Blood Demon’s body trembled, then dissolved into a wisp of mist and fled into the distance.

The Fogging Technique was a terrifying Talent mastered by the Blood Demon Nobles, giving them an escape Ability far superior to that of other Void Demons.

"Sun and Moon Cross the Sky!"

Shu Feng, who had been concealed nearby, finally appeared. Wielding the Fourth-Tier Spirit Sword [Bao Feng], he slashed out. A light like a rising Great Sun swept over everything, shining down upon the mist that was the Viscount-level Blood Demon.

The mist that was the Viscount-level Blood Demon trembled and began to rapidly evaporate. It was forced to condense back into its humanoid form, now charred black and grievously injured.

The Fogging Technique could grant immunity to physical attacks, but it was also countered by many forms of Magic and Spiritual Martial Arts. The number of Blood Demons who could use the Fogging Technique with true Mastery could be counted on one hand.

The instant the Viscount-level Blood Demon re-formed, the Steel Beast slashed down, cleaving it in two.

’The Space Ring. I finally got it!’

A faint smile touched Shu Feng’s lips as he plucked the Space Ring from the right hand of the dead Viscount-level Blood Demon.

Shu Feng had chosen to kill this specific Viscount-level Blood Demon precisely because it possessed a Secret Treasure like a Space Ring.

Crafting a Space Ring required Space Crystals and a Top-Level Master of Secret Treasures with Mastery of spatial mysteries.

In the entire Qianyuan Republic, only Spirit Saint Wu Zhongchao and one other Master of Secret Treasures were capable of crafting them. Spirit Saint Wu Zhongchao spent most of his time cultivating and very rarely crafted Space Rings.

The other Top-Level Secret Treasure Refining Master only crafted one or two Space Rings per year. One could only imagine how rare they were.

A single Space Ring with three cubic meters of internal space could fetch a sky-high price of over 200 billion at auction, and even then, it was an item with a price but no market.