Volume 3 - Chapter 412: I'll Go in Your Place (Part 3)
Chi Xu summoned a black cauldron, hurling it toward Su Muqing with crushing force.
At the same time, he raised his hand and gulped down several demonic pills in quick succession. That single sword strike of hers had left him deeply wary.
He couldn’t afford to hold back. He ignited his spirit blood, his aura surging rapidly—leaping from the eighth tier to the peak of the tenth within the Immortal Lord realm!
The black cauldron descended like Mount Tai. Su Muqing raised her hand, reversing time—but the surrounding spacetime was being forcefully dragged by another power. Her control only extended so far. She could only reverse time to the moment before Chi Xu’s pills and spirit blood had taken effect. Then she struck again—her sword arced upward and sliced him in two.
Boom!
Chi Xu’s body was torn apart once more. But this time, his splintered body erupted into a massive spray of blood mist, which surged toward Su Muqing.
Her expression shifted. It was too late to pause the moment—her entire body was drenched in blood.
A violent spiritual assault slammed into her soul sea and charged at her primordial spirit.
“Die!”
Chi Xu roared with fury. Just two sword strikes had shattered his confidence in this battle. With all his might failing against her seventh-tier Time Origin, he had no choice but to risk it all and launch a soul attack.
Though Su Muqing’s primordial spirit was formidable, the difference between them wasn’t vast. Upon impact, her soul shuddered violently. She swiftly countered with blades of temporal force, cleaving into Chi Xu’s soul, each slash weakening him further.
But Chi Xu had already gone berserk. His soul ignited, and drawing upon his bloodline's curse power, he branded her soul with a vicious mark.
Su Muqing’s face turned pale. She froze time and began healing rapidly—but the mark clung like a parasite. It refused to vanish.
This force kept corroding her primordial spirit, wearing it down.
Unless… her father intervened.
But that would mean stepping out of the arena.
Her expression darkened. She compressed her Time Origin into a pseudo-domain, isolating the brand within. Only then did the erosion slow—but it didn’t stop. The curse continued gnawing at her at a glacial pace. She was both shocked and chilled.
Outside, Chi Xu’s broken body lay still. Su Muqing raised her sword again and obliterated it completely.
His soul had been annihilated. No amount of immortal energy could reconstruct his physical form.
For a long moment, the arena remained silent. But the purple-robed man and Su Zhenyuan had already sensed it—Chi Xu was truly dead.
“Seventh-tier Time Origin…”
The purple-robed man ground his teeth, his expression dark and grim. This battle hadn’t shaken the heavens like Jiang Xuming’s had, but both sides had unleashed their full power, and the outcome was decided in a flash.
For cultivators of this level, any misstep could be fatal. They never passed up an opportunity to kill.
Su Muqing’s face was frosty as she raised her eyes toward the remaining demon prodigies.
“Who’s next to die?”
Her voice rang cold and clear across the battlefield.
And at that very moment, wild, jubilant cheers erupted across Gusu Imperial Star.
They had won. The second match belonged to the human race!
On the enemy ship, the demon prodigies’ faces were twisted with disbelief. Chi Xu… was dead? And so quickly?
He had been a peak-tier Immortal Lord at the eighth level, yet had been slain by Su Muqing, who was only at the seventh!
“She’s been marked with the God-Devouring Blood Curse. Even with the Time Origin, she can’t suppress it for long. Drag it out, and she’ll fall. You—just delay the fight.”
The purple-robed man’s eyes burned like candle flames as he peered through Su Muqing’s condition. He turned to the others.
The demon prodigies had all heard of the God-Devouring Blood Curse. Their expressions shifted, and they exhaled in relief.
So Chi Xu, even in death, had made a contribution.
“I’ll go. Anyone else would be throwing their life away.”
A demon prodigy stepped forward with a cold voice.
The purple-robed man studied him, then nodded.
This was one of their five elites—not inferior to Chi Xu. Perhaps even stronger.
The demon youth entered the Demon Ancestor’s arena at a leisurely pace.
Before the thunderclap even sounded, he had already released his power and aura—like Su Muqing, he too was a seventh-tier Immortal Lord.
His soul lifespan was only seven hundred years.
As the thunder finally rang out, a nightmarish force surged forth. The demon’s eyes turned deep violet, and behind him, a ghostly image of an ancient nightmare took form—hideous, terrifying, far clearer than the illusory Taixu God Jiang Xuming had summoned.
Clearly, his command of his bloodline far surpassed Jiang Xuming’s.
In that instant, the nightmare phantom opened its eyes, and the entire arena was flooded with a purple-black radiance.
Su Muqing’s soul shuddered. Drowsiness tugged at her thoughts.
She tried to invoke her Time Origin in reversal—but her body felt soft and heavy. Her immortal energy and divine sense would not respond.
“Not good…”
Her heart pounded. The opponent had used his trump card the moment the match began. If not for her strong soul and her time power continuously shifting her along different timelines—keeping her from staying on the same one as him—she might’ve collapsed instantly.
This was almost cheating—wielding a power beyond the Immortal Lord realm.
Even if it only induced sleep, in a same-realm battle, that was close to invincibility.
Fall asleep—and you’re at your enemy’s mercy.
“I… I forfeit…”
She bit her lip, and just as her consciousness began to slip into the nightmare, she whispered those three words. They were faint as a murmur.
Even separated by different timelines, his nightmare power could still reach her. If her soul weren’t already damaged—if she had been at peak form—she could have pulled herself further away in time and resisted. But now, it was too late.
Boom!
The sealing barrier shattered, and two figures rushed in at nearly the same moment, arriving at Su Muqing’s side.
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