The battle began from Ming's side. Ming and the Great Elder were fighting together against the three Elders of the Righteous Alliance. One of the Elders was already injured because of Ming's attacks. At that moment, the Great Elder suddenly started using a cursed magic technique. As soon as the spell activated, the three Elders felt intense pain in their heads.
Ming immediately took advantage of the opportunity. With a furious roar, he unleashed a massive Thunder Strike from the sky. The lightning descended like divine punishment and struck directly upon the three Elders.
Dust and smoke covered the battlefield.
But when the dust slowly cleared, Ming's eyes widened in shock. The three Elders were completely unharmed.
Before Ming could understand what had happened, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his chest. Looking down, he saw a sword piercing straight through his body.
His body trembled.
Ming slowly turned around and saw the Great Elder standing behind him, the sword deeply embedded in his chest.
"W-Why…?" Ming asked with fear and disbelief in his voice. "Why did you betray me?"
The Great Elder looked at him coldly and replied,
"This was always my plan. The moment you were chosen as the future leader, I began to hate you. Master always loved you more and ignored me completely. I only waited for the perfect chance to kill you."
Ming coughed blood as he spoke painfully,
"So… just for this, you betrayed the sect? If you had asked me even once, I would have stepped away willingly. I always respected you like an elder sister. If you had said you wanted the position of leader, I would have happily given it to you."
The Great Elder interrupted him with a cruel smile.
"Leader? Do you know how much I hated all of you? You received everything without effort, while I earned my position through countless contributions to the sect. I owe you nothing."
Just as the Great Elder was about to finish Ming off, a terrifying attack suddenly descended from the sky.
BOOM!
The Great Elder's instincts screamed danger. He quickly summoned a defensive shield, but the power behind the attack was overwhelming. The shield shattered instantly, and the impact sent the Great Elder flying far across the battlefield.
Crashing onto the ground, the Great Elder roared angrily,
"Who dares attack me?! Show yourself!"
Then the sky darkened.
A massive wave of dark energy spread across the heavens as Sai, the True Blood Demon, slowly descended from the sky. His aura was so terrifying that people over a hundred kilometers away could feel the pressure.
Seeing him, Ming's eyes lit up with relief.
"Sir Sai… you finally came…"
Sai glanced around calmly before speaking with disgust.
"How interesting. Your own sect betrayed its own leader. What kind of trash sect is this? If even the Great Elder betrays the Sect Master, then everyone here must be garbage. What a disappointment. Disgusting."
As Sai openly insulted the entire sect, the Great Elder furiously shouted,
"You dare—!"
But before he could finish speaking, Sai casually used a spell that sealed his mouth shut.
Sai looked at him coldly.
"A piece of trash like you dares speak in front of me?"
Then Sai turned toward the three Elders of the Righteous Alliance.
"Oh? I almost forgot about you insects."
Before Sai could continue, the three Elders attacked him together without hesitation.
Sai sighed.
"You weak fools really think you are strong?"
The next second, Sai moved.
With just a single attack, all three Elders were instantly crippled. Their cultivation, spiritual power, and strength disappeared completely.
Everyone present was horrified.
Ming and the others stared in disbelief. The same three Elders who had dominated the battlefield moments ago were destroyed with a single move.
The three Elders themselves were trembling in fear.
"Who… who is this monster…?"
But Ming soon realized something strange.
Sai had not killed them.
Then Ming understood the terrifying truth.
Sai planned to drag their souls into the Dark Hell, destroy their life force, and torture them endlessly in the Limitless Hell.
When the three Elders realized Sai's intentions, fear completely consumed them.
Without hesitation, they crushed special summoning tokens.
The moment the tokens shattered, powerful spatial distortions appeared in the sky. Soon, the leaders, Great Elders, and several powerful Elders of the Righteous Alliance emerged from the portal. Dark clouds covered the heavens as the armies of the Righteous Alliance filled the battlefield. Countless experts floated in the sky, their spiritual pressure shaking the earth below. Great Elders, Sect Leaders, and ancient cultivators stood side by side, all staring at a single man.
Sai.
The infamous Blood Demon.
The man who had recently destroyed an entire sect overnight.
One elder stepped forward, his robe fluttering violently in the scorching wind.
"So you are the Blood Demon."
His voice thundered across the battlefield.
"The monster who slaughtered thousands and erased an entire sect from existence. Hmph… after hearing so many rumors, I expected someone greater."
The elder's eyes narrowed with killing intent.
"But now that I see you… you are nothing more than an arrogant fool."
A cold smile appeared on Sai's face.
"And today," the elder continued, "you will die by the hands of the Righteous Alliance."
For a moment—
Silence.
Then Sai laughed.
A deep, mocking laugh filled with absolute disdain.
"You people really enjoy talking."
His crimson eyes slowly swept across the massive army before him.
"If all you came here to do is bark like dogs… then stop wasting my time."
BOOM!
A terrifying demonic aura exploded from Sai's body, instantly darkening the sky.
"You want a fight?"
He slowly raised one hand upward.
"Then I'll give you despair."
The moment his hand reached the sky—
The heavens ignited.
A gigantic fireball formed above the battlefield, so massive it looked like a second sun descending from the heavens. Endless flames twisted around it while waves of unbearable heat spread in every direction.
Mountains melted.
Rivers evaporated.
The ground itself turned red from the temperature.
Even the powerful elders felt sweat dripping down their faces.
Some weaker cultivators screamed as their flesh started burning from the heat alone.
One elder's expression changed completely.
"DEFENSIVE FORMATIONS NOW!"
Thousands of spiritual barriers instantly appeared across the battlefield.
"Hurry! Don't let the flames touch you!"
But Sai only smiled.
"Too slow."
With a single motion of his hand—
The massive fireball descended.
BOOOOOOOOOOM!
The world trembled.
An explosion of endless flames swallowed the battlefield whole. Firestorms surged through the heavens while shockwaves destroyed everything in sight.
Screams echoed everywhere.
For several moments, nothing could be seen except burning destruction.
Then…
The flames slowly parted.
Sai stood there calmly, completely unharmed.
Disappointment appeared on his face.
"Oh?"
He tilted his head slightly.
"You survived?"
His voice carried mockery.
"I thought the mighty Righteous Alliance would entertain me more than this."
The elders gritted their teeth in rage.
Sai laughed again.
"If descendants like you are this weak, then your ancestors must have been equally pathetic."
His crimson eyes glowed coldly.
"Three waves of heat were enough to push you to the brink of death."
He turned around slowly.
"How disappointing."
But just as Sai began walking away—
CRACK!!!
The sea of flames behind him exploded apart.
Two hands emerged from the inferno.
Then—
A young man stepped forward.
The moment he appeared, the atmosphere itself changed.
In his hand was a crimson-red sword radiating a terrifying aura capable of distorting space itself. His long black hair moved violently in the wind while his eyes shone with absolute calmness.
The battlefield instantly fell silent.
Even the elders widened their eyes in shock.
"T-That's…"
"Kaal Jo…"
"The Tian Sect Leader…"
Sai slowly stopped walking.
For the first time—
His smile faded slightly.
Kaal Jo raised his crimson sword and pointed it directly at Sai.
"Blood Demon."
His voice was calm.
Yet every word carried overwhelming pressure.
"Who exactly are you calling weak?"
He took one step forward.
BOOM!
The ground beneath him shattered instantly.
"I am Kaal Jo."
Another step.
"The leader of the Tian Sect."
Another step.
"And today…"
A terrifying sword aura exploded from his body.
"You die."
The instant those words fell—
Kaal Jo disappeared.
Sai's eyes narrowed.
Too fast.
Before he could react—
A hand grabbed his face.
BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
Kaal Jo slammed Sai into the earth with monstrous force. The impact split the battlefield apart and shattered countless mountains nearly ten kilometers away.
The entire world trembled violently.
Dust filled the sky.
For several moments, silence covered the battlefield.
Then—
Sai slowly stood up from the crater.
Blood dripped down his forehead.
But instead of anger…
He smiled.
A genuine smile.
"This power…"
His crimson eyes locked onto Kaal Jo.
"It doesn't belong to this world."
Meanwhile, Kaal Jo calmly healed his injuries before instantly reappearing in the sky using a movement technique.
The surrounding elders looked stunned.
Not a single person had died from Sai's earlier attack.
Everyone immediately understood why.
At the final moment—
Kaal Jo had shielded the entire battlefield.
Even Sai looked impressed now.
Then suddenly—
He started laughing.
A dark laugh filled with excitement.
"Kaal Jo…"
Sai's aura exploded violently once more.
"You are the first person in years who has made my blood boil."
The sky cracked under the pressure of his power.
"Out of everyone I have faced…"
His smile widened.
"You stand at the very top."
The battlefield became deathly silent.
Because everyone knew what was coming next.
Kaal Jo slowly lifted his sword.
The surrounding space began trembling violently.
Even the laws of the world started becoming unstable.
Sai's eyes widened slightly.
"Interesting…"
Because Kaal Jo was finally preparing to use—
Law-Cutting Slashes.
A forbidden technique capable of cutting through all existence.
Laws.
Time.
Space.
Sound.
Reality itself.
Anything touched by the slash would be completely erased forever.
At first, Sai smiled fearlessly.
He even considered taking the attack head-on just to test its power.
But the moment the slash formed—
His instincts screamed.
Danger.
Death.
Extinction.
For the first time in countless years…
Sai felt fear.
If that slash touched him—
He would truly cease to exist.
Without hesitation, Sai instantly teleported away.
The slash passed through empty space.
Or so he believed.
A second later—
Sai turned around.
And froze.
The place where he had been standing no longer existed.
Not destroyed.
Not shattered.
Erased.
The surrounding space itself had been severed completely.
Even the distant galaxy behind him had been sliced apart, leaving behind an endless crack across the stars.
The entire battlefield fell silent.
Sai stared at the scene in disbelief.
At that moment—
He finally understood.
Kaal Jo's physical strength was not his true power.
The true monster…
Was the sword in his hand. The chapter began amidst the lingering destruction caused by the previous clash. The air itself still trembled violently as waves of spiritual energy spread across the battlefield. Cracks covered the ground for thousands of meters, while shattered mountains burned beneath crimson flames.
Standing in the middle of the ruined battlefield, Kaal Jo slowly lifted his head and stared at Sai with sharp eyes filled with disbelief.
"Kaal jo …" Kaal Jo spoke in a deep voice, "when you defeated me, I never imagined your power could reach this level."
Blood dripped from the corner of his mouth, yet a smile appeared on his face.
"You hide yourself too well. At first glance, you look like nothing more than an ordinary swordsman. Quiet. Calm. Unremarkable." His eyes narrowed. "But now I understand the truth. You are not ordinary at all."
A terrifying pressure erupted from Kaal Jo's body as he pointed his sword toward Sai.
"In this entire generation… you may be the most monstrous genius I have ever seen."
Far away from them, another battlefield was already drowning in destruction.
Kris Chu and Fiel Nomal stood amidst countless corpses and broken lands. The battle between them had long surpassed the level of ordinary cultivators. Every attack they exchanged tore apart the earth itself.
At that moment, both of them suddenly froze.
A strange pressure descended from the northeastern sky.
The heavens turned red.
Massive crimson clouds slowly moved across the sky like an endless sea of blood descending toward the mortal world. The atmosphere instantly became suffocating. Even breathing felt difficult.
The surrounding cultivators stopped fighting one after another.
"What… is that?"
"Why does the sky look like this?"
Fear spread rapidly among the battlefield forces.
Even Kris Chu's expression darkened. Fiel Nomal clenched his fists tightly as cold sweat appeared on his forehead.
After carefully sensing the aura, both of them spoke at almost the exact same time.
"A terrifying enemy has arrived…"
The scene shifted toward Ming.
He stood silently while staring at the crimson sky. His eyes reflected the endless blood-colored clouds descending from heaven.
"So this is it…" Ming muttered.
"So this is the Blood Demonic Form people have been talking about."
His expression became extremely serious.
"What terrifying demonic energy… this aura is unbelievably pure. I can actually feel true demonic power from him."
The pressure spreading through the sky became stronger and stronger.
Ming inhaled deeply.
"His cultivation is likely above Level 8. Perhaps even Level 9… or Level 10."
His voice became heavy.
"Even the greatest geniuses require thousands of years to reach such a realm. Yet this monster achieved it in less than a hundred years…"
Meanwhile, somewhere far away, the main character, , was calmly speaking with the system.
"System," Die Yuan asked, "why does Sai feel so different from everyone else?"
The system answered immediately.
"Because Sai's existence itself is abnormal."
Die Yuan remained silent while listening.
"His visible cultivation never represents his true power. Most people can only sense one or two levels above his actual realm whenever he transforms. However, the truth is far more complicated."
The system continued:
"Sai's Demonic Form possesses limits. Normally, his transformed state should not exceed Level 8 or slightly beyond it. However, every evolution increases the limit of his demonic power."
A faint glow appeared before Die Yuan's eyes as system information continued flowing.
"Once Sai fully enters his Demonic Form, the battlefield itself begins falling under his control."
Die Yuan laughed lightly.
"Then there's nothing to worry about. Nobody in the mortal world can force him beyond his limits."
However, for the first time in a long while—
Die Yuan was wrong.
At that very moment, Sai was facing someone from the same generation capable of pushing him into a true battle.
The sky darkened completely.
Thunder roared endlessly as violent winds swept across the battlefield. The atmosphere became so heavy that countless cultivators fell to their knees under the pressure alone.
Then—
Boom!!!
A horrifying explosion shook heaven and earth.
Sai's body began expanding rapidly.
His flesh transformed into a gigantic crimson-black demonic form while endless demonic aura erupted around him like a storm. Bones extended from his back, forming massive skeletal arms large enough to crush mountains.
Within moments, half of the sky was covered by Sai's enormous body.
From hundreds of kilometers away, people could still see the terrifying silhouette standing in the heavens.
He looked less like a human—
And more like an ancient demon god descending upon the world.
Fear consumed the battlefield instantly.
The former Great Elder stared upward with a pale face.
"This… this monster…"
Even the members of the Righteous Alliance lost their will to fight.
Some cultivators immediately abandoned the battlefield and fled in terror.
Kris Chu and Fiel Nomal both stopped fighting completely after witnessing Sai's true form.
Without hesitation, they retreated toward the rear lines while many others followed behind them in panic.
Sai had grown so large that ordinary people could barely comprehend his existence anymore. His gigantic crimson-black body towered above the heavens like a living nightmare.
Then Sai moved.
One of his massive skeletal arms pierced through the clouds and descended toward Kaal Jo with enough force to shatter the earth itself.
The pressure alone destroyed countless mountains below.
Everyone watching believed Kaal Jo was about to die.
But instead—
Kaal Jo smiled.
"Earth Demon," he said calmly, "do you truly believe such an attack can defeat me?"
He slowly raised his sword.
"If you think so…"
"Then this will become your greatest mistake."
An unimaginable sword aura erupted into the sky.
The surrounding space distorted violently as countless cracks spread through the heavens themselves.
Kaal Jo's eyes glowed sharply.
"HEAVENLY SLAYER!"
The moment those words echoed across the battlefield, countless ancient cultivators became terrified.
Because Heavenly Slayer was no ordinary technique.
It was a forbidden sword art specifically created to destroy all demonic and evil energy.
No matter how strong the opponent's body was—
No matter how terrifying their regeneration abilities were—
As long as demonic energy existed within them, Heavenly Slayer could cut through it.
Slash!!!
A silver line flashed across the heavens.
For a brief second, the entire world became silent.
Then—
Boom!!!
Sai's gigantic skeletal arm was sliced cleanly in half.
The severed arm crashed toward the earth like a falling mountain, instantly destroying everything within thousands of meters.
Explosions echoed endlessly.
Sai immediately attempted to regenerate the destroyed arm.
But suddenly—
His expression changed.
"It's not healing…"
For the first time since transforming, confusion appeared in Sai's eyes.
Far below, Kaal Jo silently smiled.
"The effects of Heavenly Slayer prevent regeneration for nearly twenty minutes."
Then Kaal Jo slowly pointed his sword upward once more.
This time—
His target was Sai's neck.
Sai instantly understood Kaal Jo's intention.
Yet instead of fear—
He laughed.
A wild, insane laugh filled the heavens.
"HAHAHAHA!"
"So what if one arm was destroyed?!"
His demonic eyes glowed with madness.
"I still have three left!"
At that moment, Sai attacked again.
One skeletal arm gathered blazing demonic flames powerful enough to melt mountains.
The second arm created a gigantic ancient formation that covered the sky itself.
And the third arm gripped an enormous demonic sword capable of splitting heaven and earth apart.