Chapter 1809: Strong and Forceful Killing

What terrified the Insect Clan Sunblaze even more was that an inexplicable force emerged from the blood sea, drawing his blood from his wounds. Even when he tried to block it with his spiritual power, he felt helpless.

The eerie 'Fangs Force,' combined with the 'Blood Guidance Art,' was a tactic Lu Ye and Ma Shangsi had jointly developed years ago. It was designed for powerful enemies like the one before them—foes that couldn't be instantly killed, but could be slowly worn down.

The 'Fangs Force' was crucial; without its ability to impede wound healing, the 'Blood Guidance Art' would be ineffective.

Although Ma Shangsi wasn't present, the Xiangyin sisters could also easily perform the 'Blood Guidance Art'.

Thus began a fierce and frustrating battle for the Insect Clan Sunblaze. This was undoubtedly the greatest torment he had ever experienced in his life. He possessed the ability to kill his enemies with a single strike, yet he struggled to pinpoint their movements.

As time passed, the Insect Clan Sunblaze's body became tattered, riddled with countless wounds inflicted by Lu Ye.

It must be said that the Sunblaze's physique was incredibly powerful, especially considering he was an insectoid. Even though Lu Ye had advanced to Moonblaze cultivation, and his Immovable Mountain Blade had also been upgraded to a spirit treasure, further enhanced with a Divine Edge spirit pattern, each strike still struggled to inflict substantial damage, at most leaving superficial wounds.

Yet, these seemingly insignificant wounds were now proving to be the undoing of his enemy!

After a full day of intense combat, the Insect Clan Sunblaze's face had turned incredibly pale, and his aura had significantly diminished, appearing to be at his limit.

He wasn't the only one; apart from Lu Ye, the other Moonblaze cultivators were in a similar state.

Firstly, such prolonged combat was extremely draining. The Moonblaze cultivators had been under constant tension, fully activating their spiritual power. Their ability to persevere for so long demonstrated their profound cultivation.

Secondly, each of them had endured multiple soul attacks from the Insect Clan Sunblaze. These assaults were not only difficult to withstand but also utterly perplexing.

Under repeated impacts, all four late-stage Moonblaze cultivators felt dizzy and unsettled, their combat movements becoming much slower.

Under Lu Ye's command, the four of them had already retreated from the Blood Sea battlefield to avoid being caught off guard and instantly killed by the enemy.

At this moment, only Lu Ye remained alone in the churning blood sea, battling the enemy.

Victory or defeat was imminent!

After another probing strike, leaving a new wound on the Insect Clan Sunblaze, Lu Ye's expression grew serious. He reached out and grasped at the air, and a slender bone saber appeared in his left hand.

The bone saber belonged to an insectoid he had previously killed. That creature, likely a descendant of a Green Mantis, had unleashed a 'Great Windmill' secret technique on him, but Lu Ye had perfectly countered it on the spot, causing it to die mysteriously.

Its two bone sabers thus became Lu Ye's spoils of war.

The bone sabers were actually parts of the insectoid's body, tempered over countless years. They were extremely hard and incomparably sharp, no less inferior to top-grade spirit treasures. In terms of quality alone, they were probably only slightly less formidable than the current Immovable Mountain Blade.

The 'Soaring and Sweeping' technique could only continuously weaken the Insect Clan Sunblaze; it couldn't deliver a killing blow.

Lu Ye couldn't use his 'Drawing Sword Slash'. Ever since the battle at Black Abyss, he had been refining his fundamental energy and hadn't spent any time nurturing the 'Drawing Sword Slash' spirit pattern.

At this stage, the most violent secret technique he could unleash was the 'Great Windmill'.

He had once used this secret technique to hack to death a Sunblaze affected by a Dancer's influence. Today, history was likely to repeat itself.

He exhaled softly, and at that instant, the boundless blood sea surged towards him. In the blink of an eye, the blood sea dissipated.

Around Lu Ye's body, vital energy steamed, enveloped in a faint red mist. In a very short time, he pushed his vital energy to its limit, and his spiritual power hummed ceaselessly within him.

Suddenly freed, the Insect Clan Sunblaze hadn't yet reacted, but he soon looked weakly towards Lu Ye, his expression tightening with alarm.

He realized that Lu Ye was about to deliver a killing blow.

However, he soon showed a look of surprise, as he suddenly saw a peculiar blood-red mark appearing on Lu Ye's forehead.

"Flower of the Body?" the Insect Clan Sunblaze strained his eyes, trying to confirm if he had seen correctly.

As a Sunblaze, his experience was naturally extraordinary. He had heard whispers of cultivation secrets, among which was the 'Flower of the Body'.

Legend had it that cultivators who reached the pinnacle of the Constellation Realm would condense the 'Flower of the Body'.

However, he had only heard of such a thing and had never seen it before, nor could he confirm its authenticity. In his view, there were many excellent Constellation Realm cultivators within his own clan, and those Constellations had also reached the peak of their current realm, yet none had ever condensed a 'Flower of the Body'.

He had always thought it was a rumor; who would have thought he would actually witness it one day?

He suddenly understood why this human's strength was so formidable: because he had truly reached the pinnacle of the Constellation Realm, achieving a feat that countless beings could only dream of.

A strong sense of crisis arose in his heart. The Insect Clan Sunblaze smelled death. Facing such peril, he roared, pouring all his might into activating his soul power, intending to unleash a soul secret technique.

This was his long-prepared killing move, which he had held back, saving it for this desperate moment to turn the tide.

Similarly, soul power surged from Lu Ye. His right eye suddenly turned completely blood-red, with intricate, tiny patterns appearing within the swirling crimson light, making that eye appear strange and terrifying.

The Blood Eye manifested!

This was Lu Ye's second time activating the Blood Eye spirit pattern since acquiring it. The first time was an experiment, which gave him a slight understanding of its mysteries.

Inherited from the Blood Eye he had seen within the Anomaly that day, this Blood Eye spirit pattern, when activated, had a distinct hallucinatory effect—mysterious and powerful.

The Insect Clan Sunblaze before him was not like the one from back then, who had been influenced by a Dancer's power and whose movements were restricted.

Nor was he like Li Tian, who had been besieged by numerous Moonblazes and was seeking death.

Even though Lu Ye was suppressing him with the power of the core world, and despite his current extreme weakness, Lu Ye dared not be careless in the face of such an enemy.

Therefore, he unleashed all his abilities, pushing his own power to its absolute limit.

The manifestation of the 'Flower of the Body' was the clearest sign, indicating that Lu Ye's vital energy had been pushed to its absolute peak.

The Insect Clan Sunblaze instinctively met the gaze of that Blood Eye. In an instant, his expression flickered with a trance-like state. He seemed to see a towering giant, looking down at him from on high with one eye.

He also seemed to see a blood-red moon slowly ascending, bathing in moonlight, turning the entire world crimson with blood.

Ultimately, he was a Sunblaze. Even with Lu Ye activating the Blood Eye spirit pattern, its effect on him lasted only for a single instant.

The next instant, all the illusions before the Insect Clan Sunblaze vanished, but his face changed dramatically.

Because his meticulously prepared killing move had been disrupted in that fleeting moment, it showed signs of disintegrating. This directly led to an extremely severe consequence: his spiritual sea churned, and his soul power became utterly chaotic.

It was akin to a spellcaster preparing a powerful spell, only to be interrupted at a critical moment. The resulting backlash from the turbulent spiritual power would inevitably harm them. The Insect Clan Sunblaze's current predicament was largely similar.

He let out a pained cry, his face contorted in agony, and instinctively raised his hands to clutch his head.

Seeing this, Lu Ye didn't hesitate for a moment. He swiftly advanced, and as the blade flashed, the Immovable Mountain Blade struck down!

His body spun with the descent of the Immovable Mountain Blade. As one strike ended, the bone saber rose.

The first few strikes were discernible, but after a few more, only a continuous, furious storm of blade light remained, enveloping a vast area.

In the distance, Yang Ling and the others, who had long since withdrawn from the battlefield, watched in stunned silence; even the Xiangyin sisters were no exception.

Although Lu Ye had already demonstrated strength beyond his cultivation level in the conflict with the Red Talisman Society, they truly hadn't realized that what they had witnessed was far from his full power.

This, they now realized, was likely the true unveiling of Lu Ye's strength!

The terrifying killing intent and the fierce, wild offensive were simply beyond what any Moonblaze cultivator could withstand. Yang Ling, considering himself a strong Moonblaze, secretly mused that if he were to face such an onslaught, he probably wouldn't last more than two breaths...

The blade light slowly receded. Lu Ye stood his ground, maintaining a two-handed grip on his sabers. His vital energy boiled to its peak, and the blood mist around him rose.

Centered around him, within a hundred-mile radius, terrifying crisscrossing gullies marred the landscape.

The Insect Clan Sunblaze was nowhere to be seen; only scattered fragments of his corpse remained on the ground, traces of his former existence.

Although they had somewhat anticipated it, witnessing this scene, Yang Ling and the others still felt as if they were in a dream.

A Moonblaze killing a Sunblaze... how preposterous a notion, yet it had just unfolded right before their eyes.

Yang Ling felt that he would probably never forget this scene for the rest of his life.

Cracking sounds continued. Lu Ye staggered slightly; at that instant, countless tissues and muscles throughout his body seemed to tear.

He put away his Immovable Mountain Blade and bone sabers, sat cross-legged, took out spirit pills to swallow, and began silently recovering, his expression devoid of emotion.

This Insect Clan Sunblaze was not the first Sunblaze to die by his hand, and in this battle, the enemy also couldn't exert their full power, so there was nothing to be particularly happy about.

It would only be truly worth celebrating if, one day, he could kill a Sunblaze with his true abilities.

That day would come eventually, and it wouldn't be too far off.

Several days later, Lu Ye recovered. After giving a few instructions to Yang Ling and the others who were still healing, he leaped out of the core world.

He then took out his star vessel and headed back the way he had come.

He wanted to see the situation on the other battlefield. Although he had taken away a Sunblaze and destroyed the insect nest, which should significantly alleviate the pressure on the human cultivators in that realm, he still needed to see some things for himself.

Before Lu Ye could reach the original battlefield, a team of cultivators flew towards him, looking hurried, their divine senses spread out in all directions, as if searching for something.