Yun Che cut his palm, blood staining the Broken Sword. Bai Ruoyou's phantom stepped out from the sword's edge, and as the Demon Eye flickered, countless Blood Puppets turned to dust.
She raised her hand to pluck the Soulbinding Bloom, but just before it faded, she suddenly turned her head. "Be careful, A Qing..."
The flower stem felt cold in his hand, and Yun Che's Star Scar suddenly throbbed with pain—a blood-red pupil was hidden within the Soulbinding Bloom's core!
A Qing's voice twisted at that moment. "Did you get the flower? That's great... Now, dig out your eye for me."
The blood-red pupil in the Soulbinding Bloom abruptly opened. Yun Che's Star Scar felt like it was struck by lightning, his entire right arm going rigid. A Qing's laughter echoed through the transmission, sweet yet tinged with madness. "This 'Kuitian Tong' is a seed buried by the Heavenly Emperor for three hundred years—Brother Yun Che, you have finally hatched it for me!"
A chilling wind swept through the Fallen God Abyss as the blood-red pupil broke free from the flower stem and transformed into a stream of light that dove into Yun Che's right eye. His vision was torn into dual images: in reality, corpses lay scattered everywhere; in the illusion, A Qing walked barefoot through blood, stepping on the plaque of the Yun Family Ancestral Hall.
"Did you really think I was the daughter of an Apothecary Servant?" The A Qing in the illusion tore away her skin to reveal a face covered in Xing Wen. "I am a puppet crafted by the Heavenly Emperor using your mother's flesh and blood, all along... just to wait for you to plant this eye!"
In reality, Yun Che staggered to his knees as the blood pupil ravenously consumed the power of his Star Scar. The God-Slaying Remnant Sword sensed danger and reversed its blade towards his right shoulder—but at the moment it touched his skin, it was frozen by the blood pupil!
"Useless." A Qing's phantom emerged from within the blood pupil. "The Kuitian Tong has already fused with your soul; unless you destroy your own essence, you will forever be my puppet..."
Yun Che's left eye flared with light as the patterns of the Return to the Void Blood Pact surged towards his right pupil. "Then... let us perish together!"
He thrust his fingers into his right eye, forcibly prying out the blood pupil. As blood sprayed forth, a cold laugh from the Heavenly Emperor echoed from below in the Fallen God Abyss: "You are more decisive than Bai Ruoyou, but unfortunately... it's still too late."
The blood pupil exploded into a mist of blood, each droplet transforming into miniature Kuitian Tongs that reflected Yun Che's shattered soul.
The ground collapsed with a thunderous roar as countless Heavenly Emperor Blood Puppets burst forth from beneath. Unlike before, these Blood Puppets had shards of Yun Che's Star Scar embedded in their foreheads, moving in perfect synchrony with him!
"Your blood and your soul have long been marked by Star Scar," A Qing's voice reverberated from the abyss below. "Now, you are the greatest Blood Puppet!"
Yun Che swung his sword to shatter the approaching Blood Puppets; each strike felt like it was cutting into himself. The power of Star Scar drained rapidly as Black Blood seeped from cracks in the God-Slaying Remnant Sword—poison from a backlash of Causality.
Suddenly, Xiao Qingli's Soul Fire erupted from the sword handle, enveloping Yun Che in Ice Blue Flame. "Use Return to the Void Blood Pact... to transfer the poison to the Blood Puppets!"
Yun Che bit his tongue until it bled; blood contract patterns spread like a web. The nearest hundred Blood Puppets suddenly froze in place as Black Blood gushed from their seven orifices, transforming into poisonous mist that retaliated against their kind. A Qing's scream pierced through reality: "You dare use my poison... to kill my puppets?!"
Amidst the poisonous mist, Yun Che's right eye bled hollowly while his left eye's Star Scar shone like a morning star. He charged toward the dark river at the bottom of the abyss, stepping on Blood Puppet corpses as he wielded his God-Slaying Remnant Sword to cleave through rock layers—beneath the riverbed lay an ancient Xing Yun vessel!
"The Vessel of Guixu..." Xiao Qingli's Soul Fire flickered uncertainly. "Bai Ruoyou actually hid it here!"
Inside the ancient ship's cabin, half a charred corpse was sealed within a Jade Coffin. The moment Yun Che touched its Coffin Lid, the corpse suddenly opened its eyes—revealing his mother's face!
"Che'er... hurry and leave..."
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