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In a deep cave in the Firmament Heavenly Realm, Blood Qi filled the air, and the pungent smell of blood was nauseating.

There were dozens of people inside the cave, all of them were black-robed youths, and all of them surged with Blood Qi.

Deep inside the cave in front of the group of black-robed youths was a pool of blood with a radius of 30 meters. A large number of corpses, including demonic beasts and young geniuses, were piled around the pond.

If Su Mo were here, he would recognize two familiar faces among the corpses. They were Leng Yunfeng of the Wuning Country and Jia Yuanji, the third prince of the Topsun Country.

All the bodies had been ripped apart, and some of them were dried corpses. The others had died not long ago, and their blood flowed into the blood pond. It was a cruel scene.

A large amount of blood had accumulated in the blood pond, and someone was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the pond.

It was a young man around seventeen or eighteen years old. His face was white and clean, even slightly pale. He was quite handsome, but he had long blood-red hair, which was extremely eye-catching. Even his eyebrows were blood red, and he gave off an evil and frightening feeling.

The red-haired youth was cultivating in the blood pond, absorbing the blood essence.

At this moment, a black-robed young man outside the blood pool stepped forward, cupped his fists to the red-haired youth, and said respectfully, “Your Majesty, two of us have just died!”

The red-haired youth slowly opened his eyes, which also glared with a blood-red colored light.

“Only in two days, 20 people died. What rubbish!”

The red-haired youth said flatly, with no emotion on his face.

Although the voice of the red-haired youth was not loud, it made the group of black-robed young men tremble.

The black-robed young men remained silent. Although they were all super geniuses from the Cold Blood Hall branch hall, they did not even dare to breathe heavily in front of the Blood Disciple from the main hall of the Cold Blood Hall of the Eastern Continent.

They knew how frightening this Blood Prince was. He was the youngest son of the Master of the Main Hall of the Cold Blood Hall, and an expert in the True Spirit Realm Lv 9. His strength was comparable to an expert in the Lv 1 Enlightenment Realm.

“Yeah, it's almost time for the Horizon Palace to appear. It's time for us to sweep through the Heavenly Firmament Realm!”

The red-haired youth pondered for a moment and asked, “Who are the noteworthy experts in each of your domains?”

Hearing the red-haired young man's question, everyone immediately replied.

“Don't underestimate Chu Zhantian, who ranked first in the Top 100 Talents List in Blackdragon Domain!”

“And Jiang Taixu, who ranked first in the Top 100 Talent List in the Domain!”

“And Thunder Domain Lei.”

“…”

The black-robed youths cupped their fists and bowed.

At this moment, a tall black-robed young man cupped his fists and said, “The number one person in Hong Domain's Top 100 Talents List is called Su Mo, and he is also quite strong!”

The black-robed men all looked at the black-robed young man with cute expressions on their faces. How could there be an expert in a small place like Hong Domain? What cultivation is that, one? “One of the black-robed ones asked. And…

The tall young man was Mo Yue, the young master of the Cold-blood Hall, one of the top 10 geniuses in Hong Domain.

Mo Yue's face stiffened, and she said awkwardly, “Lv 4 True Spirit Realm!”

“Pfft!”

When the black-robed man heard this, they inevitably burst into laughter. However, they did not dare to laugh out loud in front of the red-haired young man. Their faces were red as it restrained their laughter.

A thin black-robed youth held back his laughter, shook his head, and said, “He cultivates the same as you, but he is only a young expert in Hong Domain!”

Mo Yue was silent. The red-haired young man was right. Neither he nor Su Mo were worthy of being mentioned in front of geniuses from other domains.

“Enough!”

The red-haired young man shouted, and the crowd fell silent.

The red-haired youth glanced at Mo Yue and said indifferently, “Don't mention the trash in the Lv 4 True Spirit Realm. You can all continue.”

Then, the crowd continued to introduce the important experts in each domain.

However, no one had introduced the Dark Domain, as the red-haired youth was already in the Dark Domain, so there was no need to introduce it.

After a while, the red-haired young man fell silent.

After a while, the red-haired youth nodded and said, “It seems that there are no noteworthy experts other than number one in the Top 100 Talents List in four areas!”

Then, the red-haired youth rose from the pool of blood and looked out the cave coldly.

“Now, follow me to sweep the Heavenly Horizon Realm. Robbing, absorbing, and killing all the geniuses we met!” The words of the red-haired youth were domineering and extremely arrogant.

“Yes, Your Majesty!”

The black-robed youth replied loudly, their killing intent surging.

…

In the woods.

Han Yijian, Wu Sheng, and the others had spent a day and night recuperating. Other than Zhu Shaojing, who was weaker and had yet to fully recover from his injuries, the other three had mostly recovered.

They swallowed the Purple Nanmu Fruit to refine its efficacy and increase their cultivation.

Su Mo sat cross-legged under a large tree not far away and was also cultivating. He was running the Nirvana Cultivation Method and condensing the Nirvana Sword Qi at the same time.

Nirvana Sword Qi was too important to him. If he had not used Nirvana Sword Qi while chasing after Yuwen Jun and the other two, they would not have been able to escape unscathed.

Fortunately, the speed Su Mo condensed Sword Nirvana Qi had improved greatly due to the great increase in his cultivation. Within a day overnight, the nine rays of Nirvana Sword Qi had recovered.

Su Mo's current plan was to slightly consolidate his soaring cultivation. It would be best if he could cultivate the Nirvana Cultivation Method to the fifth realm.

Once he cultivated the Nirvana Cultivation Method into the fifth realm, each Spiritual Spiral would be able to condense two rays of Nirvana Sword Qi. At that time, he would have 18 rays of Nirvana Sword Qi. The 18 rays of Nirvana Sword Qi would be able to support him in a protracted battle.

Otherwise, the nine rays of Nirvana Qi Sword would have depleted too quickly, and he would not have been able to conduct a protracted battle.

After another two hours, Wu Sheng and the others finished their cultivation. The four of them had all advanced to the next level, and had all broken through to the next level.

The four of them had already reached their respective natural peaks. With the help of the Purple Nanmu Fruit, they managed to break through without any tension.

This was also because their cultivation was relatively low. If it was Su Mo, he would not have broken through even with 100 Purple Nanmu Fruits.

“Su Mo, thank you so much this time!”

Wu Sheng walked up to Su Mo and thanked him with a fist greeting. Su Mo not only saved his life, but also gave him the Purple Nanmu Fruit. Wu Sheng, who had always been cold-hearted, thanked Su Mo.

“Sumo, thank you very much!

“Su Mo, if not for you, I would have left the Heavenly Horizon Realm and lost the Horizon Palace Inheritance!”

Han Qianze, Han Yijian, and Zhu Shaojing stepped forward to thank him.

Zhu Shaojing looked at Su Mo's slightly immature face and sighed inwardly. He and Su Mo had some conflicts, but Su Mo still saved him and gave him the Purple Nanmu Fruit. This made Zhu Shaojing feel extremely complicated.

After hearing their words, Su Mo ended his cultivation and slowly opened his eyes.

“Nothing. Don't mention it!”

Su Mo smiled. After pondering for a moment, he looked at the four of them and said, “I'd like to cooperate with you. Are you willing to do it?”

“Cooperate?”

The four of them were dumbfounded and asked confusedly, “What kind of cooperation?”

They don't understand. Su Mo's current strength was much higher than theirs. Why would he want to work with them?