Chapter 255: One-Hit Kill! Old Hag, hand over the antidote quickly!

"Die for me!!!"

Gu Lan gripped the dark red bone hilt tightly with both hands, and the Purple Extreme Golden Core inside his body, like an overloaded engine, continuously poured violent demonic yuan into the blood moon demon sickle.

"Hum——!"

The blood moon demon sickle emitted a deafening, bloodthirsty hum.

On the huge half-moon-shaped blade, an extremely dazzling scarlet blood-red light erupted.

This light was so intense that it even eclipsed the churning dark red blood plasma around it.

Facing the Steel Bone Dragon pouncing down with its bloody maw agape and an overwhelming momentum, Gu Lan did not retreat at all; he swung the blood moon demon sickle from bottom to top and slashed fiercely!

"Swish——!!!"

A blood-red blade radiance stretching a hundred zhang long, resembling an upside-down waning moon, forcefully tore apart the Void Realm at the bottom of the abyss!

The speed of the blade radiance reached the ultimate extreme, carrying a terrifying killing will sufficient to cut off the Laws of heaven and earth, heading straight to meet the huge sickly green eyeballs of the Steel Bone Dragon.

The moment of contact.

There was no deafening explosion, nor was there the loud sound of metal clashing.

It was like a red-hot table knife cutting into a piece of butter.

That incomparably huge dragon head, pieced together from countless rusted armors and Yao Beast skulls, was so fragile in front of the blood-red blade radiance that it was not even as good as a layer of window paper!

"Rip!"

The blade radiance cut open the skull of the Steel Bone Dragon witheringly like dry weeds, went all the way down along its spine, and directly split this behemoth over thirty zhang long into two neat halves from head to tail!

"Roar…?"

The Steel Bone Dragon let out an extremely brief and puzzled mournful cry.

It hadn't even figured out what happened, and its proud, perverted defensive power had simply become a huge joke in front of this ancient peerless vicious weapon.

But this was not over yet!

The terrifying aspect of the blood moon demon sickle was definitely not just its sharpness.

"Clatter——!"

The scarlet iron chains wrapped around the blade, like frantic pythons smelling blood, instantly shot out violently!

They precisely plunged into the severed remains of the Steel Bone Dragon that had been split into two halves.

"Glug… Glug…"

A spine-chilling swallowing sound rang out.

The dense blood fiendish Qi inside the Steel Bone Dragon's body used to maintain its infinite Rebirth was, at this moment, like a breached flood, continuously swallowed and drained dry by the blood moon demon sickle along those iron chains!

The two halves of the remains that were still struggling violently and trying to piece themselves back together shriveled down at a rate visible to the naked eye.

That viscous rotting flesh turned into flying ash, and those rusted iron swords lost the support of resentment, instantly turning into spiritually devoid scrap metal.

"Clatter!"

Having lost all sources of power, the Steel Bone Dragon completely turned into a pile of scrap iron, heavily smashing into the blood-red swamp below without being able to splash even a shred of wave.

One strike! One-hit kill!

Even its path for infinite Rebirth was sucked clean!

"Holy crap… This is way too fierce!"

Gu Lan maintained the posture of swinging his blade, and looking at the cleared battlefield in front of him, even he couldn't help but gasp.

The power of this blade far exceeded his imagination!

The monster that had beaten him to a pulp and made him use all his strength just now was actually as fragile as a piece of paper in front of this demon sickle.

With this thing, wouldn't he be able to walk sideways in the Golden Core Stage from now on?!

"Hum——"

Having gorged on blood fiendish Qi, the blade body of the demon sickle became even more vividly red, and even emitted a slight tremor of unfulfilled desire, seeming to urge Gu Lan to find the next prey.

"Stop howling, I don't have time to deal with you right now."

Gu Lan cursed unhappily.

Just as he wanted to put away the demon sickle.

"Hiss——!!!"

A sharp pain ten times more violent than any previous time suddenly burst from his left chest!

That feeling was as if someone had stabbed ten thousand red-hot poisonous needles into his heart at the same time and was stirring frantically!

"Pfft!"

Gu Lan's vision suddenly darkened, and a large mouthful of foul blood mixed with black poisonous Qi spewed directly out, making him stumble and almost plunge headfirst into the blood-red swamp.

He tightly covered his chest and looked down.

On the surface of his skin, those faint black mesh-like poisonous veins had now turned into a rich, ink-like black!

Like black venomous snakes, they had completely crawled over his left chest, and even started spreading toward his chin along the major arteries of his neck!

"Fuck! Time's up!"

Gu Lan's complexion instantly turned as pale as paper.

The three-hour incubation period of the fatal blood pill fed by that crazy woman Ye Hongzhuang had completely ended, and it was now entering the final fatal outbreak stage!

If he didn't get the antidote quickly, even if his Physical Body were ten times more formidable now, his heart would be completely corroded into a puddle of pus by this sinister poison within half an incense stick of time!

"I can't die here! I haven't enjoyed enough of the corrupt life of a major villain yet!"

Gu Lan's eyes were bloodred, and a flash of extreme frantic desire to survive flickered in the depths of his eyes.

He shoved the blood moon demon sickle into the belt at his lower back, no longer caring about his image.

"Rumble——!!!"

At this moment, because the demon sickle was pulled out, the entire underground abyss lost its suppression and began to experience a terrifying massive collapse.

On the dome, hundreds of thousands of tons of boulders and ice chunks smashed down like a dense meteor shower.

The blood-red swamp below also churned like boiling water, whipping up blood waves over a dozen zhang high in an attempt to devour everything.

"Get lost!!!"

Gu Lan let out a beast-like roar.

He squeezed out the very last shred of true yuan left in his body without reservation.

"Shadowless Demonic Trace! Turn it up to the maximum for me!"

From the soles of his feet, the Green Lotus Core Flame spewed two long tongues of fire.

Gu Lan transformed into a streak of black lightning trailing tail flames, frantically shuttling through the gaps of constantly falling boulders.

A falling boulder the size of a house smashed toward the top of his head.

Gu Lan didn't dodge at all, nor did he have time to dodge.

He abruptly swung his fist, carrying the violent demonic Qi of the ten-pattern purple extreme golden core, and punched upward!

"Bang!"

The boulder was forcefully blown into fragments filling the sky, and taking advantage of the recoil, Gu Lan's speed surged once again, wildly speeding toward the narrow passage he had come from.

Pain!

So fucking painful!

Every bit the toxins in his heart spread, Gu Lan felt a huge chunk of his vitality drain away.

His vision was already beginning to double, his ears were filled with buzzing tinnitus, and he was holding on purely by a fierce urge to survive.

Inside the passage, those sharp bone spurs protruded out once again.

Gu Lan saved even the strength to crush them and directly slammed through them with his formidable Physical Body.

"Crack! Crack!"

The bone spurs carved bone-deep bloodstains on his shoulders and arms, but he didn't even furrow his brow.

"Faster! Faster!"

Ahead, a trace of faint light finally appeared.

That was the exit of the passage, the wind and snow of the Far North Ice Field!

"Break!"

Gu Lan crashed headfirst through the last piece of hard ice blocking the exit.

"Bang——!!!"

Ice and snow flew everywhere across the sky.

Gu Lan, like a broken kite with a snapped string, flew straight out of the glacial crevasse and smashed heavily onto the hard dark ice ground.

The huge momentum caused him to slide over a dozen zhang along the ice surface, dragging a glaring blood-red trace across the white snowfield, and finally crashing into a thick ice pillar before barely stopping.

"Cough… Cough-cough-cough…"

Gu Lan curled up beneath the ice pillar, violently vomiting purple-black toxic blood in large mouthfuls, his body twitching uncontrollably.

The howling wind of the Far North Ice Field, sufficient to freeze true yuan, mixed with cold snowflakes, scraped across his blood-stained face.

But he could no longer feel the cold now; the twisting pain coming from his heart, akin to ten thousand ants devouring his heart, had deprived him of all his senses.

"Your current wretched, stray-dog appearance is actually a bit more miserable than what this seat expected."

A lazy, cold voice imbued with endless aloof majesty pierced through the howling wind and snow, falling lightly beside Gu Lan's ears.

Gu Lan laboriously raised his heavy eyelids, his vision passing through the blurry bloodstains.

Dozens of zhang away ahead.

Ye Hongzhuang was still sitting gracefully upon that luxurious purple-gold throne, draped in that black snow fox cloak.

She propped her chin with one hand, her deep, slender phoenix eyes looking down condescendingly at Gu Lan sprawled on the ice surface, with not the slightest worry or pity in her gaze, only a scrutiny like appraising goods.

"Not dying down below, you can be considered lucky."

Ye Hongzhuang's red lips parted slightly, her tone as flat as calm water without a ripple.

"Where is the thing this seat wants?"

"Old… Old Hag…"

Gu Lan bit down on his teeth stained black by toxic blood, forcefully mustering a shred of strength as he swayed and climbed up from the ice surface.

He tightly covered his left chest, his complexion having turned into a horrifying cyan-purple, and the black poisonous veins on his neck wriggled like living creatures.

"The scrap metal you wanted… I… brought it back for you!"

Gu Lan reached back and pulled out the blood moon demon sickle tucked at his lower back.

Exhausting the very last shred of strength in his whole body, he hurled it fiercely toward Ye Hongzhuang's direction!

"Whoosh!"

The blood moon demon sickle transformed into a dark red afterimage, instantly expanding back to its original huge and ferocious appearance in mid-air, with scarlet iron chains dancing wildly on the blade, carrying a terrifying killing demonic might as it struck straight at Ye Hongzhuang's face.

It seemed quite unwilling to submit to the woman ahead and even wanted to backlash!

Facing this ancient demonic weapon with towering vicious might.

Ye Hongzhuang didn't even raise an eyelid.

She merely slowly extended a jade hand wearing black hollow-out gloves and gently clenched it across the air.

"Boom!"

A vast, abyss-like extremely Yin Origin demonic Qi belonging to a Soul Transformation Stage powerhouse erupted from her palm, instantly transforming into an invisible towering giant hand that tightly grabbed the rampaging blood moon demon sickle in mid-air!

"In front of this seat, it is not yet your turn, a brainless weapon, to act wild."

"Click, click, click…"

The demon sickle emitted a teeth-aching metallic mournful cry, and the dancing iron chains on the blade were forcefully suppressed, obediently winding back onto the bone hilt.

With just a single move, this once peerless vicious weapon was completely suppressed, turning into an ordinary short sickle that steadily landed in Ye Hongzhuang's palm.

Ye Hongzhuang grasped the rough bone hilt of the blood moon demon sickle, feeling the vast, ancient, and pure killing demonic intent emanating from within.

In those ancient-well-calm phoenix eyes, a burst of unhideable ecstasy and fanaticism finally erupted.

"Good! Very good! It truly is the real blood moon demon sickle!"

Ye Hongzhuang couldn't help but burst into laughter, her laughter exuding a peerless hegemony as if ruling the world.

"With this ancient demonic weapon, the last puzzle piece of this seat's Heavenly Demon Nine Tribulations can be completely filled! Those old immortals of the Qingyun Sect can just wait to tremble beneath this seat's feet!"

She was completely immersed in the joy of acquiring peerless power, not even noticing that deep within the very core of the demon sickle, a seed of the Red Lotus Karmic Fire that Gu Lan had quietly injected earlier was hidden.

"An… Antidote…"

Gu Lan could no longer hold on, his legs went soft, and he heavily dropped to his knees on the ice surface.

His vision had completely darkened, panting heavily with ragged breaths, his voice as hoarse as a worn-out bellows.

"The thing… is obtained…"

"Quickly give the antidote… to me!"

Ye Hongzhuang stopped laughing.

She put away the blood moon demon sickle, her gaze slowly moving downward, looking at Gu Lan who was twitching in pain and wishing he were dead on the ice surface.

She didn't immediately take out the antidote.

Instead, she slowly stood up from the throne, stepped with elegant strides, walked across the Void Realm, and approached Gu Lan step by step.

Standing high above, like a deity looking down on ants.

"You did very well, little undercover agent."

There was a trace of unmasked appreciation in Ye Hongzhuang's voice.

"With the cultivation of a Half-step Golden Core, being able to walk out of the Abyss of Buried Demons alive, and even pull out this blood moon demon sickle for this seat. Your value is even higher than this seat expected."

"However…"

Her words took a turn, and her tone suddenly became as cold as the wind and snow of the Far North.

"You just said you wanted the antidote?"

Ye Hongzhuang suddenly bent down, extended slender fingers, grabbed Gu Lan's chin covered in poisonous veins, and forced him to raise his head to look straight at her.

A desire for conquest bordering on perversion flashed in her eyes.

"If you want the antidote, sure."

"Beg this seat."