However, no matter what he said, Zhao Hong ignored him, as if she could not hear at all.
Yet, Zhao Hong did not kill the Nine Stars Heavenly Mountain Sect Leader.
Instead, she used her oppressive aura to forcibly drag the Nine Stars Heavenly Mountain Sect Leader, who had already fled some distance, back to Chu Feng’s side.
Then, Zhao Hong unexpectedly released the oppressive restraint on the Nine Stars Heavenly Mountain Sect Leader.
This situation left the Nine Stars Heavenly Mountain Sect Leader somewhat bewildered.
Even after the oppressive aura was lifted, he dared not make any rash moves.
It was not until Zhao Hong spoke that he finally understood her intentions.
“Remove the poison from their bodies,” Zhao Hong said in a cold voice.
“If I remove this poison, will you spare my life?” the Nine Stars Heavenly Mountain Sect Leader asked.
He was not negotiating terms.
His voice trembled as he spoke, and his tone was extremely submissive.
He was fully aware of the situation, so he was pleading, begging Zhao Hong to spare his life.
“If you do not comply, you will die now,” Zhao Hong declared, and her oppressive aura enveloped the Nine Stars Heavenly Mountain Sect Leader once more, this time carrying a lethal intent.
“I’ll do it, I’ll do it,” the Nine Stars Heavenly Mountain Sect Leader, already terrified, dared not say more. With trembling hands, he retrieved a special ceramic jar from his Qiankun bag.
The jar was covered in talismanic inscriptions. He placed it on Chu Feng’s wound, then activated a technique. The jar’s inscriptions glowed, and the Nine Stars Corpse-Devouring Insects within Chu Feng’s body crawled out and into the jar.
Using the same method, the Nine Stars Heavenly Mountain Sect Leader also extracted the Nine Stars Corpse-Devouring Insects from the bodies of the Secret Cave Group Saints.
Once the insects were removed, Chu Feng and the Secret Cave Group Saints no longer writhed in agony as they had before.
“Please, spare my life,” the Nine Stars Heavenly Mountain Sect Leader pleaded, kneeling before Zhao Hong.
“I, Nine Stars Heavenly Mountain, will follow your lead in all things.”
“I am willing to serve you like a beast of burden.”
As the leader of a sect, the most powerful figure in a star domain, he had cast aside all dignity.
He only wanted to survive, willing to sacrifice everything, even if it meant becoming a laughingstock.
Yet, despite the Nine Stars Heavenly Mountain Sect Leader abandoning all pride and grovelling before Zhao Hong, her gaze remained cold.
Especially when her eyes swept over Chu Feng, seeing his weakened, near-death state, not only did her coldness intensify, but a murderous intent surfaced.
“You should thank me,” Zhao Hong suddenly said to the Nine Stars Heavenly Mountain Sect Leader.
“What?” he responded, momentarily confused.
“At least, I’ll let you die quickly,” Zhao Hong stated.
“You!” The Nine Stars Heavenly Mountain Sect Leader’s face changed drastically.
He finally understood her meaning. From the start, Zhao Hong had no intention of sparing him.
Realising his fate was sealed, he opened his mouth, about to unleash a torrent of curses.
But with a bang, before he could speak, he turned into a spray of blood, just like the Wind Thunder Sword Sect Leader, dying in an explosion of his body.
In the blink of an eye, two star domain overlords had perished at Zhao Hong’s hands.
Yet, after consecutively killing the Nine Stars Heavenly Mountain Sect Leader and the Wind Thunder Sword Sect Leader, Zhao Hong showed no intention of stopping. She turned her gaze to the All Heavens Sect Leader.
“For you, I will show no mercy,” Zhao Hong declared.
“You vile woman, you’ll meet a wretched end,” the All Heavens Sect Leader spat.
“Your family, everyone in your Reincarnation Sect, died because of you.”
“The Reincarnation Pearl was a legendary item, known only in tales within your Reincarnation Sect, never seen in reality.”
“But the day you were born, not only did the heavens show strange omens, you came into the world with the Reincarnation Pearl.”
“From the day you were born, from the moment you appeared with the Reincarnation Pearl, it was destined that your Reincarnation Sect and the Pearl could not coexist.”
“You are a harbinger of doom. You caused the Reincarnation Sect’s destruction. You ruined the Reincarnation Sect. You killed your family and everyone in the sect.”
The All Heavens Sect Leader, knowing his death was certain, did not beg like the Nine Stars Heavenly Mountain Sect Leader. Instead, he cursed Zhao Hong viciously, his words cutting deep into her heart.
Yet Zhao Hong showed no anger at his words. Her expression remained largely unchanged.
“Liu Shuo, do you remember this?” Zhao Hong suddenly flicked her wrist, and an object flew from her sleeve into the air.
The object was dozens of metres long, resembling an octopus but not quite. An octopus has only eight tentacles, but this creature had over a hundred.
Its body was blood-red, and each tentacle was lined with sharp fangs.
The creature’s appearance was utterly grotesque, its tentacles and body writhing constantly. The sight of it sent chills through onlookers, filling them with unease.
“You… you…” the All Heavens Sect Leader stammered, his face filled with terror, his voice altered by fear.
“You vile woman, you’ll meet a wretched end.”
Others might not recognise the creature, but he did.
He had even been the one to introduce Zhao Hong to it.
He had given her this very creature.
It was called the Blood-Sucking Soul-Refining Beast.
It could drain a person’s blood and refine their soul.
At its core, it was merely a man-eating monster.
But its unique poison caused unimaginable pain during the process, said to be the most unbearable torment in the world.
Long ago, when the All Heavens Sect Leader and Zhao Hong were together, they had made solemn vows.
Zhao Hong had asked what would happen if Liu Shuo betrayed her.
In response, he had presented this creature to her, telling her that if he ever betrayed her, she could use the Blood-Sucking Soul-Refining Beast to torment him to death.
Back then, the All Heavens Sect Leader had gone to great lengths to obtain this creature, merely to gain Zhao Hong’s trust. He never imagined he would actually face its wrath.
Especially now, after so many years, he could not have foreseen that Zhao Hong still kept the Blood-Sucking Soul-Refining Beast.
“Liu Shuo, pay the price for your sins,” Zhao Hong said, pointing at the All Heavens Sect Leader.
With a screeching sound, the Blood-Sucking Soul-Refining Beast, which had been coiled in the air, seemed to awaken. It let out a strange cry and lunged towards the All Heavens Sect Leader.
Soon, its tentacles enveloped him, covering every inch of his body, writhing rapidly.
The All Heavens Sect Leader was no longer visible, but torrents of blood poured from his body like rain.
At the same time, his heart-wrenching screams echoed through the heavens.
Those screams were far more agonised than those of Chu Feng and the Secret Cave Group Saints combined.
Just hearing them caused others to wince in pain, finding it unbearable.
Yet the members of the All Heavens Sect had no time to concern themselves with their leader’s plight.
For at that moment, every elder and disciple of the All Heavens Sect felt a chilling, bone-piercing murderous intent.
“A blood debt must be repaid with blood. That is justice,” Zhao Hong’s icy voice rang out.
