Chapter 19 The Blood-Red Eyes

Everyone looked back in terror, only to see a huge shadow covering them from the night sky, with a world-destroying aura that turned their faces ashen with fright, all hope extinguished.

At the same time, as the thousand-meter-long blood-colored giant sword slashed towards the river surface.

The river surface around Fang Yue and the others visibly rippled densely, then bubbles emerged frantically as if the water were boiling.

It was as if this sword, even before it approached, had evaporated the cold river water…

No! That’s not it!

Fang Yue’s eyes widened.

Because he discovered that as the river surface boiled and bubbles emerged frantically, the enormous shadow overhead was shrinking rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye!

The thousand-meter blood-colored sword had already dissolved by more than half before even approaching the Cold River!

Like a broken sword that had been melted, only the last half remained, crashing heavily onto the river surface.

*Splash*—

After an earth-shattering explosion that almost pierced the eardrums,

The area from the pier to the river surface nearly five hundred meters away—where the broken sword covered—the river water split in two! Revealing the uneven riverbed rocks and land!

In an instant, the river water surged, the waves turbulent.

The entire river surface rose and fell, surging violently.

And this surging wave propelled the large ship, which had not been affected by the broken sword, towards the depths of the Cold River, and with the increasing speed, the ship quickly sailed away.

Standing at the stern of the ship, Fang Yue stared intently at the situation behind him.

He didn’t know what this sword represented, but he remembered that when the black-robed man saw the result of this sword, his face revealed surprise, astonishment, and finally, extreme ecstasy, as if even he himself had not expected this sword to achieve such an effect!

“Hahahaha! Hahahaha! So the gap between me and that natural chasm isn’t that big after all!”

Glancing at the fleeing ship, the black-robed man raised his sword again almost without thinking.

The second blood-colored long sword condensed in the air once more, piercing straight into the clouds.

The black-robed man mentally calculated the distance.

With this sword, combined with the 500-meter vacuum zone unaffected by the Cold River from before, it would be enough to strike the gradually receding ship!

“Yes, this sword will take his life!”

The place where his previous sword had struck, the surging Cold River water was isolated as if encountering a barrier, forming a vacuum zone.

Looking at the bizarre spectacle in front of him, the black-robed man was beside himself with excitement, with an expression of excitement that was inexplicable, as if challenging the highest existence, and he swung his sword down.

*Crack!*

The moment this sword was swung down from the air, the sword he was wielding snapped in two on the spot.

The blood-colored giant sword overhead also dissipated into the air.

The black-robed man was stunned for a moment, and as if sensing something, he suddenly looked down.

A red line appeared strangely on his chest.

Before he could react, blood spurted out frantically from the red line, and his upper body gradually separated from his lower body.

The black-robed man’s eyes widened, and in fright, he hurriedly took out a rusty iron nail and inserted it directly into his forehead.

As blood spurted from his forehead, his body seemed to be frozen in place, and the separated body was forcibly stilled at that moment.

The black-robed man gasped for breath, trembling all over, and looked forward in horror, still shaken.

He saw that the area that had been cleaved into a vacuum zone, the river water crashed through some kind of restriction, filling in, and even stirred up a towering wave thousands of meters high, slamming into the Cold River pier, completely engulfing the black-robed man.

With a jolt, the black-robed man was so frightened that he collapsed to the ground, turning around and scrambling away, but he was still completely submerged by the Cold River water, as if he had taken a river bath in the river water. When the wave receded, the black-robed man was soaked from head to toe, curled up, hugging his knees, and lying on the ground of the Cold River pier, shivering.

And around him, on the ground of the Cold River pier, small blood-colored eyes slowly opened from the wet wooden planks!

Countless, densely packed blood-colored small eyes, centered on the black-robed man, emerged like blooming flowers!

In an instant, every location, every detail of the Cold River pier, as far as the eye could see, was filled with densely packed blood-colored small eyes, and all the eyes pointed towards the black-robed man’s location.

*Tear!*

The red line on his chest, which had been frozen, suddenly spurted out blood again.

The rusty iron nail on his forehead disintegrated like particles, turning into dust and dissipating.

The black-robed man was stiff with fright, his face filled with horror and despair, his eyes glazed over, and he murmured to himself.

“Transcendent-level… The gap between me and this natural chasm is still so huge…”

As soon as the words fell, with a *boom*, his entire body exploded, turning into a sky full of blood, falling down.

Along with the death of the black-robed man, the eyes on the Cold River pier slowly closed and disappeared.

But not long after… At a certain distance from the Cold River pier, in the snowy forest in the direction the black-robed man had come from, a blood-colored small eye slowly emerged on an old snow-white tree and opened its eyes.

And the same situation also occurred on other large trees in the snowy forest.

Blood-colored eyes… were spreading outwards! Spreading away like a virus!

*Thump, thump, thump!*

When the black-robed man’s subordinates rushed to the Cold River pier, they only saw a pool of blood on the ground, as well as a broken knife proving his identity, and a black handkerchief of unknown origin.

“Lord Qi, Lord Taozi, he…”

“Shut up!”

Lord Qi repeatedly touched the patterns on his sword sheath with his fingertips, looking at the blood on the ground, his expression complex. Finally, his gaze slowly lifted, looking at the unfathomable and boundless mysterious Cold River.

“Use the magic box to send the things back to the master, don’t ask any more questions.”

“…Yes!”

“Also, everyone retreat immediately, eliminate all traces, the mission has failed.”

“Yes!”

Lord Qi made a decisive judgment, appearing calm and steady.

But the shock in his heart was no less than that of the other team members.

Because the dead Lord Taozi was the legendary… Rain-level expert!

Rain-level… that was Rain-level! Such a strong person actually died in this kind of place… This was a situation that had never been imagined before!

Cold River… Transcendent-level weirdness…

Why would he think so negatively, why would he challenge that thing, that natural chasm, how could it be touched casually! It was simply courting death!

But after Lord Qi stared at the Cold River for a long time, a strange thought emerged in his mind.

How much of a gap is there really… between me and that natural chasm?

Should I… try to probe it once?

“Lord Qi? Lord Qi! Lord Qi!”

His body swayed, and Lord Qi suddenly came back to his senses, as if awakened from a nightmare, taking several deep breaths, his body covered in cold sweat, making the subordinates next to him look confused.

They… didn’t seem to have received any weird influence from the Cold River…

Lord Qi immediately understood that this was a bewitchment aimed at the strong!

But soon, a needle-like pain flashed through his mind, and fragments flashed quickly through his mind, squeezing out the previous thoughts, forgetting everything.