Supreme Emptiness

Chapter 2292: Chapter 2339: Hunting Down the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis

There was not a single shred of hesitation. Jiang Fan raised his axe and slashed hard at the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis! In that instant, the time-freezing power of heaven and earth was cleaved apart.

The Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis’s pupils shrank drastically. His fist, which had been blasting toward Jiang Fan, subconsciously shifted to protect his face.

SLASH!

The ancient armor on the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis’s arm, which had protected him for ten thousand years, was like tofu before the battle axe—silently cleaved apart. His arm was severed in response. The peerlessly sharp axe blade then easily sliced open the Metal Mask on his face, which had hidden his true appearance.

A crack silently appeared on the mask, and traces of blood seeped out from it. Then, half of the mask fell off, revealing half of a rotting face! His skin was blackened and covered in festering sores; his flesh had withered away until only a layer of skin wrapped tightly around his skull. A blood-red eye emitted a spine-chilling bloody light.

This was the peerless fiend who had intimidated the heavens for ten thousand years.

Jiang Fan remained incomparably cold. The axe blade in his hand continued to slide down, cleaving toward his opponent’s chest. The black armor on the Marquis’s body was entirely sliced open in response. There was not the slightest hindrance!

For the first time in his life, the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis’s eyes erupted with terror. At this moment, he felt death. An unprecedented threat of death!

"Get lost!" he shouted at the juncture of life and death.

From within his severed arm, the pale Thunder God’s Blood completely gushed out, transforming into world-destroying power that blasted toward Jiang Fan at close range.

However, the battle axe seemed to sense it. The chains wrapped around its handle flew out, circling Jiang Fan’s body. As the Thunder God’s Blood spilled over, it was completely blocked. Jiang Fan’s battle axe met no resistance, cleaving the armor open from top to bottom!

At the same time, a slight popping sound rang out. Shockingly, the Space Storage Device hidden in the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis’s chest was crushed and exploded along with it. Countless items in his collection were destroyed in an instant, though a few that feared no destruction survived.

"No!" the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis let out a furious roar. Over half of his life’s accumulation had been destroyed! But he had no time to gather them, nor even the time to get angry.

He grabbed a tongue-shaped Magic Artifact. That was precisely the World Artifact he had used to announce his hunt for Jiang Fan to the heavens! However, just as he grabbed it, Jiang Fan’s axe slashed over.

"AAH!"

Amidst spurting blood, the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis’s other arm was also severed. He finally understood: Jiang Fan wasn’t incapable of killing him. Rather, he wanted to torture him to death! Otherwise, he could have killed him the moment he split his mask!

Filled with shock and anger, the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis used Instantaneous Movement to escape Central Earth. Looking at the White Bone Warhorse not far away, he used Instantaneous Movement once again, intending to mount it. As long as this Eighth-grade Heavenly Pill was around, he was immortal and indestructible! No one could kill him! Once Jiang Fan exhausted the Heavenly Dao’s blessing, it would be his doomsday!

But he mounted nothing but air!

He focused his gaze. It was actually that phoenix, which was also an Eighth-grade Heavenly Pill! Its claws had hooked the White Bone Warhorse and dragged it away!

"Vile beast!" the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis roared in fury. He never expected that the Source Soul Heaven Pill, which had been chased everywhere by the Tongyuan Realm Master, would actually snatch the White Bone Warhorse away!

He wanted to give chase, but the phoenix had already dragged the White Bone Warhorse away without a trace. Meanwhile, an icy voice erupted from Central Earth behind him, making him feel as if he had plunged into an ice cave.

"Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis, it’s my turn to hunt you down!"

Jiang Fan used Instantaneous Movement to reach the back of the paper crane. With a tap of his toes, the Law of the Ancestral Dao merged into the crane. He immediately established a connection with it, able to manipulate it as he pleased.

SWOOSH!

The paper crane flapped its wings, soaring ninety thousand miles and rushing beyond the sky. Before leaving, Jiang Fan didn’t even turn his head as he reached backward and grabbed. That long-tongued World Artifact fell into his palm!

In the next instant, he chased beyond the sky, but the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis had long since fled, leaving behind only some armor fragments and residual blood in the Void.

Expressionless, Jiang Fan took out a golden Seal. Within the Seal, there was a blood-red character. It was shockingly the blood character brand that the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis had engraved on his forehead back then. Relying on this brand, the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis had hunted Jiang Fan to the ends of the earth.

Now, he was going to let the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis taste the flavor of the blood character brand!

Clenching his fingers, Jiang Fan crushed the golden Seal. He imprinted the blood character brand back onto his forehead. As a Sage of Attainment, he now possessed the strength to track by sensing blood!

The next moment, he sensed an incomparably massive aura that matched the blood character brand. That direction was due east of Central Earth. At the end of this direction lay one of the Four Great Realms: the Sin Realm!

"Trying to return to your lair?" Jiang Fan said coldly. "You won’t make it back!"

He turned the paper crane around and sped toward the east.

In a faraway land.

The Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis endured severe pain as he fled. In his terrifying blood-red eyes, emotions like humiliation, anger, and hatred mingled into boundless brutality.

"Jiang Fan! If I do not avenge this, this Marquis shall never be reincarnated for all eternity!"

As long as he returned to the Sin Realm and recovered his peak strength, he could hunt Jiang Fan down again! Next time, he would not give Jiang Fan any chances.

However, the blood in his body suddenly boiled. This familiar sensation made his expression change. This was his bloodline’s reaction when sensing the blood character brand, a feeling he was long accustomed to.

But at this time and in this place, only one prey bore the blood character brand.

That was... Jiang Fan!

"He’s using the blood character to hunt me?" the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis’s voice trembled. His method of marking enemies had unexpectedly become Jiang Fan’s sharp weapon to track him!

A hint of panic flashed across his eyes. He knew all too well the terror of the blood character brand. Unless the enemy died, it was almost impossible to escape its sensing. He didn’t understand why things had turned out like this!

When he had first planted the blood character brand on Jiang Fan, the boy was merely a little cultivator at the Golden Core Stage, not even having reached the Nascent Soul Realm. Such a lowly ant, whom he wouldn’t even spare a second glance, had actually leapt to become a Sage! And was now hunting him down!

A thread of regret appeared in his heart for the first time. Why did he have to provoke a youth bearing heaven-defying Cause and Effect just for a dispensable Ancient Token?

Gritting his teeth, he shouted in humiliation, "This Marquis will not die at the hands of an ant!"

He shook his severed arms, and a massive amount of blood drifted out, coagulating into a pair of wings. His speed suddenly soared, unexpectedly matching that of the paper crane! Having fought his way through the ages, he had no shortage of life-saving methods.

SWOOSH, SWOOSH!

Not long after he resumed his flight, he ran head-on into several people. They were astonishingly the Nanqian experts who had tracked him all the way from Nanqian! Among them was the Bone Struggle Sage.

Having failed twice to kill Jiang Fan and seize his treasures, the Sage had already given up. But the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis’s hunt for Jiang Fan had rekindled his greed. He had just gathered a group of the Nanqian Alliance to come and see if they could pick up a bargain.

He never expected to run into the peerless fierce god, the Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis!

The Bone Struggle Sage’s heart pounded wildly, and he did not dare to move recklessly.

The Chaotic Ancient Blood Marquis glanced sideways at them. His blood-red eyes shifted, and he said coldly, "Block the person behind me, and this Marquis will grant you a promise to kill someone. Anyone below a Saint will do!"