The situation suddenly escalated, swords drawn and bows taut!

Gu Changsheng, protected by the crowd, was still gathering the red Blood Qi around her, strands like red threads enveloping her entirely...

"Listen up, everyone here, if anyone dares to touch her today, I will ensure a bloodbath upon the Hidden World Clan, and I will not rest until every last member of your families is wiped out!" With the longsword pointing ahead, Zhou Mu seemed like the War God manifesting in the world, standing firm against all.

The elders of the Hidden World Clan, who were ready to act, heard this, and a look of hesitation appeared on their old faces...

However, as they deliberated whether to continue the reckless pursuit of extinguishing Gu Changsheng’s potential ascent to the Transformative Realm, or to submit under the coercion of the War God of Great Zhou, Crown Prince Mu, a sudden explosion erupted from the center of the arena where the red figure, cocooned in Blood Qi, was located...

"Boom!"

The Blood Qi, reminiscent of a pressure capable of destroying everything, was so overwhelming that no one dared to look at it directly!

"Heavens!"

The onlookers below the arena burst into a chorus of astonished exclamations.

By now, even those lacking discernment could vaguely sense that Southern Emperor Changsheng... she had chosen to make her breakthrough at this time and place!

The breakthrough of Southern Emperor Changsheng!

Southern Emperor Changsheng was someone who had always lingered at the edge of limits, and her Mirror Breaking was aimed for the Conquest Realm! 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

The Conquest Realm, becoming a Master of the Primordial Transformative Realm, was the lifelong pursuit of countless martial artists, wasn’t it?

Yet how many people toil to the point of gray hair, unable to catch a glimpse of that realm!

And this Southern Emperor Changsheng, how old was she?

In her twenties?

At an age of youthful brilliance, for many, it would just be the beginning of their proper martial journey, yet she was already at the limits, attempting to break through the bottleneck of the Transformative Realm at this moment!

When wind and cloud transform into dragon!

Conquering the Transformative Realm is akin to seizing the creation of the heavens and extricating oneself from earthly bounds, allowing the soul to linger despite death, a form of eternal life!

For all present, it was a deadly temptation!

And now, they had the fortune to witness with their own eyes how one would conquer the Transformative Realm!

And at this moment, under the stunned gaze of the crowd, the red Blood Qi surrounding Gu Changsheng dispersed in an overwhelming rush, dissipating into the air around her, like shattered stars slowly falling, until completely gone...

"Ah!"

A thundering roar erupted from Gu Changsheng’s mouth once more, so loud it made the ears of all present ring and left them unsteady on their feet!

"Yuh Zhiqian, I will make you pay with blood!" Her eyes filled with bloody tears, Gu Changsheng gazed intensely at Yuh Zhiqian, carrying an ancient hatred!

Gu Changsheng detested most, what she detested most in this life, was anyone hurting those around her!

If you have great abilities, take them against her alone; she alone would bear the consequences. But if you wish to harm her family, that is absolutely unacceptable!

Every member of the Dark Night Army was painstakingly nurtured by Gu Changsheng with all she had!

Her wholehearted dedication was exchanged for their unyielding loyalty to share life and death!

Year after year, never leaving nor forsaking, hundreds of days and nights of sharing calamity and fortune, her Dark Night Army was her last honor guard, the ones who protected her!

Now it was her turn, as their leader, to protect them!

Yuh Zhiqian had not expected that in such circumstances, while Gu Changsheng was forcing a breakthrough by mobilizing all her Blood Qi, she would still remember him...

The pain during the ascent to the Transformative Realm, that bone-gnawing agony, Yuh Zhiqian had experienced it himself, and it was vividly remembered!

Even as a man, he had nearly lost his sense of self in such pain, yet Gu Changsheng, a woman, could distinctly remember every detail through the pain akin to having one’s bones ground to dust...

This made Yuh Zhiqian feel a tinge of fear!

This woman’s conviction was too strong!

So strong that it could surpass the shackles of her physical limitations, not disturbed by the agony her body suffered—what strength of conviction did this woman have?

Yuh Zhiqian himself couldn’t imagine!

But he knew clearly, what Gu Changsheng achieved, he never had!

Indeed, good fortune never comes without hard work in this world; ascending to immortality in broad daylight exists only in fantasy!