#33 - Killing Red Lotus

After the second defeat of the Heavenly Soldiers, the suppressed killing intent was completely loosened and began to intensify.

With his entire mind focused on fighting the killing intent, the surging killing intent within Qin Bu Yi began to fight back fiercely under his full suppression.

Waves of killing intent impacted Qin Bu Yi's mind, and just as his mind was about to lose control.

The intensity of the constantly fighting back killing intent no longer continued to strengthen. The mind and killing intent fought each other evenly, and Qin Bu Yi dared not relax even a little.

The consequences would be unimaginable with even a slight relaxation.

About an hour passed, and the killing intent had not diminished at all. Qin Bu Yi's eyes were already covered in blood.

His brain was working frantically. Staying in place to fight the killing intent was not the best choice. Instead of wasting time here to no avail, it would be better to continue moving forward.

He glanced at the location where the Heavenly Soldiers' bodies were separated. The Heavenly Soldiers' bodies disappeared again.

Holding the Killing Blade, he walked forward again. When he reached the end of the passage, Qin Bu Yi was prepared to encounter the Heavenly Soldiers again.

But unexpectedly, the Heavenly Soldiers did not appear.

He passed the end of the passage safely, and three roads leading to different palaces appeared before Qin Bu Yi.

The road on the left had been destroyed, the road on the right was sealed off not far away, and only the middle road could be taken.

Qin Bu Yi did not hesitate at all and went to the middle road, without any surprises or dangers along the way.

The lack of danger made Qin Bu Yi even more vigilant. The previous two levels had already seriously injured him, and now he was also facing the danger of the killing intent in his heart losing control at any time.

Qin Bu Yi did not believe that the Awakening Secret Realm could be passed so easily.

At the end of the road, a grand hall appeared within Qin Bu Yi's field of vision.

The plaque on the grand hall read: Lingxiao Palace.

"This is actually the legendary Lingxiao Palace!" Qin Bu Yi was shocked.

The door of the Lingxiao Palace was open. Qin Bu Yi looked inside from the outside, and there was nothing inside.

It was an empty treasure hall. Qin Bu Yi stepped inside.

After entering the Lingxiao Palace, a feeling of stepping into another space floated in Qin Bu Yi's heart.

The scene in front of him changed. The Lingxiao Palace, which looked empty from the outside.

Was now filled with futons. Judging from the number of futons, they should be prepared for the Heavenly Court's various immortals to attend court.

According to their different positions, the futons were arranged from front to back.

The end of the futons was where Qin Bu Yi was standing. Looking up along the futons.

A chair carved with five-clawed golden dragons was at the top of the hall. What Qin Bu Yi never expected was that a woman in red was sitting on the chair with her eyes slightly closed.

It was more accurate to say that the red clothes were condensed from blood and killing intent.

The woman suddenly opened her eyes and looked at Qin Bu Yi, who was on alert below. A trace of killing intent flashed in her eyes, but her tone was like chatting with an old friend, saying, "You've come."

The woman in front of him behaved as if she had known him for a long time. Qin Bu Yi thought for a long time and said cautiously, "Who are you?"

The woman saw Qin Bu Yi's cautious appearance and was too lazy to pretend. Her tone changed and she said, "Me? We've known each other for so long, and you still don't know who I am. You deserve to die."

"I..." Qin Bu Yi had not finished speaking.

The woman instantly came to him, gently patted Qin Bu Yi's heart with her right hand, and said with a seemingly puzzled and curious expression, "Why suppress such beautiful killing intent? Let me help you release it."

A killing intent came from the woman's palm and went straight into Qin Bu Yi's heart. With internal and external cooperation, the killing intent that Qin Bu Yi had been suppressing with all his strength could no longer be controlled.

It erupted completely like a flood breaking a dam.

"Ah!" Qin Bu Yi roared.

After the killing intent erupted, it constantly impacted his sanity. The woman nodded when she saw Qin Bu Yi shrouded in killing intent, and hooked her finger like a scallion towards the Killing Blade.

The Killing Blade flew into her hand out of thin air.

"Clang!"

The woman drew out the Killing Blade, and her jade finger like a scallion stroked the blade.

She said to Qin Bu Yi, who was fighting against the killing intent with all his strength, in an icy tone, "My name is: Killing Red Lotus. If you want me to become your sharp blade, survive first."

Qin Bu Yi felt as if he was in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. Everything in front of him was blood-colored.

In a daze, he heard the words Red Lotus said. Qin Bu Yi immediately knew who she was. It was the Killing Blade that had been with him all along.

The killing intent rushed out of Qin Bu Yi's body, forming a layer of clothes like fresh blood on the outside.

Upon closer inspection, there was no difference from the red clothes worn by Red Lotus, except that the blood color was slightly lighter.

After the killing intent broke out of his body, Qin Bu Yi's body was like a cooked shrimp, red all over.

His body felt like it was being bitten by thousands of ants, and waves of pain came from his brain.

Qin Bu Yi gritted his teeth and persevered, but the killing intent was stronger than the last, and soon only a trace of reason remained.

Sleepiness spread throughout his body, and a voice in his heart seemed to be bewitching him, "Sleep, sink, give up this meaningless confrontation."

"Cannot...cannot sink."

Qin Bu Yi said in a firm and low voice, "I will not give up, I will not!"

"I...I still have Divine Sense!"

Qin Bu Yi did not want to use Divine Sense unless it was absolutely necessary. The consequences of Divine Sense being contaminated by killing intent were unpredictable.

But in the current situation, if he did not use Divine Sense to suppress it, it would only be a matter of time before he was eroded by the killing intent if he relied solely on his mind to resist.

The Divine Sense in his brain rushed towards the killing intent like a waterfall.

The Divine Sense fought against the killing intent in his body evenly, like a tug-of-war.

The severe pain in his body escalated again at this time. Qin Bu Yi gritted his teeth and gasped for breath.

As time passed, the Divine Sense gradually gained the upper hand, forcing the killing intent to one place.

Just as Qin Bu Yi was preparing to completely drive the killing intent out of his body...

Red Lotus came to Qin Bu Yi again, and a killing intent even more powerful than before was transmitted to Qin Bu Yi's body along Red Lotus's palm.

Qin Bu Yi opened his blood-red eyes and looked at Red Lotus. Red Lotus, filled with coldness and killing intent, whispered in Qin Bu Yi's ear, "I will not become your sharp blade. The reason is simple, I look down on you."

"Haha." Qin Bu Yi laughed.

"What are you laughing at? Are you happy knowing that you are going to die?" Red Lotus looked at Qin Bu Yi in confusion.

Qin Bu Yi did not speak. The situation in his body at this time was completely opposite to before. The killing intent had already forced the Divine Sense to one place.

"Since there is no choice, then take a gamble," Qin Bu Yi said in his heart.

He gave up the defense of his Divine Sense and fully absorbed the killing intent in front of him.

Killing intent is essentially a type of intent, and one of the methods to improve Divine Sense is to absorb intent.

However, killing intent is a particularly dangerous type of intent. From ancient times to the present, people who have done this have either died or gone mad.

So no one would do this.

Red Lotus saw Qin Bu Yi absorbing killing intent and said sarcastically, "You are taking shortcuts even when you are dying. Do you think you are not dying fast enough?"

"Shut up, noisy!" Qin Bu Yi shouted at Red Lotus.

Red Lotus narrowed her eyes when she heard this, her face as cold as an iceberg. She looked at Qin Bu Yi and said:

"Boy, if it weren't for the restrictions of this damn rule, you would already be dead for saying that."

Qin Bu Yi looked at Red Lotus mockingly: "You never intended for me to live from the beginning. If you could kill me, why would you say these nonsense?"

"Hmph, courting death!"

Red Lotus held the Killing Blade and slashed towards Qin Bu Yi's head.

Just as the Killing Blade slashed at Qin Bu Yi, a hair-thin purple thunder appeared in the sky.

"Crack!"

The purple thunder struck Red Lotus.

Red Lotus was struck to the ground, and her aura suddenly began to become chaotic.

After a long time, Red Lotus stood up. Her eyes, filled with killing intent, looked at the sky and shouted:

"Hmph, there are only a few guys who can use Purple Firmament Divine Thunder. Judging from your aura, you are not one of them. Do you dare to come out and let me see who you are?"

After a long time, there was no movement in the sky.

Red Lotus continued with a look of disdain: "Timid and afraid, a thing that doesn't dare to show its head."

"Rumble!"

A thunderous sound rang in the sky, and a purple thunder as thick as a finger struck down towards Red Lotus again.

"Crack!"

Red Lotus was struck to the ground and did not move for a long time.

Qin Bu Yi looked at the hair-thin purple thunder at the beginning, and now the finger-thick one that was many times larger.

He couldn't help but feel gloating in his heart: "The system is really ruthless!"

Just as Qin Bu Yi was thinking about whether Red Lotus had been struck to death, Red Lotus stood up staggeringly.

This time she learned to be good and decisively shut her mouth and stopped looking at the sky.

Qin Bu Yi ridiculed when he saw this: "Come and kill me, do it. So you are just a bully who is afraid of the strong."

"Hmph!"

Red Lotus snorted coldly, turned her head and stopped looking at Qin Bu Yi.

It wasn't that she was afraid as Qin Bu Yi said, but she didn't want to be struck by the Purple Firmament Divine Thunder for the sake of verbal advantage when she couldn't kill Qin Bu Yi.

At this time, the Divine Sense in Qin Bu Yi's body had absorbed most of the killing intent. The golden Divine Sense now had a trace of blood red in it.

After absorbing all the killing intent in his body, half of the Divine Sense was golden and half was red.

Madness, bloodlust, coldness, slaughter and other thoughts were transmitted to Qin Bu Yi's brain.

If it was Qin Bu Yi and the killing intent fighting each other before, after completely absorbing the killing intent, it became Qin Bu Yi fighting himself.

Killing intent had become Qin Bu Yi's instinct in his subconscious. This instinct was imperceptible and taken for granted.

It was like a person who never killed suddenly felt that killing was justified one day. This non-killer would become an executioner from then on.

Qin Bu Yi sat cross-legged on the ground, trying to recall his previous memories to fight against this killing intent that had become an instinct.

A month passed...

In this month, Qin Bu Yi was like a person who had lost his mind. Half of the time his eyes were clear, and the other half of the time his eyes were blood red and he exuded a terrifying murderous aura.

"Kill! Kill everything, kill all obstacles." Qin Bu Yi, who was trapped in killing intent, roared with blood-red eyes.

"Steady your mind, don't fall into killing, don't lose yourself." Qin Bu Yi murmured in a clear state.

Red Lotus watched Qin Bu Yi fall into clarity and chaos for a month, but he still hadn't given up and hadn't been assimilated.

An idea that even she thought was very unrealistic could not help but emerge in her heart.

"Could it be that he can really succeed?"