1 Under Youyue's cold sneer, the strike landed on Ye Chen but failed to cause even a ripple, immediately nullified by the protective divine flame of the Divine Set armor. Youyue paused, then her gaze sharpened on Ye Chen's equipment.

At that sight, her face drastically changed. "Damn it, his set is likely a High-Tier Demigod set.

It should be completely immune to attacks from initial-stage Demigod experts!" Nantian's expression soured. "Then we can't kill him?" "No wonder he's so arrogant; he's relying on this Demigod set.

I don't know where he got it; I didn't see him use it last time." Youyue's expression was grim, a chilling light gleaming in her eyes. "This wretch, does he think he can do whatever he wants just because he has this armor?" "What do we do?" "Run!" Youyue decided instantly, a frenzy flashing in her eyes.

"If we can't have it, he shouldn't keep it either! Quickly spread the word about him!

I want to see how long he can hold out against the siege from the 'Genius Hall' back at the sect!" A Ghost God level expert can utilize a secret technique that doubles their power output. If a Pseudo-God realm expert were to use it, how many times would it multiply?

The preciousness of such a secret technique needed no explanation. The two ground their teeth in hatred, never expecting Ye Chen to possess a High-Tier Demigod armor set, allowing him to ignore the both of them.

Even in their enhanced states, merely approaching Ye Chen caused them to be seared by the intense divine fire emanating from the High-Tier Demigod armor. Therefore, the only option was to retreat first!

"Trying to leave?" Cruelty flashed in Ye Chen's eyes. He suddenly raised a hand and tapped, allowing one percent of the Divine Blood Power, hidden near the core of his heart, to slowly separate.

It condensed at his fingertip, forming a thread of brilliant golden divine light! With the help of Little White Rabbit, he had refined an additional 3.5% of his Divine Blood.

Ye Chen now possessed complete freedom to control and utilize this 3.5% of Divine Blood Power for attacks! Whoosh!

A flick of his finger sent the thread of golden divine light shooting out, like an eternal radiance piercing all dimensions, traveling from distant spacetime ruins to catch up with Youyue and Nan Tian, who had already fled far away. Pfft!

Pfft! The golden light flashed briefly, piercing through Youyue’s chest from behind, then instantly curving to pass through Nan Tian’s body from the front before fluttering back to merge inside Ye Chen, protecting his vital heart meridian.

"What!" "I..." Youyue and Nan Tian’s eyes widened in utter disbelief. As the divine blood power pierced them, it simultaneously drained all the divine power within their bodies, leaving them empty as their life force drained away madly.

They never dreamed in their wildest nightmares that they would perish at the hands of an ant in the Ghost God realm! However, they didn't have time for further thought.

Their eyes dimmed, and the spots where the Divine Blood Power had pierced their chests suddenly exploded, blowing out bloody craters as their life force completely vanished. Their corpses continued forward due to inertia for a moment before tumbling down, rolling over a dozen times before finally stopping, motionless, a massive rupture marring the area where their hearts lay.

Ye Chen took a single step, arriving before the two corpses, casting a cold glance down. He opened a bracelet, and a gentle radiance enveloped the two bodies, drawing wisps of white, special light-substance out from within them.

"Worthy of the Divine Blood Power. Even this small amount is enough to instantly kill any Demigod realm expert!" Sharp light flickered in Ye Chen's eyes.

Last time, when he tried to use the Divine Blood Power to expel the virus from Bai Yijun's body, he had accidentally burned her. He knew then just how terrifying this power was.

"I wonder if this 3.5% of Divine Blood Power can contend against a Pseudo-God realm expert? A Pseudo-God is nowhere near comparable to a Demigod." Ye Chen pondered internally, then shook his head.

He wouldn't easily attempt anything he wasn't absolutely certain about. After the special light-substance was refined, Youyue and Nan Tian’s bodies immediately shriveled, their flesh rotting and emitting a foul stench.

Ye Chen reached out and stripped off the Demigod sets from their bodies. These two had cultivated for many years inside the inner sect of the Scarlet Annihilation Gate; both possessed initial-stage Demigod sets, and some of the accessory parts were even Mid-Tier Demigod grade!

Looking at the corpses, a thought struck Ye Chen. He extended his consciousness, enveloping their surroundings, and immediately sensed two illusory ripples.

He infiltrated his consciousness into them and saw two space pockets, each ten zhang in diameter, gray-white in color, within which floated a stone, pitch-black all over and carved with obscure runes. Boundary Sealing Stones!

Ye Chen’s eyes lit up, and he quickly imprinted his consciousness onto them. Upon the deaths of Youyue and Nan Tian, the brainwaves previously attached to the stones dissipated automatically.

The foreign brainwave he introduced was immediately attracted like a magnet, storing itself in the core to undergo recognition. If someone possessed a brainwave stronger than Ye Chen's, they could directly erase his imprint using their own brainwave to claim ownership.

Once recognition was complete, these two spatial folding bags felt like a pair of arms that he could command at will. Ye Chen didn't immediately inspect the loot.

He shifted his figure, leaving the continent shard and arriving at a safe navigation zone where he saw his starship waiting. He immediately flew aboard.

"Return to the city," Ye Chen commanded as soon as he entered the ship. Whoosh!

The Ghost God-grade starship streaked like a beam of light toward Azure Water City. Ye Chen settled into the comfortable sofa inside the ship and quickly permeated his consciousness into the two spatial folding bags.

He immediately discovered numerous items: weapons, talismans, miscellaneous objects, beast hides, and precious elixirs. Ye Chen began inventorying.

"Together, they have three complete Ghost God realm armor sets, all Peak grade. There are 28 scattered armor pieces!" "On these two were an Initial-Tier Demigod set, plus 6 Initial-Tier Demigod artifacts and two Mid-Tier Demigod artifacts!" "In addition, there are 38 Initial-Tier Demigod Defensive Talismans, six Mid-Tier Demigod Defensive Talismans, and 21 Initial-Tier Demigod Offensive Talismans (each capable of an Initial-Tier Demigod full-power strike); and four Mid-Tier Demigod Offensive Talismans.

Plus 35 Initial-Tier Demigod Concealment Talismans..." "Furthermore, there are 982 Demigod Stones!" Ye Chen slowly itemized his findings. "106 Initial-Tier Demigod Healing Pills, 5 Mid-Tier Demigod Healing Pills (which instantly cure injuries if taken by an Initial-Tier Demigod), 26 Initial-Tier Demigod Qi Concealment Pills, 3 Mid-Tier Demigod Qi Concealment Pills..." "Fifty-eight unknown beast hides, eight complete beast bones, and 162 scattered bones..." "One ancient, incomplete map scrap." After reviewing the items, Ye Chen clicked his tongue in admiration.

He gathered everything from the two spatial folding bags, closed the second bag, took out the Initial-Tier Boundary Sealing Stone inside, and placed it in the Rune Space. "Oh my gods, I was suffocating in there." As soon as the Rune Space opened, the old man with green runes floated out, looking at Ye Chen with an aggrieved expression.

"Why did you abandon me..." Ye Chen rolled his eyes, kicked him back inside, and shut the Rune Space. Not long after, the starship passed through the protective shield and underwent the security scan at the city's entry point, finally entering the aerial docking bay.

Ye Chen disembarked, but instead of heading back to the Scarlet Annihilation Gate, he proceeded to the city's trading post. "Sell!" "Sell all weapons and healing pills!" Led by a service attendant, Ye Chen arrived at a private transaction room.

He placed the contents of the spatial folding bags onto the virtual appraisal platform. As each item was laid down, a cursor displayed its corresponding price.

"Two Initial-Tier Demigod armor sets, Mid-Tier Demigod armor parts, and the remaining scattered Demigod artifacts—a total of 3280 Demigod Stones!" The price for a complete Initial-Tier Demigod armor set was ten times that of selling individual pieces. A full set consisted of six main components and many smaller parts; synergy between all parts increased their power, while missing even one piece reduced the effectiveness significantly.

An Initial-Tier Demigod weapon was worth about 100 Demigod Stones, making a full set over a thousand. The two Mid-Tier Demigod artifacts combined were worth roughly 500 Demigod Stones, plus the other Initial-Tier Demigod weapons, totaling just over 3000 Demigod Stones!

One Demigod Stone was equivalent to 10 Supreme Ghost Stones or over a hundred High-Grade Ghost Stones. Ye Chen then sold the unknown beast hides and bones, netting another 300-plus Demigod Stones.

Most of the bones were likely materials for refining some kind of weapon. As for the Ghost God artifacts and the various talismans, Ye Chen kept them all, planning to hand them over to Island Master Ziyun and others at Thunder Square when he had time.

He sold Youyue and Nan Tian's possessions primarily to fence the goods, avoiding potential exposure if he used them later and someone recognized them. The talismans were consumables, all similar, while the Ghost God artifacts given to Island Master Ziyun and the others wouldn't draw attention from the Scarlet Annihilation Gate.

Even if someone noticed, Ye Chen could claim Youyue and Nan Tian had "gifted" them to him—it was quite normal for a Demigod expert to casually gift Ghost God artifacts. Ye Chen calculated his current holdings: over 4500 Demigod Stones.

He paused, then decided to sell the connection imprints for the two spatial folding bags, as they were of little use to him and less spacious than his Rune Space. "2 Initial-Tier Spatial Folding Bags: 360 Demigod Stones!" Buying a spatial folding bag cost 200 Demigod Stones, but selling one only fetched ninety percent of the price.

Adding this 360 Demigod Stones brought his total to over 4900. Ye Chen casually flipped out the incomprehensible ancient map scrap and presented it to the virtual appraisal platform.

A light enveloped it, and a string of text appeared: "Two-Star Ruin Map Fragment of Queyun Cave Mansion: 12,805 Demigod Stones!" "Queyun Cave Mansion Fragment?" Ye Chen was momentarily stunned, then quickly activated the trading post's customer service system to inquire. "There are many prehistoric ruin maps in the world, categorized into five stars.

One-star maps are for the Ghost God realm, two-star for the Demigod realm, and so on..." "Queyun Cave Mansion: A dwelling ruin left behind by an Immortal (Pseudo-God realm) from the prehistoric cultivation civilization. The internal conditions are unknown.

Rumor has it there are countless Demigod artifacts, precious elixirs, Peak Demigod sets, and even ordinary Pseudo-God Ghost..." "..." "Immeasurable wealth!"