Chapter 143 : Chapter 143

Chapter 143: At a Time Like This, Being Afraid of Death Is Even More Disgraceful, Great Hero Cheng!

BOOM!

With a deafening blast, the entire Prince Qing Secret Realm was crushed under an overwhelming external force and began to tremble violently.

Cheng Zhenjiang and Xiao Teng’s eyes widened. They hurriedly withdrew their attacks, afraid that they might trigger some new abnormality.

What in the world was going on?

“Xiao Teng! What happened to this secret realm?”

Xiao Teng frowned. “I’m not sure either...”

In the next second, a harsh creaking and grinding sound rang out. The two men looked up and saw several cracks had suddenly appeared in the sky above this world within the secret realm!

How was that possible?!

The moment Xiao Teng saw his inheritance secret realm reduced to this state, his eyes turned red.

Then, in the next instant, he felt his strength continuing to drain away.

An answer immediately surfaced in his mind.

Cheng Yu did this!

That brat had been absorbing the power of the blood pool just now. He had to be the one behind this!

Xiao Teng quickly looked toward Cheng Yu.

Sure enough, the vortex around Cheng Yu was still there, frantically drawing in the Vital Blood from the blood pool.

“Cheng Yu, stealing the power of my secret realm—you are courting death!”

Cheng Yu revealed a disdainful smile. “Who is courting death?”

On the spot, he began to cultivate the method within the Demon-Slaying Dao Canon with all his might, while the power throughout his body circulated madly.

A profoundly mysterious force slowly came into being.

The “Origin” within Longevity and Origin-Replenishing!

As the qi of life’s very source, Origin Qi subdued Vital Blood into docility the moment it was born.

The Prince Qing Secret Realm was built upon Vital Blood as its fundamental power. How could it possibly withstand such a profound force?

The calm blood pool instantly turned violent again, and the entire space of the secret realm began to shudder violently.

Crack! Crack!

The sound from the shell of the secret realm rang out once more.

Dense webs of fractures spread everywhere amid the quaking of heaven and earth, making it look as though the realm might shatter and explode at any moment.

Pfft!

Xiao Teng had been relying on the power of the secret realm to sustain his injuries. This latest round of Cheng Yu’s absorption hit him hard.

He spat out another mouthful of blood.

No matter how powerful his hard-body physique was, no matter how abundant his Vital Blood, he could not withstand vomiting blood like this again and again.

He was visibly growing weaker.

Seeing that the secret realm was on the verge of collapse, Cheng Zhenjiang was deeply alarmed and asked anxiously,

“What exactly is happening? How did the Prince Qing Secret Realm end up like this?”

“Ask your son!”

Xiao Teng erupted in fury and roared sharply, “He’s about to suck the Vital Blood in this secret realm dry!”

Drain the secret realm dry?

Was that even reasonable? Was that something a martial artist should be capable of?

Cheng Zhenjiang’s heart shook violently, but he had no time to dwell on disbelief and hurriedly asked, “Isn’t this your inheritance secret realm? How can he absorb it to this extent?!”

“Your son—why are you asking me?!”

That furious roar from Xiao Teng instantly shattered Cheng Zhenjiang’s mental defenses.

He did not understand Cheng Yu at all!

As a father, he was this unfamiliar with his own son.

For more than ten years, Cheng Yu had suffered alone outside, and Cheng Zhenjiang had known nothing about him. Even after bringing him back, he still had never truly asked much.

At that thought, Cheng Zhenjiang quickly shook his head.

No—it was this unfilial son who had first committed acts of defiance and deceived his parents!

What child behaved so outrageously?

He immediately shouted at Xiao Teng, “Then what do we do now? Hurry up and seize the Vital Blood in the secret realm back!”

The secret realm was shaking harder and harder. It was becoming more and more dangerous!

“I am absorbing it! But... I can’t absorb faster than him!”

Drenched in sweat, Xiao Teng was so weak that, as he watched Cheng Yu frantically drawing in the Vital Blood, tears of humiliation actually streamed down his face.

He could not outdraw an outsider within the inheritance secret realm of his own lineage. He could only watch helplessly as Cheng Yu stripped it clean.

Even he himself had never dared absorb it so ruthlessly...

He couldn’t out-absorb him?!

Cheng Zhenjiang was shocked to the core. This man surnamed Xiao was actually telling him that he could not absorb faster than an outsider?

Yet when he looked at Xiao Teng’s devastated, grief-stricken expression, it did not seem like the man was lying.

Frowning, he turned to look at Cheng Yu.

As a late Ninth Rank martial artist of extraordinary strength, his eyesight was exceptionally sharp.

At a glance, he saw that Cheng Yu was seated at the center of the Blood Pool Grand Array—precisely at the core array eye of the entire secret realm.

And the Prince Qing Secret Realm and the Bronze Turtle Statue came from the same source. The two were closely linked.

Cheng Yu had first occupied the position within the Blood Pool Grand Array, then commanded the snake demon to seize the treasure, then accepted Cheng Yuan’s inheritance.

And now he was frantically seizing the Vital Blood.

A person capable of such vision and such planning...

Was actually the son who had disgraced him just two months ago?!

A deep sense of absurdity and regret rose in Cheng Zhenjiang’s heart.

Regardless of the reason, just how much did he truly not understand about this unfilial son?

As a father, this was utter failure.

But no matter how unsettled he felt, Cheng Zhenjiang had no time to wallow in sorrow.

The secret realm was about to explode!

Cheng Yu showed no intention of stopping. He seemed completely prepared to drag everyone down with him!

Behind the secret realm stood the power of a Grandmaster.

If it really exploded, Cheng Zhenjiang did not dare claim that he could withstand it.

No matter how much resentment he carried in his heart, at this moment he could only lower his proud head and speak in as gentle a tone as he could manage.

“Yu... Yu’er, if there is something you want to say, you can say it to your father. But you absolutely must not act recklessly now. If something truly happens, regret will come too late!”

“Your mother is still waiting for you to come home!”

As Cheng Yu frantically absorbed the Vital Blood, the pure Internal Energy within him soared.

He had already smashed through the bottleneck of the late Sixth Rank and was charging toward the consummate peak of the Middle Three Ranks.

When he heard Cheng Zhenjiang speak, and once again resort to moral coercion, Cheng Yu arched a brow.

“Oh? So Great Hero Cheng knows how to speak properly too?”

Cheng Zhenjiang’s entire body trembled. Gritting his teeth, he said, “It was because your father was too cold and too inattentive that I failed to notice you had become like this...”

“Your father... was wrong!”

He had admitted fault!

Great Hero Cheng, who had spent his entire life acting upright and standing tall, had lowered his head before his son.

But when Cheng Yu heard those words, the mockery in his eyes did not lessen in the slightest.

Men who could correct themselves so readily were rare under heaven. But even if such men did exist, Great Hero Cheng—who had personally driven his own son to death—would not be one of them!

“You were wrong? How could a noble and upright great hero ever be wrong?”

“What’s done is done. At a time like this, being afraid of death is even more disgraceful, Great Hero Cheng!”

His tone was full of contempt and humiliation.

The instant those words struck him, Cheng Zhenjiang—who had only just forced himself to lower his pride—turned hostile again.

“You unfilial son! Even after I have humbled myself to this extent, it still is not enough for you? There is not a single monstrous act of rebellion and unfiliality under heaven that you would spare!”

“At this point, what exactly do you want? Are you planning to commit patricide?!”

Patricide!

Whether in the Jianghu or the imperial court, it was universally acknowledged as the greatest of all crimes!

Cheng Yu merely raised a brow and shook his head. “What I want, you will know very soon!”

In the next instant, he completely absorbed the Vital Blood within the blood pool, draining it dry. The power of the secret realm weakened to the extreme, and Xiao Teng collapsed unconscious on the spot.

The entire secret realm shook madly. The blood pool burst apart, and a huge tear opened overhead.

Cheng Zhenjiang’s eyes widened.

It was going to explode!

BOOM!!!

On Iron Halberd Mountain, fierce winds rampaged wildly in all directions, tearing through buildings and reducing the place to something like a forbidden zone of the mortal world.

The Jinyiwei moved in perfect coordination, killing and apprehending Prince Qing’s Remnants.

The expert martial artists of Prince Qing’s line did not dare make a move, because standing before them was Jian A with his full power unleashed.

Granny Wu lay gravely wounded on the ground, while the corpses of several late Seventh Rank martial artists were strewn to one side.

A Ninth Rank swordsman—a supreme expert, and among such experts, the kind most proficient in killing!

They simply did not dare move!

But just then, a thunderous blast erupted from the depths of Iron Halberd Mountain.

BOOM!

The mountains split and the earth shook, and the entire Iron Halberd Mountain began to sway.

Countless massive rocks were blasted into the air.

At that moment, everyone forgot to keep fighting and stared over in stunned disbelief.

What had happened to the Prince Qing Secret Realm?

In the next instant, three figures were hurled out.

“Your Highness!” “Lord Cheng!”