This time, Blood Nether didn’t lose her composure. On the contrary, as she pictured the fate she envisioned for Konrad, she couldn’t help but smirk.

  "I know that in your hands, the stability of the opponent’s heart is a formidable tool. Therefore, I’ve been preparing against your venomous tongue. Try as you might, you won’t achieve anything."

  Blood Nether replied. Alas, the words merely pulled a snicker from Konrad’s lips.

  "Very well, show me what you got."

  As the words left his lips, Konrad lowered his sword to give Blood Nether full access to his body. Seeing him bare his openings for her to exploit, it would be a lie to say Blood Nether didn’t feel incensed. However, believing this to be another one of his ploys, she kept her cool, adopted her battle-stance, and freed her mind of all unnecessary thoughts.

  With her focus reaching the acme, blood-red flames burst from her form alongside the swirling tendrils of red light. Putting her weight on her left, Blood Nether stomped her foot and hurtled at Konrad!

  To the onlooker, even those hiding Primordial Gods, that move was akin to teleportation. But in Konrad’s eyes, it couldn’t be slower. Landing at Konrad’s right, Blood Nether swung her greatsword at his neck, drawing a blood flame arc as her blade gashed the very fabric of space.

  Still, Konrad didn’t budge. But as the blade neared his neck, it just kept moving forward, never reaching its target despite the infinitely small distance separating them! Instantly, Blood Nether’s eyes widened in disbelief!

  "Profound Infiniteness Insight……"

  She realized in a stupor and attempted to pull back her blade. Alas, the same process worked in reverse and no matter how fast she was, her move just kept extending! But as she wrestled with that infinite loop, the space between Konrad and her compressed into a singular point that gathered all the energy and matter in the surroundings before spitting it out!

  A white hole opened, generating a dazzling blast that hit Blood Nether point blank, sending her hurtle in the sky before cratering on the ground!

  *Puh*

  As her armored back crashed on the ground, she spurted blood!

  "The conceit of ancient rulers is indeed astounding. Do you think I need my sword for you? Blood Nether, you are nothing more than a dish I out to consume. Painstakingly flavored to my taste due to your innate deficiencies.

  If not for your high cultivation, do you think I would waste that much time on you? Delusional flea, know your place."

  Konrad scoffed with his head tilted against the flat of his sword. And for a second, silence reigned in the tribunes. To say nothing of those Primordial Gods, even Night found the scene hard to process.

  "There is more to it than Profound Infiniteness. With that alone, he can’t possibly overpower Blood Nether. Did his cultivation already reach Primordial level?"

  Night couldn’t help but wonder. But as Blood Nether rose from the debris, revealing a wholly unharmed form, his attention shifted toward her. Immortal Blood Spirits possessed a vitality that rivaled that of Chthonian Devils. All their wounds instantly restored, not even needing a breath of time.

  At Blood Nether’s level, depending on bloodline strength alone, even if split into ten-thousand pieces, she could instantly remold herself. Better, her soul was sheltered by Regretless’ Supreme Will. Even for Konrad, harming her was no mean feat. Moreover, she still had that tool!

  Without a word, Blood Nether stretched out her hand, causing a translucent, an emerald and a black gate to appear at her back. Her three Transcendent Gates! The gates opened, causing similarly colored rivers to unfurl, permeating the atmosphere as they surrounded Konrad.

  "Dragon Warden, I must admit that in this life, you’ve outpaced all my expectations. However, if you think victory already lays in your hands, you’re the delusional one."

  Blood Nether declared and raised her left hand, causing black chains to appear around her wrist and shoot toward Konrad! By the time the three rivers trapped him in a maelstrom, coated in blood mist, the chains were cleaving their way toward him! From those chains, Konrad could feel an unprecedented force that left the Primordial level far behind. An all-dominating energy able to bend all deities to its whims: A Supreme Will!

  "A False Supreme Artifact."

  Konrad realized as the chains blended with the three rivers to entrap him. From Blood Nether’s memories, he knew that for the sake of restraining the God Executing Immortal sword, Regretless used his High Supreme Will to create a suppressing artifact. Because on the one hand, Night assisted him in the refining with his Nothingness Insight, while on the other hand, he was his most trusted official, Regretless granted him the artifact.

  In preparation for this battle, Night lent it to Blood Nether. Never did he expect that before Konrad put the sword to use, Blood Nether would have to unleash the artifact!

  Only an Almighty Supreme could possibly refine a Supreme Artifact. Even a High Supreme such as Regretless didn’t have the qualifications. Therefore, the chains didn’t have True Supremacy. Still, with those chains in hand, Blood Nether had the qualifications to trade blows with a Supreme!

  Yet, even as the chains morphed into a blood cage, Konrad remained unfazed.

  This time, he clutched his sword, shifting it in an oblique stance as he shut his eyes close.

  In that instant, man and sword became one, beating on the same tune as the noose formed by the Transcendental Maelstrom and Blood Nether’s False Supreme Chains tightened around Konrad.

  Black mist surged from his body, dancing like tendrils of darkness as his feet sank in the ground, and the God Executing Immortal Sword screeched against the waves.

  "God Executing Immortal Art, First Form: Omnidimensional Slash."

  Konrad whispered, and whirled as he raised his sword in a horizontal slash. There was no dazzling sword light, no fantastical phenomenon, only the sound of a sword hacking through all corners of space, through all angles, through all things!

  *SLASH*

  With that one slash, the maelstrom was minced into drizzle that noiselessly tumbled onto the ground. The blood cage collapsed, the chains snapped, tumbling alongside the drizzle before an awestruck Blood Nether.

  *CRACK*

  A single sound, and Blood Nether’s Primordial Armor, the Immortal Blood Race’s heirloom, split in infinitely small particles, becoming red metallic dust that crumbled onto the ground. But if in another location, the exposition of her nakedness would have driven Blood Nether mad with rage, this time she didn’t have the luxury.

  *THUD*

  Though outwardly unharmed, Blood Nether dropped on her knees, her eyes wide open, and fresh blood unceasingly trickling down her orifices.

  "What a……splendid sword."

  Blood Nether stammered as she felt her bones and internal organs shredded to pieces without any means of recovery. Her eyes glazed, and she collapsed on the floor!

  With a casual hand wave, Konrad took her into his Infinite Void Space.

  One move.

  It only took one move!