Chapter 164: Elder Seven

The instant the words fell, he, from afar, gently extended a hand toward Ye Wuque's direction.

The hand was gaunt, pallid, as if it bore no trace of blood.

But the moment it extended, an indescribable murderous terror, like a cosmic cold front, instantly crossed the endless Star Domain and pinpointed Ye Wuque, who had just withdrawn the Yin-Yang Supreme Arrow!

Ye Wuque's hair stood on end in an instant!

An unprecedented sense of mortal danger poured over him like icy water, chilling him from head to toe!

He felt as if a prehistoric Honghuang beast had marked him, and the surrounding Space was utterly frozen and solidified, leaving no place to hide or evade!

"Immortal-level existence?! Or... an even more terrifying existence?!"

Ye Wuque's mind and spirit were violently shaken, and he instantly realized that a horror beyond imagination, disregarding rank, had personally struck at him!

The power contained in that palm was certainly enough to easily erase him along with this stretch of starry sky!

He almost instinctively tried to invoke the Void‑Piercing Sigil obtained from a Mysterious Being within the Primordial Sun Ring, the only way to survive at present!

However, before that distant terrifying palm force could truly descend, and before Ye Wuque could activate the sigil—

"Hmph!"

A faint, cold snort, as if coming from Above the Nine Heavens, yet resonating deep within everyone's heart!

In front of Ye Wuque, the Void a short distance away was silently lifted like a curtain, and a figure stepped out.

It was a middle‑aged man clad in a flaming robe, with long crimson hair, carrying a wine gourd on his back, whose every breath seemed to swallow ten thousand miles like a tiger!

His terrifying aura rippled across the ten directions of the universe, giving an unfathomable pressure as if confronting an endless sea of stars.

His sudden, unannounced appearance happened to stand between the distant terrifying palm force and Ye Wuque.

Without any movement, the terrifying palm force that could have erased Ye Wuque, upon reaching within three zhang of him, vanished silently like a mud ox sinking into the sea, leaving no ripple.

The blood‑robed man, far beyond countless Star Domains, sensed his intended decisive strike being casually deflected, and was about to rage, but when he peered through the endless Space and saw the flaming‑robed man's face, his anger instantly turned into boundless horror and fear!

"Se—Se Elder!!"

He cried out hoarsely, his voice altered, filled with disbelief and utmost reverence, and even across the endless Void, he instinctively bowed and saluted:

"I have seen... Elder Seven!"

However, the middle‑aged man called Elder Seven didn't even glance toward the blood‑robed man's direction; he simply raised his right hand casually, pressed lightly downward on the void.

"No... Elder Seven, spare me!!"

The blood‑robed man let out a desperate wail.

But it was already too late.

Across the endless Star Domains, the void layer where the blood‑robed man stood, together with his body, seemed seized by an invisible giant hand, and then... with a pop, like a crushed insect, instantly turned into a cloud of Blood Mist, Soul Annihilation, a death beyond death!

After casually snapping the blood‑robed middle‑aged man dead, Elder Seven's expression remained as calm as water, as if he had merely brushed away a speck of dust.

His gaze seemed to pierce through layers of void, landing on Ye Wuque in the distant starry sky, who, bewildered by the sudden disappearance of the murderous intent, looked somewhat incredulous.

Only at this moment did a faint ripple appear on his previously placid, well‑like face.

It was a long‑suppressed excitement, awe, exhilaration, and a deep sense of anticipation and satisfaction finally breaking through!

His lips moved slightly, murmuring in a voice only he could hear:

"Good! Good! Good! Wonderful!"

"Such achievement... such combat power... such temperament..."

"Zheng Ruo... if you were to see all this, see your bloodline's descendant so outstanding, you would... be very pleased, wouldn't you..."