Starting as a Grandmaster, all of my cultivation techniques are at max level.

Xia Jin looked at the blood-red chains wrapped around her body and a hint of interest flashed in her eyes.

"Um?"

"You've got some skills."

The void beneath his feet was suddenly torn open, pulling him directly toward the mouth of the cauldron!

In the blink of an eye, Xia Jin's figure was swallowed into the cauldron. Immediately, the mouth of the Heaven-Suppressing Blood Cauldron made a loud "thud," and a layer of dark golden light membrane flowed on its surface, completely sealing off the exit.

Lan Tianzun stood atop the giant cauldron, bit his two fingers, and used his blood to carve a talisman in the void.

The surface of the Heaven-Suppressing Blood Cauldron seemed to be boiling, constantly bubbling.

"Refine!"

He uttered a single word in a deep voice, and instantly a monstrous wave of blood surged within the cauldron!

Xia Jin felt a sudden darkness before her eyes, and then she was plunged into a thick, almost congealed pool of blood.

The blood from all directions was incredibly viscous, trying to completely dissolve and assimilate him.

The seven-colored light within three zhang around him resisted the erosion of the blood, but the blood continued to gnaw at the edges of the light like a tireless swarm of ants, gradually compressing the three-zhang area inward.

"Hmm!? It seems you really want to refine me!? However, I will not allow it. Can you do it?"

Xia Jin frowned, sneered, and threw a punch forward!

A seven-colored fist force tore through the blood in front, creating a bottomless vacuum passage.

But the passage only lasted for less than a breath before the surrounding blood surged up again, instantly filling and engulfing the vacuum passage.

Xia Jin's gaze darkened slightly.

"There is some skill involved. If I were to be locked in this cauldron for a year or two, even with my strength, I wouldn't be able to withstand such endless refining. It seems I should break the restrictions here as soon as possible and get out of here."

There wasn't much worry on his face.

After all, back then, after he obtained the Nine-Life Primordial Vine, he received the "Opening Heaven" move as a reward from the system.

This is his strongest trump card.

He didn't know who could stop this move.

Xia Jin slowly closed her eyes, her hands hanging naturally at her sides.

In an instant, his aura became extremely restrained, and all the seven-colored divine light emanating from his body was drawn back into his body, as if he had given up all resistance.

But at the very instant the seven-colored divine light completely disappeared, his body bent slightly, like a bowstring stretched to its limit.

All the power in his body converged wildly into his hands!

Between his hands, a giant axe was slowly taking shape!

The giant axe was simple and unadorned, without a trace of light, but it was precisely this extreme simplicity that exuded a terrifying pressure that could make heaven and earth bow down and all things tremble.

It's as if from the moment this axe was born, its mission was to cleave everything and cut down all things!

Xia Jin opened his eyes, his purple hair fluttering in the blood waves inside the cauldron without wind, and his pupils were filled with only a blank, chaotic color.

"Open—the heavens!"

He swung the giant axe in his hand with a sudden burst of speed!

There are no fancy trajectories, no complicated moves, just a simple horizontal axe slash!

But this very axe strike, the instant it was swung, unleashed a dazzling light that could eclipse the entire star field!

Along the path the axe blade slashed, the blood evaporated instantly, revealing a bottomless, chaotic rift! The surrounding blood was frantically annihilated.

The crack continued forward.

"Snap!!"

A crisp sound rang out from outside the cauldron.

A perfectly smooth crack appeared on the body of the Heaven-Suppressing Blood Cauldron, running from top to bottom.

Lan Tianzun stood atop the cauldron, his smile still lingering, when he suddenly froze upon seeing the crack.

"What?! What on earth happened?!"

Before he could finish speaking, the entire Heaven-Suppressing Blood Cauldron was split in two right before his eyes!

The blood plasma accumulated inside the cauldron poured down like a burst dam, engulfing all the surrounding dead stars.

Xia Jin's figure emerged from the splattering blood, step by step, walking through the void.

In his right hand, the giant axe was slowly dissipating, turning into specks of starlight and merging back into his body.

His face paled slightly, clearly indicating that while the "Heaven-Opening" strike was incredibly powerful, it had also taken a toll on him. With just one axe strike, he had already exhausted nearly one-fifth of his strength.

Xia Jin stood in the void, looking at Lan Tianzun, whose face was ashen, and slowly smiled.

"Lord Lan! What's wrong? Are you so surprised to see me come out from inside?"

"I never expected that your broken cauldron, which looked so intimidating, couldn't even withstand a single axe blow from me."

"You!!" Lan Tianzun's face was so gloomy it was almost dripping with water.

That Heaven-Suppressing Blood Cauldron was his strongest secret technique. In the past, once his opponents were taken into the cauldron, none of them ever came out alive.

However, at this moment, his most powerful move was actually cleaved in two by Xia Jin's axe, and he was also subjected to a backlash.

A trickle of dark red blood slowly oozed from the corner of his mouth, which he then wiped away imperceptibly with his hand.

Xia Jin's keen eyes caught the movement, and the smile in her eyes deepened.

"You're out of tricks, aren't you?"

"They kept claiming the Blood Sea Domain was immortal and that the Heaven-Suppressing Blood Cauldron could suppress everything, and this is all they got?"

"Since that's the case... then it's my turn next. I hope you can last a while and let me have my fill!!"

As she spoke, Xia Jin opened her arms, palms facing up.

Two orbs of light flew out from his hands at the same time, one to the left and one to the right, swirling and intertwining in the void.

Hetu!

Luoshu!

The moment the two treasures merged into one in the void, a blinding light instantly swept across the entire star field.

Lan Tianzun's expression changed drastically in an instant.

"What kind of treasure is this!?"

Before he could finish speaking, a vast ray of light descended from above, enveloping him entirely.

The next second, Lan Tianzun's figure disappeared.

Xia Jin stood with her hands behind her back, looking at the scene of the Hetu Luoshu in front of her, and couldn't help but shake her head.

"You just invited me to sit in your blood cauldron."

"As the saying goes, 'it is only natural to reciprocate,' so I now invite you to enter my Hetu and Luoshu and have a good seat."