Above the Blood and Bone Altar, fog rolled, and the air still lingered with the breath of blood flames. The broken chains were like silent corpses, scattered around, staining the stone surface of the altar, and also staining the heavy and rapid breathing of Ethan and Su Yue.
"Ye Yu is dead..." Su Yue murmured, the blood blade in her hand was slowly dissolving, turning into starlight, sinking into the "Master Oath Seal" in her palm that was still burning and beating.
She won the shock and silence in this battle.
But she couldn't feel truly relaxed.
"We made too much noise." Ethan looked at the end of the corridor vigilantly, his voice low, "Not only Ye Yu knows that you have awakened the Oath Seal. Just now, I felt someone was... spying."
"I sensed it too." Su Yue nodded, her eyes as cold as a knife.
The power of the blood oath was slowly awakening in her body. It was no longer the turbulent wild power, but like a sleeping ancient god, slowly opening one eye.
"We must leave here immediately." Ethan took a deep breath, "before other executors arrive."
"Where to go?"
Ethan was silent for a moment, and whispered a name:
"Red Star Plateau."
Southwest of the Blood Bone Pass, a rift spanned the sky and the earth, as if split from the sky by a giant axe. Thick red mist continued to rise from the bottom of the rift, like a nightmare that refused to dissipate.
Red Star Plateau, located on the edge of the Old Oath Ruins, was the "first battlefield" of the Blood Moon War three thousand years ago.
According to legend, this land buried the remains of the first generation of the oath master - and also buried a truth that should never be awakened.
"Are you sure... you want to bring me to this kind of place?" Su Yue looked at the rift under her feet, feeling uneasy in her heart.
"If we want to know the source of the blood oath seal in your body, we must find the 'Seat of Remnants'." Ethan looked into the distance, "It was once the altar core of the Lord's Hall, and it is said that it can 'trace back the origin of the blood oath'."
Su Yue nodded, tightened her cloak, and followed Ethan to slowly step into the edge of the Red Star Plateau.
There was a strange sense of oppression in the air, the smell of blood and fire mixed with decay, war and death, and one step out was like crossing a forgotten history of war.
They walked for a whole day and night until the first glimmer of dawn illuminated the sky.
Just as the sun jumped out of the edge of the plateau, a low beast roar came from underground.
The ground shook, and in the rift valley, red light leaped, and a huge black monster slowly crawled out, three feet tall, covered with cracks and chains, and a blood-red bone wing grew on its back!
"Spirit beast!" Ethan's face changed drastically, "This is the guardian of the cemetery of the Lord of the Oath!"
Su Yue drew out the short blade, but before she could charge, the blood oath mark on her palm was as hot as a red-hot iron.
The giant beast's eyes were slightly startled when it looked at her, lowered its head, and slowly knelt down.
Ethan was shocked: "It... surrendered?"
Su Yue's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and she whispered: "It... is responding to my mark."
At that moment, she seemed to have become the real master of this blood domain.
But she was not happy at all, instead, there was an inexplicable cold feeling, running up her spine straight to the top of her soul.
"Ethan." She called softly.
"Hmm?"
"I...seem to have seen its memory."
Su Yue's eyes were blurred, and in the depths of her mind, a strange and majestic voice was slowly ringing:
"My life fire...was taken away by the traitor."
"The swear master has fallen...you are the last container."
"The red star will fall, and all blood will return to its source."
Instantly, a broken dream appeared in front of Su Yue's eyes:
Under the blood moon, a red-haired woman stood alone in a pile of corpses, wearing a torn oath robe, with a sad but stubborn look. She reached out and picked up a red star core and pressed it into the chest of a baby.
"May you forget my pain in the future and rebuild your oath."
The picture stopped abruptly, and Su Yue suddenly woke up, with cold sweat on her forehead.
She looked around and found that she was still standing on the Red Star Plateau, and Ethan beside her was nervously supporting her.
"You fainted for less than thirty seconds." Ethan frowned, "but your breath changed."
"I saw an ancient memory." Su Yue calmed down and narrated what she had just seen.
Ethan was silent for a long time, and finally said: "If you are really the 'vessel' of the swear master... then what you carry in your body is not just the blood oath mark, but - her life fire."
"Life fire?"
"The core origin of the swear master's soul." Ethan's eyes were complicated, "Theoretically it was extinguished three thousand years ago, but if she made preparations for reincarnation..."
He didn't finish, Su Yue understood.
"I may... not be me."
She smiled bitterly, but there was no softness, but her eyes became more determined.
Just as the two stepped into the depths of the Red Star, above the Blood Bone Pass on the other side, there was a floating platform.
The black-robed man who secretly spied on them slowly walked into a red light gate, and a pair of blood wings with wings lost appeared behind him.
He knelt on one knee and whispered to the void:
"She has awakened, and the main source mark is activated."
"Do you need me to do it now?"
In the void, a majestic and ruthless voice echoed:
"No. Let her complete the fusion."
"Wait until she becomes 'her', and then we will take everything away."
The blood gate closed, and the entire Red Star Sky seemed to sink a layer deeper.