Chapter 462: Demonic Core Refinement, Battle Emperor Unification

A crimson trail marked Nino Yiegler's desperate flight. Every breath sent a searing pain through his shattered ribs, and the gaping wound on his back, a parting gift from the Heng Tian Sword Sect's Sect Master, pulsed with a venomous energy that sought to corrode his life force. He pushed onward, his vision blurring, until he stumbled into a deep, secluded valley shrouded in a perpetual mist. Jagged cliffs, like the teeth of some colossal beast, walled off the valley from the outside world....