Chapter 132: Blood Refining Lotus
The blood clouds that loomed above Chilong Mansion obscured the stars and the moon, casting a crimson hue over the sky for hundreds of miles. The air carried an unpleasant, mysterious scent of blood.
Cultivators leisurely strolling on the streets of Chilong Mansion, though unaware of the significance of the blood clouds, instinctively took the same action upon seeing them — fleeing for their lives.
In an instant, numerous flying swords, radiating spiritual light, ascended from Chilong Mansion, resembling a burst of colorful fireworks in the sky, scattering in all directions to escape. However, among them were four flying swords that not only chose not to flee but headed in the opposite direction, racing towards Chilong Mansion.
On these four flying swords were one tall and three short figures, two males and two females. They were all dressed in dark blue night clothes, wearing bamboo hats, with their hands, necks, and faces wrapped in bandages, giving them an ominous appearance.
Feng Yudie, using her fingers, slightly lifted her bamboo hat, gazing at the cultivators flying towards them. She raised an eyebrow and inquired, “Young Master Ye, these offerings are nearly finished. What is Li Feng performing a blood sacrifice for?”
“They can’t escape,” replied Ye Anping, the leader, nonchalantly.
As he spoke, twenty-seven purple pillars of light suddenly ascended around Chilong Mountain. The purple light converged at the zenith, forming a hemispherical purple light cover that enveloped an area of fifty miles around Chilong Mansion.
Many cultivators attempting to flee, their flying swords unable to stop, collided with the barrier and plummeted from the sky into the woods below.
Feng Yudie shrank her neck, taking a sharp breath.
“Hiss—”
Upon hearing this, Ye Anping sighed softly and explained, “Li Feng activated the protective mountain formation in reverse. Originally, one could only exit but not enter. Now, it’s the opposite. These Foundation Building and Qi Refining stage cultivators can’t possibly break through the spiritual barrier.”
Liang Zhu, at the end of the group, furrowed his brows and asked, “So, we have no way out?”
Ye Anping looked back at him and smiled, “Brother Liang, the four of us share the same fate now. Forget about running away and focus on finding a way to deal with Wu Chengzhou.”
Liang Zhu rolled his eyes, not believing Ye Anping. He was confident that this guy had a backup plan for escaping.
After hesitating momentarily, Liang Zhu added thoughtfully, “Lao Liu, promise me.”
“Lao Liu, please go ahead.”
“Afterwards, take Ahting back to the Hundred Lotus Sect.”
“No,” replied Ye Anping, looking back at him. “If you want to take her back, do it yourself. I don’t enjoy taking care of that little troublemaker.”
“…”
“I won’t do things without assurance,” Ye Anping pressed down his bamboo hat, gazing at the distant mountain-protecting formation, and sighed, “This formation was set up by Danyue Shangxian herself for Li Feng.”
“Huh?” Feng Yudie was puzzled, blinked twice, and asked, “So, does that mean Xiao Yunluo’s mother is an accomplice? Is she connected to the demon cultivators?”
“When you meet her, you won’t say that.”
“Why?”
In the game, the first time you see Si Xuanji, you run up to her and tease her ears and hair, and then she beats you all over your body…
Ye Anping sighed softly and did not answer Feng Yudie’s question. When he saw that he had arrived at the gate of Chilong Mansion, he led the three men down with their swords. The guards of Chilong Mansion had permission to leave their posts. About a dozen guards in armor stood at the city gate, guAhtingg the gate here. The leading guard looked at the clothes of Ye Anping and the four others, frowned, raised his hand, and ordered, “Surround!!”
Crash–
The sound of iron boots hitting the ground was very oppressive. More than a dozen Chilong Mansion guards ran up and surrounded the four people in the center, raising the tips of their guns and pointing them at them. Ye Anping immediately made a sword finger and prepared to take out the jade talisman that Li Longling had given to Feng Yudie.
However, at this time, suddenly, there was a flash of blood in the sky, and the attention of several palace guards was attracted, and they looked up to the sky. The originally irregular-shaped blood-colored cloud gradually shrank and condensed, and within a few breaths, it turned into a vast red lotus.
Sigh–
With a sound like a giant breathing, the lotus petals gradually tightened and then suddenly opened. A large amount of red pollen spurted out from the center of the flower and then turned into red snowflakes falling bit by bit. The guards surrounding Ye Anping were a little confused, watching the red snowfall but one of them took the initiative to reach out his hand to catch the snowflakes to see what happened.
Feng Yudie warned loudly, but as soon as she said the words, two guards from Chilong Mansion stabbed her with spears. Ye Anping took Li Longling’s jade talisman and raised his hand to show it to one of the guards, who looked the oldest.
Seeing the jade pendant in his hand, the man looked certain and immediately ordered, “Receive!!!”
The spears that stabbed Feng Yudie stopped instantly and then moved back. The leading guard immediately raised his hands and bowed to Ye Anping, “What are your orders, Young Master Li?”
“All the guards in the mansion are ordered to wear body wraps and are not allowed to expose their skin, let alone touch this red snowflake. If they touch-”
“Ah–!!”
A scream from behind interrupted Ye Anping’s words.
Ye Anping didn’t hesitate at all. Almost simultaneously as the screams came out, he summoned his spirit sword and walked up to the palace guard who made the screams.
Swish——
The silver moon flashed over the man’s left arm, and the palm separated. Ye Anping immediately took the spiritual sword in his hand, pierced the man’s palm in mid-air, and then nailed it to the masonry floor at his feet, exploding a ball of blood and mud.
Everyone was surprised when they saw this explanation, but they saw that the palm pinned to the ground by Ye Anping seemed to be struggling, and the five fingers began to twist like vine whips.
Ye Anping took out a fire talisman, threw it into the palm of his hand and ignited it, then turned his head and looked back at the old guard, and said, “Presiding over the order in the palace, informing the cultivators of all sects in the city that if you want to survive, close the doors and windows and hide indoors.”
His pupils shrank, but he soon came to his senses and immediately shouted an order, “Yes!! Everyone listens to the order and returns to the tower to change clothes. No exposed skin is allowed, and no touching of snow!”
The rest of the palace guards hesitated for a while, but they immediately raised their voices and agreed, then supported the palace guard whose left hand was broken by Ye Anping just now, and quickly returned to the tower.
Ye Anping pulled out the spiritual sword, shook off the blood, and returned it to its sheath.
“Senior Sister Feng, Brother Liang. The time limit is for the red lotus in the sky to erupt five times. Just now was the first time. We will lose if we fail to break the blood sacrifice formation before the fifth eruption.”
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