“Tch, you damn thing, who said you could touch this blood-eater!”
Inside a grand residence, an old man in a white robe was furious. He raised his hand and slapped a White Lotus Blood Infant, sending it flying several yards away.
The Blood Infant that the old man had slapped away still had a bloody chunk of flesh clenched tightly in its teeth.
It chewed greedily on that piece of flesh, completely ignoring the injuries on its body.
However, after it had wolfed down the meat in its mouth, it didn’t dare make another move, afraid the old man would slap it again.
And in front of these cult members of the Purifying White Lotus Sect stood dozens of human martial artists.
Among them were several children, only five or six years old, huddled at the very back, their eyes full of helplessness and fear.
The middle-aged man standing at the very front, around fifty years old, was the Deputy Prefect of Flying Crane Prefecture, a martial artist at the Blood Refining Realm perfection.
“I didn’t expect these monsters to find us after all.”
Looking at the old man in white and the two Blood Infants beside him, the Deputy Prefect’s heart was filled with bitterness, his voice sounding weak and powerless.
Just as the Deputy Prefect was feeling utterly despondent, the man standing next to him, with a stern, resolute face full of determination, gritted his teeth and roared hoarsely.
“Father, let’s fight these cultists to the death.”
“How dare these scum openly slaughter the citizens of the Great Xia Dynasty.”
“The Governor will soon lead the Mingzhou army here. These cultists will die without a burial!”
………
Hearing his son say these things, the Deputy Prefect sighed inwardly, his face full of helplessness.
By the time the Governor and his forces arrived, they’d probably have died a thousand times over.
“You two can eat those useless blood-eaters in the back. I, this Elder, will handle these martial artists.”
The old man in the white robe had sinister eyes. He pointed at the children behind the Deputy Prefect.
These children, unarmed and having never trained in martial arts, had flesh full of impurities.
To the White Lotus Nightmare Flower, they had only a tiny bit of use.
As soon as the white-robed elder uttered these cruel words, the Deputy Prefect’s scalp tingled, and fear was written all over his face.
At this critical moment, the Deputy Prefect swiftly changed his stance, charged forward, and fiercely kicked away a pouncing White Lotus Blood Infant.
“Take them away quickly! I’ll hold these bastards off here!”
Before the Deputy Prefect’s voice trailed off, the white-robed elder shot forward like a black bolt of lightning, his figure passing by with eerie speed, bringing with it a chilling, sinister wind.
At the same time, the white-robed elder shouted harshly.
“Looking for death!”
This voice, full of murderous intent, sounded like the cry of a night owl, piercingly cold and stabbing straight into the Deputy Prefect’s heart.
The Deputy Prefect had no time to dodge. He took the white-robed elder’s terrifyingly swift palm strike right to his chest.
Thud!
A dull thud rang out, and the Deputy Prefect’s body flew backward like a kite with a broken string.
Blood spewed from his mouth, his face turned instantly pale as paper, and his body crashed heavily to the ground, unable to move.
Because the white-robed elder’s internal energy had already invaded the Deputy Prefect’s body, wildly tearing apart his blood and energy.
“No!”
The Deputy Prefect lay on the ground, his eyes wide with rage, but he could only stare helplessly.
He watched helplessly as a white blur streaked past overhead,
then raced into the distance, straight toward where his grandson was.
Suddenly!
A shadow, seemingly capable of blotting out the sky, pressed down with a rumble, instantly shrouding the entire mansion.
Everyone inside was startled and instinctively looked up at the sky.
There, high above, a purple, ghostly face dozens of feet wide had appeared out of nowhere.
The purple face hovered silently in the heavens, radiating a terrifying pressure, like a primordial beast looking down at ants.
The two White Lotus Blood Infants that had pounced forward were moving extremely fast.
But in the blink of an eye, who knows what happened, but their small bodies suddenly halted, instantly freezing in midair.
The next second, those two hideous, ferocious White Lotus Blood Infants let out piercing, terrified screams that echoed over the mansion.
Then, without warning, purple flames erupted on their creepy white bodies. The fire blazed fiercely, and the purple waves radiated a heart-stopping heat.
In an instant, the two Blood Infants were engulfed in roaring purple flames, twisting and struggling wildly in midair.
Under everyone’s stunned gazes, the two Blood Infants, comparable to great achievement Blood Refining Realm martial artists, were instantly devoured by the purple flames.
Before even a single breath had passed, the two Blood Infants had been burned to nothingness in midair.
The white-robed elder, though an elder of the Purifying White Lotus Sect, had never seen anything like this.
His eyes widened, his face full of fear and shock, and his voice began to tremble.
“Wh-What is this thing?!”
That face up in the sky… it looked just like the Supreme Elders at the sect’s headquarters, like an incarnation of a deity.
Before the white-robed elder could think further, a colossal force suddenly pressed down, like the sky collapsing, slamming straight onto his head.
His body sank instantly, his legs buckled uncontrollably, and his knees creaked.
“Ah!”
With this miserable, painful scream, the white-robed elder’s body exploded like an overripe watermelon, blood mist and flesh flying everywhere.
Then, the dozens of cultists behind him burst open one after another, like a lit powder keg.
For a moment, screams and explosions intermingled, and the thick smell of blood quickly filled the air.
“This…”
“Dad, a god descended from heaven to save us!”
Thump, thump, thump!
The Deputy Prefect’s family, having been rescued, were overwhelmed with the excitement of surviving a disaster.
Everyone knelt devoutly, their faces full of piety, and kowtowed vigorously to the purple face in the sky again and again. The sound of foreheads hitting the ground rose and fell.
“Such power… Could this be the legendary Divine Palace Realm True Person?”
The Deputy Prefect, being well-traveled and knowledgeable, wasn’t as dramatic. Instead, his face was full of shock as he stared fixedly at the purple face projection above.
As if he wanted to etch the outline of that purple face into his memory forever.
Not just anyone gets to witness the power of a Divine Palace Realm True Person.
Being able to see a legendary Divine Palace Realm True Person was an honor for the vast majority of martial artists in the Great Xia Dynasty.
On the main street of the city!
Three Purifying White Lotus Sect deacons, all at great achievement Blood Refining Realm, along with two White Lotus Blood Infants, had surrounded two Black Bird Guards wearing yellow Black Bird uniforms.
One of the sect deacons seemed to sense something and glanced back toward the city gate.
“Sounds like something big is happening over by the gate. Let’s take these two Black Bird Guards there quickly.”
“Luckily, you two idiots didn’t abandon those useless blood-eaters right away.”
“Otherwise, catching you annoying Black Bird Guards would have been quite a hassle!”
These two Black Bird Guards, both at the Blood Refining Realm perfection, had stayed behind to block them, unafraid of death, for the sake of those mostly useless blood-eaters.
Little did they know, this was exactly what their sect wanted.
The blood-eaters that are most effective for the White Lotus Nightmare Flowers are human martial artists who have trained in martial arts.
The stronger the martial artist’s realm, the more vibrant and full of life their flesh and blood is, able to satisfy the White Lotus Nightmare Flower’s needs extremely quickly.
Of course, those blood-eaters who haven’t trained in martial arts are much less effective, but something is better than nothing, right?
Catching these city residents was just something done on the side.
“You two, hurry up. Don’t waste any more time.”
“More than half a day has already passed since the Supreme Protector gave his deadline. If we don’t bring these two damned Black Bird Guards back soon,”
“then it’ll be our turn to sacrifice our own flesh and blood to those three White Lotus Nightmare Flowers.”
“Remember, don’t bite these two blood-eaters anymore.”
Before making a move, the sect deacon beside them specifically warned the two bloodthirsty White Lotus Blood Infants.
You two, if you’re going to fight, just fight.
Why do you have to keep biting your opponent’s flesh every so often?
If these two Black Bird Guards get eaten clean by these two Sacred Blood Infants, then wouldn’t we have done all this for nothing?
The two Yellow Rank Black Bird Guards who were surrounded faced the terror of death head-on.
They were in terrible shape. The black bird uniforms on their chests were torn to shreds, their flesh torn open.
Several deep, bone-exposing holes were gushing blood. The same was true for their thighs, blood trickling down to form a pool at their feet.
At the same time, white smoke kept rising from their wounds, as if their own blood and energy were fighting against the Yin-cold energy of the Blood Infants.
Their faces were deathly pale, but they still forced themselves to stand, holding onto the last shred of clarity in their minds.
Then, at this critical moment, the blood and energy within their bodies erupted completely without reserve.
Blazing white energy emerged from their bodies, like two scorching hot streams of air surging out to their surroundings.
Suddenly!
A boundless pressure that could suppress heaven and earth, carrying with it the force of ten thousand jun, came crashing down from the sky.
It was as if the infinite heavens were being torn apart, and a giant hand made of condensed purple energy boldly reached out.
In the palm of that giant purple energy hand, brilliant and dazzling purple light spun rapidly at its center, like a dream.
Purple flames coiled fiercely around the edge of the hand.
Wherever it passed, the air sizzled and crackled, space warped and folded unpredictably, as if it couldn’t bear the power of that giant purple energy hand at all.
This giant, sky-obscuring purple energy hand covered the entire street in the blink of an eye, completely blotting out the sky above it.
It even shrouded the two Black Bird Guards as well.
Boom!
In an instant, a sound like the earth being shattered exploded, echoing throughout the entire city of Flying Crane Prefecture.
The ground began to shake violently, trembling everyone’s eardrums and making their legs quiver.
The dust and smoke slowly cleared. The entire street had collapsed dramatically, the ground deeply sunken, forming a massive pit over a thousand meters wide.
And those sect members, along with the two White Lotus Blood Infants, were instantly ground to dust and vanished without a trace under that giant palm filled with vast purple energy.
The two Black Bird Guards, who were also right under the palm, were completely unharmed.
They just stood there stunned, their hair blowing wildly in the wind, their faces full of lingering fear.
“We… we’re okay?”
“What… what just happened?”
“Why?”
One of the Black Bird Guards’ voices trembled with the disbelief of having survived a disaster.
Just now, when they were under that giant purple palm, they thought they were doomed, that they would be crushed to powder by that terrifying, unbelievable power.
Just as they were finding it all unbelievable, a purple phantom figure appeared before them like a ghost, suddenly flickering into place.
The purple figure stood with his hands behind his back, looking calm, his eyes faintly glowing with a profound, deep purple light.
This purple figure was none other than Lu Xuan’s divine sense projection!
Lu Xuan’s gaze swept over the two of them lightly, his face as still and calm as a deep pool, without a ripple.
For a moment, a barely noticeable hint of satisfaction appeared in Lu Xuan’s eyes.
But then, that hint of appreciation disappeared again beneath his calm, expressionless face.
Because Lu Xuan had seen every move these two had made.
“Are you two from the Black Bird Guard?”
“In the name of the Black Bird Guard’s Vice Commander, I order you two to leave this place immediately and regroup with the other Black Bird Guards.”
“You two are to temporarily lead the remaining Black Bird Guards in Flying Crane Prefecture. Find the surviving officials from the government office and be responsible for maintaining order in Flying Crane City!”
As soon as Lu Xuan finished speaking, the two men looked as if they’d been struck by lightning. Their faces changed drastically, their eyes filled with fear and disbelief. They were both completely dazed.
“Bl-Black… Black Bird Guard!” One of them stammered out a few words, his voice blurry and trembling with shock.
The other was no exception. His lips quivered uncontrollably as he stammered, “V-Vice… Vice C-Commander?”
They stared wide-eyed at Lu Xuan before them, as if trying to etch his image into their hearts.
In their wildest dreams, they never imagined that this dignified, powerful, and divine person was actually the Vice Commander of the Black Bird Guard.
In other words, besides the Commander of the Black Bird Guard, he was the most… the absolute top boss above them.
However, after only a moment’s hesitation, they snapped back to reality, looked at each other, and their pupils showed an indescribable excitement.
Their eyes seemed to say:
Finally!
Damn Purifying White Lotus Sect!
You like bullying the weak, don’t you?!
Well, our boss is here now! Let’s see how you cult scum die!
