Chapter 82: Blood God Sect (Bonus chapter for Alliance Leader Mr. Yao)

Under the moonlight, the person who ambushed Chen Yuan finally revealed her appearance.

She wore scarlet blood-colored clothes and was surprisingly young, looking only about twenty years old. Her appearance was feminine and handsome, with a blood-red dot between her brows, giving off an almost androgynous feel.

“To dare to openly assassinate a town guardian in the Town Guard Headquarters, you certainly have some nerve!”

Chen Yuan narrowed his eyes, staring at her, and said calmly, “Was it the Sun Family and the others who invited you? Hiring an expert of your level must have cost them quite a price, right?”

During the day, Chen Yuan was still waiting to see if any of the remaining three families would be sensible enough to choose to surrender.

But looking at it now, they were still somewhat lacking in judgment, actually choosing to assassinate him.

“Imperial relatives, scions of noble families, and those Taoist priests and bald donkeys—which of them haven’t I killed? What does your Town Martial Hall count for?”

The woman pulled a blood-colored longsword from her sleeve. It was crystal clear throughout, and inside, it seemed as if blood was actually flowing.

She licked her lips at Chen Yuan. “I can feel that the blood qi in your body is very vigorous and rich, and it has a very special scent. Your blood qi must taste quite good!”

As soon as she finished speaking, her entire body instantly turned into a blood shadow, appearing in front of Chen Yuan in the blink of an eye.

The blood sword was like a spiritual snake, cold and sharp, heading straight for Chen Yuan’s throat.

Devilish Qi surged around Chen Yuan as his Demon Blade Slash fell. When blade and sword collided, a profound burst of blood qi suddenly erupted, and an extremely powerful suction force instantly came from the blood sword.

The Devilish Qi was instantly swallowed by the boundless blood qi, and even the blood qi around Chen Yuan’s body began to stir restlessly.

This time, Chen Yuan finally understood how Yu Dong felt.

This wasn’t a simple external suction, but the opponent using an extremely eerie power to provoke the blood qi within his body, causing it to burst out of his body uncontrollably!

Her true strength was only at the Middle Stage of the Lunhai Realm, but with this eerie Cultivation Technique, even a Peak Lunhai Realm Martial Artist might fall at her hands.

Chen Yuan formed a hand seal, and a brilliant, dazzling Buddhist light suddenly erupted from his body.

The power of the Immaculate Crystal Vajra Sutra was pushed to its maximum by Chen Yuan, using the power of the Buddhist light to suppress his Physical Body and counter that eerie force.

Also, because Chen Yuan practiced the Inner Landscape Divine Art, his control over his Physical Body was extremely strong, allowing him to easily suppress the restless blood qi.

This move was very effective against other Martial Artists, but against Chen Yuan, it could only cause a slight impact; the effect wasn’t very significant.

“Eh? You’ve actually practiced a Buddhist Cultivation Technique? How can so many people know the techniques of those bald donkeys?”

The woman frowned slightly, appearing somewhat annoyed.

Buddhist techniques somewhat countered her power; she was most unwilling to fight those bald donkeys.

After suppressing this force, Chen Yuan suddenly thought of something and stared at her. “Are you a remnant of the Blood God Sect?”

Several hundred years ago, the Blood God Sect was a major Sect in the Jianghu, but they were not included on the jianghu power ranking list.

It wasn’t because their strength was insufficient or because they lacked divine weapons, but because the Blood God Sect had incited public outrage and was soon wiped out by the imperial court in collaboration with various major forces in the Jianghu.

The Blood God Sect was not part of the Demonic Path lineage, but its Cultivation Technique was even more eerie than those of the Demonic Path.

The core of the Blood God Sect’s Cultivation Technique, the Blood Nerve Technique, was the manipulation of one’s own blood qi, refining the power of blood qi to the extreme, and even having miraculous effects like extending Lifespan and maintaining a youthful appearance.

In Chen Yuan’s view, the Blood God Sect’s Blood Nerve Technique actually shared some similarities with the Inner Landscape Divine Art, both developing the body’s potential to the limit.

However, the Inner Landscape Divine Art was comprehensive and somewhat general.

Whereas the Blood Nerve Technique focused specifically on blood qi, with its power and practicality developed more thoroughly.

Originally, the Blood God Sect’s reputation was decent, but a certain generation’s Sect leader had a sudden flash of inspiration and modified the Blood Nerve Technique, changing it from cultivating one’s own blood qi to plundering the blood qi of others.

Since then, the Blood God Sect had completely fallen into the category of evil and heretical paths, constantly stirring up storms of blood in the Jianghu, killing people everywhere to plunder blood qi.

Furthermore, this method allowed for incredibly fast cultivation; as long as one reached the Pulse Opening Realm, they could use this method to continuously plunder blood qi, and their cultivation could be said to advance by leaps and bounds.

Although this kind of skyrocketing cultivation resulted in an unstable Foundation and made it easy to suffer Qi Deviation later on, everything was negligible in the face of such startling speed.

Even for top-tier major Sects, feeding their Disciples Medicinal Pills from the Medicine King Valley like jellybeans wouldn’t allow their strength to improve so quickly.

Since the modification of the Cultivation Technique, the Blood God Sect’s strength had surged like a balloon being blown up, and its Disciples spread like a virus.

Even some Disciples of major Sects couldn’t resist the temptation of skyrocketing cultivation and joined the Blood God Sect.

Moreover, the modified Blood Nerve Technique was easy to conceal; as long as one didn’t use the power of blood qi, it was completely impossible to tell that the person was a Disciple of the Blood God Sect.

Therefore, at that time, many Disciples of major Jianghu Sects secretly joined the Blood God Sect as moles, causing great destruction to their Sects.

The Blood God Sect’s brazenness finally incited public outrage.

The Jianghu, the imperial court, the Nineteen Provinces of Great Xia, and even the grasslands and overseas regions united to wipe out the Blood God Sect, eventually killing almost all the evil practitioners. Even if some remnants survived, they didn’t dare to show their faces.

In the hundreds of years since then, the Blood God Sect had almost vanished from the Jianghu.

Back when Jiang Kaitai performed the Blood Sacrifice, some people in Lianshan City said that the evil practitioners of the Blood God Sect were making a comeback.

In the original plot, remnants of the Blood God Sect did indeed make a comeback, but not in Ningzhou; instead, it was in Youzhou and several other provinces.

Looking at it now, the people of the Blood God Sect must have been lurking in Ningzhou to recover their strength long ago, it was just that they first revealed themselves in Youzhou.

“I didn’t expect that after so many years, there are still people who recognize my Holy Sect. Well, it’s just as well, so you don’t have to die as an ignorant ghost. Remember, the one who kills you is Gu Hongyuan of the Blood God Sect!”

A flash of scarlet erupted in Gu Hongyuan’s eyes, and blood qi rose around her entire body as she charged at Chen Yuan with a wild laugh.

Chen Yuan frowned slightly.

He felt that Gu Hongyuan’s mind seemed a bit unstable, even somewhat crazed.

He didn’t know if she was just like this naturally or if it was due to practicing the Blood God Sect’s Cultivation Technique.

The original version of the Blood Nerve Technique was a secret technique for developing blood qi power, but the modified Blood Nerve Technique was somewhat sinister, and practicing such a technique made one more prone to Qi Deviation.

However, seeing Gu Hongyuan’s strength, the Blood God Sect must have changed their strategy for this comeback.

Previously, the number of Blood God Sect Disciples was immense, but most were a motley crew whose cultivation inflated too quickly, leading to unstable Foundations and weak combat power.

But this Gu Hongyuan had a deep Foundation of Internal Energy, and her combat power was rare among those of the same level.

Boundless blood qi attacked, and Devilish Qi surged around Chen Yuan, turning into a sky full of blade glows that fell.

But although Chen Yuan’s blade glows tore through the blood qi, they failed to shred it completely.

Gu Hongyuan formed a hand seal, and the surging blood qi suddenly solidified, turning into thin blood-colored threads that carried boundless sharpness, forming a large blood-colored net that enveloped Chen Yuan.

Silk-Pulling Blood Net!

This was the same move Gu Hongyuan had used to ambush Chen Yuan inside the Town Guard Headquarters earlier.

Those blood threads were cold and sharp, practically comparable to Sword Qi, and extremely overbearing.

Chen Yuan pointed a finger, and the True Qi around him instantly gathered like a surging vast sea.

As the finger force descended, it was as if the world of the Nine Heavens had descended upon the mortal realm!

Xuan Tian Finger!

The Silk-Pulling Blood Net was instantly torn open with a large hole by the Xuan Tian Finger. With a burst of Fish-Dragon Transformation power, Chen Yuan instantly leaped out of the blood net.

Meanwhile, the ground was sliced into neat cubes by the blood net, as if it were cutting tofu.

“What strong explosive power!”

A look of solemnity appeared in Gu Hongyuan’s eyes.

Although she was crazed, she was not stupid.

Although the guy in front of her was only in the Foundation Establishment Realm, his explosive power was actually stronger than most Lunhai Realm Martial Artists.

Furthermore, he himself practiced Buddhist Cultivation Techniques, which could suppress his Physical Body, making the Blood Nerve Technique’s power to provoke blood qi useless against him.

“Is this all your Blood God Sect has to offer?”

Chen Yuan took a deep breath. In the next moment, the killing intent origin descended, and boundless blood fiend entered his body!

Gu Hongyuan’s eyes widened instantly, filled with shock and longing.

It was this power!

Just now, it was this power that made her feel a special scent, making her want to swallow it into her body.

Now, with the complete eruption of the Blood Fiend Force, that longing became even more intense!

Gu Hongyuan let out a shrill scream and formed a hand seal, as strands of blood threads emerged around her.

These weren’t condensed blood threads, but blood qi she had forcibly extracted from her own Physical Body!

No wonder her clothes were blood-red; perhaps they weren’t originally red but had been dyed red by blood.

Countless blood threads merged into one, turning into a dazzling blood sword ten feet in size, which slashed straight toward Chen Yuan with a cold and sinister whistle!

Blood God Secret Technique: Thousand-Thread Blood Sword!

Blood fiend energy condensed around Chen Yuan, and a calamity descended, forming a massive handprint in mid-air.

As the palm fell, the blood fiend whistled, and the power of the calamity annihilated everything!

Blood Slaughter Calamity Hand!

Under that overbearing and dominant power of calamity, the Thousand-Thread Blood Sword dissolved inch by inch, and finally, with a boom, it was crushed and turned into a sky full of blood mist.

Gu Hongyuan spat out a mouthful of blood and looked at Chen Yuan in disbelief, her face deathly pale.

The Thousand-Thread Blood Sword had utilized the blood qi she had nurtured within herself; now that it was shattered by a single palm, her loss was immense.

Gu Hongyuan formed a hand seal, and the remaining blood qi around her burned frantically as she turned into a blood shadow to flee.

Earlier in the Town Guard Headquarters, she had chosen to flee because she feared the commotion would attract more and more White Tiger Guards, trapping her in a siege.

But now she fled because she was truly afraid.

Chen Yuan’s Blood Slaughter Calamity Hand had directly shattered eighty percent of her blood qi.

That extremely overbearing Blood Fiend Force countered the Blood Nerve Technique even more, even making her blood qi tremble!

But at this moment, the continuous explosive sounds of compressed True Qi kept coming from behind.

Feeling the distance closing, Gu Hongyuan let out a shrill scream, and her last bit of blood qi merged into the blood-jade longsword in her hand as she turned back to stab at Chen Yuan.

Chen Yuan’s blade fell, and the heaven-shaking blood fiend and Devilish Qi intertwined and fused, turning into an endless abyss.

Under the Blood Demon Devours the Sun, the blood-jade longsword shattered, and the blood qi was pulverized.

Gu Hongyuan’s body, now without the support of blood qi, was even more fragile, and more than half of it was instantly torn apart, causing her to fall to the ground like a broken rag doll.