101: Chapter 101 Left and Right Protectors? Better to protect yourself first!
Deep within the Extreme North Ice Field, at the Heavenly Demon Cult General Headquarters.
The wind and snow here seemed to be cut off by some invisible force.
Ahead, a nine-story giant tower, a thousand zhang tall and built entirely of pitch-black bones, stood quietly at the end of the ice field like a black poisonous thorn piercing the sky.
Demon Suppressing Pagoda.
This place was once a prison where ancient powerhouses suppressed demons, but later the Heavenly Demon Cult took over and transformed it into a Holy Land for the world's demon Cultivators.
"Creeeeak—"
The luxurious Spirit Boat Lin Que was on suddenly made a harsh, overburdened grinding sound ten miles away from the Demon Suppressing Pagoda, as if it had fallen into a quagmire and could no longer move forward.
"Young Master Lin, the Spiritual Qi around us... has disappeared!"
Su Qingyu gripped her longsword, her face slightly pale.
She could feel that the air in all directions was filled with a thick, bloody smell; even her Innate Dao Body operated sluggishly at this moment.
"It hasn't disappeared; it's been drained dry."
Lin Que walked to the bow of the ship, holding the railing with both hands and looking down.
On the ice field surrounding the Demon Suppressing Pagoda, dense blood-colored Formation runes lit up.
These Formation runes were like human blood vessels, covering a radius of a hundred miles, breathing greedily and emitting a nauseating devouring power.
"Clap, clap, clap."
A burst of cold clapping came from the blood mist filling the sky.
"As expected of the Demon Venerable Lin who dared to run wild in the Imperial City, you actually dared to break into my Heavenly Demon Cult General Headquarters single-handedly."
Two figures emerged in the Void Realm in front of the Spirit Boat like ghosts.
On the left was a person in a white robe with a withered face, holding a tattered lamp emitting an eerie green ghost fire; on the right was a bare-chested man covered in blood-colored tattoos, dragging a serrated blood blade the size of a door.
Heavenly Demon Cult Left Protector—Old Man Nether!
Heavenly Demon Cult Right Protector—Mad Blood Butcher!
The Spiritual Qi fluctuations emitted by both were actually at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul! Only one step away from Soul Transformation!
While the Sect Leader was in seclusion to heal his injuries, they were the strongest combat forces of this headquarters.
"Lin Que, you are too arrogant."
Left Protector Old Man Nether raised the ghost lamp in his hand and chuckled sinisterly, "The Sect Leader predicted you would come. Within a hundred-mile radius, our cult's protective Formation—the [Nine Nether Blood-Refining Heaven-Devouring Formation]—has already been laid!"
Right Protector Mad Blood Butcher carried the serrated great saber on his shoulder and grinned savagely:
"In this Formation, your Spiritual Qi and blood energy will drain uncontrollably, eventually all gathering at the top of the pagoda to turn into a supreme tonic for the Sect Leader to recover from his injuries! Not only will you fail to kill the Sect Leader, but you will instead become a stepping stone for him to return to his Peak!"
"So it's a water pump for bleeding me."
Looking at the flickering blood-colored Formation runes beneath his feet, Lin Que not only didn't panic but instead nodded seriously:
"The design is quite ingenious, but the intent is a bit dirty."
"Stubborn even in the face of death!"
Right Protector Mad Blood Butcher had the most explosive temper; he roared, and the blood-colored tattoos all over his body seemed to come alive.
"Shatter for me!!"
Boom!
Mad Blood Butcher leapt up, gripping the serrated blood blade with both hands, turning into a hundred-zhang-long storm of blood as he slashed down at the Spirit Boat.
This strike merged the ultimate physical strength of the Nascent Soul Great Perfection, even slashing visible black cracks into the surrounding Void Realm!
"Young Master Lin!"
Su Qingyu cried out in alarm.
"Don't panic, just watch the show."
Lin Que didn't even look back, simply giving Su Qingyu a gentle push backward with his left hand.
Subsequently, without even drawing his signature starfall mo dao, he slowly extended his right hand bare-handed to meet that hundred-zhang blood blade.
"Seeking death! You dare to catch my Blood-Drinking Mad Blade with your bare hands!"
Mad Blood Butcher's eyes were full of cruelty, as if he could already see the image of Lin Que being split in two.
However.
Clang—!!!!
A deafening sound of metal clashing echoed across the ice field.
Mad Blood Butcher's eyes instantly bulged.
His top-tier demon blade, which had drunk the blood of countless experts, actually felt like it had struck an immovable divine mountain the moment it hit Lin Que's right palm!
A deep purple-gold luster emerged on the surface of Lin Que's right hand.
That was the ultimate manifestation of the Undying Blood Body (Demon God Body) after reaching Major Achievement; every inch of skin was harder than a top-tier Magic Treasure!
"The strength of a Nascent Soul Great Perfection... is just this?"
Lin Que's five fingers suddenly clamped down, death-gripping the edge of the serrated blood blade.
"How is that possible?! Your Physical Body..."
Mad Blood Butcher was terrified, desperately trying to pull back the great saber, only to find it as if it had taken root, completely immovable!
"Don't worry, I'll give it back to you."
A cold smile curled on Lin Que's lips, the muscles of his right arm suddenly bulged, and the Middle Stage Nascent Soul Spiritual Qi that had just stabilized in his body erupted.
"Crack!"
Accompanied by a crisp sound, that top-tier demon blade was actually... snapped in half by Lin Que with one hand!
Immediately following, Lin Que gripped the broken blade tip with his backhand and threw it casually!
Whoosh!
The broken blade turned into a purple-red meteor, traveling ten times faster than it had come, directly piercing through Mad Blood Butcher's chest!
"Pfft!"
Mad Blood Butcher spat out a mouthful of blood, crashing into the ice field below like a downed meteorite, a large hole appearing in his chest through which one could see clear through to the other side; his Nascent Soul was severely damaged!
One move! Severely wounding a Nascent Soul Great Perfection!
"Butcher!!"
Seeing this, Left Protector Old Man Nether nearby felt his soul leave his body in fright.
He finally understood why even the Sect Leader would suffer at this kid's hands! This was absolutely not an ordinary Nascent Soul!
"Nine Nether Ghost Fire! Soul Burn!!"
The Left Protector didn't dare hold back any longer, spitting a mouthful of essence blood onto the ghost lamp in his hand.
Whoosh—
Eerie green ghost fire swept across the sky, covering everything.
This ghost fire didn't burn the Physical Body but specifically burned a Cultivator's Divine Soul, making it impossible to guard against!
"Playing with fire?"
Lin Que brushed the iron shavings off his hands, looking at the sky full of green fire; in his left eye, a deep and noble purple flame (Three Thousand Blazing Flames) suddenly flickered.
"You're a bit too green to be playing with fire in front of me."
The four-colored God-Demon Nascent Soul at Lin Que's glabella pointed a small hand.
Without any complicated hand seals, Lin Que simply blew a gentle breath toward the sky full of ghost fire.
Whoosh—
A purple-and-white flame lotus floated out of his mouth.
The flame lotus expanded with the wind, turning into a sea of purple-and-white fire! Purple fire incinerated the heavens, white fire froze the bones!
The Nine Nether Ghost Fire, claimed to be able to burn a Nascent Soul to death, was like a mouse seeing a cat the moment it touched this fused Heavenly Flame; not only did it fail to burn through, but it was directly devoured by the purple fire, and even frozen into green ice shards by the white fire, falling to the ground with a "patter-patter" sound!
"No!! My Lifebound Ghost Fire!!"
The Left Protector let out a miserable scream; with his Lifebound Treasure destroyed, he was instantly hit by a backlash, bleeding from all seven orifices.
"Run!!"
The two Nascent Soul Great Perfection Protectors no longer had any of their previous arrogance; they glanced at each other and turned without hesitation, turning into two streaks of blood light and plunging into the [Nine Nether Blood-Refining Heaven-Devouring Formation] below!
As long as they entered the Formation core and had the protection of the Great Formation, this kid wouldn't be able to kill them!
"Trying to run?"
Lin Que stood at the bow of the ship and did not pursue.
He looked at the massive Formation below that was already fully activated, frantically emitting blood-draining power.
"Young Master Lin, this Formation is so sinister. I feel the Spiritual Qi in my body is flowing out uncontrollably..."
Su Qingyu leaned against Lin Que, her face becoming increasingly pale.
"That's right. The water pump has been turned on."
Instead of stopping the Formation from extracting his blood energy, Lin Que let down his defenses.
The blood energy in his body was like a surging river, following the pull of the Formation, continuously pouring into the Formation eye below, then following the Formation lines all the way to the top of that pitch-black Demon Suppressing Pagoda!
"Hahaha! Lin Que! Although your combat power is formidable, in front of this ten-thousand-year-old Formation, you are nothing but a blood bag!"
Seeing this, the two Protectors hiding in the Formation eye laughed crazily:
"The stronger your blood energy, the faster the Sect Leader recovers! Once you are drained dry, it will be the day you die!!"
"Is that so?"
Feeling the loss of blood energy in his body, Lin Que was not only not panicked, but the smile in his eyes grew even thicker.
"System."
Lin Que issued a command in his mind.
[Wide-range blood energy extraction Formation detected!]
[Current target: Host Lin Que (Source) -> The Demon Cult Leader (Recipient).]
[Analysis: The enemy is attempting to use the Formation to absorb the Host's pure blood energy for healing.]
"Since the old Sect Leader is hungry, as a Junior, how can I only treat him to blood?"
Lin Que's gaze shifted toward the depths of the Extreme North Ice Field, to the continuous Ten-Thousand-Year Profound Ice Rift Valley that had been frozen for millennia.
There, it contained "Absolute Zero Extreme Cold Poison Evil Qi" that even those in the Soul Transformation Stage wouldn't dare touch easily.
[Logic restructuring initiated—Trojan Horse Protocol!]
[Operation 1: Maintain the Formation's extraction channel and visual effects unchanged (continue to display red blood energy being extracted).]
[Operation 2: Replace the actual "package content" being transmitted from "Host's pure blood energy" to "Extreme Cold Poison Evil Qi from ten thousand zhang beneath the Extreme North Ice Field"!]
[Multiplier: Concentrated and packaged, extra volume at no extra cost!]
"Give him... a bait and switch!!"
Hum!!
On the surface, Lin Que's blood energy was still being continuously drained by the great Formation, flowing toward the Demon Suppressing Pagoda along the blood-colored runes. The two heavily injured Protectors laughed extremely arrogantly at the Formation eye.
But in reality, what was being transmitted along that blood-colored channel was not Lin Que's blood at all. Instead, it was the most poisonous and coldest—Extreme Cold Evil Qi—forcibly extracted from deep underground by the System, compressed ten thousand times over, and capable of freezing a Primordial Spirit!
And to make the packaging look more realistic, the System thoughtfully dyed this burst of Evil Qi with a layer of Lin Que's blood energy as a disguise.
It was simply the perfect "poison milk"!
...
At the same time.
On the ninth floor of the Demon Suppressing Pagoda, in a secret room.
The Demon Cult Leader, whose left arm had been severed by Lin Que's saber and whose Divine Soul had been severely wounded, was sitting cross-legged on a huge blood-colored altar.
His face was deathly pale, and the wound at his severed arm still could not heal.
"Damn that Lin Que... if I don't avenge this, I, this seat, swear not to be human!"
The Demon Cult Leader gritted his teeth.
Just then, the altar below suddenly erupted with a blinding red light!
A vast, ocean-like, and extremely pure "blood energy" surged frantically into his body through the sect-protecting Formation!
"Good!! The Protectors succeeded!!"
The Demon Cult Leader was overjoyed.
Feeling the vastness of that "blood energy," he couldn't help but laugh wildly to the sky:
"Hahaha! Lin Que, oh Lin Que! Your perfect Heavenly Demon Physical Body has ultimately become this seat's wedding dress!!"
"With this blood energy, not only can this seat heal instantly, but I can even go one step further!!"
The Demon Cult Leader was completely off-guard, even actively opening all the Meridians and the Primordial Spirit in his body, sucking that beautifully packaged "super tonic" into the deepest part of his Dantian in one breath, like parched earth meeting sweet rain!!
Meanwhile, in the air outside the pagoda.
Looking at the red light flickering at the top of the Demon Suppressing Pagoda, Lin Que folded his arms and began to count down silently in his heart:
"Three."
"Two."
"One."
"Bang."
Lin Que made a sound effect with his mouth.