273: Chapter 273 Plotting to seize Taizhen County and destroy the Xuanshui Sect!

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Taizhen Prefecture, Liang Kingdom.

Deep within the Heng Ridge, the headquarters of the Holy Blood Sect.

Crimson mist churned, and the lights inside the great hall were exceptionally dim.

Bi Luo sat on the throne, playing with a newly arrived transmission Jade Slip in her hand. The surface of the Jade Slip still bore dark red bloodstains, and the scout who delivered the message knelt before Her Highness, panting for breath.

“Is the news accurate?” Bi Luo asked.

“Absolutely certain.”

The scout hurriedly kowtowed and replied, “The Qingfeng Sect's guardian Spirit Beast has defected, and their Treasure Pavilion has been completely plundered. It is absolutely certain!”

“The allied forces of the Haoran, Tianjian, and Tongyou Sects have already breached Luoyan Valley and are beating the Qingfeng Sect to death. The entire Liang Kingdom has descended into utter chaos.”

Bi Luo stopped what she was doing.

She stood up and walked to the sandbox in the center of the great hall.

On the sandbox, small flags representing various forces were planted. She pulled out the flag representing the Qingfeng Sect, snapped it in half, and threw it to the ground.

“Wonderful.”

“The Righteous Path is just of this character. They can band together when a great enemy is before them, but the moment things quiet down a little, they bite their own harder than anyone else.”

She turned to look at the attendant by her side. “Is there any movement from the Xuanshui Sect and the Gangyuan Sect?”

The Xuanshui Sect and the Gangyuan Sect were the only two Golden Core Schools in Taizhen Prefecture.

These two had weighed heavily on Taizhen Prefecture for hundreds of years and were currently the biggest stumbling blocks on the Holy Blood Sect's path of expansion...

The attendant immediately reported, “In reply to the Cult Leader, the Haoran Sect has issued a strict order, forcibly conscripting all tributary forces within the Liang Kingdom to join the war.”

“Immortal Master Xuanshui of the Xuanshui Sect and Immortal Master Gangfeng of the Gangyuan Sect already took seventy percent of their elites yesterday and boarded flying vessels to head north to reinforce.”

“Seventy percent was drawn away?”

“Yes. Both Schools currently have only one Grand Elder at the Foundation Establishment Perfection stage guarding the house, along with a small number of Foundation Establishment Cultivators. The interiors of their Schools are extremely empty.”

Bi Luo tilted her head back and exhaled a long breath of turbid air.

Just as Ancestor Cang Ya left, this immense Opportunity fell right into her lap.

Without heaven and earth qi, she could not form her core; however, the Xuanshui Sect and the Gangyuan Sect have legacies spanning hundreds of years, and their Sect's Forbidden Grounds definitely harbor heaven and earth qi!

“If heaven offers and one does not take, one will instead suffer the consequences.”

Bi Luo walked to the desk, picked up a brush, and quickly wrote a secret letter.

The letter contained only a few lines: The Liang Kingdom is in great chaos, the four Sects are in internal strife, and Taizhen is empty. Your subordinate wishes to destroy the two Schools and seize the heaven and earth qi.

If successful, the Holy Blood Sect will dominate Taizhen alone, quietly awaiting the Old Ancestor's decree.

She sealed the secret letter into a specially made bamboo tube and summoned a Qi Refining wind eagle: “Deliver this to the north at the fastest speed, and hand it personally to the Old Ancestor.”

The Wind Spirit Eagle nodded, flapped its wings, and soared into the night sky.

Bi Luo turned around, her gaze sweeping across the great hall.

The Six Fiends Great Protectors and the Thirty-Six Sect Protectors had all assembled. A total of forty-two Foundation Establishment Stage evildoers emitted a dense stench of blood and violent aura from their bodies.

“Protector Kuang Xiong,” Bi Luo called out.

“Your subordinate is here!” Protector Kuang Xiong took a step forward, his body as towering as a mountain.

“Take eighteen Sect Protectors and fifteen hundred cult members to launch a night raid on the Gangyuan Sect. Break the Formation if you can; if you cannot, fill it with lives. Before dawn, I want the Gangyuan Sect wiped out completely, leaving not even a chicken or dog alive.”

“Your subordinate obeys!” Protector Kuang Xiong grinned, revealing forest-white fangs.

Bi Luo grabbed the long staff standing beside her throne.

The staff was pitch-black all over, with faint green patterns flowing across it, clearly a top-grade Magical Artifact.

“The rest of you, follow me. Tonight, we flatten the Xuanshui Sect!”

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At the Xuanshui Sect, all was quiet and peaceful.

The School gate was built on Canglan Mountain in the western part of Taizhen Prefecture.

The mountain terrain was steep, with a waterfall hanging upside down from the peak, filling the air with mist.

In the middle of the night, torrential rain poured down.

The Xuanshui Sect's Sect-protecting grand Formation, the Profound Water Heavenly Formation, had already been activated, sheltering the entire Canglan Mountain within a light blue barrier.

The Grand Elder of the Xuanshui Sect who remained behind stood by the Formation core, his brow furrowed deeply.

With the Sect Master and elites drawn away, only the old, weak, sick, disabled, and Outer Sect Disciples remained at the School. With the storm raging outside, he felt an inexplicable sense of unease.

“Grand Elder, the Formation's Spirit Stone consumption is thirty percent faster than usual.”

“Should we turn it off?”

A deacon ran over to report. The Grand Elder glanced at him and shook his head: “Since the Old Ancestor is not here, how dare we slack off?”

“Just to save a few Spirit Stones, it is not worth taking such a massive risk.”

“Use the Spirit Stones in the treasury as you please, but you must maintain the operation of the grand Formation. Nowadays, chaos is rising everywhere within the Liang Kingdom, so we must not be careless.”

The Grand Elder sighed, but just as his voice fell, an earth-shattering roar suddenly came from outside the School gate.

Boom!

The light blue barrier shook violently, and water-like ripples spread frantically.

The Grand Elder rushed to the edge of the cliff and looked down.

Below the mountain, a dense crowd of people surrounded Canglan Mountain like a swarm of ants, their blood-colored robes billowing in the torrential rain.

“The Holy Blood Sect!”

The Grand Elder gasped: “Are they insane? They actually dare to launch a head-on assault on a Golden Core School!”

Outside the School gate.

Bi Luo wore a straw raincoat and held her staff in one hand, standing in the heavy rain.

Behind her, more than ten Sect Protectors simultaneously activated their Holy Blood. Instantly, their bones popped and their muscles swelled. Most of them grew bear heads with knotted muscles.

A select few grew long tails, and crocodile-like scales emerged on their bodies!

“Break the Formation!”

At Bi Luo's command, more than ten Foundation Establishment evildoers erupted at once. Various Spells and Magical Artifacts, mixed with raw physical strength, rained down upon the Profound Water Canopy.

The barrier tottered on the verge of collapse.

The Xuanshui Sect's Grand Elder's eyes nearly split from rage. He drew his longsword and shouted: “All Disciples, hear my command! Face the enemy! Guard the Formation core with your lives!”

Bi Luo looked up at the barrier and shook her head.

“Too slow.”

She stomped her foot, and the ground collapsed with a crash.

Bi Luo shot into the sky like a cannonball, heading straight for the very top of the Formation. In mid-air, she tore off her straw raincoat.

Green fur instantly covered her entire body, her arms grew extremely long, and her muscles knotted, revealing her true form as a Green Ape!

But to others, it appeared that the Holy Blood Sect Master had used a Demonic Technique to transform into a Green Ape.

Spiritual energy poured into the pitch-black staff. The staff then expanded rapidly against the wind, turning into a thirty-meter giant pillar, and smashed ruthlessly down upon the Formation core of the Profound Water Canopy!

Crack!

A crisp cracking sound drowned out the thunder.

A crack appeared in the light blue barrier. Immediately after, the cracks rapidly spread like a spiderweb. With a loud bang, the Xuanshui Sect's Sect-protecting grand Formation, which had been passed down for hundreds of years, shattered completely.

It turned into a sky full of blue light spots, dissipating into the torrential rain.

“Kill!” Bi Luo landed on the plaza, her long staff sweeping across.

More than a dozen Xuanshui Sect Disciples who rushed forward didn't even have time to scream before they were smashed into mincemeat by the long staff.

The members of the Holy Blood Sect poured into the School gate like a tide.

Beginning a one-sided slaughter!

Relying on their powerful Physical Bodies, the evildoers directly broke the Formation of the Xuanshui Sect Disciples. Severed limbs and broken arms, accompanied by blood, flowed along with the rainwater, dyeing the stone steps of Canglan Mountain a dark red.

“Die, Devil Head!”

The Xuanshui Sect Grand Elder's eyes were blood-red. Driving a blue Flying Sword, he aimed straight for Bi Luo's head, wanting to slay this villain.

Bi Luo didn't even look, delivering a backhand strike with her staff.

Clang!

The Flying Sword was smashed aside by the staff, its blade letting out a mournful wail as its spiritual light dimmed.

Bi Luo's figure flashed, instantly closing the distance to the Grand Elder. The Grand Elder only felt his vision blur before a large hand covered in green fur gripped his neck.

“You... your Holy Blood Sect... when the Old Ancestor returns... he will definitely tear you to pieces...” The Grand Elder squeezed out a few words with great difficulty.

Bi Luo's eyes were cold: “He won't be coming back.”

Her fingers tightened.

Crack.

The Grand Elder's neck was snapped raw, his head drooping limply.

Bi Luo casually tossed the corpse aside and shook the blood from her hand.

“Cult Leader, the front mountain has been cleared, and the Scripture Pavilion and treasury are being inventoried,” a Protector stepped forward and knelt on one knee.

“Leave those things for you all to divide.”

Bi Luo carried her staff, her gaze casting toward the cloud-shrouded Forbidden Ground in the back mountain: “Go ahead and plunder the various treasure lands first. I shall go and take a look at that Forbidden Ground.”

Afterward, she stepped into the back mountain Forbidden Ground all by herself.

This Sect's Forbidden Ground was that heaven and earth blessed land, named: Cold Water Pool. Passing through a dark tunnel, the view ahead suddenly opened up.

A pool spanning thirty meters in diameter then appeared before her eyes.

The pool water was a deep, ink-black color, emitting a bone-chilling cold. The water's surface was calm and wave-less, without the slightest ripple, like a mirror of dead silence.

In the very center of the pool, a strand of light blue airflow floated.

The airflow swam like a living creature, emitting a pure and heavy water-attribute Dao aura.

Water-attribute heaven and earth qi: Profound Water Clear Qi!

Looking at that strand of heaven and earth qi, Bi Luo's breathing grew heavy.

The thing that Ancestor Cang Ya had sought his entire life but failed to obtain was now right before her eyes. Within this Golden Core Sect, there indeed existed this heaven and earth qi!

“Water-attribute...” Bi Luo murmured to herself.

The Green Ape Clan should have been compatible with the wood-attribute.

However, within the Five Elements, water generates wood. As long as she had this strand of Profound Water heaven and earth qi as a Foundation, she could utilize the momentum of water generating wood to elevate her Green Ape Bloodline to another level!

However, while it might enhance her Bloodline, it would be difficult to serve as her Dao Foundation to break through to the Golden Core stage.

It truly is a pity.

But no matter what, it is still a strand of heaven and earth qi, so it is by no means a loss.

If she presented this item to the Old Ancestor, she could see if she could exchange it for a wood-attribute Dao qi. Even if she could not, it would not matter...

In the end, it would increase the tribe's heritage, and the Old Ancestor would surely remember it in his heart.

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