120: Blood Teleportation Array

If the Jian Men Formation were to be broken, nearly all the Cultivators within the city would become like fish on a chopping board, at the mercy of others.

Li Yan scanned his surroundings; almost all the Cultivators on the streets had come out in full force.

This matter concerned everyone's lives, and whether they wanted to or not, everyone had to fight for their own survival.

Li Yan also realized that if he did not participate in the city defense battle, once the Jian Men Formation was breached, he would not be able to escape unscathed.

At this moment, Zhang Jiu, who was preparing Talismans beside him, turned to look at Li Yan.

"Fellow Daoist Li, we also need to go and help."

"Within a thousand li radius, there is only this one Cloud City."

"If Cloud City is breached by Blood Cultivators, we will have no place to settle down."

Li Yan nodded, summoned his Drifting Leaf Boat, and followed the crowd towards the Jian Men Formation.

When he and Zhang Jiu flew together to the inner gate of the Jian Men Formation, he could see that the situation ahead had largely been stabilized.

Nangong Zhaoxue of the Sword Sect and Su Mo of the Tianshu Hall, both Sect Masters, personally intervened to stabilize the Jian Men Formation.

Large numbers of blood magic cultivators were trapped within the narrow pass, desperately bombarding the Jian Men Formation.

Watching a large number of Blood Cultivators trapped in that narrow pass, Li Yan looked up at the sky.

The sky above and the ground beneath Cloud City were protected by a spherical city-protecting Formation.

This grand Formation should have been jointly constructed by OHazy moon and Zenmatsu tens of thousands of years ago.

The city-protecting Formation was very solid, so the Blood Cultivators did not choose to launch an attack from the sky or underground.

And the only weakness of the city-protecting Formation was this Jian Men Formation.

Cloud City was surrounded by mountain barriers, and to communicate with the outside world, four passages were artificially cut through the four sides of Cloud City.

Because the path was opened by the Moonlit Sword Immortal with a single sword strike, splitting the mountain, the path was also called Sword Gate Road.

These four paths to the outside world—east, west, north, and south—each had a separate Formation, which was much more fragile than the city-protecting Formation.

However, because only the four Sword Gate Roads needed to be defended, Cloud City has always been easy to defend and difficult to attack since ancient times, and has never fallen.

Through tens of thousands of years, and countless immortal-demon wars.

Cloud City, created by OHazy moon and Zenmatsu, had withstood countless earth-shattering wars and still stood here.

Even today, the outside world has fallen into the dire state of Spiritual Qi decay.

Cloud City, relying on its unique geographical environment, was like a treasure basin among the mountains; this basin maintained its unique ecological environment.

Relying on the spiritual gathering Formation underground, it siphoned the remaining Spiritual Qi from heaven and earth; the underground Spiritual Qi was like spring water, continuously nourishing everyone within Cloud City.

Such a treasure land was naturally coveted by blood magic cultivators; regardless of good or evil, many Cultivators wanted to claim this treasure land for themselves.

Li Yan looked at the towering Sword Gate Road before him, and in his mind, he could already imagine the scene of OHazy moon splitting the mountain with a single sword back then.

Now, the Sects founded by her two disciples still existed, but OHazy moon and Zenmatsu, it was unknown if they had already Ascended to the Upper Realm.

To find out if they were alive or dead, he first needed to deal with these Blood Cultivators who came to attack the city.

Afterward, he would properly ask Su Hall Master, the Hall Master of Tianshu Hall, about the whereabouts of the two female disciples.

As Li Yan was thinking, Zhang Jiu beside him grinned: "Fellow Daoist, it seems we won't need to act."

"Sect Master Nangong and Hall Master Su have already stabilized the Northern Sword Gate."

"I had intended to compete with these Blood Cultivators, but it seems there's no chance to act."

Watching Immortal Master Zhang put away the Talismans in his hand, Li Yan also relaxed his guard.

He suddenly noticed that among the crowd, several pale-faced Loose Cultivators seemed to be acting strangely.

"Hmm?"

Li Yan squinted, and through his 11 points of spiritual vision, he sensed something different.

His gaze penetrated through the Physical Bodies of those people, and Li Yan saw something.

The hearts of those Loose Cultivators… were beating with blood-colored flames.

"That is? Bloodline Law?"

Li Yan immediately said, "Disperse quickly!"

His shout attracted the attention of the surrounding Cultivators.

But most people remained indifferent, only looking at Li Yan with confused expressions.

Because in everyone's eyes, although Li Yan resembled the First Generation Holy Master, he was merely a Golden Core Stage Cultivator.

There were Golden Core Stage Cultivators everywhere, and who among them didn't have higher seniority?

Hearing Li Yan tell them to disperse, they were quite puzzled.

But then, accompanied by an explosion!

Bang!

One of the pale-faced Loose Cultivators, his Physical Body swelled like a balloon, his entire body puffed up like a ball, and he immediately exploded!

The explosion sprayed blood mist in all directions!

And as he was covered by the blood mist, the System sounded a prompt.

【Bloodline Contamination】

【Side Effect: Bloodline is highly contagious; those contaminated by blood mist will become Bloodline hosts】

【Side Effect to Positive: Host is immune to contamination and can absorb Yin Qi from it.】

Along with this prompt, the Loose Cultivators before him became infected with Bloodline one after another.

Seeing the blood mist spread behind him, Li Yan quickly chanted silently: "Shadow Law, go! Golden Body, rise!"

A shadow rapidly rushed towards the center of the explosion, followed by a hundred-zhang Golden Body Avatar rising from the ground, directly covering the blood mist, preventing further spread of the Bloodline.

The surrounding people, still shaken, all looked at the two-hundred-zhang tall Golden Body Avatar.

"What is this?!"

"Although I don't know what kind of immortal spell it is, we are saved."

The surrounding Loose Cultivators all felt a sense of lingering fear.

They never expected that people infected with Bloodline contamination were hidden among the crowd; those whose Physical Bodies self-destructed didn't even know they had been contaminated.

The catastrophe that was almost triggered was easily resolved by Li Yan.

This surprised both Nangong Zhaoxue and Su Mo, who were guarding the Northern Sword Gate.

"That is?"

Seeing the appearance of the Golden Body Avatar, the two Sect Masters vaguely recalled something recorded in ancient texts.

It was said that the First Generation Holy Master could also release dozens of Golden Body Avatars to assist Cultivators in resisting the invasion of ancient gods.

And now that the Golden Body Avatar had appeared again in Cloud City, the two Sect Masters saw shock in each other's eyes.

Although they did not see Li Yan's figure, both of them, by coincidence, guessed that it was most likely that mysterious young Cultivator who had acted.

Before Nangong Zhaoxue and Su Mo could recover from their shock, several loud bangs erupted from Vermillion Bird Avenue behind them!

Something had happened in the city!

And the location of the explosion was the center of Cloud City, where Li Yan's giant statue stood.

Seeing the rising blood mist there, Nangong Zhaoxue exclaimed, "Oh no! Something has happened at the First Generation Holy Master's statue!"

"The Blood Cultivators' true purpose is to destroy the core of the Formation within the statue."

When he heard this, Li Yan was first stunned.

He never expected that the core of Cloud City's Formation was actually housed within that giant statue carved in his likeness.

Even worse news followed in quick succession.

Su Hall Master, the Hall Master of Tianshu Hall, pointed to the city center.

"The enemy used Bloodline contamination to construct a blood teleportation Formation; that teleportation Formation must be destroyed."

"Otherwise, a large number of blood magic cultivators will appear behind us."