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Chapter 282: Three way melee

The Dragon Lizard Beast was not intelligent, but it was conscious of its territory. If anyone invaded its territory, it would kill them all whether it was human or beast!

It did not even care about why the humans were killing each other. The three War Hounds experts entered the Dragon Lizard Beast's territory first and had led it around by the nose, which naturally angered the Dragon Lizard Beast, so they became its first targets.

Old woman Shi Xin's blood poison was a very sinister cultivation technique. When she launched a sneak attack at the War Hounds expert, it instantly ignited all the blood inside the War Hounds expert. However, the War Hounds expert was very strong and used the War Hounds secret technique to use his spirit energy to block the blood poison around himself.

Who would have thought that at this moment.

The Dragon Lizard Beast would suddenly launched a sneak attack. Without having the time to use his cultivation technique to block it, his body had been instantly torn apart by the power.

Nuo Luo was naturally filled with rage. This was one of his most important subordinates, one he had carefully nurtured.

He had strangely died in a place like this?

Before they even received any harvest, they had suffered such a heavy loss!

"What's wrong? Are you angry!" Shi Xin gave a cold laugh, "This is your fate for wanting the scarlet blood hidden treasure."

There were quite a few experts coveting the scarlet blood hidden treasure, so each death made it a bit easier on the head venerate. For the scarlet blood branch to rise, it was important to protect the head venerates rise back into the world. Otherwise, they wouldn't even be able to subvert a small kingdom like the Southern Summer Country with a leader like Shi Xin, so how could they restore the prestige of the Warring Kingdom?

"Damn human!"

The thoroughly enraged Nuo Luo released his full power, causing his strong and tall build to inflate once again, causing the robe around him to explode. The bulked up muscles seemed like they were made of sand blocks, being filled with power.

Old woman Shi Xin revealed a serious expression.

The cultivation techniques of the human race and the spirit beast race were very different. This fellow named Nuo Luo, was he finally releasing his full power?

Nuo Luo had a cultivation at the peak 9th Awakened Soul Layer and was one of the peak experts of the War Hound Plains. Even if he met experts of the Eight Marquises, as long as it wasn't the strongest members, the others couldn't survive against him. Even the Three Rulers could not participate in this fight, so he had a 90% confidence in this trip.

Who would have thought that this person's cultivation base was even a bit deeper than Nuo Luo's.

What made Nuo Luo unable to accept this was that the War Hound Plains was unfamiliar with this person. They did not know this person's cultivation technique or battle strength, not having a piece of information at all.

This person's cultivation was close to that of one of the Three Rulers, but because of a special reason, her strength had decreased and could not be healed in a short period of time. How could this kind of expert suddenly just pop up out of nowhere?

The spirit beasts were not very bright.

Any problem could be solved with their muscles, they would not use their brains!

After Nuo Luo transformed, his hands came together and his spirit energy was released, forming an ancient totem like source spirit behind him. Chu Tian looked at this source spirit from a distance and couldn't help being stunned. Even he could not see through it, just what kind of attribute source spirit was this!

"Ancestor Heroic Spirit!"

"Come out!"

The totem shined a few times and released four-five streaks of spirit energy. Each streak of spirit energy gathered in the air and finally condensed into a spirit beast soldier wearing elite armour, as well as holding a three tipped two sided long blade.

One, two, three, four...five!

A total of five!

Each summoned wolf soldier was not a real being and was a streak of spirit energy released from Nuo Luo's source spirit. Nuo Luo stood in the center wielding his blades while the five spirit formed soldiers moved around him as they slowly spread out.

Not simple!

Was this totem source spirit's special power to summon spirit warriors to help fight?

The five spirit body warriors had inferior strength to the top grade War Hounds expert Nuo Luo, but they were all in the 7th Awakened Soul Layer. This was equal to having the help of five True Soul Realm experts.

If it were only five additional primary True Soul Realm experts, Shi Xin would not have cared about them. The most terrifying thing was that the five wolf soldiers could not die and spirit body beings were very hard to exterminate. Not to mention that these wolf soldiers were summoned from a source spirit, so killing them had no meaning.

As long as the source was not exterminated and Nuo Luo did not run out of spirit energy, he could maintain these wolf spirit soldiers to fight for him. These five spirit soldiers were completely controlled by Nuo Luo, so they had perfect coordination.

The War Hounds expert really did have skills.

"Roar!"

Nuo Luo's roar sent a powerful shockwave at Shi Xin, who did not dodge as she sent a palm out at it. Nuo Luo flashed forward, charging at Shi Xin while wielding both blades. The five spirit warriors were like five hands attacking from all directions, with blades stabbing at Shi Xin in the center.

Shi Xin was facing six attacks in that instant!

The blood red giant serpent quickly circled around her and blocked the six attacks. Then old woman Shi Xin's hand turned scarlet as she used her flesh to grab Nuo Luo's blades.

Nuo Luo's face fell.

Old woman Shi Xin's blood red hands seemed covered in poison as a red light quickly spread over Nuo Luo's blade. The two skinny hands suddenly twisted and the blade snapped like glass as the blade qi shattered in the air was sent flying back. It wasn't just Nuo Luo's blade qi, it also contained old woman Shi Xin's blood poison, so it was hard to imagine what would happen after being hit.

Nuo Luo quickly withdrew as the five spirit warrior wielded their blades. Each blade's blade qi was sent flying back and they were all sent flying away by this attack.

This confrontation was a tie with Shi Xin having a slight advantage.

Although she didn't have her peak strength, her attainment in her cultivation technique was present, so even coping with a cultivator who was also in the peak 9th Awakened Soul Layer, old woman Shi Xin still had the advantage. Nuo Luo found that the other side was harder to deal with than he had expected. The other War Hounds expert was still fighting with the Dragon Lizard Beast, so the current situation was not good for them.

Shi Xin coldly said, "The spirit beasts only have this little skill?"

Suddenly.

A loud cry came from the sky!

Shi Xin who was fighting with Nuo Luo was shocked because she saw a giant shadow appear above her, which was the Dual Winged Poison Dragon. There was also a flying sedan beside it that was releasing a strong aura.

"It's the human experts!"

The two War Hounds experts' faces fell!

The strength of this old human fellow was already strong enough to make them struggle, not to mention the wild Dragon Lizard Beast. Now there were another group of experts joining the fight, making this situation even more disadvantageous to them.

"Ha, ha, ha, I never thought there would be this kind of coincidence!" Wang Tu stood on the back of the Dual Winged Poison Dragon, "We actually met the famous War Hounds Spirit Soldier General and the Heavenly Demon Cult's famous old woman Shi Xin, our luck isn't bad!"

He finally understood why the other person was so strong.

It was a member of the Heavenly Demon Cult and one who held the leader position!

Whether it was Southern Summer or the War Hounds, the Heavenly Demon Cult was a mutual enemy. Now there were three parties and they were all hostile with one another. Only, in the scarlet blood temple, there was still a sleeping head venerate who was even strong. Once this head venerate came out and worked together with this leader, then the War Hounds and the Southern Summer Country would face a bitter fight.

"These people are in the way, how about we exterminate them all." Zuo Yan softly said, "We can also safely take the hidden treasure. What does brother Wang think?"

"This is interesting!"

Wang Tu and Zuo Yan reached an agreement.

The two of them immediately charged down and launched attacks in two different directions.

Although their cultivation bases were not as high as Shi Xin's and Nuo Luo's, with one having the Flowing Flame Palanquin and the other having the Dual Winged Poison Dragon with astonishing might, even if they fought, they wouldn't suffer a loss.

Old woman Shi Xin knew that she could not leave right now, so she quickly sent a message to Chu Tian with a secret method, "I'll stall them, you go awaken the head venerate!"

"Alright!"

Chu Tian directly agreed, running away without even thinking.

What kind of joke is this?

Two strong demon beasts and five peak True Soul Realm experts, could Chu Tian participate in this fight? When Chu Tian had just left, the Wolf Tribe Warrior, Nuo Luo also spoke to his comrade. The comrade used a strong cultivation technique that he used to turn himself into a demon wolf. He quickly ran the direction Chu Tian had gone.

"Damn!"

Old woman Shi Xin wanted to make a move, but Nuo Luo sent a slash out to stop her. The Dragon Lizard Beast then sent out an attack and old woman Shi Xin had no chance to chase them.

Wang Tu said, "Yi, it seems like two fish have escaped the net!"

"Don't mind them." Zuo Yan softly said, "That Heavenly Demon Cult remnant saw that this situation was bad, so she sent an ordinary member to awaken the head venerate. That person is weak and the War Hounds fellow is chasing him, so he will die."

Whether it was the Southern Summer experts or the War Hounds experts, they had already reached a tacit understanding.

The scarlet blood head venerate could not be awakened.

This Heavenly Demon Cult remnant did not have anyone, so she sent out this weak little believer, but the War Hounds Tribe was good at tracking. With a 9th Awakened Soul Layer War Hounds expert chasing, a trivial 5th Awakened Soul Layer fellow had no way to survive.

As for the War Hounds member that ran?

Forget it.

It did not matter.

This Nuo Luo was famous, so as long as they could take care of him, the one that ran off can't cause any disasters.

"I'll ask for advice from the experts of the Heavenly Demon Cult and the War Hounds Tribe!"

Zuo Yan sat on the Flowing Flame Palanquin as he released a strong spirit energy that soared into the sky. Finally, several long and loud whistles came from the sky as four-five incomparably large meteors quickly fell to the ground.

Meteor Source Spirit?

Zuo Yan's ability was a bit like Nangong Yi's.

Nangong Yi's Volcano Source Spirit had an incredible destructive might, but it had a high expenditure and was very slow. Zuo Yan's source spirit was similar to Nangong Yi's. His source spirit was a meteor with great destructive might, but it had very weak defensive abilities.

However, Zuo Yan had the Flowing Flame Palanquin, a treasure that no Awakened Soul Cultivator could destroy, so Zuo Yan had no fear. Even if he fought experts like Nuo Luo and Shi Xin, he still had the confidence to face them directly.

Wang Tu also dove down to send out an attack.

The Dual Winged Poison Dragon was close to the 9th Awakened Soul Layer and Wang Tu was also in the 9th Awakened Soul Layer. With the man and beast coordinating flawlessly, this strength was sufficient for him to go against a peak 9th Awakened Soul Layer expert.

After all, the title of Winged Dragon General was not given for nothing!

Hong!

The experts of the three sides began their intense life and death battle!

Chapter 283: Scarlet blood temple

A small, snow white fox fell onto Chu Tian's shoulders with crossed arms across its chest and a proud waving tail, revealing to Chu Tian an appearance of taking credit.

The three experts meeting at this place was all because of the little fox.

"Relax! I will remember your merit!" Chu Tian patted the little fox's head, "Wait until we enter the scarlet blood temple, I will let you eat to your stomach's content!"

The little fox revealed a smile and nodded with satisfaction. It did not spend all this energy in vain!

Chu Tian was racing against time while the experts of the three side fought. He had to enter the scarlet blood temple first to obtain a harvest. As Chu Tian continued forward, the scarlet blood temple barrier came closer and closer. The scarlet blood temple was enveloped in a giant circular barrier that, if viewed from above, seemed like a toy inside a bubble of air.

The surrounding swamp land had signs of being rolled and seemed fresh. Chu Tian considered it and thought that this giant air bubble like barrier had been sunk in the swamp, but it recently came up, bringing the scarlet blood temple with it.

This was also the reason why no one had discovered the temple over all those years.

Chu Tian revealed a look of appreciation because this system was very hard for humans to complete. The Heavenly Demon Cult should have found this ruin during their warring kingdom era and had taken it for their own use.

Of course Chu Tian was not an archaeologist. He did not care about its origins, he would talk about that once he looted it.

The entrance was in front of him.

Chu Tian pulled out the token and charged forward. The little fox's hair rose in vigilance as it let out a cry.

"Danger!"

Chu Tian instantly froze and without even thinking, he jumped to the side. A beautiful axe glow fell, narrowly flying past Chu Tian before it slammed into the scarlet blood temple barrier in the distance. Like a drop of water on the lake, it caused a few ripples, but had no other effect on the scarlet blood temple barrier.

Someone had launched a sneak attack!

While Chu Tian turned around, he pulled out the Source Energy Submachine Gun and put in the clip without even looking at it.

This War Hounds expert could not compare with the scarlet blood branch lord he met before. The reason why the branch lord fell so easily was because of his injuries and the fact that he had been poisoned by Chu Tian, reducing his cultivation base.

It wasn't as easy this time.

The Source Energy Gun released seven-eight bullets. The War Hounds expert was a bit shocked and when faced with this unprecedented attack, he slowed his charging speed.

Pa, pa, pa!

Several energy bullets hit the War Hounds expert at the same time. Each energy bullet had a strong might and high temperature with it, but they were all stopped by the enemy's protective spirit energy.

This counter attack was a bit special, but it wasn't that strong!

Humph, it's only this strong!

The War Hounds expert had no worries as he raised his large axe, preparing to cut Chu Tian in half. He would have never expected that behind the countless energy bullets, there would actually be a thin, dark red needle that shot at his eye.

"Roar!"

The War Hounds expert retreated with a pitiful cry.

Chu Tian was hit by a strong energy wave and was sent flying high into the air like a sack. His back slammed into the barrier, and he fell to the ground. There was a faint Starlight Immortal Body glow surrounding him, and his body only suffered minor injuries.

God damn.

A 9th Awakened Soul Layer is actually this strong!

If I were a bit slow, father would have already lost my life!

The War Hounds expert held his eye as he moved several steps back. There was a large amount of blood coming from his eyes, showing that he was surely blinded. The War Hounds expert angrily pulled the red needle from his eye socket and gripped it in his fingers, shattering the needle to pieces.

The little fox gave an angry yell. This was one of the little fox's treasures, but it was actually destroyed by that bastard!

The little fox jumped in front of Chu Tian and indignantly grabbed Chu Tian's clothes. Stand up for this fox and take care of him!

Chu Tian scratched the blood on the corners of his lips and he looked at the little fox, "Stop playing, can't you see the one being beaten is your master?"

The War Hounds expert glared at him with his remaining eye and cursed several times in the spirit beast language. He was mainly calling Chu Tian a weak human and saying that he only knew how to use sneak attacks.

This weak fellow cost me an eye, this is a great shame. I have to cut you to eight pieces to vent my anger!

"Wait!" Chu Tian stood up and called out. The War Hounds expert stopped because it was surprised that this person was using the spirit beast language. Chu Tian said with a serious face, "Before you kill me, can I say one thing?"

The War Hounds expert calmed his expression, "Human, are you prepared to leave your last words?"

"No, I wanted to say..." Chu Tian pointed out at the War Hounds expert. The other side could not understand this and was suspecting that this human was trying to trick him. He only heard the human slowly said, "There is someone behind you!"

Damn, you want to trick me with this?

The War Hounds expert felt like he had been played!

"Die!" The War Hounds expert raised his axe and prepared to slice the other side. However, he suddenly felt a cold feeling from behind him and the terrifying fluctuations of spirit energy followed behind it.

What? There really was someone!

The War Hounds expert was shocked, but turned around too late. Over a dozen snowflakes turned into ice crystals that hit the War Hounds expert's chest like bullets. The terrifying chill quickly invaded his body, making him feel like his blood and veins had all be frozen.

A black clothed human woman was covered in the power of ice as she instantly charged in front of the War Hounds expert. From her aura alone, the War Hounds expert could tell that this person's strength was not beneath his.

"Roar!"

The War Hounds expert gave a loud roar as the large amounts of ice crystals covering his body shattered, falling to the ground. The giant axe was filled with a dominating power as it swept across the air at the enemy. However, it was too slow as Chen Bingyu landed a palm on the chest of the War Hounds expert.

The blood and internal organs of the War Hounds expert were frozen as his protective spirit energy had decreased by a large amount. Now that he had been hit by this wild palm, his visceras were about to shatter.

With this heavy injury, he had almost no chance of survival.

Chu Tian looked at where the War Hounds expert had landed and couldn't help shaking his head as he said with a sigh, "Look, this is the consequence of not believing me."

"Human, do you think you've won?"

"Wolf God, accept my sacrifice!"

The War Hounds expert knew that he was going to die, so he exploded out all of its remaining energy. The fur of the War Hounds expert fell off as its body began to quickly inflate, even changing forms, finally becoming a giant bloody wolf.

This was clearly a very extreme transformation!

The War Hounds expert had used all his vitality and spirit energy to turn himself into this incomparably strong blood wolf. This change was irreversible and when the change was complete, the War Hounds expert lost consciousness. This was a skill for dying together with the enemy.

When he turned into the blood wolf, the War Hounds expert became much stronger, reaching the peak of the 9th Awakened Soul Layer.

Chu Tian's expression slightly fell, "Be careful!"

The blood wolf had no thoughts, having a mind filled with only hatred and killing intent. It did not discriminate people and just attacked whoever it saw with strength that was very shocking. After it was summoned, it first charged at Chen Bingyu because she was the strongest, so she attracted the most attention. As well, Chen Bingyu was the one who killed the War Hounds expert.

When the blood wolf sacrifice technique was used and the blood wolf was summoned, the first target it would attack would be the person who had harmed the user.

Too fast!

A flash appeared in front of Chen Bingyu's eyes.

The wolf spat out a burning red flame.

Chen Bingyu condensed an ice wall to block it, but the high temperature flames instantly shattered the ice wall. Chen Bingyu was forced back several steps, but before she could react, the wolf had charged forward, biting at her.

When the blood wolf's attack was about to hit.

A small white fox appeared in front of it, stabbing at its remaining eye. The blood wolf angrily swung its claw, but the small white fox disappeared with a group of ash grey fog, appearing behind the blood wolf and making a face at it.

The blood wolf could not think, so it immediately turned around to bite at it.

Chu Tian seized this chance to call out, "Quickly come in!"

Saying this, he grabbed the scarlet blood token and charged into the barrier with a flash of light. Chen Bingyu and the far off Nangong Yun saw this, and they also took out their tokens. They rushed at the barrier and they entered with a flash of light.

"Fox, it's fine now!"

The small fox went to the right side of the blood wolf and grabbed the blood wolf's token with its mouth. It charged into the barrier and entered with a flash of light.

The blood wolf angrily charged at the barrier, but without a scarlet blood token, it had no way of entering.

Nangong Yun gave a laugh, "Truly an idiot! Come bite me!"

The blood wolf attacked again and again, but was finally sent flying by the barrier, turning into a bloody mess on the ground!

"Those people will be coming soon." Chu Tian was disinclined to take another look at the blood wolf, "We don't have time to waste here, let's go in."

The three people and one fox entered the gate. The internal situation of the temple left the three of them stunned. The inside was simply a library and a medicine store room!

The left side was filled with various jade slips.

The right side was filled with various jade bottles.

The jade slips must include the Heavenly Demon Cult's demonic cultivation techniques and the jade bottles must contain the plls left behind by the Heavenly Demon Cult. When the three of them reached the second floor, they found it was much smaller than the first, but what was more exciting was that this floor was covered in various types of jewelry and filled with various divine weapons.

Chu Tian opened a treasure box that was filled with large sparkling crystals. Crystals that were divided by a certain unit appeared in front of their eyes.

Nangong Yun asked curiously, "Why is this box filled with little crystals?"

"Idiot, these are source stones. Do you know what source stones are?" Chu Tian looked at Nangong Yun, "This is the common currency of the continent!"

These were source stones? Nangong Yun was filled with joy!

She never thought that there would be so many source stones here. This truly was a large amount of wealth.

When the scarlet blood headquarters was destroyed, they quickly transported all the precious resources here to prepare to rebuild their church. The amount present was very shocking.

Nangong Yun pointed at a gate in front of them, "There's still another floor!"

The first floor was filled with pills and cultivation techniques.

The second floor was filled with weapons, money, and materials.

Then what did the third floor have?

No matter what, with the scale of the first two floors, there were already treasures here worth several billions! This was truly a large harvest!

Chapter 284: Plundering at will

The first floor had pills and cultivation techniques.

The second floor had equipment, materials, and money.

The third floor had to be the core area of the scarlet blood branch.

The scarlet blood head venerate was sleeping deep within, so it was best not to enter the third floor for now. Once the scarlet blood head venerate woke up, the three of them would not have time to plunder anymore.

"We'll go back to the first floor!"

When they saw the blue crystal pill bottles all around them and the small mountain of mysterious cultivation techniques, the three of them revealed excited expressions. They had gained a large harvest this time!

Nangong Yun found a large cotton bag and swept several dozen pill bottles inside.

"Idiot, those are all recovery and support pills. It was hard enough for us to get in here, so if we were to take those pills out, wouldn't we suffer a large loss?" Chu Tian was not polite as he reprimanded Nangong Yun, "You should read some more books, you can't even steal properly at a time like this!"

Nangong Yun said in a depressed voice, "Boss, why are you scolding me? Every second is as precious as gold!"

Chu Tian pointed at several shelves of pills and said, "There, there, and there. Those are all Spirit Grade pills, and there are even a few Saint Grade Pills, which can all promote cultivation bases. Move a bit faster, take as much as you can. If you can't take them, then just directly eat it. Try to eat as many as possible!"

"Then I won't be polite!" Nangong Yun gave three excited laughs, "This old lady has never felt this satisfied before! I have to properly enjoy today!"

The little fox did not need Chu Tian to say anything before it began moving. This fellow jumped onto the pill shelf and began to swallow the pill bottles into its stomach. It had swept over several hundred different pill bottles!

How incredible was this sweeping speed?

How could Chu Tian lose to this damn fox?

Chu Tian raised his Limitless Gourd to suck things in. Once the gourd began, it took several seconds for multiple rows of precious pills to be sucked in.

Nangong Yun and Chen Bingyu were filled with envy, but it was a pity that space storage items were valuable items in the Southern Summer Country. Only the Southern Summer King and the Three Rulers had one-two items, so they did not even dare think about it.

What could they do if the storage they prepared was filled?

Eat!

Chu Tian pointed to a pill, "This is a half Sacred Grade Pill refined from ten thousand year old jade marrow. The ten thousand year old jade marrow is mainly used to improve one's foundation and physique. The energy contained within isn't too big and is quite gentle, so you can eat them without care!"

Chu Tian personally gave an example. He took a jade bottle and poured out five-six pills. Each pilled was like pills of white jade, giving off an attractive aura.

He did not look as he threw them all into his mouth.

The five-six white jade marrow pills entered his mouth and he felt several streams of energy flow into his abdomen, immediately flowing around his body. It was like it wa seeping into his bone marrow, making him feel a comfortable feeling.

Nangong Yun and Chen Bingyu quickly opened the bottles and threw the pills in their mouths.

Chu Tian pointed to another pill, "This is a third level Spirit Pill. Nangong Yun and I can't take it, but elder sister Bing can use it. It is very helpful for attacking your bottleneck."

Third level Spirit Pill!

This was refined using level three Elixirs!

The Alchemist had to have a corresponding strength to refine it!

This kind of pill was rare in the Southern Summer Country. Only with the power of the Heavenly Demon Warring Kingdom could this pill be stored in large amounts.

Chen Bingyu opened several bottles to pour out a dark gold pill, each one having a fine pill mark on it. There was a strong energy surrounding it that was beating like a heart.

Such strong energy fluctuations!

A Spirit Pill was refined using Elixir level materials.

A third level Spirit Pill energy could not compare with the second level Sacred Pill, but overall, it surpassed the second level Sacred Pill. Chen Bingyu swallowed many third level Spirit Pills at once and it felt like her entire body was burning.

The incredibly firm bottleneck was fiercely attacked by the spirit energy and it also showed faint traces of being broken.

The higher one's cultivation base was, the more difficult it was to breakthrough. Now there were signs of her bottleneck breaking, how could she not be happy? Chen Bingyu was already at the 9th Awakened Soul Layer and if she could take a step forward, she would be a powerful existence comparable to the Eight Marquises!

Nangong Yun also ate several pills at once.

With quite a few half Sacred and Sacred Grade pills among them.

"I can't keep going, I'm about to explode. I can't eat anymore!"

Chu Tian had already eaten to his limit. This era's pill refining method was a bit crude, but the large amount he had stuffed into his stomach was considered quite a bit. Chu Tian could feel that as long as he had a few days' worth of time, he would be able to break through to the peak 5th Awakened Soul Layer.

As for the little fox?

This fellow had taken away a third of the pills.

He was still taking pills away at an astonishing speed!

The appetite of this fellow was quite terrifying. It seemed like the space within him was inexhaustible!

But this was a good thing. This fellow was storing large amounts of pills within him, he couldn't possibly digest them all. He would just need to threaten the fox when they reached Imperial City and have him obediently spit out a portion.

"Let's go!"

"Now let's go to the second floor!"

Their stomachs were about to explode, so now they were heading to the second floor. When they saw the large amounts of materials, their eyes were stunned. Chu Tian did not have much space left in his gourd, so he could only pick out a few things.

"There are actually Starlight Stones here!"

Chu Tian discovered several large pieces of Starlight Stones. He had to take away the materials needed to cultivate the Starlight Immortal Body and it didn't take that much space anyway.

"Yi, it's Blood Yin Steel!"

Chu Tian opened a little treasure box that held several metal ingots. It was a strange, bright red colour with natural lines running across the surface, releasing a faint evil aura.

Nangong Yun immediately asked, "What is this Blood Yin Steel?"

"Do you know about the little fox's needle?"

"Of course I do. That needle can penetrate protective spirit energy!" Nangong Yun thought of something and revealed a look of joy, "Hey, hey, you wouldn't be telling me that this is all..."

Chu Tian nodded, "The little fox's Blood Yin Needle was forged from level two Blood Yin Steel. These metal ingots are all level two Blood Yin Steel, but I never thought there would be this much!"

Nangong Yun was stunned, "Couldn't we refine over a thousand of those penetrating little needles?"

Chu Tian opened several different treasures chests that looked the same and found that they were all filled with level two Blood Yin Steel. He then revealed an excited expression, "We have more than enough to spare even if we made a weapon!"

This weapon could disregard spirit energy defenses, just thinking about that would shock anyone.

Of course, the Blood Yin Steel was by no means perfect. It could only ignore energy defenses and the Blood Yin Steel itself was only a level two material, so if the enemy had high level armour, even if their protective spirit energy could be ignored, the armour could not be penetrated.

Chu Tian had a new idea.

With this large amount of Blood Yin Steel, if they could be turned into bullets, the effects would naturally be good. He would need to design a new firearm that could send out spirit energy to fire these Blood Yin Steel bullets. Then he would have to engrave armour penetrating arrays on the bullets, which would allow them to instantly kill any Awakened Soul Cultivators!

Chu Tian took out all the Blood Yin Steel and put it into the gourd's space before looking for other useful materials.

It had to be said that the Heavenly Demon Cult was truly rich. The scarlet blood branch was just a branch sect and this scarlet blood temple was just a temporary hideout, so the things sent here would only be a small portion of the whole. Even so, this stash was still a large treasure that could create a stir throughout the entire Southern Summer Country!

There were several boxes of source energy stones!

Chu Tian estimated that there were several million source energy stones here, but there was no difference in grades and they were all low grade source energy stones. It was a pity that these source energy stones took up so much space. Although they were the common currency of the continent, it was not worth Chu Tian filling the gourd with these items that had such little value.

"Are you guys done yet?"

When Nangong Yun appeared in front of him, Chu Tian suffered a fright.

This fellow was wearing a gold thread vest with blood red armour around it and on the outside there was a large red cloak. Her ten slender, snow white fingers were covered in rings and there were seven-eight bracelets adorning her revealed snow white arm. She had four-five necklaces around her neck with several long swords, spears, and halberds on her back. She had even forced on three layers of boots.

Chu Tian was instantly speechless, "Aren't you too exaggerated!"

"Nonsense!" Nangong Yun's body of equipment trembled as she spoke, "Do you know how much these items are worth?"

Chu Tian looked at Chen Bingyu at the side. He never thought that the aloof her would also act like a nouveau riche at this moment. This seemed like it was in a woman's nature.

"Pick your items well, pick your items well, don't be greedy!" Chu Tian gave a few awkward coughs, "We're not lacking in money. If others saw you like this, they would think that I'm not raising you well!"

"Who needs to be raised by you!"

"Grab the items faster!"

Chen Bingyu and Nangong Yun were very exaggerated, but all these items were high grade soul items, so they had very strong enhancement effects.

Chu Tian ignited his Mind's Lamp and swept across the room. There were several items and materials that made his divine sense change.

"This cape isn't bad!" Chu Tian walked to a corver and picked up an ordinary cape, "This is a top grade soul item!"

Chen Bingyu coldly said, "I also took several top grade soul items, it's not that strange."

Chen Bingyu had already opened her Mind's Eye, so she could sweep through the room and naturally she found several high grade items. Who would have thought that Chu Tian would say disdainfully, "Even if they are both top grade soul items, if we were to compare them, your items would be far too lacking!"

Chen Bingyu's brows jumped up as she was not convinced.

Chu Tian smiled at her and placed the cloak in front of him, disappearing from their sights.

Chen Bingyu gave a snort, "I was wondering what ability it had, but isn't it just a stealth ability?"

Mind's Eye!

Chen Bingyu released her Mind's Eye.

What surprised Chen Bingyu was that under her Mind's Eye, she couldn't see where Chu Tian was. There was a hand that appeared behind her that fell onto Chen Bingyu's shoulder, then she saw Chu Tian's cheap smile appear in her view, "How about that? Although this cape does not have an amplifying effect, it can hide from divine sense. This is not a common ability!"

This cloak could shield against divine sense, making it a powerful stealth weapon!

Naturally, this cloak could stop Chen Bingyu's Mind's Eye divine sense, but if Chu Tian used his Mind's Lamp, even if a person was wearing this cloak, he would be able to find them.

The Mind's Lamp divine sense was much higher than the Mind's Eye divine sense!

Chu Tian took a few more items, but at this time, from outside the scarlet blood temple, there was the sound of explosions. Those fellows fighting were about to reach the temple.

"We're going to the third floor!"

Chapter 285: Scarlet blood head venerate

When they stood at the third floor entrance scarlet blood, a dark pressure from within came over them. Even though they had not entered yet, there was a thick blood smell congealing in the air. It was like there was a sea of blood behind these large doors. As long as they were opened, the blood would begin to wildly pour out.

Chu Tian looked at the two girls, "Prepare yourselves, I'm about to open it!"

Chen Bingyu and Nangong Yun nodded, they had made their preparations!

Chu Tian used force to push open the metal doors and instantly, a red light enveloped them. The three of them felt their bodies tremble at the same time. There were blood red evil ghosts behind the door, densely packed inside, filling the entire main hall.

Nangong Yun was shocked, "This is bad, there's an ambush!"

Why were there so many monsters here?

When Nangong Yun raised her hammer to launch an attack, a divine sense suddenly entered Nangong Yun's mind. A flash appeared in Nangong Yun's eyes as countless blood red evil ghost disappeared from in front of her.

"What happened just now?"

"Just an illusion, a small trick."

Chu Tian did not care about this at all. Not to mention the "Mind's Lamp" realm's divine sense being able to break through most illusions, even with the special ability of his main spirit alone, Chu Tian did not need to fear any illusion techniques.

Of course the "Mind's Lamp" could affect the people around him.

So, Chu Tian used it to help Chen Bingyu and Nangong Yun break their illusions.

The scarlet blood temple's third floor was not as big as the other two floors and did not have mountains of precious items. There were only a few fierce statues silently standing there and a stone platform in the center.

A scarlet artifact around thirty centimeters tall was placed on it.

It was covered in scarlet lines and blood filaments were floating around it. A powerful aura was released from the item, giving off a strong suppressive feeling.

If their guess was not wrong, the strong blood scent in the air and the illusion they just saw should have all been caused by this thing.

"It's just like in the book." Nangong Yun revealed a look of pleasant surprise, "The scarlet blood sacred item – the blood chalice!"

The three of them were certain that the blood chalice Chu Tian wanted was the item right in front of them. This blood chalice was also the most important sacred item for the scarlet blood branch, so there was nothing unusual about the abilities it had.

Nangong Yun excitedly said, "I bet it's at least a Soul Contracting Item!"

Chu Tian rolled his eyes at her, "Can you not speak nonsense!"

Nangong Yun felt indignant. Was this considered nonsense?

Soul Contracting Items were rare!

Chu Tian had several Soul Contracting Items like the Netherworld Sword and the Soul Controlling Bell, which were all taken from the ten thousand ancient corpse tomb. He did not know the origin of this ten thousand ancient corpse tomb, but he was certain that the sect that built it was stronger than the Heavenly Demon Cult. That's why there were Soul Contracting Items in the ten thousand ancient corpse tomb and why there were still things left after ten thousand years of excavation.

The Fox Faced Corpse King.

As well as the little fox.

Didn't they all come from the ten thousand corpse ancient tomb?

That ancient sect had already disappeared for over ten thousand years.

The Heavenly Demon Cult had only been destroyed for several hundred years.

The Heavenly Demon Cult did not have as many Soul Contracting Items as the Yin Corpse Valley, but each branch had one as their sacred item. This blood chalice's strength was not inferior to the Netherworld Sword and may even be a bit stronger.

This did not mean that the blood chalice's grade was higher than the Netherworld Sword.

The blood chalice had been sealed for a few hundred years and its power had already decreased by a large amount. The Netherworld Sword had been asleep for close to ten thousand years. These were two completely different concepts.

Nangong Yun charged over, "I'll go and grab it!"

The blood chalice was the most important treasure of the scarlet blood branch and now that they had plundered most of the temple, they just needed to take the blood chalice and they could leave!

"Wait!"

Chu Tian quickly stopped Nangong Yun.

Nangong Yun asked with a frown, "What are you doing? The Soul Contracting Item is in front of our eyes, what reason do we have to not take it!"

"Nangong, I have to reprimand you. If you don't use your brain for a long time, it will rust away."

Nangong Yun's teeth itched with anger. How does this old lady not use her brain?

"Can you not see it? The blood chalice has recognized a master. If we take it away now, the blood chalice will not change masters and we won't be able to use its strength!"

Most Soul Contracting Items will have a simple consciousness, so they will recognize a master. Back in the ten thousand corpse ancient tomb, the Yin Wind Swordsman Wan Wuyi had tried to seize the Thunder Spirit Bead, but he had been injured by it. Chu Tian did not have a way to use the Thunder Spirit because of the spirit's resistance.

This was an advantage and a shortcoming.

The advantage was that once the Soul Contracting Item took a master, unless the master wanted to separate or the master died, the spirit will never choose another master.

The shortcoming was that if one wanted to forcefully use the Soul Contracting Item, if one did not have a suitable attribute or cultivation technique, they would be rejected by the Soul Contracting Item.

"Then what should we do?"

"Don't be anxious!" Chu Tian opened the Mind's Eye and carefully observed the chalice, "There is an array around the hall and the chalice is suppressing the core of the array. If it is rashly taken away, the large array will activate. If the array activates, it will use some kind of power that will awaken the scarlet blood head venerate."

"Ah?" Nangong Yun had an awkward expression, "Then what's the best plan of action? Doesn't this mean it's impossible for us to take the blood chalice?"

This truly was a troublesome matter.

A precious item was in front of them.

If they couldn't take it, it would be a large regret on this mission!

Hong, long, long...

The exterior scarlet blood temple barrier began to tremble!

Chen Bingyu reminded them, "There are people coming!"

"We have no method and no time." Nangong Yun shouted to Chu Tian, "We have already gained enough, we should retreat now. If they notice the situation inside the temple, they will surely go crazy! It is just a broken chalice, it doesn't matter if we don't take it!"

The first two floors had mostly been cleaned by the three of them, especially the previous pills and materials. There were only useless cultivation techniques, worthless pills, and normal materials.

The ones that came on this treasure hunt were not ordinary people.

They would surely go crazy once they saw this scene!

"You two take the Image Hiding Talismans and leave first!" Chu Tian threw several talismans to the two of them, "Go outside and wait, I will take care of this place!"

"Can you do it?"

"Just go!"

Nangong Yun and Chen Bingyu had to choose to believe in Chu Tian.

The two of them activated the Image Hiding Talismans and left the scarlet blood temple. These Image Hiding Talismans could not avoid divine sense, but in a situation where the other side did not know about them, it was enough for them to leave.

Loud explosion sounds came from the first floor!

The wild energy exploded and the pills and jade slips fell to the ground.

Chu Tian felt that he did not have much time. He took a deep breath and grabbed the blood chalice, raising it high up. A scarlet glow illuminated the hall, as several complicated lines appeared on the ground. It intertwined in countless places before finally creating a large source energy array.

The scarlet blood temple began to tremble.

The source energy array turned red, like it was creating a world of blood. Red lightning flashed in all four directions as a blood red stone coffin began to slowly rise from the ground. An ancient and vast aura filled the air, and a kind of strength that sent a chill down one's spine quickly surged throughout the entire space.

Chu Tian was sent flying, slamming against the wall. The blood chalice left his hand and automatically flew to the stone coffin, falling on the crown of the coffin. Suddenly, it tipped several degrees and a bright red liquid fell from inside the cup onto the stone coffin.

This bright red liquid spread across the stone coffin, finally seeping into a crack on the coffin and was completely absorbed.

Fuck!

This blood chalice was restoring the head venerate's strength!

At this time, the scarlet blood temple trembled once again.

"This little Heavenly Demon Cult member greets the head venerate!" Chu Tian rushed to the stone coffin and shouted in a sad voice, "I ask sir head venerate to come out as soon as possible. All the branch lords are dead and only the leader is left, being surrounded by experts to protect the head venerate. My scarlet blood branch will soon be eliminated!"

"What did you say?"

A voice came from within the coffin.

This voice was very twisted, sounding like a man and woman's voice. It was high pitched and strange, just like a child's voice, but with a sinister tone to it.

"Sir head venerate, several thieves coveting the scarlet blood branch treasure are outside!"

Hong!

The cover of the blood red coffin exploded.

A red form flew out from within.

Chu Tian looked up and was instantly stunned.

The head venerate was only three feet tall, having the appearance of a child. His skin was blood red and his fingernails were as sharp as blades, making him look like a bewitching monster.

People with strange appearances had strange powers.

This head venerate looked this strange, he would not have simple methods!

"The scarlet blood branch is one of the ten main Heavenly Demon Cult branches, yet it can actually be reduced to this kind of situation!" The child formed head venerate roared into the sky with a voice even more piercing than a blade. Cracks formed on the floor as Chu Tian's heart skipped several beats, "Violating my scarlet blood branch, death!"

The head venerate flew into the air, holding the blood chalice like it didn't weigh anything. He quickly flew across the palace. So fast!

Chu Tian was secretly surprised!

The scarlet blood head venerate who just awoken was not inferior to the peak 9th Awakened Soul Layer!

This recovery rate was truly shocking. Of course a part of it was due to the blood chalice. It was a good thing that Chu Tian had agitated the scarlet blood head venerate, not giving him time to recover any further.

"Very good!"

"Now it all depends on luck!"

Chu Tian raised the cloak he had just obtained and disappeared into nothing, fading from this area.

At this time, Wang Tu, Zuo Yan, the two War Hounds experts, and the scarlet blood leader Shi Xin had charged into the temple. The scene they saw in front of them instantly shocked them.

There were only a few pills remaining on the thousand shelves.

Large piles of empty bottles were lying on the ground.

What happened here?

Where was the scarlet blood temple's treasures?

While the five experts were dumbfounded, from within the hall came a terrifying strength that the War Hound Tribe's Nuo Luo, Wang Tu, and Zuo Yan all felt. An unprecedented sense of danger enveloped them…..There was no need to say anything! The scarlet blood head venerate had awakened!

"The scarlet blood old monster is awake!"

"Damn, is the scarlet blood treasure fake?"

Everyone almost exploded with anger. They had taken all that risk to search for treasure, but they saw no precious treasure at all. Rather, they had to fight with an old monster like the scarlet blood head venerate!

Shi Xin laughed, "The head venerate has awakened, you should all prepare to die!"

Although she didn't know what had happened, the most important thing was to first kill the intruders.

"The scarlet blood old monster is a common enemy for Southern Summer and the War Hounds." Wang Tu said to the War Hound Tribe's Nuo Luo, "We should lay down our grudges and take care of this old monster together!"

"Alright!"

Nuo Luo was thinking the same thing!

Chapter 286: Cleaning up the mess

When faced with the recovered pressure of the head venerate, the Southern Summer experts took the initiative to form a temporary alliance with the War Hounds expert.

"First, let's kill this old thing!"

Wang Tu, Zuo Yan, and Nuo Luo, the three experts began to attack together.

The scarlet blood leader Shi Xin could not fight all three of them and was instantly sent flying with severe injuries, but they three of them could not continue attacking.

In the main hall, a large gust filled the hall as a red figure quickly arrived above their heads. A cloud of blood red energy condensed above that person's head as countless blood red energy needles began to fall like rain onto the three of them.

"Only this strong!"

Zuo Yan used his Flowing Flame Palanquin to welcome it. As the strong energy needles hit the Flowing Flame Palanquin, they were all sent flying and the Flowing Flame Palanquin suffered no damage.

Wang Tu and Nuo Luo saw this and quickly moved behind the Flowing Flame Palanquin. They had already been fighting for a long time, so they had used over half their spirit energy. They had to control their usage, saving every last bit of energy to have a better chance in fighting the scarlet blood head venerate.

The red cloud began to condense, growing several times denser than before, and then finally took the form of a fist, slamming down at the Flowing Flame Palanquin. This ancient treasure was sent flying like a meteor as most of the temple's outer walls were destroyed by this attack, revealing the faint red sky outside.

"Damn!"

Zuo Yan could feel that several cracks were formed on the Flowing Flame Palanquin. Since the Nangong Family had given Zuo Yan this treasure, it had never been damaged before. He never thought that a single attack from the scarlet blood head venerate, would be able to cause this much destruction!

The head venerate's three foot tall body floated in the air, slowly drifting out of the blood cloud. That blood red energy continued to change behind him until it finally transformed into a dark red skeleton.

Nuo Luo released his five spirit warriors without hesitation.

The five spirits turned into wolf soldiers wielding long blades, charging out from Nuo Luo's body and rushing at the head venerate from different directions. The head venerate did not move at all as the spirit soldier's long blades fell onto the skeleton, but it was blocked and it could not penetrate it at all.

Scarlet flames spread across their blades and the five spirit warriors were lit up, instantly turning into ashes.

Nuo Luo's face fell!

The giant dark red skeleton should be the scarlet blood head venerate's source spirit, but they never thought it would be that strong. It broke the Flowing Flame Palanquin with a single fist and it could envelope his body, comparable to top grade defensive cultivation techniques. With both offense and defense, as well as the blood chalice in hand, constantly restoring himself and having inexhaustible spirit energy, he was in an almost impregnable position.

Moreover.

The scarlet blood head venerate had just awoken, so the longer the fight drew on, the stronger he would become. In the end, he would reach a level that an Awakened Soul Realm Cultivator could not defeat, so this situation was very serious.

Shi Xin excitedly shouted, "Greetings to the head venerate!"

"Shi Xin, what happened here?" When the head venerate looked over the plundered scarlet blood temple, his eyes almost spouted out flames, "Why did this!"

Old woman Shi Xin was a bit stunned.

She had finally reacted to this.

That's right, who had looted the scarlet blood temple?

This temple had sunk several hundred meters in the poisonous swamp for a long time, so it was impossible for people to come in before the temple was opened. Also, she had come in with the others at the same time.

Could it be...

The only ones who could have entered before were Leng Jun and the War Hounds expert.

The head venerate being released meant that the War Hounds expert had failed and Leng Jue was still inside the temple. Although she didn't know what happened, the person that was the most suspicious, wouldn't it be the unnoticed Leng Jue?

Nuo Luo sniffed the air, "There are three people's scent at least."

"Damn!" Wang Tu said through gritted teeth, "There were people who took advantage of us fighting to secretly loot this place! This is simply unforgivable!"

Shi Xin shouted with a sinister face, "Leng Jue, I know you're here. Scram out here for me now!"

There was not a single sound in and out of the hall.

The scarlet blood head venerate was a bit surprised. The person who had looted the scarlet blood temple was actually the person that had awakened him? If it was like this, he would still be in the palace.

Mind's Eye!

The scarlet blood head venerate used his Mind's Eye to look around.

In the end, what made the scarlet blood head venerate surprised was the fact that brat had disappeared without a trace!

"Shadow Cloak!"

"It's the Shadow Cloak!"

"He has stolen the Shadow Cloak! Everything here was done by him!"

The head venerate naturally flew into a rage. With the scarlet blood temple being looted like this, they had lost several billions in Southern Summer gold coins. Those high grade soul weapons, top grade soul weapons, those Sacred Medicines and Pills, those top grade materials, which one wasn't a precious item!

This was the starting resource to rebuilt the Heavenly Demon Cult!

"Shi Xin!" The head venerate sent out a slap and Shi Xin was slammed into the wall. She had already been injured, but this made her injuries even more serious. However, with the head venerate attacking her, she did not dare to block it, "Look at what you have done!"

Old woman Shi Xin spat out several mouthfuls of blood and kneeled on the floor, "Sir head venerate, spare me. I have a method of finding him!"

After saying this.

She took out a scroll.

"If you don't come out, then I will destroy your spirit!"

The scarlet blood temple was silent without a single sound being made. When old woman Shi Xin saw this, she could only steel her heart as she released her spirit energy and crushed the spirit contract scroll.

There was no change at all.

Old woman Shi Xin was stunned once again.

What was happening here? She could tell with the contract scroll that Leng Jue was looking at them. He was even sneaking around, hiding himself with the Shadow Cloak!

Wang Tu, Zuo Yan, and Nuo Luo saw this and grew even more indignant.

Wang Tu coldly said, "Since the scarlet blood temple's treasures have been taken, it is not worth going all out. I'm leaving!"

"I had the same idea!"

Zuo Yan was aggrieved over the Flowing Flame Palanquin. He had lost quite a bit during this treasure hunt.

In the current scarlet blood temple, although there were large amounts of cultivation techniques and materials, the high quality goods had already been picked out. The ones remaining were valuable, but for people of their status, it was not worth them fighting all out against the scarlet blood head venerate.

"Want to leave?"

"Can you even leave!"

The scarlet blood head venerate's rage head reached a peak. He raised the blood chalice high up and thick spirit energy surged forward like waves in the sea. The walls of the temple was shattered as the three of them were pushed outside.

"Old villain, since you won't stop, I'll fight you to the end!"

Wang Tu roared out and the Dual Winged Poison Dragon fell in holding the scarlet blood token in its claw. It passed through the blood red barrier and swung its poisonous barbed tail to attack.

"Scram!"

The head venerate's source spirit sent out a palm and grabbed the Dual Winged Poison Dragon's tail. The Dual Winged Poison Dragon was shocked and spat out poison flames, which was no use when it hit the head venerate, being blocked by the source spirit that enveloped him.

The head venerate gave a roar. The Dual Winged Poison Dragon was slammed to the floor and red energy was released from the blood chalice. It instilled itself into the arm of the skeleton and formed a red spear around it that stabbed into the Dual Winged Poison Dragon.

"No!"

Wang Tu shouted with red eyes.

The blood red spear pierced the Dual Winged Poison Dragon, stabbing it into the ground. The Dual Winged Poison Dragon gave a cry of struggle as the blood poison quickly passed through its body, creating red dots along its skin before it finally turned into a pool of blood.

The head venerate erupted with energy once again.

The spear in the skeleton's hand changed into a giant bow and arrow, instantly aiming at Zuo Yan preparing to run. The Flowing Flame Palanquin was already cracked and if he suffered another heavy blow now, it would not be able avoid having a large hole being created in it.

Zuo Yan had no choice but to jump out, escaping the Flowing Flame Palanquin, avoiding being killed by the arrow. The scarlet blood head venerate's strength already surpassed normal peak 9th Awakened Soul Layer Cultivators and now he had the Soul Contracting blood chalice, this was not something an Awakened Soul Cultivator could block.

Nuo Luo did not have a good relation with the Southern Summer people, so why would he save them? He immediately put away his dual blades and escaped outside.

The head venerate pointed in the air.

A powerful array was released and spirit energy erupted as the arrow was shot at Nuo Luo. When Nuo Luo was about to escape the temple, the arrow pierced his spirit energy protection and entered his body. Nuo Luo spat out a mouthful of blood, but he did not stop and accelerated, escaping the scarlet blood temple in one fell swoop.

Wang Tu saw the Dual Winged Poison Dragon slowly stop struggling as it turned into a pool of blood. He knew that his mount could not be saved, so he gritted his teeth as he pulled out a talisman and slapped it to the floor.

With an explosive sound.

A thick layer of soil rose from the ground of the first floor.

"Go!"

Wang Tu and Zuo Yan jumped off in retreat.

The head venerate sent out a large blade, directly cutting the earth barrier apart. When he prepared to chase after the two of them, his body suddenly swayed and almost fell from the air.

Damn!

He had used too much spirit energy!

The scarlet blood head venerate had just awakened and was in a weakened state right now, so a period of going all out had drained most of his spirit energy. Although the blood chalice was in hand and his strength could quickly recover, the several seconds it left the other party gave them the chance to escape.

Wang Tu and Zuo Yan quickly ran off.

Old woman Shi Xin had a sunken face, feeling very disturbed. This time, the scarlet blood branch had lost a lot and she had a huge responsibility for this. She never would have imagined that boy would actually be a spy!

But, where was he hiding right now?

Why was the spirit contract no use?

"Are you looking for us?"

A familiar voice entered old woman Shi Xin's ears and her expression instantly underwent a great change. But what followed was a dense amount of light bullets that fell against old woman Shi Xin's body.

"Bastard! I'll kill you!"

Old woman Shi Xin was hit by many bullets and her protective spirit energy dimmed significantly. When she raised her hand to attack, a cold aura came from her left and a palm slapped the back of her head.

Peng!

Old woman Shi Xin's head exploded, turning into countless ice crystals falling onto the ground.

The illustrious Heavenly Demon Cult leader actually died being filled with hate like this.

"Ah!!"

The head venerate noticed them, but because his spirit energy was dried up, he could not stop them in time. Old woman Shi Xin was killed in front of him and he could only let out a roar of rage!

Chu Tian walked over with Nangong Yun by his side. Chen Bingyu charged forward revealing a stance of preparing to fight.

"One of the Heavenly Demon Cult's prestigious members was actually killed by little people like you." The scarlet blood head venerate's face turned extremely dark, "But you do really think you can fight this venerate? Wishful thinking!"

"First don't say things like that. If I didn't have any assurance, how could I have possibly let you out?"

Chu Tian looked at the little fox and the little fox suddenly sucked in. The overflowing energy of the blood chalice was sucked away and was swallowed by the little fox.

"What?!" The head venerate's expression fell, "What kind of spirit beast is this, it can strip the chalice of its power!"

"First don't be surprised that quickly! Little fox, now it's up to you!"

The little fox spat out a soul puppet and it revealed a look of pain in its sparkling eyes. This was the final summon of the Hell Fire Demon.

Green light soared into the air.

An incomparably giant burning man appeared in front of the scarlet blood head venerate!

Chapter 287: Dying together

The scarlet blood head venerate was not a simple person.

Since he had released him, he would take care of him, this was Chu Tian's principle.

Otherwise, the scarlet blood head venerate would develop his strength in the Southern Summer Country and become a large hidden danger. Countless Southern Summer citizens will be implicated and it would be hard to guarantee that Miracle Commerce wouldn't be affected.

If he didn't cut the roots, they would cause endless trouble in the future!

"Go!"

Chu Tian gave an order.

The little fox jumped onto the Hell Fire Demon's head. Under the order of the little fox, the Hell Fire Demon charged at the scarlet blood head venerate.

Chu Tian wasn't confident for no reason.

The scarlet blood head venerate was stronger than the Hell Fire Demon by a bit, but with the little fox there to suppress it, not only could it weaken the scarlet blood head venerate's demonic cultivation technique, it could also stop the scarlet blood head venerate from healing with the blood chalice.

While the scarlet blood head venerate was at his weakest.

It was the best time to take him out!

Chen Bingyu did not need to make her move, her job was to protect Chu Tian and Nangong Yun because while they were fighting, it was hard to guarantee that the scarlet blood head venerate would not try to take the firewood from beneath the pot by attacking Chu Tian.

Chen Bingyu naturally was not the head venerate's match.

But she could still block one or two attacks. After all, Chen Bingyu practiced the Starlight Immortal Body, so her strength was still very strong.

Dong, dong, dong!

The Hell Fire Demon charged at the head venerate, sending a giant flaming fist at him.

The head venerate's little body was floating in the air, surrounded by the red skeleton. The skeleton also raised a fist and sent it out at the oncoming Hell Fire Demon.

A giant explosion!

The Hell Fire Demon's dark green flames and the blood red skeleton's blood energy collided with each other, emitting a sound like water and fire mixing together. The head venerate's blood power had a strong corrosive strength, so it had a very strong advantage when fighting against normal cultivators.

However.

The Hell Fire Demon was an elemental life form and did not have a flesh and blood form!

The head venerate's power was restrained against the Hell Fire Demon, and also, the green abyss flame could melt the blood energy. So from this point, the Hell Fire Demon's power could restrain the scarlet blood head venerate.

Both sides were pushed back a step.

The little fox urged the Hell Fire Demon to attack again and the scarlet blood head venerate refused to fall back as he condensed a long, giant spear, stabbing once again at the Hell Fire Demon.

The Hell Fire Demon had no fear as it condensed flames around its right fist, slamming it at the skeleton. At this time, the little fox stood up to breathe in and when the long spear in the blood skeleton's hand stabbed at the Hell Fire Demon, it forcefully pulled away apart by an external force and the condensed weapon fell apart.

The scarlet blood head venerate could feel that his demonic cultivation technique had weakened by 30%.

Damn!

What was happening here?

This unprecedented spirit beast had an ability that surpassed his imagination. It was the strongest restraining force against demonic cultivators!

The little fox could easily break through any demonic cultivation techniques and its method was not that difficult. It was just pulling the wood from under the fire, directly pulling away the enemy's power!

The scarlet blood head venerate wanted to move back, but reacted too late.

The Hell Fire Demon sent out another powerful fist that slammed into the scarlet blood head venerate's body. A giant hole was created in the blood skeleton and the wild power landed on the scarlet blood head venerate, making him feel like he was being torn apart. Spitting out a mouthful of blood, he was sent flying dozens of meters away.

Nangong Yun loudly shouted, "Little fox! Good move! Beat that devil to death!"

The little fox complacently waved its tail as it quickly urged the Hell Fire Demon forward, raising its large foot to step on the scarlet blood head venerate. The scarlet blood head venerate raised both his hands, but the immense pressure hit like a mountain, making the scarlet blood head venerate feel powerless.

This monster was too strong!

If this were to continue, the situation would be bad!

The scarlet blood head venerate was pushed back several steps by the Hell Fire Demon. The scarlet blood head venerate stimulated the blood chalice, trying to use the blood chalice to recover his spirit energy.

How could the little fox give him that chance?

It would all be taken by this fox!

The little fox forcefully sucked in.

The energy of the blood chalice was all drawn away by this little fellow. It even smacked its lips a few times like it was enjoying the taste!

The scarlet blood head venerate almost went crazy with anger!

How could these weak little people force him into this kind of situation?

If he was in his peak, these kinds of small characters would not even enter his eyes.

"Die!"

The scarlet blood head venerate created four-five blood arrows with a wave of his hand, but this time it wasn't aimed at the Hell Fire Demon, but rather all aimed at Chu Tian. Faced with this attack, Chen Bingyu had long made preparations, creating three clear ice walls at the same time.

The arrows broke one ice wall after the other.

Finally, when the arrows appeared in front of them, most of the energy had been dispersed and Chen Bingyu shattered them with a single palm. The scarlet blood head venerate was being chased by the Hell Fire Demon and had his cultivation technique suppressed by the little fox, he did not have time to gather his strength.

Chen Bingyu was not the same, she had been making preparations to defend the whole time.

A quick attack against a defense that had been silently waiting, it was hard for this sneak attack to succeed.

The scarlet blood head venerate was becoming weaker and weaker, he could tell that this situation was bad. If this continued, he would eventually die. He no longer fought the Hell Fire Demon and turned around to charge towards the barrier.

You want to run?

The scarlet blood line's head venerate of the ten great Heavenly Demon Cult branches was actually running away from a few Southern Summer small kingdom people. If this were known by the Heavenly Demon Cult founder, he would spit out blood from his rage. However, how could Chu Tian let the scarlet blood head venerate escape? Wasn't this leaving trouble for the future!

The little fox's form flashed as it turned into a mass of ash gray smoke, very quickly appearing in front of the head venerate.

Teleportation?!

The scarlet blood head venerate's expression changed, he had indeed underestimated this spirit beast too much. Because the little fox had suddenly appeared, the scarlet blood head venerate was not certain what skills the little fox had. He quickly decelerated and the Hell Fire Demon caught up, slamming a fist into the head venerate's back.

The head venerate was sent flying again.

The little fox seized this chance to jump out, grabbing at the head venerate's blood chalice. When the little fox grabbed the blood chalice, a large amount of strange ancient runes appeared on the chalice and the scarlet blood head venerate could feel his contract with the blood chalice disappearing.

"Die!"

The head venerate wanted to send out a palm to slap it to death.

Peng!

The little fox disappeared into a mass of gray fog.

What stunned the head venerate was that the blood chalice had disappeared with the little fox!

The most important sacred object of the scarlet blood branch, while in the head venerate's hands, had been stolen by a little fox!

This was like a ruthless slap across the head venerate's face.

This made the head venerate lose all his reasoning, his seven orifices began to release flood as his blood red hair floated in the sky and blood flames was released from his body.

Chu Tian was stunned, "He's burning his essence blood, preparing to make a desperation strike. Be careful!"

The scarlet blood head venerate did not hesitate to use the forbidden technique of burning his essence blood to instantly receive an explosive might.

This cultivation technique's side effect was tremendous. When the fight was over, his cultivation base would drop by a large portion. So, unless both sides were to perish together, no one would use this kind of move.

He didn't care about such a thing now!

Even if his cultivation base was greatly decreased, he had to kill these people!

It could be imagined just how much hate the scarlet blood head venerate had for Chu Tian's group.

The little fox chose to move back, controlling the Hell Fire Demon to take a step back. It was releasing large amounts of green abyss flame to attack from a distance to slow him down, while the little fox was going all out to suck in the energy around the head venerate.

This was strange.

Why was this fellow's power so strong?

The little fox sucked in wave after wave, making the little fox incredibly busy.

The head venerate gave a roar and released his source spirit once again. Red light was released in all directions.

The blood skeleton released this time was completely different from before. There was thick layer of blood around the blood skeleton and it had two incredibly large axes in its hand, with an aura that was several times bigger compared to before.

Chu Tian revealed a faint look of shock.

This aura had surpassed the Awakened Soul Realm, reaching the third cultivation realm, the "True Spirit" level. This was no longer a level skipping fight, but rather a realm skipping fight. If it were just a level skipping fight, they had a chance to win, but they had no chance of winning a realm skipping fight.

The little fox forcefully sucked in several times.

The blood skeleton's armour was weakened by several portions and the axe in its hands also became much smaller. The scarlet blood head venerate charged forward at this time with a large axe swooping down. The little fox quickly used the Hell Fire Demon to block this.

Too fast!

The axe fell on the Hell Fire Demon's shoulder and chopped off its left arm.

The little fox used all his strength to suck in, causing the armour on the blood skeleton to shatter and the axe in its hands to dim by quite a bit. However, the scarlet blood head venerate had already raising the axe, sweeping it out horizontally. The half moon blade glow swept across the Hell Fire Demon, cutting the Hell Fire Demon into two pieces.

The Hell Fire Demon instantly fell down.

The little fox suddenly had it detonate.

Almost in an instant, the Hell Fire Demon exploded, releasing all of its strength. They only saw the green flames soar into the sky, slamming into the scarlet blood temple barrier, causing the entire scarlet blood temple to fiercely shake.

Chu Tian's group of three was even sent flying by the shockwaves.

The little fox retreated from the center of the explosion in a sorry state. Its fine white fur actually had traces of injuries on it. It had clearly underestimated the head venerate's strength, but the head venerate had also underestimated its strength. This explosion from the Hell Fire Demon was sure to heavily injure that fellow.

Nangong Yun quickly asked, "Is he dead?"

Chen Bingyu released her Mind's Eye and found a scarlet outline in the flames. She instantly knit her brows together, "He's not dead yet!"

The scarlet blood head venerate was covered in green flames as he slowly walked out from within. The blood skeleton source spirit had already been completely melted, but the Hell Fire Demon had been defeated!

Nangong Yun was shocked, "It's over, how could he be this strong! We're dead for sure!"

"That isn't certain!"

Chu Tian was not anxious at all.

The scarlet blood head venerate was already at his limit.

The little fox had sucked in again and the source spirit completely collapsed. Chen Bingyu shot out like an arrow, holding out both hands to send out a palm attack. The blue and white ice power filled the area, covering the ground with a layer of frost.

Peng!

The instant this palm hit the scarlet blood head venerate, the ice spirit energy condensed into a crystal, forming an ice spike that pierced into the head venerate's chest and stabbing him into a pillar of the main hall.

Nangong Yun patted her chest, "This old lady was scared. So he spent all his energy in the end."

"You should have died several hundred years ago." Chu Tian looked at him and said, "Do you have any last words?"

"Do you think you've won?" The scarlet blood head venerate never thought he would lose to this group of small characters. His face was filled with rage and unwillingness as he angrily roared, "Even if this venerate dies, you will be buried with me!"

As soon as his voice fell.

The entire temple began to shake as it began to sink.

"This is bad!" Chu Tian felt a strong attraction coming from below his feet, as if gravity had been increased by several dozen times, "The scarlet blood temple is about to sink into the swamp, quickly leave!"

The scarlet blood head venerate gave a sharp laugh, "Leave? No one is leaving, you will stay here to accompany me!"

Chapter 288: Arriving in Imperial City

The head venerate had activated the temple's self destruct mechanism!

The scarlet blood temple's center position released the fluctuations of a strong source energy array, creating a strong attraction power that was making the temple's center region curve down first. Massive fissures formed all around as the building began to collapse. The ground quickly shattered as large amounts of bog were released from the ground.

This not simply resting.

This was complete destruction!

The Scarlet Swamp was incited by this wild and strong attractive force that would first destroy the scarlet blood temple. Then it would pull it into the depths of the swamp, burying the rubble several hundred meters in the dark swamp.

There would no longer be a scarlet blood temple.

The treasures of the scarlet blood temple would forever be buried in the ground.

Nangong Yun shouted in a voice of disbelief, "What kind of trap is this? Why can't I move at all!"

The pulling force coming from the temple was even stronger than one could imagine. It was like a magnet holding onto an iron sheet, with each step being as hard as carrying over ten thousand pounds. Even Chen Bingyu found it hard to take a step forward.

Hong, hong, hong!

The situation became even worse!

Crack appeared on the barrier as the entire barrier began to shrink, creating a strong pressure. It was like everything within the barrier would be pressed down into a meat patty.

Two different forms of pressure was released at the same time.

It was impossible for the three of them to escape the scarlet blood temple.

"Ha, ha, ha!"

"Die, die, be buried with the scarlet blood branch!"

The scarlet blood head venerate released a wild laugh. He allowed himself to be crushed as he fell down the center of the hall, being swallowed by the endless swamp.

"Fuck!" Nangong Yun suddenly swore, "This old demon wants us to die with him!"

Nothing that was said now was of any help. The scarlet blood temple was quickly collapsing, and the three of them could not escape, so they would die without a doubt. The little fox could teleport out, but it couldn't bring anyone else with him. It anxiously turned around, but it couldn't think of a single solution.

Would they really die like this?

Nangong Yun and Chen Bingyu had a deep helpless feeling!

"Charge out, don't look back!" In this great crisis, Chu Tian suddenly shouted, "Immediately leave!"

You think this old lady doesn't want to leave?

I can't move at all!

Most of the scarlet blood temple had already collapsed, being swallowed by the scarlet swamp, like a vortex in the sea. It was quickly churning as parts of the temple were swirling around the vortex, like they were being swallowed by the endless depths.

No other way!

Chu Tian suddenly put his palms together!

The might of an ancient god was suddenly released from his body.

Chu Tian's aura underwent a large change, no longer being lazy and scattered, but rather becoming like an aloof king's, a spiritual god that looked over all living beings. His eyes changed colours, one being silver and the other white, with seven pupils spinning within, finally overlapping with each other. It was like a seven coloured flower, strange and mysterious.

Chu Tian closed his left silver eye and only opened his right white eye, releasing a light from it.

A strength that could not be described with words was released in all directions.

It made the collapsing temple stop and the suppressive force disappeared without a trace.

Nangong Yun and Chen Bingyu were shocked.

What kind of power was this?

"Go!"

A line of blood fell from Chu Tian's eye as he jumped out while gritting his teeth. The three of them charged at the barrier at the same time.

When Chu Tian landed, his eyes returned to normal. His face had turned as pale as paper as he fell to the ground, losing consciousness.

Nangong Yun quickly held him, "Hey, what's wrong with you!"

"His power is very strong, but it also has a strict limit." Chen Bingyu's said with a serious expression, "He should have lost consciousness. We need to leave here first!"

"Alright!"

Nangong Yun carried Chu Tian as the two of them quickly left the swamp.

The little fox followed behind them. Before they went far, it suddenly found a giant beast on the ground. It was covered in wounds and had already been killed. It was the super level demon beast of the Scarlet Swamp, the Dragon Lizard Beast!

The little fox quickly came to a stop and spat out a soul puppet onto its hand. It shook it at the Dragon Lizard Beast's corpse a few times and a purple thing gathered by the corpse was collected by the little puppet.

The puppet turned into the appearance of a miniature Dragon Lizard Beast.

The little fox grinned and nodded in satisfaction before swallowing the soul puppet. It teleported a few times and caught up to the other three, leaving the Scarlet Swamp.

Nangong Yun and Chen Bingyu did not know what Chu Tian used to stop the temple's collapse. In reality, the method Chu Tian used far surpassed their imaginations. Chu Tian had used an ability to freeze the space around them, causing the collapse to stop, allowing the three of them to escape.

This ability to control space was an ability possessed by Spiritual Gods!

Because of this, Chu Tian had consumed a lot of energy. With strength in the Awakened Soul Realm, he could not support this strong ability, so he fainted.

The two girls first put Chu Tian in a safe position in Scarlet Swamp Town.

Chu Tian remained unconscious for a whole three days before slowly awakening. He heaved a sigh of relief, "I guess I'm still alive!"

"Boss is finally awake! Your power back then was truly overwhelming!" Nangong Yun looked at Chu Tian with a gaze of worship, "You saved our lives! We really need to properly thank you!"

"Then how are you prepared to thank me?" Chu Tian weakly looked at her, "Could it be with your body?"

Nangong Yun patted her firm chest, "If you don't mind, I won't mind either. Since we're already a family, we can't let good things go to outsiders."

"Ke, ke!" Chu Tian coughed a few times before waving his hand and saying, "My stomach is a bit hungry, so go and get something for me to eat."

Chu Tian ate several level two cans of food and quickly recovered his strength.

Although his head was still filled with pain, it would be fine with three-five days of rest. Chu Tian never imagined just using it for one-two seconds would make him faint like this.

He was currently just too weak!

Nangong Yun and Chen Bingyu saw that Chu Tian was not willing to speak, so they did not keep asking. After all, everyone had their privacy. Most powerful cultivators had their own trump cards and it wasn't suitable to ask people about this.

"We were stalled by the Heavenly Demon Cult by an entire day." Nangong Yun said in a slightly worried voice, "Will the Southern Summer King punish us for this?"

"The royal proclamation said to head to Imperial City as soon as possible, it didn't mention a time we had to be in Imperial City by. I'm not worried, so why are you worried?" After Chu Tian ate and drank his filll, he recovered his energy. He curled his finger at the little fox, "Immediately take out the chalice for me."

The little fox loathed spitting out the blood chalice.

This was a precious Soul Contracting Item. Now that the scarlet blood head venerate was dead, the spirit contract on the soul chalice had also disappeared. What made it hard on Chu Tian was that when he reached a hand for the blood chalice, he immediately felt a strong energy welling up from inside. Chu Tian's hand instantly turned red, like he had just placed it inside blood.

That burning sensation was like he had poured acid over his hand.

Chu Tian revealed a frown, "I really can't use it."

Nangong Yun and Chen Bingyu both gave it a try and had the same result. The three of them did not have a suitable attribute or cultivation technique for the blood chalice, so they had no way of communicating with the weapon spirit.

"If this thing is useless, then haven't we wasted this trip!"

"You can't say it has no use!"

Chu Tian put on a pair of gloves and took the blood chalice into the next room. There were eighteen barrels inside the room and the Yin Corpses had been refining inside for several days now.

Chu Tian poured that red liquid inside the blood chalice into the large barrels, consuming around half of it. Blood red stripes instantly formed on the Yin Corpses' bodies as a power quickly grew within them.

The blood chalice could condense true blood.

Chu Tian had divine blood in his hands right now.

These two combined together could refine a group of powerful Divine Blood Yin Corpses!

Although they could not use the blood chalice's battle strength, this blood chalice was very suitable to being used as a tool for refining the Yin Corpses.

The three of them stayed for another five days in Scarlet Swamp Town.

Chu Tian continued adding true blood into the corpse refining barrels. The strength of these Divine Blood Yin Corpses suddenly rose, reaching the peak 6th Awakened Soul Layer.

Not bad!

This speed was satisfying!

Chu Tian decided to prepare some more diluted divine blood when he reached Imperial City, at that time refining all eighteen Divine Blood Yin Corpses to the True Soul Realm.

True Soul Realm experts!

That would be a very strong defense!

With eighteen True Soul Realm Yin Corpses by his side, there were only a few people in the Imperial City who could deal with Chu Tian!

Chu Tian continued travelling north, moving day and night without stopping. He finally reached the center of the Imperial Region, also arriving in the largest city of the Southern Summer Country – Imperial City!

The young miss had entered Imperial City half a month ago.

He wondered what the situation in Imperial City was like now.

When Chu Tian arrived in the magnificent Imperial City, he saw that the streets were filled with electrical light posts and that several Miracle Commerce restaurants lined the street. There was a large advertisement over ten meters tall in front of them with a young girl holding a can of food. There were also some pictures drawn on it, as well as some slogans.

"Wa, isn't this Yingying?" Nangong Yun looked at the massive advertisement, "This isn't Yingying's style, hanging a picture this high up!"

There were many speakers on the Imperial City street and a few pedestrians holding Magnetic Recording Machine. This scene was not that different compared to Central State City. Chu Tian couldn't help being secretly surprised, the young miss truly did work fast. This achievement that he had seen so far was already enough to satisfy Chu Tian.

When the three of them were walking along the street, the pedestrians suddenly gave a cry of shock.

"Everyone quickly look!"

"It's members of the Wang Family!"

The Imperial City citizens began to holler as a row of luxurious beast carts came forward, passing by them on the spacious road. There were many treasure boxes in the beast carts, giving off a rich appearance.

A citizen asked out of curiosity, "Where are they going?"

"Of course it's to Miracle Commerce!"

"Today is Miracle Commerce's vice chairman, Meng Qingwu's birthday!"

"Is that true? It's actually miss Meng Qingwu's birthday!"

Everyone seemed to be very familiar with Meng Qingwu. It must be in this short month, Meng Qingwu had already spread her reputation across Imperial City. But what made Chu Tian curious was that even he did not know Meng Qingwu's birthday, so how did these fools know?

He would follow and see!

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