Chapter One Hundred Eighty: The Ultimate Escape Game – Demon Cultivators Limited Edition
Si Jingzhu couldn’t see Hua Jianglian’s movements.
For a Crossing Tribulation Stage cultivator, killing a Nascent Soul didn’t require any fancy moves.
The moonlight was cold and harsh, and Hua Jianglian held a bloodied head in her hand, her eyes showing no trace of emotion.
Her pupils flickered with a faint red glow, cold and eerie.
Maybe she just looked too much like an ordinary little girl on normal days.
Si Jingzhu almost forgot that she was the most terrifying demon cultivator in the true sense.
“This is what I need to do.”
Hua Jianglian’s voice was calm and chilling: “What use do you have following me for this kind of thing?”
“Quickly go back with Young Master Sang. I will return in a few days.”
Si Jingzhu wanted to say more.
But looking at the still dripping head in Hua Jianglian’s hand, she felt a bit flustered and could only weakly add:
“Uh…”
“Young Master Sang and Senior Sister Shi are currently trapped in the Fierce Tiger Sect…”
Hua Jianglian’s beautiful eyes subtly frowned.
Tsk. After a light click of her tongue, she crushed the head in her hand into powder and reached out to Si Jingzhu:
“Let me borrow your Communication Device.”
“Sure… But doesn’t the Sect Leader have her own Communication Device?”
“If I had brought it, why would they be having such a hard time finding me?”
“…”
After taking the Communication Device, Hua Jianglian decisively dialed Young Master Sang’s number.
“Hello?”
“It’s me.”
After a brief silence, a wailing cry erupted from the other end of the line.
“Sect Leader!!! I finally found you!!!”
“Ever since you went missing, I’ve been unable to eat or sleep, constantly worrying about your safety! Just thinking about you possibly struggling to eat or being cold with no one to clean your house, and not having me to serve you—I just—”
“Enough with the nonsense.” Hua Jianglian rolled her eyes, interrupting his long-winded display of loyalty, “Get to the point.”
“Is Xuan E Lao Yao still in the Fierce Tiger Sect?”
Young Master Sang’s voice turned serious: “She is.”
“Is Yu Dade still alive?”
“…He was just killed yesterday.”
Hua Jianglian sighed.
“Then there’s nothing we can do.”
“Sect Leader, what’s the situation?” Young Master Sang asked curiously.
“Escape if you can, protect yourself if you can’t.”
“Tomorrow,” Hua Jianglian said calmly, “I will personally go to kill that person.”
Young Master Sang was stunned.
Si Jingzhu was also surprised.
The Demon Cultivators Sect Leader was going to kill an Elder of the Fierce Tiger Sect.
This was basically declaring war between the Demon Cultivators and the Fierce Tiger Sect.
Though Hua Jianglian was a Crossing Tribulation Stage grand cultivator, Ke Qinhux of the Fierce Tiger Sect was a powerful body-refining grand cultivator at the eighth stage of Crossing Tribulation. His strength was formidable.
If they refused to hand over the person, Hua Jianglian charging in alone would have slim chances of success.
“Sect Leader…” Young Master Sang wanted to say something.
But Hua Jianglian had already hung up the Communication Device and tossed it back to the dazed Si Jingzhu.
“You should find a place to hide too.”
Hua Jianglian softly said: “If I don’t come back, tell Tang Yubbing to take over as Sect Leader.”
Si Jingzhu: “…Huh?”
In the next moment, Hua Jianglian’s figure vanished into the night.
Si Jingzhu stood there in confusion, not knowing what to do.
Through the cracked roof, she faintly saw inside the house, the corpse of a cultivator named Yu Zijian.
…Not quite a corpse.
Just a puddle of blood left behind.
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On the other side, after hanging up the phone, Young Master Sang fell into deep thought.
“What did the Sect Leader say?” Shi Qingyan asked with concern.
“Going to kill someone… Is there really such a deep grudge?” Young Master Sang mumbled to himself.
This was no small matter.
At the level of Crossing Tribulation, it was not easy for either side to fall due to killings.
Even the previous fights between Yu Xia and Hua Jianglian resulted in winner and loser, but it was hard to say whether one side could truly injure the other, let alone kill.
Therefore, among Crossing Tribulation Stage cultivators, true life-and-death enmity was rare.
After all, making a mortal enemy and not being able to kill the opponent meant facing a life of fear and anxiety for the rest of one’s days.
This kind of initiative to go and kill elders of another sect was practically equivalent to declaring a grudge of death.
Ke Qinhux was already a very powerful grand cultivator, and Hua Jianglian had to kill that Xuan E Lao Yao despite any great enmity with such a strong opponent?
Moreover, Hua Jianglian had deliberately concealed her identity and came alone, seeming determined not to involve the Demon Cultivators in this matter.
Instead, she planned to face the entire Fierce Tiger Sect by herself.
“This is troublesome…” Young Master Sang sighed with a headache.
“Nian Nian, does the Sect Leader have any deep hatred with that Xuan E Lao Yao?”
“Two thousand points.”
Young Master Sang felt a pang in his heart but thought it was no time to save points.
If the truth wasn’t uncovered and the Sect Leader really showed up tomorrow, he wouldn’t even know how to help.
Grinding his teeth, Young Master Sang still made the deal.
“I told you last time, Xuan E Lao Yao is a disciple of the Ruthless Blood Hall, right?”
Nian Nian’s figure slowly materialized beside him, pushing her glasses and speaking sweetly: “The Ruthless Blood Hall is a thoroughly evil sect; not only are their cultivation techniques malevolent and sinister, but everyone inside is also raving lunatics.”
“The last master of the hall was an extremely vicious demon cultivator. This hall master not only made the demon cultivators under him practice the ‘Ruthless Blood Destruction Technique’, harming their loved ones, but he also implanted a blood parasite in each of them.”
“This blood parasite, once it enters the body, merges immediately with the dantian and is nearly impossible to remove through external forces. Yet, the existence of the blood parasite can accelerate the internal spiritual power circulation, essentially increasing their cultivation speed.”
“However, the blood parasite also feeds off the host’s spiritual power to nourish itself.”
“If it matures completely, the host’s entire flesh and blood will be devoured, leaving nothing but bones.”
“Unless they step into the Major Ascension Stage, it’s impossible to escape this death curse.”
Everyone has one? Young Master Sang’s heart stirred.
“So, Xuan E Lao Yao, and that cultivator from the Yu family named Yu Zijian, they both have this blood parasite?”
“Exactly.”
Nian Nian glanced at him nonchalantly: “However, the hall master planted the blood parasites not just to control his disciples.”
“The greatest function of the blood parasite is that they can devour each other.”
Young Master Sang froze.
“After the host dies, the blood parasite will automatically consume the host’s spiritual power and life essence, then seek out the next host.”
“But if a cultivator with the same blood parasite is killed, their blood parasite will consume the blood parasite of the slain cultivator.”
“And thus, gain all their spiritual power cultivation and delay the maturity of their own blood parasite.”
What the?!
What an ‘Ultimate Escape Game – Demon Cultivators Limited Edition’!
“So you’re saying, these demon cultivators infested with blood parasites can only strive to cultivate hard while constantly seeking to kill other cultivators with blood parasites?” Young Master Sang asked.
“Exactly.”
Nian Nian silently looked at Young Master Sang: “And this… is why Hua Jianglian wants to kill Xuan E Lao Yao.”
“She… was once a disciple of the Ruthless Blood Hall.”
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