Senior Brother Zhang's eyes were about to split apart as he stared fixedly at Lu Chen, stormy waves churning in his heart.
No matter what, he had never imagined it.
The junior sister who had come with him would be slain so easily!
Impossible!
This was absolutely impossible!
At this moment.
A pair of eyes turned toward Lu Chen.
Only to meet Lu Chen's icy, terrifying gaze.
In an instant, this Blood Sacrifice Cult heir, who had been incomparably arrogant just moments ago, suddenly felt a chill rise within him, every hair on his back standing on end.
What kind of eyes were those?
They seemed almost capable of swallowing his entire mind!
"Damn it, the Blood Sacrifice Cult will not let you go! Never!"
Senior Brother Zhang shouted furiously, then turned and fled at top speed into the distance.
There was something far too strange about Lu Chen. His strength could actually keep rising without end.
Senior Brother Zhang simply had no confidence to remain any longer.
He only wanted to leave first, regardless of the cost.
"Senior Sister Su, take care of yourself."
Without looking back, Lu Chen gave the order. Stamping his foot, he unleashed his lightness skill, flipped several times through the air, landed in the distance, and shot after Senior Brother Zhang. He shouted, "Blood Sacrifice Cult fiend, where do you think you're running?" Boom!
His voice carried far beyond.
The outside world was instantly thrown into an uproar, and everyone was shocked.
"The Blood Sacrifice Cult? There's Blood Sacrifice Cult members in our city?"
"How could that be?"
"The Blood Sacrifice Cult is an evil sect the Imperial Court has marked for severe suppression. Anyone daring to collude with the Blood Sacrifice Cult will have their household confiscated and their clan exterminated. How could there be Blood Sacrifice Cult members..."
Amid the crowd's cries of shock.
They saw a handsome man in black robes fleeing from afar with a terrified expression, rushing toward the yamen.
Behind him was a young man carrying a saber, murderous intent piercing the heavens as he rapidly pursued the handsome man.
"That's Lu Chen! Heavens, Lu Chen has appeared!"
"Who is Lu Chen chasing?"
"I've seen that man in black robes before. He seems to be from the yamen. Lu Chen is hunting down someone from the yamen..."
The black-robed man fled into the crowd, his face deathly pale. He quickly grabbed passersby one after another and hurled them wildly toward Lu Chen behind him.
Boom! Boom! Boom...
The instant they were thrown out, those passersby began exploding one after another, poisonous blood spraying everywhere.
The terrifying poisonous blood was like concentrated sulfuric acid. The moment it landed on others, their bodies began corroding violently with sizzling sounds, and all of them let out shrill screams.
The entire street descended into chaos.
"Run!"
"A demon! That man is a demon..."
"Bullshit, what demon? He's a fiend from the Blood Sacrifice Cult!" There were martial artists in the city as well, and one of them, broad in experience, shouted angrily, "People from the yamen are actually colluding with the Blood Sacrifice Cult!"
"What?"
The crowd became even more chaotic.
The yamen was colluding with the Blood Sacrifice Cult?
They knew the yamen was corrupt and rotten, squeezing the people dry, but they had never imagined it would dare collude even with the Blood Sacrifice Cult.
This was shaking the very foundations of the Imperial Court!
Had County Magistrate Lin Mingyuan gone mad?
Lu Chen dodged as he rapidly chased after the black-robed man.
Clang!
All of a sudden, his long saber rang out with another jarring tremor. Dazzling light shot over from behind at high speed, swiftly enveloping Senior Brother Zhang's body.
Senior Brother Zhang was alarmed and enraged, immediately feeling his body lock onto by something.
A deep chill surged from his back straight into his brain.
"Boundless Sea of Blood!"
Senior Brother Zhang roared furiously. Countless scarlet beams of blood-light erupted from all over his body, vast and surging like a sea of blood reeking of iron, enveloping his entire body.
At the same time, an incomparably terrifying suction force burst forth from that mass of blood-light, madly tearing at everyone in every direction.
The people in the street all revealed looks of terror.
More than ten people were dragged over at once.
The blood throughout their bodies was instantly ripped out and absorbed into that layer of blood-light.
Those who lost their blood turned into shriveled corpses in an instant.
"It's the Blood Sacrifice Cult! He really is one of the Blood Sacrifice Cult!"
"Run!" The remaining people grew even more terrified.
"Die!"
After draining more than a dozen people dry, Senior Brother Zhang suddenly turned and blasted a palm viciously toward Lu Chen.
The blood-light covering his body surged forth at once, striking toward Lu Chen alongside his palm.
Yet beneath Lu Chen's peerlessly beautiful saber strike.
The blood-light before him was like a cluster of bubbles, utterly unable to withstand a single blow.
Splat!
Bang!
The blood-light was split apart in an instant. The saber qi was unstoppable, charging forward with indomitable momentum.
It slashed across Senior Brother Zhang's entire arm in one stroke.
"Ah!"
Senior Brother Zhang let out a miserable scream. His hand clutched desperately at his right shoulder, his entire right arm having been severed cleanly at the shoulder and sent flying high into the air. Terrified out of his wits, he hurriedly began burning his own qi and blood, even using a forbidden technique that consumed his lifespan to flee.
Lu Chen's eyes turned cold. Using Grass on Flying, he continued racing after Senior Brother Zhang.
Atop a nearby pavilion.
Several strangely dressed people of the Martial World watched everything with shocked expressions.
"That was someone from the Blood Sacrifice Cult. There are actually people within the yamen colluding with the Blood Sacrifice Cult!"
"County Magistrate Lin Mingyuan is still outside the city worshipping Buddha, yet the city has fallen into such chaos in only a few days!"
"What a Lu Chen. He truly is ruthless and domineering!"
"With this boy's strength, if he does not die, perhaps he may truly ascend the Kirin Ranking. A golden phoenix can actually fly out of a chicken coop..."
"Provided he truly hasn't been possessed by some thousand-year-old demon." They conversed rapidly.
Lu Chen remained entirely unaware that he had already caught the attention of certain people.
He was about to ascend one of the Martial World's most important rankings...
At this moment, saber in hand, he was still pursuing Senior Brother Zhang.
Deep within the yamen.
Several dozen villagers knelt there with faces full of terror.
Their faces were deathly pale as they stared uneasily at a smiling young man dressed in blue robes.
He was none other than the renowned county magistrate's son.
Lin Yun!
County Magistrate Lin Mingyuan was not in the city.
All matters within the city were now decided by Lin Yun. "Young Master Lin, spare us. We truly don't know what happened to Lu Chen. We only know that Lu Chen went utterly insane and killed his elder brother and sister-in-law yesterday afternoon, then headed all the way into the city. We truly know nothing else!"
An old man pleaded fearfully.
Without exception, these villagers were all from the village where Lu Chen had previously lived.
To find out what had happened to Lu Chen.
At noon, Lin Yun had ordered everyone in this group brought here.
"Is that so?"
Lin Yun smiled and said, "You are all from the same village, yet you actually know nothing?"
"Yes, we truly don't know..."
The others all replied fearfully.
Lin Yun smiled faintly without pressing them. Instead, he crouched down and looked at a child of four or five before him. His fair hand gently stroked the child's cheek as he smiled. "Tell big brother, do you know?"
"I don't know. I don't know either..."
The child answered nervously.
Splat!
The moment the words left his mouth, Lin Yun's finger plunged into the child's eye, blood splashing everywhere.
The child immediately began screaming in agony.
"My child, my child..."
A woman, her face full of despair, rushed forward desperately.
Yet the instant she lunged over, Lin Yun kicked her away. Like a punctured ball, she was sent crashing viciously into the distance.
"You don't know?"
Lin Yun's hand was covered in blood as he smiled. "Big brother will give you another chance. Think carefully. Do you know or not?"
"Wuwu, I don't know. I really don't know..."
The child wailed in pain.
Puff!
The moment the words fell, Lin Yun's finger stabbed into the child's other eye, making the child scream miserably and roll violently across the ground. His face was covered in blood, and the pain made him faint on the spot.
"Don't be anxious. I believe you will come to know."
Lin Yun smiled and said, "Now think carefully. One day, you will remember."
Zhao Shan's face was deathly pale amid the crowd. Looking at Lin Yun, who was like a demon, his heart was filled with terror.
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