Heartless Blade Lu Chen! Nineteenth on the Qilin Rankings

In a faraway place.

Within a mysterious pavilion.

At this moment, lines of writing appeared once more upon the ancient bronze mirror.

The several old men in the room hurriedly turned around.

When they saw the words upon it clearly, their expressions changed again.

Heartless Blade Lu Chen, practiced martial arts for twenty-five days. His swordsmanship and blade arts have both reached peerless heights. He slew Mad Blade Guo Jing with a single slash, defeated the Sword Sect's successor in one move, then traveled a thousand li, killing six Ninth Rank experts with one strike. Later, he encountered an elder of the Blood Offering Sect's Hidden Realm. With the aid of Ice Sword Han Wu-bing, he slew the Hidden Realm elder with his sword, shocking the world for a time, and was ranked nineteenth on the Qilin Rankings!

Comment: A dragon appears in the fields; its roar shakes the nine heavens!

"Lu Chen again—he's reached nineteenth on the Qilin Rankings!"

"He killed six Ninth Rank experts in one move?"

"He killed a Hidden Realm elder across ranks?"

Every line of writing tugged at their hearts!

The old men were deeply shaken.

What a Lu Chen!

They had originally thought that, since there had been no news of him lately, he would finally settle down.

Who would have thought that after merely eleven days, he would stir up such a sensation again!

He had leapt from forty-second on the Qilin Rankings to nineteenth!

That was far too fast!

The next time his ranking changed, might he not threaten those in the top fifteen?

Every person in the top fifteen possessed unique talents and inheritances of divine-grade martial arts.

Each one was unfathomably powerful.

Breaking into the top fifteen was truly, truly difficult.

"Good, good, good! Such a figure has not appeared in this world for a very long time!"

"The top fifteen of the Qilin Rankings have always been occupied by those hidden families. No one has ever shaken their status. I look forward to the day when this Lu Chen enters the top fifteen."

All of the old men laughed.

Soon after those words appeared, the bronze mirror's writing changed again.

Ice Sword Han Wu-bing, practiced martial arts for twelve years and three months. His swordsmanship has inherited the true teachings of the Nine Netherworlds. Upon hearing that the Blood Offering Sect had seized several cities, he feared neither hardship nor danger and pressed onward in the face of adversity. He slew three Ninth Rank experts with his sword and held back dozens of Blood Offering Sect experts. Later, he ventured deep into the mountains and forests and joined Heartless Blade Lu Chen in battling a Hidden Realm elder, earning twenty-fourth place on the Qilin Rankings!

Although Han Wu-bing's achievements were also astonishing.

With Lu Chen's dazzling feat preceding his, they undoubtedly seemed far dimmer at this moment.

"Quickly, copy it down!"

The elders immediately busied themselves.

Slips of paper were tied to spirit pigeons, which swiftly flew in every direction.

Within the dense forest.

Lu Chen finally understood the full story.

This place truly was a stronghold of the Blood Offering Sect.

And the people he had killed earlier had all been raised by the Blood Offering Sect using Blood Spirit Pills.

Blood Spirit Pills were a forbidden pill, requiring the slaughter of hundreds of living beings and refined from human blood.

Every pill was extraordinarily precious.

Once consumed, a Blood Spirit Pill would cause one's cultivation to surge dramatically.

That was why the people Lu Chen had killed earlier were clearly Ninth Rank, yet were only comparable to ordinary late-stage Eighth Rank experts.

They had swallowed Blood Spirit Pills and had their cultivation forcibly raised.

"Refining Blood Spirit Pills requires a special Yin Convergence Site, and it must be kept secret. Since Young Hero Lu encountered members of the Blood Offering Sect here, that means there must be a Yin Convergence Site nearby that they have concealed."

Han Wu-bing darted through the dense forest, beginning his search.

Lu Chen followed beside him, likewise searching the surrounding area for traces.

If they could destroy this Yin Convergence Site, it would absolutely be an immense merit for him.

It might even surpass the merit of killing that Blood Offering elder.

"I encountered them in the mountain range ahead. If their Yin Convergence Site exists, it must be somewhere nearby in front of us."

Lu Chen said.

They searched all the way and soon found several corpses.

Without exception, they were all people who had previously died beneath Lu Chen's blade.

Seeing the corpses cleaved neatly into two halves, Han Wu-bing felt a chill run through his heart.

What terrifying bladesmanship!

Every one of these people had been killed in a single strike.

Not one of them had even managed to resist!

Young Hero Lu's blade and sword techniques were truly unfathomable.

As they continued their search, a ruined temple suddenly appeared ahead.

Their eyes flickered. They exchanged a glance, then swiftly moved into action.

The moment he neared the ruined temple, Han Wu-bing's expression changed slightly. "There's Yin Convergence Qi. This should be their Yin Convergence Site!"

"Watch out for an ambush," Shangguan Xue'er murmured.

At a glance, the entire ruined temple looked as though it had weathered countless years.

All kinds of vines crawled over its surroundings.

The ground was piled with an unknown number of fallen leaves.

Lu Chen narrowed his eyes and murmured, "There's no one inside."

"No one?" Shangguan Xue'er asked in surprise.

Boom!

Lu Chen's long blade flashed, Blade Qi crisscrossing as every vine exploded in an instant, revealing the ruined temple's original appearance. He then sheathed his blade and strode forward.

Han Wu-bing and Shangguan Xue'er immediately followed.

The temple was not large. After passing through a courtyard, they quickly arrived at the main hall.

The entire hall was gloomy and dim, permeated by a pungent stench of blood.

In the central area lay a massive pool, black and sinister, with waves of icy cold aura rising from below. At the very bottom, a blurred altar could vaguely be seen, its surroundings carpeted with bones...

It seemed that an unknown number of people had died here not long ago.

"This is the place indeed. It truly is a Yin Convergence Site!" Han Wu-bing's tone turned grave. "These bones should belong to the people they threw down here before. Refining each Blood Spirit Pill requires hundreds of lives... There must be more than several thousand skeletons here, no?"

"Senior Brother, how do we destroy this place?" Shangguan Xue'er's face had gone somewhat pale.

"Simple. We only need to destroy that altar. It was built atop a Yin Convergence vein. Once it is broken, the Yin Convergence Qi will leak out in an instant. From then on, this place will be completely ruined," Han Wu-bing said quietly.

"We just need to shatter the altar?" Lu Chen stared at the pitch-black altar below.

"Yes, but that altar must have been made with special materials..." Han Wu-bing said.

Clang!

Lu Chen drew his blade. In an instant, lightning emerged across his body, crackling and snapping as if he had transformed into a man of lightning. Its radiance was blinding, suffused with an aura of destruction.

Even the long blade in his hand was instantly engulfed by terrifying lightning.

Without the slightest hesitation, he struck with all his strength, hacking viciously toward the altar below.

Boom!

Dazzling lightning transformed into Blade Qi and howled downward in an instant.

Like a brilliant waterfall, unstoppable in its descent.

Crack!

The black altar below was immediately shaken, letting out a thunderous roar as countless fine cracks appeared across its surface.

"It really is hard!" Shangguan Xue'er said in shock, staring downward.

Lu Chen said nothing. Activating his lightning talent, he swung again and again, doing nothing but slashing downward at breakneck speed.

A series of booming explosions rang out.

In the blink of an eye, he unleashed dozens of strikes in succession.

Finally!

The pitch-black altar could no longer withstand it. With a boom, it exploded outright.

Countless fragments flew in every direction.

Almost the instant the altar exploded, countless icy auras surged skyward from below, carrying waves of bone-chilling cold that swept across all directions like black tornadoes.

"Fall back!"

Han Wu-bing cried out in alarm.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

All three of them moved at the utmost speed.

Crack!

Just as they retreated, the entire ruined temple was utterly destroyed by that terrifying icy aura, crumbling into powder.

The dense icy aura surged into the heavens and shook the earth before swiftly dispersing in waves.

You destroyed a Yin Convergence Site, preventing many people from being blood-sacrificed. Boundless merit. Merit Points +800!

A line of text appeared.

"The Yin Convergence Site has been destroyed," Lu Chen said.

"Without this Yin Convergence Site, those rebel troops of the Blood Offering Sect won't last much longer." Han Wu-bing revealed a pleased expression. Then, as if struck by a thought, he looked at Lu Chen and smiled. "Young Hero Lu, we truly have you to thank this time. If not for you, it would have been utterly impossible for us to find and destroy this Yin Convergence Site."

"I merely happened to be in the right place at the right time." Lu Chen glanced at him and cupped his hands. "Now that matters here are settled, I shall take my leave."

"Wait, Young Hero Lu!" Han Wu-bing hurriedly said. "I know you hate evil as if it were your mortal enemy, and I know that you once beheaded a Magistrate for the sake of a group of commoners. Everyone says that a promise from Lu Chen is worth more than ten thousand taels of gold. Right now, there is a great deed that could make your name known far and wide. I wonder if Young Hero Lu would be interested?"