Blood Fiend Art (Not Yet Initiated)

"Huh?"

"What's this?"

Chen Fan saw that Cao De's chest was torn to shreds by his attack, revealing a corner of animal hide from deep within Cao De's clothes. He pulled the hide from Cao De's body.

It was a yellowed animal skin scroll, filled with the aura of age. Unfurling it, Chen Fan found it covered in densely packed small characters.

However, the scroll was incomplete, with a small section destroyed.

At that moment, Chen Fan's attribute panel popped up:

[Discovered Divine Aperture Realm Art Blood Fiend Art, added to collection!]

Blood Fiend Art (Not yet initiated)

"This is the Blood Fiend Art that Cao De practiced?"

"Why would he carry something so important on him?"

Chen Fan muttered to himself, puzzled.

"It's precisely because the Blood Fiend Art is so important that he carried it on him, so he could study and comprehend it at any time."

"Moreover, for powerful martial artists, nothing is safer than keeping something precious on their person!"

"The Blood Fiend Sect's Blood Fiend Art does have its merits. When cultivated to the extreme, it can open up thirty-six acupoints throughout the body, but the side effects of this art are too great."

"The Dragon Abyss Prefecture Brocade Guard Chiliarch's armory has Divine Aperture Realm arts that are no weaker than this Blood Fiend Art, and those arts have almost no side effects."

"With your talent, cultivating those orthodox arts is the wise choice. Don't let this readily available Divine Aperture Realm art blind you."

Lu Xuening cautioned.

Chen Fan was a good prospect, but his background was too humble, and his perspective too limited. If he couldn't resist the temptation and rashly cultivated this Blood Fiend Art, it would be disastrous.

Because the Brocade Guard would absolutely not allow a Blood Demon to appear!

Although the Blood Fiend Sect of the past had a bad reputation, the imperial court could tolerate them. After all, although every member of the Blood Fiend Sect was like a mad dog, they were truly merciless when it came to killing demons.

Considering they could slay demons and eliminate evil, the imperial court could allow them to exist.

But later, a peerless genius appeared in the Blood Fiend Sect, who cultivated the Blood Fiend Art to perfection in just ten years, opening up thirty-six acupoints throughout their body.

Later, they deduced the Blood Fiend Art to a higher level, evolving the Blood Fiend Demonic Art.

They relied on the Blood Fiend Demonic Art to roam freely, and then were slowly corrupted by the Blood Fiend, becoming an enchanted person, calling themself the Blood Demon.

The Blood Demon relied on their extraordinary strength to slaughter innocents indiscriminately, and soon the Blood Demon's name resounded throughout Dragon Abyss Prefecture. Later, they even single-handedly slaughtered a city, sacrificing hundreds of thousands of lives to help them cultivate their demonic art.

Such actions were even more demonic than demons!

Their various actions finally provoked the imperial court's wrath, and the Brocade Guard Myriad Household of Cloud Province personally took action to kill them, and ordered the Brocade Guard to destroy the Blood Fiend Sect.

After that, the Brocade Guard listed the Blood Fiend Art as a demonic art, and completely destroyed its channels of transmission.

However, although the channels of transmission of the Blood Fiend Art were said to be completely destroyed, fragments of the Blood Fiend Art still circulated among some forces.

It's just that no one admitted to possessing the Blood Fiend Art fragments.

And although the Blood Fiend Art in Cao De's hands had also been partially destroyed, the core techniques were complete, and it also recorded the martial skill Blood Fiend Palm that went with the Blood Fiend Art.

No one knew where Cao De had gotten it from.

"Don't worry, I'm not that stupid!"

Chen Fan smiled calmly upon hearing this, and spoke.

"The demons in Ping An County have been completely eliminated."

"Your tactic of luring the snake out of its hole also exposed Cao De, ultimately leading to his death."

"Now our rear is finally stable."

Lu Xuening breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, Chen Fan was there, otherwise she really wouldn't know how to clean up the mess in Ping An County.

"Don't be careless. At least a third of the demons from Black Mountain died in Ping An County. This will definitely attract the attention of the Black Mountain demons soon."

"If the three great demons on Black Mountain attack Ping An County together, it will be dangerous."

Chen Fan had not seen the famous Black Mountain Three Demons. If they were only at the peak of the Divine Treasury Realm, even if they had extraordinary origins and far surpassed the demons of the same realm, Chen Fan would not be afraid at all. After all, even a Divine Aperture Realm martial artist like Cao De had been forced to commit suicide by him, let alone three mere demons.

But if any of them had reached the Divine Aperture Realm, then Chen Fan really couldn't guarantee anything. After all, the gap between the Divine Aperture Realm and the Divine Treasury Realm was quite large.

The main reason why Cao De was not his opponent was actually because his physical body was too strong, which meant that Cao De's Blood Fiend Palm, which he was so proud of, had no effect on him at all.

If Cao De was a martial artist who had broken through to the Divine Aperture Realm normally, and the true energy he used was also normal true energy, then even if he wanted to kill Cao De, it wouldn't be so easy.

And the demons' breakthrough was more difficult than that of the human race, but each breakthrough was a qualitative transformation for them. In addition, the demons' physique was inherently superior to that of the human race, and this gap was fully reflected in the Divine Treasury Realm and the Divine Aperture Realm.

So once one of the Black Mountain Three Demons broke through to the Divine Aperture Realm, their strength might far exceed Cao De's.

"I have already asked Dragon Abyss Prefecture for help. Tomorrow morning, I will write another letter and send the situation here to Dragon Abyss Prefecture by carrier pigeon. It will take no more than three days for a carrier pigeon to fly from Ping An County to Dragon Abyss Prefecture."

"It should take even less time for Dragon Abyss Prefecture to send reinforcements. As long as we can hold on for three to five days, the reinforcements should be here."

Lu Xuening said with great certainty.

"As far as I know, Cao De has asked the Dragon Abyss Prefecture Brocade Guard Chiliarch for help several times, but they have not sent anyone to rescue him. Why are you so sure that your letter for help will definitely bring reinforcements?"

Chen Fan looked at Lu Xuening with some confusion and spoke.

He, the newly appointed Chief Squad Leader, held the rank of Eighth Grade, while Cao De, the Centurion, held the rank of Seventh Grade. Lu Xuening was only a Ninth-Rank Black-Robed Constable, on the same level as a Brocade Guard Squad Leader.

Yet Lu Xuening dared to directly collect evidence of Cao De colluding with demons, and could directly connect with the Brocade Guard Chiliarch through the Dragon Abyss Prefecture government office.

Cao De, the Centurion, had repeatedly gone to Dragon Abyss Prefecture to personally seek help, but to no avail. Yet Lu Xuening, the Ninth-Rank Black-Robed Constable, sent a letter by carrier pigeon and was confident that she could definitely get reinforcements.

Why?

Chen Fan scrutinized Lu Xuening again. He felt that this Ninth-Rank Black-Robed Constable, who had parachuted in from Dragon Abyss Prefecture, was truly not simple, not simple at all!

"I..."

"I once studied in Dragon Abyss Prefecture, and my master is a Divine Aperture Realm expert. My senior brothers and sisters also hold important positions in various places in Dragon Abyss Prefecture."

"So although my official position is not high, everyone is willing to give me some face. Even if others don't give me face, how could my senior brothers, sisters, and master bear to see me die in this small Ping An County town?"

"So I dare to be sure that Dragon Abyss Prefecture will send someone, and the person who comes must be a Divine Aperture Realm martial artist."

Lu Xuening was momentarily at a loss for words, but then her eyes rolled and she immediately came up with a very reasonable explanation.

"I see."

"I didn't expect your sect background to be so strong."

Chen Fan nodded upon hearing this. Lu Xuening's explanation was reasonable.

But also very unreasonable.

If Lu Xuening's sect background was so strong, and her senior brothers and sisters held important positions in various parts of the prefecture city, then why would she parachute from Dragon Abyss Prefecture to Ping An County to be a small Ninth-Rank Black-Robed Constable?

Was it really just because she was from Ping An County?

Or was it that she actually came with other purposes?