"You'd better hurry, then!"
Liu Shen's delicate brows knitted slightly, a hint of warning in her voice.
"The two squads of Demon Suppression Bureau lieutenants we detained earlier must have alerted the headquarters in Tianshui City. We don't have much time."
She gazed quietly at Duan Feng, her emerald eyes as deep as a frigid pool.
"And don't forget, we're both grasshoppers tied to the same string now. Don't pull any tricks behind my back like Lin Xueyi did back then..."
"Miss Liu, you jest. That old sect master and I are nothing alike."
The blood-robed elder forced an awkward smile and hurried to explain.
"Besides, you and I swore a blood oath. Breaking it would send me into qi deviation. Why would I do something that would bring about my own death?"
As Duan Feng spoke, he silently recalled how everything had come to pass.
Two hundred years ago, "Blood Ghost Venerable" Lin Xueyi had received Liu Shen's aid at the brink of life and death, broken through his shackles, and advanced to become a Spirit Sea Venerable.
To repay her kindness, he swore to help this Thousand-Year Tree Demon break through her shackles and become a great demon of the Spirit Sea Realm.
Lin Xueyi spent years of painstaking effort, using the Heavenly Demon Blood Transformation Great Law as a reference. With Liu Shen's avatar as the array's core, he secretly laid a world-shaking Blood Transformation Array throughout Liuchun County.
Once activated, the array could devour the blood essence and resentment of every commoner in the city, transforming them into a flood of baleful blood energy. It would help demons and evil cultivators of the Innate Realm leap into the heavens and reach the Spirit Sea Realm!
But the human heart was hard to fathom. At the last