A breath later, Lu Ye burst out of the encirclement, his flesh mangled and his injuries too ghastly to behold. Yet he had finally escaped the trap.
"Watch out, Blood Princess!" a cultivator cried out.
Because the direction Lu Ye had charged toward was precisely where Blood Princess stood.
She was dizzy and weak to the extreme. Watching Lu Ye rush toward her, she had no time to react at all.
When Lu Ye swept past her, Blood Princess's body swayed slightly.
"How is milady?" The cultivator who had just spoken immediately rushed to Blood Princess's side to inspect her. He had vaguely seen Lu Ye slash at her with his saber.
Before his words had even faded, his expression changed drastically. A layer of blue-black qi suddenly surged from Blood Princess's body, enveloping her completely. Her pair of blood-red eyes had turned murky as well. She looked up at the cultivator and, without the slightest mercy, thrust out a clawed hand.
"Hiss..." The cultivator sucked in a sharp breath and hurriedly retreated, barely avoiding grievous injury. Yet his heart sank straight to the bottom. Blood Princess's state clearly showed that her life force had been extinguished—she had become a Poison Corpse!
Lu Ye was still fleeing, with countless pursuers roaring after him.
Though there were many pursuers, everyone knew that after Blood Calamity withdrew, the Blood Wall Technique shrouding the surroundings had failed. That prison had vanished into nothing, and they would likely have no more means to restrain Lu Ye.
Yet to the pursuers' surprise, Lu Ye showed no urgency to flee. Instead, he kept circling within this area.
The many pursuers watched in utter confusion, having no idea what he intended to do.
Only after the time it took to burn less than half an incense stick