Foundation Establishment!

The feeling of controlling everything, of being omnipotent, left Chu Yuan somewhat intoxicated.

Whether it was the low-level Day of Vengeance cultists in the city who killed on sight, the Supernatural Realm martial artists at the other five array eyes, or the main force outside the city... all were instantly refined under the mighty power of the Blood Sea Soul-Locking Array!

Like ants...

Orbs, lustrous and refined from pure souls and containing a certain special power, appeared one after another around Chu Yuan, and he gathered them all.

Vigorous blood energy poured into him continuously, and Chu Yuan's aura climbed higher and higher!

Eighth level of Qi Refining, ninth level of Qi Refining... he soon touched the threshold of Foundation Establishment.

Chu Yuan operated the Evergreen Foundation Establishment Method with all his might, and a thick blood cocoon wrapped him within.

He had originally wondered if he would need a Foundation Establishment Pill or something similar to break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm, as that was how it was in all the cultivation novels he had read in his past life.

But under a life essence so vast it was beyond measure, any bottleneck or barrier seemed like a joke!

The sea of energy in his dantian was continuously compressed, gathering into spiritual liquid that dripped down, drop by drop.

His glabella swelled, as if something was about to burst forth...

Qi Da stared blankly at the blood cocoon in the sky; he could sense Chu Yuan's aura growing stronger by the second.

Combining what he had seen earlier with the Blood Sacrifice Array... it was not difficult to guess the source of Chu Yuan's sudden increase in strength.

However, they were just rebels; if they were sacrificed, then so be it.

He was not such a rigid person as to think that Chu Yuan "consuming" people was wrong.

Qi Da was simply wondering what excuse he should use later.

Some of the school's teachers and students had died under the previous Blood-Sucking Array, but most were still alive, though they had long since fallen into a coma.

There had been a few Internal Breath Realm teachers who had barely managed to stay conscious, but Chu Yuan had a plan in place and had knocked them unconscious the moment he took control of the array.

It wouldn't do for them to see things they shouldn't...

Therefore, the only people in the know were actually him and Chu Yuan.

As long as he could weave a convincing lie, it wouldn't be hard to cover it up...

Just as he was choosing his words, a powerful aura suddenly rushed toward First High School.

Qi Da's expression changed. So fast?

He glanced once more at the blood cocoon hanging in mid-air, gritted his teeth, and prepared to intercept the newcomer.

Suddenly, he saw the blood cocoon collapse, revealing Chu Yuan's figure within...

"Thanks."

"I'm the one who should be thanking you." A faint smile appeared on Jiang Fei's pale face. "Why do I feel like you've become stronger again?"

Chu Yuan played the role of the lucky one: "Just a small breakthrough by sheer luck... It's over now, hurry and take her to get treated."

Jiang Fei glanced at the azure sky. "How do you know it's over? Do you know what happened?"

Although the catastrophe had subsided shortly after Chu Yuan left... no normal person would ever link the root cause to him.

"Our principal did it; I don't know the specifics," Chu Yuan said vaguely.

"Alright... want to add me on the terminal?"

"Sure."

Jiang Fei didn't dawdle; after adding him on the terminal, he carried Chen Yun away.

Chen Yun was severely injured. Her physical wounds were not the most troublesome part; the key was the damage to her spirit, or rather, her soul.

Having been possessed by something sinister, it was already a miracle that she had survived; mental trauma was inevitable.

It would require precious medicine to treat...

For instance, the soul-refined orbs in Chu Yuan's possession.

But he clearly wouldn't take those out.

Jiang Fei was one thing, but he had no friendship with Chen Yun.

The Martial Suppression Bureau had deep pockets; it wasn't his place to be the show-off here...

Leading Han Cui and Chu Ying back, Chu Yuan looked down at the city beneath his feet.

In truth, it didn't look severely damaged. The Blood-Sucking Array and the Blood Sacrifice Array were mainly targeted at living beings rather than manifesting destructive power.

Most of the damage was just buildings that had collapsed due to the shockwaves of the fighting...

But in reality, the main battlefield had been outside the city, and few areas within the city had been implicated.

Naturally, there would be people to handle the aftermath; what needed rebuilding would be rebuilt, and what needed repairing would be repaired.

It was just those who had been slaughtered by the Day of Vengeance cultists...

Chu Yuan did not bother himself with matters unrelated to him; he only wanted to hurry home and stabilize his cultivation realm.

Driven by a vast source of life essence, his cultivation had reached the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

Of course, it was not that the life essence of so many high-level martial artists could only evolve him to this realm, but rather that he was stuffed and could not eat another bite!

Another reason was that the Evergreen Foundation Establishment Method only went up to the Foundation Establishment Realm.

If he wanted to continue his cultivation, he would have to find a new technique!

He did not waste the remaining life essence either, but instead refined it into Blood Pills using the Blood Sea Soul-Locking Array, which he now carried on his person.

Compared to the Qi Refining Realm, the Foundation Establishment Realm possessed two important traits in addition to greater combat power and longer endurance.

One was the ability to fly with one's physical body.

The other was the birth of divine sense!

Compared to the former, Chu Yuan cared far more about the latter!

For a cultivator, something like divine sense was an all-encompassing, dead-angle-free radar that could be activated or deactivated at will.

Whether it was searching for items, combat, or exploration, it provided an extremely powerful advantage.

All it consumed was a bit of mental energy.

Although his divine sense was still relatively weak, covering only a few hundred meters around him, who could say if there would come a day when a single thought could shroud the entire planet?

"You're saying that by relying on a strange treasure you previously obtained in the Outer-Heaven Battlefield Secret Realm, you not only seized control of the Blood Sacrifice Array but also modified its nature? Allowing it to instantly kill fifth-realm martial artists and anomalies?" Ma Hui said gloomily.

Qi Da took a deep breath, his tone resonant: "That's right!"

"..." Ma Hui was speechless for a moment: "You might as well have said that a mysterious powerhouse passed by, found the people of the Day of Vengeance an eyesore, personally took over the array, and then handed it to you..."

Qi Da frowned and asked in confusion: "I don't understand what you're talking about?

I've treasured that strange treasure for a long time, keeping it as a trump card... Using it here today, it can be considered not wasted!"

"Principal Qi... this is an array, not a living creature!

If you said there was some strange treasure that could seize a creature's consciousness or raise their realm... that would be normal!

But this is an array!

Could your 'strange treasure' summon a bunch of tiny array master puppets to modify the array patterns on the spot!?"

Qi Da blinked: "That's right, isn't it amazing?"

Ma Hui's temple throbbed: "I think your mouth is even more amazing..."

"I saved Chenyang City, after all. What kind of attitude is this?"

"...My apologies."