382 Ke Yihan

Splurt! Splurt!

Like overripe fruit bursting apart, the great green-haired hand exploded beneath the lash of the Legalist Prohibition Whip within the rift, and blood immediately began to rain from the sky.

Before the droplets of blood rain could even fall, the stench of blood drifted over first. The dense aura of blood and resentment made all three Dao Entry masters present shudder. This was an intense power of Dao contamination. If this rain of flesh and blood blanketed the imperial city, every ordinary person within would be corrupted, becoming evil things—or undergoing grotesque mutations.

Yuwen Tuoyi moved his hand, swinging out the aged saber that was as old as he was. In an instant, a hazy bolt of lightning, like that of early spring, burst forth.

"Kill!"

The saber in his hand cleaved out a blade-light like a streak of silk. It tore through the air, then transformed into a sea of lightning and electric shadows that spread in an instant.

This was the Yuwen family's true Dao Entry art, the Thunder Scripture. As for the Five Hells Thunder Saber and the Six Laws of Lethal Seizure, they were merely portions of Dao arts excised from the Thunder Scripture. It was not that the Yuwen family deliberately kept secrets, but that the Thunder Scripture differed from ordinary Dao Entry arts.

Only the Yuwen family knew that the deeper one cultivated the Thunder Scripture, the greater one's demonic obstruction became. The higher one's cultivation, the more easily one would suffer deviation and fall into madness.

At first, this had been an almost unsolvable problem for the Yuwen family.

Until one of their ancestors received a copy of the Eight Sufferings Scripture under the guidance of an eccentric figure. After studying it at length, he gained insight into a means of