Zhao Feng then quickly searched Chu Fan's body, finding a pile of bottles and jars, along with a booklet titled Blood Soul Secret Art.
He tucked them into his robes without taking a closer look. Just then, a piercing scream rang out in the distance. Huo Yao's sword swept like a gale, piercing straight through Abbess Pure Mystery's chest.
The arrow beneath her ribs had broken through her body-protecting true qi, causing her fighting strength to plummet. Huo Yao's spirits had soared, turning the battle around. Fearful now, Pure Mystery had taken several sword strikes in succession before her chest was finally pierced and she collapsed.
The crowd of devout, diehard believers watching from afar could scarcely believe their eyes. Abbess Pure Mystery, the Red Lotus Holy Mother's Personal Disciple, who had been commanding the wind and rain just moments before, had been run through by a female Martial Master.
"True Person Qingxuan is dead!"
"How is that possible? She's the Holy Mother's disciple, a god's disciple! How could she die?"
"The Holy Mother possessed her just now!"
"Could all of this be a lie?"
The believers' faith crumbled. Many of them had worshipped the Red Lotus Holy Mother day and night, donating money and grain. Some had even willingly become medicine people, offering their blood essence as medicinal catalysts.
Yet, taken together with everything that had just happened, it all proved that this had been a fraud.
Quite a few believers fainted on the spot, while others screamed and shouted, driven outright mad.
Meanwhile, Xu Commandant led his troops and the Martial Masters of Big Stone County in encircling and exterminating the remaining Demonic Sect followers and the martial artists who had joined them. With their Hall Leader Chu Fan and the Blood Mystery Protector dead, their morale had