Lin Mingshu had clearly fallen victim to an exceptionally vicious Demonic Path spell. Her death had been so horrific that the sight struck terror into everyone who saw it.
Killing intent instantly surged within Li Yingqiong. She unleashed the Purple Ying Sword, united it with Zhou Qingyun's sword to form the Purple and Azure Swords, and charged straight in!
By rights, this was right outside Jiupan Po's gates. With the abilities of the Naked Body Cult's leader, everything that happened within three to five thousand li should have been as clear to her as the lines on her palm. Through Heavenly Demon Sensation, she could perceive it all.
But Yi Zhou and Aunt Yang had just stormed into Nine-Ring Mountain. His mastery of numerology was unrivaled under heaven, and although the demon formation shifted unpredictably, he could unravel its threads, calculate many of its crucial workings, and seek fortune while avoiding calamity as they darted through it. He had even calculated the location of the Demon Palace itself, concealed beneath layer upon layer of Heavenly Demon illusions, and charged straight toward it.
The god-demons Jiupan Po sent to stop them were either avoided in advance when the pair calculated the danger from their hexagrams, or driven back by their spells and magic treasures.
The elderly couple risked their lives to save their children and grandchildren. Realizing that Nine-Ring Mountain's demon formation had been constructed around the terrain, they calculated precisely where the earth energy gathered, blasted apart three mountain ridges, and killed two attendants.
Enraged, Jiupan Po split the earth open and transferred them into the underground Blood River Demon Formation.
With most of her attention drawn to Yi Zhou and Aunt Yang, she failed to notice that someone had killed Lin Mingshu outside the mountain gates.
She had only