"This contract calls upon the rules of heaven and earth as witness. The three of us shall swear an oath, and whoever breaks it will suffer the backlash of the rules, their cultivation stagnating and their divine soul burning..."
Qing Chen did not agree immediately. Instead, he fixed his gaze on every word and every pattern on the golden paper, reading it three times over. Only after confirming that there were no hidden ambiguities or verbal traps did he relax.
He forced a drop of essence blood to his fingertip and solemnly let it fall onto the golden contract paper.
Huo Lifei and Blood Fiend followed, each forcing out essence blood and dropping it onto the golden paper.
The instant the three drops of essence blood entered the paper, the entire pale golden contract erupted with dazzling divine light and burst into flames! In an instant, it transformed into three streaks of light: one shot straight into Qing Chen's brow, one sank into Huo Lifei's sea of consciousness, and the last burrowed into the depths of the blood mist.
Qing Chen felt his sea of consciousness suddenly grow heavy. A golden thread instantly appeared upon the Demon Seed Golden Lotus floating at its center.
The contract was sealed.
Huo Lifei withdrew her hand, her aura wavering slightly. Clearly, activating such a Rules Contract had taken no small toll on her in her current state.
"The contract is sealed. There is no need to linger here." Blood Fiend's voice rang out from the blood mist again, carrying an urgency he could not suppress. "Qing Chen, give me Zhao'er's jade pendant."
Qing Chen dared not delay and hurriedly took out the ancient pendant nurturing Yun Zhao's remnant soul from inside his robes.
He passed it over with utmost care. The moment his