Blood Sacrifice of Bo Saixi? Xuan Zi Goes to Douluo, Tang Hao and Tang San Come to Xuanwu? [3.2K]

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for granting my request!"

Ye Xishui was overjoyed.

"Wait."

Lu Ye raised a hand to stop her. His gaze fell on Ye Xishui like a blade, and he said with an imposing air:

"I'll allow you to devour her, but there are a few rules you must remember."

Ye Xishui's heart tightened, and she quickly composed herself.

"Please instruct me, Your Majesty. Xishui would never dare disobey in the slightest!"

Lu Ye had been a renowned Demigod on the Xuanwu Continent for many years. He wielded a Legacy Divine Artifact and was widely feared.

Ye Xishui would never dare offend him.

Lu Ye paced slowly and said in a deep voice:

"First, I'll ease the restrictions, but only for the stubborn ringleaders and die-hard members of the enemy camp.

Of the tens of thousands of Sea Soul Masters on Sea God Island, aside from Bo Saixi and a few intractable Sacred Pillar Douluo, I still intend to keep the rest of the low- and mid-level Soul Masters as laborers and soldiers.

Your Holy Spirit Cult disciples are not to hunt on their own, conduct blood sacrifices on a large scale, or disrupt the deployment of my army.

If you dare to kill indiscriminately, don't blame me for showing no mercy."

Ye Xishui hurriedly lowered her head.

"Rest assured, Your Majesty. I only need Bo Saixi. The Holy Spirit Cult won't lay a finger on the rest of those nobodies."

Lu Ye gave a slight nod and continued:

"Second, you must act with restraint and secrecy.

Sea God Island has only just fallen, and spies from across Douluo Continent are watching us from the shadows.

Though I fear no enemy in the world, the army hasn't yet advanced to Dragon-Slaying Pass. There's no need to provoke the common people and rogue cultivators across the continent into a frenzied resolve to fight us to the death too soon.

As for Bo Saixi's capture, we'll only announce that she's imprisoned in Xuanwu Prison. Her true whereabouts must never be revealed."

What Lu Ye didn't know was this:

Bibi Dong had also devoured others to improve her cultivation!

"Third, and most important."

Lu Ye stared into Ye Xishui's eyes and said each word distinctly:

"When you devour and refine her, get back to the Holy Spirit Cult Headquarters in the rear of the Xuanwu Continent and do it there.

Don't turn the frontline camp into a filthy, foul-smelling place filled with resentment.

Raise your cultivation cleanly and properly.

I want a Quasi-God who can charge into battle and tear apart the enemy's lines-not a madwoman blinded by Resentful Fiendish Divinity, who knows nothing but bloodlust and frenzy.

If you go mad during the refinement and suffer a backlash, I won't save you."

Ye Xishui's expression turned solemn. She knelt respectfully and performed a full salute.

"This concubine will obey Your Majesty's decree!

I would never dare leak a word, much less disrupt Your Majesty's plans.

I'll return to the headquarters in the rear at once and cultivate in seclusion. When I emerge, I'll have attained Quasi-God cultivation and will slay their generals and seize their banners before Dragon-Slaying Pass for Your Majesty!"

Lu Ye flicked his sleeve.

"Take her away."

Ye Xishui rose, delighted. Turning to Bo Saixi, she curled her red lips into a cruel smile.

Ye Xishui raised her slender hand. Five ghastly white flames of bone shot out and struck the vital points all over Bo Saixi's body.

They completely sealed the blood vessels, Meridians, and Martial Soul Origin within Bo Saixi's body.

Bo Saixi grunted and lost all ability to resist.

"Lord Sea God... will never... let you get away with this..."

Bo Saixi uttered the words weakly, two streams of tears running down her face.

They were not for her own life or death, but for the sacred island she had guarded for hundreds of years, which had ultimately become a slaughterhouse for evil demons.

"Then ask your Sea God to come find me in a dream."

Ye Xishui sneered. With a sweep of her long sleeve, she wrapped Bo Saixi in dense clouds of deathly mist and lifted her away.

Then Ye Xishui's figure became a streak of dark-red light. She tore through space and sped toward the Holy Spirit Cult's headquarters in the heart of the Xuanwu Continent's interior.

Watching in the direction Ye Xishui had gone, Ye Shaozhe withdrew his gaze and spoke quietly to Lu Ye:

"Your Majesty, with Bo Saixi in the Holy Spirit Cult's hands, Sea God Island's backbone has been completely broken.

But according to our spies, the situation at Dragon-Slaying Pass is far from ordinary."

Lu Ye turned and walked to the great chair in the center of Sea God Hall. He sat down, his expression once again cold.

"Tell me the details."

Ye Shaozhe stepped forward and reported:

"Ge Long, the commander-in-chief of the Heaven Dou Empire, has led 300,000 elite Imperial Guard soldiers from the Heaven Dou Imperial Family to Dragon-Slaying Pass.

At the same time, Ning Fengzhi of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and the two Titled Douluo, Sword and Bone, have also arrived with the army.

Additionally, the Heaven Dou Crown Prince's envoy has just left Spirit City. According to our agents near Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong has already agreed to send troops."

Hearing this, Yu Chuanwu sneered:

"Bibi Dong has always been ambitious. Would Spirit Hall really send its elite to let the Heaven Dou Empire use them as pawns?"

Lu Wudao also came over at that moment. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and said in a deep voice:

"Father, Spirit Hall can't possibly be sincerely helping the two great empires.

I suspect Bibi Dong is planning to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight.

She wants our Xuanwu army to wear down the two empires' strength so she can sit back in the rear and reap the spoils."

Lu Ye smiled faintly, his gaze as unfathomable as an abyss.

"Sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight?

Bibi Dong's calculations may be clever, but she doesn't understand what kind of existence she's facing."

"She thinks this is a stalemate between evenly matched forces. She thinks the two great empires can hold us at Dragon-Slaying Pass for months, or even years, buying her time to become the Rakshasa God."

As he spoke, a hint of mockery appeared in Lu Ye's eyes.

"But she doesn't know that before an overwhelming disparity in dimensions, all those schemes and calculations are no more than a guttering candle in the wind."

Yu Chuanwu cupped his fists and asked to lead the charge:

"Your Majesty, now that Sea God Island and the Xuanwu Continent have become one, the first step in bringing the entire army across the sea has been completed.

I request permission to lead 50,000 armored troops in the vanguard and take Dragon-Slaying Pass first!

Whether it's Ge Long's 300,000 troops or the support of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, one barrage from our divine cannons will reduce them all to ashes!"

Lu Wudao also cupped his hands.

"Father, I'll recover to my peak strength after a little rest.

I'm willing to lead the vanguard, storm the pass, and capture Ge Long alive!"

Lu Ye looked at the eager generals and slowly raised a hand to press them down.

"There's no need to rush."

Lu Ye stood and looked toward Douluo Continent, then called out:

"Carry out my orders."

"First, order the Ministry of Works and the Heavenly Works Battalion to enter Sea God Island immediately and convert the remaining divine power nodes of the Seven Sacred Pillars into Sea-Crossing Teleportation Array Discs.

Within three days, they must transport all three Great Soldier Corps and twelve God-Slaying Giant Ballistae from the rear of the Xuanwu Continent to the front lines."

"Second, appoint Lu Wudao as commander-in-chief, Ye Shaozhe as military adviser, and Yu Chuanwu as the vanguard general.

Bring the army into order and rest for two days.

When Xishui has refined Bo Saixi in the rear, and the Ancestor has completely stabilized the Continental Dragon Vein..."

The corner of Lu Ye's mouth curved into an utterly frigid smile.

"The entire army will break camp and march on Dragon-Slaying Pass."

"In this battle, I won't merely flatten the western gateway of the Heaven Dou Empire."

"I'll also make Bibi Dong, sitting in Papal Hall, witness with her own eyes what a true divine calamity looks like!"

"We obey, Your Majesty!"

Lu Wudao, Ye Shaozhe, and Yu Chuanwu dropped to their knees with a thunderous roar that shook the sky.

In the ruins below, the surviving Sea Soul Masters listened to the earth-shaking military orders. Their faces turned ashen, and they sank into boundless despair.

Far away in the rear, in the most sinister heartland of the Xuanwu Continent, stood a towering black hall built entirely from Obsidian and Ten-Thousand-Year White Bones.

Three blood-red characters were carved above the hall's main entrance: Holy Spirit Cult.

With Bo Saixi, heavily restrained, in tow, Ye Xishui landed in a flash of blood beside the blood pool in a secret chamber deep within the hall.

Thick blood stench and pure Netherworld Death Qi churned through the pool. Nine blood-red altars, assembled from the bones of ten-thousand-year-old evil Soul Beasts, gave off strange runes.

Ye Xishui casually threw Bo Saixi onto the center of the altar.

Bo Saixi hit the ground hard, her sea-blue dress in tatters.

She struggled to summon the faint Sea God Soul Power within her body, but her Meridians were in excruciating pain, as if thousands of ants were devouring her heart.

"High Priest Bo Saixi, don't waste your strength."

Ye Xishui walked slowly to the edge of the altar. Her jade-white fingers gently traced the bone spikes on it, and her voice was as soft as a private whisper between women:

"This is the Nine Nether Blood-Transforming Array of my Holy Spirit Cult.

Although most of the Sea God Mark inside your body was crushed by Venerable Ancestor, this vast, ocean-like, pure Rank 99 source power is the real thing."

Bo Saixi raised her head and glared at Ye Xishui, her eyes filled with fury and grief.

"You devils from beyond the domain...

Even if you devour my Soul Power and force your way into Demigodhood, you'll still be nothing but a puppet assembled from borrowed power!

The heavens are just and clear. The day the gods of the Divine Realm descend will be the day your entire army is wiped out!"

Hearing this, Ye Xishui seemed to have heard the funniest joke in the world. She couldn't help throwing back her head and giggling.

Her laughter echoed through the empty, gloomy secret chamber, sending chills down one's spine.

"The Divine Realm?

The gods?"

Ye Xishui's laughter subsided. Looking down at Bo Saixi, her eyes filled with pity and mockery, she said:

"Do you still not understand?

Your god abandoned you long ago."

"If the Sea God truly were omnipotent, then why, just now, in front of the Sea God Hall, couldn't he even withstand a single Fate-Reversing God-Devouring Claw from Venerable Ancestor, and instead cut off his Divine Sense and scurry back to the Divine Realm?"

"In the face of absolute strength, what is faith, what are gods? They're nothing but a flimsy veil to hide your shame."

Ye Xishui stepped back and abruptly formed a seal with both hands. The nine terrifying black-and-red Soul Rings around her blazed to life.

Pale bone fire and bloodlust surged into the sky, illuminating the entire secret chamber like the Avici Hell!

"Bzzz-!"

The blood pools surrounding the altar boiled in an instant, and nine enormous white-bone chains burst out of the water.

In an instant, they pierced Bo Saixi's limbs and collarbones, suspending her in midair!

"Ah-!"

The intense pain made the usually noble and holy High Priest let out a shrill scream.

Pure, flawless sea-blue light was forcibly and frantically stripped from Bo Saixi's seven orifices and pores.

It transformed into streams of dense, tangible blue Divinity, flowing ceaselessly along the chains and into Ye Xishui's body.

Ye Xishui closed her eyes and let out a blissful moan. A sickly flush spread over her pale cheeks, and the bottleneck that had held her at the peak of Rank 99 finally cracked open!

"The Sea God's Divinity... the foundation of a Peerless Douluo... truly lives up to its reputation!"

Ye Xishui abruptly opened her scarlet eyes, the corners of her mouth curling into a cruel smile.

"Enjoy these final moments, High Priest.

Your power and your life will both become the Blood-Bone Throne upon which I ascend to Demigodhood!"

"When I emerge from seclusion, the mortal creatures of Douluo Continent will be drenched in blood before Dragon-Slaying Pass!"

Sea God Island.

Xuan Zi arrived soon after and was speaking with Lu Ye.

"Your Majesty, I plan to go to Douluo Continent and investigate."

Xuan Zi cupped his hands toward Lu Ye.

"Xuan Zi, I have faith in your abilities."

Lu Ye nodded slightly.

"While you're there, make sure you uncover every weakness of Douluo Continent!"

Meanwhile, on Douluo Continent, Tang Hao and his son Tang San were hurrying toward Vast Sea City.