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Chapter 87: The Ninth Saint's Icy Dew
Chapter 87: The Ninth Saint's Icy Dew
In this moment, the entire underground palace seemed to tremble as the rocks above violently collapsed, and streams of blood rivers reversed their flow, surging upwards.
The catastrophe spread in all directions, causing the earth and rocks to fracture, and the tremors grew more intense.
Lei Jun stood at the side, having avoided the initial and most powerful wave of the blood tsunami, but he could no longer maintain his balance and had to use the Soil-Gathering Flag to protect himself as he moved.
The blood sea was tainted and filthy, rendering his Avoid Water Golden Pupils useless. If he came into contact with the blood, he would be quickly polluted and lose his spiritual connection.
Lei Jun glanced at Elder Du and the others.
There wasn't anyone else left in the blood sea. Elder Du and the others had been swept away by a rushing blood river and were now being carried upstream by the reverse flow.
With Elder Du protecting them, the situation was dangerous but not life-threatening.
Seeing that there was no one else around, Lei Jun pointed his toes at the ceiling of the underground palace and hung upside down, avoiding another peak of the blood waves.
He scanned the roaring blood sea and suddenly, his eyes lit up.
In the midst of the dark and filthy blood sea, at the center of the red light, a faint line of clear light slowly rose.
The faint light flickered like a lonely sail in a raging sea, as if it could sink at any moment, but it stubbornly persisted.
Lei Jun took a deep breath, and his Wind-Riding Talisman, which was connected to his life force, unleashed its spiritual power to the utmost. Like a gentle breeze skimming over the surface, he leaped into the air with the Soil-Gathering Flag!
The line of clear light retracted, and Lei Jun landed on it, discovering a lotus flower.
The lotus had been closed, but when startled by his presence, it suddenly bloomed.
From a distance, it had looked minuscule in the blood sea, but up close, this lotus was nearly three feet in diameter, resembling a small boat that supported Lei Jun.
In the underground palace filled with the reek of blood and murderous aura, Lei Jun unexpectedly caught a whiff of a refreshing fragrance and felt a hint of spiritual elegance.
He examined it carefully and realized that the source of the fragrance and spirituality was not the lotus itself, but a layer of frost on its petals.
Nine Saint's Icy Dew
Lei Jun's heart stirred, and a thought suddenly flashed through his mind.
This wasn't the first time; it was another minor effect of the light sphere in his mind, helping him discern many unknown things.
Although he didn't know much about the Nine Saint's Icy Dew, given the current environment, Lei Jun could guess that it wasn't a naturally occurring product.
Most likely, it was left by the Blood River Sect expert who had set up the blood sea and the surrounding blood river formation.
By using the extremely filthy blood sea, the expert nurtured the extremely pure Nine Saint's Icy Dew.
When both reached their optimal state, the Blood River Sect expert would refine them together, thus obtaining the spirituality of two opposing extremes and improving his own cultivation.
Unfortunately, he had been delayed by the other elders from the Celestial Masters Mansion, and thus he couldn't tend to this place.
With the destruction of the blood sea, the Nine Saint's Icy Dew would soon be lost.
So, this was the upper-mid-tier fortune mentioned by the high-grade fortune stick… Lei Jun thought.
However, he didn't know how it could be further expanded upon.
Now wasn't the time for research, so Lei Jun first reined in his wandering thoughts.
In terms of the process, obtaining this treasure had indeed been smooth and safe.
According to the fortune stick's prediction, acquiring it would also bring no future troubles.
Nevertheless, out of caution, Lei Jun didn't directly collect the frost with his Spirit-Gathering Talisman. Instead, he first used the spiritual power of the Soil-Gathering Flag to sweep up and contain the frost.
Having lost the frost on its petals, the giant lotus began to wither as it bobbed up and down on the waves of the blood sea.
Fortunately, as the waves surged, Lei Jun and the lotus were carried into a blood river channel by the reverse flow.
Although the blood river raged and roared, its momentum was not as terrifying as it had been in the blood sea earlier.
Lei Jun's keen senses detected that the direction of the blood river ahead had forked.
One path was relatively turbulent but open.
The other path was relatively calm but deep and secluded.
Recalling the upper-low-tier fortune stick's mention of the Eight Desolates Blood River Formation and the lower-low-tier fortune stick's mention of the Eight Desolates Blood Cavern, he leaped from the withering lotus and avoided the deeper and more secluded side.
Before he could land on the wall of the underground palace, Lei Jun suddenly heard someone's voice coming from the more open channel:
"...Killing doesn't necessarily mean dirtying your own hands..."
Uh...
Hold on.
Lei Jun blinked.
This argument sounded vaguely familiar.
"Killing without getting your hands dirty, leaving no trace of involvement."
"Well, I sometimes hold that view too..." Lei Jun chuckled to himself, feeling a bit embarrassed.
However, the speaker piqued his curiosity. The voice also sounded familiar.
With the full effect of his Life-Riding Talisman, Lei Jun moved as silently as the night wind.
Skirting along the edge of the blood river, he turned the corner and his eyes fell on a distant, relatively open underground cave. There, he spotted a massive array of flickering red light.
The enormous light array trembled along with the underground palace, like a bizarre giant eye blinking incessantly.
"The Eight Desolates Blood River Array..." Lei Jun murmured to himself, recognizing it immediately.
Apart from the ordinary blood river arrays scattered elsewhere, the Blood River Sect expert who had cultivated the blood sea had also meticulously set up these eight more powerful arrays.
It was through these arrays that they drew in blood energy and baleful energy, ultimately cultivating that massive blood sea in the underground palace.
But now that the blood sea had erupted prematurely, the tsunami-like backflow had caused these Eight Desolates Blood River Arrays to become unstable, teetering on the brink of a separate eruption.
Lei Jun's gaze shifted again.
On the outskirts of the light array, two figures stood behind a rock, a man and a woman, peering down at the array below.
They were indeed familiar faces.
One was Fang Mingyuan, the young master of the Fang Clan.
The other was his elder sister, Fang Lu Fang, who shared the same mother as Lei Jun.
"The descendants of the Li family are naturally an exception. As for those who don't bear the Li surname, killing them is no big deal... The Celestial Masters' Mansion is currently seeking our clan's assistance, after all."
Fang Mingyuan frowned as he gazed at the distant Eight Desolates Blood River Array. "Why go through all this trouble? With the current situation, he might just escape with his life."
Lei Jun raised an eyebrow at Fang Mingyuan's words, which seemed to be directed at Luo Haoran.
"Is Luo Haoran also here?" Lei Jun wondered, scanning the area more closely.
Within the Eight Desolates Blood River Array, he indeed spotted several figures, and upon closer inspection, they turned out to be disciples of the Celestial Masters' Mansion.
However, Luo Haoran was not among them.
Instead, he unexpectedly spotted another familiar face.
It was Xia Qing.
The few fellow disciples with her seemed to be from the same faction as Li Hongyu and Xia Bo, though not directly under their mentorship.
Likely, they had entered the underground palace through a different blood river array or entrance, but instead of ending up near the blood sea, they had come here. However, due to the eruption of the blood sea, the changes in this light array had caused them to be inadvertently trapped in the Eight Desolates Blood River Array.
For Lei Jun, who had treasures like the Soil-Gathering Flag for protection, falling into the Eight Desolates Blood River Array was a manageable challenge—dangerous but not life-threatening.
For Xia Qing and her companions, however, the situation was dire.
At the moment, they relied solely on an extremely high-quality Golden Lock Talisman that Xia Qing had obtained from her senior to ward off the tainted blood surrounding them.
At the center of the Eight Desolates Blood River Array was an incredibly strong suction force, trapping Xia Qing and her companions, rendering them unable to escape.
Once the spiritual power of the high-quality Golden Lock Talisman was exhausted, the talismans Xia Qing and her companions had would only be able to support them for a very short time before they were inevitably sucked into the depths of the blood river array.
To rescue them, either someone had to temporarily help them withstand the suction of the array, or a path had to be found to divert the blood and reduce the pressure on Xia Qing and her group.
Lei Jun's eyes scanned the area once more.
This time, he spotted Luo Haoran.
He was at the other end of the Eight Desolates Blood River Array.
Luo Haoran stood at the edge of the blood river, fortunately not trapped within the array.
He was trying to seal off the blood river.
On the other side, cracks in the rock layers allowed faint rays of light to penetrate through.
Evidently, this place was very close to the surface.
Luo Haoran was attempting to prevent the blood river from gushing out onto the surface.
Lei Jun wasn't sure what was above this underground location, but based on his understanding of Luo Haoran, it was unlikely to be a desolate area.
On the contrary, it was probably a densely populated area, perhaps even a town.
If the blood river were to burst onto the surface, the destruction and harm it would cause would be far greater than a typical flood.
That was why Luo Haoran was doing his utmost to contain it.
However, in doing so, he had inadvertently trapped Xia Qing and her companions within the Eight Desolates Blood River Array.
(End of Chapter)
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