Chapter 115 - Grandmaster Liunian's Return

Song Shengping used all his strength to pull his long sword back, but the sword aura wasn't showing any signs of moving, and remained completely transfixed.

Bit by bit, a man wearing bluish white monk robes walked out of the rift in s.p.a.ce. It was none other than Grandmaster Liunian!

"What a dense slaughter qi this sword has. If I was even the slightest bit slow, it would have already pierced through my body!" Grandmaster Liunian conjectured in a frigidly cold voice.

With a forceful wave of Grandmaster Liunian's hand, the sword aura was promptly blasted into pieces. Even the longsword in Song Shengping's hand didn't come out unscathed, many cracks had emerged on its blade!

"Liunian?" Song Shengping smacked a palm laterally.

An enormous palm aura appeared in the air, pressing towards Grandmaster Liunian with a loud bang, giving rise to a storm while at it.

"Hmph!" Grandmaster Liunian let out a cold snort as he fiercely thrust out his index finger, congealing a finger aura in the air instantly.

Smas.h.i.+ng through the palm aura with a deafening thunderclap, the finger aura was in front of Song Shengping in the blink of an eye.

"Not good!" A horrified look immediately took over Song Shengping's face as he quickly mounted a defense with his elbow.

With another thunderclap, Song Shengping was sent flying, coughing out blood. Panic was clearly written on his face.

He had reckoned Grandmaster Liunian to be fearsome, but fearsome to this degree had never crossed his mind. In front of him, I am simply powerless to resist!?

"Let's go!" Shouting aloud, Song Shengping turned around and flew down the mountain, shooting straight towards Li Qinghe.

Swooping down at Li Qinghe and grabbing him, Song Shengping flew into the distance at breakneck speed.

"Chief ran?"

"Chief isn't his opponent!?"

"It's over, run!"...

The crowd of demonized humans cried out in shock as they turned about and tried to flee.

"You think you can escape? Hmph!" Grandmaster Liunian let out a cold snort as he waved his left hand.

On his left hand, there were a series of prayers beads strung together. The moment Grandmaster Liunian pointed his hand towards the sky, countless prayer malas suddenly emerged out of the prayer beads and flew in all directions, surrounding all of the fleeing disciples.

[TLN: Mala, sanskrit word meaning garland. Rosary might be the closer word to it, in a religious sense.]

"Ah~!" "Ah~!" "Ah~!"...

One by one, the demonized humans were instantly tied up by the malas, bound to the ground as if they were iron chains. They were unable to move a single limb.

"Let me go, let me go!" the bound demonized humans all screamed in horror.

In the distance, countless prayer beads immediately sped after the fleeing Song Shengping and Li Qinghe.

Song Shengping's expression changed as he drove his palm at the oncoming beads, smas.h.i.+ng the phantasmal malas into pieces.

Having done that, Song Shengping and Li Qinghe fled into the distance even faster.

Grandmaster Liunian, on the other hand, knit his brow, looking about.

There were three thousand statues next to him. And not too far away, Gu Hai was lying on the ground, with black qi circling around him. Apparently, he had suffered serious injuries. There were piles of bones lying here and there as well. The Clear River Sect was a total mess!...

With his perception, Grandmaster Liunian had also discovered the corpses of many Clear River Sect disciples who were missing their hearts and livers.

And right before him were the demonized humans, with savage looks on their faces, all tied up by the prayer beads. There was a malevolent air around them. Each and every one of them had snakes wriggling around instead of hair. They looked incomparably evil.

"What the h.e.l.l happened? Where is the Hall Lord?" Grandmaster Liunian looked at Gu Hai.

"Hurry and chase them! The Hall Lord is imprisoned! Quickly, don't let them escape!" Gu Hai shouted, pointed after the escaping Song Shengping.

Hearing this, Grandmaster Liunian's countenance changed. Without another word, his figure flickered as he gave chase into the distance.

SWIs.h.!.+

In the blink of an eye, Grandmaster Liunian was already at the horizon.

"Ke Ke Ke!" Gu Hai, on the other hand, somehow picked himself up, coughing up blood.

Over two hundred skeletons were scattered about on the ground. There were over five hundred demonized disciples remaining, tied up by the prayer beads.

Gu Hai's gaze turned icy cold as he staggered his way up to a demonized man.

"What do you want to do?" that man screamed in shock and anger. The snakes on his head hissed at Gu Hai, baring their fangs.

Gu Hai pursed his lips into a grim smile as he wiped the blood at the corner of his mouth.

Suddenly, his saber was thrust into that demonized man.

Immediately after, billowing black qi drilled its way into the man's body as countless skulls quickly ripped his flesh away.

"Ahhhhhhh!" Thedemonized disciple let out a blood-curdling scream of agony.

When Gu Hai pulled out the Life Severing Saber, all that left of that demonized man was his bones.

With its victim dead, the binding illusory prayer beads collapsed at once, and without their support, the immobile skeleton tumbled to the ground.

"What? Senior Brothers and the others were eaten by Gu Hai's blade?! Eaten!?!"

"No, no, no, I don't want to be eaten, don't eat me!"

"Gu Hai, spare me, let me go, I am innocent, I was just following orders!"...

The crowd of panic-stricken demonized humans were begging him piteously.

A grim smile immediately emerged on Gu Hai's lips as he rebuked them, "If you were humans, I would not have the heart to kill you... but are you still humans? You are all human-eating fiends. Didn't the humans you ate beg you to spare them, but did you let them go?

"Weren't the hearts and livers of humans tasty? Weren't they delicious?

"The moment you decided to be demonized, you had already lost your humanity.

"The enemies of humans must be killed!"

Having finished speaking, Gu Hai continued to plunge his saber into all of them.

"Ah~!"

"Ah~!"

"I didn't eat anyone, don't kill me!"...

One after another, the demonized humans were devoured by Gu Hai's Life Severing Saber. Since they were evil to the core, Gu Hai simply didn't need to show them any mercy. If he didn't kill them, even more people would be eaten by them!

As Gu Hai continued to plunge his blade into the demonized humans, skeletons kept on clattering to the ground, one after another.

Bones were soon lying all over the place.

All of the demonized humans were ma.s.sacred by Gu Hai. And along with the engulfing of the energy in their flesh and blood by the Life Severing Saber, one-thousandth of that energy, after being refined by the Life Severing Saber, was fed into Gu Hai's body.

This was also what Gu Hai currently need the most, strength!

He completely recovered from the injuries he had suffered very quickly. A large part of the stolen energy was running wild in his body, charging straight towards his dantian.

Suddenly, a wall of wind erupted out from Gu Hai's body, slamming into the fallen bones and scattering them all over the place.

"Eighth level of the Xiantian Stage!" Having just broken through, Gu Hai's eyes shone brighter.

Devouring the eight hundred demonized disciples had surprisingly given him a chance to break through one level!

Coldly gazing at the bones scattered everywhere, Gu Hai said in a cold voice, "Whoever eats humans should be killed!"

"Are you any better?" suddenly, a voice came from behind him. Gu Hai turned around to look at once.

It was Grandmaster Liunian who had already returned. At this moment, seeing the ground littered with bones, he was coldly staring at Gu Hai.

He might not know what Gu Hai had done exactly, but the bones lying everywhere stated everything clearly. Gu Hai had used some kind of evil technique.

Even being questioned by Grandmaster Liunian, Gu Hai remained dauntless. Clutching the Life Severing Saber, Gu Hai was on guard against Grandmaster Liunian as he asked coldly, "Why, does Grandmaster Liunian feel that these devils who eat humans should not be killed?"

Grandmaster Liunian replied, coldly glaring at Gu Hai, "They should be killed! But not in this way!"

"Should be killed? Your killing method and my killing method are different, that's all! We just have different principles! Or, do you want to root out the dissident?" Gu Hai rebuked coldly.

Grandmaster Liunian, staring at Gu Hai with a cold gaze, remained silent for a good long while.

"Gu Hai, I and Hall Lord are very optimistic about you, don't take the wrong path!" Grandmaster Liunian said in a deep voice.

"Ha, don't take the wrong path? Grandmaster Liunian, no need to trouble yourself about my business!" Gu Hai replied in a cold voice.

Grandmaster Liunian once again remained silent for a long while as he stared at Gu Hai, as if he wanted to rebuke him angrily, but slowly controlled his emotions.

"Did you catch them?" Gu Hai looked at Grandmaster Linian expectantly.

Grandmaster Liunian shook his head, "Song Shengping had a Dragon Locking Ring, he used it to escape!"

"Dragon Locking Ring?" Gu Hai was surprised.

"What is going on? Can you tell me, what happened? Where is the Hall Lord?" Grandmaster Liunian asked in a heavy voice, his white eyebrows locking together in deep concern.

Gu Hai heaved a sigh before narrating everything he knew to Grandmaster Liunian.

"I just left for a short while! Song Shengping!? Good, good, good, you sure have great courage!" A savage look appeared on Grandmaster Liunian's face as he swore.

"Now, what's important is the safety of Hall Lord!" Gu Hai emphasized, furrowing his brow.

"Hall Lord's safety, she should not be in any danger for the time being!" Grandmaster Liunian replied with a frown.

"Oh?" Gu Hai was puzzled.

"I know all about that flood dragon, Fu Xue, right? He knows the Hall Lord's ident.i.ty, imprisoning the Hall Lord is already his limit. He wouldn't dare to harm the Hall Lord, unless he is tired of living. Otherwise, even if got the dragon vein, there is no place in this world where he could escape!" Grandmaster Liunian told Gu Hai with great confidence.

"Even if you are speaking the truth, there still can be some inevitable accidents. We need to rescue the Hall Lord," Gu Hai said darkly.

Grandmaster Liunian nodded his a.s.sent. "That's right!"

"Grandmaster Liunian, my three thousand subordinates came with me just for you. For you, they have been turned into statues. Can you rescue them?" Gu Hai looked at the statues worriedly.

Looking at the three thousand statues, Grandmaster Liunian knit his brow as he heaved a sigh and said, "If you want to remove their curse, there is only one way!"

"Oh?"

"You have to kill Li Qinghe. Once Li Qinghe is dead, the curse on them will be automatically removed!" Grandmaster Liunian stated solemnly.

Gu Hai nodded in grat.i.tude. "Thank you very much, Grandmaster!"

"No need to thank me, it should be I who should be thanking you! Had it not been for you, I don't know when I would have returned! The Nine-Five Island has lost its peace and tranquility. The Hall Lord can be said to have encountered a mishap. I can hardly absolve myself from blame!" Grandmaster Liunian shook his head.

"Did you find what you were looking for?" Gu Hai asked, curious.

Grandmaster Liunian shook his head and said, "We went to the nearby ghost city, but we didn't find anything. No, we found a clue! We found a clue about the earth soul of the Hall Lord's mother's servant. He was killed together with the Hall Lord's mother. While I hurried back, Wei Shengren is continuing to track that soul down!"

A slight furrow appeared on Gu Hai's brow, but he didn't continue to ask questions. After all, matters of just the mortal world were already difficult for him to handle!

"Grandmaster Liunian, I can't leave my three thousand subordinates in the open. Can you help me carry them back to Gu Mansion?" asked Gu Hai.

"Very well!"

With a wave of Grandmaster Liunian's hand, an enormous flying s.h.i.+p flew out of his sleeve.

The flying s.h.i.+p was huge! With another wave of Grandmaster Liunian's hand, white clouds suddenly appeared underneath the statues and slowly lifted the statues, placing them on the flying s.h.i.+p gently.

Gu Hai, on the other hand, ran around the palaces, ransacking them. At the same time, hidden from the gaze of Grandmaster Liunian, he hid the Life Severing Saber inside his body, turning it back into his rib.

"Throne Master Gu, what are you looking for?" Grandmaster Liunian asked him, puzzled.

A wry smile appeared on Gu Hai's face as he explained, "Because of you, I am knee-deep in debt. I need to find the spirit stones to pay the debt!"

"Oh?" Grandmaster Liunian recalled Gu Hai's narration. "No need to look, we are in a hurry. I will repay your debt! After all, it was because of me!" Grandmaster Liunian informed him loftily.

"Oh?" Gu Hai looked at Grandmaster Liunian, surprised.

As Grandmaster Liunian flipped his hand, many high-grade spirit stones emerged out of thin air. Obviously, Grandmaster Liunian also had a small storage s.p.a.ce!

Gu Hai welcomed them, and promptly collected the spirit stones with a stretch of his hand.

Grandmaster Liunian was extremely generous. The number of spirit stones was actually ten times more than what he had borrowed. Suddenly, he had become a nouveau riche!

"Let's go!" Grandmaster Liunian said calmly.

Gu Hai nodded in a.s.sent and embarked the flying s.h.i.+p with Grandmaster Liunian. Under the Grandmaster's will, the s.h.i.+p turned and headed for Gu Mansion at astonis.h.i.+ng speed.

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