74: Chapter 74: The Human Heart Conceals a Ghost 74: Chapter 74: The Human Heart Conceals a Ghost From behind the crowd, wretched screams of bodies being torn apart filled the air; howls of pain and sorrow reverberated everywhere.
The already sizable group was quickly overrun by the dark tide of corpse demons.
Baili An didn’t look back, no trace of pity arose in his heart.
With his sword raised, heads dropped!
Finally, Baili An broke free from the encirclent and, following the Seven Ashes Steps towards the southeast, he made his escape.
Watching Baili An escape further and further away, the furious and violent roars of Yang Zhao and Huang Kang faintly followed from behind, their aura bursting forth and blasting the sea of corpse demons within a ten-ter radius around them into the air.
Bones shattered!
Flesh flew!
Corpses strewn across the field!
Yang Zhao, looking at the sword Wen Yu clutched tightly in his hand, realized sothing was amiss.
His eyelids twitched violently as he demanded, “Where’s the Yuanli Sword?!”
Huang Kang’s gaze also turned icy.
With a mournful expression, Wen Yu said, “That little beast threatened with the wind bell, and I had no choice but to give him the Yuanli Sword.”
Hardly able to restrain his fury, Yang Zhao said with an aura of deadly intent, “That Yuanli Sword is the key object to lure the fourth sword here and to kill her!
You actually gave it away so easily!”
Huang Kang coldly uttered, “Useless trash!”
Wen Yu shouted, “I didn’t want to!
It’s the Yuanli Sword!
Do you think it was easy for to give it away?
But I wanted to live even more!”
Yang Zhao looked at Wen Yu as if he was looking at an idiot, his gaze almost predatory as he said,
“You foolish thing, you were so frightened by a re pair of Demon-suppressing Wind Bells.
Can’t you use that pig brain of yours?
If the people here were to leave alive and reveal the news that you are about to inherit the River of Blood, where in this Mortal World would there be a place for you?”
Wen Yu stood there, dumbstruck like a wooden chicken.
With a voice cold as a blade, Huang Kang said, “If we didn’t still need you to inherit the River of Blood, I would already have chopped off your stupid head and fed it to the corpse demons!”
Wen Yu, in despair, suddenly rembered Jin Sheng and ng Zifei, who had escaped.
He realized that if the Thirteen Swords managed to successfully return to their sect, he would face endless pursuit by the World Sword Master.
For him, a re Kaiyuan, surviving a single day at the hands of the Sword Master would be a miracle!
“I must not…
let those four go!” Wen Yu’s features twisted into a ferocious snarl!
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“What movent technique is this that allows you to cross a hundred ters in one step?” Lin Yuan hugged Baili An’s neck tightly, speaking with a hint of surprise.
Baili An navigated through the dense forest paths and, with Lin Yuan’s guidance, avoided the various barriers and forbidden lands, responding, “I heard from Wen Yu, it seems to be called the Seven Ashes Steps, a cultivation technique from the Taixuan Sect.”
Lin Yuan exclaid, “Taixuan Sect?
Are you from the Taixuan Sect?”
Baili An replied with a bitter smile, “I don’t know.
I have no mories from before.
When it’s safe, I’ll take the chance to head up to Taixuan to find out about my past.”
Lin Yuan frowned deeply and said nothing.
Inside the Mountain Realm, although much smaller than Kongcang Mountain in terms of area, it was still vast with treacherous terrain.
Baili An had yet to see even a shadow of the barrier exit that Lin Yuan ntioned.
However, during their flight, Baili An also learned the specifics of what had occurred from Lin Yuan.
On the night he was forcibly taken from Kongcang Mountain by the Mountain God, it marked the beginning of the Night of Bloodshed.
At that ti, the bodies of Yang Zhao and Huang Kang had not yet awakened.
Jin Sheng was ditating and regulating his qi.
Lin Guiyuan was busily managing the affairs within the Mountain Realm, while Wen Yu’s female disciple would occasionally cozy up to Lin Guiyuan, implicitly hinting at romantic entanglents.
But behind those romantic overtures hid the woman’s vicious intent to kill!
Luckily, that naive Lin Guiyuan was not blinded by lust.
Removed from the worldly desires of the Mortal World for years, he failed to detect Wen Zhendong’s implicit intentions of courtship.
Here, Wen Zhendong entangled persistently, casting pearls before swine.
anwhile, tragedy was brewing quietly on the other side.
Through Lin Yuan’s recounting, Baili An learned that the majority of those living in the lake were from the rfolk tribe.
They were ant to dwell in the ocean, but the rfolk greatly valued the purity of their bloodlines.
Typically, the offspring of purebred rfolk would have pitch-black scales or tails, signifying a pure lineage and increasing the likelihood of transforming into a Black Dragon with ti and cultivation.
But those with red or purple tails were the most mixed, occupying the lowest status within the ocean rfolk and often used as slaves within their tribes.
The laws of the Heavenly Dao are omnipresent, and within the rfolk, clearly so.
They only respect the power of bloodlines and will not show kindness just because one is of the sa race.
If your bloodline is impure, you can only be used and discarded.
To hasten their cultivation progress, the purebred rfolk would arbitrarily accuse those of mixed bloodlines, forcibly breaking their tails to assu human form and then sell them off like goods to human cultivators out at sea in exchange for large numbers of Spirit Stones for cultivation purposes.
The rfolk are known for their graceful figures and beautiful faces, and even though being forcibly transford would cause them to lose their ability to walk, they still beco sought-after playthings for human cultivators.
Over ti, this led to the perception in the Mortal World that one could buy red-tailed or purple-tailed rfolk as female slaves for a re Crystal Stone, and many viewed them as cheap playthings to be bought with money.
However, the rfolk in this Mountain Realm were not like that.
Unwilling to be toys of fate, they left their families and crossed oceans to reach this land teeming with sea demons rather than return to the chilling tribe they hailed from.
They preferred to beco prey for sea demons than playthings under humans.
Fortunately, their bravery was rewarded with luck.
Drifting in the Endless Sea, they were finally pitied and granted a boon by the god of Kongcang Mountain, who created a ten-mile lake within the Mountain Realm, giving these holess rfolk a place to survive.
But the visiting humans did not share this sentint.
After surviving nurous battles and fleeing exhaustion, both their bodies and souls were like tightly wound strings.
Among them were three young masters of noble birth, brimming with repressed malice, who upon seeing the beautiful rmaids in the lake, imdiately harbored sinister thoughts.
Seeing the red and purple tails, recognizing them as servant rfolk won that could be purchased with Crystal Stones, they thought indulging themselves wouldn’t be a big deal.
That night, the three stealthily subdued their aura and approached the lake’s edge.
Together, they knocked out a lone rfolk woman who sat by the lake, enjoying the moon.
They dragged her into a nearby grove where the leader cruelly used his personal sword to force the woman’s tail apart, transforming it into bloody human legs, and the three then committed brutal acts upon her throughout the night.
rfolk won not naturally transford into humans not only lost the ability to stand but also their capacity to survive in the water realm.
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