Free Web NovelChapter 347: Chapter 128: Immense Gains, Heaven and Earth in Upheaval
Li Xuan: ???
He stared in astonishment at another line of information:
[Ancient Sword Demon Bear] (Reincarnated, Mutated Tier Four Demon) (Incomplete)
An unbelievable scene quickly emerged...
The line of information for [Ancient Sword Demon Bear] began to blur, then pulled apart rapidly, with [Ancient Sword] and [Demon Bear] pulling so far apart that they suddenly shattered and vanished without a trace from Li Xuan’s "Nine-Bar Blood Grid."
The grid became empty, allowing Li Xuan to fill it with the demon blood of the [Demon Bear]. Although the [Bear Puppet] Demon Technique was useless, the extra 640 points of constitution it offered were explosively high.
This was even higher than after Li Xuan had absorbed other demon blood!
This wave practically doubled his strength directly.
Li Xuan’s heart was wildly ecstatic.
Nevertheless, reason still led him to ponder what was going on at this moment.
Why, after he killed the "Demon Bear," did the "Demon Bear" disappear, and then a black and white fish yin-yang reversal pattern appear mid-air? And why did the pattern of [Ancient Sword Demon Bear] transform into that of a man?
Why was this man’s shadow so strange?
Why, after killing this man, did the information "[Ancient Sword Demon Bear] (Reincarnated, Mutated Tier Four Demon) (Incomplete)" turn into "[Demon Bear] (Tier Four Demon)," and why did the original demon blood suddenly vanish?
Many conjectures emerged, but none had any evidence.
Li Xuan no longer dwelled on it and continued to search through the village, yet found nothing.
This man seemed to live a completely solitary life, with no one knowing of his presence. If not for Li Xuan’s serendipitous exploration, even he wouldn’t have known.
"This wave truly resolved the Demon Bear; time to return."
Although there were no other findings, "an energy vein" and "a demon blood that adds 640 points of constitution" were truly significant gains.
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The exploration was slow, but the return quick.
In less than half a day, Li Xuan returned within the borders of Great Yong.
He felt like a fish returning to the water, every breath of air incredibly refreshing.
He moved swiftly, checking the situation.
Chaos was the theme of the moment.
With the loss of demon technique power, the Bear Puppets began dying one by one...
In the Great Yin palace, the Sovereign Zhao She, Princess Consort De, the Flying Forest Army leader, and several officials suddenly emitted painful black smoke, then turned into a pile of decaying flesh and blood on the ground.
The terrified Ji Nanfeng was being dragged by the evil spirit Feng Xiongyi, fleeing toward the city outskirts, then during a "revisitation of an old dream," Ji Nanfeng was torn apart by Feng Xiongyi, who then burned them both to death with a fire.
Li Xuan had initially considered battling the Bear Demon in the capital, using "the evil spirit Feng Xiongyi who had an affair with Ji Nanfeng" as a potential key piece. After all, Feng Xiongyi held many secrets about the Bear Demon, making him a valuable "lure the snake out of its hole" piece. Whether Ji Nanfeng came looking for him or the Bear Demon sought to kill him to silence him, they would turn to him. Now that the Bear Demon was dead, this piece went to the underworld with its old lover.
The city’s prominent families seemed to have noticed the palace’s anomaly, yet key family figures were mostly in Cyan Wood Province worshiping the Buddha, so they took no action. They simply locked their doors to avoid disaster and observe the situation.
An isolated, sect-like place in Great Yong’s north also erupted into great chaos. Many youthful-looking practitioners fled in panic and terror, with Soldier Masters escaping by sword control through the sky. It was evidently Lishan Six Alliances.
In this manner, Lishan Six Alliances, long under the Bear Demon’s control, erupted in unprecedented chaos and panic as the Bear Puppets died one by one.
To the ordinary disciples, those benevolent-looking mentors turning into a pile of flesh was terrifying.
Li Xuan watched these changes unfold bit by bit.
Suddenly, he noticed something amiss.
Coughs!
Many commoners were coughing, and the streets of many cities were empty, with voices echoing, "Cold, so cold."
The pharmacies were already overwhelmed.
As for the doctors, they hadn’t gone out, as even they had caught colds.
He sharply turned his gaze to the practitioners evacuating from Lishan Six Alliances.
Those practitioners seemed amiss as well.
They all appeared dazed.
From the conversations of the accompanying practitioners, Li Xuan learned...they had a fever!
For some reason, he suddenly recalled the "county record" he saw in the desolate county of the Fire Moon Dynasty.
"Suspected plague, yet no deaths, only colds and coughs, persistent even in summer; merchants took advantage to sell cotton clothing for great profit."
He muttered it once, furrowing his brows, then rushed toward the Lingyi Sect in haste.
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Within the Lingyi Sect, Sect Leader Jin Tianchan sat cross-legged before a cliff, looking weak. This weakness made his resistance to high fever increasingly difficult.
Though others like Hua Xiaoying and Shuichengzi also felt unwell, none were as abnormal as Jin Tianchan.
Since becoming a practitioner, Jin Tianchan had never been sick.
But now, his forehead was burning; he had a fever.
The heat surged from within, and instead of eliminating it, the qi in his veins only fueled it further like adding oil to the fire.
Moreover, Jin Tianchan could also sense an unbelievable change in his surroundings.
He was perplexed.
But more concerning to him was "what happened to the Bear Demon."
"Senior Brother, return indoors," Hua Xiaoying said. "The world...seems to have undergone a change."
