Free Web NovelChapter 221: Chapter 27: Blood Light Child (2)
Fang Cheng smiled. "It was nothing. Don’t worry about it, Elder."
With that, he flew out of the Seven Kills Array. In a flash, he skirted the edge of the giant pit and flew toward the neighboring Demon-Exorcising Platform.
Within the giant pit, the Sea of Blood surged, and Blood Thunder roared. Blinding crimson halos still bloomed intermittently.
The Demon-Exorcising Platform to the due south was guarded by Golden Furnace Peak. This peak’s main cultivation path was the White Bone Relic. After Feng Ling was promoted to a True Disciple, she began cultivating on this peak.
When Fang Cheng arrived, the Blood Child on this side seemed to have already devoured a Yinluo Cultivator. It had grown much taller, taking on the appearance of a young man, and was currently engaged in a magical battle with an Inner Sect Elder wielding a Bone Celestial Crossing Shuttle.
Fang Cheng looked up at the sky and spotted Feng Ling’s figure at a glance.
She was also presiding over one of the array’s core positions, helping the Golden Furnace Peak Elder resist the Blood Thunder.
Fang Cheng arrived before the Demon-Exorcising Platform. A beam of Li Hen Demon Light swept out, instantly clearing a large swathe of the Tier One Demons on the periphery and leaving the ground covered in black Demon Fire.
A group of Inner Sect Disciples were stunned to find that the demons they had been fighting fiercely just a moment ago had suddenly vanished.
Fang Cheng stepped forward and announced in a clear voice, "Suanni of the Law Enforcement Hall, here to assist on the Vice Hall Master’s orders. Please open the array."
The Elder from Golden Furnace Peak had clearly already received a voice transmission from Cai Li. Without a word, he immediately opened a gap in the array, allowing Fang Cheng to fly inside.
Fang Cheng flashed into the array. With a flick of his hand, the Immortal Binding Rope shot out as a thin, golden streak of light, instantly wrapping around the blood-light youth and rendering him immobile.
Then, under the shocked gazes of the Golden Furnace Peak cultivators, he activated the Li Hen Demon Light and effortlessly refined the blood-light youth.
"I’ll take my leave!"
His task completed, he left without a fuss.
He cupped his hands in a salute to the Golden Furnace Peak Elder, then turned and exited the array.
He came in a hurry and left in a hurry.
Upon seeing the Li Hen Demon Light, Feng Ling had recognized the newcomer as Fang Cheng. Seeing him kill the blood-light youth so cleanly and decisively, she was filled with admiration.
After all, the child formed from that blood light had just forcibly devoured a True Disciple from Golden Furnace Peak, and its power had surged dramatically.
Even when an Inner Sect Elder had personally taken action, he hadn’t been able to take it down.
If it had devoured a few more people, the array at Golden Furnace Peak would have likely fallen.
The consequences would have been unimaginable.
「A short while later」
Fang Cheng arrived at the southwestern Demon-Exorcising Platform.
This platform was defended by Cyan Cloud Peak, a lineage that specialized in the Celestial Ghost Talisman Sutra.
The Celestial Ghost Talismans were unpredictable and versatile. They had already trapped the Blood Child within a Talisman Array. Numerous Celestial Ghosts were clinging to the Blood Child, biting and tearing at it in an inextricable struggle.
The one who had acted was also an Inner Sect Elder from Cyan Cloud Peak.
After Fang Cheng arrived and explained his purpose, he used the Li Hen Demon Light to refine the Blood Child before flying off toward the next Demon-Exorcising Platform.
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「In less than an hour」
Fang Cheng had completed a full circuit around the edge of the giant pit.
With the exception of Celestial City Peak, he had "visited" all seven of the other Demon-Exorcising Platforms.
The children formed from the blood light were indeed difficult to deal with. A few of the peak lineages were truly struggling to hold on; if not for his appearance, they might have actually run into serious trouble.
Some lineages had managed to suppress the Blood Light Child with Magical Artifacts, and after Fang Cheng explained his purpose, they allowed him to refine it.
Meanwhile, lineages like Lotus Peak and Wo Yun Peak had also used their own methods to trap the Blood Light Child and politely declined Fang Cheng’s kind offer to help kill it.
The Peak Master of Lotus Peak was a Supreme Elder of the Wang Family—Wang Yuntian’s grandfather. Everyone in this lineage knew about the friction between Wang Yuntian and Fang Cheng, so their attitude toward him was not exactly courteous.
As for Wo Yun Peak, that lineage had guarded the Earth Abyss for many years and naturally had no shortage of Magical Artifacts for dealing with Celestial Demons and other demons, so they also didn’t need Fang Cheng’s help. freewebnoveℓ.com
Celestial City Peak, on the other hand, held itself aloof. It was the peak of the Supreme Elder’s personal disciples and the Yinluo Sect Leader’s followers, so Fang Cheng didn’t go there either.
Although he had acted this time, gaining immense prestige and making the name "Suanni of the Law Enforcement Hall" known throughout the entire Yinluo Sect, his true purpose was still to resist the Demon Tide.
Regardless of whether the upper echelons of the Yinluo Sect had other plans, since he was here, he couldn’t allow even that one-in-a-thousand, or even one-in-ten-thousand, possibility to occur.
If the suppression of the Demon Tide failed, not only would the lives of all the cultivators here be in jeopardy, but the Yinluo Sect itself would likely have to pay a heavy price.
If Cai Li and her group of Inner Sect Elders couldn’t hold the line, then only two final lines of defense would remain: the one manned by Sun Fuguo, the Sect Leader, and the other Peak Masters, and the final stand with the Supreme Elder.
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Having lived two lives, Fang Cheng knew well that selfishness would never lead to great things. He had always possessed a simple awareness of the bigger picture: the Yinluo Sect could not be allowed to decline!
As long as the Yinluo Sect remained powerful, he could continue to rise through the ranks, gain control of more resources, and maximize the effect of his Golden Finger.
Relying on himself alone, he might advance quickly, but he ultimately wouldn’t get very far.
By the time he returned to the Demon-Exorcising Platform at Demon Lion Peak, the Sea of Blood in the giant pit had actually begun to slowly recede.
The Blood Thunder had also subsided.
Inside the Seven Kills Array, Feng Ziang and the others were clearly running low on Magical Power, sustained only by consuming Spirit Pills.
Although the Netherworld Prison Suppression Array was powered by a large number of Spirit Stones, its operation and adaptability still required cultivators to oversee it.
This was especially true for an array like the Seven Kills Array, which used offense as its defense, and thus consumed a huge amount of the cultivators’ own Magical Power.
Fang Cheng stood at the edge of the Demon-Exorcising Platform, watching as the Sea of Blood slowly collapsed, eventually transforming into a dazzling, blindingly bright Blood Bead that hung silently in the void.
A black-robed figure appeared beside the Blood Bead and drew it into his robes.
