Free Web NovelChapter 651: Chapter 359: Blood Transformation Divine Claw!_2
He absolutely did not want the people in the city to kill each other.
Killing would lead to a decrease in population, and thereby reduce the number of people purchasing the Enchanting Immortal Pill, which would decrease the flow of Celestial Gate Gold to him.
Moreover, these Immortals from the Upper Realm were most afraid of death.
The consecutive deaths of cultivators would frighten some cultivators away from Xianming City.
Xiahou Lu, along with five or six subordinates, left his mansion to investigate the consecutive deaths of cultivators in the city.
He started by examining the purchase volume of the Enchanting Immortal Pill.
He inquired at several locations that sold the Enchanting Immortal Pill and learned that recently five people had made relatively more purchases.
Su Que was one of them.
He disseminated the information of the five individuals to his subordinates and then ordered them to scatter and search.
However, after searching for three days, they still came up empty-handed.
Clearly, these five individuals all had means of disguise and alteration.
Xiahou Lu could only change strategies and have his subordinates stakeout anyone who purchases the Enchanting Immortal Pill in large quantities next.
...
Unconsciously, three more days passed, and Xiahou Lu finally received a message from one of his subordinates.
The message wasn’t about someone buying a large quantity of the Enchanting Immortal Pill.
Instead, it was about a cultivator in the east of Xianming City who had been killed.
Furthermore, after the death, all of the person’s possessions had vanished.
Obviously, that person had done it.
Xiahou Lu hurriedly went over to check on the deceased cultivator.
He saw scars of ferocious claw marks on the body.
The assailant was evidently someone skilled in Claw Technique.
Moreover, the assailant’s blood under the skin had all surged up.
After he died for a while, the blood coagulated, forming patches of blood marks under his skin.
"Go and find out who in the city knows this type of Martial Arts,"
Xiahou Lu instructed one of his subordinates following him.
After instructing his subordinate, he began to ponder.
Why, after so many days, he had not seen the person purchase the Enchanting Immortal Pill in large quantities.
Furthermore, he had his subordinates investigate.
In these days, none of the places selling the Enchanting Immortal Pill had experienced consecutive medium-purchase volumes.
’Could the Enchanting Immortal Pill he robbed last this long?’
Xiahou Lu wondered in his heart.
But soon, a thought flashed in his mind.
...
Gong Long stealthily approached Lin Dong’s mansion.
These days, he had been holding back the addiction to the Enchanting Immortal Pill.
He knew that Xiahou Lu had been searching for him these days.
Xiahou Lu was just a cultivator at the first level of the Creation Realm.
Gong Long felt that if he were to confront Xiahou Lu, he could defeat him.
But he also knew that this Xianming City was under the control of the Celestial Sect.
He was all alone.
But Xiahou Lu had the Celestial Sect’s people at his disposal.
He was outnumbered and outpowered and reckoned he was no match for Xiahou Lu.
So, these past few days, Gong Long hadn’t shown himself.
He waited for the craze of Xiahou Lu searching for him to fade away gradually.
But at the same time, an idea popped up in Gong Long’s heart.
He wanted to know who exactly was refining the Enchanting Immortal Pill?
These days, he used some disguise techniques and loitered around taverns and gambling dens.
After some probing, he locked in a few people who might be refining it.
One of them was Lin Dong.
Thus, he came here, intending to find out the truth.
If Lin Dong indeed knew how to refine the Enchanting Immortal Pill, he planned to take Lin Dong away, as this way, he could obtain a plentiful supply of the Enchanting Immortal Pill.
As he approached Lin Dong’s mansion, Su Que’s Spiritual Power detected his presence.
However, despite all the recent incidents.
Su Que had mostly remained an observer.
He released his Spiritual Perception but refrained from taking action.
Gong Long stealthily moved toward Lin Dong’s mansion.
Soon he sensed the invisible shield of Lin Dong’s mansion.
Evidently, there was an array within the alchemist’s mansion.
Gong Long, being someone from a Martial Arts Small World, was not versed in arrays and their intricate breaking techniques.
He had always relied on brute force to break arrays.
Bam!
Gong Long leaped up, clenched his fist, and smashed it heavily on the invisible barrier.
The invisible barrier immediately opened up a hole.
Gong Long leaped through it.
Then, he moved as fast as lightning toward the depths of the mansion.
Lin Dong, these days, was being forced by Xiahou Lu to relentlessly refine the Enchanting Immortal Pill day and night.
Although he was also an Ascender.
Refining pills required a very strong Fire Control Ability, constantly mastering the heat and the pill formation timing.
Therefore, due to the massive refinement of the Enchanting Immortal Pill in these last few days, he had depleted a considerable amount of his Essence Qi and Spirit.
So, when he sensed the danger, it was already too late.
Lin Dong intended to head towards the secret path, and after pushing open the door of the Alchemy Room, he saw a man with a height of nine feet, but with a full beard.
This appearance, after Gong Long’s disguise, was hard for the average person to recognize.
"Hehe, it really is you who is refining the Enchanting Immortal Pill!"
Gong Long found three people within a day, and only outside this person’s Alchemy Room could he smell a trace of the Enchanting Immortal Pill aroma.
With that, Gong Long stepped into the Alchemy Room, planning to take Lin Dong away.
But as Gong Long took another step, he suddenly felt a wave of danger surge in his heart.
"Who’s there?"
Gong Long turned his head and saw the City Lord of Xianming City, Xiahou Lu, approaching him.
"Xiahou Lu?"
Gong Long sensed the aura of the approaching person and deduced it should be Xiahou Lu, the publicly acknowledged top expert of Xianming City.
’This aura doesn’t intimidate me.’
Gong Long secretly compared his own strength against Xiahou Lu’s, deciding that today he could retreat unscathed.
However, if he were to fight Xiahou Lu, he believed that victory was possible.
The most important thing was that today he intended to take Lin Dong away.
"Are you Gong Long?"
Xiahou Lu suddenly asked.
Gong Long’s eyes flickered with a strange light, wondering how Xiahou Lu knew.
Xiahou Lu laughed, "I suddenly recalled seeing your name more than fifty years ago."
"At that time, I knew your cultivation was not weak; your publicly known cultivation was at the Peak of the Merging Realm."
"And I heard that you’re skilled in Claw Technique."
"Today, after seeing the injuries of the victims, confirming a few individuals, I thought it might be you."
"Your ’Blood Transformation Divine Claw’ was once a force to be reckoned with in the Unclaimed Land."
"Although this Divine Claw is powerful, using it causes damage to one’s Qi Blood."
"If not replenished in time, over time, the Qi Blood will weaken, and the flesh will be damaged."
"Besides the damage to the flesh, practicing this Martial Arts will also affect the mind."
"The malicious aura of this Martial Art often influences the cultivator’s spirit, keeping them in a state of tension, suspicion, and fear."
"No wonder you’re so obsessed with the Immortal Ascension Pill; this elixir is most useful in alleviating the pain in your heart."
"Gong Long, I’ll propose a condition to you; if you agree to be my lieutenant, I’ll have Master Lin supply you with an endless supply of Immortal Ascension Pills."
Upon hearing this, Gong Long slightly lowered his eyes, as if contemplating Xiahou Lu’s words.
However, the next moment, Xiahou Lu activated the "Circulation Stars Technique."
Sparks of light shone around him, and he turned into a bright beam, shooting towards Gong Long.
What he said earlier, he was naturally deceiving Gong Long, merely to distract him.
But as Xiahou Lu moved, Gong Long also moved.
Although Gong Long was tempted by Xiahou Lu’s words, he only half-believed them.
Having survived in the Unclaimed Land for hundreds of years, he had developed a highly suspicious nature long ago.
Gong Long pretended to ponder, waiting for Xiahou Lu’s next move.
Watching Xiahou Lu to see if he was lying.
As he slightly lowered his head, Xiahou Lu immediately attacked, confirming Gong Long’s suspicion that Xiahou Lu was purely bluffing.
As Xiahou Lu shimmered with starlight, Gong Long was enveloped in Evil Qi.
He unleashed his prized Martial Arts, the Blood Transformation Divine Claw!
His Qi Blood rapidly diminished.
Auras of Evil Qi spread from him outward.
Some of Xiahou Lu’s subordinates, with lower cultivation, were knocked to their knees by the surge of Evil Qi.
Gong Long formed claws with his fingers using both hands, and dense bloody Qi spiraled upward from his hands.
Gong Long stepped forward, smashing the blood-tinged Claw Gang into Xiahou Lu’s starlit fist.
