Iron Snow Clouds

Chapter 1811 Life
Tie Jinjue asked, "You haven't told me yet what will happen if I don't absorb the soul-purifying energy to perform the ritual."

"Master Hou said that if we don't do that, the gray house will explode in seven days, and some people in Tiecangting will lose their lives. Hou Fangshi, those blue-armored people, and people in a part of the area south of the gray house will all die." Tie Hongyan went on, "I asked him what if we moved away quickly, and he told me that it would be useless. The people who will lose their lives by then will not be killed by the exploding gray house, but will lose their lives for other reasons. From the day the gray house was built, anyone who has appeared in a part of the area south of the gray house will lose his life the moment the gray house explodes. I deliberately asked him what would happen if he killed those 'human-shaped tools', and he told me that as long as the living blue-armored people disappeared from the location of the gray house, some people in Tiecangting would lose their lives. He also told me that if there was a problem inside the gray house, those blue-armored people could not be moved away regardless of whether any action was taken or not. However, I learned from Hou Fangshi that no matter whether the "human-shaped tools" are killed or transferred by ordinary methods or through strange spells or martial arts, as long as the living "human-shaped tools" leave the location of the gray house, many innocent people in Tiecangting will lose their lives.”

Tie Jinjue asked, "You didn't directly mention to him that you could use some strange magic or martial arts to remove the blue-armored man, right?"

"Uncle, rest assured. I certainly wouldn't bring it up directly. I really wanted to know at that time, but I hadn't figured out how to ask. I certainly couldn't just say it directly. I was just thinking about how to ask it appropriately at that time, and Master Hou just happened to tell me as he was talking." Tie Hongyan said, "After he said it, I continued his words to confirm that I couldn't use the Phantom Tassel Spear Technique to move those blue-armored men away, and said to him, 'In other words, even if you use magic or some other rare methods, you can never let those living 'human tools' leave the location of the gray house? Is there no other way to resolve this?' He told me that there was absolutely no other way to resolve it, and that keeping those living human tools and the gray house in place would not lead to the loss of lives of people in a part of the area west of the gray house. After that, I never mentioned such a thing again, and I don't think Master Hou was suspicious of me."

"In that case, you'll have to give up on moving those blue-armored people out of the gray house." Tie Jinjue said, "If you want the gray house to not explode in seven days, and if you want people to not die in the area south of the gray house, you can only ask the alchemists to perform a ritual?"

(End of this chapter)