Tianyuan Xuanxian

Chapter 110 Blood Sacrifice Array

Just after Chen Xuan left the ferry, before he had taken a few steps, he sensed several auras hidden in the dark spying on him.

Chen Xuan immediately spread out his spiritual sense, and the surrounding situation was clearly visible.

Several figures in black were hiding in different directions, watching his every move.

There were even a few figures with the same aura mixed in with the crowd, walking towards the ferry, probably to find the old steward to inquire about the situation.

Chen Xuan didn't care about it at all and immediately thought of the origins of these people.

What surprised Chen Xuan was that he could feel a faint familiar aura from these cultivators.

After a moment, Chen Xuan remembered why these auras felt familiar.

The aura emitted by these people is almost exactly the same as that emitted by Zi Chen, but compared to Zi Chen, the aura of these people is pitifully weak, and there is a hint of coldness in their aura that Zi Chen does not have.

I didn't expect that there would be people from the Demon Sect here. Could it be that the deputy city lord of this city is a demon cultivator?
A question suddenly popped up in Chen Xuan's mind.

A city in the interior of the Xuanwu Dynasty was infiltrated by the Demon Sect, and the city lord and the surrounding cities were completely unaware of it.

In other words, the lord of this city is also a demon cultivator?

However, this idea only appeared for a moment before it was extinguished by Chen Xuan.

According to the conversation among those people at the city gate at that time, the city lord's behavior was completely opposite to these people's, and he was actually a breath of fresh air.

Chen Xuan frowned slightly. According to what the onlookers said at the time, the city lord's strength should be far higher than that of the deputy city lord and others, at least enough to make these people feel fearful.

But if he was not a demon cultivator, why didn't he attack these people? Chen Xuan didn't believe that these anomalies, which he had seen through at a glance when he first arrived, he, as the lord of a city, didn't notice at all.

Thinking of this, Chen Xuan suddenly became interested. He wanted to know who this city lord was.

So Chen Xuan no longer concealed his aura, and his powerful spiritual sense spread out in full force, sweeping straight towards the City Lord's Mansion in the center of the city.

However, as his spiritual consciousness extended, Chen Xuan saw some special things, and his expression immediately became wonderful.

The bottom of the city has been hollowed out artificially, and passages spread underground like a honeycomb or anthill. Underground, at regular intervals, there are several men in black sitting cross-legged, their hands making strange seals and hammering strange-shaped objects deep into the ground.

Seeing this, Chen Xuan immediately awakened Zhu Yin in the Ten Thousand Demons Pool and started sharing his perception with him.

"Blood Sacrifice Formation!"

Zhu Yin was originally dozing on the back of the celestial dog that appeared in the Ten Thousand Demons Pool. When he saw what Chen Xuan's spiritual sense had detected, he immediately exclaimed.

Hearing this, Chen Xuan was stunned and asked:
"A blood sacrifice formation, you mean, a blood sacrifice of all the living beings in the city?"

"That's right!" Zhu Yin answered with certainty.

Hearing this answer, a bold idea suddenly emerged in Chen Xuan's mind, and gradually, a hint of fanaticism appeared in his eyes.

Although Qianzhou City is a small city, its population is as high as hundreds of thousands.

Such a huge number of lives were sacrificed, hundreds of thousands of souls, even if they were all mortals, the dark energy produced after being refined by the Tongming Lianhun Jue is enough for me to raise my realm to the Jindan stage!

Chen Xuan seemed extremely excited. Endless dark energy was right in front of him. The excitement in his heart was beyond words and he couldn't suppress it.

As for destroying the formation and saving the people in the city?
"Haha, I didn't set up the formation, I'm not the city lord, and I didn't kill the people. What does it have to do with me, Chen Xuan?"

"What's more, don't you think I'm an evil cultivator? The heavenly punishment has already been sent down. Why should I care about the lives of these people who have nothing to do with me?"

Thinking of this, Chen Xuan immediately sent a message to Zhu Yin:
"Do you have a way to transfer the energy from this sacrifice to me? Or better yet, preserve its soul completely. It doesn't matter whether it's intact or not. As long as it doesn't dissipate, I can refine it."

After hearing Chen Xuan's words, Zhu Yin was silent for a while and was speechless for a long time.

Chen Xuan's temperament was originally affected by the dark energy and became more extreme, but Chen Xuan could still barely control it.

However, the arrival of the heavenly punishment was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, completely shattering the righteous side of Chen Xuan's heart and causing Chen Xuan to completely fall into the path of evil.

Most people in the world misunderstand the path of magic. The path of magic is not synonymous with cruelty. Every person who practices the path of magic has an obsession in his heart.

Normally, people in the magic world are no different from ordinary people, but when something touches the obsession in their hearts, or when this obsession dominates their character, then everything will be thrown behind their minds. There is only this one thing in their eyes, and they will do whatever it takes to accomplish it.

Over time, this leads to them being influenced by this obsession even at other times, and becoming extreme.

Finally, Zhu Yin sighed and said quietly:
"Have!"

Zhu Yin did not object to Chen Xuan's path to evil. No matter whether it was the righteous path or the evil path, they were ultimately of the same origin but different paths. Moreover, Chen Xuan was very restrained in his path to evil. He would not take the initiative to kill people for this obsession. Chen Xuan would only take action when others provoked him.

Even in this large formation, as Chen Xuan said just now, he did not kill the person, he just snatched a piece of spoils from other demons.

When practicing the magic path, the biggest worry is falling into evil, being completely controlled by desire, and having only killing and obsession left in the heart.

Obviously Chen Xuan is not, and in Zhu Yin's opinion, Chen Xuan will not be in the future.

But these monks who set up the blood sacrifice formation are.

They are about to be completely controlled by the desires in their hearts, their own humanity is gradually disappearing, and they begin to actively act for that obsession.

Perhaps it was for his own strength, or perhaps it was for a certain belief in his heart. Hearing Zhu Yin's answer, Chen Xuan was overjoyed and asked hurriedly:

“What to do!”

Such sudden joy almost made Chen Xuan lose his mind, making him forget that his original purpose was just to find out what the mayor of Qianzhou City was doing.

At this moment, in a secret room of the City Lord's Mansion in Qianzhou City, a graceful woman was sitting cross-legged. She had a beautiful face, her eyes slightly closed, and her long eyelashes trembled slightly, as if she was enduring some kind of pain.

In her meridians, there were strands of black substance moving around, constantly rushing left and right, causing cracks to appear in her meridian barriers.

The woman's forehead was covered with sweat, and she couldn't help but let out a muffled groan. The sound was light and pleasant, like the gurgling of a spring in the mountains, echoing in this quiet secret room, making people's blood boil.

The mayor of Qianzhou City is a woman!

When Chen Xuan probed his spiritual sense into the sea of ​​consciousness of a demon guard and checked his memory, he couldn't help but sigh.

He found it hard to imagine how such a beautiful woman, whose beauty was beyond description, could have such a worrying IQ.

But she happened to sit on the throne of the city lord.

Chen Xuan learned everything about the woman from the memory of this Demon Sect disciple.

Her name is Gu Jinxue. Her father, Gu Qingcang, was the previous patriarch of Qianzhou City. The current deputy city lord, Ma Yinai, appeared outside Qianzhou City thirty years ago. At that time, Ma Yi was seriously injured and dying, and was being hunted down. Gu Qingcang could not bear it and rescued him.

After recovering from his injuries, Ma Yi stayed in Qianzhou City in the name of repaying a favor and became a guard commander.

But soon, he climbed up the ranks due to his outstanding performance, and in just two years he became the deputy mayor of Qianzhou City.

When he became the deputy city lord, his evil ambitions finally showed up. He brought in evil cultivators into the city in the name of relatives and let them take up certain positions. It was from then on that the blood sacrifice formation began to be arranged.

All the confidants of Gu Qingcang and his daughter were eliminated one by one. It was not until five years ago that Gu Qingcang accidentally discovered his identity as an evil cultivator. However, before he could make it public, he was killed by Ma Yi and others.

On that day, Gu Jinxue's cultivation broke through to the late Golden Core stage, surpassing Gu Qingcang, but she received the news of Gu Qingcang's death.

However, Ma Yi, who had originally decided to kill Gu Jinxue, was unsure and did not dare to take action against him. Fortunately, Gu Jinxue did not discover what he had done and let him sit in the position of the lord of the city.

However, every time the blood sacrifice formation reached a critical moment, Ma Yi would secretly poison her while she was practicing. This poison would not be fatal, nor would it reduce the cultivator's combat effectiveness, but the cultivator had to deal with the poison as soon as possible, otherwise it would affect the foundation of her practice.

Every time after poisoning, Gu Jinxue would retreat into seclusion to refine the poison, but she never doubted Ma Yi.

Now it has just reached the most critical part of the blood sacrifice formation. The blood sacrifice formation is about to start, and Ma Yi had poisoned him a few days ago, so when Chen Xuan came, he heard the news of his retreat.

Chen Xuan showed an incredible look. They had lived together for thirty years and had been poisoned dozens of times in five years, but he had never become suspicious. Could it be that Gu Jinxue had used all her intelligence on cultivation?

Has she never used her spiritual sense to investigate everything in the city?
After a moment, Chen Xuan put it out of his mind. According to the memory of the Demon Sect disciple, the blood sacrifice formation would be activated in three days, and that would be the time for Chen Xuan and Zhu Yin to take action.

At the moment, Chen Xuan found an inn, but when the innkeeper saw him enter, he immediately declared that there were no rooms available in the inn.

Chen Xuan frowned, turned around and left. Half a day later, he walked through all the inns in the city, big and small, but all of them said there were no rooms available.

Chen Xuan was not angry with these innkeepers. After all, they were just mortals, and the reason they acted like this was definitely because Ma Yi took action.

The city lord Gu Jinxue was in seclusion. At this moment, Ma Yi squeezed his fat body into the armchair in the city lord's mansion and listened to his subordinates' reports with gloomy eyes.

After a while, he nodded and said:

"Send three foundation-building elders to deal with him. Don't let him affect our plan."

There was a chilling chill in his words that made people shudder.

After searching all the inns without success, Chen Xuan looked deeply in the direction of the City Lord's Mansion. The next moment, he walked straight towards the City Lord's Mansion.

After learning about the memories of the Demon Sect disciple, Chen Xuan came to a conclusion that Ma Yi was now just an insignificant character and would not affect their arrangement of the blood sacrifice formation.

Obviously, there was someone else behind the scenes who was the mastermind behind this matter. Ma Yi was at most a tool used to ensure that the disciples of the Demon Sect could be assisted into the city without alerting Gu Qingcang and Gu Jinxue.

Chen Xuan doesn't have to worry about alerting the enemy, because if Chen Xuan himself is the person behind the scenes, and someone who might be aware of his plan kills an insignificant character, he will definitely not show up on his own initiative.

If the person behind the scenes can't help but show up after Ma Yi is killed, it means that the person behind the scenes is also a fool and there is no need to take it to heart.

Not long after, Ma Yi struggled to pull himself out of the armchair and walked slowly towards the door. The three foundation-building elders he had just sent out had not made any movement, which made him feel uneasy.

"Are you looking for me?"

Just then, a voice sounded from behind him.

Ma Yi's body stiffened and he turned around suddenly, only to see a young man who looked to be about twenty-four or twenty-five sitting quietly on the armchair he had just sat on, with a smile on his face.

In front of him, three bloody heads were neatly arranged.

Ma Yi glanced at them indifferently. They were the three people he had just sent out, but there was no panic on his face. Instead, he showed the same inexplicable smile as Chen Xuan.

He looked at Chen Xuan and spoke slowly:
"Chen Xuan, I think we can talk."

Hearing this, Chen Xuan's smile froze on his face instantly.

(End of this chapter)