Chapter 52 - The Fallen Chen clan’s Betrayal!
Meanwhile, in an enormous underground palace beneath the Fallen Chen Clan’s residences, there was a lake filled with blood. Inside this bloody lake, there were countless of skeletons.
Basking in the light of a formation array were countless Chen clansmen; men, women, the old and the young. Each clansmen was kneeling on a node that was part of the formation array.
Each of them was silent as they slashed their right arm. Blood would ooze out and coalesce into the nearby nodes. The accumulated blood from all the clansmen would then flow into the blood lake in the centre.
At the heart of the blood lake, an old man with a head full of white hair was calmly seating cross-legged, meditating. With each of his breath, the blood lake seethed.
At this moment, the elder suddenly opened his eyes, revealing a thick killing intent within.
“What is happening!!!?” His cold voice echoed throughout the underground palace.
Within the closest group of kneeling clansmen, a youth spoke softly.
‘Patriarch, there were three disciples from Spirit River Sect that suddenly showed up and I was caught unprepared by their arrival. As I was worried about them interfering with our clan’s secret plot, I attempted to use my puppet body to coordinate with the other puppet bodies using spells to kill all three of them. Unfortunately… I am incompetent and I could only kill one of them, allowing the remaining two to run away. As for the disciple that was captured previously, he was also… rescued by them.” This youth was the one that Bai Xiaochun and company fought with during their previous encounter.
The youth was feeling gloomy too. When a Spirit River Sect disciple lost contact with the sect, it usually took around half a year’s time to confirm the missing case. The sect would only arrange for other disciples to conduct investigations after half a year’s time. As such, the investigating disciples would require approximately nine months to show up at the Fallen Star mountain range.
However, only 4 months had passed and unexpectedly, disciples from the Spirit River Sect had already been looking for them, which not only the youth, but even the entire Fallen Chen Clan, failed to foresee. After all, the one captured was merely an outer sect disciple, and morever, the clan didn’t leave any traces behind. Based on their reasoning, the investigation shouldn’t have arrived at the Fallen Star mountain range so soon.
As for Hou Yunfei, if he had not discovered the Fallen Chen Clan’s secret plot, they wouldn’t have captured him either. Originally, the plan was only supposed to take six months, and once it succeeded, the clan would rise from the ashes and extricate itself from Spirit River Sect’s control!
Now, however, they were one month short...…
“Two outer sect disciples… humph! I have already started the spell and have sealed the the entire area. Quickly arrange some clansmen to kill those two! Just one more month… and everything will be complete!” the elder ordered indifferently. He was not too concerned about the two disciples and once again, closed his eyes.
The youth took a deep breath and nodded in agreement.
Soon after, seven figures quickly departed from the Fallen Chen Clan’s residences. The first one of them was the youth himself, now with his real body, who appeared to be at the eighth level of Qi Condensation.
Among the remaining six figures, the weakest were all at the sixth level of Qi Condensation, and two were in the seventh level of Qi Condensation.
‘They couldn’t have escaped so far. Catch them!” In the next second, all seven of them darted toward the forest, filled with killing intent.
Within the forest, Bai Xiaochun and Du Lingfei were carrying Hou Yunfei who had lost consciousness. As they were running away from their pursuers, Bai Xiaochun had continuously tried to summon the flying boat, but the surrounding spell seemed to not only have disabled the ability to transmit information, it even stopped the Flying Boat from working.
After learning of this, Bai Xiaochun and Du Lingfei’s expressions turned even uglier.
The duo were silent as they gnashed their teeth and kept running while supporting the unconscious Hou Yunfei.
Bai Xiaochun’s face paled. At the moment, his danger sense was at its peak, and every fiber of his being was screaming, as though urging him to quickly escape!
He was certain that slowing down would mean death!
The feeling of danger that he felt now was countless times more intense than what he had felt from Feng Yan. After all, even if Feng Yan wanted to attack him, he would have to think twice as he needed to kill Bai Xiaochun stealthily.
Bai Xiaochun would just need to be cautious, and even if he let his guard down, he could still avoid most of Feng Yan’s attacks; he could even find opportunities to counterattack.
However, as of this moment… when Bai Xiaochun thought about what he knew, his heart shuddered and cold sweat dripped from his fore