Chapter 16 The Blood Demon Array
"What is going on! Is the demon race making trouble?!"
"Quick, into the hall, ask Master to come out and look!"
"There is demonic qi. Hurry and tell the elders of the allied sects to come help."
The square seemed to explode. Everyone crashed around like headless flies.
But a flash of light passed and trapped all of them under the vortex.
And the Demon-Sealing Seal under the great hall was slowly cracking.
Qin Ruoyi pulled me behind her, on guard.
Qinghe Immortal Venerable walked out of the hall, all smiles. Xue Qianxing followed behind him.
"Sect Master!"
"Eldest Senior Brother!"
The disciples looked as if they had seen saviors.
But the next words from Qinghe Immortal Venerable turned every face I could see gray.
"This venerable has stayed in the Great Ascension realm for a long time. Today's Blood Demon Grand Array will help this venerable step into the Tribulation Realm. I hope the disciples will offer up their lives for this venerable's breakthrough."
The smile of Qinghe Immortal Venerable grew wider, frantic beyond measure.
Lu Qingqing's face was heavy. Cold sweat stood on his brow as he tried to warn him.
"If the other immortal sects learn of this act from Master, I fear they will not let Master off. Please, Master, think thrice and turn back in time."
"This venerable truly cannot understand it. My beloved disciple Jiang Ling is actually a spy of the demon race!" Qinghe Immortal Venerable pointed at me, talking to himself, eyes full of pain. "She undid the Demon-Sealing Seal, released the Demon Venerable, and killed the disciples of Qingyun Sect!
"This venerable came too late. In the end this venerable only slew the Demon Venerable, yet lost so many disciples. After grieving too hard, this venerable gained sudden insight and stepped into the Tribulation Realm.
"Are the disciples satisfied with this reason? Do not worry for this venerable. Hahaha."
Qinghe Immortal Venerable laughed, low and dark.
Xue Qianxing chimed in with a smile. "Yes. Do not worry for Master. When the time comes, I will testify for Master. Junior brothers, go on."
The crowd went silent, watching Xue Qianxing, who had turned.
My mouth twitched, and my mind went blank.
"Drama fiend."
Qinghe Immortal Venerable looked at me, snorted, and his eyes went vicious.
"Then let us start with the traitor from the demon race!"
A short blade suddenly appeared behind me and stabbed toward me.
So it was Second Senior Brother. He had turned too.
But Qin Ruoyi was faster. One sword cut across Second Senior Brother's neck. She swept her eyes around and said, calm,
"Come test yourselves on me?"
"De... Deity Transformation." Second Senior Brother clutched his neck, knelt, and died with his eyes open.
The crowd broke apart, watching one another, on guard.
Qin Ruoyi pressed her thin lips tight. Her beautiful eyes were icy as she looked toward Qinghe Immortal Venerable, fierce.
"Qin Ruoyi's talent is high to a point that even this old man is astonished."
Qinghe Immortal Venerable's smile slowly sank.
"But me, I hate geniuses the most."
Qin Ruoyi flicked the blood off her Natal Spirit Sword and answered, cool.
"You hate them because you are not one. Right?"
Qinghe Immortal Venerable laughed coldly and waved.
The ones in the crowd who had turned jumped out at once and cut toward the senior and junior brothers who used to be their own.
Screams rose with a thick smell of blood.
Seeing that, I at once used spiritual power to mark the disciples who had the word traitor over their heads.
"Senior Brothers! Please surround the ones I marked. They are traitors!"
Before I finished speaking.
Several blood-colored tentacles stretched from the blood vortex in the sky and shot toward me.
Qin Ruoyi swung her sword, smashed the tentacles, and shielded me behind her.
As for Qinghe Immortal Venerable, he was breaking open the Demon-Sealing Seal. If it went smoothly, I figured he could refine the Demon Venerable along with it.
Seeing that, I at once explained to Qin Ruoyi the cause and the result, that under the Demon-Sealing Seal was a mountain god who had entered demonhood and was not clear in mind.
"The seal cannot be broken. At least not now. I will repair the seal. I will do it. Senior Sister, can you hold him for me for a while?" I looked at Qin Ruoyi. I trusted her completely.
"All right." Qin Ruoyi wasted no words. She burned her natal essence blood to raise her realm, lifted her sword, and attacked Qinghe Immortal Venerable.
Qinghe Immortal Venerable was forced to meet her.
At the side, Xue Qianxing blocked her. The spiritual power of the three swept the sect hall and raised a sharp wind.
The roar of spiritual powers colliding stabbed at everyone's ears.
But time dragged on.
However gifted Qin Ruoyi was, from what I saw she still could not fight across realms for that long.
Should I break the restraints on my body?
I hesitated.