Chapter 81: Flames Never Exhaust, Winds Bring New Life

Holding an incomprehensible obsession, Pei Yanying's life force faded away, and his corpse thudded onto the ground.

"Finally, there's a kill move I can use."

Lin Chuan felt elated.

Otherwise, the Burning Silence Sword Formula would not receive the anomalous fire's blessing, and the Burial Spirit Domain, constrained by bloodlines and realms, could not be used.

Only Sword Twenty-Three can serve as a support.

Sheathing his sword, Lin Chuan lowered his head to look at the scarlet energy coiling around his arm, and without hesitation drew out a Cleansing World Blood Lotus seed.

The scarlet energy, like a tired bird finding its nest, rushed in and plunged into the seed.

In no time, the seed swelled, burst, and sprouted a tender shoot.

"So now I've truly become the mastermind behind the scenes?"

Lin Chuan was startled; this scarlet energy should have been offered to another Blood Lotus, but now it had fallen into his hands.

I guess it was snatched by him.

"Is that chaos‑causing Blood Lotus actually related to the Monkey?"

If it's unrelated, his snatching would undoubtedly cause a huge trouble.

If it is related, where is the Monkey now?

And does it still remember the past?

With these thoughts, Lin Chuan stepped into Bai Shui County City.

In the dim void, something was pulling him, likely connected to the Cleansing World Blood Lotus.

According to Lin Chuan's understanding of the Cleansing World Blood Lotus, that thing would normally affect at most a prefecture, unless it evolved again.

Within the Fo Zi Jing Shi Reincarnation, the heavenly rules of the Buddha Kingdom inevitably restrict the evolution of the Pure World Lotus.

In the Nine-Phase Realm of the Real World, the Pure World Lotus can still break its limits.

Following the Guidance, Lin Chuan arrived at a dilapidated manor.

He pushed open the door, and what met his eyes were several plain‑clothed people kneeling on the ground—an elder, a woman, and a child.

They glanced at Lin Chuan, gave no extra reaction, turned their heads again, and began to worship a dry well.

Above the dry well floated a Blood Lotus flower.

Upon closer look, it was merely a single petal.

The kneeling people were recounting their plights, each hoping to use the Blood Lotus's power to solve their suffering, even willing to sacrifice their lives.

Ordinary folk, facing the oppression of the strong, lack even the ability to raise a kitchen knife in a mutual death, and can only bow low, scraping for survival.

The Cleansing World Blood Lotus gave them a chance to swing a blade.

I become the butcher, they are cattle.

Lin Chuan was curious, "To what extent has the behind‑the‑scenes Blood Lotus evolved?"

Just a single petal can drive the entire Bai Shui County into madness, even Pei Yanying of the Heaven‑Union Realm can draw power from it.

Thus, this Blood Lotus far surpasses the one in the Fo Zi Jing Shi Reincarnation.

In his thoughts, the Blood Lotus emitted waves of scarlet energy, entering the bodies of those praying villagers.

"Supreme Blood Lotus! Thank you!"

The blessed ones bowed repeatedly in thanks, humble as ants.

Those who were slain had once been lofty, regarding them as ants.

Lin Chuan did not stop them, letting them depart; the city still had many demon‑slayers who would handle it.

His goal was the source.

After everyone left, Lin Chuan went to the dry well, reached out, and seized the petal.

The power in the petal was quickly absorbed entirely by the Blood Lotus seed, then withered.

Moments later, Lin Chuan felt a change in his body: his Physical Body's strength solidified, blood boiled, and his sinews itched.

Boom!

A gust of air burst forth.

Lin Chuan clenched his fist, "Did it really break through like this?"

As the master of the Cleansing World Blood Lotus, Lin Chuan received feedback, his realm leapt another small step, entering the Transcendent Realm Peak.

"No wonder the blessed one's desire keeps swelling; the power came too easily."

Lin Chuan sighed.

Fortunately he wouldn't swell, because he was already open.

He had thought that cultivating to the Divine Soul Realm would still cost some effort, but now it seemed the time could be shortened considerably.

Entering the Divine Soul Realm early would let him re‑enter the dream‑realm reincarnation sooner.

The newly developed 'Reincarnation Interaction' feature made him quite eager.

In the following days, Lin Chuan chose to stay inside the Bai Shui County Office, observing quietly.

One reason was to see whether, after the Cleansing World Blood Lotus petal was taken, the behind‑the‑scenes great power would continue shedding petals here.

The other was to see where the sacrificial killing power would go after the villagers, already merged with Blood Lotus power, fulfilled their long‑held wishes.

Time flew.

At dawn the next day, Lin Chuan, meditating, was startled by drumbeats from outside the office.

Majestic voices rose in waves.

"I, humble citizen Chen Dacai, today slaughter the tyrant Sun Wudu's family of Bai Shui County to sacrifice to my wife Zhao, my daughter Chen Xiaoxiao's spirit in heaven!"

"To atone for killing, I, the humble citizen, offer my death as repentance."

"I only ask that future Bai Shui County may have a good official to bring justice for the people!"

Listening to the sound, Lin Chuan quickened his pace and arrived at the yamen.

He saw a stout, good‑natured man kneeling before the yamen, the ground soaked with blood, its source being several heads with snarling expressions.

"Alas! It happened again, things are getting more chaotic."

The Bai Shui Prefect shook his head and sighed.

Yan Chao's customs have always been like this; the world's rule is the law of the jungle.

The sudden appearance of some blood lotus gave the weak the power of the strong, didn't that throw everything into chaos?

"Detain him."

The Bai Shui Prefect waved his hand, ordering the yamen officials to take Chen Dacai away for interrogation.

"Prefect, for what reason did this man kill?" Lin Chuan asked.

"Huh."

The Bai Shui Prefect said helplessly:

"It's all because of that Chen Zhima Rangguzi affair; Sun Wudu forcibly married Chen Dacai's daughter, wasn't satisfied, and then seized a married woman."

"Not long after, the two women died together in the Sun family house."

"It's been almost half a year since the incident, and only now has the blood lotus chaos erupted; countless people are waiting for revenge."

"That's certainly a fitting end," Lin Chuan said, then turned and left.

"No wonder you're a Demon‑slaying Envoy, free‑spirited, able to speak your mind."

The Bai Shui Prefect muttered discontentedly, "Being here, noble families are entrenched; officials must proceed cautiously step by step."

Lin Chuan had already gone far away.

Within the next day, three more people came to surrender.

It was clear that most rebels were honest folk; after fulfilling their wishes, they had little will to live.

Like Chen Dacai, he seemed not burdened by death at all, but rather relieved as if a weight had been lifted.

At night, Lin Chuan was cultivating, and that faint pull resurfaced in his mind.

"It appeared again?"

Lin Chuan suddenly stood, feeling interested, and followed the Guidance out of the yamen into a dilapidated alley.

In the alley, another person knelt.

In front of him floated a tiny blood lotus flower.

"Endless?"

Lin Chuan had a premonition that the blood lotus that sparked the series of events had evolved to an almost immortal state.

Perhaps as long as the killing force remains, it can spread like wildfire, sprouting again wherever the wind touches its trace.

If that were true, the only way to resolve it would be to find the source.

At that moment, Tu Shan Jiao Jiao spoke,

"Jiao Jiao has a method that can relieve her husband's worries and solve his difficulties."