Chapter 266: Birth of a Taboo!

"This is also why I sent my beloved Mermaid girlfriend to see their ancestors in front of you back then." The Third Senior Brother said with a smile.

The Captain, watching this scene from the side, smiled but didn't smile. He knew Third wasn't the type to like saying useless words; this was clearly an attempt to ease the relationship with Xu Qing.

Xu Qing glanced at the Third Senior Brother. His mind conjured the scene at the port where the other had gently crushed the head of the Mermaid woman. At that time, he had felt this Third Senior Brother was dangerous; looking at him now, the level of danger remained.

"But if it were a life-or-death battle, I should be able to survive." Xu Qing weighed it in his heart and bowed.

"A meeting gift." The Third Senior Brother's smile remained. He raised his hand, took out a bundle of spirit stone scrolls, stuffed them to Xu Qing, and then spoke softly.

"Outside the Sea Lizard Island that day, you weren't my Junior Brother yet, so I chased you for fun. Little Junior Brother, don't mind it; this counts as me owing you a favor."

Xu Qing glanced at the Third Senior Brother.

During the escape from Sea Lizard Island that day, he had been locked onto and hunted by multiple auras. Although he had never seen who those people were from beginning to end, he later faintly felt that the Third Senior Brother's attitude was wrong, and he had had some suspicions in his heart.

Now that the other party had pointed it out directly, Xu Qing was a bit surprised. He took the spirit tickets and glanced at them; it was 500,000 spirit stones, full of sincerity, so he nodded and accepted them.

Seeing Xu Qing accept the spirit stones, the Third Senior Brother also breathed a sigh of relief. He cherished the atmosphere of the Seventh Peak. Most importantly, he felt that Xu Qing, this Little Junior Brother, was the type that if you couldn't kill him once, he would become extremely vicious, remember it for a lifetime, and never stop until one of you died.

This was the type of person he least wanted to provoke. He was just about to continue speaking.

But just at this moment, a deafening roar came from the sky, making the earth shake and the mountains tremble. The sky formed fish-scale-shaped fluctuations, scattering in all directions.

"Blood Xue Lianzi, you are courting death!"

Everyone immediately looked up.

Only to see sword qi crisscrossing the sky, as if wanting to split the sky. Streaks of sword shadows carried the power of destruction. Just by taking one look, Xu Qing felt his eyes sting, especially since he saw a familiar withered hand appear in the sky.

This hand was like the hand of a god, containing terrifying divinity. Its fluctuations could even change the laws, causing vague shadows to appear in the surroundings, as if sages of the past were all manifesting in this withered hand, adding their strength to it.

It seemed capable of plucking stars and destroying heaven and earth, its aura soaring to the clouds, grabbing toward the void.

The void shattered layer by layer, and the sky directly turned into a rolling sea of blood, accompanied by murmuring sounds that came after the descent of the vague shadows, forming a suppression force that was shocking to behold.

Xu Qing's pupils shrank. At the same time, in the sky, Blood Xue Lianzi turned into countless blood lines, equally astonishing, emitting peerless evil, like an immortal fierce demon. Even if sages descended, even if the sword sea suppressed, it remained helpless against his fierce nature.

Amidst the echoing laughter, countless blood lines were like ferocious blood snakes capable of swallowing mountains and rivers. Wherever they passed, sword qi collapsed, sword shadows shattered, finally forming a ferocious dragon-snake head that slammed fiercely into that withered hand.

Heaven and earth trembled. As the sound like a giant thunder resounded through the clouds, the withered hand collapsed, the Lingyun Ancestor's body retreated, and the head formed by countless blood lines also retreated, turning into Blood Xue Lianzi's figure, killing intent permeating his eyes, and he laughed out loud.

"Lingyun old Daoist, you are a thousand years older than me, but you are nothing more than this."

"Cultivator of a lower sect, you will eventually be suppressed. Blood Xue Lianzi, this old man gives you one last chance: hand over Xu Qing, return the Life Lamp, and obey the decree of the Seven Sect Alliance. Your Seven Blood Eyes can be as before; the Seven Sect Alliance will not interfere excessively!"

Cold light permeated the Lingyun Ancestor's eyes. He raised his right hand and pinched a seal, pointing forward. Instantly, the blood sea in the sky rumbled. Faintly, the shadow of a vague blood tree formed within.

This was the taboo magic treasure of the Lingyun Sword Sect. Although it was not a true strike, the projection power he utilized with the Lingyun Ancestor's authority was equally astonishing.

"Not interfere excessively?" Blood Xue Lianzi laughed out loud.

"For thousands of years, every year, sixty percent of our sect's earnings have to be handed over to the Alliance. Every generation of prodigy disciples has to be conscripted by you lot—either submit or be sent by you lot to dangerous places to die."

"Our sect's cultivation techniques are all secondary to your sects, and they hide fatal flaws. Whenever we obtain a new technique, you lot have to take it away!"

"Our sect's formation, your lot's authority even exceeds our sect's. If our sect's Peak Master produces someone you lot are displeased with, they must be immediately rotated, their life and death unknown."

As Blood Xue Lianzi spoke, the disciples of the seven peaks of the Seven Blood Eyes fell silent one after another, their breathing rapid, sharp light gathering in their eyes.

Seeing this, the Lingyun Ancestor frowned.

"When drinking water, don't forget the well-diggers. In the early days of the Seven Blood Eyes, the seven sects of the Alliance each contributed resources and disciples to build it, which is why your Seven Blood Eyes had subsequent development. How is it that now that your wings are hard, you can forget favors and violate justice!"

Hearing this, Blood Xue Lianzi laughed again, but this smile carried a touch of absurdity.

"A favor, that's right!"

"Three thousand years ago in the Corpse Prohibition War, two thousand seven hundred years ago in the Soul Flow Dispute, two thousand years ago in the Cloud Clan War, one thousand seven hundred years ago in the Heart Soul Clan Great War... to this day, our Seven Blood Eyes have fought more than six hundred battles, large and small, for your Seven Sect Alliance!"

"Countless casualties, bones filling the earth!"

"The burial of dead disciples, the elixirs for injured disciples—have you ever given even a sliver? Every time our sect was about to flourish, it would decline in war, and the harvest from war was extremely meager!"

"For thousands of years, our sect has experienced seventy-nine life-and-death crises of sect extinction. Has your Seven Sect Alliance ever helped even once? Our sect's successive ancestors have sought help many times, and even the third-generation ancestor once knelt before the Alliance, praying for help. Have you lot ever paid attention even once?"

"Every time, it was our Seven Blood Eyes' successive ancestors, working conscientiously and painstakingly, slowly licking their wounds, slowly recovering. And once the sect improved slightly, your Alliance would wave your hands and conscript us!"

"Could it be that our Seven Blood Eyes disciples are not lives, that they must die for you while you sit back and enjoy the fruits? Lingyun, I, Blood Xue Lianzi, want to ask your Seven Sect Alliance, want to ask this heaven and earth."

"Is this favor enough for our Seven Blood Eyes to repay!"

"Is this favor clear enough for our Seven Blood Eyes to repay!"

"And relying on the initial favor, constantly squeezing us, acting as if we should be like this, you lot are high above. If our Seven Blood Eyes don't obey orders to fight to the death for you lot, it's forgetting favors; if we don't obey orders to hand over earnings, it's violating justice!"

"Could it be that this favor requires our Seven Blood Eyes to be slaves for generations, repaying until the era's catastrophe arrives?!"

Blood Xue Lianzi's voice was like a giant bell, echoing through heaven and earth, making the seven peaks of the Seven Blood Eyes hum and vibrate.

The Lingyun Ancestor's expression was cold. He was not ignorant of the Seven Blood Eyes' situation, but interests determined his stance, so he spoke faintly.

"No need to say more. Those who forget favors always have many reasons."

Blood Xue Lianzi laughed upon hearing this.

"What a great Upper Sect, what a great reliance on favors to act with importance, what a great 'when drinking water, don't forget the well-diggers'."

"Since that is the case, today... our Seven Blood Eyes will also become an Upper Sect!"

The Lingyun Ancestor's eyes instantly revealed sharp light, and he spoke faintly.

"Your sect is not worthy."

"Just watch and see if we are worthy." Blood Xue Lianzi was in mid-air, intense light appearing in his eyes, his right hand raised and pointing to the sky.

"Sea Corpse Ancestral Land, formation open!"

As soon as Blood Xue Lianzi's words came out, the wind and clouds changed, heaven and earth rumbled. Extremely far from here, after passing through the Sea Star Clan, the Mermaid Clan, and multiple sub-islands of the Sea Corpse Clan, the Sea Corpse Clan's ancestral land was now shaking.

Half of the area here had already been conquered by the Seven Blood Eyes.

Here, there was the Seven Blood Eyes' army that had not yet withdrawn.

Here, there was a huge teleportation formation that the Seven Blood Eyes had already finished setting up, preparing to transport the two Sea Corpse Clan Corpse Ancestor statues away.

Looking out, the two statues that had long been transported here stood there, their aura heaven-shaking. At the same time, in the sky and on the ground, the teleportation formation shone with brilliant light, causing heaven and earth to change color. Clouds and mist were like being pushed aside by an invisible giant hand, rumbling in the sky, rolling crazily toward the surroundings.

At this moment, following the shining of the formation's light, the formation in the sky emitted a thunderous sound, resounding through the clouds.

Amidst the echoing sound, it was not the two Corpse Ancestor statues on the ground emitting ancient aura that were being transported away, but... in the sky, external objects were being transported in.

Those were five rays of light.

The light was blinding, hard to see clearly, but as they descended, they became clear rapidly, making all cultivators in the Sea Corpse Clan's ancestral land who were paying attention have their hearts shake wildly, their expressions shocked, carrying disbelief and inconceivability.

Because, what existed within those five rays of light were none other than... five strange Corpse Ancestor statues!

These five statues were not the nine that belonged to the Sea Corpse Clan itself, but five outside the nine!

Each one carried endless antiquity and vicissitudes, and even more so the passage of time. Their bodies were permeated with cracks, looking like ordinary stones. Only when they descended onto this land of the Sea Corpse Clan did they erupt with brilliant light.

This was the magical aspect of the Sea Corpse Clan's Corpse Ancestor statues; only here did they possess their vast and mighty power.

At this moment, following the descent of the five statues, the moment they landed, the earth rumbled, as if a ground dragon had turned over, making the entire Sea Corpse Clan shake comprehensively. Sounds of uproar and exclamation echoed in all directions.

And looking out, at this moment, the Sea Corpse Clan's ancestral land had a total of fourteen statues, seven of which were in the Sea Corpse Clan's range, scattered about, and the other seven were on the Seven Blood Eyes' formation.

The formation rumbled, operating crazily. These seven statues shone with heaven-shaking light. Within each one, heaven-shaking and earth-shattering fluctuations erupted, like seven huge power sources!

Furthermore, the moment their aura soared to the clouds, above the seven statues, there actually... appeared seven huge blood-red whirlpools. Those were seven eyes!

These seven eyes were all closed, but their appearance caused the entire Forbidden Sea to stir up a violent tsunami at this moment. All alien races and all sea beasts trembled at this instant, incomparably shocked.

Because, this was... the aura of a magic treasure, and not an ordinary magic treasure, but one infinitely close to a taboo!

Afterward, as this aura surged fiercely and intensely, above those seven closed eyes, amidst the surging wind and clouds, appeared a bronze ancient mirror a full tens of thousands of zhang in size!

This mirror stood vertically in the sky, slowly rotating toward the surroundings, illuminating the Yinghuang Prefecture to the north, shining on the Seven Blood Eyes to the south, sweeping the Corpse Emperor Forbidden Zone to the east, and suppressing the Endless Sea to the west.

Everything in the surroundings was within its range, deterring all directions.

Wherever it shone, no one was not heart-broken, shocked, or terrified!

A taboo aura, following the influx of the seven Corpse Ancestor statues as power sources, erupted abruptly from that mirror.

Seven Blood Eyes, taboo magic treasure, complete! ===== CHAPTER 267 =====