Chapter 376: Yuan Soul Pill and Rebirth Mantra, Red Blood Demon Dragon, Sudden Change

Mo'ao Era 132, May 1st

The last moment before dawn

More than ten kilometers north of Basha City.

After bidding farewell to Xia Hong, Li Ying Xuan Ling and her group of eight galloped north.

Returning from Basha to Hexia Village required first going north through the Jiuqu and Binjiang territories, arriving at Hong Pass, turning into the north bank of the Xing River, and then walking about 50 kilometers west along the north bank.

This distance exceeded 200 kilometers.

By the time the eight returned to Hexia Village, it would certainly be after dawn.

"That's Baiping Village, right?"

Li Ying Xuan Ling, who was leading, suddenly stopped, pointed to a village not far to the northeast that was burning with a large number of bonfires, and asked the group.

The seven behind stopped. While Xia Chuan was still pondering the map, Xiang Liang nodded and said: "Reporting to the Lady, that is Baiping Village. It is the westernmost village-level camp of the Jiuqu Camp, with a population of just over 30,000, but now there should only be 20,000-plus left."

The Jiuqu Camp had long been occupied by Great Awakening Temple. The Frost-Resisting level experts and Earth-Digging Realm soldiers in the village had all been conscripted, so the population was naturally much less.

Xia Chuan also remembered at this time and nodded.

Great Xia had long controlled the maps of Jiangxia and Basha towns, but Xiang Liang had been here for half a year, so he clearly remembered it more clearly.

"Go over and see what the situation is!"

Li Ying Xuan Ling said and leaned toward Baiping Village first.

Xia Chuan looked at Baiping Village, immediately realized something, his expression changed slightly, and he followed her quickly.

"There is a problem with this village!"

After Watching Yue Feng said this, he also followed the two. Seeing that Yuan Cheng and the five others followed, but their faces were full of confusion, he immediately prompted: "What time is it now?"

Yuan Cheng and the five changed expressions slightly upon hearing this and reacted instantly.

It's almost dawn!

Dawn is both the time for humans to rest and sleep, and the time for cold beasts to get up and move. Therefore, Frozen Abyss people try to reduce light sources as much as possible before dawn, extinguish conspicuous bonfires in the garrison, close doors and windows tightly, and burn coal at home to keep warm, so that they can sleep peacefully.

And Baiping Village is burning so many bonfires at this moment, which is clearly abnormal.

Baiping Village, square in front of the main building

A bonfire more than ten meters high was burning vigorously.

The firelight illuminated the entire square around it, and more than 20,000 men, women, and children were gathered together, all staring fanatically at the high platform of the main building.

On the high platform of the main building, a gray-robed monk with hair, holding a cyan pill in his hand, said loudly to the crowd: "Everyone, the Master has decided to open the door of the Pure Land for us. As long as you take the Yuan Soul Pill and follow me to recite the Rebirth Mantra, you can pull out the roots of all karma and obstacles, and from then on, escape suffering and obtain happiness, follow the Master, and be reborn in the Immeasurable Pure Land!"

The monk was incomparably fanatical. After finishing, he swallowed the cyan Yuan Soul Pill directly, then lowered his head to look at the more than 20,000 people below.

The people below, regardless of age or gender, also raised their hands. They were also holding a cyan Yuan Soul Pill in their hands. Without any hesitation, they learned from the gray-robed monk and put the Yuan Soul Pill into their mouths.

"He Po Suo... Li Jia Duo Zhi... Na Jia Jia..."

The gray-robed monk on the high platform sat cross-legged directly and began to recite an extremely convoluted scripture.

"He Po Suo... Li Jia Duo Zhi... Na Jia Jia..."

The more than 20,000 people below followed suit, all sitting cross-legged at the same time, following that gray-robed monk to recite.

Hum...

As the sound of the scripture spread, a mysterious cyan aura suddenly appeared above the village. Everyone had a look of pain on their faces. Some young children even couldn't help but cover their lower abdomen, clearly feeling severe pain there.

"Duo Lan Jia Pi... Duo Li Mi A... Di Lan Jia Pi... Duo Li Mi A... Pi Po Dan Xi... Duo Li Mi A..."

As everyone followed the gray-robed monk to recite the second paragraph of the scripture, the cyan aura above the village became increasingly thick. Everyone's pupils emitted a faint light. Their faces became increasingly painful, but the fanaticism in their pupils did not decrease. Their mouths still didn't stop, and they continued to recite the scripture following that gray-robed monk.

"Pi Po Duo Li Mi A... Ta Ye Di Duo... Ye Duo Jia Ta Duo..."

As they began to recite the third paragraph of the scripture, the gray-robed monk's closed eyes suddenly opened. Spiritual light surged from his eyes, frantically gathering toward the cyan aura above.

"Ye Po Duo Mi..."

The gray-robed monk continued to recite the scripture, his voice increasingly excited. From the fanaticism on his face, it was not difficult to see that this should be the last paragraph.

Pfft...

However, just as this gray-robed monk was about to recite the last few words.

A silver sword light suddenly flew out from behind the high platform, inserting directly into the back of his skull, the tip of the sword piercing more than ten centimeters from between his eyebrows.

The speed of the long sword was too fast, and the blood didn't even flow out at the first moment.

"Playing tricks!"

"A Wu Nan..."

Li Ying Xuan Ling, in a white palace dress, holding the Tianhua Sword, stood behind the gray-robed monk. Hearing that the other party was still relentlessly reciting the scripture, a look of ruthlessness appeared in her eyes, and she raised her sword directly.

Her giant strength of more than 50 manes, this lift of the long sword, directly split the monk's skull into two halves. If it weren't for the connection of flesh and blood, she could have lifted his entire skull away.

Hum...

That monk, of course, was dead beyond doubt.

But after he fell, there was no look of pain on his face. After the last three scriptures were recited, the spiritual light in his two eyes also accelerated, frantically surging toward the cyan aura above.

The more than 20,000 people below were all stunned at this moment.

They originally intended to continue following the last paragraph of the scripture, but the gray-robed monk was directly beheaded by Li Ying Xuan Ling, so they naturally didn't know the final content of the scripture.

They were all ordinary people, with cultivation at most at the Woodcutting Realm, so they could naturally distinguish that the Li Ying Xuan Ling on the high platform had strength far beyond their imagination, so they could only be stunned in place, staring at each other at a loss.

"This cyan pill is not the same type as the Melting Fire Pill, Zen Gold Powder, and Clear Cold Bead that Great Awakening Temple took out before. This is something that can kill people!"

Xia Chuan led Yuan Cheng and the six others to jump onto the high platform of the main building, looking at the pupils of the monk's corpse on the ground, which were still overflowing with spiritual light, his pupils trembling continuously.

Xiang Liang and Bai Shanqiu took out the cyan pill that Great Awakening Temple had distributed to them before the battle, and their expressions were also extremely panicked.

"Is it just this village, or are all the 60-plus village-level camps controlled by Great Awakening Temple doing this now?"

Hearing Xia Chuan's words, Xiang Liang immediately reacted and said in a low voice: "The power of the combination of the Melting Fire Pill, Zen Gold Powder, and Clear Cold Bead with the scripture has long spread throughout the Jiuzhen. The village-level camps controlled by Great Awakening Temple know it even better. If they distributed this kind of cyan pill to everyone in all village-level camps before the war at Basha, and then sent monks to lead them to recite the scripture..."

The expressions of everyone present froze instantly.

"The Lord's guess just now was correct! Great Awakening Temple not only wants the 1.5 million-plus people in Basha, but they also don't intend to let go of the people in these 60-plus village-level camps."

Whoosh...

As soon as Watching Yue Feng finished speaking, a violent wind sound came from above.

Everyone immediately looked up at the sky, their pupils contracting sharply.

Countless cyan spiritual lights were continuously flying from the sky in the north, rapidly gathering toward the south—that is, the Basha Town they had just left not long ago.

Including the gray monk who had just died on the ground, the spiritual light flying out of his eyes circled in the sky for a while, seemed to feel something, and followed the rest of the spiritual light, galloping toward Basha Town.

Li Ying Xuan Ling's expression changed repeatedly. Finally, unable to stop worrying about Xia Hong, she ordered the group in a low voice: "I will return to Basha to notify the Lord. Xia Chuan, you return to Hexia Village at full speed. Bai Shanqiu, stay here and watch. The rest of you, split up and act. Go to other villages to see the situation. Save as many as you can."

"Yes, Lady!"

Xia Chuan and the others knew the situation was urgent and nodded in agreement.

Li Ying Xuan Ling returned to Basha City in the south alone, while Xia Chuan continued north. Except for Bai Shanqiu who stayed behind to guard Baiping Village, the other five discussed for a while and also split up to leave.

………………

While the 60-plus villages occupied by Great Awakening Temple in Jiangxia and Basha towns were rising with cyan light, the 18 families in the two villages of Qinghepu were not idle either.

"What is that cyan light?"

Hexia Village, Liu Yuan, wearing the Lei Kui Jin Jia, stood on the roof of the main building, looking at the cyan light continuously rising from the north, seeing that all the cyan light was gathering toward the southeast, his expression full of suspicion.

Bang!

The roof of the main building suddenly shook. Two people wearing thousand-forged Lei Kui Jin Jia jumped onto the roof and walked quickly toward Liu Yuan, bowing:

"Scout Camp Captain Wang Yuan, greetings to the Deputy Commander!"

"Camp 1 Captain Zhu Xing, greetings to the Deputy Commander!"

Hearing the voices of the two, Liu Yuan immediately turned his head and asked urgently: "What is the situation in Qinghe Village? How many people are Great Awakening Temple fighting?"

After he finished asking, he realized that Wang Yuan and Zhu Xing's pupils were filled with thick horror, and the suspicion on their faces was even thicker than his.

Wang Yuan took the lead: "Lord, the people in Qinghe Village just took that cyan pill, then followed a group of Zen monks to recite the scripture. After the scripture was recited, cyan spiritual light seemed to be extracted from everyone's body. Those spiritual lights flew out from their eyes, circled in the sky for only a moment, and then all flew toward the southeast.

After the cyan light in those people was extracted, they died directly, including the Zen monks, all died, and no one survived!"

All dead...

Hearing Wang Yuan's words, Liu Yuan's pupils contracted sharply. He took out a cloth bag from his waist, opened the cloth bag, looked at the tens of thousands of cyan pills inside, and his face was instantly covered with shock.

"In that case, the 20-plus Zen monks who came over before intended to distribute this cyan pill to the people of Hexia Village, and then take them to recite the scripture together. If we weren't here, these 50,000-plus people in Hexia Village..."

"They would all die, no one could be spared!"

Wang Yuan took over Liu Yuan's words, his voice extremely low.

Thinking of the scene he had just glimpsed in Qinghe Village, he still couldn't recover, his pupils still filled with thick horror.

He suddenly remembered something and signaled to Zhu Xing beside him.

Zhu Xing on the side couldn't hold it anymore. Seeing Wang Yuan's signal, he hurriedly bowed to Liu Yuan: "Lord, an hour ago, the Manifestation-level experts of the eight towns directly destroyed the Great Awakening Hall. Worried about being discovered by those people, I didn't dare to get close, so I couldn't see the specific situation. I only vaguely saw 15 people take action at the same time.

After the Great Awakening Hall was destroyed, it sank into the Red Longhu, and then the Red Longhu..."

Speaking of this, Zhu Xing paused, first looked at Wang Yuan beside him, then a look of thick horror appeared in his pupils, and he continued: "The Red Longhu suddenly erupted with rolling black smoke. A four-clawed cyan-eyed demon dragon with a body length of about a thousand zhang and covered in blood-colored scales flew out from the lake.

That demon dragon can not only spit magma but also control wind, water, and thunder. Its strength is extremely terrifying. As soon as it appeared, it pulled thunder and surrounded the entire Red Longhu. The 15 Manifestation-level experts of the Jiuzhen were all trapped inside and are currently fighting that demon dragon. The movement is very big, and basically everyone within ten kilometers can hear it."

The situation in Qinghe Village that Wang Yuan just said already made Liu Yuan's face full of shock. Now, after listening to Zhu Xing's words, his pupils shook even more, his eyes filled with horror.

A thousand-zhang Red Blood Demon Dragon, spitting magma, controlling wind, water, and thunder, trapping 15 Manifestation-level experts as soon as it appeared!

Liu Yuan suddenly thought of something and asked Zhu Xing in shock: "Lord, the Lord couldn't possibly be..."

He hadn't finished asking when he reacted. Zhu Xing had already said just now that he was worried about being noticed by those Manifestation-level experts, so he couldn't confirm the identities of the 15 Manifestation-level experts.

"Red Blood Demon Dragon, which means there is not a single master in the Great Awakening Hall. Great Awakening Temple attacking Basha was to lure the Manifestation-level experts of the eight towns to Red Longhu. This demon dragon is the means they use to deal with the eight towns!"

Liu Yuan's expression was a bit ugly. What he was most worried about now was that Lord Xia Hong was also one of those 15 Manifestation-level experts.

A thousand-zhang demon dragon, not to mention its strength, just this body size far exceeded any cold beast they had contacted before.

And, could it be simple to be raised under the lake by the Great Awakening Hall for seven or eight years?

"Wang Yuan, Zhu Xing, you continue to watch near Qinghe Village. If there is any situation, report at any time. We currently cannot confirm the Lord's location, and the Si Cheng is not here. Occupy Hexia Village first. If there are any changes later, I will notify you at any time."

"Subordinate obeys!" ===== CHAPTER 377 =====