Chapter 304: The Vampire's Curse

Since the battle that night, the entire Beijing seemed to have calmed down. However, anyone with a discerning eye could see that this was merely the calm before the storm; after the silence, there would surely be an unimaginable storm.

Lingyun stood in the courtyard, gazing at the sky in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking about.

"Master, what are you looking at?" Luo Yexi's figure appeared beside Lingyun, asking softly.

"I am looking at the precursor to the storm," Lingyun said.

"The precursor to the storm?" Luo Yexi frowned slightly, then nodded with a look of realization. "That's true. This incident was so massive, and I don't know how many people fell in Beijing; how could those people possibly let it go?"

"You suddenly came over to find me, is there something the matter?" Lingyun asked.

"Chen Jing called just now, saying that people from the Lingxu Sect want to come and see you."

"Lingxu Sect? What are they coming here for? I heard before that they found a place to stay in Beijing, and during this operation, two of their Elders also took action and captured a Vampire. What are they running over here for now?" Lingyun asked with some confusion.

"I don't know, I just heard Chen Jing say that she seems to have something she wants to ask for your help with," Luo Yexi said.

"Then let's go," Lingyun said.

Not long after, three guests arrived outside Lingyun's Villa.

"This place is extraordinary!" Xuan Feng looked at Lingyun's Villa and couldn't help but exclaim.

"Extraordinary? Elder, is there something special about this place?" Liu Xuan asked.

"Don't you feel that this place has a certain degree of similarity to the place where you live in the sect?" Xuan Feng said.

"Is this... a formation?" Liu Xuan sensed it carefully and her expression couldn't help but change slightly. "Are there actually Spirit-Gathering Arrays set up around these three villas?"

Although Spirit-Gathering Arrays are common among the various Hidden Sects, they are not something just anyone can set up. The fact that a Spirit-Gathering Array appeared here now meant that at least one quite powerful formation master had been here.

"This place might not be as simple as you imagine," Xuan Lei looked at the three villas, always feeling that he had overlooked something.

Just as Xuan Lei intended to examine the three villas closely, Akame suddenly appeared before them. The three people present were startled, because none of them had noticed when Akame had arrived beside them.

"Master already knows you are coming, please enter," Akame said to the three people present.

Liu Xuan and the others nodded, then followed behind Akame into the Villa.

"Liu Xuan, what business do you have with me?" Lingyun sat on the sofa, looking at the three of them and asking.

"We came here this time hoping to obtain your help, Lingyun." Liu Xuan found a place to sit in the living room and said to Lingyun.

"Hoping to obtain my help? Have you run into some trouble?" Lingyun asked.

Liu Xuan took a deep breath, then said to Lingyun: "I don't know how much you know about Vampires, Lingyun."

"Vampires? I have heard of them. I heard before that you two Elders even captured a powerful Vampire; it seems it was a Marquis," Lingyun said.

"That's right, our two Elders did indeed capture a Vampire Marquis equivalent to the Xiantian realm, but the trouble also stems from this Vampire Marquis. That Vampire Marquis seems to have a big backer behind him; Elders Xuan Feng and Xuan Lei were actually cursed from afar, and the one who took action was a Vampire Duke," Liu Xuan said.

"A Vampire Duke? That is a fellow equivalent to the Golden Core realm." Lingyun frowned slightly.

"Now the portal between the sect and the secular world is closed, and we are helpless against this kind of curse. I saw you selling Supreme Blood Coagulation Pills at the Dark World Market before, so I want to ask the Pill Master behind you to take action and refine a batch of pills for us that can resolve or suppress the curse," Liu Xuan said.

"Since when do Vampires have such methods as curses?" Lingyun asked with some confusion.

"This Vampire Count is different from ordinary Vampires; it is said that he is not a pure Vampire. Before becoming a Vampire, he was a Dark Mage proficient in curses. Later, for some reason, that Dark Mage transformed himself into a Vampire and, in a very short time, advanced to the Duke realm, becoming one of the figures behind the scenes of the Dark Council," Liu Xuan explained.

"A Dark Mage's curse? Let me see what kind of curse it is that could leave you people who came out of the Lingxu Sect at a loss."

Lingyun tapped his finger lightly on his brow, a golden glow flashed in his pupils, and then he looked at Xuan Feng and Xuan Lei. In his gaze, wisps of black mist appeared on the bodies of Xuan Feng and Xuan Lei. These mists were constantly eroding their bodies. Although there was another aura on them constantly resisting this erosion, the effect was not very good.

"Hmm, is this... the Taoist Heavenly Eye Ability?" Liu Xuan looked at the golden glow in Lingyun's eyes, a trace of curiosity flashing in her eyes. "This is a Taoist divine ability; could it be that he is a person of the Taoist school?"

"This Vampire Duke still has some ability. If you were to use ordinary methods of suppression or curse-breaking to remove the curse on the two of them, the curse on your bodies would directly erupt in the most ferocious manner. In that situation, it would be good enough if you two could save your lives." The golden glow in Lingyun's eyes slowly faded, and a trace of admiration flashed in his eyes. "It seems that Marquis put a lot of effort into this!"

"There is actually such a situation." Lingyun's words shocked everyone present.

"I wonder if you have a way to break this kind of curse, little friend?" Xuan Lei bowed to Lingyun.

"I do, but you must wait a moment." Lingyun nodded. Although he had only looked for a few moments, he had already seen through the reality of this curse, and it was not very difficult to break.

"Could it be that you can break this curse, little friend?" Xuan Lei asked with a look of pleasant surprise.

"The difficult is not easy, the easy is not difficult!"

Lingyun formed seals with his hands, and runes appeared in his hands, slowly forming a talisman.

The moment the talisman appeared, Xuan Feng and Xuan Lei felt the curse on their bodies seem to start becoming restless, as if it had encountered some nemesis. At the same time, a chill suddenly rushed to their hearts; this was the precursor to the curse erupting.

"In front of me, you still dare to be arrogant?" Lingyun chuckled, and the talisman in front of him instantly shattered into specks of starlight, drifting toward Xuan Feng and Xuan Lei.

The moment the starlight touched the two of them, a phantom of a black snake appeared around each of them, coiling around their bodies. The black snakes let out a silent hiss and wanted to bite toward the two of them.

Lingyun stretched out his right hand and grabbed into the Void; an invisible force instantly acted upon the two black snakes. The black snakes struggled fiercely, but in front of this invisible force, they appeared so powerless; after only a moment, they were pulled out from the two of them and flew toward Lingyun. In the process of flying toward Lingyun, the two black snakes constantly shrank, finally turning into two small snakes the thickness of an index finger that fell into Lingyun's hand.

Lingyun closed his hand, and Source Power gushed out from his palm, instantly crushing the black snakes into fragments. The moment the black snakes were crushed into fragments, an invisible Mental Power surged out from the black snakes and pounced toward Lingyun.

"Interesting." Lingyun chuckled, and Divine Sense surged from between his brows, turning into an invisible Small Sword that slashed heavily onto this invisible force, instantly cutting it into nothingness.

Just as Lingyun's Divine Sense Small Sword cut this Mental Power into nothingness, in a gloomy ancient castle on the Western Europe Continent, a man sitting on a throne and taking a nap with his eyes closed suddenly opened his eyes. Beside this man, a trace of a faint, lingering bloody aura swirled.

"To think someone actually broke my curse without harming those two; it seems I still underestimated the people over there!" The man's mouth hooked into an evil, charming smile. "It just so happens I don't know how long I've been resting here; it's time to go out for a walk! Let me go and see exactly what kind of person is capable of breaking my curse!"

As the man spoke, his body swayed slightly, and then he turned into a large flock of blood-colored bats and disappeared at the window of the ancient castle.