Chapter 124: Ancient Saint Path Sequence 6

Among the Reincarnator faction, the only ones Li Yu could consider acquaintances were those he met back in the Mount Mount Zhangyi strange domain, when he used the Sword Fiend Pill to pose as a sword cultivator.

At this moment, two of them appeared.

A tall woman dressed in goddess robes, cold and holy; Li Yu knew her to be called "Sister Qingnv."

When he last saw her, she was only a Sequence 7 【Witch-Priest】, but now she was already a Sequence 6 Spirit Bird Priest, and the Qi on her body was terrifying.

However, the one he could truly call an acquaintance was the other.

Dressed in black robes, with a delicate figure, snow-white skin, and a pair of lively eyes; one couldn't help but look at her as she glanced around.

The little nun Sister Miaochang!

"Close call. Thank goodness I change my appearance every time I transform; she can't recognize me."

"Since she could get in here, she must have successfully promoted to Sequence 7 【Bhikshuni】."

"The promotion speed of these disciples from major sects is no slower than mine."

While these thoughts crossed his mind, Li Yu swept his gaze around with an expressionless face.

Immediately, he moved.

He headed straight for the open city gate ahead.

The map in his mind had markings: the resources in Heishuihe City were extremely abundant; resources like Golden Honeycombs and Blood Fruit Trees were enough to make a person gorge themselves to death.

Whether or not one could scavenge such cities was the key to surviving after the poison circle swept through.

As he entered the city, he cast a glance left and right, his eyes filled with an eager look.

Anyone could read it.

"He wants to hang us!"

"Everyone."

"Don't give him an excuse."

As these thoughts stirred in everyone's minds, the Black Lotus Abbot—who had originally intended to recruit and unite Li Yu, this Merciless One, to surround and annihilate the group of Reincarnators opposite—also learned of the notorious deeds of this "Merciless One" from the few Order Lords behind him.

Immediately, his brows furrowed.

Although most cultivators who followed the "Hanging King" had something wrong with their brains,

there were few who truly carried out the will to hang everyone, regardless of whether they were righteous or evil.

He hadn't expected to run into one right now.

The young monk held a black lotus in his hand, staring at the passing Li Yu.

With his high intuition as a "Black Lotus Abbot," he felt the restless meme virus inside Li Yu more clearly than the others.

Once it erupted, it would be very troublesome even for him to deal with.

He wasn't the only one with this perception!

The other "Sick Corpse" felt the same.

Sister Qingnv on the opposite side, and another City God reeking of incense, were both watching with furrowed brows.

In the end, a full four Sequence 6s actually held back and didn't make a move.

They didn't speak either, lest they give this madman an excuse to act.

Li Yu's previous victims couldn't help but curse in their hearts: "Damn Merciless One, he believes in some 【God of Hanging】 so hard his brain is gone."

Amidst this atmosphere of being watched by all,

Li Yu successfully entered the city.

His deterrent power could be called off the charts.

Just looking at this scene, who would have guessed?

This fellow Li Yu was still a Sequence 7 at this moment, because he hadn't taken a new Merciless Pill.

He currently had three Merciless Pills left, each with a strict time limit; if he didn't use them at a critical moment, having a few more wouldn't be enough to waste.

Therefore, he was acting at this moment.

The higher one's intuition, the more they could feel Li Yu's terror.

This was the profound mystery of the 【Art of Feigning Divinity】.

If it were some hot-headed youth, such as a Sequence 6 of the Blood God path,

seeing Li Yu "pretending" like this, they might have just ignored everything and attacked him, and he would have been forced to take a new pill.

After successfully entering the city, Li Yu's figure quickly disappeared into the city.

Before long, above a certain area in the city, strands of filthy hemp rope suddenly hung down, and an extremely intense self-hanging meme and sorrow virus permeated and filled that area.

A cold, emotionless voice, devoid of any feeling, rang out:

"Those who enter this place."

"Shall find release."

Everyone understood that this damned Merciless One, while not participating in the slaughter between the two sides, had preemptively staked out a territory for himself in the city.

Everyone had maps in their minds; although they were formed from the exploration and fusion of the past eight rounds of conquest and were not the latest information, they were sufficient.

Curses rang out one after another:

"Damn it!"

"This hanging ghost picked the fattest spot."

"Since we can't do anything about it, let's split it."

"Agreed!"

Because Li Yu chose to equally despise both sides,

although both major factions had two Sequence 6 powerhouses, they were afraid of damaging their own interests and dared not attack Li Yu, lest they push him toward the other side.

By coincidence, this allowed Li Yu to take advantage.

Both sides were forced to reach a decision to split Heishuihe City.

Six people from each side entered the city, tacitly minding their own business and starting to scavenge separately.

In other strange domains and spirit realms, these two sides would be fighting to the death upon meeting, yet they could appear this "harmonious" here.

Beyond the factor of Li Yu, more importantly, there was the life-threatening danger about to begin.

The second round of the curse storm!

The twelve-hour countdown had half an hour remaining.

After entering the city, Li Yu took the opportunity to consume a 【Merciless Pill】 and occupied a large piece of territory.

Everything he saw was resources.

In his mind, familiar notification sounds began to ring out one after another:

"You have discovered 【Golden Honey】... You have discovered 【Blood Fruit Tree】... You have discovered 【Cursed Iron Nail】..."

Before a hundred breaths had passed, Li Yu had already scavenged his territory clean.

At this point, he could have gone to rob others, but the risk was too great; he had to remember that both sides in the city each had Sequence 6s.

And they were all intact.

Li Yu had stolen the power of a Merciless One using the "Merciless Pill" and borrowed the "Art of Feigning Divinity" to boost his aura, putting on a grand act.

But this didn't mean he was a true Merciless One.

If a real fight broke out, he would surely die.

Any one of those four could handle him easily.

Leaving quickly while the act hadn't been exposed—both to save his life and to head quickly to the next area—was the sensible thing to do.

However, just as Li Yu was about to leave the city, an accident occurred.

Although the righteous and evil sides had a tacit understanding to scavenge their own resources,

once something of exceptional value appeared, this understanding would be instantly shattered by greed.

For instance, at this moment!

From a palace-like building in the central area came an exclamation.

Amidst a loud crash, the palace collapsed.

As the dust filling the sky dissipated, a truly horrifying scene appeared, drawing everyone's gaze toward it.

Head after head floated up.

Each one was lifelike, as if they were still alive.

No, they could indeed be said to be still "alive."

Because every head-balloon had its eyes open and was speaking human words, yet no one could hear clearly what the content was, only some rustling whispers.

They should have flown away, but beneath every head-balloon was a blood-line.

A thin rope, purely condensed from viscous fresh blood, connected their floating heads.

And all the blood-lines were held in the hand of one person. When everyone saw this scene, the same notification sound rang in their minds:

"Discovered 【Cursed Blood Skull】; each Cursed Blood Skull has the effect of transferring pollution and curses. As long as it is held in the hand, one can be exempted from most of the pollution in the Wo Kingdom strange domain, until the capacity limit is reached, at which point the blood skull will automatically explode."

"Order Lord has been infected by the Blood Skull curse... the head will gradually separate from the body..."

No one cared about the second notification.

Those who could make it through the first round of the poison circle and persist until reaching Heishuihe City, whether they were Order Lords or Reincarnators, all had their own means to resist simple pollution.

But the first notification sound ignited everyone's greed.

Those dozens of Cursed Blood Skulls were extremely eerie and terrifying.

Yet in the eyes of everyone, these were extremely rare and precious... supplies.

Obtaining one more meant one more sliver of hope for survival.

Compared to this, the so-called verbal non-aggression pact was naturally not worth mentioning.

Seize them!

The few Demon Star Order Lords nearby had their hearts occupied by greed.

They all looked toward the Reincarnator clutching those blood-red threads—a little nun.

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Coincidentally, she was briefly left alone.

The three Demon Star Order Lords exchanged a glance, said nothing, tacitly crossed the boundary, and lunged at the seemingly incredibly weak little nun.

While still halfway there, the three simultaneously unleashed their respective methods.

Both sides were Sequence 7!

Even though the little nun was not weak, she had only recently advanced; one against three, let alone having no chance of winning, even surviving would be difficult.

A bit further away, Qing Nü, who was busy looting other supplies, was shocked at the sight.

"Sister Miaochang!"

"You are courting death."

Qing Nü was furious and prepared to strike the three Demon Star Order Lords dead from a distance.

But at this moment, lotus flowers the size of millstones, flickering with pitch-black flames, suddenly appeared around her, and the mocking voice of the young monk reached her: "Don't be anxious, Goddess; your opponent is me. This poor monk has long wanted to experience the methods of the Earth Mother Sect."

On the other side, that City God was also unable to make a move, locked down from afar by that corpse-plagued entity.

As for the Reincarnator side, the remaining three at the Sequence 7 level were scattered too far away to provide rescue in time.

Just as little nun Sister Miaochang was about to be torn apart by the three Demon Star Order Lords.

An accident that neither side expected occurred.

Filthy hemp ropes descended into that area without warning.

They attacked everyone indiscriminately.

Including "Sister Miaochang," all four cultivators from both sides were simultaneously strangled by the neck and left hanging in mid-air.

At the same time, a figure appeared before the little nun.

It was none other than Li Yu!

After many days, the two were face-to-face once again.

If it were the previous him, even with a disguise, he would likely have been recognized by Sister Miaochang.

But now, as an Alchemist who had also taken the Heartless Pill, his ability to conceal and change was arguably no worse than a cultivator of the Thousand-Faced God path.

Sister Miaochang looked over with her spirited eyes, but could only see a face that was incredibly strange, cold, and heartless.

Conversely, Li Yu, seeing the little nun at such close range again, could not help but feel a touch of guilt in his heart.

The reason?

As an Alchemist, he possessed the ability to steal laws, and his spiritual perception was so high it could be called abnormal.

In an instant, he sensed the "change" that had occurred in Sister Miaochang.

Her cultivation base had advanced, and the original trace of weakness had vanished without a trace.

But the Buddha-nature that should have been more intense was, in Li Yu's perception, even thinner, instead giving him a sense of sorrow.

It was as if she were thinking of something at every moment.

"It wouldn't be because of me, would it?"

"Was the previous disguise and the way I exited a bit too much?"

This thought arose in Li Yu's heart.

Yet his outward actions did not stop in the slightest.

At this moment, he was a Heartless One devoid of any emotion.

He could save Sister Miaochang due to a coincidence, but he still had to play the part to the end.

Completely ignoring the moving light in the little nun's eyes, he extended his bloodless, corpse-like palm and slowly took the blood threads connecting to the 【Cursed Blood Skull】 from Sister Miaochang's hands.

Afterward, without even looking at either side, he drifted away.

Because both sides were entangled, no one could stop him for a moment.

They could only let this "Heartless One" use his eerie movement technique to appear at the gate of Black Vortex City in the blink of an eye, about to escape completely.

Seeing this, both sides gave up their fight to rescue their own people.

Although they acted quickly and none of the four were hanged to death by the strange ropes.

The supplies, however, were not seized at all; they had all fallen into the hands of that Heartless One.

The Demon Star Order Lord side immediately began to curse.

"Shameless scoundrel!"

"Could this fellow be that 【Betrayer Star】? Being in the same Demon Star Order Lord camp, how is this behavior any different from betrayal?"

"Cultivators of the Hanged King path really are all mentally ill."

Conversely, the Reincarnator side, because that Heartless One had "coincidentally" saved little nun Sister Miaochang.

Even though those dozens of Cursed Blood Skulls were snatched away, they could not say much.

Both sides had originally watched as Li Yu was about to escape.

But just at this moment, a new accident occurred.

Outside Black Vortex City!

Suddenly, sounds resembling the chanting of scriptures came from far to near, surging forward.

Very quickly, everyone, including Li Yu, heard clearly what the scriptures were:

"Flesh and blood are profound... mechanical ascension... the path of the Ancient Sages... lies within."

"Flesh and blood are profound... mechanical ascension... the path of the Ancient Sages... lies within."

When this repetitive chanting became incredibly clear.

The people who had also taken to the air saw the source of the sound along with Li Yu.

That was, shockingly, an army.

That's right!

No one expected that within this strange domain of the Wo Kingdom, which was clearly an ancient ruin, a special army would appear.

All the soldiers were human, but without exception, they had all undergone modification.

Their numbers reached several hundred, nearly a thousand.

Their bodies were purely fused from flesh and machinery, looking both filthy and coldly terrifying.

And there were clearly some "special individuals" among them; looking at their exteriors, they were clearly cultivators.

Both righteous and evil sides were present.

None of the people present were fools; with just one look, they guessed that these special ones must have been Demon Star Order Lords and Reincarnators who had died suddenly in this Wo Kingdom strange domain in the past.

They had actually been dug up and modified into soldiers?

And these scriptures?

"They are cultivators from the Holy Nest."

"Modification... scriptures... it is the Sequence 6 【Scripture Lecturer】 of the Ancient Sage path, spreading the gospel of the Ancient Sages, possessing the supernatural ability to pollute and modify other living beings."

"It is Brother Brother Shang Yang!"

Almost in the blink of an eye, someone on the Demon Star Order Lord side had recognized who the leader of this army was.

Of course, the first to recognize him was Li Yu.

Although this Brother Brother Shang Yang had completely changed his appearance, that arrogant and domineering aura was truly hard to forget.

At the first glance, he recognized him.

At the same time, he understood why Brother Brother Shang Yang had absolute certainty that he could kill him within this strange domain.

Because this fellow had not only advanced to Sequence 6 himself but had also successfully mass-produced soldiers.

(End of this chapter)