Xuan Wuji stayed in the room for a grudging overnight. As dawn just started to break, he immediately set off on a journey, planning to cross the Great Zhou border and enter Tangyuan City within the day.
"Ahead is the national boundary between Tangyuan and Great Zhou. This time I nearly accomplished my mission, but fortunately, I’ve poisoned that old man Yu Bahe. As long as I return to Dihong City, and hire someone to assassinate him, the Yun Residence will surely be thrown into chaos," Xuan Wuji thought, having traveled half the day. He was already approaching the boundary between Tangyuan and Great Zhou, and just ahead lay the border cities of Tangyuan.
He crossed over a hilltop and looked ahead.
Suddenly, his body stiffened.
In front of him was a graveyard.
"What is this place?" Xuan Wuji furrowed his brow, vaguely remembering.
This was where Great Zhou, Tangyuan, and Hou Qin had battled years ago, which also was the former site of Nanya Town.
"Xuan Wuji, this is where over a thousand brothers of the Yun Family Army and tens of thousands of civilians from Nanya Town have been laid to rest," a chilling voice, as if drifting from the netherworld, sent shivers down Xuan Wuji’s spine.
"Yun Canglang!" Xuan Wuji turned pale with fright. He focused his gaze and saw several people standing amidst rows of tombstones.
In the center stood Great Zhou’s Yun Canglang, accompanied by a young girl and a young man.
It was indeed Yun Sheng and Zong Ren.
With the three of them appearing here, Xuan Wuji already knew that things were going badly. His face, still wearing a face mask, was now completely drenched inside.
"City Lord Xuan, you are quite cunning, changing face masks at least three or four times along the way," Yun Sheng said with a light laugh, seeing the look of despair on his face.
"Hehe, master, you don’t know, this guy is so cowardly. At the slightest rustle of wind or movement of grass, he runs faster than a rabbit. Too bad he can’t outrun my darlings," Zong Ren teased.
Several bats immediately started circling around him.
It turned out that Zong Ren had been ordered by Yun Sheng to keep an eye on Xuan Wuji while he was still in Dihong City.
Xuan Wuji fled from Great Zhou Yujing all the way to Nanya Town, and his whereabouts had never escaped Zong Ren’s grasp.
Seeing the three of them together, Xuan Wuji’s heart knew things were very bad.
To this moment, he still did not forget his status as the Young City Lord of Dihong City: "Yun Canglang, how dare you do anything to me? If you harm me, Dihong City will never let you off!"
"Tsk tsk, such a worthless coward. Apart from your Summoning Emperor Level father, what other skills do you have?" Zong Ren mocked.
Thinking about it, Xuan Wuji’s father was indeed an important figure. It was just a pity that he had such a son.
"Second Uncle, we’ve found the person. How you want to deal with him is up to you," Yun Sheng said, glancing at his second uncle.
"Sheng’er, the matter between him and me will be settled by us. You and Ancestor Master Zong should step aside," Yun Canglang said with a deep voice.
Xuan Wuji, upon hearing this, was secretly delighted.
Yun Canglang was clearly as foolish as in the past.
They obviously had three people, and each of them was not weak in strength,
Yet Yun Canglang chose to fight alone, which undoubtedly was like courting death!
Xuan Wuji took out a short flute from his person.
Yuan Bupo used a long flute, while Xuan Wuji’s short flute was much shorter than his, only one-third the length.
Nobody knew what material this flute was made of, but it was blood red throughout.
The sound of the flute was like a blunt tool scraping glass, making one’s scalp tingle involuntarily.
Under Xuan Wuji’s feet, a blood-colored summoning array rose up.
Yun Sheng had also heard of the Emperor’s Song, which could be used to summon demon beasts.
Xuan Wuji was a Summoner suspected of using music to summon demon beasts.
Unlike Yuan Bupo, who had just turned sixteen, Xuan Wuji had long since acquired his own Summoned Beast.
However, during that battle at the Southern Border, his Summoned Beast was killed by an overwhelming punch from the enraged Yun Bahe.
It was unknown what kind of demon beast he would summon today.
The blood-colored summoning array transformed into a huge Blood Pool, with blood bubbles gurgling up from within.
An unknown demon beast gradually stuck its head out of the blood bubbles.
It was a murderous Earth Blood Crocodile.
The Blood Crocodile climbed out from the Blood Pool. It was a Ninth-Order Peak Blood Crocodile King, with its body covered in ugly blisters, and had sharp iron spikes from its tail to its spine.
Its short and robust limbs were strong and powerful, and under its long mouth were rows of cold, gleaming teeth.
There was a Blood Stone on the forehead of the Blood Crocodile King.
As soon as the demon beast appeared, it let out a series of irritable roars.
Yun Sheng and Zong Ren couldn’t help but change their complexion. Both were Summoners and could tell at a glance that the demon beast Xuan Wuji summoned was no ordinary beast.
Its body was enveloped in a bloody aura, fierce and murderous, clearly a blood-drenched demon beast.
This was actually a Blood Cloud Beast!
"Master, can your second uncle manage this? That is a tame Blood Cloud Beast. It must have been captured soon after hatching, still a hatchling, by someone from Dihong City using a special method and carefully raised for many years," Zong Ren’s eyes shook slightly as he recognized the true origin of that Blood Cloud Beast.
There are many types of demon beasts on the continent, but those born from blood and exuding a fighting spirit or Magic Elements like blood can only be Blood Cloud Beasts.
Blood Cloud Beasts are hatched from the Dutian Beast Blood Clouds that drift over from the Dutian Beast Blood Realm.
However, depending on the length of the incubation period, the state of the Blood Cloud Beast when it emerges from the clouds also varies. The source of this content ɪs 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝✦𝘧𝙞𝙧𝙚✦𝕟𝕖𝕥
Adult Blood Cloud Beasts are the hardest to kill, and once slain, their Beast Blood and Demon Beast Bone are great materials for Body Refinement and Artifact Refining.
Young Blood Cloud Beasts are scarce in number, and they are also the Summoned Beasts that Summoners on the continent favor the most.
As long as they are well-raised, the power of Blood Cloud Beasts far surpasses that of other demon beasts of the same rank.
Dihong City must have invested a lot to find an Earth Blood Cloud Crocodile.
The appearance of the Earth Blood Cloud Crocodile caused Yun Canglang to slightly change his expression.
Seeing the astonished looks on the three of them, Xuan Wuji was even more pleased, even forgetting his current predicament.
"Xuan Wuji, you could never have imagined that I would have a Blood Cloud Beast as my Summoned Beast. Over these years, I have carefully fed it with living humans and demon beasts. Now I have raised this Ninth-Order Peak Blood Cloud Beast, I refuse to believe that I cannot tear you to pieces with it today!" Yun Canglang’s words had just been spoken.
Yun Sheng and Zong Ren were filled with righteous indignation. What a heartless and insane Xuan Wuji, he actually used living humans as feed for demon beasts!
Not everyone has a heaven-defying Divine-level Magic Artifact like the Linglong Beast Tower, and even Mages on the continent who possess Magic Spaces still need to feed their demon beasts.
But most Summoners only feed them ordinary Demon Beast Meat.
Xuan Wuji actually used living humans to feed the Earth Blood Crocodile. If this gets out, Dihong City will inevitably face harsh criticism from the outside world.
"Xuan Wuji, you truly have no humanity. It’s just a pity, I am no longer the Yun Canglang of many years ago," Yun Canglang’s body tensed as he rolled his throat and shouted loudly.