The Xia clan had an ancient castle in the Eastern District Two of Hoth. It had a long history and occupied an area of several thousand-acre. Outside the castle was a vast forest filled with blood-red trees.
As night fell, Lord Xia Yu stood on the top floor of the tallest building in the castle. She held a foot-long bronze brush in her hand and was writing something seriously on the six-meter-long jade table.
The castle lord, Xia Qiuling, was a Saint King Realm powerhouse. He stood outside the door and bowed respectfully. He said, “My lord, we have a lead on the matter you ordered us to investigate.”
“Come in!” said Lord Xia Yu.
Xia Qiuling pushed open the door and walked in. He didn’t dare to look directly at the beautiful woman in front of him. He took out a butterfly that was emitting a blood-red light from his sleeve.
The body of the butterfly was semi-transparent. It flapped its wings and flew towards Lord Xia Yu.
WHOOSH!
The butterfly crashed into Lord Xia Yu’s wrist and turned into specks of light that merged into it.
“I already know. You can leave now!” Lord Xia Yu ordered.
Lord Xia Yu raised the bronze pen in her hand and waved the tip of the pen at Xia Qiuling. Immediately, a powerful spiritual power slashed into his sea of consciousness like a sword and erased part of his memories.
At this moment, the candlelight in the antique room shook violently.
A thick and fierce voice sounded in the castle, “I wonder what Lord Xia Yu is investigating. I am very curious.”
“Who is it?” asked Lord Xia Yu.
“Who are you?” Lord Xia Yu asked again.
…
A fierce wind suddenly rose.
An incomparably powerful saint might suddenly envelop the entire great Xia castle.
All the Saint Realm cultivators were shocked. They were pressed to the ground, their bodies trembling in fear. In the end, their entire bodies lay on the ground, unable to move.
Those who had not entered the Saint Realm, regardless of whether they were Xia clansmen or slaves, were crushed into pieces, turning into a bloody mist.
Miserable screams rose and fell.
A thick bloody smell pervaded the castle.
Even Xia Qiuling, who had reached the Saint King realm, was kneeling on the ground, unable to stand up.
What a terrifying enemy. He is definitely a Supreme Saint above the Thousand-Koan Realm. When did the Xia clan provoke such a powerful enemy?’ Xia Qiuling thought as his heart was filled with fear and unease. He could only feel that death was approaching.
Lord Xia Yu remained unperturbed. She continued to hold the brush in her hand as she said, “Thandee, our Xia clan has no enmity with you. What do you intend to do?”
Thandee stood on the grass outside the castle and released a Precept Domain. Countless Precepts flew out and enveloped the area within a radius of a thousand meters. A portion of the precepts condensed into an army with thousands of saint cultivators in the form of Rakshasa.
In his Precept Domain, they could conceal all the ripples of battle.
Thandee let out a deep laugh and took a step in the air. As if passing through a layer of paper, he passed through the Defensive Array of the ancient castle. With a bang, he broke through the wall and entered the room, standing opposite Lord Xia Yu.
Xia Qiuling was sent flying by the evil aura emitted from Thandee’s body, turning into a ball of blood and mud.
Thandee looked at Lord Xia Yu’s almost perfect body from top to bottom. She had a delicate and cold face, a tall and plump body, and her skin was extraordinarily white. She had the temperament of beauty, but she also had the inherent evil charm of an Immortal Vampire.
“Haha! No wonder you became Zhang Ruochen’s lover. You are indeed the number one beauty of the Bloodysky Clan.” Thandee laughed.
Lord Xia Yu’s eyes were extremely cold. She said, “If you say another word of nonsense, I’ll suck your blood dry.”
“You’re young, but you have a bad temper. Hehe, with your cultivation of the Hundred-Shackle Realm, you’d better give up on fighting me. Otherwise, I’ll break your face. Then you won’t be pretty anymore! Come with me. There’s a prominent figure who wants to see you.” said Thandee.
Thandee had a teasing smile on his face. He did not think much of Lord Xia Yu.
With his cultivation at the pinnacle of the Thousand-Koan Realm, he did have the confidence to do so.
Although Lord Xia Yu had fought with Celestial Captives on the Battlefield of Celestial-Hunting at the Thousand-Koan Realm, their spiritual power had been sealed and they lacked powerful weapons. Their combat power was drastically reduced.
Thandee was not a frivolous person. Instead, he had carefully analyzed Lord Xia Yu’s performance on the Battlefield of Celestial-Hunting.
Her combat power could only contend with a Supreme Saint in the Middle-stage of the Thousand-Koan Realm.
Now that Lord Xia Yu was trapped in his Precept Domain, it could be said that he could suppress her with one hand.
Of course, even if Lord Xia Yu went all out, burning her saint blood and using forbidden techniques to escape, even if Thandee’s cultivation base far surpassed Lord Xia Yu’s, capturing her would be difficult.
Just like Yan Huangtu back then, it was also quite difficult to deal with Lord Xia Yu who was in a desperate state.
What Thandee was even more afraid of was that Lord Xia Yu was a woman who wasn’t afraid of death. If he really forced her into a corner, she would self-detonate her Sainthood Source. If that was the case, it would definitely be the end of both sides.
Therefore, the best outcome was that Lord Xia Yu still didn’t know his purpose and was willing to follow him to meet Bai Qing’er.
Who would be willing to risk their lives if they could not risk it?
Lord Xia Yu said, “Prominent figure? Which prominent figure are you talking about? Is she a deity of your Paarth Family?”
“You will know who it is after you come with me,” said Thandee.
Lord Xia Yu confronted him and said, “What if I don’t go?”
WHISH!
Thandee summoned the Regal Artifact, Aurea Wing Lance, and held it in his hand. His battle Qi transformed into a demonic cloud that hovered above the ancient castle, he said in a threatening tone, “If you are not coming, all the Xia clan cultivators in this castle will die. You, on the other hand, can only watch helplessly. There’s no way to stop it.”
Rumble
The saint soldiers condensed from Thandee’s Precepts rushed into the castle. They held long lances and crushed the Xia clan cultivators beneath their feet, taking their lives at any moment.
All the saint soldiers were a part of Thandee’s Precept Domain.
The cold air on Lord Xia Yu’s body caused sharp icicles to form in the room. He said, “Aren’t you afraid that I will self-detonate my Sainthood Source and perish together with you?”
“I am only here to invite you over as a guest. I didn’t want to risk innocent lives. Furthermore, we are less than twelve meters apart. Do you think you have the chance to self-detonate your Sainthood Source?” Thandee said.
“I’ve long wanted to see just how powerful a Supreme Saint at the pinnacle of the Thousand-Koan Realm is? If you can defeat me in one strike, I won’t resist. I’ll immediately go with you to meet that prominent figure. If you can’t do it, you’d better get out of my castle,” said Lord Xia Yu.
Whoosh
The eight silver wings on Lord Xia Yu’s back unfurled. The silver light was like a blade, tearing apart the top of the castle. The light illuminated the dimly lit world.
Thandee was quite decisive. The Aurea Wing Lance in his hand stabbed out like lightning.
The air was pierced with an explosive sound.
The space followed the trajectory of the spear and tiny rifts appeared.
In an instant, the spear had arrived in front of Lord Xia Yu.
Lord Xia Yu stood in place and slapped the jade table in front of her. With a bang, the two-foot-long table stood upright like a shield, blocking in front of her.
Using a table to block my spear?’ Thandee sneered.
Just as this thought appeared in Thandee’s mind, he immediately felt that something was wrong.
Dense blood-red runes suddenly appeared on the plain table and turned into a nullification talisman. As it blocked the Aurea Wing Lance, dense attacking power surged out from the talisman.
‘This is bad, she had prepared for this. She’s purposely lured me to attack,’ Thandee thought.
Thandee’s expression changed drastically. He quickly switched from offense to defense. He held the Aurea Wing Lance horizontally in front of him and formed a light screen to resist the power of the talisman.
Boom
Thandee was sent flying. His body crashed into the ground outside the ancient city, leaving a long ravine.
His entire body was charred black and his flesh was torn apart.
‘Why did Lord Xia Yu prepare an attacking talisman? Could it be that she knew that I would come to capture her? No, it’s impossible for her to know. It must be a coincidence. HMPH! I never expected this little girl to be so cautious.’ Thandee thought.
Thandee’s eyes were ferocious as he slowly stood up.
He was too careless just now. Otherwise, even if Lord Xia Yu had prepared a talisman, he wouldn’t have been able to hurt him.
How could it be so easy to challenge someone of a higher realm with a difference of several realms?
Lord Xia Yu walked to the broken platform of the castle and looked down at Thandee. She said, “You’ve lost!”
Thandee would not possibly give up. He said, “Little girl. How dare you talk about winning and losing with me. Just now, if I hadn’t underestimated you, how would you have had the chance to strike me back?”
Lord Xia Yu shook his head lightly, he said, “Thandee, you really don’t know death. Do you know that intruding into the Xia clan’s castle is already a death sentence? Asking you to scram is giving you a chance to live. Since you insist on courting death, I will grant you your wish.”
Thandee felt as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world. He kept feeling that Lord Xia Yu had stolen his line.
Lord Xia Yu’s two snow-white hands clasped together. Her fingers formed a seal, and powerful spiritual energy was released. Instantly, the castle beneath her and the area a thousand kilometers away from the castle began to surface with countless array inscriptions, they interweaved like a blood-red spider web.
The Xia clan had maintained this castle for more than ten thousand years, and they had set up countless array formations.
How could Thandee have barged into the castle so easily if Lord Xia Yu hadn’t purposefully allowed him in?
After all, Lord Xia Yu herself was a powerful High-Saint Array Master who could set up a ninth-class array.
BOOM!
BOOM!
…
From the ground around the castle, one mountain after another rushed out, turning the place into a cage.
Thandee could no longer smile. His face turned dark. He was certain that Lord Xia Yu had long known that he would come and had intentionally let him into the array.
“How did you know that I would come here?” Thandee asked in a deep voice.
Lord Xia Yu spread out her left hand, and the Pleiades Lotus appeared in her palm.
The Supreme Inscription of the Ghost Lotus was connected to the array inscription between heaven and earth, emitting a dark light.
Thandee’s eyelids twitched again. He realized that it might not be difficult for him to defeat Lord Xia Yu alone, but it would be as difficult as ascending to heaven to capture her alive.
‘Zhang Ruochen actually gave her the Pleiades Lotus, the Supreme Artifact. With the power of the Supreme Artifact and the array, Lord Xia Yu is not to be underestimated.’ Thandee thought.
Thandee suddenly laughed out loud. “The lives of the Saint Realm cultivators of the Xia clan are in my hands. Are you sure you want to fight me?”
Lord Xia Yu shook her head. She said, “Thandee, although your cultivation is strong, your spiritual power is much weaker than mine. You can’t even see through the illusion formation. You disappoint me.”
“Illusory formation?” said Thandee.
Thandee gritted his teeth and stared at the castle.
He saw that the Xia clan cultivators suppressed by the saint soldiers had all turned into sand and disappeared.
“Damn it, I will make you pay a painful price,” said Thandee.
Thandee could not bear the humiliation of being played around by a little girl who was less than a thousand years old. He roared, “Saint Imperial Army.”
The saint soldiers formed from the Precepts erupted with brilliant battle might as they charged toward Lord Xia Yu one after another.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Lord Xia Yu activated the power of the array and struck down bolts of lightning, shattering the army of saint soldiers into pieces and turning them back into precepts.
“Six-direction Slash.”
Thandee raised the Aurea Wing Lance. The golden cloud was dazzling and shone for thousands of miles. It even broke several of the stone pinnacles in the formation and turned them into rubble that fell to the ground.
Thandee spread his ten wings and burst forth with extreme speed. He soared into the sky and swung down the Aurea Wing Lance with overwhelming might.
Before the lance could land, cracks had already appeared in the castle below.
The ground began to sink.
‘A pinnacle Thousand-Koan Realm cultivator is indeed not someone I can contend with right now.’ Lord Xia Yu thought.
Lord Xia Yu knew that no matter what, she would not be able to withstand Thandee’s full-powered attack. Hence, she mobilized all of her strength and poured it into the Pleiades Lotus.
The Pleiades Lotus spun and became as large as a palace, releasing a surge of Supreme Power.
Boom
The Aurea Wing Lance struck the Pleiades Lotus, causing the lance to sway and crackle as if it was about to break.
The castle beneath the Ghost Lotus instantly collapsed.
The difference in cultivation between Lord Xia Yu and Thandee was too great, so they were unable to block this attack. Their bodies exploded like balloons, while the Pleiades Lotus was struck into the ground by the Aurea Wing Lance.
Thandee landed on the ground with the Aurea Wing Lance in his hand, he laughed maniacally, “A mere Supreme Saint in the Hundred-Shackle Realm actually thinks that she can fight against me with just a Supreme Artifact. You deserve to die.”
Although Thandee was unable to return and explain his actions to Bai Qing’er after killing Lord Xia Yu, obtaining a Supreme Artifact was still a great honor for him.
In fact, Thandee even had the thought of keeping the Pleiades Lotus for himself.
Thandee condensed an evil hand and put away the Pleiades Lotus underground. He was smiling just now. Suddenly, his expression changed drastically. It was as if he wasn’t holding a Supreme Artifact, but some kind of poison. He wanted to throw it away.
“It’s too late!” said Lord Xia Yu.
Lord Xia Yu, who was thought to be dead, suddenly rushed out from the Pleiades Lotus and formed a palm strike. The Grim Soul-devouring Flame surged out of her palm and struck Thandee’s chest.
Thandee was extremely powerful. Purple light erupted from his body as he used his physical body to resist Lord Xia Yu’s palm strike.
Boom
Thandee was sent flying once more. Like a cannonball, he crashed into a stone pinnacle and embedded himself into the array inscription.
The array inscription was twisted into chains and bound his body.
“Break!”
Thandee’s body expanded, breaking the chains one by one as he flew down from the mountain.
Lord Xia Yu’s expression changed. Thandee was simply too powerful. He had only suffered minor injuries after taking her palm head-on.
Thandee forced the Grim Soul-devouring Flame out of his body. His frozen chest gradually melted as he walked towards Lord Xia Yu, his aura growing stronger and stronger. He said, “I regret that I didn’t listen to my master and spend more time cultivating spiritual power,” he said. “I didn’t expect that today, because of the weakness of spiritual power, you had the upper hand everywhere. But you won’t have another chance!”
“Really?” Lord Xia Yu sneered.
Lord Xia Yu glanced into the distance.
Thandee also sensed that a cultivator had broken into his Precept Domain. He glanced sideways.
Zhang Ruochen walked among the array inscriptions. He held a wooden staff in his hand and his cyan robe fluttered in the wind. On his left and right was Lord of Stone, who was three meters tall and had six arms. He held the Azure Terra scared spear in his hand.
There was also Lord of Sword, who was tall, thin, and sharp looking.
“You two can go all out this time. Help Lord Xia Yu to finish this battle quickly and take down Thandee. I want him alive!” Zhang Ruochen said in a hoarse voice.
