85: Chapter 85 Inner Sect Blood Mist: Chu Youcai is crippled, and Yu Qing is crippled again.

"Li! Shiwen!"

Chu Youcai struggled to stand up, ignoring the black blood spilling from the corner of his mouth, and stared fixedly at Li Siwen.

His voice was distorted by extreme jealousy, saliva flew with his roar, and his eyes were filled with scarlet madness.

[Extreme jealousy from Chu Youcai + 666]

"It's you again! You damned bitch! Why are you always able to turn bad luck into good? Why do you have Xiao Xiner protecting you, and such a stunning Puppet following you?! Why aren't you dead yet?!"

He acted like a madman, suddenly raising his hand to strike his own chest. With a "pfft," he spat out a large mouthful of scalding essence blood, all of which sprayed onto the evil blade in his hand that was wreathed in Death Qi!

The instant his essence blood touched the blade, the evil blade emitted a piercing hum, and dense, pitch-black Talismanic Incantations appeared on the blade's surface.

At the same time, the Blood Sacrifice Array runes beneath Chu Youcai's feet suddenly lit up. Like living vipers, they surged frantically, draining the surrounding blood energy and channeling it through his soles into his body!

"Roar—!"

Chu Youcai let out an inhuman beastly roar. The evil energy around him surged like a tsunami, his robes fluttered without wind, and his bones emitted "crack, crack" sounds.

Relying on the essence blood sacrifice and the power of the Blood Sacrifice Array, he had forcibly broken through the barrier of the Kaiyuan Realm, touching a sliver of "Pseudo-Xuanyuan Realm" power!

Although his aura was unstable and flickering like a candle in the wind, it carried a heaven-destroying, earth-shattering violent aura that caused the surrounding red mist to churn ceaselessly!

"I want you dead! You all must die!"

He brandished the evil blade, the blade wind carrying black-red blood energy. Like a crazed Vicious Beast, he threw himself recklessly at Li Siwen, his eyes filled only with destruction and hatred!

"Junior Sister, be careful!" Seeing this, Xiao Xiner instantly condensed her ice-blue Yuan energy, and the yuehua longsword hummed, ready to step forward and intercept this mad blow.

However, a flash of light appeared in Li Siwen's eyes. With the Void-Piercing Spiritual Eye, he instantly saw through the instability and flaws of Chu Youcai's forced elevation!

"Senior Sister, protect Senior Brother Chen and the others! Leave him to me!"

Before the words had even faded, Li Siwen proactively charged forward!

Scarlet Sword Qi flickered on the fengwu sword. He did not meet the attack head-on, but instead unleashed exquisite footwork and sword techniques!

Swish, swish, swish!

Like a butterfly flitting through flowers, he dodged Chu Youcai's frantic slashes by a hair's breadth.

Every time the tip of his sword struck, it precisely pierced the nodes where Chu Youcai's evil arts circulated or the gaps in his power connection!

Chu Youcai had power but was beaten by this exquisite sword technique, roaring repeatedly. Every time the evil blade missed, the violent power backlashed against him, shaking his Qi and blood!

"Bastard! If you have the guts, stop hiding!" Chu Youcai was so angry he almost vomited blood.

"As you wish!" A cold light flashed in Li Siwen's eyes. Seeing the moment he was exhausted and catching his breath, the Void-Piercing Spiritual Eye locked onto the point in his Dantian where the evil energy was most chaotic!

The fengwu sword suddenly erupted with brilliant crimson light, and the Internal Energy of the Triple Extreme Realm, along with his nascent Yuan energy, were poured into it without reservation!

"Phoenix Dances in Nine Heavens · Break Evil!"

He thrust his sword out, fast as a startled swan, carrying a sharp radiance that tore through the evil energy, precisely piercing into Chu Youcai's Dantian and Qi Sea!

"Urgh ah—!"

Chu Youcai's body suddenly stiffened. He looked down in disbelief at the longsword buried in his abdomen, the madness in his eyes instantly replaced by fear.

The surging evil energy around him was like a punctured balloon, leaking and dissipating frantically. The Pseudo-Xuanyuan Realm aura collapsed instantly, leaving only his Kaiyuan Realm foundation, which was also rapidly draining away.

Li Siwen flicked his wrist, and the scarlet Sword Qi exploded within his Dantian!

"Pfft!"

Chu Youcai flew backward like a kite with a broken string, slamming heavily onto the cold stone floor and splashing a spray of blood.

He struggled to climb up, but found his Dantian empty. His strength had been drained as if by a vacuum, and his Meridians had shattered inch by inch due to the backlash of the evil power. He had completely become a cripple!

"No... impossible..." Chu Youcai lay limply on the ground, his eyes vacant, black blood constantly spilling from his mouth, leaving only unconscious muttering, "I am the Chosen One... My Chu family is meant to control the Xuanjian Sect... How could this be..."

Li Siwen sheathed his sword and stood, breathing slightly. Defeating the forcibly enhanced Chu Youcai had not been a small consumption for him.

The red mist temporarily quieted down. Xiao Xiner hurriedly helped Chen Mingtao up, and Yue Li also walked over, protecting Chen Yaojia.

"Junior Sister Li, Senior Sister Xiao, thank you! It's so good that you are unharmed!" Chen Mingtao cupped his hands with difficulty, his face full of gratitude and lingering fear.

Chen Yaojia dove into Li Siwen's arms, holding him tightly: "I knew it, I knew you would be alright!"

Chen Yaojia's reaction left Xiao Xiner full of surprise. These two, their relationship is this good? It's a bit eerie how good it is!

"It's okay, it's okay, Sister Yaojia, I'm back. No one can hurt you again!" Li Siwen didn't care about the eyes of others, hugging Chen Yaojia tightly, patting her back, and comforting her in a soft voice.

The two were so intimate that even Chen Mingtao's expression became strange. He knew Yaojia and Junior Sister Li had a good relationship, but looking at it now, it didn't seem like something that could be described as just "good."

But now was not the time to consider such things. Chen Mingtao walked over to Chu Youcai, looked at him coldly, and questioned: "Where is Chu Tianxing? Where is the core eye of the Blood Sacrifice Array?"

Chu Youcai's unfocused eyes refocused, revealing a strange and crazy smile: "Heh, hehe... You all are going to die! Great-grandfather... is about to succeed... None of you... can stop it..."

"What do you mean? Speak clearly!" Chen Mingtao stepped forward and grabbed him by the collar.

"Ptui!" Chu Youcai spat a mouthful of bloody water at him, then turned to look at Li Siwen, grinning hideously: "Li Shiwen, are you feeling very smug right now? Then let me tell you a piece of good news to make you even happier!"

Li Siwen turned his head while holding Chen Yaojia, his brows slightly furrowed. Intuition told him that Chu Youcai was definitely up to no good!

Sure enough, Chu Youcai chuckled strangely: "That old flame of yours... that's right, the one who was crippled before and then cured by you, that Yu Qing... he's crippled again now, and you can save him one more time..."

"But this time, I'm afraid you won't find it so easy. Because he... not only had his Meridians and Qi Sea crippled by me, and his bones smashed inch by inch, but he is now also chained to the core eye of the Blood Sacrifice Array, eroded by evil power day and night, unable to even beg for death."

"Hehehe..." Chu Youcai laughed with a hideous face, his eyes flashing with the pleasure of revenge.

"I knew you would return, and I was waiting for you to return! I want you to watch, with your own eyes, as he becomes a part of the Blood Sacrifice Array!"

"Tell me... isn't this great news? You have another chance to 'show off'! Hahahaha!"

His laughter echoed in the red mist, piercing and vicious, like the sharpest knife, stabbing hard into Li Siwen's heart.

Li Siwen's arm holding Chen Yaojia suddenly tightened, the gentleness in his eyes instantly fading, replaced by a bone-chilling coldness.

This damned Chu Youcai actually vented his hatred for him onto Yu Qing. Poor Yu Qing, how much suffering must he have endured!

It shouldn't have been like this; it was all because of him. Li Siwen's anger flared up.

The red mist seemed to sense his anger and began to churn violently again.

In the distance, Chu Tianxing's hoarse and crazy voice vaguely drifted over, like a death-summoning Talismanic Incantation, echoing across the empty Inner Sect plaza: "The Blood Sacrifice Array... is almost complete... only the last drop of 'special' blood is missing..."