129: Chapter 129 The Holy Mother

The next day, outside Yunzhong City, in the refugee camp.

A small conflict erupted without warning.

It started because several peripheral members of the Wusheng Holy Cult, relying on their status, openly skimmed from the relief supplies they were distributing and attempted to harass a young widow who was quite attractive.

Although the surrounding refugees were dissatisfied, they dared not speak out under the almost god-like majesty of the Wusheng Holy Cult.

Just as the dirty hands of those members were about to touch the widow's body, a cold, emotionless shout exploded in the crowd like a thunderclap on flat ground.

"Stop!"

The crowd looked towards the source of the sound and saw a tall man with a face darkened by smoke and fire, but eyes as sharp as an eagle's, slowly emerging from the crowd.

It was the disguised Gao Feng.

"Where did this stray dog come from, daring to meddle in the affairs of our Wusheng Holy Cult?!" The lead member, seeing Gao Feng's tattered refugee attire, immediately showed a contemptuous, cruel smile.

He was used to throwing his weight around and didn't take this seemingly sturdy "mud-legged" peasant seriously at all.

He brandished the leather whip in his hand, which whistled through the air, and lashed it fiercely toward Gao Feng's face, while swearing filthily: "Get on your knees for me! Otherwise, I'll let you know today what the majesty of the Holy Cult is!"

However, before his whip could land, Gao Feng's figure vanished from the spot like a ghost.

The next moment, the sound of an extremely crisp slap resonated throughout the entire camp!

"Slap!!"

The arrogant member spun three times on the spot like a kite with a broken string, blood mixed with a few broken teeth tracing a beautiful arc in the air, and then, with a "thud," he fell heavily to the ground several yards away, fainting on the spot.

This sudden scene stunned everyone present.

The remaining members were stunned for a moment, then flew into a rage!

"Rebellion! Rebellion! How dare you beat an envoy of the Holy Cult!"

"Kill him! Catch him and sacrifice him to the Holy Mother!"

They clamored, brandishing their sticks, and surrounded Gao Feng with a fierce Aura from all directions.

Gao Feng's face remained expressionless. He didn't even use any Internal Energy, relying solely on his terrifying Physical Body strength, which had already been honed to the limits of humanity.

His figure moved through the narrow space like an uncapturable phantom.

"Thud! Thud! Thud!"

Dull thumping sounds, accompanied by the teeth-grinding sound of shattering bones, rang out continuously.

In just a few breaths, those members, who had arrived with a fierce Aura, were sent flying backward, spitting blood like broken sacks, their limbs shattered, lying on the ground and letting out pig-like screams.

The surrounding refugees were dumbfounded, and then an irrepressible cheer erupted!

They had long been dissatisfied with these overbearing members!

This small riot soon alerted the upper echelons of the Wusheng Holy Cult.

In less than the time it takes to burn a stick of incense, a Protector of the Holy Cult wearing silver robes, with a cold Aura and a cultivation level that had reached the fourth Realm, arrived at the scene with dozens of elite followers holding sharp blades, full of fierce Aura.

"Who?! Who dares to cause trouble on the territory of my Wusheng Holy Cult?!"

The voice of the silver-robed Protector was like a venomous snake flicking its tongue, filled with cold murderous intent.

When he saw the few members still wailing on the ground and Gao Feng standing with his hands behind his back, his Aura as steady as a mountain, his pupils shrank violently!

An expert!

He could clearly feel that the man in front of him contained a majestic, vigorous blood and Qi that was as extreme as a furnace!

This kind of blood and Qi power was simply the most perfect "sacrifice" that their Holy Cult dreamed of!

A flash of undisguised greed and heat instantly crossed the eyes of the silver-robed Protector.

But he didn't act immediately; instead, he waved his hand, signaling his subordinates to drag those pieces of trash away.

He walked up to Gao Feng, squeezing a hypocritical smile onto his face: "This brave man, good skills. May I ask your name? Why did you have a conflict with my brothers in the Cult?"

Gao Feng glanced at him and spoke in a rough, somewhat honest tone, muffled: "My name is Gao Daniu. I didn't want to start a fight, but it was them—they were bullying a woman, and I couldn't stand it!"

"I see." The silver-robed Protector nodded, as if suddenly realizing, "It is my lax discipline that makes you laugh, brave man. I apologize to you on their behalf."

He changed the subject, his eyes flashing with a seductive light, "I see you have abundant blood and Qi and extraordinary bones, yet you are reduced to living among these refugees. Isn't that a pity?"

"To be honest, our Holy Mother loves talent the most. A figure like you, if you are willing to join our Wusheng Holy Cult, the Holy Mother will surely bestow divine grace upon you, grant you supreme glory, let you shed your mortal shell, and enjoy true bliss!"

Upon hearing this, Gao Feng's face immediately showed an expression of "flattered" and "incomparable yearning."

He scratched his head and said somewhat embarrassedly: "I... I have also heard of the Holy Mother's great name! I heard that the Holy Mother is a fairy descended from the Nine Heavens, capable of bringing the dead back to life and regrowing flesh on bones! I... I have long wanted to admire the Holy Mother's celestial face!"

"Can I... can I really join the Holy Cult?"

Looking at Gao Feng's honest appearance of "simple mind, strong limbs," the last trace of vigilance in the silver-robed Protector's heart vanished completely.

In his eyes, this was just a brute with raw strength but no brains.

This kind of person was the easiest to control and the most suitable to be the top-grade nourishment for that "Sacred Blood Demon Flower"!

"Of course you can!" The silver-robed Protector's face was filled with an even more enthusiastic smile, "A figure like you is a natural pillar of the Holy Cult! If the Holy Mother sees you, she will surely be overjoyed!"

He leaned close to Gao Feng and lowered his voice, speaking in a tone full of mystery and temptation: "To tell you the truth, tonight is the monthly day when the Holy Mother opens the altar to preach and personally performs the 'Sacred Blood Baptism' for the most devout believers."

"If you are willing, I can make an exception and introduce you. Let you become the only lucky one tonight who can personally receive the Holy Mother's 'Sacred Blood Baptism'!"

"At that time, you will obtain a great fortune that you cannot even imagine in your dreams!"

Gao Feng's face immediately showed an expression of "ecstasy" and "overwhelmed with gratitude."

He cupped his fists heavily toward the silver-robed Protector and said in a loud voice: "Many thanks for your guidance, Protector!"

Looking at Gao Feng's "sincere" and "fanatical" eyes, the corner of the silver-robed Protector's mouth curled into a cruel, cold smile of a conspiracy achieved.

The fish has taken the bait.

...

That night, the moon was dark and the wind was high.

Inside the inner altar of the Holy Cult, beside the huge blood pool made of white bones, the atmosphere was eerie and solemn.

Dozens of Protectors in silver robes and hundreds of elite followers in black stood on both sides, their expressions solemn, their eyes burning with fanaticism.

In the center of the blood pool, that huge blood-colored demon flower was slowly blooming after absorbing the blood of ten sacrifices, emitting an eerie and seductive pink blood mist.

The Wusheng Holy Mother was still in her gorgeous palace attire, her face covered with a white veil, sitting cross-legged by the blood pool like a holy goddess from the Nine Heavens who did not eat the food of the mortal world.

Her gaze fell on Gao Feng, who was "respectfully" brought to the center of the altar by two Protectors. In those beautiful eyes hidden under the veil, there flashed unprecedented greed and heat.

What vigorous blood and Qi! What pure life force! She could clearly feel that the man in front of her contained a terrifying power like a sleeping volcano!

As long as she sucked him dry, as long as she completely refined him into nourishment for the demon flower, her Bottleneck, which had been stagnant for a long time, would surely be broken through in one fell swoop! At that time, she would truly step into the legendary fifth Realm Great Master level and become a god in the true sense on this land!

"You, are you Gao Daniu?" The Holy Mother's voice was ethereal and majestic, carrying an unquestionable magic.

"Yes... yes, Holy Mother!" Gao Feng knelt on the ground in "fear and trepidation," his body trembling slightly with "excitement," "Your servant... your servant has finally seen you!"

"Very good." The Holy Mother nodded with satisfaction, "Your piety, this old mother has felt it. Now, open your mind, spread your arms, and prepare to receive the supreme glory I bestow upon you."

"You will become the greatest cornerstone of the Holy Cult, your flesh and blood will merge with the Sacred Flower, and your Soul will return to the Vacuum Hometown, enjoying eternal bliss!"

As she spoke, she slowly raised those slender, jade-white hands. Following her movements, the huge blood-colored demon flower in the center of the blood pool seemed to be summoned, and it trembled violently!

A blood-colored vine, thicker than an arm and covered with barbs, shot out from the pistil of the demon flower like a living thing, as fast as lightning!

The tip of the vine was a sharp mouthpiece like a syringe. It drew an eerie arc in mid-air, aimed at Gao Feng's back heart, and stabbed down fiercely! This was the so-called "Sacred Blood Baptism"! This was the so-called "returning to the Vacuum Hometown"!

Seeing that the blood-colored vine filled with the Aura of evil and death was about to pierce Gao Feng's body, all the high-ranking officials of the Holy Cult present showed cruel and excited smiles. They seemed to have already seen the miserable appearance of this powerful martial artist being sucked dry of all his essence and blood, turning into a dried corpse.

However, just at the zero-point-zero-one second before the vine's tip was about to touch Gao Feng's skin, a sudden change occurred!

Gao Feng, who had been kneeling on the ground "devoutly," suddenly erupted with a brilliant, dark golden divine light that was as substantial as reality from his lowered eyes! His body, which had been trembling slightly with "excitement," instantly stopped all trembling!

A terrifying power, even more overbearing, more violent, and more filled with the Aura of destruction and devouring than that blood-colored demon flower, awakened with a roar within his body, like an ancient god or demon that had been sleeping for billions of years!

"BOOM — —!!!!"

The dark golden power of his Qi and blood erupted from every pore like volcanic lava breaching a dam, instantly forming a solid, tangible dark golden Protective Aura!

The blood-red vine, previously unstoppable, hissed the moment it touched this layer of dark golden Protective Aura, like snow meeting its nemesis. The sharp mouthparts at its tip were instantly dissolved and vaporized by that domineering power!

"What?!" The Holy Mother’s ethereal voice carried a hint of genuine shock and disbelief for the first time!

She never dreamed that this "perfect sacrifice" in her eyes would hide such terrifying power, a power whose level had even faintly surpassed her own!

But this was not what frightened her the most. What frightened her most was discovering that the unbreakable mental link between her and that blood-red demonic flower had been forcibly reversed at this moment by an even more domineering and unreasonable power!

"No—!!!" The Holy Mother let out a shriek of sheer terror!

She discovered with horror that the blood-red demonic flower she had painstakingly cultivated for decades not only failed to absorb a single shred of Gao Feng's Qi and blood, but instead, the vast energy it contained—amassed from countless lives and Souls—was pouring backward into Gao Feng's body like a river breaching its dam, flowing through that blood-red vine!

At this moment, Gao Feng's body seemed to have turned into a bottomless black hole, a terrifying vortex capable of devouring everything in heaven and earth!

The Myriad Dao Unity Art was running at full power!

"No! Stop! Stop it right now!" The Holy Mother was completely panicked. She tried to cut the link with the demonic flower, but it was already too late!

That devouring power was so domineering and tyrannical that her prized evil cultivation technique was like a stream flowing into the ocean before Gao Feng's supreme fundamental art; it couldn't even cause a ripple!

"Gurgle... gurgle..." Inside the blood pool, the viscous blood began to diminish rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, while the originally bewitchingly beautiful blood-red demonic flower began to wither and fade rapidly.

Its color shifted from bright red to dark red, and then to grayish-white...

Finally, in the eyes of all the high-ranking members of the Wusheng Holy Cult, who were paralyzed with terror, this evil flower, which had condensed tens of thousands of wronged Souls, shattered with a "bang," turning into dust that scattered in the air.

The source of power that the Holy Mother had painstakingly cultivated for decades was sucked dry by Gao Feng in the span of an incense stick!

"Pfft—!" The backlash of power caused the Holy Mother to spit out a large mouthful of blood. Her pretty face, hidden beneath her veil, instantly turned as pale as paper, and her Aura plummeted like a punctured balloon, falling directly from the terrifying half-step Fifth Realm back to the Fourth Realm Peak!

"You... what exactly... are you, monster?!" The Holy Mother's voice became sharp and distorted due to extreme anger and fear, no longer possessing its previous ethereal and holy quality.

Gao Feng slowly stood up from the ground. Feeling the dark golden power within him, which had become even fuller and more vast from absorbing the massive energy, a look of endless satisfaction appeared on his face.

He looked at the woman before him, who had completely fallen into madness, and said indifferently, with the pitying gaze of someone looking at a dying person: "Me? I am just someone here to send you back to the 'Vacuum Homeland'."

"Ahhhh—! I will kill you! I will tear you to pieces!!" The Holy Mother completely went berserk. She let out a shrill scream that didn't sound human, ripped off the white veil from her face, and revealed a face that was equally breathtakingly beautiful, but currently distorted by anger like a demon!

She formed a strange Dharma seal with both hands and chanted: "Ten Thousand Ghosts, heed my command! Blood Sea Resentful Spirits! Kill... him for me!!"

Following her roar, the huge altar built from grim white bones shook violently, and countless shrill ghost shadows filled with resentment and unwillingness crawled out frantically from those bones!

For a moment, the entire inner altar was filled with the wailing of ghosts and howling of spirits, and cold winds raged. Thousands of Resentful Spirits turned into a black torrent of death, baring their fangs and brandishing their claws as they rushed madly toward Gao Feng!

These were all the Souls of the believers she had blood-sacrificed. She had actually used such vicious means to refine them into an army of Resentful Spirits to fight for her!

Facing this terrifying scene, which was like Hell, there was not a trace of fear on Gao Feng's face; a flash of disdain even crossed his eyes.

"A mere firefly daring to outshine the sun?"

He snorted coldly. Facing the overwhelming torrent of Resentful Spirits, he couldn't even be bothered to draw his weapon. He simply raised his right hand and threw a punch forward!

"Boom—!!!" There were no earth-shattering shockwaves, nor any world-destroying might; there was only light!

Infinite, dazzling, dark golden light filled with the purest Yang and rigid Aura!

In that instant, Gao Feng's fist seemed to transform into a brilliant sun hanging high in the Nine Heavens. The golden light, like the most holy light of purification, instantly enveloped the entire inner altar!

"Sizzle... sizzle..." "Ah—!!!" The aggressive Resentful Spirits, upon touching that golden light, were like snow meeting the blazing sun, letting out shrill, extreme screams!

The thick black Qi on their bodies was instantly evaporated and purified, and their twisted, resentment-filled Souls slowly returned to their appearance before death under the illumination of that holy light.

Their faces showed smiles of relief and gratitude, and then they bowed to Gao Feng from afar, finally turning into countless golden light spots that dissipated between heaven and earth.

One punch! Just one punch, and thousands of Resentful Spirits were all transcended!

This was the dominance of the Myriad Dao Unity Art!

This was the supreme Divine Might of that dark golden power, after the Fusion of Qi and blood, Evil Qi, and medicinal power!

It possessed the masculinity of Qi and blood, the chill of Evil Qi, and the endless vitality of medicinal power; it was the natural nemesis of all dark and evil things in the world!

"No... impossible... this is impossible..." The Holy Mother watched this scene, which was like a miracle, and was completely stunned.

Her prized army of Resentful Spirits, her strongest trump card, had actually been defeated by the opponent with a single, understated punch? This had completely exceeded the scope of her cognition!

"Now, it's your turn." Gao Feng's figure appeared before her as if by teleportation.

"No! Don't kill me!" The Holy Mother finally felt fear from the depths of her Soul! She no longer cared about dignity or pride and turned to flee!

But how could Gao Feng give her this opportunity? He still did not use a weapon and simply threw another punch!

This punch appeared ordinary but was fast to the extreme!

The Holy Mother only felt a flash of golden light before her eyes, and an irresistible, terrifying power, as if an entire mountain range had crashed into her, landed solidly on her chest!

"Bang—!" A dull, booming sound like a war drum!

The Holy Mother's prized Protective Aura was as fragile as paper before that golden fist, instantly shattered!

Her chest visibly caved in, and the terror on her face froze forever. She lowered her head with difficulty, looking at her chest, which had been pierced by the punch, her eyes filled with disbelief and endless regret.

She had lost, lost so thoroughly, so decisively.

Gao Feng slowly withdrew his fist, letting her delicate body, which had lost all vitality, fall limply from the altar like a puppet with cut strings.

A generation's evil cult demoness, the Wusheng Holy Mother, fell on the spot!

...

When Gao Feng's figure, bathed in the first ray of morning sunlight, slowly walked out of that huge white tent, the outside was already in chaos.

The earth-shattering fighting sounds inside the inner altar and the final golden light that shot into the sky had long since alarmed all the Wusheng Holy Cult disciples and refugees. They surrounded the entire inner altar tightly, with expressions of uncertainty and panic on everyone's faces.

When they saw Gao Feng, covered in blood but still expressionless like a god or demon, walk out of the "Holy Land" in their hearts, everyone instinctively took a step back.

"Where... where is the Holy Mother?" A silver-robed Protector gathered his courage and asked with a trembling voice.

Gao Feng did not answer him, but scanned these ignorant and pathetic believers before him with a cold yet pitying gaze.

Then, he used all his strength to let out a roar like a thunderclap: "Your so-called 'Holy Mother', that demoness who used your piety and faith to feed her evil cultivation, has been executed by me on the spot! Your so-called 'return to the Vacuum Homeland' is nothing but a scam, just a way to provide nutrients for her blood-red demonic flower!"

As he spoke, he violently kicked the huge white tent over!

That altar of flesh and blood, built from countless grim white bones and filled with blood and sin, was thus exposed nakedly before everyone!

The ten corpses of the "lucky ones," who had been sucked dry of all essence and blood and turned into mummies, were like the loudest slap, fiercely striking the face of every fanatical believer!

"Ah—!" "What... what is this?!" "Liar! All liars!!"

When the cruel truth was bloodily revealed, the entire refugee camp completely boiled over! The collapse of faith brought endless anger and madness!

Those Wusheng Holy Cult disciples instantly became targets for venting anger and were torn to pieces by the furious refugees!

Gao Feng watched all this coldly, without the slightest pity. Ignorance itself is a sin.

He ignored the chaos here and, taking Big Fool and Wulu, who had been waiting outside for a long time, walked straight toward Yunzhong City, which still had its gates closed.