84: Chapter 84 Law Enforcement and Cleanup, Hunting Down Remnants

Bai Yunzhou and his party stepped into the morning light and walked toward the Law Enforcement Hall. As soon as they reached the hall gates, they saw True Monarch Tianxing had already led several Law Enforcement Elders to wait outside.

The old man's expression was solemn, his gaze sweeping over the undispersed Evil Qi of blood on everyone, and finally landing on the storage ring of Xuanmingzi in Bai Yunzhou's hand.

"Has Xuanmingzi been brought to justice?" True Monarch Tianxing's voice sounded like metal clashing against stone.

"Yes." Bai Yunzhou stepped forward, presenting the storage ring, the blood-colored bronze mirror, and the image-recording Jade Slip, "This fiend colluded with the Blood God Cult, set up the Nine Nether Blood Sea Formation, and harmed Holy Land Disciples. The evidence is conclusive."

True Monarch Tianxing's Divine Sense probed into the image-recording Jade Slip, and scenes of Xuanmingzi secretively negotiating with the Blood God Cult, sacrificing Cultivators, and intercepting killings at the mountain gate emerged one by one.

Seeing this, the Elders outside the hall all wore angry expressions. A red-faced Elder angrily said: "Old thief Xuanmingzi, despite us trusting him for a hundred years, he actually committed such an act of betrayal against the sect!"

"Pass my order!" True Monarch Tianxing raised his hand, and the Soul Transformation Divine Might pressure around his body suddenly dispersed, "From this moment on, activate the Holy Land Grade One Liquidation Order! All members of the Law Enforcement Hall are dispatched to investigate Xuanmingzi's faction and the lurking remnants of the Blood God Cult. Anyone involved will be captured without exception, and those who resist will be killed on the spot!"

"Obey the order!" All Law Enforcement Disciples responded in unison, their figures turning into streams of light and dispersing in all directions.

Elder Moyuan walked to Bai Yunzhou's side and handed over a gray Jade Slip: "This is the method to crack the secret door of Xuanmingzi's Immortal Cave. He has operated for many years, and the death retainers he secretly cultivated are not a few, and they harbor secret intelligence of the Blood God Cult. You will come with me on a trip."

Bai Yunzhou nodded and rushed to Xuanmingzi's Immortal Cave side by side with Moyuan. Song Xinghe, Deng Mufeng, and others were ordered to go to the various peaks of the Outer Sect to assist in investigating the remnants.

Xuanmingzi's Immortal Cave was hidden in the back mountain of the Skill Transmission Peak, its entrance covered by a layer of blood-colored Restriction.

Moyuan flicked a wisp of extinction Sword Intent from his fingertips, and the Restriction instantly melted, revealing a deep passage.

The stone walls on both sides of the passage were carved with eerie runes, exuding a cold Evil Qi, which was precisely the Blood Soul Curse Seal of the Blood God Cult.

"Be careful, these runes can erode the Divine Soul." Moyuan reminded, waving his hand to set up a light gray light curtain, isolating the Evil Qi outside.

The two went deep into the Immortal Cave, encountering several hidden death retainers in black along the way, all of whom had Late Stage Core Formation cultivation.

Bai Yunzhou's liefeng sword was unsheathed, and the Green Lotus Sword Intent swept horizontally, killing all the death retainers within three breaths. When they reached the depths of the Immortal Cave, they saw a black-robed Cultivator trying to destroy the blood-colored scrolls on the desk.

"Leave it!" Bai Yunzhou let out a low shout, the thunder lotus of the Qinglian Thunder Sword bloomed, and nine green lotuses intertwined with lightning instantly trapped the Cultivator.

Moyuan stepped forward to look through the scrolls, his expression growing increasingly solemn: "These are the lurking lists of the Blood God Cult in the Northern Territory, as well as the complete blueprints of the Nine Nether Blood Sea Formation. Fortunately, they were not destroyed." He put away the scrolls and found a blood-colored token in a secret compartment: "This is the Blood Sacrifice Token of the Blood God Cult. Those holding this token can mobilize all lurking forces in the Northern Territory."

Meanwhile, the liquidation of the various Outer Sect peaks was also proceeding fiercely.

Song Xinghe discovered a secret stone room on the waist of Liuyun Peak, which hid five death retainers of the Blood God Cult who were about to transmit intelligence.

His sword light was like a reversed galaxy. After a fierce battle with the death retainers for a quarter of an hour, he finally killed them all and captured several secret letters.

Deng Mufeng encountered stubborn resistance near the Mission Hall, as three confidant Cultivators of Xuanmingzi urged the Xuesha Formation to counterattack.

Deng Mufeng continuously fired Talismans, intertwining fire, thunder, and ice spells, cooperating with the Formation Plate to break the Formation. After half an hour, she finally captured the three people.

After Bai Yunzhou and Moyuan finished investigating the Immortal Cave, they were about to return to the Law Enforcement Hall when they suddenly sensed the distress signal sent by Song Xinghe.

The two flew on their swords at high speed. When they arrived at Liuyun Peak, they saw Song Xinghe surrounded by four death retainers at Perfection Core Formation, his left arm already heavily injured.

"Court death!" Bai Yunzhou shouted angrily, the Power of Chaos blending with the Green Lotus Sword Intent. With a single sword strike, the Sword Intent of Chaos Opening Heaven instantly split open the Xuesha Formation.

Moyuan struck at the same time, the extinction Sword Intent sweeping horizontally, and two death retainers were annihilated on the spot.

Seeing that the situation was bad, the remaining two death retainers turned around to flee, but were entangled by the qinglian sword Qi released by Bai Yunzhou.

His figure was like lightning, the liefeng sword continuously piercing out, ending the lives of the two within three breaths.

"Many thanks, Senior Brother Bai, for saving me." Song Xinghe covered his wound, his face pale.

"Heal your injuries first, leave this place to me." Bai Yunzhou handed over a bottle of Rejuvenation Pills, his gaze sweeping over the surroundings, "Xuanmingzi's faction is more concealed than imagined. It seems that the matter of investigation cannot be accomplished in a single day."

As the setting sun went down, the liquidation came to a temporary end. This investigation captured a total of thirty-seven involved Cultivators, killed fifty-two death retainers, and confiscated over a hundred volumes of secret scrolls of the Blood God Cult and one Blood Sacrifice Token.

Inside the main hall of the Law Enforcement Hall, True Monarch Tianxing looked at the scrolls and said in a deep voice: "The Blood God Cult is ambitious. Seven array eyes of the Nine Nether Blood Sea Formation have already been laid. If they are not uprooted as soon as possible, within three months, the Northern Territory will be plunged into misery."

Bai Yunzhou stepped forward: "True Monarch, this Disciple is willing to request an order to lead a team to wipe out the remaining array eyes."

True Monarch Tianxing nodded: "Granted! This seat will allocate twenty Law Enforcement Disciples to you, and grant you three sha-breaking talismans, which can break all kinds of Xuesha Formations of the Blood God Cult. Elder Moyuan, you will go with him to hold down the fort."

"Obey the order," Moyuan replied.

As the night grew deeper, Bai Yunzhou returned to the Liuyun Peak Immortal Cave and began to organize the intelligence captured this time.

The scrolls recorded that the remaining array eyes of the Blood God Cult were respectively located in the Nether Swamp, the Black Wind Mountain Range, and other places, and were guarded by Late Stage Nascent Soul Cultivators.

He took out the map and marked the positions of the array eyes one by one, "Blood God Cult, this time I will definitely uproot you completely!"

Outside the Immortal Cave, the moonlight was like water.

Song Xinghe, Deng Mufeng, and others had finished healing their injuries and were waiting for orders in the courtyard.

Bai Yunzhou pushed open the stone door and said in a deep voice: "Three days later, set off to wipe out the array eyes."

On the morning of three days later, at the Holy Land mountain gate.

Bai Yunzhou and his party finished assembling. In addition to Song Xinghe, Deng Mufeng, and Zhou Zhiting, there were also twenty Law Enforcement Disciples accompanying them.

Ling Shuang was dressed in an ice-blue sword robe, standing at the end of the team, with the hanshuang sword slung diagonally across her waist, her icy Sword Qi faintly visible.

"Set off." At Bai Yunzhou's order, everyone flew up on their swords, turning into a cyan stream of light straight to the Black Wind Mountain Range in the northwest.

According to the plan, they needed to disguise themselves first and head to the stronghold of the Black Wind Mountain Range, lure the ambush forces of the Blood God Cult to appear, and then take the opportunity to wipe them out in one fell swoop.

The tracking runes on the Xueshuo jade pendant had been reactivated, and Xuanmingzi's remaining informants must be transmitting messages in real time.

Eight hundred miles of distance was reached in just an hour.

The Black Wind Mountain Range was still shrouded in black fog, with gloomy winds howling. The Yin Evil Qi in the air was thicker than last time, faintly mixed with the aura of blood and decay.

Bai Yunzhou signaled everyone to land, restrain their aura, and quietly sneak along the foot of the mountain.

"There is Formation fluctuation three miles ahead." Deng Mufeng took out a sha-breaking talisman, infusing spiritual power into her fingertips. The Talisman paper glowed with a pale golden halo, "It's a variant of the Xuesha Lost-Track Formation, more concealed than the Formation of Wanmo Cave, and mixed with illusions."

Bai Yunzhou operated Chaos Perception, his Divine Sense piercing through the black fog to clearly capture the outline of the Formation—taking nine blood-colored stone pillars as array eyes, the stone pillars were deeply buried underground, and the exposed parts at the top were carved with eerie runes, slowly absorbing the surrounding Yin Evil Qi.

"Senior Brother Song, you take ten people to outflank from the left wing and destroy three stone pillars; Senior Sister Deng, you take five people from the right wing to destroy three as well; Miss Ling, please protect Zhiting and the remaining Law Enforcement Disciples to hold down the center; I will go to the front to attract firepower." Bai Yunzhou quickly assigned tasks.

"Senior Brother, be careful!" Zhou Zhiting clenched the leihuang gauntlets, her eyes full of worry.

"Rest assured." Bai Yunzhou smiled slightly, turned into an afterimage, and headed straight to the core of the Formation.

He deliberately released a wisp of Green Lotus Sword Intent, piercing through the black fog like a bright lamp.

"They are here!" From deep within the Formation, a cold shout came.

The nine stone pillars simultaneously erupted with blood-colored light, the black fog churning and condensing into dozens of thick blood tentacles, entangling towards Bai Yunzhou like venomous snakes.

Countless cracks split open on the ground, and dark red blood gushed out, instantly converging into a pool of blood, in which countless grievances wailed faintly.

Bai Yunzhou did not dodge or avoid, the liefeng sword was unsheathed, and the thunder lotus of the Qinglian Thunder Sword bloomed!

Nine green lotuses intertwined with purple electric arcs flew out, colliding with the blood tentacles and erupting with a deafening roar.

The power of thunder restrained Xuesha, the blood tentacles collapsing upon encountering thunder and turning into a sky full of blood mist, but they quickly recondensed, endless.

"Indeed an endless Formation," Bai Yunzhou understood in his heart, the zhuiyun boots under his feet flashing with spiritual light, his figure like lightning, shuttling between the blood pool and tentacles, while his sword momentum did not decrease, continuously slashing towards the direction of the stone pillars to create the illusion of a frontal attack.

On the other side of the array eyes, Song Xinghe and Deng Mufeng had quietly arrived.

Song Xinghe's sword light was like a reversed galaxy, cutting off the blood lines around the stone pillars. The Law Enforcement Disciples quickly stepped forward and pasted the prepared Formation-breaking Talismans onto the pillar bodies.

Deng Mufeng urged the Formation Plate, and a pale golden rune light curtain unfolded, temporarily shielding the spiritual power fluctuations of the stone pillars.

"Do it!"

At Song Xinghe's order, the Formation-breaking Talismans exploded simultaneously, the three stone pillars exploded with a bang, and the Formation light instantly dimmed by three parts.

"Not good! Someone is destroying the array eyes!" At the core of the Formation, a blood-robed old man appeared roaring. It was Xuetuo, the deacon stationed here by the Blood God Cult, with Early Stage Nascent Soul cultivation. Xuesha lingered around his body, and he held a blood-colored long saber in his hand, viscous blood dripping from the blade body.

Just as Xuetuo was about to reinforce the stone pillars, Ling Shuang's figure had already blocked his front.

"Your opponent is me." An ice-blue sword light flashed, the hanshuang sword was unsheathed, instantly slashing out three ice prisms to block all of Xuetuo's retreats.

The Ice Soul Sword Intent restrained Xuesha; as soon as Xuetuo's Evil Qi of blood contacted the ice prisms, it was frozen into ice.

Xuetuo was both shocked and angry: "People of Ice Soul Sword Valley? How dare you ruin the major affairs of the Blood God Cult!"

"The Blood God Cult slaughters living beings, and everyone has the right to execute them." Ling Shuang's tone was cold, her sword momentum changed again, and the ice-blue Sword Domain unfolded, the temperature within the range dropping sharply, and the surface of the blood pool rapidly freezing into ice.

Bai Yunzhou took the opportunity to launch a frontal attack, infusing the Power of Chaos into the liefeng sword, and with one sword shattered the fourth stone pillar.

The Formation was completely disordered, the condensation speed of the blood tentacles slowed down, and the wailing sound of grievances became much weaker.

"Retreat!" Seeing that the situation was bad, Xuetuo feinted with a saber and turned around to flee into the black fog.

"Want to leave?" Ling Shuang sneered, the hanshuang sword turning into a stream of light, piercing Xuetuo's left shoulder, the icy Sword Qi spreading along the wound and freezing his Meridians.

Bai Yunzhou followed closely, the liefeng sword pointing directly at Xuetuo's glabella: "Speak, how many more strongholds does the Blood God Cult have in the Black Wind Mountain Range? What is the next step of the blood sacrifice plan?"

Madness flashed in Xuetuo's eyes, and he suddenly opened his mouth, actually wanting to detonate his Nascent Soul.

"Court death!" Zhou Zhiting's figure surged, the leihuang gauntlets erupting with thunder light, smashing a punch onto Xuetuo's back of the head and knocking him unconscious.

"Keep him alive, maybe we can extract more intelligence." Bai Yunzhou put away his long sword and motioned for the Law Enforcement Disciples to step forward and tie him up.

While clearing the battlefield, everyone discovered a shocking scene in the cave at the core of the Formation—dozens of blood-colored cages were placed inside the cave, holding nearly a hundred Cultivators, including Outer Sect Disciples of the Holy Land and Loose Cultivators, everyone on their last breath, with Blood Soul Curse Seals branded on their glabella, and their vital essence being slowly extracted.

"These people can still be saved." Deng Mufeng took out a large amount of clearing heart pills and healing medicine, distributing them to the Law Enforcement Disciples, "First feed them medicine to stabilize their injuries."

Bai Yunzhou found a blood-colored Jade Slip deep in the cave. When his Divine Sense probed in, his expression suddenly turned solemn.

The Jade Slip recorded that the Black Wind Mountain Range was only a vital essence collection point of the Blood God Cult, and the true core stronghold was the Xuesha Hall deep in the mountain range. There, a Blood God Great Puppet was being refined, which required the vital essence of ten thousand Cultivators to drive. Once refined, its combat power would be comparable to Early Stage Soul Transformation.

"We must go to Xuesha Hall immediately," Bai Yunzhou put away the Jade Slip, "Delayed changes might arise."

After checking the Restriction on Xuetuo, Ling Shuang nodded and said: "His Meridians are sealed by the ice soul sword Qi, and he cannot self-detonate in a short time. We can take him along and interrogate him on the way."

The party rescued the trapped Cultivators, left five Law Enforcement Disciples to escort them back to the Holy Land, and the rest took the unconscious Xuetuo and continued to march deep into the Black Wind Mountain Range.

The black fog became thicker and thicker, and the Xuesha Qi in the air almost turned into substance; taking a breath made one's Meridians sting.

Along the way, patrolling death retainers of the Blood God Cult were encountered from time to time, all of whom were quietly dealt with by everyone.

Half an hour later, a huge valley appeared ahead. In the center of the valley stood a blood-colored palace, atop which floated a head-sized blood bead, constantly swallowing the surrounding Xuesha Qi, emitting a heart-palpitating Divine Might.

"Xuesha Hall has arrived," Bai Yunzhou lowered his voice, "Outside the hall, there is a Xuesha Formation guarding it, and four Early Stage Nascent Soul Blood God Guards are stationed there."

He looked at Song Xinghe and the other three: "Miss Ling and I will launch a frontal attack to attract the attention of the Blood God Guards; Senior Brother Song, Senior Sister Deng, you take the opportunity to destroy the hall gate Formation; Zhiting, you are responsible for guarding Xuetuo, if there are any changes, execute him directly."

"Understood!"

Bai Yunzhou and Ling Shuang exchanged glances and struck at the same time.

The Green Lotus Sword Intent and Ice Soul Sword Intent intertwined, turning into a cyan and blue intertwined sword light, slashing directly at the Xuesha Formation.

Just at this moment, an explosive shout suddenly came.

"Who dares to break into Xuesha Hall?!"