35: Annihilate in one fell swoop

One of the other Cultivators asked, "Captain, are you saying that we aren't the only ones who came in this time?"

"I saw twelve beams of light in the sky!"

The leading Cultivator laughed wildly, "Hahaha! You guessed right. There are twelve groups of us in total!"

"So, go ahead and kill with peace of mind!"

"Anyone you encounter holding a Formation Flag is one of our own."

"Hahahaha!"

The other Cultivators also felt relieved and began to laugh along.

Seeing all his subordinates turn and leave, the leading Cultivator carefully took out a Magic Treasure from his Storage Pouch.

It was a blood-red demon blade, four feet seven inches long in total, with a red gemstone on the hilt.

The blade was carved with exaggerated grooves, and the body of the blade seemed to be forged from blood essence stone combined with cold iron.

The entire Magic Treasure emitted a strong stench of blood, along with waves of chilling aura!

The leading Cultivator carefully placed the demon blade gently above the Formation Plate.

The Treasure-Devouring Blood Formation emitted a ripple, directly wrapping the Crimson Blood Demon Blade inside.

It hovered in the center of the Formation, spinning continuously, absorbing the surrounding Spiritual Qi and feeding it into the Magic Treasure.

The other 12 locations had also undergone similar operations.

However, the Magic Treasure placed at each location was different; some were blood-red longswords, and others were blood-red spears.

There were also blood ginsengs the size of an arm, shaped like infants.

In any case, all kinds of treasures were generally related to blood.

After placing it, the leading Cultivator began to stand guard around the Formation Plate.

He was just waiting for his subordinates to start slaughtering wantonly, providing blood Qi and Souls to this Magic Treasure!

Gu Changan hadn't gone far before he saw a team of Cultivators emerge.

They were dressed in blood-red clothes, with small blood-red flags tucked into their waists.

They killed everyone they saw, not even sparing the wild beasts passing by.

Gu Changan turned his head and left, quickly moving away.

This group of Cultivators also discovered Gu Changan, but they were not in a hurry, just pushing forward horizontally all the way.

Gu Changan saw the New Disciples they killed, their treasures being divided up by them.

The essence blood on the corpses of the New Disciples began to be sucked dry rapidly, turning them into dried corpses.

Then, most of this essence blood gathered onto the small flags at the waists of these blood-clothed Cultivators.

A small portion of the essence blood turned into blood mist, drifting in the air, and finally floated toward the sky's canopy.

Gu Changan discovered that the small flag behind them was roughly similar in style to the Magic Treasure small flag he had obtained in the Forbidden Ground of the valley.

However, the small flags they were holding should be at the level of Magical Artifacts; if everyone held a Magic Treasure small flag, wouldn't that be Heaven-Defying?

Could it be that these people were from the Blood Fiend Alliance?

Why did they sneak into the Tianji Pavilion Disciple trial?

For revenge? For retaliation?

Inside the trial Formation, there weren't any treasures here, right?

At most, those ten Spirit Medicines were worth a bit of money, but it wasn't worth them going to such great lengths to come in!

Could it be that there was something he didn't know about?

Or perhaps it was related to those 12 beams of light?

Thinking of this, Gu Changan didn't plan to leave. Not to mention that these people in the Formation could chase him to the ends of the earth.

He had no way to hide, and if he ran into their companions again, it would truly be a certain death with no chance of survival.

Now, while they hadn't gathered yet—there were probably only 7 or 8 Cultivators—

If he caught them off guard with a sneak attack, he could most likely take them out.

Another thing was the blood-red small flags on them.

They should have gathered a large amount of Cultivator essence blood inside. Although he didn't really want it—he already had more Crimson Treasure Qi than he could use!

But since these were delivered to his doorstep, that was a different matter.

As the saying goes, if Heaven gives it and you don't take it, you will suffer the consequences!

Gu Changan slowed his pace as he ran, using one hand to put 10 top-grade vajra talismans on himself.

In his other hand, he took out 20 top-grade explosion talismans; 8 people could get two each.

Then he felt it was a bit inappropriate; the 8 of them were together now.

He could solve it with a casual toss.

If he waited until later, when they became alert and scattered,

it wouldn't be so easy to blow them up!

He then took out another 20 top-grade explosion talismans, totaling 40.

5 each should be enough, right? Gu Changan thought secretly.

Then the 8 Blood Fiend Alliance Cultivators gathered together, forming a semi-encirclement, blocking Gu Changan's retreat.

"Run! Why aren't you running anymore?"

Gu Changan didn't speak. He turned back and threw out 40 top-grade explosion talismans.

They landed right in the middle of the group, just 3 to 5 feet from each person; everyone was within the range of the top-grade explosion talismans!

Then, it caused a series of explosions!

The Blood Fiend Alliance Cultivators were completely stunned by the blast. A few of the Blood Fiend Alliance Cultivators had just chased over and hadn't even steadied themselves.

They were immediately covered by intense firelight and then burned.

Gu Changan was also directly caught in the blast and blown away.

Fortunately, he had 10 top-grade vajra talismans on him, which offset most of the damage and flames.

Even so, it wasn't comfortable; the top-grade vajra talismans were shattering one after another.

Gu Changan was startled and quickly replenished 10 more top-grade vajra talismans.

Just like that, the shockwave and intense flames burned through about 12 top-grade vajra talismans.

Gu Changan finally breathed a sigh of relief; he had survived!

As for the area behind him, where the explosion had just occurred, there was a deep pit about three zhang in circumference and three feet deep.

Scattered all around were various scraps of cloth, fragments of accessories, and even bits of flesh.

As for those 8 Blood Fiend Alliance Cultivators, they had long since disappeared.

Only some Storage Pouches remained, along with those 8 blood-red small flags.

Gu Changan waved his hand, collected all the treasures into the treasure gathering basin, and quickly left the place.

He found a tree about three zhang tall, climbed to the top, and began to look around from there.

After discovering no one was nearby, he relaxed.

His mind began to control the treasure gathering basin to replicate a large number of Talismans.

He replicated 200 top-grade vajra talismans, which, added to the ones remaining from before, brought the total to 280.

He replicated 300 top-grade explosion talismans, which, added to the ones remaining from before, brought the total to 360.

After the experiment just now, 5 top-grade explosion talismans per person was a bit wasteful.

Those Blood Fiend Alliance Disciples' corpses had been blown into minced meat.

Next time, he would try using three and see if he could leave a complete corpse!

Gu Changan began to take stock of this harvest.

Not to mention the 8 blood-red small flags; these were all Magical Artifacts, probably reaching the level of Medium Grade Magical Artifacts.

Dozens of Storage Pouches were packed full.

When he poured them all out to check, good heavens, they were dirt poor!

As for Spirit Stones, there were about 30-something; better than nothing!

As for Magical Artifacts, there were only about five or six pieces, all Low Grade.

Come to think of it, whether it was these Blood Fiend Alliance Disciples sent in, or these New Disciples participating in the trial,

they were all at the Early Stage of Qi Refining; some hadn't even really Cultivated yet, having only had their Spiritual Roots tested.

Where would they get any treasures?