89: Chapter 89 Demolition Office Enforcement? No, this is a buffet!
Deep in the Duantian Mountain Range, the Heavenly Demon Cult branch.
This was a massive underground city built by hollowing out an entire mountainside.
In the central plaza, a hundred-zhang-tall bone teleportation array was slowly rotating, emitting a nauseating bloody red light.
Around the teleportation array, a dense crowd of Heavenly Demon Cult Disciples in blood-red robes stood.
A full three thousand people! Among them were two thousand in the Foundation Establishment Stage and over a hundred in the Golden Core Stage!
They were standing according to a mysterious formation; everyone's wrists were slit, and blood flowed along the grooves on the ground, converging toward a blood-haired old man in the center.
Heavenly Demon Cult Branch Master—Blood Vulture (Early Stage Nascent Soul)!
"Quick! Speed up!"
Blood Vulture sat cross-legged at the formation's eye, his expression anxious: "News from the main altar says the Ye Family has been exposed. The Zhengdao Alliance could attack at any moment! We must teleport this batch of 'Blood Cocoons' to the Canglan Water Mansion within half an hour!"
"Yes!!"
Three thousand demonic cultivators roared in unison, desperately circulating their essence blood.
Just then.
Rumble—!!!
The two ten-thousand-jin bronze gates at the branch entrance were struck as if by an ancient brutal Dragon.
After a loud bang, the gates exploded inward, turning into countless fragments and instantly crushing dozens of unlucky demonic cultivators into meat paste.
The dust cleared.
A figure holding a black saber and carrying a beauty on his shoulder strolled in boldly.
"Yo, quite lively here."
Lin Que set down Su Qingyu, who was a bit motion sick, from his shoulder. His gaze swept across the shocking 'thousand-person bloodletting' scene, finally settling on the mountain of Heavenly Demon Blood Cocoons.
He licked his lips, a green light like a hungry wolf's appearing in his eyes: "So many Blood Cocoons... and so many fresh 'blood bags'."
"It seems I don't need to order today; I'll just have the buffet."
"Who is it?!"
Blood Vulture suddenly opened his eyes, his cold gaze locking onto Lin Que: "To be able to slaughter through the outer Asura Blood Guards... are you that Lin Que?!"
"Since you know it's me, why haven't you served the delicious food yet?"
Lin Que cracked his neck, and the light of the Four-colored Golden Core on his starfall mo dao began to flicker wildly.
"Seeking death!!"
Blood Vulture laughed in extreme anger: "There was a path to heaven but you didn't take it! A mere Middle Stage Golden Core dares to barge into my branch with three thousand demonic troops?!"
He fiercely waved the command flag: "Ten Thousand Demon Blood Sacrifice Array—Activate!"
"Everyone, burn your essence blood! Summon the Demon God to crush him!!"
Hum!!
Following his command, the three thousand demonic cultivators roared simultaneously. The wounds on everyone's bodies burst open, and blood gushed out like fountains, turning into a sky-filling blood mist.
The blood mist condensed in the air into a thousand-zhang-tall, hideous and terrifying phantom of a Blood-colored Demon God!
The aura of this Demon God phantom was infinitely close to the Middle Stage Nascent Soul!
A single punch would be enough to collapse the entire mountain range.
"Young Miss Su, hide well."
Lin Que gave Su Qingyu a push, letting her retreat to a corner.
Facing the overwhelming pressure of the Demon God phantom, Lin Que did not hide. Instead, he opened his arms and bared his chest. The Undying Blood Body runes within him shone to the extreme at this moment.
"Sacrifice?"
"Have you asked the Demon God... does he dare to eat?"
[Massive blood Qi energy convergence detected!]
[Form: Ten Thousand Demon Blood Sacrifice (Sacrificing one's own blood Qi to summon an energy body attack).]
[Logic restructuring initiated—Offering Interception!]
[Modifying 'Sacrifice Recipient': From 'Void Realm Demon God' to 'Host Lin Que'!]
[Multiplier: Whale Swallow Mode (Lossless Absorption)!]
"Give it all to me... I'll take that!!"
Whoosh—!!!
A bizarre scene occurred.
The Blood-colored Demon God in the sky, which had just condensed and was about to crush Lin Que with a punch, suddenly froze. Then, its massive body actually began to disintegrate!
It did not dissipate.
Instead, it turned into a vast blood-colored river, reversed direction, and like a swallow returning to its nest, frantically surged into Lin Que's body!
"What?!!"
Blood Vulture's eyes at the formation's eye were about to pop out.
That was an attack condensed from the half-lives of three thousand demonic cultivators! How did it turn into feeding the enemy?!
"Ahhh!!"
The three thousand demonic cultivators below screamed even more.
They discovered in horror that the blood in their bodies was out of control! That Lin Que was like a super black hole, forcibly extracting their vitality! What was originally just a partial sacrifice had now become—draining them dry!
Gulp! Gulp!
Lin Que bathed in the heaven-shaking river of blood, his bones crackling throughout his body. The progress bar of the Undying Blood Body surged wildly!
5%... 8%... 99%...
Boom!!!
A roar from deep within his Bloodline. A cloud of blood mist exploded from Lin Que's Physical Body surface, then quickly reorganized. His skin became even more translucent, and every drop of blood seemed to contain infinite vitality runes.
[Congratulations to the Host! The Blood Scripture has broken through its Bottleneck!]
[Undying Blood Body Advancement: Middle Stage (Rebirth from a Drop of Blood)!]
[Physical Body strength significantly increased! Comparable to a fifth-rank (Nascent Soul level) Yao Beast!]
Phew...
Lin Que exhaled a breath of blood Qi, feeling that he was now terrifyingly strong.
He glanced below.
Those three thousand demonic cultivators had all turned into mummified corpses, lying neatly on the ground, with extreme terror still on their faces.
"Thanks for the treat."
Lin Que grinned, revealing a row of forest-white teeth.
"You... you're not human!! You're a devil!!"
Blood Vulture's mental state completely collapsed as he looked at his instantly annihilated subordinates.
What kind of monster is this? He swallowed the essence blood of three thousand people in one breath, and instead of exploding, he leveled up?!
"It's your turn, Branch Master."
Lin Que took a step forward, and his figure disappeared instantly.
Teleportation!
In the next second, he appeared directly in front of Blood Vulture and threw a punch without any flourishes!
"Don't even think about it!!"
Blood Vulture was a Nascent Soul powerhouse after all. Although he was terrified, his reaction was extremely fast.
He summoned a top-grade Magic Treasure, the Blood Bone Shield, while simultaneously burning his Nascent Soul to prop up several layers of defensive barriers.
Bang!!!
Lin Que's fist, carrying the terrifying Physical Body power of his recent advancement, smashed heavily onto the shield.
Crack!
The top-grade Magic Treasure level Blood Bone Shield shattered instantly like a cracker! Then came the barriers, the protective Spiritual Qi...
Puchi!
Lin Que's fist was unstoppable, directly piercing through Blood Vulture's chest!
In through the front, out through the back!
"Ugh..."
Blood Vulture looked down at the massive bloody hole, his eyes full of disbelief.
"Top-grade Magic Treasure... shattered? Physical Body... broke through my defense?"
"I said, this is a buffet."
Lin Que pulled out his blood-stained hand. The Four-colored Golden Core in his body rotated slightly, and purple fire surged into the wound.
"Since I've eaten the small ones, the old one can't be wasted either."
"Your Nascent Soul, I've reserved it too."
Boom!
The purple fire erupted, instantly incinerating Blood Vulture's Physical Body into ash.
A tiny Nascent Soul screamed as it tried to escape, but Lin Que, prepared, grabbed it, slapped a Seal talisman on it, and threw it into his storage ring. (A Nascent Soul is a good thing; whether for Alchemy or feeding the System, it's top-grade.)
Battle ended.
From entering the door to wiping out the branch, it took less than fifteen minutes.
In the entire Heavenly Demon Cult branch, except for the still-operating teleportation array, there was not a single living soul left.
Su Qingyu walked out from the corner. Looking at the mummified corpses everywhere, although she was psychologically prepared, she still couldn't help but gag.
"Young Master Lin... we... finished killing them?"
"This is just the beginning."
Lin Que walked to the massive bone teleportation array and looked at the spatial coordinates embedded on it.
Coordinates pointed to: Southern Commandery, Central Province · Canglan River bottom.
"This is just a weapons factory; the front line is in the Southern Commandery."
With a wave of his hand, Lin Que swept the mountain of thousands of Heavenly Demon Blood Cocoons into his storage ring (keeping them as snacks to eat slowly).
Then, he raised his starfall mo dao and slashed fiercely at the eye of the teleportation array!
Boom!
The teleportation array collapsed, and the spatial channel was severed.
"Let's go, Qingyu."
Lin Que turned and looked toward the south.
That was Su Qingyu's hometown and the place the Heavenly Demon Cult was truly plotting for.
"After finishing this job, my Physical Body has reached a Bottleneck."
"Next..."
"It's time to go to the Southern Commandery and borrow the limbs of that Ancient Heavenly Demon..."
"To sprint toward the Nascent Soul Stage!"