110: Chapter 110 The Bronze Blood Corpse Soul-Devouring Array is Activated, Essence Blood is Extracted

"Just as I thought."

"Commander, what did you discover?"

Chu Ming asked hurriedly, his eyes filled with anticipation.

"Look here, everyone."

Gu Han pointed to a wound on Jiu Wuming's remains, his tone carrying a hint of gravity.

"This wound looks like it was smashed open by someone with powerful cultivation."

"Smashed by someone?"

Chu Ming frowned slightly, a flash of confusion crossing his eyes.

"Correct."

"It was indeed forcibly smashed by someone."

"And it looks a bit like an ambush."

"It seems this Jiu Wuming was accidentally ambushed."

Gu Han clamped his five fingers onto Jiu Wuming's broken throat bone, his knuckles turning white as if he were about to crush iron and stone.

"The Azure Fiend Qi remaining on the edge of the wound..."

His fingertips brushed over the festering wound, and an eerie deep blue hue emerged from within the flesh.

"It looks a bit like the methods of the Azure Demon Sect."

Chu Ming's pupils constricted, and the saber at his waist rang like a Dragon.

"The Azure Demon Sect?"

"Aren't they being kept under surveillance in Qingzhou?"

"How can they still appear in the capital?"

"Nothing is absolute."

Gu Han interrupted.

"Continue looking for other clues."

"Understood."

Hearing the order, everyone began to move again.

Soon, noon arrived.

Seeing that everyone was already soaked, Gu Han gave an order.

"Chu Ming."

He suddenly spoke up.

"Take Jiu Wuming's remains back to the Zhenwu Division and have the coroner examine the body carefully."

Chu Ming was taken aback, then immediately agreed, waving his hand to order two Zhenwu Guards to carry the body.

Gu Han watched as the remains were bound with black iron chains, a cold sneer tugging at the corner of his lips.

"Commander, are there any other instructions?"

Chu Ming asked tentatively.

"Go check if there have been any traces of the Azure Demon Sect in the capital recently."

Gu Han's gaze was like a torch.

"Especially those wanted remnants of the Azure Demon Sect."

Chu Ming felt a shiver in his heart and quickly bowed to accept the order.

"Also."

Gu Han suddenly turned around, his gaze cutting across Chu Ming like a blade.

"This matter must be carried out in secret; not a single whisper must leak out."

"Yes."

Chu Ming trembled and quickly agreed.

Gu Han said nothing more and mounted his horse. He looked back towards the depths of the mass grave, a playful expression on his lips.

"Azure Demon Sect, our game has begun."

He whispered, then whipped his horse and headed straight for the Zhenwu Division.

...

Zhenwu Division, Coroner's Office.

Jiu Wuming's remains were placed on a stone table, and the coroner, holding a silver knife, was carefully dissecting his chest.

Gu Han stood to the side, his gaze like a torch, watching every move the coroner made.

"Commander, look here!"

The coroner suddenly exclaimed, pointing the silver knife in his hand at the location of Jiu Wuming's heart.

Gu Han feigned a focused gaze and stepped forward quickly, only to see that Jiu Wuming's chest cavity was completely empty.

The silver knife in the coroner's hand fell to the ground with a "clang," and he stumbled back three steps, his back hitting the medicine cabinet, causing the porcelain bottles to shatter with a crash.

"The heart has been dug out."

Gu Han's voice was as cold and sharp as an ice blade scraping against black iron.

"And... it was extracted while he was still alive."

Chu Ming's Adam's apple bobbed, and his saber rang like a Dragon.

"The 'Heart-Devouring Curse' of the Azure Demon Sect?"

"But why would they take the heart of a living person?"

Hearing this, Gu Han shook his head.

"How could we possibly guess the methods of the Azure Demon Sect?"

"Otherwise, the Azure Demon Sect wouldn't be a Demon Sect."

After speaking, Gu Han seemed to recall something significant.

He immediately gave another order to Chu Ming.

"Chu Ming, search the entire city for me."

"Find out where the Azure Demon Sect's strongholds are."

"Once discovered, keep them all under surveillance."

Chu Ming accepted the order and was about to turn away when Gu Han suddenly called out to him.

"Wait!"

Chu Ming paused and turned back in confusion.

Gu Han tapped his fingertips on the stone table, his gaze falling on the tattered lapel of Jiu Wuming's clothing, where a faint dark pattern was visible.

"Strip off his clothes."

The coroner was startled, then stepped forward, his hands trembling as he unfastened Jiu Wuming's lapel.

Beneath the lapel, the dark pattern was clearly visible—it was unmistakably the mark of the Azure Demon Sect!

"Just as I thought."

Gu Han curled his lips into a cold sneer, a cold glint flickering in his eyes.

"Azure Demon Sect, Blood God Cult, it seems you really have colluded together."

"Commander, what now?"

Chu Ming asked, his eyes filled with gravity.

"Proceed according to the original plan."

Gu Han's gaze was like a torch, his tone chilling.

"Yes!"

Chu Ming agreed and turned to leave in a hurry.

Gu Han stood before the stone table, his gaze falling on Jiu Wuming's remains as he calculated in his heart.

"Finally, things are stirred up."

"The more chaotic, the better."

"If it's not chaotic, how can I stir up trouble?"

Thinking of this, Gu Han couldn't help but raise the corner of his lips.

However, he quickly composed himself.

Just as he was deep in thought, a Zhenwu Guard suddenly rushed in and bowed to report.

"Commander, there's a situation!"

Gu Han's eyes flashed as he looked at the Zhenwu Guard.

"Speak."

The Zhenwu Guard knelt on one knee, his voice hurried.

"Commander, traces of a Blood God Cult stronghold have been discovered in the ruins of the City God Temple outside the city. My subordinates and I have already ordered the scene to be sealed off!"

Gu Han's pupils constricted, and his fingertips tapped against his scabbard, emitting a Dragon's roar.

"Chu Ming, take three hundred Black Armored Guards and follow me to raze the City God Temple."

The bloody setting sun spilled onto the bluestone slabs. As Gu Han galloped on his horse, the sound of his waist token colliding with his saber rang out like clashing metal.

Rolling black smoke rose from the ruins of the City God Temple. Twelve Blood God Cultist corpses were arranged in a Soul-Devouring Formation, with the crowns of each corpse's head having been pried open.

"My Lord, look quickly!"

Chu Ming suddenly pointed at the offering table.

In a crack in the offering table, half of an Azure Demon Sect token was oozing blood.

Gu Han's five fingers hooked and snatched the token.

The three bloody characters "Heart-Devouring Envoy" on it suddenly twisted into the face of Jiu Wuming, letting out a shrill scream in the Void Realm.

"Playing god and acting like a ghost!"

Gu Han combined his fingers into a sword, and the instant his Sword Qi shredded the phantom, the entire ruin suddenly trembled violently.

The bluestone bricks under the feet of the three hundred Black Armored Guards exploded simultaneously, and blood-colored vines coiled around their ankles like living creatures.

"Retreat!"

Amidst Gu Han's explosive shout, his Heavenly Prison True Qi transformed into a sea of black fire, burning the vines to ashes.

A cold, sinister laugh came from the depths of the ruins.

"The new Commander of the Zhenwu Division? Nothing more than this."

The moment the blood-colored vines shattered, Gu Han's pupils constricted.

Scarlet mucus seeped from the bluestone bricks under the feet of the three hundred Black Armored Guards, transforming into a pool of blood that dragged them into the abyss!

"Heavenly Prison Steps · Star Treading!"

He tapped his toes on the ground, and his black Protective Aura burst open the blood pool, but he saw that Chu Ming's right arm was already covered in blood vines, his entire face twisted in pain.

"Commander... save me!"

Chu Ming let out an inhuman roar from his throat, and spiderweb-like blood patterns suddenly split open on his crown.

Gu Han backhanded several streams of Heavenly Prison True Qi, which entered three inches into the center of Chu Ming's brow, but he saw the blood patterns crawling up along the nail-like energy towards his wrist.

He made a decisive decision and swung his blade to sever the arm, but what gushed out from the severed limb was not blood, but dense swarms of blood-colored Gu insects.

"The Heart-Devouring Gu of the Azure Demon Sect?"

He sneered and shattered the swarm of Gu, his gaze sweeping across the ruins.

"The Blood God Cult and the Azure Demon Sect have actually colluded to this extent."

A sinister, eerie laugh came from the depths of the ruins.

"Commander Gu has good eyes, but unfortunately..."

Before the voice faded, twelve blood shadows broke through the air and arrived; they were twelve bronze blood corpses.

"Soul-Devouring Formation, activate!"

The moment the blood corpses formed their seals, the three hundred Black Armored Guards simultaneously clutched their chests and screamed.

Their vital blood was being forcibly extracted by the Formation.

Gu Han clamped his five fingers onto the hilt of his blade, his Heavenly Prison True Qi erupting like a volcano within his body.