76: Chapter 76 Was I tricked?

This girl had actually been cursed as well.

"Leave?" He chuckled softly, the thirty-six heavenly prison chains within his body rattling.

"It is they who should be fleeing."

He suddenly pressed his palm against A Li's crown, the phantom of the bronze compass flashed and vanished, and the blue blood instantly evaporated into mist.

Chen Xuanji's withered hand suddenly froze in mid-air. To be able to unlock the Soul Guidance, one must be at least...

"Senior, do you know of the Blood God Cult's Blood Fiend Envoy surnamed Jiu?" Gu Han abruptly changed the subject, the Blood God Seal on his wrist looking as vivid and alive as a living thing under the moonlight.

The old beggar's pupils dilated in shock. One of the Twelve Fiend Envoys of the Blood God Cult, who should have died thirty years ago at...

"Jiu Wuming?!" The withered leaf between Chen Xuanji's fingers instantly fell, and a sharp glint burst forth from his cloudy old eyes.

"That Devil Head who should have died thirty years ago at the East Sea Sword Inquiry Pavilion..."

Before he could finish, fine beads of blood suddenly seeped from the blue bricks of the courtyard wall.

Gu Han pulled A Li behind him with a backhand, and the thirty-six heavenly prison chains in his Dantian emitted a piercing, metallic clang.

The blood beads actually condensed in the air into dense "Kill" characters, every stroke radiating a bone-rotting poison.

"Heavenly Secret Blood-Drawing Technique."

"That old thief actually used such a sinister secret technique."

"Despicable, he is unworthy of being part of the Righteous Path."

Immediately, copper coins shot out from Chen Xuanji's sleeves, setting up a Bagua formation in the Void Realm to break the Heavenly Secret Blood-Drawing Technique.

"The pursuers are almost here."

"I didn't expect these people to move so fast."

"There is not much time left."

"Benefactor, you must remember what I am about to say."

"You must find a way to undo the Blood God Seal as soon as possible."

"This is one of the supreme secret techniques of the Blood God Cult."

"Anyone marked with the Blood God Seal will eventually become a killing Puppet."

"Also, this Jiu Wuming should have perished thirty years ago."

"Now that he has appeared, he must be in a half-human, half-ghost state."

"You must be extremely careful."

Just as Chen Xuanji was about to continue, the blood characters on the courtyard wall suddenly twisted and deformed, turning into dozens of crimson snakes that lunged at the three of them.

Blood-gold light surged in Gu Han's eyes, and the heavenly prison chains whistled out from his palm, strangling like dragons and crushing the blood snakes into blood mist.

"Go!"

Chen Xuanji's withered palm slammed onto the stone table.

The instant the teacup shattered, a golden light soared from the ground, enveloping the entire courtyard.

The bundle in A Li's arms suddenly opened on its own, revealing a bronze compass engraved with star charts.

"Click." The compass needle spun crazily, and a crack opened in the Void Realm.

Gu Han's pupils constricted; that was clearly a spatial transfer formation.

"Take care, Benefactor." A Li suddenly shoved half a jade pendant into Gu Han's hand; the touch was bone-chillingly cold.

Golden threads moved within the jade pendant.

"Boom!" The courtyard gate suddenly exploded into powder, and three black shadows arrived, stepping on the blood moon.

The leader wore a bronze ghost mask, with seven blood-colored copper coins hanging from his waist. It was the mark of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion's Soul-Chasing Envoy!

Chen Xuanji violently spat out a mouthful of blood essence, and the bronze compass instantly swelled to a size of over ten feet.

Amidst the guiding golden light, the old beggar's white hair danced wildly, and his aura climbed steadily to the Peak of the Heavenly Human Realm!

"Heavenly Secret old ghost." The Soul-Chasing Envoy's voice was gloomy.

"Come back with us, otherwise..."

"Go back with you? I fear I would die." Chen Xuanji suddenly sneered.

Immediately after, the Soul-Chasing Envoy suddenly threw out seven copper coins, setting up a Big Dipper killing formation in the air.

Chen Xuanji roared, the compass bloomed with blinding starlight, and the guiding passage shook violently.

"Go!" The old beggar swept up A Li with his sleeves, his figure shooting into the crack like lightning.

"Benefactor, until we meet again..."

Chen Xuanji's voice continued to emanate from the crack.

"Want to run?"

A shrill laugh like a night owl came from beneath the Soul-Chasing Envoy's ghost mask, and the remaining two Black-Robed Persons formed hand seals simultaneously.

Countless blood-colored vines suddenly drilled out of the ground, intending to forcibly close the spatial crack.

Seeing this scene, a coldness began to rise in Gu Han's heart.

"This old immortal wants to use me to stall these people."

"He never intended to help me shake off the people in front of me."

"Moreover, this old immortal should have already recovered his cultivation."

"Damn it."

"Another old schemer."

Gu Han drew his blade. The instant the blood-colored vines wrapped around the spatial crack, blood-gold light surged in Gu Han's eyes.

"Old thing, it's a good thing I guarded against you and didn't reveal my full cultivation."

"Otherwise, I would have really been screwed by you."

"Strike first to gain the advantage."

His five fingers hooked onto the hilt, and the runes on the thirty-six heavenly prison chains within his body suddenly lit up.

The disguise of the Divine Intent Realm peeled away layer by layer, and a terrifying aura of the ninth level of the Heavenly Human Realm erupted like a volcano.

"What?!" The pupils beneath the Soul-Chasing Envoy's ghost mask constricted, and the Big Dipper killing formation composed of seven copper coins was actually shaken until it hummed and trembled by this aura.

"Click." Gu Han's movement of drawing his blade appeared slow, but the blade edge had already slashed to within three inches of the Soul-Chasing Envoy's throat.

Before the blade aura arrived, the ghost mask had already cracked with spiderweb-like patterns.

"Heavenly Human Realm?!"

The Soul-Chasing Envoy's rapidly retreating figure left afterimages in the moonlight, and he threw out three Talismans from his sleeves.

The instant the Talisman papers burned out, three Dragons lunged out from the Void Realm. Every scale on the dragons was engraved with the secret incantations of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion.

Gu Han sneered, his blade momentum unchanged. The instant the blade edge touched the Dragons.

Phantoms of the thirty-six chains emerged from behind him, like a primordial beast opening its fangs, tearing the three blood dragons into a rain of blood.

"heavenly prison Suppresses Devils!" The blade light poured down like the Milky Way, and the Soul-Chasing Envoy's Protective Aura shattered like paper.

Terrified, he crushed the jade pendant at his waist, and a golden light barrier had just formed before it was split into pieces by the blade aura.

"Puchi." The instant his head flew into the air, the Soul-Chasing Envoy's final consciousness saw the seven Soul-Chasing copper coins at his headless corpse's waist—coins that claimed to be able to block a strike from the ninth level of the Heavenly Human Realm—exploding one by one.

The remaining two Black-Robed Persons turned and fled. One of them had only taken half a step when his neck was suddenly wrapped by invisible chains.

The other watched in horror as his companion was dragged back in front of Gu Han like a marionette. The blood-colored chain patterns appearing on his throat were identical to the Blood God Seal on Gu Han's wrist.

"Dogs of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion." Gu Han closed his five fingers, and that Black-Robed Person instantly exploded into blood mist.

The last one was so scared he knelt and kowtowed, his forehead banging loudly against the blue stone slab.

"Spare me, Lord."

"We were only following orders..."

A flash of blade light passed, and the begging for mercy stopped abruptly. Gu Han shook the blood drops off his blade and sneered as he watched the gradually closing spatial crack.

"Chen Xuanji, I will remember this favor."

"You kindly took me in, but it turned out to be a shield for you."

"Good, very good!"

"I cannot stay here anymore."

"It's just as well, I can change my identity."

Immediately, he turned and kicked open the bedroom floor tiles, revealing the gold and silver jewelry he had "robbed" earlier.

Gu Han immediately packed up a portion of the gold and silver jewelry. Just then, the Blood God Seal on his wrist suddenly became hot.

Dense footsteps came from afar; at least thirty Cultivators were approaching.

"They came really fast." Gu Han sneered.

He immediately went to the courtyard and began to loot the spoils of war. Before long, three silver-glowing spatial rings appeared in his palm.

Under the blood-colored moonlight, a wisp of Heavenly Prison True Qi ignited at Gu Han's fingertips. The three spatial rings emitted a "hissing" sound within the True Qi.

The Divine Sense imprints remaining on the spatial rings melted like ice and snow, turning into green smoke in the blink of an eye. Blood-gold light flashed in Gu Han's pupils, and his Divine Sense surged into the rings like a tide.

"Click." The Restriction inside the first ring shattered like thin ice. What came into "view" was a mountain of gold and silver jewelry; a rough scan showed at least one hundred thousand in number.

Beside the pile of gold and silver jewelry, thirty-six jade boxes were neatly stacked. Each box was engraved with the two characters "Heavenly Secret."

"Treasures of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion?"