80: Chapter 80 The Mastermind Reveals and Launches a Hunt

"Blood Marrow Gu?"

Gu Han's pupils constricted sharply; this thing was clearly transformed from the essence blood of a Drought Demon.

He threw his Vajra Pestle backward, and the Buddhist scripts on the pestle collided with the Gu, erupting in blinding sparks.

The crimson centipede retreated in pain, but it saw that thirty-six heavenly prison chains had already sealed off all paths of retreat.

"Crack!"

The instant the heavenly prison chains tightened, blood-colored incantations suddenly appeared on the Gu's carapace.

A crack split open in the Void Realm, and a withered palm lightning-fast grabbed toward Gu Han's throat.

The fingernails were pitch-black like ink, carrying a nauseating corpse stench.

"I was waiting for you!"

Gu Han sneered and changed his move, the bronze compass in his sleeve suddenly unfolding.

As the compass needle spun wildly, it shot out seven rays of starlight, forcibly solidifying the Void Realm crack.

The protruding arm instantly stiffened, revealing a gold bracelet engraved with the character "Chu" on the wrist.

"A corpse-raiser from the Imperial family?"

The moment his Saber Qi slashed down, the withered hand violently retracted into the crack.

The crimson centipede took the opportunity to explode into a blood mist, and nine wisps of Origin essence blood actually pierced through the blockade of the chains, shooting off in different directions.

"Want to escape?"

"I worked myself to death, and it wasn't just for justice."

"You are my nourishment."

Gu Han tapped his toes on the ground, pushing the Heavenly Prison Steps to the limit.

His figure flashed nine times like a ghost, and each flash precisely intercepted a wisp of essence blood.

When the last wisp was devoured by the chains, the entire residence suddenly shook violently.

"Rumble."

The ground split into spiderweb-like cracks, and a pillar of blood-colored light erupted from the ancient well.

The Buddhist scriptures engraved on the well's rim crumbled inch by inch, and that Arhat golden body actually stood up slowly, its hollow eye sockets locking onto Gu Han.

"Benefactor... run..."

The golden body spoke, and it was actually Bitter Suffering's voice, but blood threads were rapidly crawling all over the surface of its bones.

Gu Han's heart struck a note of alarm; clearly, something even more terrifying was hidden at the bottom of the well.

"Clatter!"

The sound of chains breaking came from underground, and the entire residence suddenly sank three zhang.

As Gu Han retreated violently, he caught a glimpse of a giant claw covered in green scales extending from the well mouth, each scale engraved with twisted runes.

"The true form of a Drought Demon?"

He did not hesitate to activate the Heavenly Prison Steps and ran out.

In an instant, the giant claw shattered the afterimage he left in place, and the shockwave razed the buildings within a hundred zhang to the ground.

The tips of the green-scaled claws brushed against the lapel of his chest, and the resulting Protective Aura wind plowed five bloody marks into his skin.

"Sizzle."

Before the blood droplets could hit the ground, they were swept back into his body by the heavenly prison chains.

Blood-gold light surged in Gu Han's pupils as he saw the twisted black shadow at the bottom of the well.

It was no Drought Demon, but clearly a Dragon corpse pierced by nine golden chains of Buddhist scripts.

"The Great Chu Imperial family is actually raising a corpse Dragon?"

His heart was shaken violently, and the final transmission from Bitter Suffering's golden body suddenly exploded in his ears.

"Benefactor, run... this is one that failed to transform into a Dragon..."

"Crack!"

The ground suddenly split into an abyss, and twelve blood-colored light pillars soared into the sky from different directions of the capital.

The Blood God Seal on Gu Han's wrist suddenly burned with intense pain, resonating eerily with those pillars of light.

"The Nine Evil Soul-Locking Coffins were a diversion..."

"Roar."

The Dragon corpse broke free from the last two Buddhist-script chains, and the well water instantly evaporated.

Gu Han pushed the Heavenly Prison Steps to the limit, but his afterimages were crushed inch by inch by the invisible Dragon might.

At the most critical moment, he threw three blood god pills toward the Dragon's eyes.

"Bang!"

In the blood mist where the Medicinal Pill exploded, the Gu insects frantically gnawed at the Dragon's pupils.

The moment the Dragon corpse rolled in pain, Gu Han whipped out eighteen Vajra Pestles from his sleeves, setting up a Diamond Demon-Subduing Formation in front of him.

"Whoosh."

A streak of black light suddenly shot out from the ground crack.

Gu Han tilted his head to dodge, but his left cheek was still cut open; it was half a gold arrow engraved with the character "Chu"!

"The old dog raising the Dragon finally can't sit still?"

He sneered and wiped the blood, his Divine Sense capturing the black shadow sweeping across the eaves three miles away.

The seven purple-gold bells hanging from that person's waist were the mark of the Chief of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau.

"Boom."

The moment the Dragon's tail shattered the Demon-Subduing Formation, Gu Han used the force to fly backward.

While still in mid-air, he used the momentum to increase the distance.

"Wah."

He spat out a mouthful of blood, but secretly injected a wisp of Heavenly Prison True Qi into the earth's veins.

The True Qi traveled along the cracks toward the Dragon corpse, discovering a fist-sized reverse scale at the seventh vertebra.

"So that's it..."

Gu Han pretended to stumble as he got up, catching a glimpse of the man from the Imperial Astronomical Bureau chanting incantations while moving.

As the obscure incantations sounded, the rampaging Dragon corpse suddenly became docile and slowly sank back into the ground.

"Rustle, rustle, rustle."

Countless Black-Armored Guards poured out from the street corners.

His Divine Sense scanned that the Black-Armored Guards were constantly closing in, driving away passersby.

Immediately after, Gu Han's figure swept past the ruins like a ghost.

The ground behind him cracked inch by inch, and the roar of the green-scaled Dragon claw tearing through the earth's veins made his eardrums ache.

"Want to escape?"

A hoarse voice exploded overhead.

Gu Han suddenly leaned backward, three streaks of black light brushing past his nose tip, blasting the century-old locust tree in front into powder.

The seven purple-gold bells on the waist of the black shadow on the eaves jingled, and every chime made his Meridians tremble violently.

"The Soul-Chasing Bells of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau?"

Gu Han's pupils constricted, and the thirty-six heavenly prison chains inside his body snapped taut with a clatter.

The blood-colored runes on the surface of the chains lit up, completely neutralizing the sonic attack.

He feigned pain and stumbled, but secretly injected a wisp of Heavenly Prison True Qi into the blue bricks beneath his feet.

"Crack."

The eaves under the black shadow's feet suddenly collapsed.

Just at the moment the opponent's figure faltered, Gu Han slashed out several waves of Saber Qi.

The saber light wove into a net, bouncing the three Soul-Chasing Arrows back along their original path.

"Small tricks."

The black shadow's large sleeves rolled, and the arrows froze in place while still three feet away.

A withered palm reached out from the bottom of his robe, and the palm was shockingly engraved with the same incantation as the Dragon corpse's reverse scale.

Gu Han's heart struck a note of alarm; this old thing could actually control the Dragon corpse's Evil Qi.

He did not hesitate to crush the blood god pill in his bosom, and in the exploding blood mist, twelve Gu insects pounced toward the old man's face.

"Even the insects of the Blood God Cult dare to..."

The old man's sneer came to an abrupt halt.

Those Gu insects suddenly self-destructed, and what splattered out was not venom at all, but Saber Qi compressed by Gu Han using the heavenly prison chains.

"Pfft, pfft, pfft."

The old man's Protective Aura was torn open with seven gaps.

He retreated violently for over ten zhang, and three of the purple-gold bells shattered.

A face covered in corpse spots was revealed beneath the tattered black robe, and ghostly green flames flickered in his right eye socket.

"Junior, you seek death!"

The moment the withered palm struck toward Gu Han, Gu Han had already stepped into the air using the Heavenly Prison Steps.

A pit a zhang deep exploded where he had originally stood, and nine streaks of green-scaled Dragon Qi broke through the ground.

"Old dog, look at the good thing you raised."

Gu Han laughed loudly and threw the golden skull of Bitter Suffering toward the Dragon Qi.

The moment the Buddhist bone touched the Dragon Evil Qi, blinding golden light exploded like the scorching sun. The old man screamed and covered his eyes, black smoke streaming from his seven orifices.

A painful Dragon roar came from underground.

Gu Han took the opportunity to sweep toward the south of the city, and the roar of buildings collapsing one after another came from behind.

His Divine Sense scanned his surroundings and discovered three obscure auras closing in from different directions.

"Three in the Heavenly Human Realm..."

He sneered and accelerated, suddenly changing direction as he swept past a certain teahouse.

He flicked his fingertips lightly, and three wisps of Heavenly Prison True Qi silently submerged into the cracks of the tiles.

"Junior, leave your life behind!"

The black-robed old man on the left attacked first, his withered palm striking out with a sky full of poisonous sand.

Before the poisonous sand arrived, the blue bricks beneath Gu Han's boots suddenly exploded, and his figure shot backward into the second floor of the teahouse.

The poisonous sand corroded the carved wooden windows into honeycomb-like holes, but Gu Han had already used the force to break through the ceiling.