84: Chapter 84 Buddha Pattern Fighting Phoenix Pattern! Copper Coin Shatters, Killing Intent Arises

"Caught you."

Lu Zhao's mouth ripped open to his ears, revealing a maw full of fangs.

Gu Han felt a sharp pain in his ankle as two wisps of black Qi surged along his Meridians straight toward his Dantian.

"Corpse poison?"

A blood-red light flared in his eyes, and heavenly prison chains erupted from his pores.

The moment the chains shredded the black Qi, viscous blood plasma oozed from the courtyard walls on both sides of the alley, instantly congealing into a blood-colored cage.

"How does it taste, the corpse puppet I've raised for thirty years?"

Lu Zhao's body collapsed like mud, and a dwarven old man crawled out from beneath his skin.

His right hand, withered like a chicken's claw, clutched a blood-red crystal, within which was sealed a wisp of aura originating from the same source as Gu Han's.

"Blood God Seal soul fragment?!"

Gu Han's heart trembled violently; this old thing was actually capable of separating Blood God Seal aura for tracking.

"Be good and let this old man search your soul..."

Gu Han said coldly.

"little banner Lu, you've been hiding quite a lot!"

"No, I should be calling you Lord Soul Chaser."

"Lu Zhao must have been dead for a long time, right?"

"And the others were likely all controlled by you as well."

"Are you not afraid that Lord Jiu Wuming will discover all of this?"

"As long as I take you down, that old ghost won't know."

Lu Zhao laughed sinisterly.

Before the words had even faded,

Gu Han broke free from Lu Zhao's hand.

"And what if I refuse?"

"Then go to hell!"

"Even if you die, this old man still has a way to create a new Iron Pillar Wang."

"And no one will discover anything."

A screeching laugh like a night owl squeezed out of Lu Zhao's throat. Gold threads beneath his skin tightened suddenly, and his entire body rose into the air like a marionette.

Seven Bone-Eroding Coins formed a Big Dipper killing Formation in the air, each copper coin spewing dark green poisonous fire.

The blue bricks beneath Gu Han's boots exploded, but his figure shifted three feet away in an eerie manner.

The poisonous fire grazed his lapel, burning seven transparent holes through the alley walls.

"Bone-Eroding Poison Fire from the Heavenly Secret Pavilion?"

A chill flashed in Gu Han's eyes.

"It seems Lord Soul Chaser is quite willing to invest."

"You think so highly of me?"

"To be able to make this old man use his life-bound poisonous fire, you have enough to be proud of."

Lu Zhao's voice came from all directions, and dense blood-colored runes suddenly appeared on the courtyard walls on both sides of the alley.

Heavenly Prison True Qi surged from Gu Han's fingertips, turning into a stream of light that shot toward the center of Lu Zhao's brow.

"Looking for death!"

Lu Zhao flung three Talismans from his sleeves, but they froze the moment they touched the stream of light.

That wasn't Heavenly Prison True Qi at all, but Gu Han's blade Qi!

"Pfft!"

The moment the blade Qi pierced Lu Zhao's throat, Gu Han's figure had already stuck to his back like a ghost.

His five fingers, like hooks, clamped onto the crown of Lu Zhao's head. The Buddha runes of the "Great Sun Vajra Body Refining Technique" spread along his arm, forcibly pressing the Primordial Spirit attempting to escape back into the physical shell.

"You..."

Lu Zhao's pupils contracted violently. Countless gold threads crawled out from the wound on his neck; he was actually attempting to self-destruct his Physical Body.

Gu Han sneered, and his other hand suddenly stabbed into his own chest.

In Lu Zhao's horrified gaze, he pulled out half a heavenly prison chain entwined with Buddha runes and stabbed it directly into his Dantian.

"Ahhh!"

The moment the chain entered his body, every gold thread on Lu Zhao's body snapped inch by inch.

The Bone-Eroding Poison Fire hidden in his Meridians surged backward, burning his internal organs with a sizzling sound.

"Soul Search!"

Gu Han roared, and the Buddha runes on the chain intertwined with the blood-gold runes, piercing into the opponent's Sea of Consciousness like thousands of steel needles.

Scenes from Lu Zhao's memories flashed by like a revolving lantern.

The bloodbath at the East Sea Sword Inquiry Pavilion thirty years ago.

The Blood Sacrifice in the secret chamber of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion Elder Council.

The sleeping Dragon corpse in the Imperial Mausoleum underground palace.

"So that's how it is."

A cold glint flared in Gu Han's eyes.

"The Heavenly Secret Pavilion has long been colluding with the Blood God Cult!"

"Or rather, the Heavenly Secret Pavilion is colluding with both sides."

"No matter which side wins, the Heavenly Secret Pavilion can profit from it."

The last fragment of memory made his pupils shrink suddenly.

Twelve blood-robed figures circled the Imperial City, holding fragments of the blood river netherworld blade in their hands.

"Pfft."

Lu Zhao's head suddenly exploded, and a crimson centipede darted out from the splattering brains.

Gu Han was prepared, and the chain twisted like a dragon to kill it, but it was deflected by some force the moment it touched the centipede.

"Junior..."

The centipede spoke in human language, and Phoenix runes appeared on its carapace.

"Ruining my great undertaking, I will execute your Nine Clans."

Gu Han pressed his fingers together like a blade, and Heavenly Prison True Qi condensed into a blood-colored blade glow and slashed down.

The centipede drilled into a crack in the ground a step earlier, leaving only a vengeful curse echoing in the alley.

"Chu Fengge..."

Gu Han crushed the remains at his feet and swept his Divine Sense across the surroundings.

The fight hadn't even alarmed the night watchman half a street away; clearly, the entire alley had long been isolated by a Formation.

He suddenly crouched down and fished a Jade Slip from Lu Zhao's tattered lapel.

The moment his Divine Sense probed inside, the Imperial City defense map unfolded in his Sea of Consciousness, with tiny text marked beside seven cinnabar marks.

【At the third quarter of the Zi hour, the Xuanwu Gate changes guards.】

【At the Chou hour, the blood puppets pass through.】

"This Jiu Wuming is cautious enough."

"The content given to me and the content given to Lu Zhao are actually different."

"He's still guarding against me."

Gu Han crushed the Jade Slip, his gaze landing on the bronze tiger-faced token at Lu Zhao's waist.

On the back of the token was an imperceptible sword mark, which was the secret mark of the Heavenly Secret Pavilion.

He ignited Heavenly Prison True Qi at his fingertips, burning the corpse to ashes.

He paused suddenly as he turned, for a slender figure stood under the moonlight at the alley entrance.

The slender figure under the moonlight at the alley entrance walked over slowly, the skirt embroidered with a golden Phoenix sweeping across the blue bricks, making a rustling sound like a poisonous snake flicking its tongue.

Blood-gold patterns flared in Gu Han's pupils, and he saw clearly the face that was seven parts similar to Chu Fengge's centipede Incarnation.

Only this time, it was the real body that had come.

"Young Master, what ruthless methods."

The woman's fingertips brushed over the bloodstains on the alley wall, and the tainted blood actually bloomed into an enchanting lotus in her palm.

"Destroying three of this Palace's Incarnations in a row, what is your crime?"

"And you killed my people; how should this debt be settled?"

Gu Han crushed half a Bone-Eroding Coin beneath his boot, and the heavenly prison chains moved silently within his Meridians.

The pressure radiating from this woman was three parts more terrifying than the previous Dragon corpse.

"Grand Princess is joking; this subordinate is just a rough man."

He deliberately made his voice carry the simple honesty of Iron Pillar Wang.

"Grand Princess Chu, visiting late at night,"

"I wonder if there is anything this subordinate can do for you?"

"Crack!"

Chu Fengge's embroidered shoes shattered the blue bricks, and the shadows of the entire alley suddenly came to life.

Countless black threads crawled out from the cracks in the ground, instantly binding Gu Han's four limbs.

Small Phoenix runes appeared on every black thread, and when they dug into his flesh, they made the sound of metal clashing.

"Great Sun Vajra Body?"

Chu Fengge raised her willow eyebrows slightly.

"The Legacy of that bald donkey, Bitter Suffering..."

Gu Han's pupils contracted suddenly.

This woman could actually see through his Cultivation Technique at a glance.

The thirty-six heavenly prison chains within his body erupted with a roar, and Buddha runes and blood-red light intertwined on the surface of his skin.

The black threads binding him snapped inch by inch, but enchanting red lotuses bloomed where they broke.

"I didn't expect Young Master to be hiding so deeply."

"You deceived everyone."

Immediately after, the moment a red lotus bloomed in Chu Fengge's palm, the temperature of the entire alley plummeted.

The blue bricks beneath Gu Han's boots silently turned into powder.

The Buddha runes and heavenly prison chains on the surface of his skin intertwined into a net, shredding all the Yin-evil Qi that had invaded his Meridians.

"Princess, what good cultivation."

He grinned, revealing white teeth.

Chu Fengge's wide sleeves embroidered with golden Phoenixes suddenly froze.

The copper coin that should have been destroyed in the fight was now glowing with an eerie blood-gold light.

"You!"

The moment her pupils contracted, the copper coin exploded into a sky full of gold powder.

Each grain carried fragments of the heavenly prison chains, piercing through the protective Phoenix runes like a torrential rain.

The moment the gold powder burrowed into the Phoenix runes like maggots on a bone, Chu Fengge's wide sleeves rolled, and raging flames ignited around her body.