271: Chapter 271 Forget about him, you're going to die too.

When Wu Li lowered his hand, the residual golden light in his Blood Pupil was being covered layer by layer by a dark red bloody light, and the gold in his pupils had been completely suppressed back, restoring it to a dark red once more.

Soon.

Wu Li withdrew his fire halberd and stood firmly again.

The golden Buddhist sound had been suppressed back into the depths of his consciousness, and the dark red light in the Blood Pupil stabilized once more.

His gaze fell on Lin Fan, and without moving immediately, he was confirming whether that burst of Buddhist sound from just now would appear again.

Lin Fan stood on the charred ground left behind after the flames burned, moving his gaze away from the spot where Chief Clerk Gu Qing had disappeared and letting it fall onto Wu Li.

His voice was hoarse, but he no longer trembled: "You... killed him."

Wu Li did not answer.

Lin Fan took a step forward, his feet stepping on the charred soil as his boot soles ground over a layer of ash.

"Why did you kill him!"

"We only followed to take a look, we didn't want to snatch your things! Why did you kill him!"

Wu Li looked coldly at Lin Fan, the dark red light in his Blood Pupil solidifying once more.

"Forget him, you're going to die too."

Lin Fan's pupils contracted slightly, his body instinctively shrinking back by half an inch, but his footsteps did not retreat.

His gaze lingered on the fire halberd in Wu Li's hand for a split second before withdrawing and falling back onto Wu Li: "What right do you have..."

Wu Li did not wait for him to finish that sentence.

He gripped the fire halberd with one hand and took a step forward, the halberd tip wrapped in a layer of red-gold flames, stabbing straight out toward Lin Fan's chest.

The speed was even faster than before, the flames pulling a slender wake through the air. Wherever the halberd tip passed, the air grew thin amidst continuous scorching heat, leaving a slender burn mark on the ground. The grass blades ahead were flipped open by the air wave, revealing a layer of soil underneath that was continuously turning black.

When Lin Fan saw that halberd light, he had no time to retreat and could only instinctively dodge to the side.

But Wu Li was too fast, and the halberd tip had already pressed to within half a foot of his chest.

Then that halberd tip slowed down.

Wu Li felt as if his arm was being held back from the inside by something, the force exerted at his joints being partially offset by an invisible resistance, and the strength was weakened by fifty percent when transmitted to his wrist.

"Boom!"

The speed of the fire halberd dropped at that instant, being half a beat slower than expected.

Taking advantage of that half-beat gap, Lin Fan lunged to the side. The tip of the fire halberd grazed past his shoulder, tearing the edge of his robe and leaving a shallow burn mark on his shoulder.

He fell to the ground and rolled half a circle, propping himself up on his elbows to stand back up, fear that had not completely faded still lingering in his gaze.

Just at this moment,

in the distance,

standing a few steps in front of the ancient tree, Bai Chi had her gaze lowered, dark golden light continuously spreading within her eye sockets, rapidly covering the dark red patterns on the edge of her pupils.

Afterwards,

she raised her right claw, the bone knife unsheathing, its tip deflecting at an angle toward Wu Li's direction. Her fingers holding the knife maintained a fixed posture, joints slightly bent, like mechanical parts whose actions had been pre-set.

She took a step toward Wu Li, the tip of the bone knife lifting slightly, pointing at the position of Wu Li's lower back.

"Hmm?"

The Blood Seal Pagoda within Bai Chi's body was suppressed, and Wu Li sensed it at the very first moment. At that instant, he turned his head sideways, his gaze sweeping past Bai Chi's direction to confirm her state.

"Boom!"

Bai Chi moved.

She stepped forward, the bone knife slashing horizontally outward. The blade was covered with a layer of dark golden Buddha light, fine scripture patterns floating at its edges, as she slashed toward Wu Li.

Wu Li did not turn around; the fire halberd was held horizontally at his side, using the halberd shaft to block the landing point of the bone knife.

"Clang!"

The blade struck the halberd shaft with a dull impact sound, and the dark golden Buddha light exploded at the contact surface, climbing up a distance along the surface of the halberd shaft before being suppressed by the bloody murderous Qi just before touching Wu Li's claw tips, retreating back to the surface of the blade.

"Boom!"

Bai Chi did not stop, her second knife slicing diagonally from the side. The Buddha light on the blade continued to expand during the movement, cutting toward Wu Li's ribs.

Wu Li sidestepped to avoid it, pulling the fire halberd back, the halberd tip pointing toward the side of Bai Chi's bone knife.

The halberd tip stopped before contacting the side of the bone knife.

"Suppress!!"

Wu Li did not let the halberd tip fall. The Blood Pupil between his brows suddenly lit up, and a slender streak of blood light shot out from the pupil, accurately landing on the center of Bai Chi's brow.

The blood light did not linger the moment it contacted the center of her brow, instead seeping directly beneath the skin, extending downwards along the Meridians straight to the Dantian position.

"Hum!!!"

Bai Chi's movements froze at that moment, the bone knife stopping mid-air, maintaining a horizontal-cutting posture. The dark golden Buddha light on the blade was rapidly receding, as if its support was being drained from the bottom by something.

The golden light in her eye sockets was also fading layer by layer, contracting from the center of her pupils toward the edges, revealing the dark red patterns underneath that were lighting up once more.

Her body swayed slightly, her knees bending by half an inch, as if she had just broken free from some kind of fixed state, her joints recovering their range of free movement.

"Old Ancestor!"

"I, I don't know how..."

Wu Li withdrew his Blood Pupil, not saying anything more.

Confirming that the Blood Seal Pagoda within Bai Chi's body had been reactivated, suppressing the Buddha light in her body back to the surface layer of her Meridians, he then turned around to look at the location where Lin Fan had previously been.

A mark scorched by flames still remained on the ground, the charred marks at the edges gradually cooling, but Lin Fan's figure was no longer in place.

A moving aura had already extended to the entrance of the narrow valley, moving toward the distance at an even faster speed, and the distance was rapidly widening.

"Withdraw from the Secret Realm!"

Wu Li's words fell without a pause.

His twin wings spread, his figure soaring high as he swept toward the direction of that aura.

The bloody murderous Qi condensed into a layer of dark red halo around his body, dragging a slender wake during flight. When sweeping across the top of the grass blades, the grass blades were pressed to both sides, forming an arc in the air that was continuously narrowing.

Bai Chi stood in place, her fingers holding the bone knife moving slightly. Confirming that her control had been restored, she straightened her body, looked in the direction where Wu Li had disappeared, sheathed her knife, spread her wings, and flew away from here.

At this moment,

Lin Fan was threading through the dense forest, his speed several times faster than usual.

Buddha light continuously churned around his body, accelerating his speed.

"Chief Clerk Gu Qing, I will avenge you in a moment."

Lin Fan said through gritted teeth, not looking back as he could sense Wu Li's aura rapidly approaching.

But what he did not know was that

that aura was slowed down in rhythm by an invisible resistance during the approach. Wu Li's pursuit speed did not show a clear drop, but every time he flapped his wings, he would encounter a continuously applied resistance, as if something was simultaneously pressing down on him from all directions.

Lin Fan continued to run forward, Buddha light continuously shining around his body, moving rapidly through the gaps in the tree crowns, as if there was infinite strength within his body.