418: Chapter 418 This national teacher is a pillar of the Great Zhou!

"Mmph!!!"

They couldn't even let out half a shrill scream.

The Secret Guard only had time to let out a muffled struggle within the blood.

Immediately after, under the horrified gaze of Jiang Luohai and the other two Secret Guards.

That Rank 6 Innate Divine Ability user, clad in dark gold armor and possessing a formidable physical foundation.

Was like an ice cube dropped into strong acid; they didn't even last a second in the blood, being forcibly melted into a pool of foul-smelling gore!

Armor, bones, flesh—all completely dissolved, without even a scrap left behind!

Instant kill!

A dignified Tier 6 Grandmaster, just like that, silently evaporated!

"Third Brother!"

The other two Secret Guards' eyes were splitting with rage, and they instinctively leaped backward more than a dozen meters.

"Gurgle..."

The pool of dark red blood on the ground, which had merged with the flesh and blood of the Tier 6 Grandmaster, began to writhe violently.

Subsequently, the blood slowly rose and solidified.

Within a few breaths.

The pool of blood shed its scarlet color, transforming into a middle-aged man wearing a blood-colored robe, with a face as pale as paper and eyes revealing a sickly scarlet hue.

Upon seeing the pale face that had condensed from the pool of blood.

Jiang Luohai, standing in the depths of the main hall, felt his scalp tingle violently. His footsteps involuntarily retreated three steps, colliding with the imperial desk, his voice filled with unconcealable horror and trembling:

"Xue Yin?"

"You cutthroat demon, to think you are also this guy's subordinate?!"

Jiang Luohai stared fixedly at the pale middle-aged man, a sense of despair like a collapsing building surging into his heart:

"You Blood Cult... are you planning to mobilize your entire force and wage a full-scale war against our Great Zhou Dynasty?"

Facing Jiang Luohai's question, as if facing a formidable enemy.

Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan, standing in the center of the hall, did not answer immediately.

Instead, he tilted his head slightly, dug his ear with some irritation, and knitted his brows into a knot, as if struggling to recall some trivial matter.

After several seconds.

Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan's tightly furrowed brows suddenly relaxed, his mouth split open, and he let out a spine-chilling, hoarse laugh:

"Xue Yin?"

"Oh, right, right, right, I remember now, this guy does seem to be called by that name!"

Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan waved his hand casually, speaking to Jiang Luohai in a relaxed tone, as if they were discussing what they had for dinner:

"Old thing, you can set your heart at ease; there's no need to worry about any Blood Cult calamity anymore."

"When I, this Imperial Preceptor, passed by their lair earlier, I found them too noisy, so I took the liberty of helping your Great Zhou imperial court by completely sweeping away this evil cult tumor."

"The entire Blood Cult, not even a guard dog was left alive."

"I, this Imperial Preceptor, am a pillar of the Great Zhou; these are all matters within my duty!"

Boom!

These nonchalant words from Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan fell into Jiang Luohai's ears, causing his heart to shake violently!

The Blood Cult was annihilated?!

How is this possible!

Jiang Luohai's breathing instantly became heavy, and the shock in his eyes could not be suppressed at all.

As the anchor of Great Zhou, no one knew better than him what the two words "Xue Yin" represented in terms of despair and terror within the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

That was the greatest scourge of Great Zhou in a hundred years, the number one mortal enemy that even the late Emperor couldn't sleep at night when mentioning!

Xue Yin himself was an out-and-out "Innate Divine Ability" awakener!

His Innate Divine Ability to manipulate blood and transform into a sea of blood was bizarre and unpredictable.

Coupled with his heaven-defying Rank 6 late-stage cultivation, and his ruthless and arrogant nature, countless imperial retainers had already died at his hands.

The Great Zhou imperial court had gathered armies several times to encircle and suppress the Blood Cult headquarters, but all were counter-killed by the monstrous sea of blood transformed by Xue Yin; the armies were completely wiped out, and not even a complete corpse could be recovered.

Such a peerless demon who dominated a region and terrified gods and ghosts alike.

Was actually "casually" wiped out by this weirdo in a leather jacket in front of him?

Jiang Luohai swallowed a mouthful of dry saliva, forcibly steadying his mind, and locked his gaze once again onto Xue Yin.

Upon this look, he finally noticed something wrong.

The Xue Yin before him, although his appearance remained that pale and effeminate look.

Yet, his entire being exuded a nauseating sense of deathly stillness.

He was slightly hunched over, his hands hanging weakly at his sides, and those eyes that should have revealed scarlet murderous intent were now hollow and unfocused, the whites of his eyes covered in a turbid, deathly gray.

Saliva even hung uncontrollably from the corner of his mouth, just like a walking corpse without a soul!

What made one's heart run even colder was.

Under Xue Yin's pale Skin, there were actually wisps of eerie, ink-green black energy swimming through his blood vessels.

The fluctuation of this black energy was exactly the same as the demonic energy Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan had erupted with earlier!

A thunderbolt flashed through Jiang Luohai's mind, and his scalp went numb.

"You... you actually stripped away his consciousness and refined him alive into a puppet for you to command?"

The opponent's Supernatural Ability was not simply slaughter.

It was a supreme demonic art that could forcibly enslave and erase the soul of even a Rank 6 late-stage Innate Divine Ability powerhouse!

"Good eye."

"But realizing it only now is too late."

Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan let out a cold snort, completely losing interest in idle chatter.

He raised his hand, his fingertips wreathed in a mass of leaping ink-green demonic energy, and pointed forward casually:

"Tear them apart for me."

"Roar!"

The instant he received the command.

The walking corpse-like Xue Yin suddenly erupted from his throat with a bestial roar unlike that of a human!

The bluestone slab beneath his feet exploded into powder with a "bang."

Xue Yin's pale body instantly melted in mid-air, transforming into a scarlet waterfall of blood several zhang wide, surging toward Jiang Luohai and the remaining two Longwu Secret Guards with the force of an overturned mountain and drained sea!

"Protect the Old Ancestor!"

The two Rank 6 mid-stage Longwu Secret Guards' eyes split with rage, simultaneously letting out a heaven-shaking roar.

They did not retreat, blocking in front of Jiang Luohai from the left and right, their entire bodies' blood energy burning to the limit.

Two heavy horse-chopping sabers, as wide as door planks, were drawn simultaneously, carrying terrifying sword qi capable of splitting mountains, slashing fiercely toward the oncoming waterfall of blood!

"Bang!!!"

The muffled sound of impact caused the entire Imperial Study to shake violently; the dome of the main hall could no longer support itself and collapsed with a roar, with countless broken tiles and roof beams crashing down.

The Longwu Secret Guards' heavy sabers did indeed sever the waterfall of blood.

But, blood is like water—cutting it with a blade only makes it flow more!

The severed scarlet blood only paused for half a second in mid-air, then like living mercury, instantly climbed along the blades of the two heavy sabers, wildly winding up the arms of the two Secret Guards!

"Sss, sss, sss—"

A tooth-aching corrosive sound suddenly rang out.

That dark gold dragon-scale armor, which even Rank 5 demonic beasts couldn't bite through, was rapidly melted through like thin paper after coming into contact with this poisonous blood infused with ink-green demonic energy!

"Ah!!!"

The two battle-hardened, iron-blooded Secret Guards let out shrill, miserable screams.

They didn't even have time to swing their sabers a second time before they were tightly wrapped all over their bodies by the omnipresent blood.

Immediately after, Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan's figure appeared above the blood like a ghost.

A cruel, ferocious grin hung on his face, his hands transforming into two pitch-black demonic claws, which he mercilessly slammed onto the helmets of the two Secret Guards!

"Boom!"

Violent demonic energy instantly poured into their crowns, directly sealing their qi seas and consciousness.

The two top-tier Rank 6 mid-stage powerhouses didn't even last five rounds before their knees went weak, and they heavily knelt on the ground, completely suppressed and captured!

Everything happened too fast, so fast that Jiang Luohai didn't even have time to make a move to rescue them.

Looking at the unconscious Longwu Secret Guards on the ground, and then at the approaching Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan and the Xue Yin who had re-formed into a human shape.

Jiang Luohai's hands clenched tightly, his fingernails digging deep into his palms, blood dripping onto the ground.

He couldn't win.

There was absolutely no chance of winning!

The opponent was at the Rank 6 peak, plus a Rank 6 late-stage puppet.

And their methods were sinister and bizarre; touching them meant death!

The Great Zhou Dynasty, today, was completely finished!

"I cannot die here... The spark of Great Zhou cannot be extinguished; I must go find The Fourth Princess!"