Where does that wicked woman get her conscience?

Chapter 213 Blood Crystal

"Report, the reward?"

Old Mu was stunned for a few moments, but quickly recovered and stared straight at Guan Xun.

That girl is incredibly cunning and can't stand being taken advantage of. Back in Yanhuang Manor, she even stole his divine beast flame.

He didn't tell him a single truth and deceived him for quite some time.

He was furious at that time and vowed that if he ever saw that girl again, he would teach her a lesson.

Unfortunately, the cultivation manual she gave him back then was particularly peculiar and especially suitable for him to cultivate. It allowed him to transform into a toad and, after being captured here, it unexpectedly saved him.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to stay here for so long, and that debt would have been wiped clean.

After thinking it over, Old Mu stiffly twisted his neck and looked around. One thing at a time, he had asked for help, so he should indeed be rewarded handsomely.

"What do you want? If you want something like the flames of a divine beast, I don't have any more."

Guan Xun shook his head, reached out and stroked the huge iron chain, and slowly said, "I need something that can suppress the extreme heat."

"Is it the fire of the divine beast?" Old Mu guessed a thing or two and couldn't help but ask.

Guan Xun did not elaborate: "Is there any?"

This place originally belonged to the mole clan, and besides, this old man had been imprisoned here for so long, he should know some secrets about the burial grounds.

Old Mu pondered for a moment, his withered hand clenching tightly, causing the iron chain to rattle and creak. With a deep groan, as if he were holding something back, he gently opened his palm, revealing a semi-transparent crystal with faint blood-like patterns.

The crystal was surrounded by a chilling aura, its blood-red color flickering and sharp as a weapon.

"What is this?" Guan Xun asked in surprise. She could sense a very pure and powerful icy force inside.

"This is called a blood crystal."

This thing seemed to have greatly depleted Old Master Mu's energy and spirit; he was speaking weakly and listlessly at this moment.

"Blood crystal?"

"Yes, the cold air from the bottom of the spring is constantly eroding my body through the iron chains. If I don't resist, I won't last more than a few months. Therefore, I can only expend my efforts to condense them together to reduce their rapid spread in my body and buy some time for my life."

"I see." Guan Xun understood. This so-called blood crystal was far more concentrated than the cold air of the entire Burial Bone Yellow Spring.

She reached out and took the blood-red crystal floating in front of her. As soon as she touched the crystal, she felt a terrifying, chilling power emanating from her palm.

The crystal-clear ice layer froze her entire arm with a crackling sound.

Guan Xun instantly felt a chill run through his heart, the burning sensation was violently dispelled, and the coolness went straight to his head. Even his breath was faintly filled with cold air, and his entire mind became incredibly clear in an instant.

Not only that, she could also feel the endless flow of icy power within, as if it had no end, and she could absorb it without limit.

"What an overbearing thing!"

This scene filled him with immense joy. With a tremor of his arm, he shattered the ice layers, then gripped the blood crystal tightly and stored it in his storage ring before looking at Elder Mu: "Is it enough to just destroy these few iron chains?"

"These are the things my clan uses to imprison villains. They're just ordinary iron chains. What truly traps me is the stone slab talisman embedded where the end of the chains connects to the stone wall. If I smash it, I can break free on my own."

"Oh?" Guan Xun raised an eyebrow, moved swiftly, and immediately darted to the end of one of the iron chains. Sure enough, he saw a palm-sized blood-red stone talisman deeply embedded in the dark stone.

She immediately threw a punch.

"boom!!!"

A huge wave of water was blasted out by her fist, but the stone slab talisman only flickered and was not shattered.

"This thing is incredibly sturdy?"

"This is made of special materials and cannot be destroyed by ordinary spiritual power. However, it is forged from flames. Girl, you can try to see if the fire of a divine beast can break it." Seeing the commotion Guan Xun made, Elder Mu also said in a hoarse voice.

Without hesitation, Guan Xun unleashed a powerful strike with his Dark Flame Hammer!

"Boom! Boom! Bang!"

The stone talisman was indeed smashed open, shattering the iron chains along with it.

"It's a success! It's a success!" Old Mu suddenly looked up, his eyes filled with ecstatic joy...

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at the same time--

Outside the burial ground, warm sunlight streamed over the high mountain peaks and into the ten-mile-long canyon, making the blood-stained walls and ground even more vibrant.

Corpses littered the fields, a scene of unparalleled horror.

"Brother Gui..." Zhao Wuji said hoarsely, enduring the pain of having his right eye blinded.

"Big brother, I can still hold on." Zhao Gui was covered in wounds, back to back, his hair, which had long been tied up, was now hanging loosely at the back of his neck.

His arm was hanging heavily at his side, bleeding profusely and the bone was exposed; it was clearly broken.

Looking around, there were very few people left standing. The fighting had resulted in heavy losses overnight. Seeing the puppets that had fallen to the ground, missing limbs, lame, or even headless, yet still able to stand up unsteadily, the two men were filled with despair.

They will surely perish here, whether they fight or not, the outcome will be the same, but for the sake of their fallen brothers and the dignity of a spiritual master, they will never fall.

The leader stood with his hands behind his back on the boulder, his slightly open eyes revealing a bloodthirsty excitement. He loved watching people struggle in their death throes, being tortured to death...

"Um?!"

Suddenly, his eyes widened in shock as he turned and stared at the entrance to the tribe.

"What happened? How could the seal be broken?! Impossible, this can't be!"

That was their clan's highest secret seal, and no one except members of the clan could possibly break it.

Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, his expression changed drastically!

Could it be that guy?

The thought had barely crossed his mind when, without warning, the mountain behind them exploded open, stunning everyone present.

A dark figure, shrouded in a thin wisp of lightning, appeared out of thin air and hovered high in the sky. His eyes were bloodshot, and he roared furiously, "Mu Li! Today I will tear you to pieces and feed you to the python!"

Gazing at the dark figure in the sky, the leader trembled instantly. After disbelief, a venomous look flashed in his eyes as he gritted his teeth and said, "It's you, it really is you. I didn't expect... you're still alive, and you've managed to hold on for so long in the Underworld."

After saying that, his gaze swept over the man with a chilling intensity, and he let out a strange laugh: "However, you're so weak now that you probably can't even withstand one of my attacks. You overconfident fool, as brothers, I'll give you a quick death..."

Upon hearing this, Old Man Mu's skeletal face tightened, and he spat out a golden token. He then gripped the token tightly and waved it with his hand!

All the puppets present stopped attacking and instead twisted their bodies, heading one after another towards their leader.

Upon seeing this, the leader was horrified: "You! The Puppet Commander was indeed on you! You cunning fellow, you actually risked your cultivation to hide it inside your body!!! I knew I couldn't find it!"

The Puppet Commander can mobilize all the puppets in the clan, including the ultimate puppets of the guard team, whose strength far surpasses that of ordinary puppets.

When the clan elder couldn't bear to see Old Mu being cruelly tortured, she said that the command token was with her. So he pretended to "release" Old Mu and then asked the clan elder to hand over the command token.

I never expected that old woman to be a liar! The so-called "command" wasn't on her at all!

Old Master Mu has already been buried in the Yellow Springs and is undoubtedly dead. Therefore, over the years he has been pressing the clan elder for the whereabouts of the chief order, but he has been unable to get any information out of her.

So that's how it is. Now we've finally found the whereabouts of the Commander, but unfortunately it's not in his possession, and he didn't have time to take it back...

Seeing the dozens of terrifyingly powerful clan guard puppets that suddenly appeared, the leader fell into deep despair...

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