252: Chapter 31 Killing Embryo (6k) 252: Chapter 31 Killing Embryo (6k) Snow Mountain, as cold winds cut like knives, howled as they swept by.
Mingled within the wind was a dull, whining neigh.
A snow-white carriage, cleaving through the air, stopped at the foot of a mountain.
This carriage, drawn by eight majestic dragon-horses…
Array patterns dazzled onlookers, and a luminous, golden glow surrounded the canopy.
“Prince Jiu.”
As the carriage halted, several shadows materialized in the midst of the wind and snow, and they immediately knelt around the carriage.
One of those shadows, speaking with respectful tone, said, “Starting from the outskirts of ‘Chi Ling City’, Ao Ying’s aura has been growing fainter, the last trace ended here.”
There was a tall, young figure sitting in the carriage.
Prince Jiu spoke softly, “No reaction from Long Yuan?”
The shadow hesitated, slowly responding, “It’s unclear what trickery is at play, but Long Yuan has completely lost its response…
I chased to this place but lost track, and I had no choice but to disperse all the cultivators under my command.”
“Moving further south lies Li Lan Mountain, Youyuan Mountain.”
Prince Jiu stated calmly, “This miscreant must have fled to the realm of disorder, thinking to use the formation of the Array Master of the Human Race to escape the search of Long Yuan.”
“Li Lan Mountain?”
The shadow, startled, asked, “My lord, do we continue the pursuit?”
“…
Of course.”
The man’s voice in the carriage was exceptionally chilly, even containing a hint of murderous intent, “To think she can steal my treasure in ‘Chi Ling City’ and expect to live?
Even if she runs to Great Chu Imperial City, I will drag her back, skin her alive, extract her sinews, and light up the skies with her demon heart!”
These chilling words reverberated through the whipping wind and snow.
The several shadows shuddered.
They knew that when Prince Jiu gave his word, he followed through with concrete actions!
If he said he would skin and dismember, he would definitely do so!
“Chi Wu.”
Despite the resolve in his words, the carriage did not depart immediately.
Prince Jiu, sitting under the canopy, pondered for a moment: “How many cultivators did you dispatch this time?”
The shadow, half-kneeling on the snowy ground, replied solemnly: “My lord, I dispatched a total of fourteen Demon Cultivators…
They each went in different directions.”
“No need to search other directions.”
Prince Jiu, expressionless, declared, “With Long Yuan losing its sense, there’s only one possibility…
Ao Ying has fled to the area covered by the Array Patterns of the Human Race.
Hand me their ‘demon hearts’, and I will personally use a Forbidden Technique to guide them.”
Chi Wu, upon hearing this, lifted his hands and offered a Scarlet Jade Token.
Prince Jiu, seated in the carriage, raised his palm.
The Scarlet Jade Token slowly ascended, landing in his hand.
With a hum.
Suddenly, the sound of drums emerged from the snowy mountain, as this jade token contained a Grotto Heaven, and under its tremors, fourteen bleeding hearts appeared before Prince Jiu.
The reason Chi Ling City could have Demon Cultivators die for their cause willingly,
was because before cultivating “Death Soldiers,” they would embed talismans within their demon hearts.
Thereafter.
No matter how the Death Soldiers cultivated and grew,
by activating the talisman and taking control of the main array patterns commanding token, they could hold this ‘demon heart’ in their palm.
Prince Jiu watched the fourteen lively throbbing demon hearts.
He calmly commanded, “Everyone, head towards the direction of Li Lan Mountain.”
All fourteen demon hearts trembled simultaneously.
The next moment.
The vertical line between the brows of the man atop the dragon carriage slowly split open, and amidst the wind and snow, a piercing, high-pitched phoenix cry sounded.
The skies above Snow Mountain clouded over heavily, with vague flashes of scarlet light descending.
Several Death Soldiers including Chi Wu immediately knelt, burying their heads into the ground, not daring to look directly at the majestic figure upon the carriage.
Prince Jiu’s brow line split open slightly.
Scarlet firelight fell from the dome of the sky, seemingly illuminating the heavens and the earth, focusing into the carriage.
He lifted another palm.
A shimmering red scale appeared in the center of his palm, burning with an eternal flame.
This object…
was indeed Long Yuan.
A third vertical pupil appeared between the earth and sky, its gaze falling upon Long Yuan.
Prince Jiu looked up and exhaled a sea of fire, a fierce blaze that devoured the wind and snow, ultimately casting a very obscure silhouette.
A woman in tattered clothes was desperately running, surrounded by vast whiteness of wind and snow.
“Fleeing quite fast, she has already crossed the boundary of the Li Lan Mountain Range…”
“Thinking of escaping to the Northern Border Great Wall?”
In Prince Jiu’s eyes emerged a cold intent to kill.
He retracted his gaze, the split in his brow gradually closing, the light receding, and the burning breath of Long Yuan also withered away.
“All Death Soldiers, follow my command, head south of Li Lan Mountain, Resentful Ghost Ridge!”
A stroke of Divine Thought.
Transmitted the positioning he had just seen directly into the fourteen demon hearts.
“At any cost, Ao Ying must be captured.”
He took a deep breath and settled back into the carriage.
“You go ahead, I…
will be right behind!”
…
…
“Resentful Ghost Ridge is ahead.”
Xie Xuanyi walked silently through the wind and snow.
The crash site of Jiageng was quite some distance from Li Lan Mountain, he moved forward using Qi Control, scanning the snow-covered mountain within a fifty feet radius with Divine Thought, looking for the “Sword Qi marks” he had left years ago.
During the Northern Hunt.
Although Xie Xuanyi found the Divine Fruit within a belly of a snow-covered mountain,
it was an overlay of several Secret Realms.
Multiple portals led to the nurturing grounds of the “Divine Fruit”…
These realm portals were not like trees that once rooted, do not move.
Natural realms borne from the world do not have any specific patterns.
The term “portals” is just a nominal designation by cultivators of the Human Race for ease of understanding.
Actually.
These are just space rifts containing the principles of the Daoist Skill of void, which might dissipate over time or may increase as time progresses.