Chapter 85 There is no Lin Wanhong in the world anymore

Chapter 85: No More Lin Wan Hong in This World

On the Yuzhou River, the exquisite pleasure boat drifted slowly with the evening breeze.

Inside the Red Pavilion pleasure boat.

Li Yue sat on a chair, her delicate features and autumn-water-like eyes captivating, her slender jade hands holding a teacup.

“Thump-thump-thump.”

At this moment, footsteps came from beyond the curtain.

Then the door curtain was lifted, and a simple old woman appeared before Li Yue.

“The Seal of the Earth Flower Realm will break the day after tomorrow,” the old woman said in a deep voice.

Li Yue nodded and then asked, “Was that Sword Intent just now from the Town Evil Sword?”

Sword Intent and Sword Momentum are different. Momentum gives a sense of oppression; though intangible, it can still convey a tangible feeling of pressure. But Intent is different.

Intent is like an exquisite painting, containing endless profound mysteries within. The true meaning within it is the profound secret for people to comprehend and achieve Epiphany of its inherent Momentum.

The old woman nodded, “If my guess is correct, it should be that sword. The Town Evil Sword was refined by the Great Zhou Emperor and then used to suppress the Seal. This sword is a peerless famous sword; the Tianji Pavilion ranks it third on the Famous Sword List.”

“This sword is also known as the Great Zhou Cloud Dragon, Ye Tai’a, and the Demonic Sword, but most people only know it as the Town Evil Sword.”

Li Yue chuckled softly, saying, “It seems this sword has a grand Origin.”

“More than grand? It’s terrifyingly grand.”

The old woman shook her head, her tone grave, “Legend has it that this sword was cursed by the heavens. Anyone who tries to subdue it will suffer heavenly retribution. Three Great Zhou Emperors have died because of this sword, and to this day, it has not acknowledged a master.”

“The Sword Intent it just released indicates that the Seal is about to break.”

Li Yue was silent for a moment, then said, “Liu Qingshan, Li Fuzhou, and those other experts?”

“Currently, these two are known. It’s uncertain whether the Buddhist monks, Fa Zhi and Fa Wu, will intervene, but this old woman speculates that other experts are lying in wait.”

The old woman frowned, “Originally, we thought we could directly obtain this wisp of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi once the Seal broke. It seems it was all a delusion. No wonder the Tianji Pavilion sold such crucial intelligence so cheaply. It turns out the Demonic Cult and Liu Qingshan of the Cao Gang had already noticed the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi beneath the Seal.”

The Wind and Rain Pavilion learned about the Spiritual Qi beneath the Seal by paying a high price to the Tianji Pavilion. This was one of Li Yue’s reasons for lying low in Yu Prefecture City, and another was to find the lost bodhi pearl.

But now it seems this intelligence bought from the Tianji Pavilion was not top secret.

Li Yue said faintly, “As long as the intelligence is true, no matter who comes, I am determined to obtain this Spiritual Qi.”

Upon hearing this, the old woman’s brow furrowed slightly, “You must understand, Cultivating the Blood Spirit Art means burning your vital essence. Your cultivation has already reached the Earth Flower Realm, which means you don’t have much time left. If you continue to activate the Blood Spirit during the struggle, you won’t last two years.”

In the vast Jianghu, there are tens of thousands of martial arts Mind-Cultivation Techniques, including some strange and mysterious ones. The Blood Spirit Art is one of them.

What truly made the Blood Spirit Art famous was in the Nine Kingdoms several centuries ago. At that time, various states were at war, and the Jianghu was naturally chaotic. Top experts from various Jianghu factions colluded with different states, engaging in unprecedented slaughter for a thousand years. Various Gangs and Sects emerged like mushrooms after rain. In the Jianghu of the Eastern You Kingdom, a School called the Blood Spirit Sect appeared.

Initially, it was just an inconspicuous small School, extremely unremarkable in the vast Jianghu, so much so that even the You Kingdom itself knew little about this School. But over the next three years, this Blood Spirit Sect began to rise and grow at an astonishing speed, shocking everyone in the world.

At that time, the Sect Leader of the Blood Spirit Sect, known as the Blood Spirit Master, relied on his formidable strength to continuously expand his territory and gather influence, sweeping across the Jianghu of the You Kingdom. All the top experts in the You Kingdom’s Jianghu were defeated by him.

In just two years, it became the top School in the You Kingdom at that time, and its momentum was fierce, even spreading to other states. Its development speed left everyone dumbfounded.

Besides the Blood Spirit Master’s powerful strength, the Elders and Disciples within the School were also exceptionally skilled. Even ordinary Disciples mostly had cultivation in the Middle Three Ranks, with hardly any in the Lower Three Ranks.

For a time, people flocked to the Blood Spirit Sect to become Disciples, and even Geniuses from other states traveled to the You Kingdom to join the Blood Spirit Sect and learn its Mind-Cultivation Technique.

The Blood Spirit Sect, for a time, became the most eye-catching existence in the world.

Especially attracting the attention of the overlords of the Nine Kingdoms Jianghu at that time, Beyond the Heavens and Zhenyi Sect, among many other major Schools.

A typical School needs hundreds of years to establish itself in the vast Jianghu, but the Blood Spirit Sect achieved it in just three years. How could this not attract the attention and scrutiny of others?

If it continued to develop at such a speed, wouldn't the Jianghu of the Nine Kingdoms be unified by the Blood Spirit Sect?

At that time, Zhenyi Sect, Wusheng Sect, and many other forces united. Even Beyond the Heavens and Zhenyi Sect temporarily set aside their grievances to uncover the secret of the Blood Spirit Sect.

Numerous experts directly stormed the Blood Spirit Sect, directly questioning the Blood Spirit Master about the secret of the Blood Spirit Art. Some even demanded he hand over the Blood Spirit Art, but the Blood Spirit Master naturally would not reveal such an important secret.

That very night, countless experts flooded into the You Kingdom. That night, the Blood Spirit Sect’s School was filled with slaughter, blood flowing like a river.

The Blood Spirit Sect’s Sect Master, the Blood Spirit Master, died, and many experts of the Blood Spirit Sect all perished.

It wasn’t until the Blood Spirit Sect was completely annihilated, with only a few Core Disciples barely surviving, that one Core Disciple, to save his life, revealed the reason for the Blood Spirit Sect’s rapid development.

This was not far from everyone’s guess: the Blood Spirit Sect was able to Cultivate so many experts in a short time precisely because of the Blood Spirit Art.

The Blood Spirit Art is a Xuanwu-level Mind-Cultivation Technique, but its Cultivation speed is faster than any other martial arts Mind-Cultivation Technique in the world, because the Blood Spirit Art can nurture a Blood Spirit in the Dantian.

This Blood Spirit can absorb human vital essence, and then the Blood Spirit nourishes the body in return, which can multiply one’s cultivation in a short time.

Essence originates from Innate essence and is formed by Acquired water and grain. The formation of essence also relies on the Qi within the body, hence the saying “essence and blood share the same Origin.”

Large consumption of vital essence requires a lot of time, herbs, and food for replenishment, and it greatly depletes one’s Lifespan.

And the more vital essence the Blood Spirit absorbs, the more it nourishes the body in return, thus the faster the Cultivation speed.

The experts of the Blood Spirit Sect Cultivated quickly by continuously burning their vital essence to nourish the Blood Spirit within their bodies.

This not only required a large amount of resources but also consumed a significant amount of Lifespan.

Even if the many experts had not stormed the Blood Spirit Sect at that time, the Blood Spirit Master would not have had many years left to live.

After the Blood Spirit Sect was annihilated, the Blood Spirit Art was also burned by the Sect Leader of the Wusheng Sect at that time, to prevent such a harmful School from reappearing in the Jianghu. The famous Blood Spirit Art thus completely disappeared from the Jianghu.

In fact, at a moment when no one was paying attention, the Sect Leader of the Wusheng Sect did not burn the Blood Spirit Art but used a trick of substitution, secretly hiding the Blood Spirit Art. This allowed the famous Blood Spirit Art to be passed down to later generations.

The Sect Leader of the Wusheng Sect was a top expert, highly respected in the Jianghu, a veteran of the Jianghu. Therefore, none of the many experts present had ever suspected him.

And what Li Yue Cultivated was this Blood Spirit Art.

“To live is but a drop in the ocean; to die is but to turn into dust.”

Li Yue’s expression was indifferent, with a hint of casualness, elegance, and unruliness in her eyes, “Do you think someone like me still cares about life and death?”

“Wan Hong, it seems now your heart holds only hatred,” the old woman sighed.

Sometimes it’s strange; in this world, when you have nothing left to live for, what keeps you going turns out to be your enemy.

“Wan Hong is already dead, Granny, please don’t mention her again.”

Li Yue stood up, her jade hand slowly pulling aside the wooden curtain, and chuckled, “I wonder which handsome Young Master has arrived. Finding someone to relieve boredom would be good.”

With that, she carefully tidied her appearance and walked out with graceful steps.