Chapter 308: Chapter 130: Single-handedly Slaughtering Seven Stars Castle, Slaying Three Divine Power Realm Experts

Chu Fan’s expression was blank. He lifted his foot and brought it down.

"SPLAT!"

It burst like a watermelon, splattering the two black-robed men beside him with red and white matter.

The two men froze for a moment before being consumed by boundless terror. Ignoring their injuries, they struggled to kowtow and beg for mercy.

Chu Fan repeated his earlier question.

As expected, these two knew more. They added many details that corroborated the white-robed man’s testimony, piecing together a clearer picture.

Chu Fan nodded in satisfaction.

Just as a glimmer of hope, of surviving this ordeal, rose in their eyes, a blade flashed!

The Thunder Blade carved an arc, slicing across their necks.

Clutching their gushing throats, they stared at Chu Fan in disbelief before collapsing lifelessly.

Meanwhile, Cyan Snake Xiaobai had already dealt with the three white-robed men. She had also opened the dungeons of Seven Stars Castle, leading out over a hundred disciples of the Seven Stars Gang!

When the disciples saw the corpses of the Moon Worship Cultists on the ground, they were all stunned.

After being imprisoned in the dungeons, they had long since fallen into despair, believing that sooner or later they would be sent to Dragon Ridge Mountain for a Blood Sacrifice.

They never expected to escape with their lives!

A few of them snapped back to their senses, roared in fury, and snatched up scimitars from the ground to hack wildly at the corpses!

The rest stared at the man in the Evil Ghost Mask, their faces filled with a mixture of awe and ecstatic joy.

Chu Fan gave a slight wave of his hand.

Cyan Snake said, "The Seven Stars Gang has already disbanded. Although Gang Leader Cao Feng and the others killed Lin Luoxue and her ilk, they have now fled to Qing Province."

"You all... should run. Run as far as you can!"

The area fell silent for a moment.

The next moment, many of them dropped to their knees and kowtowed three times to Chu Fan, their heads thudding loudly against the ground!

Then, each grabbing a weapon, the crowd surged out of Seven Stars Castle and scattered in all directions, fleeing for their lives!

Cyan Snake, meanwhile, expertly stripped the corpses on the ground of anything valuable.

At this point, Zhao Tianxing, who had received the signal, also arrived at the castle. Seeing the Asura Scene, he couldn’t help but suck in a sharp breath, even though he had been mentally prepared.

The three of them tacitly cleaned up the battlefield, searching every corpse. Finally, led by a few Seven Stars Gang disciples, they found Seven Stars Castle’s treasury and plundered it completely.

Each carrying two bulging sacks, the trio used the cover of night to scale the city walls and quietly return to the Seven Stars Gang’s headquarters in Cyan Yang Ancient City.

Back at their relatively safe base, the three of them had no time to count their rich spoils. They immediately gathered, their expressions grave, to discuss their next move.

The information they had gotten from the captives weighed on them like a mountain, filling them with a sudden sense of urgency.

The strongest expert from the Moon Worship Sect in Cyan Yang County was a Divine Sacrifice Envoy named Lingkong Jade.

Her cultivation was unfathomably deep, enough to rival the Demon Suppression Envoy, Yue Mankong.

Right now, Lingkong Jade was at Dragon Ridge Mountain with several Divine Communication Priest-level experts, presiding over the Nine Nether Spirit Locking Array—simultaneously suppressing Yue Mankong’s true body and searching for the "key."

Within Cyan Yang Ancient City, the Moon Worship Sect’s strongest expert at present was Lingkong Jade’s disciple, Ghost Moon, whose cultivation had reached the Third Heaven of the Divine Power Realm.

However, Ghost Moon was not currently in the city. He had already led a group of experts to intercept reinforcements from the Demon Suppression Bureau.

The Cyan Yang County Magistrate, Zhang Yunpeng, was indeed a pawn planted by the Moon Worship Sect.

His true cultivation was at the Second Heaven of the Divine Power Realm, but he had always kept it hidden, leading all the factions in Cyan Yang Ancient City to mistakenly believe he was only at the peak of the Fifth Heaven of the Spirit Awakening Realm.

In terms of strength, he was inferior to Ghost Moon, yet his status within the Moon Worship Sect was higher than that of Ghost Moon, who was at the Third Heaven of the Divine Power Realm.

This disparity made Ghost Moon utterly resentful of him and often feign compliance while acting in defiance.

Zhang Yunpeng had warned Ghost Moon not to stir up more trouble by provoking the Blood Saber Sect and the Seven Stars Gang.

But Ghost Moon’s hatred for these two sects ran bone-deep. Before leaving the city to intercept the reinforcements, he had secretly ordered his subordinates to annihilate the Blood Saber Sect and the Seven Stars Gang.

Aside from the high-level combatants at Dragon Ridge Mountain, the strongest experts the Moon Worship Sect had left in the vicinity of Cyan Yang Ancient City were the three black-robed men Chu Fan had just slain at Seven Stars Castle.

It was just as Cyan Snake and Chu Fan had previously suspected.

Zhang Yunpeng was preparing to implement a second plan in Cyan Yang Ancient City.

That plan was to activate a Nine Nether Spirit Locking Array, using all the citizens of the North City to perform a Blood Sacrifice and a Soul Sacrifice.

Emulating the method used at Dragon Ridge Mountain, they would use the power of a massive number of living souls to forcefully strike and locate the ancient array concealing the "key."

However, this Grand Array required numerous experts to maintain it, and several Divine Power Realm cultivators to control its core—the Resentful Spirit!

Unfortunately, the "Ghost-faced Man" had previously killed two Divine Power Realm experts at the Seven Stars Gang’s headquarters and eliminated many at the Spirit Awakening Realm, disrupting Zhang Yunpeng’s deployment.

The cautious Zhang Yunpeng thus decided to halt the operation, waiting for the Moon Worship Sect experts from Qing Province to arrive before proceeding with the "second plan."

To ensure the plan’s success, Zhang Yunpeng ordered Ghost Moon to intercept the people from the Demon Suppression Bureau, while also using the rebel "Heaven-Flipping Saber" to set up a ploy to lure the tiger from the mountain, drawing away the garrison stationed outside the city so they could not return to provide aid in the short term.

The three Moon Worship Sect experts coming from Qing Province were all at the Third Heaven of the Divine Power Realm, comparable in strength to Ghost Moon, and were expected to arrive in three to four days.

As soon as they arrived, Zhang Yunpeng would immediately activate the Grand Array in the North City.

At that time, in addition to the Moon Worship Sect experts hidden in the County Magistrate’s Office, a dozen or so people were lying in wait in two pre-selected ruins in the North City. They would all mobilize to take charge of activating and maintaining the array.

Among that dozen or so people in the ruins, only three were in the late stage of the Spirit Awakening Realm. The rest were mostly in the early stage, and there were even ordinary cultists who had not yet broken through the five gates of Foundation Establishment.

Their task, once the Grand Array was activated, would be to slaughter the people of the North City and assist the Resentful Spirit in completing the Blood Sacrifice.

Hearing this, the Paperman Yue Mankong was unable to suppress the rage in his heart and couldn’t help but curse, "Those three idiots, Ding Jian and his men! To think they were intercepted by Ghost Moon! They’ve completely disgraced me!"

Chu Fan remained silent.

Back at Seven Stars Castle, hearing only the first half of the information had made him consider killing the County Magistrate, Zhang Yunpeng.

But after hearing the second half, he had no choice but to temporarily suppress that idea.

The Resentful Spirit that Lin Luoxue and her group had once refined was now in Zhang Yunpeng’s hands!

Killing Zhang Yunpeng would be easy, but killing the Resentful Spirit would be difficult!

The might of that Resentful Spirit was far beyond what a cultivator at the Third Heaven of the Divine Power Realm could compare to.

Chu Fan couldn’t help but feel a headache coming on.

Even against an expert at the Third Heaven of the Divine Power Realm, he now had the strength to put up a fight.

But that Resentful Spirit...

Recalling the time in the pit when his gaze had pierced through the ground to "see" the Resentful Spirit, Chu Fan still felt a tremor in his heart.

That thing was by no means something he could match at his current level.

The small segment of Finger Bone he carried held a wisp of the Resentful Spirit’s avatar.

The power of that wisp of an avatar alone was enough to crush an ordinary Divine Power Realm expert!

Fortunately, the Resentful Shadow Avatar in the Finger Bone had been occupied by the little girl, Nuannuan, so it held no ill will toward Chu Fan.

Later, this Finger Bone was also sealed by Yue Mankong’s Paperman avatar.

If the Resentful Spirit’s true body were to appear in Cyan Yang Ancient City...

Chu Fan thought to himself, ’At that point, it probably won’t just be the North City that’s used for the Blood Sacrifice. I’m afraid the entire Cyan Yang Ancient City will be unable to escape this calamity!’

"How do we deal with the Resentful Spirit?"

Chu Fan looked at the Paperman.