The Game with Fairies

“It’s said that the followers of the Blood Lotus Sect can be resurrected through the Four Directions Cauldron after death.”

“So, having been established for so many years, the followers of the Blood Lotus Sect should be increasing, right? Why were there only about a hundred thousand people before the uprising?”

Under the city walls shrouded in ghostly fog, Li Muyang curiously controlled the Emerald Blade Mantis to write: “What happened to the previous followers of the Blood Lotus Sect? And the previous Helmsmen and leaders?”

“After taking the blood oath, they should have become immortal, right? Why haven’t I seen them?”

Li Muyang was very curious about this.

Because so far, no one in the Blood Lotus Sect had ever discussed the details of this miraculous resurrection with him.

Now, the only one who could answer his question was the young girl in front of him.

But he saw Shen Miao, dressed in a plain white robe on the city wall, tilt her head in surprise after seeing Li Muyang’s question.

“Eh? Didn’t I tell you before?”

The girl murmured to herself, then without hesitation, she revealed the secret to Li Muyang.

“The Blood Lotus Sect obtained the Four Directions Cauldron a long time ago, but it had always been dormant.”

“The power of the Four Directions Cauldron could only be used after my father became the leader.”

“He sacrificed my blood to the Four Directions Cauldron, and with my soul leading in the Four Directions Cauldron, replacing the dormant spirit within, it then had the power to resurrect the dead.”

After explaining, Shen Miao saw the giant mantis raise its blade arm again to write something.

She quickly spoke up: “You want to ask where my father went… right?”

Communicating by writing on the ground with the giant mantis was too troublesome, so Shen Miao kindly saved Li Muyang the effort.

The giant mantis then retracted its blade arm and nodded.

Shen Miao cheerfully said, “My father’s soul has dissipated, so you won’t see him.”

Seeing Li Muyang seemingly puzzled, Shen Miao explained.

“The resurrection power of the Four Directions Cauldron is not without a cost.”

“Besides consuming spiritual power to reshape the body, each resurrection also consumes the soul power of the resurrected… that is, their lifespan.”

“And the higher the cultivation of the person, the more lifespan is consumed for resurrection.”

“A common person resurrected once will lose half a year of lifespan.”

“A Qi Refining Realm practitioner resurrected once will lose one year of lifespan.”

“Foundation Establishment Realm is three years, Golden Core Realm is ten years, Cave Profound Realm is thirty years, and Divine Travel Realm is seventy years.”

“And for the Purple Mansion Realm, it’s the most severe. One resurrection in the Purple Mansion Realm requires two hundred years of lifespan.”

Shen Miao finished speaking and shrugged her shoulders: “My father was resurrected twice, exhausting his lifespan, so his soul scattered.”

The explanation from the white-robed girl left Li Muyang silent.

In this world where the path to immortality was severed, even the Purple Mansion powerhouses at the pinnacle of the cultivation world could only live for a maximum of 500 years. ȓаƝổ𐌱Èꞩ

Like Master Qingye, who lived for over a thousand years, an anomaly, there had only been one case since the end of the dharma era.

It seems that the Four Directions Cauldron, this immortal artifact, couldn’t resurrect indefinitely after all.

But that was logical.

No matter how strong the Four Directions Cauldron was, it was still just an immortal artifact.

If it could allow people to resurrect indefinitely, that would be too overpowered, far exceeding the might an immortal artifact should possess.

However, Shen Miao’s father died due to the exhaustion of his lifespan, which was beyond Li Muyang’s expectations.

He had previously suspected that he might have been secretly overthrown by Fang Yingtian.

Turns out it was a normal transfer of power.

“So your father actually died a natural death, not plotted against by Fang Yingtian?”

Li Muyang controlled the Emerald Blade Mantis to write such words underground.

The girl on the city wall nodded in agreement: “Yeah, although Uncle Fang is a villain, petty, vengeful, and cunning, not to mention a ruthless killer, compared to my father, he’s practically a saint with a bottom line.”

Shen Miao happily discussed her own father.

“My father was a real piece of work, offending people everywhere. Under his control, the Blood Lotus Sect almost fell apart. It was only after Uncle Fang became the sect leader and stabilized the situation that the Blood Lotus Sect didn’t collapse.”

Shen Miao commented: “However, the merit of my father discovering the wonderful uses of the Four Directions Cauldron is enough to rank him among the top leaders in the history of the Blood Lotus Sect.”

“With the Four Directions Cauldron, Uncle Fang was able to develop the Blood Lotus Sect from the brink of disintegration to the formidable force it is today.”

This girl, who had been sacrificed in blood since childhood, was indeed under some kind of evil spell that bound her emotions.

She was always optimistic and cheerful, always innocent and naive.

Even when talking about her scoundrel father, she was happy and bore no resentment.

Li Muyang controlled the Emerald Blade Mantis to nod, indicating understanding.

“I see, I’ll have to be wary of your Uncle Fang in the future.”

Shen Miao could always see Fang Yingtian’s every move. She should be the most authoritative person on his character.

This Blood Lotus Sect leader, Fang Yingtian, indeed didn’t seem very friendly as he appears to be.

After briefly placating Shen Miao with a few words, Li Muyang controlled the Emerald Blade Mantis to turn and leave amidst the girl’s enthusiastic call of “Brother-in-law, come play with me again tomorrow~”.

The Evolution Point of the Emerald Blade Mantis was already at 97%, just 3% away from another evolution.

This number could be reached by hunting two more remnant souls tonight.

Half an hour later, the Emerald Blade Mantis crossed the vast wilderness, carefully avoiding powerful wandering spirits, and finally arrived at a ruined ruin under the guidance of the system arrow.

A pale ghostly figure wandered within the ruins, and as the Emerald Blade Mantis stepped into this territory, the danger value under its health bar rose to 40.

A general danger.

Li Muyang controlled the Emerald Blade Mantis to charge forward…

……

“Banner Master, we’ve caught a madman!”

Inside the Hall of Enforcement, Li Muyang, who was sitting in the courtyard drinking tea, looked up upon hearing the commotion and saw several followers of the Yellow Banner dragging a bloodied man inside.

The lotus robe on the man, with three petals, was the most common rank in the Blood Lotus Sect, a third-rank lotus member, usually in charge of fifty people.

But he was beaten and bloodied, dragged in by the followers of the Hall of Enforcement like a dead dog, looking miserable.

Li Muyang, who had just finished signing official documents and was planning to rest, was slightly surprised to see his subordinates dragging such a person in.

“What crime has this man committed?”

Usually, captured criminals, though resentful, did not dare to resist the disciples of the Hall of Enforcement in public.

The miserable state of this man, beaten to a pulp and bloodied, clearly indicated he was a stubborn head who resisted arrest and was violently subdued by the disciples of the Hall of Enforcement.

Li Muyang looked curious, while his subordinates reported the man’s offenses.

“Reporting to the Banner Master, this man is a third-rank lotus member of the Liehai Hall named Dai Shan. Last night, he entered the Sin Alley and spent the night there…”

The report made Li Muyang frown.@@novelbin@@

“Sin Alley again…”

Sin Alley was an area marked out by the Blood Lotus Sect leader Fang Yingtian in the city, where the womenfolk and cultivators of the former noble families of Tianjiao City were confined.

According to the rules of the Blood Lotus Sect, these noble families that had relied on the Demon Refining Sect to survive were inherently guilty.

The cultivators who were detained in the city, as well as their families and relatives, were all locked up in various Sin Alleys.

These people would eventually be sacrificed in blood to the Four Directions Cauldron and become the spiritual power of the Four Directions Cauldron.

Ordinary people were not allowed to enter Sin Alley to prevent the cultivators and their families from escaping.

But in reality, this prohibition was in name only.

In Li Muyang’s eyes, the alleys in Sin Alley that specifically detained women and female cultivators had become places of ill repute.

Leaders of the Blood Lotus Sect, and even Banner Masters, would often enter Sin Alley and stay overnight.

Even the once high and mighty Demon Sect enchantresses and noble daughters, now stripped of their cultivation, were no different from ordinary people and utterly unable to resist the strongmen of the Blood Lotus Sect.