"As expected, this place is hiding the blood calamity!" A deep and firm voice, loud like the clash between iron and stone, came from the top of the cave and echoed within the blood lake.
"This is… Heaven Earth Magnificent Sound Gu?" Fang Yuan who is cultivating atop the mountain opened his eyes and glanced in the distance towards the rock cave.
As Fang Yuan focused his eyes, lightning danced in his eyes and everything happening inside the cave appeared in his eyes clearly.
Bam!
A loud explosion occurred as blood and water flew everywhere.
Blood river python!
Fang Yuan's irises shrunk as he saw the python with its bright smooth blood red scales, and its head around the size of an elephant. Scarlet-gold coloured sharp bone spikes protruded out from above its eyes, showing its ferocious and frenzy aura completely.
At the top of the cave, there was another tiny shadow, floating down from one of the holes at the ceiling.
He wore a bronze mask, his hands behind his back, his gaze cool and calm. Although compared to the blood river python, he was small like an ant, but the imposing aura coming from his body caused a great pressure to emit from him at all directions, like a heavenly being descending down to Earth.
Righteous Gu!
A mind-type Gu that only someone who upheld justice could activate.
People who were villainous or had weak minds and aspirations, were often scared shitless under the influence of the Righteous Gu, afraid of everything as they had a guilty conscience, their battle spirit decreasing in battle and causing them to feel an inability to defeat Tie Xue Leng, thus collapsing without battle.
Screech screech….
Under the pressure of the righteousness, the bladewing blood bat Gu were frantic and could only scream shrilly as a strong pressure pushed down on their bodies. Their wings could only continue to flap as they struggled to stay in mid-air, floating up and down.
Even the ferocious blood river python slightly lowered its head, feeling Tie Xue Leng's supreme presence.
"What a good Righteous Gu!" Fang Yuan watched from the distance, smirking.
Tie Xue Leng hated evil with a burning passion. With a cold snort, he turned towards the blood river python.
Tie Xue Leng had such a severe injury on him, and at the same time there might be a powerful enemy hidden in the background and observing him. Thus, he did not dare to lose focus.
He stared at this blood river python for a moment, before looking further into the blood pond.
Not long ago, he received a request about eliminating Blood Calamity. Inside there was concrete evidence that Gu Yue village held a bloody calamity.
Now, he sees it, this blood calamity was not ordinary, he could not take it lightly. If he lost focus, it would expand and spread like a plague, harming the world.
The best method to deal with it was to eliminate the source before it forms into a strong force.
Tie Xue Leng thus brought his daughter and rushed to Qing Mao Mountain. And on the way, they travelled with an elder who is also here to deal with this bloody calamity.
Who knew, it was already this late, countless Mortals and Gu Masters were died because of this person.
"First gen Gu Yue, I know you are not dead. You hid for nearly a thousand years plotting this scheme, but unfortunately, it's all going down the drain." Tie Xue Leng opened his mouth, causing the air to tremble.
But there were no changes to the blood pond. Instead, the blood river python opened its mouth, screaming furiously.
It was born ferocious, unable to be suppressed. The Righteous Gu triggered its ferocity.
Bam.
It stretched its body abruptly, the huge snake body rising with the tides of blood, bringing a killing intent that tore through the skies, pouncing towards Tie Xue Leng who was in mid-air.
Tie Xue Leng was already wary against the blood river python, and he quickly moved, avoiding the blood river python's bite.
The python's body was too long, and its momentum was too strong. It ended up crashing all the way onto the ceiling of the cave.
A loud bang ensued as a portion of the ceiling collapsed, and large amounts of debris fell and caused much commotion in the blood lake waves.
"Hmph, First gen Gu Yue, you think you are safe with just a blood python protecting you? You might as well appear now," Tie Xue Leng snickered. He moved about in the air, and the blood river python's attacks were like a gentle rain pelting on him.
The blood river python attacked furiously, getting more worked up as it continued to miss.
It had unparalleled strength, able to display it all and cause great damage.
The entire space was shaking from its strength like an earthquake, and the blood lake began to raise strong ripples.
Large amounts of red soil on the mountain walls collapsed from the battle.
The cave ceiling was completely destroyed beyond recognition as well. Tie Xue Leng floated in mid-air, engaging the blood river python in combat.
BOOM!
Another intense explosion occurred in the air.
Iron fist grappling Gu!
In the air, Tie Xue Leng took a deep breath and slowly extended his right hand when he felt the time was right.
There was a ripple in the air before him and a giant black iron hand appeared; it appeared slow but pressed down on the blood river python's tail within moments.
Blood river python struggled fiercely, and with its wet scales and slick body, the iron hand slipped off it and burst out with golden-red light.
Tie Xue Leng, however, had plenty of battle experiences and wasn't downcast. He slightly raised his head, puffed up his cheeks and blew strongly towards the Blood River Python.
Whoosh!Pitch black oil fell down like waterfall and formed into the shape of a dragon in the air, before plunging towards the Blood River Python.
Oil Dragon Gu!
The blood River Python was furious. It snarled and started tearing at the Oil Dragon Gu.
The black oil dragon was not in the least inferior to Blood River Python in terms of physique, but it was only a Rank four Gu and did not have a physical body; it was soon torn to shreds by Blood River Python.
Tie Xue Leng smiled, on the contrary.
Beasts were beasts, if a Gu Master had personally controlled it, they would have seen through this classic and ordinary battle tactic. The Blood River Python had been refined and although it had a Gu Master's imprint on it, it didn't have the wisdom of humans.
The oil dragon was exterminated, causing backlash to the Oil Dragon Gu in the aperture.
Tie Xue Leng didn't care; he stopped using the Oil Dragon Gu then began activating Fire Dragon Gu.
He gave a loud shout and his body shook, and then a Gu that looked like a flame shot out of his aperture. The flame quickly formed into a fire snake, winding around its own body.
As the fire snake flew, it grew bigger, then it immediately started growing scales, claws, horns and sharp teeth. Its face started becoming more like that of a horse; it had changed into an enormous fire dragon.
This Fire Dragon Gu was also a Rank four Gu, but it was able to cause a lot of pain to Blood River Python.
This was because of the oil dragon; when it was wiped out, great amounts of black oil stuck to Blood River Python's body, and now the fire dragon was causing the oil to catch fire and roast the Blood River Python.
Besides the snake, the black oil had also fallen on the lake surface. Right now, a raging inferno was burning on the bright red blood lake, causing the air temperature to increase rapidly.
The fire dragon was not the Blood River Python's match at all, it suffered heavy injuries and kept on shrinking. But every time this happened, it would drill into the raging inferno and recover some of its power.
With the raging inferno, the fire dragon had a homeground advantage.
Blood River Python was constantly being burned as it fought with the fire dragon, there was even a smell of scorched meat coming off it.
Blood River Python had a berserk nature and it would erupt with even stronger counterattack if it got suppressed. But right now, it was actually shrinking back, giving up on the fire dragon and diving deep into the blood lake.
Humans were the highest of all living beings and possessed the intelligence to develop new concepts. With Tie Xue Leng's tactics, two Rank four Gu were able to make the Rank five Blood River Python retreat.
But Gu were the essence of the world, containing the secrets of heaven and earth, a portion of the natural laws. And Blood River Python's ability was extreme self recovery.
As it sank to the bottom of the lake, the blood water continuously nourished it, rapidly healing the wounds on its body. The fire dragon had the field advantage; so did the blood python. As long as the blood lake existed, it was like a cockroach that couldn't be killed.
In the next moment, while floating in the air Tie Xue Leng suddenly extended both his arms and a deep roar emerged from his mouth.
He withdrew the righteous aura that had been suppressing everything, and whole-heartedly poured his Rank five primeval essence into the copper mask.
The copper mask started to brighten up; it was only a glimmer at first but within few breaths of time, it burst out with an extremely dazzling green light, as bright as a fragment of the sun.
The green light shone upon everything like a monarch overlooking the heavens and earth. For a moment, the red soil, blood lake and raging inferno were covered with a layer of dark green light.
The green light contained a mystical power.
Under this power, the mountain rocks began to shake and crumble.
From above the cave, huge rocks came crumbling down, flying towards the copper mask. Great amounts of soil and rocks from the top to bottom of the red walls also slowly flew up.
Tie Xue Leng's face was already shrouded by the light from the copper mask. Great amounts of mountain rocks gathered around the copper mask and condensed together into a human shape.
Debris continuously converged from all around and the rock figure kept on getting bigger.
From one meter in the beginning, it rapidly grew to three meters… five meters…eight meters…and finally reached eighteen meters!
Giant Mountain Puppet Gu!
The giant figure with indomitable spirit descended towards the blood lake.
Its two feet touched the bottom of the blood lake, but the water only reached up to about its waist. Its body was very robust and grand; horse chariots could run on its two arms and it could hold an elephant on its fist.
Its face looked simple and unadorned; it was the enlarged version of the copper mask.
"Fire dragon, come." It spoke, and its voice seemed to shake the heavens and earth.
The fire dragon which was churning in the fire sea flew up and coiled around the giant puppet's right arm like a snake, and its head rested on the right shoulder of the giant puppet.
Next, the Oil Dragon Gu flew out and formed a pitch black oil dragon which coiled around the giant puppet's left arm and its head rested on the left shoulder of the giant puppet.
With dragons on his left and right, the giant figure appeared like a heavenly deity descending down!
When the debris had flown and formed the giant puppet, the red soil covering the tunnel entrance had also gone with it, once again revealing the opening.
The fire sea gradually died out, and suddenly a huge red wave rose from the blood lake.
Blood River Python initiated its attack from the lake; it coiled around the giant puppet and moved upwards. The giant snake head smashed towards the giant puppet's face like a ram.
This attack was very powerful and if it really struck, more than half of the giant puppet's head would be destroyed.
"Iron fist grappling!" The giant puppet shouted; the air split open and an iron hand flew out, grabbing at the snake head.
With a loud boom, the iron hand shattered but Blood River Python's attack was also stopped.
Tie Xue Leng won a brief respite. The giant puppet's two hands grabbed towards Blood River Python in tandem.
Oil dragon and fire dragon seized the chance and climbed Blood River Python. The two snake combined and formed a blazing flame, roasting Blood River Python.
Blood River Python kept on hissing in pain and struggled furiously. But why would Tie Xue Leng let it escape so easily? The giant puppet's hands were like pincers as they firmly pressed on the Blood River Python.
The Blood River Python was not able to escape. Its body was scorched black, giving off the smell of burnt meat. This stimulated its vicious nature; since it couldn't escape, it coiled around the giant puppet and violently contracted, trying to kill it by constriction.
Although the giant puppet was made from condensed mountain rocks, its body had the softness of the red soil. With Blood River Python's constricting force, its waist quickly shrunk by a fold.
Cracking sounds emerged, and fragments of rocks flew in all directions.
Under the stimulation of death, Blood River Python burst forth with an even greater strength.
Suddenly the giant puppet gave out coughing sounds.
Tie Xue Leng's old illness had reappeared!
The giant puppet's hands loosened, and the Blood River Python hissed and its body suddenly jumped ahead.
However, the giant puppet's hands tightened again. The Blood River Python opened its mouth wide and revealed its sharp fangs, its head crazily swaying but it still fell short by a distance.
It was not able to retaliate and it was gradually losing its strength; it would burn to death soon.
But right at this moment, dense bloody fog rose up from the middle of the blood lake.
The bloody fog rapidly pervaded the air, and the raging inferno on the bloodlake had completely extinguished.
A whirlpool appeared in the middle of the blood lake.
The whirlpool had started from the middle of the lake and quickly spread from there, growing bigger until its edges were touching the surrounding walls.
"Humph, Gu Yue first head, you couldn't endure it anymore?…." The giant puppet coldly snorted.
A giant blood wave reaching as high as ten meters gushed out of the middle of the whirlpool.
And from within the blood wave, a vertical crimson coffin gradually rose up.
" Hehehehe …." A hoarse and strange voice was transmitted from inside the coffin, and anyone that heard this voice would feel cold to the bone.
"Young junior, thou dare spoil my plan, thou court death and I shall give it to thee!" Before the voice had died away, the coffin lid shot out like a catapult, revealing a shrivelled corpse.
He had a scarlet face and fangs, his hair red like blood, his eyes deep and contained a fire that seemed about to extinguish.
He had no skin, and thin strips of red muscles were clinging onto the white bones, giving him a shrivelled and fierce look.
"Junior, thou art wounded but yet dare to provoke me. Today, thou shalt die!!" The corpse spoke, but there was no movement in its mouth, the voice had come from its abdomen.
He kept on saying ' I ', ' thou '— these were the speech habits of thousand years ago.