Chapter 1 The Killing Intent

When Heaven sends forth its killing intent, the stars shift and the constellations change. When Earth sends forth its killing intent, dragons and snakes rise from the land. When Man sends forth its killing intent, heaven and earth are overturned.

The head of the Li family was a master of the world. For twenty years, he had helped the Li family achieve a method, cultivating the ability of an imperishable soul. Now, only the initial signs of killing intent had appeared in the world, and he already felt the surging intent, so much so that his divine soul almost scattered.

However, he felt the killing intent but couldn't understand it, couldn't understand the bitter smile on Hu Ma's face, nor what the woman from the trickster's sect had done.

He even felt from the beginning that the Hu family didn't respect the Li family enough.

This was, after all, a battle of methods with the Blood Stained Pool as its focus of power.

If the Hu family truly wanted to take it seriously, shouldn't they have summoned all the capable people among the reincarnated ones to fight face to face?

The Li family only sent me here because only I have achieved an imperishable soul, making me invincible, but why did you only send two or three stragglers?

Show us your true skills of stealing from heaven and earth...

But in the end, they just used a method to conceal the heavens and earth, and then the Hu family used their own bodies to block the Li family's old well from calling names. Who knows how many tricks they still had hidden in their hands? They already had smiles of assured victory on their faces.

Even that descendant of the Hu family turned to look at him. There was no space in the underworld, and the high and low positions were naturally different. Just now, he was high above, holding the white banner, using his magic to call out the name.

But now, it was as if the heavens and earth had turned upside down, and he was high above, looking down at him: "Master Li, do you know where you lost this battle of methods?"

"The scope!"

"The Li family is, after all, just martial world people."

"..."

When Hu Ma first heard the God-Given King scolding "martial world people," he couldn't quite agree, but after Miss Red Wine spoke of this world-shaking calamity, he suddenly understood.

The Li family was indeed just martial world people, and their scope only reached the level of martial world people.

Even he himself was like that before.

What battle of methods was there?

With a single thought arising in the human world, the karma of heaven and earth moved. Now that this calamity had appeared, it could no longer be stopped by small spells.

He just gritted his teeth fiercely, suppressing the surging thoughts in his heart. Facing the endless fluttering of white banners, he slightly shook his arms, sending all the white banners back. Standing in the void, he looked towards Shao Daozi in the Blood Stained Pool.

This young man, who acted ruthlessly but was always decisive and forthright, suddenly released his magic when he carried nearly half of the Blood Pool's power, placing himself in serious danger.

The massive blood water lost its foundation, forming an indescribable force of resentment, like a cloud of blood shrouding him. Now, it was also sinking rapidly, wanting to drag him into the Blood Stained Pool along with it.

The Blood Stained Pool below, with its broken, withered limbs and bones along the edge, now raised their hands, reaching out to grab him.

Having suffered some kind of backlash from the origin of heaven and earth, they wanted to drag him to the bottom of the pool as well.

"Haha..."

But he seemed not to care at all. Instead, a burst of laughter suddenly rang out at this moment: "Brothers, I'll take the first step."

In the laughter, he roused his remaining strength, taking advantage of the fact that the blood water that had nowhere to attach itself had not yet fallen, and suddenly strode forward, directly towards the God-Given King.

The rolling blood water was pulled by him, looking like he was pulling a vast cloud of blood. Wherever it passed, the entire void of the underworld was dyed red.

Fake!

Shao Daozi's blood energy was originally fake, so it was a foregone conclusion that he would suffer a backlash, but after all, before he completely disappeared due to the backlash from the Blood Stained Pool, he still held 30% of the Blood Stained Pool's power in his hands.

So this strike of his was incredibly fierce, as if it had cut through half of the underworld.

"Chi la!"

This strike landed exactly where the God-Given King was.

This God-Given King, who also had monstrous blood energy, was slowly being whittled down into a stick by the Wicked One, but he also had nearly 20% of the power on his body, and his blood energy was also monstrous.

He and Shao Daozi were both known for their blood energy expansion, forming a strong extreme with the Wicked One, but this blood energy ebb and flow all seemed so unsteady.

The Wicked One also felt the blood energy coming from behind, looked back, and slowly moved out of the way.

In the next moment, the rolling blood energy accompanied Shao Daozi's strike, solidly hitting the God-Given King. The sound of cracking rang out under the blade, and endless sounds of iron chains breaking rang out on the God-Given King's body, as if the foundation of a city was collapsing.

Even under this strike, who knows how many phantoms were cut out of the God-Given King's body, one by one, connected to him.

Those were the projections of the Blood Floating Pagoda (Xue Futu) in this Blood Stained Pool. The God-Given King was not originally one person with such blood energy, but relied on countless people to add this blood energy to himself.

In the current Blood Stained Pool, Shao Daozi and the God-Given King both controlled power, but in the end, both of them were fake, one borrowing the shadows of history, and the other eating empty wages. It was like the world's biggest joke.

And now, using fake to break fake, the foundations of both of them almost collapsed because of this. The vast, unparalleled blood energy lost its support and directly mixed together, rolling and surging, with blood energy shocking the heavens.

Even the God-Given King seemed to have a natural reaction at this moment, suddenly opening his eyes, as if he had come to the Blood Stained Pool in a dream without any preparation.

And what he saw when he opened his eyes was Shao Daozi laughing loudly, pulling these two vast amounts of blood water together with all his strength, like a mountain roaring and a tsunami raging, directly sending it towards Hu Ma outside the Blood Stained Pool, a shocking scene.

That vast blood energy had long exceeded his support, and his body was already collapsing section by section, but he still had a smile on his face.

At this moment, Hu Ma couldn't hold back his emotions, almost unable to look directly at the brilliant smile on his face.

"Catch it!"

And at this moment, Miss Red Wine next to the Blood Stained Pool also gritted her teeth and reminded Hu Ma: "The human world's killing calamity is like refining medicine, and there must be a medicinal primer (yao yinzi)."

"Send this medicinal primer to the human world!"

"..."

"No, no..."

And facing the rolling blood water sent out of the Blood Stained Pool, the head of the Li family, even though he couldn't understand it, was already splitting his eyes, desperately stirring the white banners, wrapping them around Hu Ma, his voice sounding panicked and chaotic:

"No matter what you're doing, you must stop. I... my Li family is willing to admit defeat!"

He was already afraid, and didn't even need to understand what Hu Ma and the others were doing, he already felt a kind of instinctive tremor, so he could even give up this gamble that decided the fate of the Li family.

"No need."

But facing his panic, Hu Ma now only had a resentful grievance: "Whether you admit defeat or not is not important."

With a mouthful of repressed air exhaled, he had already suddenly raised his foot forward. In an instant, his soul light condensed, revealing his Great Might Heavenly Duke Dharma Body (Dawei Tiangong Faxiang) with three heads and six arms.

He only had one incense stick (of lifespan) left, so the Dharma Body also seemed not so huge, only similar to himself.

Facing the sea of blood suspended in mid-air, intertwined and colliding, rolling and surging, it could even be said to be tiny, but on the Dharma Body, one hand stretched out, directly holding the sea of blood in his hand, as if holding a dark red void with his own strength.

In the next moment, he had already turned around and looked at the head of the Li family.

At this time, the head of the Li family didn't know what they were going to do, but he was already desperately driving the rolling white banners, only wanting to call away the last of Hu Ma's fate, to prevent their bold actions now.

But Hu Ma, who had just borrowed the power of the tenth incense stick to stand firmly next to the Blood Stained Pool, now faced his magic, and a sneer suddenly appeared on his face, taking the initiative to take a step forward.

He was going to send the killing karma to the human world.

If it were before, he would have to return to the human world, and would have to go to the Cave Li family to borrow their ghost cave, but this time, he didn't need to.

The endless white banners around the head of the Li family fluttered, all pointing to a place in the mortal realm, which was the old well in the Li family's ancestral home, which had been pressed down by a steelyard for twenty years.

Even that old well was constantly calling Hu Ma's name.

So Hu Ma held the sea of blood in one hand, grabbed the white banner in the other, and took advantage of the situation to step out.

The power of this step was too heavy. Even the entire underworld seemed to become crooked and inclined with his step. The human world also seemed to sink a little from that old well, immersing itself in the underworld.

In the next moment, Hu Ma took the initiative to enter the old well connected to the Blood Pool of the underworld, in the horrified eyes of the head of the Li family.

The sea of blood he held in his hand was also sent in with him.

At this moment, the head of the Li family suddenly froze, his divine soul almost collapsing, realizing some ominous thing, and he had no way to deal with it at all.

This old well had been stolen by the Li family with endless blood water, which could refine everything, and could also hold everything. Not to mention Hu Ma's nine pillars of cultivation, even if a hundred people with nine pillars of cultivation came, it would be enough to hold them, and even suppress them.

But it couldn't accept this tenth pillar of cultivation.

So, as Hu Ma took the initiative to enter the old well, and brought in more than half of the blood water from this rolling Blood Stained Pool, this old well creaked and immediately reached its limit.

The Li family had borrowed this old well to steal the power of the Blood Stained Pool for twenty years, carefully and calculating to the extreme, but they didn't expect that someone would put the amount for twenty years, thirty years, into this well all at once.

...

...

"Rumble..."

Hearing a huge roar like an earthquake suddenly coming from the depths of the old well.

An indescribable bloody smell rose from the well. The chilling yin wind was originally formed to call names, but now, it sounded more like a groan of being overwhelmed.

The people in the Li family's ancestral house, who were guarding this old well, were all startled and looked at each other.

The fastest to react was the old lady of the Li family. She suddenly understood something and stumbled out of the inner hall, throwing her crutches aside.

She just shouted: "Quick..."

"Seal the well!"

The others didn't have time to figure out what this was for, but they had already subconsciously gone to move the steelyard.

It was just a pity that before the steelyard could be moved, a huge blood waterfall suddenly burst out of the well, like a volcano that had accumulated for thousands of years, erupting. A huge pillar of blood containing endless killing karma shot straight into the sky.

Ka ka ka!

The sky was dyed with blood energy at this moment, and spider-web-like lightning filled the sky. A torrential rain followed closely and fell.

Blood rain fell simultaneously in all directions of the world.

The old lady of the Li family stared blankly at the blood water rising against the sky from the well. Her whole person seemed to wither instantly: "It's over."

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At this time between heaven and earth, when the blood rain was torrential, in the human world, in Quzhou, Yang Gong was also leading the Grain Protection Army, riding fast horses, fiercely raising his reins and drawing his saber, rushing towards the direction of the Eight Prefectures and Twenty Counties.

Behind Fierce Tiger Pass (Meng Hu Guan), there were also famous and powerful families from the Eight Prefectures and Twenty Counties who had already offered conditions to King Mingzhou (Mingzhou Wang), and had long prepared grain, grass, and weapons.

It only depended on whether this King Mingzhou was a sensible person, deciding whether to support him or to collude with the relatives inside Fierce Tiger Pass from the inside and outside.

In the deep darkness of the night, on this side were the private soldiers recruited by the Eight Prefectures and Twenty Counties, and in the vast area in the middle were the hungry, dazed, and disoriented people who had lost their grain.

That is, the surplus in their eyes.

The Eight Prefectures and Twenty Counties could obviously take action to clean up the surplus themselves, but they wouldn't, because that was not dignified and would dirty their hands, so they were waiting for the Grain Protection Army to come, waiting for them to clean up this surplus for them, and then come to pay their respects.

Hearing the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, roaring and surging, with monstrous killing intent.

Some people couldn't help but smile on their faces, saying: "This King Mingzhou from Mingzhou is not a hopeless case. If he truly has the mandate of heaven, then it's not impossible to give him a few pointers."

"We can even guarantee him, negotiate peace with the noble families inside the pass, and spare him the fate of destruction."

Someone else sneered: "The first to rise are swords, and the last to rise is the king. These mud-legged people don't know the principle of the cycle of the mandate of heaven. They are still far from wanting to be emperors..."

While talking and laughing, they also felt the rolling wind coming in the night, and smelled the rich blood energy in the wind that was almost impossible to dissolve.

They ordered people to raise lanterns high on the mountain, only wanting to see clearly the scene of King Mingzhou cleaning up the surplus. And they did see the Grain Protection Army's iron hooves galloping, directly penetrating into the "surplus" wandering all over the mountains and fields.

They had already widened their eyes, wanting to see heads falling to the ground, but they only saw that the Grain Protection Army passed straight through those surplus, without reducing their momentum, rushing straight towards them.

"Kill the fat rats, save the living people!"

Just as they had not yet reacted to what was happening, they heard loud shouts suddenly ringing out in the Grain Protection Army.

Sabers were drawn from their sheaths, with cold light gleaming, and rolling sharp edges rushed straight towards their faces.

These gentry and powerful tyrants were even still in a daze. They had never expected that the Grain Protection Army would have other choices besides killing the surplus.

So, when Yang Gong took the lead, holding his treasured blade, directly slashing at their necks, the head of one of the noble families still had some questioning and scolding intentions on his face.

It wasn't until a big head fell to the ground that it seemed to make countless people in this field suddenly tremble, and boundless fear, in such an unprepared situation, suddenly surged out from their stomachs.

"Really going to kill?"

The Grain Protection Army had already rushed straight into the formation, with the elite who had experienced countless battles, and were by no means something that these aristocratic private soldiers could resist. One head after another fell from the cavity, and even though there were still mountains of grain accumulated in the granary, it would be difficult to eat another grain from now on.

"Really... really did it?"

And also at this time in the Grain Protection Army, no one dared to violate Yang Gong's order, but still some people saw this scene, their divine souls trembled, and they asked with pale faces.

It has always been the noble cleaning up the surplus, but never the surplus killing the noble.

Such a thing had never happened before, and it would therefore change too many power structures.

"Kill!"

And also at this time, Yang Gong was in the middle of the formation, his fierce saber stained with blood, pointing straight towards the direction of the Eight Prefectures and Twenty Counties: "Today, King Mingzhou kills people and distributes grain. Anyone who dares to disagree will have their heads fall to the ground."

"All the boundless killing karma will be borne by me, Yang Gong, alone!"

"..."

Ka! Ka! Ka!

Also following his words, in the sky that was already covered with dark clouds, countless lightning suddenly flashed, splitting this heavy and oppressive night sky into countless pieces at once.

Each of the thunderbolts that streaked across the sky was stained with a rich blood color.

Then, as if the sky had opened, endless blood rain fell from the sky, each droplet like a fist, each grain like a knife. An unprecedented滔天血雨, at this moment, began to sweep towards the vast world.