Fine rain drizzled.

Shaoyin's capital – Li City.

Black stone pavilions and towers, like dark mountain peaks, with specks of yellow and red light, resembled a ghastly realm.

There were no commoners here. The streets were patrolled by squads of heavily armored Li Wang soldiers whose faces were hidden.

Each Li Wang soldier, standing over three meters tall, was a terrifying beast to ordinary people.

Any one of them could take on a thousand.

On the wide, black street, a slender figure slowly raised an umbrella, strolling along.

He wore deep blue silk clothing with a faint silver sheen, woven with silver threads. His shoulders were slightly flared, resembling shoulder armor.

Embroidered on his chest were sea waves and a silver Kun Peng, representing his elevated status, second only to the emperor.

Golden dragon-patterned epiphyllum arm guards adorned his arms, signifying his former position as the Taifu (Grand Tutor) of the current young emperor.

A black umbrella.

A person in white.

Under the setting sun, his skin was as pale as snow, paired with a cold, ink-black high bun, and a ponytail that cascaded down his back to his waist.

Anyone with eyes would feel the same way upon seeing him.

That was coldness and flamboyance.

These contradictory feelings were strangely merged in the man before them.

He held a black umbrella with strange white characters written on it, walking step by step on the deserted street.

Occasionally, Li Wang soldiers passed by, silently stopping, bowing their heads, and touching their blades in salute.

The three-meter-tall, black-armored Li Wang soldiers saluting a man less than two meters tall further highlighted the man's prominence.

He continued forward, passing through a forest of unknown towers separated by black walls.

The man stopped in front of a black, red-edged building resembling a giant toad.

Blood Toad Palace.

A plaque bearing the name hung on the building.

The palace doors slowly opened.

A gaunt old eunuch, nothing but skin and bones, slowly emerged from the darkness.

He looked up at the man standing before the door.

"Now that the Imperial Advisor has returned, I wonder if you brought back the one eye of the Seven-Walled Demon Serpent?"

"Where is the Emperor?" the man asked softly, his voice cold.

He raised his head, revealing a delicate face more beautiful than a woman's, his pink lips faintly exuding a strange chill in the rain.

But for some reason, his face carried a hint of sorrow.

"The Emperor is busy refining pills and cannot be disturbed for the time being. Please forgive him, Imperial Advisor," the old eunuch replied in a shrill voice.

"..."

The man fell silent.

Thunder rumbled faintly in the sky.

The fine rain became denser, but the wind strangely stopped.

"Imperial Advisor..."

"Have His Majesty come to see me," the man interrupted the eunuch.

"Bold! His Majesty is busy with matters of divine pills. If the Imperial Advisor has not brought back the spiritual treasure, please leave at once!" The old eunuch couldn't help but take a step back, speaking urgently.

Imperial Advisor Song Yunhe.

The strongest person in the entire Shaoyin Kingdom, without exception.

Many people said that as long as Song Yunhe was in Shaoyin Kingdom, there would never be riots. Any rebellion or upheaval would be no match for his sword.

For forty-two years, everything had been as rumored. Any rebellious army or bandit gang was like dust and ants under his sword, easily swept away.

*Crack.*

A bolt of lightning flashed.

Sunset, fine rain, and lightning mixed together, coating Song Yunhe in the rain with a strange colored film.

One of his drooping hands slowly grasped the hilt of the sword at his waist.

"Is it His Majesty who does not wish to see me, or are you obstructing me in secret..."

The old eunuch's throat twitched. He was also from a top-tier bloodline, and his martial prowess could rank among the top ten in the entire Shaoyin Kingdom. He was a well-known expert on the Fengtian List.

But this strength, in front of Song Yunhe...

He didn't even have the courage to resist.

*Plop.*

Suddenly, a drop of rain fell in front of him.

Red.

It was a dazzling red.

The old eunuch's eyes widened slightly as he looked up.

The fine rain falling from the sky had somehow suddenly turned blood-colored.

The blood-colored rain dyed the surrounding ground red, coupled with the blood-like sunset, everything before him seemed to turn into a Shura hell, a sea of blood and an abyss.

Only the black umbrella with white characters, and the person under the umbrella, still retained their colors.

But in the midst of the countless blood-red, the colors were as clear as if they were independent from the world, frighteningly clear.

"Blood Rain Refines the World..." the old eunuch murmured, remembering something.

"You saw it," Song Yunhe walked forward slowly. "So, why block my path?"

He walked past the old eunuch, entering the darkness.

The old eunuch, who was supposed to stop him, did not move at all. He just stood there blankly.

*Whirr.*

In an instant, his entire body, including his robes, dissolved into a pool of blood, collapsing and scattering.

"Did you see it?"

"The heavens are weeping."

Song Yunhe's voice came from the darkness.

* * *

"Hmm?"

In the Black Earth Plains, Li Cheng Yi suddenly turned his head, looking towards the distant horizon.

Just a moment ago, he seemed to have sensed something.

'That direction... a very powerful force flashed by.'

He had faced Dongjun of the ninth rank face to face and experienced the exaggerated power of the top-tier Yi Kingdom.

But even Dongjun's power seemed far inferior to the fleeting force just now.

However, the power only appeared for a moment before quickly disappearing and being suppressed.

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, he turned back and looked at Song He, who was trembling beside him.

"How is it? Do you want to escape?"

Fear +2.

Fear +2.

Fear +2

Dense fear was constantly transmitted from the two flower fertilizers.

Li Cheng Yi watched his Purple Jade Orchid's evil thoughts rapidly climb to over seventy percent, still rising.

"I'm just passing by..." Song He squeezed out a sentence with difficulty.

"It doesn't matter," Li Cheng Yi smiled, "I'm also passing by."

He stared at Song He.

"But... I feel like, you seem to recognize me?"

"I don't know..." Sweat slowly oozed from Song He's forehead, her muscles so tense that they were almost cramping.

"Time is running out," Li Cheng Yi suddenly said. "Unfortunately, if there was more time, I would have liked to keep you here for a while longer. But..."

*Boom!*

In an instant, the strong man beside her turned around and ran, transforming almost into a streak of blood, sprinting towards the distance.

His speed instantly soared to twice the speed of sound.

This violent movement caused even his nailed leg to be torn apart.

This kind of injury that could have seriously injured him did not stop the strong man at all. He frantically urged his blood, took off into the air, tapped the ground with one leg, accelerating, accelerating, and accelerating again.

But...

*Boom!!!*

Before he could run far, the strong man suddenly swelled up like a balloon and exploded.

Countless pieces of flesh and bone, like minced powder, flew in all directions, staining the black earth red.

On the other side, Song He also took the opportunity to retreat, her whole body rapidly changing, instantly entering the red-eye true form state.

Her whole body was covered in blood, her height increased to three meters, and her long hands and feet frantically moved on the ground like a beast, galloping away on all fours.

'Faster! Faster! Faster!'

Her mind was now filled with chaos. She originally thought it was just a simple assassination mission, but she didn't expect...

That Wang Yichen of the Wang family was actually hiding such an exaggerated side!

That completely unfamiliar sense of great threat was completely different from the danger she felt from the other blood body adults.

She didn't know what the other party was, and she didn't know why the other party had been hiding his strength, not revealing his strength.

She only knew that if she didn't run faster now, she would become bloody mud like that strong man!

'I must immediately go back and tell Godfather!! This Wang Yichen is hiding his strength, he must have a big plot! Once he succeeds...'

*Pfft.*

Suddenly, she felt her vision spin, and the whole world seemed to be shaking.

Her body also became extremely light, as if she had lost her limbs...

No.

Suddenly, Song He's rolling vision saw a familiar body.

A headless body.

That was...

*Pfft.*

Her head rolled to the ground, rotating a few times, her eyes wide open, staring at Li Cheng Yi who was slowly approaching.

The other party had no weapons on him, but just now she...

"Unfortunately, we met at the wrong time, so there can only be the wrong result..."

Li Cheng Yi said regretfully.

These two red-eye stages were excellent flower fertilizers, but unfortunately he was in a hurry now, otherwise he would definitely find a good place to lock them up and squeeze them dry every day.

Watching the two corpses quickly turn into blood and merge into the black earth, leaving only a few clothes behind.

He went forward to collect the silver, obtaining a sachet, ten gold leaves, some broken silver, and large copper coins.

The Shaoyin Kingdom still used copper coins, large copper coins, silver coins, and gold leaves as its main currency system.

The copper was not ordinary copper, but red copper mixed with some special material, with the words "Yinhua Tongbao" engraved on it.

'Emperor Yinhua?' Li Cheng Yi put away the coins, used his true Qi to wrap and eliminate the poisonous blood, and then put them in his wallet.

Yes, the thing he used to hold money now had been changed into a large bag that was usually used to hold luggage.

After finishing these, he looked at the direction, and his figure instantly turned into a black line, disappearing into the distant horizon.

Taking the gold and silver and Liu Mingyang, Li Cheng Yi returned to the original place and joined Wang Yifeng, taking only less than ten minutes in total.

This included robbing money and solving Song He and several other red-eye stages.

He explained to Wang Yifeng that Liu Mingyang was someone he met on the road who was separated from the caravan and was also going to the county town, and Captain Wang did not ask in detail.

There were many people like this in the wild.

It didn't matter to take him along, just as doing a good deed.

The three of them slowed down slightly along the official road and arrived at Cangshi County in about an hour.

The scale of the entire Cangshi County was much larger than that of Xinmeng Town. From a distance of more than ten miles, one could see its high city walls tightly surrounding the entire city.

Some viscous substance was also poured on the walls, which were more than ten meters high, so that the gaps between the wall bricks also disappeared.

Squads of tall leather-armored soldiers patrolled back and forth on the city walls.

The city gate connected to the official road, with a constant stream of vehicles and people coming and going.

Everyone entering the city needed to pay a certain fee as a city protection fee.

When approaching five miles, Wang Yifeng and the three began to frequently encounter the county town patrol team on circular patrols.

Each of these patrol teams had ten people, and the captains leading the teams had very powerful auras, almost as powerful as the red-eye stage strong man Li Cheng Yi had encountered before.

Obviously, they were all blood seeds.

From Wang Yifeng, he also understood the difference between blood seeds and wild red-eye disease monsters.

In terms of strength, blood seeds were not as good as red-eye disease in terms of speed and strength, but because they had reason added, blood seeds could use weapons, armor, and martial arts.

This greatly crushed the wild infected monsters.

In addition, the martial arts used by the blood seeds were completely different from true Qi martial arts.

They used blood essence as a force to compare with true Qi, pushing their bodies to fight.

Compared to blood essence, when true Qi came into contact and collided with it, ten units could barely compete with and resolve one blood essence.

This was the root cause of the blood seeds' disdain for true Qi.

The second reason was that blood essence and true Qi were inherently incompatible. Or rather, blood essence conflicted with any power.

Its domineering and possessive nature was extremely strong.

(End of this chapter)