Nine Nether Heavenly Emperor
Chapter 104 Blood Fiend Gate

Chapter 104: Chapter 104 Blood Fiend Gate

After Shi Feng had finished off Xue Youu with a single strike, he slowly turned around. As he turned, the blood-colored flame that was burning Zi Xiao was drawn back towards his body. Within the blood flame, along with the blood of Lei Xiao and the Purple Lightning Thunderbird, there was also a storage ring and a Fifth Grade Mystical Weapon: the Thunderbolt Sword.

The blood-colored flame, carrying a massive amount of blood, swept into Shi Feng’s flesh. He extended his left hand to grasp the storage ring and the Thunderbolt Sword, and with a light wave, a boom of thunder erupted as a stark white Sword Qi of lightning was swung out by Shi Feng.

"A Thunder Attribute Fifth Grade Mystical Weapon, not bad!" Shi Feng nodded slightly in satisfaction, placing the Thunderbolt Sword into the storage ring. With a Fifth Grade Thunder Sword in hand, Shi Feng’s battle power was set to increase by another stage.

"Let’s go!" Shi Feng commanded the Ghost Wolf with a low shout, ordering it to fly towards Moon City.

On Purple Thunder Mountain, a mountain shaped like a sword and striking the heavens like a giant purple Thunderbolt Sword, an angry roar now echoed. The entire mountain seemed to quake as if a massive earthquake had struck, shaking violently, "Check! You all go check for me now! Xiao’er! Which beast killed my Xiao’er, you wastes of space! If you don’t find out who it was within three days, bring me your heads! Go!"

The last roar resounded as if the Thunder God himself was enraged, and the Purple Thunder Mountain shook violently once again.

Ice Snow Valley!

One after another, beautiful young women dressed in white rode out of the valley on white demon beasts. The Valley Master had ordered an investigation into the cause of death of the Holy Maiden, Xueh Yiyi.

Blood Fiend Gate!

There was a vast and boundless Blood Sea. Legend held that a thousand years ago, the Blood Fiend Gate was not known by this name, but as the Heavenly Slaughter Sect.

Later, a genius emerged who created the Blood Demon Body Refining Technique and the Bloodthirsty Demon Art. He plotted to steal the position of the Sect Leader of the Heavenly Slaughter Sect and renamed it the Blood Fiend Gate.

Subsequently, every member of the Blood Fiend Gate practiced these two demon techniques. As the name implies, the Bloodthirsty Demon Art involves devouring the blood of living beings, converting it into Primordial Power within the body.

And the Blood Demon Body Refining Technique is a type of Body Refinement Realm practice; the flesh is soaked in blood, and secret techniques are performed to refine the body.

Later, the adepts of the Blood Fiend Gate began slaughtering living beings, devouring blood, and then gathering the blood at one place, starting with a Blood Pool, which later became a Blood River. The members of the Blood Fiend Gate practiced their cultivation soaked in fresh blood, performing the Blood Demon Body Refining Technique to refine their bodies.

Over time, due to the heavy killing karma of the Blood Fiend Gate, it gradually became an outpost everyone wanted to attack and annihilate. Inside the boundaries of the Yunlai Empire, the Empire together with the Great Sects formed an alliance called Bloodslaughter Alliance, stormed the Blood Fiend Gate, and even the Sect Leader of the Blood Fiend Gate at that time was killed. However, there was one who slipped through the net—the young son of the Sect Leader of the Blood Fiend Gate, Xue Ao, managed to escape the massacre with the protection of an old servant.

But the young Xue Ao had not yet begun to practice the Bloodthirsty Demon Art and only learned the Blood Demon Body Refining Technique. After that massacre, the Bloodthirsty Demon Art was thus lost.

Several generations later, Xue Yun, the grandson of Xue Ao, perfected his flesh using the Blood Demon Body Refining Technique and successfully revived the Blood Fiend Gate. From then on, the Blood Fiend Gate was re-established within the boundaries of the Yunlai Empire.

However, fearing that the Blood Fiend Gate would repeat the mistakes of their forebears, Xue Yun signed a treaty with the Yunlai Empire Royal Family and the Three Major Sects, asserting that from that point forward, the Blood Fiend Gate would not initiate killings of members of these sects and would not wantonly kill those on official duty in the Yunlai Empire.

That is to say, Blood Fiend Gate would only kill if their victims did not provoke them first, abiding by the agreements made with signatory sects. Those serving as officials within the Yunlai Empire were safe unless they initiated the conflict. However, this treaty offered no protection for other sect members and unarmed citizens or Martial Artists within the empire.

From that time onward, Blood Fiend Gate had been considerably more restrained. Now, after more than eight hundred years, they had not provoked wide public anger. Eventually, Blood Fiend Gate began to expand and became the third-ranking Sect Power within the territory of the Yunlai Empire.

However, over these eight hundred years, without the Bloodthirsty Demon Art, Blood Fiend Gate only possessed the Blood Demon Body Refining Technique and other standard Martial Arts cultivation techniques. The blood of the living beings they killed had all converged into the original Blood River, and without the Bloodthirsty Demon Art, the blood continued to accumulate. By now, that river has transformed into the vast and boundless Blood Sea of today.

"What! My grandson Xue Youu has been killed!" Within the Blood Sea, a powerful, wrathful bellow of an elder resounded.

At the fringe of the Blood Sea, an old man clad in a blood-colored robe, with blood-red long hair and a face full of wrinkles stood calm, bowing slightly. He faced the churning and seemingly boiling Blood Sea and replied, "Yes, Sect Leader, the Young Lord’s soul stone has shattered."

"No!" The wrathful bellow of Elder Cang rose again, like an angry Sea God inciting a maritime disaster, the blood-colored waves tumultuously surged and writhed. Much like a ferocious prehistoric beast released from its cage, a naked, blood-hued body shot up from the Blood Sea, suspended above it, and roared furiously, "Who? Who did this? My son died young, leaving behind only this sole heir. Who has severed my lineage? I will slaughter his entire family, desecrate his ancestors’ graves!"

The old man remained bowed, his face unchanged, as he replied to the blood-colored figure above the Blood Sea, "Sect Leader, we do not yet know the identity of the murderer. However, I have just received news that the Young Chief of the Purple Thunder Sect, the Holy Maiden of Ice Snow Valley, has also perished alongside the Young Lord. They seem to have gone to the Demon Beast Mountain Range."

"Search! Command all of Blood Fiend Gate to search, find out who it was!" Elder Cang demanded.

"Your servant obeys!" the old man responded.

With the heirs of the Three Major Sects dead, the whole Yunlai Empire was about to descend into unprecedented chaos since its founding.

In the void between the Demon Beast Mountain Range and Moon City.

The day Shi Feng rode from Moon City to Demon Beast City, it took an entire night. Now, with the Ghost Wolf flying, it was only a matter of a few hours before Shi Feng returned to the back mountains of Xiuling Village, on Xiuling Mountain, the site of the burial ground of the Dark Evil Place.

As the Ghost Wolf descended from the void and plunged into the forest, Shi Feng leapt lightly from its back and touched down on the land that buried the Dark Evil, immediately sensing the still slumbering Dark Evil beneath.

Shi Feng formed sealing hand signs, and "Boom! Boom! Boom!" the ground beneath him trembled and roared, tearing open on either side. Then, the Dark Evil, dressed in tatters, with a pale complexion, missing both arms, and covered in cuts as if slashed by knives, rose from the earth.

"Roar, roar!" The Ghost Wolf, seeing something that resembled neither human nor ghost suddenly rising from the ground, immediately let out a fierce howl at the Dark Evil.

"Silence, vile beast!" Shi Feng scolded the Ghost Wolf sharply.

"Wuu, wuu!" Hearing Shi Feng’s stern shout, the Ghost Wolf seemed to feel wronged, lowered its head and whimpered twice, then quietened down.

Once the Dark Evil creature was fully emerged from the ground, the split earth closed back up with a "Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Shi Feng then took out a Snow Yin Flower from his storage ring, squeezed it with his right hand until it was crushed, and drops of snow-white liquid oozed out from his fist. He promptly poured these droplets onto the wounds of the Dark Evil.