Feng Yidao's voice was trembling. "What did you do?"
Lin Yun held the sword in his left hand, his body wreathed in red and blue energy. "You have two choices right now. Hand over that ancient manual you're carrying, or I can use my own methods to force you to hand it over."
Although he was looking at Feng Yidao with a smile, Feng Yidao felt a chill run through him from head to toe.
"Here... I'll give it to you right now. Please, spare my life."
Lin Yun looked at the ancient manual Feng Yidao handed over. With his cultivation, he was surprisingly only able to open one page. After confirming it was the right item, Lin Yun glanced at Feng Yidao.
"You thought you could kill me looking like this? It's only the Yuan Sea Realm. It's not like I haven't killed one before."
After he spoke, Feng Yidao felt a layer of frost cover his body. Lin Yun turned around. Bloody lines appeared on Feng Yidao's ice-sculpted form. As the temperature rose, all that was left was a pile of minced meat.
Lin Yun glanced at the Cold Flame Sword in his hand. After his strength had increased, this sword had become more and more comfortable to use.
Confirming that Xiao Pingtian wouldn't be getting out anytime soon, Lin Yun didn't hesitate. With the help of the Mysterious Yuan Embryo, he found his bearings and quickly headed towards Chen Family Fort.
Lin Yun left Weiyang Mountain and, after just a few hours, arrived at the outskirts of Chen Family Fort. The moment he got there, he immediately saw a blood-red barrier covering the fort in the distance. Many cultivators in black robes stood atop the city gate, each wearing a dark and ferocious ghost mask.
The Red Ghost Sect?
Lin Yun carefully concealed his figure, looking for an opportunity to sneak in and take a look. Could the ancestral worship ceremony at Chen Family Fort and the ambush at the Five Yang Mountain mine be for the same thing? he wondered.
He saw several figures fly over from the distance, trailing a faint, bloody light behind them. The leader wore a golden ghost mask and was followed by several cultivators wearing white ghost masks. It seemed the Red Ghost Sect wore different masks according to their status. The golden one must be the leader.
The two guards at the barrier opened a gap in the energy shield and let the two men in. Lin Yun waited quietly outside. Xiao Pingtian probably wouldn't be able to make it back for a while, and the main force of the Red Ghost Sect was at Chen Family Fort. Lin Yun could tell with a preliminary judgment that the golden-masked leader was at the Myriad Laws Realm. With his current abilities, if he swaggered over like that, he would surely be killed before he even got to see Chen Nanfeng.
"Senior Brother Duan is also inside. I wonder how he's doing now."
Another quarter of an hour passed. Lin Yun saw a lone disciple in a black mask rushing towards the gate. He hesitated no longer. With a single strike, he killed the man, then changed into the Red Ghost Sect's clothes, preparing to infiltrate.
Lin Yun arrived at the city gate. Two Red Ghost Sect disciples came forward and looked him up and down. "Where's the Calamity Jade?"
Calamity Jade? What's that?
Hearing the two disciples' question, Lin Yun thought for a long time but couldn't recall what a "Calamity Jade" was.
"Didn't you hear me?" The disciple who had asked the question sounded much sterner.
Just as Lin Yun was about to be exposed, a sword light suddenly shot down from the sky.
"Enemy attack!" the Red Ghost Sect disciples on the city wall roared. The two disciples in charge of inspection also scrambled outside. Lin Yun took this opportunity to sneak into Chen Family Fort.
The moment he entered the city, Lin Yun smelled the thick scent of blood. The ground was littered with corpses. The Chen family had invited many people to their ancestral worship ceremony: wealthy merchants from the mortal world, rogue cultivators, and members of other cultivation families. Now, all of them had been slaughtered here by the Red Ghost Sect.
Blood dyed the entire fort red, turning it into a living hell. This was the first time Lin Yun had seen such a scene. Even with a mind tempered by the Sword Intent Corridor, he was still somewhat horrified.
The Flowing Cloud Sect's reinforcements had already arrived outside the city. The disciples of the Red Ghost Sect flew up on their artifacts to intercept them. Lin Yun turned to look. The leader was Shangguan Wan's personal disciple, Xu Wanrou, whom he had met once before. She was dressed in a long, azure robe, standing on a flying sword, with dozens of female disciples from Qingxia Peak behind her. In addition, there was a team of several hundred composed of other elders' personal disciples and inner-sect disciples.
With such a major incident, not a single elder has come? It seems the elders of the Flowing Cloud Sect are all tied up with something.
The Red Ghost Sect had planned this very deeply. This scene made Lin Yun even more worried.
"Judging by the power of this formation, I'm afraid they won't be able to break in for a while."
Lin Yun didn't dare to delay and quickly rushed towards the Chen family's compound. Along the way, he saw more and more corpses, including many from the Flowing Cloud Sect. At this moment, Lin Yun was worried he might see Duan Heng's body. Fortunately, he didn't see it all the way to the Chen family compound.
The Red Ghost Sect's surprise attack had caught the Chen family unprepared. Although it was sudden, under the leadership of Chen Nanfeng, they had quickly mobilized their forces. Now, all the powerful experts of Chen Family Fort were gathered here, which prevented the Red Ghost Sect from taking them down right away.
When Lin Yun arrived, the two sides were still locked in a stalemate. Several cultivators were also fighting fiercely in the sky, but their strength was significantly weakened by the Red Ghost Sect's formation.
Lin Yun blended into the front lines. Just then, he saw the man wearing the golden mask. Beside him was a man in a white mask.
"The people from the Flowing Cloud Sect have arrived. This side can still hold for some time. You take this opportunity to leave Chen Family Fort first."
The white-masked man nodded. "How is the situation at Five Yang Mountain? Have you still not found that thing?"
The golden-masked man nodded. "We've searched it inside and out and found nothing. Your previous guess should be correct, so we'll have to rely on you to get those two things back."
After the two talked for a while, the white-masked man stood up to leave. But just before he left, he gave a strange glance in Lin Yun's direction. Although it was just a glance, Lin Yun had the feeling of being seen through. Fortunately, the white-masked man didn't do anything to him.
On the other side, the group of cultivators led by Chen Nanfeng was resisting the Red Ghost Sect's assault.
"Hmph, the famous Red Ghost Sect is nothing special after all. Today, I'd like to see how you're going to wipe out my Chen family!" As his voice fell, the morale of the Chen Family Fort's cultivators soared.
But no matter how he provoked them, the Red Ghost Sect only ever sent out disciples with black ghost masks.
These black-masked disciples are just cannon fodder in the Red Ghost Sect. They're using them to wear down the strength of Chen Family Fort, Lin Yun thought to himself. If that golden-masked man were to attack, this battle would likely have ended long ago. But why hadn't he made a move yet?
Lin Yun was suspicious, and at the same time, he made up his mind. He had to do something, or the people of Chen Family Fort wouldn't be able to hold on.