Eternal Life from the Golden Needle Technique

Chapter 118: Chapter 115: Thoughts of Retreat

The so-called Blood Slaughter Three Demons were the most notorious and wicked band of Tribulation Cultivators in the outside world!

No,

they couldn’t even be called Tribulation Cultivators anymore.

They were Demon Cultivators of the kind who acted without any principles, whose endless evil deeds were too numerous to count!

Take now, for example.

The Blood Evil Gourd produced by the tall, thin figure opposite them...

...was an infamous Demonic Magical Artifact!

To refine this gourd, the Blood Slaughter Three Demons had once instigated a monstrous bloodbath among mortals, slaughtering over a thousand infants to use their heart’s blood to refine the treasure.

As for the adult blood needed as a supplementary ingredient, tens of thousands of ordinary people had been victimized!

Several cities were destroyed because of their actions.

And this...

was merely one of their crimes!

The depravity of these three was beyond imagination.

Ordinary Tribulation Cultivators killed and plundered, but their targets were almost always other Cultivators.

After robbing their target, they wouldn’t deliberately go after the target’s family and relatives.

But those three...

were the kind of scum who would slaughter a person’s entire family after robbing them!

As long as it benefited them and could enhance their strength, they would strike without the slightest hesitation, regardless of whether their victim was old or weak, a Cultivator or a common person!

Whether it was a newborn infant or a young child, they didn’t discriminate at all!

Their methods were incomparably ruthless and vicious,

and they would slaughter entire families at the slightest provocation.

Once, a man was chatting on the street about the three demons. He mentioned their beastly act of killing a thousand infants to refine the Blood Evil Gourd and cursed them viciously. As it happened, the demons, passing by in disguise, overheard him.

When the man returned home, he found his parents and wife dead and his house burned to ashes. Even several hundred of his relatives, friends, and neighbors had been slaughtered to accompany them in death!

But that wasn’t all.

A few days later,

the man who had cursed the three demons had his arms and legs chopped off, his eyes gouged out, and was turned into a human stump before being thrown into a ruined temple. But then they fed him a Healing Elixir, just enough to keep him clinging to life...

These three were arguably the most wicked and infamous beings in the Immortal Cultivation Realm.

It wasn’t that no one despised them or called upon righteous individuals to hunt them down.

But the three were extremely cunning and had mastered a profound Disguise Secret Technique. Unless they were forced to act personally, it was generally difficult for outsiders to recognize them.

This was precisely why Si Houqing hadn’t recognized the three of them at first.

Only when the Blood Evil Gourd appeared...

did he finally identify them, which explained his utter shock and horror!

To them, these were absolutely formidable enemies whose strength was impossible to match!

According to the rumors,

a Cultivator at the Qi Introduction Eighth Layer had once happened upon them while they were committing evil acts and intervened to uphold justice, clashing with them.

As a result, his foundation was injured by their Blood Evil Gourd,

and he was forced to flee.

But in the end, he was left with an incurable ailment, and his entire future path on the Dao was completely ruined.

’How can we possibly fight enemies that even a Qi Introduction Eighth Layer expert couldn’t defeat?!’

Shen Changchuan had no way of knowing what Si Houqing was thinking.

But his reaction...

caused Shen Changchuan’s mental assessment of the enemy’s danger level to skyrocket!

Without the slightest hesitation,

with a flick of his hand,

a Bronze Jar spun rapidly, flying up and forward.

VMM!

A faint golden light vibrated from the surface of the Bronze Jar, quickly coalescing into a huge, translucent golden barrier that enveloped both him and Si Houqing behind him.

The heavy, pale golden Shield had a tangible quality, as if cast from molten steel, giving off an impression of invincibility!

At almost the exact same moment,

the tall, thin figure opposite them had already uncorked the Blood-colored Gourd.

Dense clouds of blood-colored smoke suddenly shot out from the Blood Evil Gourd.

Within those dense clouds of smoke, countless skulls were visible to the naked eye.

Upon contact with the air, the smoke expanded rapidly, swelling a hundred, even a thousand times in a short moment. It transformed into a sky-blotting miasma of blood evil, covering an area of dozens of yards in a single breath and sweeping outward at an incredible speed!

Its speed was so fast that it enveloped Shen Changchuan and his companion in the blink of an eye!

”Hm?”

Shen Changchuan’s gaze hardened.

Under the shroud of the blood-red mist, a bone-chilling aura permeated the air. Bathed in its ominous red glow, a frigid killing intent seemed to freeze his very soul!

’What a bizarre technique!’

The attack had actually begun the very instant the tall, thin figure opened the cap of the Blood Evil Gourd.

The red light that spewed out with the blood-red smoke seemed to possess a strange Abnormal Power that suppressed one’s Divine Soul. It made one vaguely hear the wails of countless spirits, while one’s Divine Sense was being crushed under the weight of some unknown force.

As a result, even Shen Changchuan’s Divine Soul—which had already achieved Inner Vision and was in no way inferior to that of a cultivator at the Qi Introduction Late Stage Realm—was affected.

His body froze for an instant!

Fortunately,

he had sensed that something was wrong and activated the Bronze Jar for protection in advance.

Otherwise, if he had decided to fly back and evade,

he likely would have been affected by the red light’s Abnormal Power while still in mid-air. His Magical Power would have stagnated, causing him to plummet right into the bizarre, blood-colored mist!

Si Houqing, at his side, also came to his senses at this moment.

He was, after all, a cultivator at the Qi Introduction Seventh Layer.

Although his Heart Spirit had been shaken after recognizing the Blood Slaughter Three Demons, the perilous situation no longer allowed him to be distracted.

”Be careful! The Blood Evil Gourd is rumored to have the power to corrupt Magical Artifacts and dissolve Magical Power!”

”Once you’re tainted by it, it’s like a maggot burrowing into your bones—impossible to get rid of!”

”Once, a Cultivator at the Qi Introduction Eighth Layer fell victim to it. His foundation was damaged, his strength plummeted, and he was never able to advance another inch for the rest of his life!”

”Young Friend Shen, I suggest we retreat first and escape the range of the Blood Evil Gourd’s power!”

Si Houqing quickly explained, his nervous gaze sweeping over the blood-shrouded air around them. He was already thinking of retreat.

”I want to retreat too, but it’s too late.”

Shen Changchuan’s expression was grave as he slowly shook his head.

At this very moment,

even with the protection of the Bronze Jar, Shen Changchuan could clearly feel as if he had been plunged into a mire, nearly unable to move!

At the same time,

he could clearly sense the Magical Power in his body being rapidly depleted!

This was because the blood-colored mist carried an incomprehensible corrosive power that was constantly eating away at the pale golden light barrier protecting them, accelerating the consumption of his Magical Power!

Even the surface of the Bronze Jar was showing faint, visible signs of corrosion!

’Retreat?

It’s impossible!’