Cultivation by Trial and Error
Chapter 731: 724 Bloodstains

Chapter 731: Chapter 724 Bloodstains

Seeing Huang Dongming exhausted to this extent, Hua Qing and the others also stepped forward and approached the huge pair of scissors.

Taking a deep breath, although they had mentally prepared themselves in advance, when they actually tried to lift the enormous scissors, they truly realized just how astonishingly heavy this half-person-tall pair of scissors was!

“What kind of material is this thing made of that it could be so incredibly heavy?”

“With our strength, even if we had to carry a small mountain on our backs, we could definitely bear it, yet now, just lifting these scissors makes us strain like this?”

“All of us here are Golden Immortals, but when it comes to strength alone, there should be quite a gap between us.”

“But now, lifting these scissors is making each of us feel extremely burdened. This thing is very peculiar and is undoubtedly a rare and valuable treasure!”

…

You look at me, and I look at you, they exchanged glances and whispered among themselves.

Led by Man Li, the War God of the Demon Palace, who personally took action to divert the attention of many powerful cultivators from the Enemy-breaking Camp of the Heavenly Mansion, Hua Qing and Huang Dongming had seized the chance to break into the Merit Treasure Vault. Of course, their goal was undoubtedly this pair of giant scissors.

But now, being so heavy, it was difficult for any one of them to lift it with their strength alone.

Perhaps, if they worked together, they could carry the scissors out of the Merit Treasure Vault, but doing so would be far too noticeable.

Indeed, just as they would start to walk out of the vault with the scissors, they might already have attracted the attention of many strong cultivators from the Heavenly Mansion.

“Let’s try using a Storage Device, see if we can store it?”

A thought flashed through Hua Qing’s mind, and taking out a Storage Bag, he motioned to the others before beginning his attempt.

Using a Storage Bag to collect ordinary items takes but a moment’s effort to bring them inside.

This pair of giant scissors, however, proved to be much more difficult to store than other objects.

“Success!” Watching the scissors gradually disappear into the Storage Bag until they vanished completely, Hua Qing felt a surge of joy.

Holding the palm-sized Storage Bag in his hand, he weighed it.

The impossibly heavy scissors did not seem to cause any abnormal weight to the Storage Bag after being stored within it.

“Not good!” Just as he was about to tuck the Storage Bag into his chest, his expression suddenly changed.

The Storage Bag uncontrollably trembled violently and, with a muffled ‘pop’, burst open.

Hair-thin spatial cracks swept outwards in all directions.

Huang Dongming and the others, being a bit farther from the Storage Bag that had just exploded, were quick to react. With a few steps as a buffer, the spread of spatial cracks around them did not cause much harm to them.

At the center of the explosion, Hua Qing was left disheveled and his body was torn with numerous ghastly wounds, appearing as if he was a blood-soaked figure.

Thankfully, as a cultivator at the Golden Immortal Realm, his strength was decent. Otherwise, death would not have been out of the question, and it would have been more than just numerous injuries.

With a ‘clang…’ the huge pair of scissors that Hua Qing had just stored in the Storage Bag dropped to the ground following the bag’s explosion.

“Hua Qing, step back, I’ll handle this!”

As the aftermath of the Storage Bag explosion just settled, Huang Dongming, who had kept his distance, sighed softly before walking up to the scissors.

Among the five members of their team, although their strengths were not much different, the one trusted most by Man Li, the War God of the Demon Palace, was undeniably Huang Dongming.

All along the way, although Hua Qing led the way, the true leader among them was not him but Huang Dongming, the deacon of the Conquest Hall.

“This will not be easy to transport; Lord Man Li has already anticipated this.”

“As for how to deal with our current situation, my lord has given me instructions!”

After explaining to the few people beside him, Huang Dongming instructed them to step back a few paces.

Then, he took out an Array Plate, followed by several items in quick succession.

“With the Mother of Golden Essence as the guide, and the Blood Jiao Soul as the sacrifice…”

As he chanted, he placed the Array Plate on top of the large scissors that lay across the ground and arranged the items he had just taken out, one by one, around the plate at specific locations.

After completing these steps, his ten fingers moved swiftly like afterimages, forming seals and pressing them onto the Array Plate, he softly exclaimed, “Blood Sacrifice, revive!”

The items placed around the Array Plate instantly turned into bursts of light, converging above the plate.

Subsequently, the entire Array Plate spun around, emitting numerous threads of light of various colors. These threads interwove and tangled with each other, expanding outward like a spider’s web.

“The Blood Trace Ritual has been initiated; as long as even a trace of the supreme power of these large scissors can be revived, the higher-ups can use it to lock onto its location.”

“As long as we can confirm that these scissors are indeed the treasure she is looking for, she will personally make a move to take it!”

“The rest is no longer our concern; let’s go, hurry!”

Seeing that nearly half of the colorful threads of the web had been tinged with blood-red and the dense scent of blood was rushing towards the large scissors at the center of the web, Huang Dongming waved his hands and gestured to the few people around him to leave.

No sooner had he finished speaking than he took the lead and shot towards the exit of the Treasure Vault.

Of course, adhering to the principle of a thief never leaving empty-handed, he naturally did not forget to discreetly take some items from the vault along the way.

He acted in this manner, and the others did the same.

After all, as a cultivator, no one would complain about having too many treasures.

It wasn’t as if they were deliberately lingering in the vault; they were merely taking a few items by the way, which didn’t delay them much at all.

Swift as a whirlwind, the group moved rapidly. In the blink of an eye, they had dashed out of the vault and disappeared into the passages that led to the palaces above.

…

In the mining area of Heavenly Mansion, at the edge of the Enemy-breaking Camp.

The neat courtyard was devoid of people; only rocks that had been dug from nearby mines were haphazardly piled on the ground.

“I’ve already fled here and yet that Sword Cultivator from Demon Palace, who calls himself Zong Sheng, is still relentlessly pursuing me?”

“The kind are bullied, and the gentle are ridden. As a man of simple and honest character, does he really think I’m easy to bully, that he’s got me figured out?”

Transforming into a faint white shadow, Chen Hai sped along his way.

During the chase, by the time he reached this place, he had covered nearly ten miles.

Compared to the chaotic center of the camp, the edge of the camp where he was had far fewer people.

After all, the raid by Demon Palace was to harm the enemy and to inflict as much damage as possible on Heavenly Mansion.

With few human traces around and only rocks, those guys couldn’t possibly run here to play with stones, right?

Racing on, at first, Chen Hai, who only appeared to be at the early stage of an Earth Immortal, was certainly not fast.

However, as he left the core area of the camp and the human traces around him thinned, he saw that Zong Sheng was still in pursuit behind him, and his speed began to climb gradually.

Some people just have a one-track mind, and Zong Sheng must be one of them.

Previously, as he chased Chen Hai, the distance between them had been closing rapidly, but chase as he might, his attacks always fell just short of reaching Chen Hai.

Despite this, he wasn’t cautious but became even more stubborn.

Looking at his tenacity, it seemed he wouldn’t rest until he caught up with Chen Hai and cut him down with his sword.