The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 169 - 154 Blood Moon Jiuyuan_1

Chapter 169: Chapter 154 Blood Moon Jiuyuan_1

Yuan Mang Fragmented Lands.

Recently, Pang Jian who had been constantly sensing the mysteries of the Innate Realm, looked down and his mind shivered slightly.

Below, nine majestic peaks rose from the ground, standing tall on the verdant earth.

Yuan Mang, larger than the combined area of the Three Immortal Islands, is four to five times the size of Cloud Marsh Fragment Land, with wilderness around the edges, and centered around the nine towering peaks.

At the top of one peak, about two thousand zhang tall, stood a palace of jade and crystal, like the residence of a god spirit.

The other eight peaks, without any buildings at their summits, instead harbored Fire Cloud Ships, Unstable Ferries, Red Rosy Clouds Boats, and Golden Chariots, as well as numerous Cloud Sails.

Nevertheless, more Cloud Sails were still docked between the peaks, in the forests, for they hadn’t the privilege to land upon the summits.

Pang Jian glanced and noted that among the slightly lower peaks, the number of Fire Cloud Ships and Unstable Ferries docked was more than one.

Obviously, the people coming from the Raging Sun Sect and Blood Moon were not all of the same group.

"Whoosh! Whoosh, whoosh!"

Cloud Sails floated in from all directions, still heading towards the Yuan Mang Fragmented Lands below.

At a glance, Pang Jian knew that the number of Cloud Sails in Yuan Mang Fragmented Lands was close to a hundred.

And this did not include the higher-grade Flying Spirit Artifacts from the Raging Sun Sect, Blood Moon, Star River Alliance, and Red Mountain.

The Cloud Sail commanded by Gao Yuan could carry dozens of people, which meant that the number of cultivators in Yuan Mang Fragmented Lands likely reached the thousands.

"The first peak of Yuan Mang is the trading venue soon to be hosted by Cao, and most of his subordinates are also concentrated there," Gao Yuan explained to the two.

"From the second to the eighth peak, those who are qualified to land their Flying Spirit Artifacts are either from the five major sects or... ferocious individual cultivators renowned throughout the Third Realm."

"Yuan Mang is vast, and Cao can’t control everything. Apart from the first peak and surrounding areas, fighting is not prohibited elsewhere."

"Those coming to join the meeting, if their realm isn’t high enough and they fear being ambushed by individual cultivators, can offer up precious Spirit Stones to choose to stay in the cave residences at the first peak."

"As long as they stay, they need not worry about trouble until they leave Yuan Mang."

"..."

As the Cloud Sail approached, Gao Yuan detailed the various rules of Yuan Mang Fragmented Lands.

He wanted the siblings to understand and see whether they wanted to stay at the first peak after the Cloud Sail docked.

Suddenly!

From below his lapel, Gao Yuan received a message through a voice-transmitting Talisman Paper.

"Yuan Fei is here too, he’s calling me over to chat."

Gao Yuan immediately looked around for Yuan Fei.

Soon, he fixed his gaze on a Cloud Sail that was floating in mid-air, not in a hurry to descend to Yuan Mang, and said to Luo Hongyan, "If it’s not too much trouble, then I will..."

"No rush."

Luo Hongyan nodded.

"Thank you."

Smiling, Gao Yuan bowed and then controlled the Cloud Sail to fly towards Yuan Fei’s position.

"Individual Cultivator Ling Yun and Wang Yisen, these two Hollow Profound Realm individuals have nearly a hundred thousand spirit stones in their hands, along with plenty of rare items. In a moment, I’ll exchange for two attendance tokens."

Luo Hongyan whispered to Pang Jian.

"Hollow Profound Realm and they actually have so many spirit stones?"

Pang Jian was stunned.

The individual cultivators who died on Ice Rock Island had their storage bags filled with spirit stones and items, pills, totalling up to just twenty thousand or so spirit stones.

Ling Yun and Wang Yisen, these two great cultivators, actually possessed far more spirit stones than several hundred deceased individual cultivators!

"What kind of accumulation can Marrow Cleansing Realm, Meridians Channeling Realm individual cultivators have? A few Innate Realm chaps were also lucky enough to reach Yuan Fei’s Cloud Sail and survive," Luo Hongyan said with some regret.

"Ah!"

Gao Yuan suddenly let out a scream of terror.

The others, who had been focused on the sight of Yuan Mang below, hadn’t paid much attention to him until now.

Upon hearing the scream, they turned their heads towards Yuan Fei’s Cloud Sail, previously docked by the stone heaps of Ice Rock Island.

At first glance, they saw a flayed corpse hanging from the mast of Yuan Fei’s Cloud Sail!

The bloody corpse was currently exposed under the fierce sun, looking utterly miserable.

The face of the corpse, while still largely intact, had vacant eye sockets with the eyeballs gouged out, now only containing coagulated crimson blood.

"Yuan Fei!"

Gao Yuan shrieked.

If Yuan Fei was dead, then who was the one who just communicated with him?

Gao Yuan trembled, sensing that something dreadful was imminent. He suppressed his curiosity and turned to leave quickly.

He knew that as an individual cultivator like himself, in this cruel world, he was akin to a rootless duckweed.

If he encountered a powerful disciple of the five major sects, he might die from a single misstep. Facing even stronger individual cultivators... he might die without knowing why.

Despite his intense curiosity, he forced himself not to look further or ask any questions.

"I am Elder Jiuyuan."

A deep, hoarse voice suddenly resounded from beneath the corps of Yuan Fei.

Gao Yuan immediately felt a chill run down his spine.

Pang Jian and Luo Hongyan, upon hearing that familiar name, also furrowed their brows in consternation.

The Dark Ghosts had died, the seller of the information was Individual Cultivator Cloud Ascetic, the executor was Zhu Yuanxi, but the true decision-maker was Elder Jiuyuan!

In the Lower Realm, it was Fei Zheng who attempted to curry favor with Elder Jiuyuan by forcibly abducting sisters Bai Wei and Bai Zhi, leading to their joint raid on a Beast-Catching Ship with the Dark Ghosts.

The conflict between Dark Ghosts and Blood Moon, and the root of several bloody battles, was the Jiuyuan of Blood Moon!

"Huff!"

A brawny man with an extremely broad shoulder, wearing a crimson cape, rose with a smile.

He soared towards Gao Yuan’s Cloud Sail, laughing, "No need to hurry off, I’ve already sent you a message, shouldn’t we have a chat first?"

Though he was speaking to Gao Yuan, Jiuyuan’s gaze never left Luo Hongyan and Pang Jian from beginning to end.

Yuan Fei could not withstand his harsh interrogation, and ended up spilling everything he should and shouldn’t have.

From this, he also learned that this mysterious pair of siblings who appeared in Ice-rock City, could very likely be from a noble family of the Upper Realm.

The brother had paid particular attention to the corpses of Dark Ghosts within the pile of rocks and had even addressed Dong Tianze as Ghost Leader.

The beheading of his subordinate, Zhu Yuanxi, arranging Zhu Yuanxi’s head on the ground, seemed to be a means of avenging the Dark Ghosts.

"People from the Upper Realm... actually have some connection with Dark Ghosts, I wonder what the situation is..."

It was precisely because he could not fathom the background of Luo Hongyan and Pang Jian that he did not dare act rashly. Knowing the siblings were aboard Gao Yuan’s Cloud Sail, he had waited until now to see them with his own eyes.

"Young man Gao Yuan, pays respects to Elder Jiuyuan."

By the time Jiuyuan landed, Gao Yuan’s speech was incoherent, and he greeted him with a body cold as ice.

He was very clear at heart that for someone like Jiuyuan, with his status in Blood Moon, killing individual cultivators like him and Yuan Fei was no different from slaughtering a chicken.

Not to mention beyond Yuan Mang Fragmented Lands, even if he was within the Fragmented Lands of Yuan Mang, as long as he was not at the First Peak, Jiuyuan could kill him whenever he wished.

"Hmm."

Jiuyuan nodded his head, without even glancing at him, his dark red pupils fixed on Luo Hongyan, who wore a veil.

He then broadly smiled and said, "Don’t take offense, my friends. I came specially to meet the ones who killed Ling Yun and Zhu Yuanxi. As everyone knows, Zhu Yuanxi was my man, and Ling Yun... had more than a mere acquaintanceship with me."

"I killed them,"

Luo Hongyan’s eyes showed no panic as she quietly looked at Jiuyuan and scoffed, "What are you going to do about it?"

As long as she found a few rare spiritual materials at Cao’s trading event, her strength would surge in an instant, and she would no longer fear Jiuyuan at all.

She had been so flamboyant along the way, allowing Gao Yuan not to worry too much, exactly because she was capable of a swift increase in combat power.

Jiuyuan struggled to suppress his rage and said, "Can you give me a reason?"

"There is no reason!"

Luo Hongyan’s attitude was extremely firm.

"Then can you tell me where you come from?"

Jiuyuan asked again.

"You’re not qualified to know,"

Luo Hongyan replied again.

Jiuyuan took a deep breath, his chest swelling like an inflated ball, and his figure seemed to have grown in size.

He gave Luo Hongyan a deep look, then with a detached smile, he nodded his head and cupped his hands, saying, "My apologies for the intrusion."

As his voice faded, he left Gao Yuan’s Cloud Sail.

As soon as he set foot on Yuan Fei’s Cloud Sail floating in the void, the Cloud Sail looked as if it was torn apart by a wild, raging dragon, shredded to pieces in an instant.

"Boom!"

The Cloud Sail, several dozen meters in length, suddenly fractured into a myriad of wooden planks and strips of cloth, only to be engulfed by a deep red bloodlight that ground the wood and cloth to dust and splinters.

Unable to vent his frustration elsewhere, Jiuyuan, like a deep red shooting star, landed on the Fourth Peak of Yuanmang.

Gao Yuan, who was seated on the ground like a lump of mud, was sweating profusely, wiping away his sweat and catching his breath simultaneously.

"I’m actually still alive,"

Gao Yuan exclaimed as pale as death.

"To encounter this guy before even reaching Yuan Mang, what terrible luck," Luo Hongyan snorted, glanced at Pang Jian who was still relatively composed, and said, "Do you know why I’m so defiant towards him?"

"The less you give him face, the more he fears you,"

Pang Jian nodded in understanding.

"That’s right. Such characters, once convinced they can eliminate you with ease, will not hesitate for a moment." Luo Hongyan looked down at Gao Yuan, who was sitting on the ground like sludge, and mocked, "Are you that afraid of him?"

"If you two weren’t here, I would’ve ended up just like Yuan Fei, skinned by him as well."

Gao Yuan said in between gasps, his nerves still on edge.

The Cloud Sail he owned had been destroyed, but the sight of Yuan Fei hanging from the mast, bloodied and butchered, he might not forget for decades.

Individual cultivators like him, without the protection of a sect, would meet with terrible ends if they accidentally crossed someone like Jiuyuan.

Unless one reached the level of Cao, making all five major sects wary.

"Just to be safe, let’s temporarily stay at Cao’s First Peak. Spend more spirit stones if we must, but at least during our participation in the gathering, you both will be safe." Luo Hongyan decided.

Gao Yuan nodded emphatically and agreed, "I’ve already decided, even if I spend all my savings, I must secure a dwelling on the First Peak! As long as Jiuyuan does not leave Yuan Mang, I’ll cling to it and not leave!"

The tragic death of Yuan Fei made him extremely cautious, to avoid being senselessly slaughtered by Jiuyuan or his men.

Soon, their Cloud Sail descended towards the Yuan Mang Fragmented Lands.

On the Fourth Peak, two Unstable Ferries were moored side by side.

The broad-shouldered Jiuyuan, his big red cape billowing, stood at the summit watching Gao Yuan’s Cloud Sail slowly descend into the gorge of the First Peak.

"Coming from the Upper Realm... Are they from a major family, or from one of those few sects?" Jiuyuan frowned in thought.

...