sjar Chapter 501 It’s all under control
Chapter 501 It’s all under control
On the top floor of Zuixianju, there is a room that is not open to the public.
The view from here is superb, overlooking the entire magnificent Jade Belt River, but at this moment the heavy crimson-gold gate is tightly closed, and the powerful soundproofing and divine sense-blocking array is operating at full capacity.
Unlike the extreme flamboyance below, this place appears restrained and subdued.
The walls were a deep, dark red, and the floor was covered with a thick carpet.
In the center is a huge round table made of black and red crystal jade, with natural patterns on the tabletop that seem to flow like blood.
On the wall behind the main seat hangs a huge symbol of the Crimson Yuan Sect, seemingly painted with black blood, exuding a chilling majesty.
At this moment, the Great Elder of the Crimson Origin Sect, True Man Yan Yang, was sitting in the main seat. He had shed his kind and gentle demeanor in front of outsiders, and his eyes were as sharp as a hawk's.
A cold-blooded cultivator shrouded in a black cloak sat beside him, slowly tapping the table with his fingertips. "How are the preparations going?"
"It went very smoothly. After Guo Yao's death, Hundred Flowers City has completely submitted to the Crimson Origin Sect."
As long as Aoki doesn't arrive in time, the "Hundred Flowers Return to Origin" can proceed once the last "Daughter of a Hundred Flowers" is selected.
But are you sure Aoki won't arrive before the Hundred Flowers Festival?
Judging from Shen Xu's fearless demeanor, it's not impossible that she has already arrived in Hundred Flowers City! The sinister gaze of the Flaming Sun Venerable fell upon the man in black robes.
The man in black robes replied with a hint of sarcasm, "It seems the renowned Venerable Yanyang has truly aged; he can no longer even discern a child's lie."
Blood Killing Tower has never failed in its missions. That spatial barrier is not so easy to break, and even if it is broken, no one knows where they will be teleported to.
If she were teleported outside the Xingchuan Domain, she would probably have to wait for the Seven Luminaries Sect to unseal the inter-domain teleportation array to return.
"And even with your status, after all this time, you still can't find out why the Seven Luminaries Sect suddenly sealed off the inter-domain array?" the black-robed man asked.
"The Sword Alliance's explanation is that the Seven Star Saints went to Zhongzhou, so they had no choice but to seal off the inter-domain array for the safety of Xingchuan Domain."
"Do you know why the Seven Star Saints went to Zhongzhou?"
"You shouldn't be asking me this question. Your Blood Slaughter Tower probably has more than one inside agent in the Seven Luminaries Sect, right?" Venerable Yan Yang's gaze deepened.
You don't seem to be thinking very well today.
"When people get old, they tend to become a little confused," Master Yanyang smiled.
"That girl from the Ji family doesn't want to marry your boy. Could something unexpected happen?"
"It's no big deal; she'll belong to the Song family sooner or later."
"What about Shen Xu?"
"He's not a fool. If he really found out something, secretly reporting back to the Sword Alliance would be the best option."
However, he chose to publicly reveal his relationship with Aoki and said in public that he would report to the Sword Alliance, which shows that he had not found anything useful at all.
His purpose in doing this, besides helping the girl from the Ji family refuse the marriage proposal, was also to test me. If I really attacked him, it would probably play right into his hands.
This young man is arrogant and thinks he can outmaneuver everything, but in my eyes he is still too green.
The best course of action is to ignore him. As long as Aoki doesn't come, he can't cause any trouble in Hundred Flowers City on his own.
Although I don't believe he'll actually leave Hundred Flowers City, just to be on the safe side, we still need to keep an eye on him and prevent him from returning to the Sword Alliance for the time being.
"When did even the Venerable Yan Yang become so soft-hearted?" the black-robed man chuckled in a hoarse voice.
"Some people can be killed, and some cannot."
Shen Xu is not an ordinary Qi Sea Realm cultivator. He has a trump card that can fight against a Transcendent Realm cultivator. Can you guarantee that you can kill him?
"Besides, who knows if he has any backup plans left by the Sword Alliance Venerable? If he escapes back to the Sword Alliance and alerts the enemy, neither of us can bear the consequences," said Venerable Yanyang coldly.
"In my eyes, there is no one who cannot be killed. If you are afraid, you shouldn't have cooperated with us in the first place. What great things can you accomplish by being timid and hesitant!"
"The Sword Alliance won't trace my actions to tampering with the teleportation array that Qingmu was using, but if Shen Xu were to die in Hundred Flowers City now, I would be held responsible, which would not benefit our subsequent plans."
The best course of action is to keep him trapped for a few days until the day of the sacrifice, at which point the goddess's power will help us clean everything up.
"Hmph! As expected of the upright and righteous Grand Elder of the Crimson Origin Sect, he never gets his hands dirty when doing things." The man in black robes sneered.
"This is a necessary precaution; I don't trust anyone else but you."
"It seems you've arranged everything for me," the man in black said coldly.
"No, I'm just providing you with convenience. I have complete trust in the people of Blood Kill Tower."
"Blood Killing Tower never needs clients to tell us what to do. We will naturally not overlook anything you can think of."
Before you even noticed him, my people were already beside him.
I have his every move under my control.
Remember your promise; the word 'trust' has never existed in the Bloodbath Tower.
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Walking on the bustling streets of Baihua City, Shen Xu kept thinking about how to break the deadlock with the resources he currently had.
The prophecy left to him by the temple keeper was of great concern to him: when the Goddess Peak blooms with a hundred flowers, someone will light a sacred fire on the Goddess Peak.
The only person who meets this condition is the Goddess of a Hundred Flowers who has returned to Goddess Peak.
But there are still many questions he hasn’t figured out about this matter, the most important of which is—why did the Goddess of a Hundred Flowers freeze Goddess Peak?
Is it for the sake of sainthood? Or for some other reason?
If the choice of the Flower Maiden was to help the Flower Goddess achieve sainthood, then according to his understanding, the Goddess Peak had been frozen for more than just a thousand years.
The Hundred Flowers City has been holding the Hundred Flowers Festival to select the Hundred Flowers Maidens for nearly a thousand years.
Where did that prophecy originate from?
What exactly happened in his past life? And why did it attract the Seven Star Saints to come and suppress him?
Could the 'new goddess' created from the daughter of a hundred flowers be an evil saint?
What roles did the Song family and the four major families play in all of this?
Thinking of this, Shen Xu took out the amber that the temple keeper had left him.
Although the temple keeper did not say what was sealed inside, Shen Xu could sense that the sealed flowers and Qu Lan's aura were somewhat similar.
He also learned from Qu Lan that the girl was not the old man's biological granddaughter, but a child he had adopted.
He had never heard of the goddess appearing in Hundred Flowers City, but Qu Lan saw the goddess last night.
She didn't believe in the goddess, yet she managed to attract her attention, and the goddess even personally told her to stay away from Hundred Flowers City—this was a treatment that an ordinary girl could never receive.
Moreover, the amber in his hand also suggests that Qu Lan's background is definitely not that simple.
This suggests that the old woman was not an ordinary temple keeper, but why did she leave the amber to him?
If she wanted him to do something for her, she should have just said so. Why leave him with an ambiguous prophecy?