The lotus seed world on this side was already half red, large areas of the sky were the color of blood, breaking and falling in chunks, dyeing everything it passed over red.

The sky wind still howled, and the wind also carried blood, as if this world was wailing.

Truly a scene of the end times.

And Chong Xuanzun was still reading and boiling tea!

Jiang Wang arrived by boat, a shout catching in his throat: “You are… too fond of studying.”

Chong Xuanzun was originally willing to chat a few sentences about his insights from reading—if the person opposite wasn’t Jiang Wang.

He subtly put the book away and, with great noble etiquette, lifted his hand in a gesture of invitation: “The so-called good times are nothing more than old friends from elsewhere, meeting by a mud stove in the snow. Please all gentlemen be seated, I brought good tea from the East Country, let’s not hinder sharing a drink.”

The *Poor Odd*, which was constantly being sucked of blood, seemed to solidify into a mountain range, not moving at all. Moonlight gently fell, condensing six chairs just right.

Not to mention, the form and style were all very exquisite, clearly a master’s work at first glance.

“I just said not to bother with this fellow!” Dou Zhao kicked away the chair in front of him with one foot, yelling: “Running over to see him make a fool of himself!”

Chong Xuanzun looked at him with a seemingly amused smile: “I told you all to go, but you insisted on not going, and still wanted to follow me together. Now that something happened, you come to resent me instead?”

“I’m not used to sitting in other people’s chairs,” Jiang Wang said, casually pressing down, creating a wooden grand master’s chair carved with the words ‘White Jade Capital Wine House’, and sat down with a flourish. He looked at Chong Xuanzun and said: “You’re not being honest, Brother Fenghua! As soon as I discovered something was wrong, I anxiously came to save you, but you clearly knew everything and didn’t even send me a single message.”

Zhu Weiwo, however, just casually sat on the large moonlight chair, collecting his *Xin Jin Gun*.

Zuo Qingru and Ning Shuangrong also each sat on one side.

Before intruding into this lotus seed world, they were still worried about the flood crisis, still fearful of the terrifying changes in the Blood River Sect, still racking their brains for a solution to the situation…

But after seeing the leisurely Chong Xuanzun, those moods all subsided.

Perhaps they didn’t have much contact with Chong Xuanzun.

Yet they absolutely knew what kind of character he was, and knew that the Champion Marquis of Great Qi couldn’t be a fool.

Chong Xuanzun being so leisurely here looking at the snow and boiling tea could only explain two things. First, he knew about the Blood River Sect’s problems early on, and second, the Qi Country had already prepared.

The world’s hegemonic country had already prepared, what was there still to worry about!

Matters involving the Blood River Sect crisis and the stability of the flood indeed weren’t something these young people could handle. Having a taller figure take over was a cause for great happiness for everyone.

Only now did they recall the earlier separation. Chong Xuanzun and Kou Xuejiao had separated from the crowd with extreme tacit understanding, truly each having hidden motives!

Dou Zhao saying they all had problems was truly not half wrong.

Now, the entire special rescue team for Chong Xuanzun consisted only of Ji Li still writing calculations there, as if possessed. Instead, no one went to disturb her; they just let her lean and sit in the *Hear Know Boat*, accompanied by the *Snow Explore Flower*.

Chong Xuanzun arranged seven tea cups, elegantly pouring tea for the crowd, and said indifferently: “The people traveling with you, Jiang True Man, are the personal disciple of the Grand Master of the Three Punishments Palace’s Legalists, Wu Bingyi, the personal disciple of the Dean of Evening Drum Academy, Chen Pu, and the personal disciple of the Pavilion Master of Sword Pavilion, Si Yuaan… What trouble could you possibly have? The danger is all here with me.”

Having had the experience of coming to the flood last time, Jiang Wang instantly understood—so this was a layout jointly orchestrated by these several great figures!

When the flood changed initially, rushing to suppress the flood was precisely these several, plus Ruan Qu, the Supervisor of the Qin Tianjian located in the southern border of Great Qi!

It was very obvious that at that time, these great figures had already detected something was wrong with the Blood River Sect, but had hidden it without revealing it. This period of calm in the flood, lasting more than two years, had unknown undercurrents beneath!

Now, the Blood River Sect’s sudden move today was, of course, a long-planned scheme. But in fact, it had already been alerted and guarded against by these great grand masters early on. Everything today was perhaps all within the plan!

No wonder Chong Xuanzun was so leisurely! His biggest danger was just before the Blood River Sect’s changes appeared. After the changes actually happened, it had nothing to do with him.

Because next, it was a True Monarch chess game.

Then Ji Li suddenly requested to travel to the flood through Zuo Guangshu, Si Yuaan forcibly blocked the road and insisted Ning Shuangrong join the team, and Zuo Qingru just happened to be with Ning Shuangrong and followed along…

Everything had been arranged early, the traces were obvious.

These great grand masters, one by one old and cunning. Initially, they were either iron-faced and impartial, or lamented heaven and earth, or watched the fire from the other side, or remained unmoved. Their acting was truly superb! Combined with his, Jiang someone’s, pure ignorance two years ago, he truly thought the waves in the flood stopped with the Blood River Sect elder Xu Mingsong!

Just now, when escaping from the Five Virtues world, he still asked Zuo Qingru and the others to try to contact their masters… Why bother contacting them! These several True Monarchs who could Derive the Dao, who knows where they were hiding and observing.

Wait, cat?

Jiang Wang looked towards the *Snow Explore Flower*. This fat cat was just draped over the boat’s gunwale looking outside, and immediately shrank back.

True Man Jiang sighed deeply: “Although world affairs are like chess, don’t think everyone else is just a piece!”

“They truly didn’t take you as bait!” Chong Xuanzun finished pouring the tea, made a gesture of ‘please’, and said casually: “Although I don’t know the Blood River Sect’s specific scheme, I understand that they definitely have designs on the present world’s proud talents and need contemporary geniuses to do something… Didn’t you break Li Yi Cave’s True record? This name is very impressive, and you are currently independent and relatively convenient for aftermath, so it’s very possible that you became a target for the Blood River Sect. Several great grand masters then conveniently placed a piece through you. Girl Ning and the others actually don’t know either. After all, in this situation, they have no way of guarding secrets.”

Jiang Wang understood: “But the Blood River Sect’s target is still you. My coming to the flood was an accident, so Kou Xuejiao just thought of separating us at that time.”

Chong Xuanzun said: “She should have thought of separating all of you. After all, if only I have an accident, it’s still easy to explain. If so many people have an accident together, the Blood River Sect just won’t be able to make things clear… Of course, if you all truly entered the lotus seed world in the plan, it’s not excluded that the Blood River Sect would change their minds.”

He looked at Jiang Wang and Dou Zhao: “After all, you two also have talent.”

‘Having talent’ Dou Zhao didn’t like hearing Chong Xuanzun speak, only asking: “What about Kou Xuejiao?”

Chong Xuanzun pointed his finger at the blood rain pouring down from the sky.

“You killed her?” Dou Zhao looked down at him from a height, like he was interrogating a prisoner: “How many moves did it take?”

Chong Xuanzun wasn’t annoyed either: “I didn’t arrive in time.”

“Then who killed her?”

“Xu Ximing.”

Zuo Qingru, who had been listening silently, her eyes wide with surprise, quickly asked: “Champion Marquis also saw Xu Ximing?”

Chong Xuanzun said: “I didn’t see him personally, but he did indeed chop out that sword that killed Kou Xuejiao. I also only discovered she had been killed a while after Kou Xuejiao died.”

Jiang Wang asked a key question: “So who led you into this world’s plan, was it Kou Xuejiao or Xu Ximing?”

“It was Kou Xuejiao,” Chong Xuanzun affirmed. “When the truth was revealed after she was killed, her death was determined. Before that, she was still doing what she hadn’t finished.”

He looked again at Zuo Qingru, who was trying to find traces: “The place where Xu Ximing killed Kou Xuejiao is not here.”

Zuo Qingru silently sat back down.

“The Blood River Sect has designs on the present world’s proud talents?” Dou Zhao stood proudly at the corner of the *Poor Odd*, looking up at the wind and snow: “No wonder as soon as I came to the flood, they launched their attack.”

Chong Xuanzun laughed: “I said something, and you didn’t listen at all.”

Jiang Wang thought thoughtfully: “Teacher Sister Zuo mentioned the Blood River Sect yielding to wisdom tradition. I was still curious, with so many famous and talented individuals, how come after entering the main Blood River Sect, they didn’t bring any changes to the Blood River Sect. Fifty-four thousand years have passed, and the Blood River Sect is still the same Blood River Sect. At that time, I felt it was either authority and responsibility that led to this. It was the Blood River Sect bearing responsibility, requiring the Blood River Sect to always be one. Now that I think about it, there’s a big problem in this!”

The evil sect’s demands on geniuses have never been rare.

That giant turtle in your country, isn’t that an example for me?

Behind it is the Jing Country, still the first empire in the present world.

Zuo Qingru joined the discussion at this time: “You feel that those proud talents who entered the main Blood River Sect all became puppets, and later weren’t real? The Blood River Sect has a certain power to plunder talents, is this what makes the Blood River Sect’s True Monarchs continuous for fifty thousand years?”

Jiang Wang said: “I just feel there might be such a possibility… This can also explain why they invited Chong Xuanzun so many times. Even after Huo Shiji died, they didn’t give up.”

Ning Shuangrong placed her sword horizontally on her knee and sat properly: “Did Champion Marquis refuse the Blood River Sect at the beginning because he detected that they had problems?”

“That’s not it,” Chong Xuanzun shook his head: “Huo Shiji was a True Monarch who could Derive the Dao after all, how could he expose flaws in front of me? I was just not interested in the Blood River Sect at that time. It wasn’t until Kou Xuejiao came to find me again that I felt something was wrong. They were a little too eager, and also too uncaring about the feelings of the Moving Mountain True Man… But I didn’t think much at that time either. What the Blood River Sect was like had nothing to do with me. It wasn’t until Supervisor Ruan found me and talked about the cause and effect that I decided to make this trip.”

He finished his teacup and said casually: “Huo Shiji still owes us in Qi Country. How could he possibly end it with one death?

“You mean, Huo Shiji actually didn’t die?” Jiang Wang was shocked: “I was also at the scene when he suppressed the flood. At that time, the wonder of Deriving the Dao clearly appeared… Several great grand masters also didn’t discover anything abnormal.”

“It’s just saying there’s a possibility, it’s still not certain,” Chong Xuanzun said: “But deceiving the present world is not a rare thing either. The Blood River Sect has operated in the flood for so many years, they always have means unknown to others. It’s nothing more than paying some price… Just depends on whether it’s worth it.”

If it could truly be done, if it could successfully deceive the several great grand masters who were at the scene at that time.

Then for Huo Shiji, any price should be worth it.

Because he could shed his shell like a cicada, shaking off the Qi Country’s restraints on him.

As the Duke Who Guards the Country of Great Chu, Dou Zhao understood as soon as he heard the word ‘debt’ why Huo Shiji made his move in the initial Qi-Xia war—in the first Qi-Xia war, Huo Shiji even joined hands with the Xia Xiang Emperor Si Yuan. As a result, in the second Qi-Xia war, he turned around and went to help Qi Country, personally blocking Long Shengjun. This matter was also discussed within Chu Country. They analyzed it many times, from the Blood River Sect’s geographical relations to Huo Shiji’s character, vaguely touching upon the truth of Long Luo Cave, but ultimately stopped with Huo Shiji’s death.

He also understood from this the necessity of Huo Shiji’s fake death escape.

“Alright, don’t waste words!” Dou True Man waved his big sleeves, his red clothes fluttering: “So what do we do now? Smash this broken place, or go do something else?”

“I’ve already said,” Chong Xuanzun said indifferently: “Drink tea.”

He raised his finger again and pointed at the blood-colored sky falling: “If you are really idle and panicked, you can also try to chop through its erosion.”

Dou Zhao’s eyes looked at his finger.

He withdrew it without moving.

Rumble rumble!

The change happened at this moment.

The blood-colored erosion seemed to finally reach a certain critical point. In the highest place of this world, a blood-colored lightning suddenly exploded!

This tree-shaped, winding blood-colored electric light seemed to tear the sky.

And from within that crack, more blood-colored electric light burst out.

The entire lotus seed world was illuminated bright red by the blood light, ten thousand blood lightning bolts fell from the nine heavens.

The end of days had already arrived.

Rumble!

A huge blood-colored thunder pillar, like a dangerous peak, descended from the sky, with the momentum of breaking through the ground, striking directly at the mountain peaks!

In front of such a terrifying thunder pillar, the mountain peaks were only like flying stones, and travelers were like dust.

Zhu Weiwo felt the crisis and lifted his gun for the first time. With the ground as the string and his body as the arrow, a sharp and unparalleled counter-charge.

But there were three figures, faster than him, flying above the sky.

Green shirts, white clothes, red martial clothes, like three branches of a war flag, erected high in the sky.

Chong Xuanzun’s white clothes danced in the air like snow, facing the blood thunder pillar, yet he countered with an unpretentious single knife lift.

Above the frosty cold knife edge, a terrifying knife force condensed into a giant several thousand *zhang*.

At first glance, it was like using one mountain to chop towards another mountain!

The snow-white knife mountain chopped onto the bright red thunder mountain, cutting it all the way in reverse, thunder light splashing, straight up to the high sky.

Jiang Wang stepped onto the high sky with one step, only a ringing sound in his sheath.

The sword’s ringing sounded like thunder.

His posture was so casual, and he lightly outlined and drew, grabbing with one hand, already holding all the ten thousand blood lightning bolts falling from the high sky. The thunder light shone violently, but all of it annihilated in his palm.

Dou Zhao’s figure in red and gold horizontally traversed the long sky, his heroic aura shining throughout the world, and he also only struck one knife—

As this knife was struck out, the sky of the entire lotus seed world was instantly covered with black cracks, as dense as a spider web, completely covering the blood-colored electric light crack.

This was the first knife of the Seven Styles of Dou Zhan.

He actually used heaven’s punishment to mend the sky’s lack!

Using the power of destruction to fill destruction, this was simply wonderful to the extreme.

The scene of extinction that was imminent was instantly smoothed over.

Ning Shuangrong had just pulled out her sword, and Zuo Qingru was still using her decree to protect Ji Li…

Suddenly, a shaking sound, like shattering, echoed loudly, and when it finally reached their ears, it only sounded like a porcelain cup smashing on the ground.

Ning Shuangrong suddenly saw—

The sky collapsed!

Jiang Wang was furious: “Let you mend the sky! Where did you mend it to!”

Chong Xuanzun laughed.

Dou Zhao’s face was expressionless: “This world is too fragile, don’t blame me.”

Those black cracks, the blood-colored electric cracks were divided into countless pieces, what could be called the ‘sky curtain’, like a piece of thin cardboard that had been cut into pieces, fragments fluttering down.

Behind the broken sky curtain was vast chaos.

The sky was already broken, meaning the fundamental rules of this world could no longer be maintained, and this world had officially entered the stage of collapse.

The crowd also could not continue to wait here, they could only prepare to transfer.

But in the next moment, a streak of blood color covered the long sky.

That vast chaos was already behind the blood color.

It was as if a divine being had pulled down a roll of blood curtain, covering this world where the sky had already collapsed. Instantly creating a new sky for this world!

Creating a world might be much more difficult than destroying one.

Instantly chopping the sky curtain, and instantly recreating the sky curtain, the power shown by these two things was fundamentally not on the same level.

Even strong as Jiang Wang, Dou Zhao, and Chong Xuanzun felt danger at this time, exchanging a look of alert.

And that blood-colored sky curtain became brighter and brighter, more and more brilliant—

Rumble!

In the next moment, all light turned into electricity, and the entire lotus seed world was washed by blood-colored thunder light!

Thank you book friend Sitting Ground Yan Luo for becoming the alliance master of this book, this is for the 624th alliance of Red Heart Patrol Heaven!

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