Chapter 560: Chapter 180: Chaos in the Imperial City! Zhenhai King! Atrocities of the Blood Gu Sect! (10,000-word mega Chapter, please subscribe)_6
The old crone said, "That’s why we stay in the Imperial City. Command our people below, no more hiding, get them all moving."
With a gentle sweep of her fingers across the strings, she listened to the lingering sound and said expressionlessly, "Let the Imperial City fall into chaos."
"Yes, Elder!"
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As night gradually fell.
Chaos erupted again.
This time, the target was not the heavily guarded Imperial Palace or the Imperial Mausoleum, now surrounded by a heavy military presence, but various places inside the Imperial City! Especially where crowds were dense.
The Blood Gu Sect was no longer targeting dignitaries but the common people of the Imperial City!
Hidden within the Imperial City, the Blood Gu Sect Disciples numbered in the hundreds, and among these hundreds, there were at least a hundred cultivators.
It was essentially one cultivator, leading several Blood Gu Sect Disciples, causing havoc throughout the Imperial City.
Puchi!!
A Blood Gu Sect Disciple plunged his knife into the belly of a portly merchant, who stared back with a face filled with horror. The Sect Disciple let out a hideous laugh, "Blame your old Emperor for dying too early and giving us this opportunity."
"Don’t worry, this blade has been poisoned. Even a scratch is enough to leave you with no place to be buried. The upside to a poisoned blade is that it won’t cause you any pain."
The Blood Gu Sect Disciple pulled out the knife, splattering himself with blood.
The sight of murder in the street was witnessed by many nearby citizens.
Instantly!
A great disturbance arose.
"Murder! Murder!" Someone couldn’t help but shout, "Murder! There are bandits and evildoers killing people in the Imperial City! Hurry! Go report to the authorities, report to the authorities!!"
However... this citizen hadn’t managed to run a few steps.
Suddenly, an iron hook had already ensnared his shoulder blade.
A massive force instantly flipped the citizen onto the ground.
Then a short blade stabbed down toward him.
Another person was dead!
A Blood Gu Sect Disciple, holding an iron hook in one hand and a short blade in the other, licked a trace of blood from his lips, his entire demeanor becoming even more frenzied than before, "The gu within me seems to like this flavor very much."
"Don’t waste time," said another tall Sect Disciple, lightly lifting his arm.
Several tiny gu insects flew from his palm, landing on several panicked Imperial City citizens.
Those who saw someone dare to kill in the street and immediately tried to run.
They hadn’t even managed to take a couple of steps before collapsing on the ground, as if all their strength had been drained away.
Their bodies trembled on the ground.
The gu insects bit through their skin, injecting a strange venom and then burrowing inside through the wounds.
They didn’t twitch for long before they rose up like zombies, one by one sluggishly getting to their feet.
"I! I can’t control my own body!" A citizen who had risen from the ground, his movements stiff, cried out in terror: "I don’t want to move! My body, my body... it’s moving on its own; I simply can’t control it!"
The rest of the citizens infected by the gu insects were the same, all of them extremely stiff in their movements.
Just like marionettes being manipulated.
Except, unlike puppets, they still had their own consciousness.
A Blood Gu Sect Disciple threw down a bundle from his chest, and when the bundle was unwrapped, it revealed an array of sharp weapons--a number of shiny silver single-handed short blades!
"Go!" The Gu-controlling cultivator’s lips curled into a sneer, "Pick up the knives and kill anyone you see!"
The citizens, controlled by the gu insects, completely unable to control their own bodies, shakily picked up the blades from the ground and then scattered in all directions to kill.
They raised their short blades stiffly, and swung at a group of innocent civilians.
"Run! Get away from me, I don’t want to kill you, I can’t control myself!"
"Dad! Dad, what’s happening to you!!"
"Ghosts! There must be ghosts causing mischief! They’re all possessed, don’t come near them! If you do, they’ll kill you!"
"Ahh! My hand, my wife, why would you draw a blade against me?"
"I, I don’t want to either!"
"..."
Panic spread rapidly under the night sky, and the Great Zhou Imperial City was covered in blood and carnage as hundreds of Blood Gu Sect disciples struck together, turning the majority of the Imperial City upside down in an instant.
After all, most people in the Imperial City were commoners. Compared to the vast number of ordinary people, there were not particularly many cultivators within the city walls.
And the Blood Gu Sect were no fools, they naturally wouldn’t cause trouble near the Taoist Temples or temples.
The locations of the chaos were all far from the Taoist Temples, temples, government offices, and Great Clans.
The Blood Gu Sect targeted average civilians!
They went after the softest targets!
The Imperial City’s Imperial Court responded quickly. Members of the Imperial Court immediately set out to suppress all the chaos in the Imperial City and arrest all the culprits.
"Deputy Commander, preliminary confirmation indicates that the chaos is caused by a group of cultivators using witchcraft." A member of the Imperial Court held up a dead insect, presenting it to the Deputy Commander.
The Deputy Commander’s face darkened: "A heart-controlling puppet Gu... Blood Gu Sect!!!"
He recognized at a glance what kind of insect it was.
"Damn it! When did these rats from the sewers sneak into the Imperial City? And there are so many of them." The Deputy Commander was filled with rage, feeling that the soldiers guarding the city walls were all useless eaters, one and all.
"They specifically chose this time to cause trouble; they definitely have other motives. Plus the two big fires from yesterday..." The Deputy Commander narrowed his eyes: "But if we ignore them, they will continue their slaughter in the Imperial City."
"The art of witchcraft is extremely tricky; those ordinary soldiers are good at killing people, but they are helpless against such Gu insects."
"This seems to be an overt plot, meant to draw the attention of our Imperial City’s Imperial Court, focusing all our energy on the Blood Gu Sect members."
It was indeed an overt plot.
Even knowing there was something fishy, they had to grit their teeth and step into the fray.
The Deputy Commander immediately ordered: "Everyone, move out! Exterminate the Blood Gu Sect disciples with the utmost speed! No need to take prisoners; in extraordinary times, extraordinary measures must be taken! Spot one, kill one!"
"Yes, Commander!"
The struggle between the Blood Gu Sect and the Imperial City’s Imperial Court quickly unfolded in the streets and alleys of the Imperial City.
Sounds of fierce battles erupted everywhere in the Imperial City, and some Blood Gu Sect disciples even set fires in various places.
As if chaos weren’t enough!
Moreover, they were scattered widely, and the witchcraft they used was also very strange, forcing the Imperial Court to deploy even more personnel.
It could be said that the entire Great Zhou Imperial City turned into complete chaos within just a few days!
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Imperial Palace, in a certain palace.
Fan Wu was holding the Northern Black Chariot Gunky Horn Demon-Slaying Heroic Sword, leaning against a big red pillar with his eyes closed, rejuvenating himself, unconcerned by the incessant noise around him.
Right at that moment, he opened his eyes, and cracked a smile.
"Can’t hold back any longer, can you?"
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