Chapter 562: Chapter 181: The Descent of the Blood Gu Sect’s Gu God! Fan Wu: Now it gets interesting! (10,000-word mega Chapter, please subscribe)_2
"Hey! Taoist, are you okay?" He looked to the side, where a Taoist in a Daoist robe was standing, and asked.
"I’m alright..." The Taoist wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and stepped down, crushing a Gu insect on the ground.
"I’ve been injured, but I should be fine." The Taoist, holding a Peach Wood Sword, said in a solemn tone, "These Witch Gu Cultivators are not simple. Even a person without mana can exhibit incredibly astonishing power after consuming a peculiar Gu insect."
"Indeed, these damn things are troublesome." The Big Monk complained, "Just now, one wretched Gu insect actually tried to burrow into Buddha’s pee hole, scared the hell out of me."
"Disgustingly vile!" The Big Monk was also wounded, and the two of them had exchanged dozens of moves with a Sect Disciple of the Blood Gu Sect, barely managing to seriously injure the opponent.
He sensed panicked shouts coming from all around.
The Taoist frowned.
He turned his head to look at a mountain not far away, where there were faint lights that were now flickering softly.
"Over there, there should be a temple or a Taoist Temple, but why has no one come down after so long?" he wondered aloud.
"They’re just afraid of death!" The Big Monk indifferently curled his lips, "The monks and Taoists in this Imperial City are all opportunists. Haven’t seen them demonstrate any remarkable abilities other than being fair-weather friends."
"Just on this street alone, seven or eight civilians have been killed." The Taoist took a deep breath slowly.
The air was filled with the smell of blood, constantly provoking his nerves.
"Who knows how many have died throughout the entire Imperial City?"
That was a number one hesitated to guess.
Even with an optimistic view, it was probably in the thousands.
If one were to be slightly pessimistic,
Perhaps the number was in the tens of thousands.
...
"Crown Prince! The disciples of the Blood Gu Sect are causing mayhem throughout the Imperial City, having already caused at least three thousand deaths. And the number is still climbing!"
Imperial Palace.
A Thousand Household Leader of the Qiantian Divine reported to the Crown Prince of the Great Zhou Dynasty, "People keep coming to report the casualties from their areas."
"There are several hundred more deaths every incense stick’s length of time, and the number of injured is beyond count. Even if we wanted to count, we couldn’t."
"Three thousand people..." The Crown Prince of Great Zhou had a look of utter exhaustion.
Compared to the population of several million in the Great Zhou Imperial City...
These three thousand deaths may not seem like much, but since the large-scale chaos instigated by the disciples of the Blood Gu Sect, less than an hour had passed.
In less than an hour, around three thousand people had died, most of them civilians of Great Zhou.
This was something that he, as the Crown Prince of Great Zhou...
How could he possibly accept it?
"How many people do the disciples of the Blood Gu Sect number? How long had they prepared to be able to launch such a swift and devastating strike?" The Crown Prince of Great Zhou gritted his teeth with hatred, wishing he could behead all of the Blood Gu Sect’s disciples.
Clearly he couldn’t do it now, though. Various bits of very bad news continued to arrive this evening,
leaving him exhausted.
"Based on the current situation, the number of Blood Gu Sect disciples that have infiltrated the Imperial City is no less than five hundred. Among them, many are cultivators skilled in Witch Gu magic."
"Even those disciples of the Blood Gu Sect who are not adept in Witch Gu magic demonstrate strength equivalent to a cultivator with less than ten years of practice after consuming special Gu insects," the Thousand Household Leader continued, "However, the lives of these disciples who consume strange Gu insects to forcibly enhance their power are quickly ebbing away."
"They might only live through the night. By tomorrow morning, their vitality might be completely depleted."
"Tomorrow morning?" the Crown Prince of Great Zhou said darkly, "Just one night’s time, and they can cause who knows how much destruction. By tomorrow morning, the number of dead civilians might be not just three thousand but thirty thousand or even more!!"
"I have already dispatched some of the cultivators from the Imperial Palace, hoping that the situation can be quickly brought under control."
At this point, all he could express was hope.
After all, he simply had no way
to guarantee it.
Just as the Crown Prince of Great Zhou was about to say something else, suddenly... both he and the Thousand Household Leader standing before him changed expressions simultaneously!
They seemed to sense something!
Inside the Imperial Palace...
Another crisis had erupted!
"Protect the sovereign! Protect the Crown Prince! Assassins have infiltrated! Assassins! Protect the Crown Prince!!" The outside erupted in tumultuous shouts, "Quickly, quickly! We must protect the Crown Prince!!"
"Damn it! What in the world is this? How could such a thing spring up inside the Imperial Palace? What... What kind of demons and devils are these?!"
"Be careful! This assassin is a cultivator, and his cultivation is profound!"
"No good!!!"
"..."
The noise and shouting indicated that something major had happened in the Imperial Palace. How many times had it been now?
"Your Highness, please stay inside the palace. Do not venture out yourself." The Thousand Household Leader of the Qiantian Divine in front of the Crown Prince of Great Zhou said anxiously, "Allow your subordinate to go and see what exactly is happening."
