Chapter 1514: Chapter 1487: Blood Plague
These blood-red runes are everywhere.
In an instant, they had already covered Wei Yang’s body.
Every inch of her skin was covered with these blood-red runes, like maggots on the bones, impossible to remove.
Wei Yang was completely panicking.
She couldn’t help but think of the last fate of the infant she had just held in her arms, which turned into a blood mist without any reaction.
"Brother..."
Wei Yang looked at Wei Du with bitterness, her voice trembling.
Even though she was battle-hardened and accustomed to life and death, she was ultimately afraid of dying.
Wei Du’s eyes were bloodshot red. If Shu Feng hadn’t stopped him, he would have rushed into the altar. Suppressing his voice, he said, "Wei Yang, don’t move chaotically, stay on the altar. Wait there, I will definitely find a way to save you!"
Wei Yang knew well that her predicament was due to human nature, a result of her own doing.
Seeing Wei Du as anxious as an ant on a hot pan, her heart was filled with immense guilt: "If, if I hadn’t competed with Xiao Lin, I wouldn’t have ended up like this. Wait a minute..."
Wei Yang suddenly shuddered.
Her eyes were fixed on Xiao Yi’s direction. Just as she was about to enter the altar, Xiao Yi had stepped in to stop her.
And also...
After Xiao Yi killed the experts from the Blissful Heaven Realm, he didn’t enter the altar immediately.
"Could it be that he already knew there was something wrong with the infants in the altar?" Wei Yang’s head was buzzing, and her breathing became rapid.
With a face full of resentment, she glared at Xiao Yi, angrily questioning: "Xiao Lin, did you know from the start that there was something wrong with the infants in the altar, so after killing the people from the Blissful Heaven Realm, you didn’t rescue these infants immediately but waited for us to come? You deliberately wanted to harm us, right?"
Swish, swish, swish!
Everyone’s gaze turned to Xiao Yi.
Xiao Yi said calmly, "I would think anyone with a brain would know there’s something wrong with these infants, right? How could I have imagined that you’d be so reckless, rushing in without even figuring out what these runes were? If you’re so eager to die, should I tag along to be your burial companion?"
"You, you..." Wei Yang was angered to the point of trembling.
Xiao Yi was not interested in dealing with this unreasonable woman.
From the very start, she had been looking at him with disdain, constantly mocking and provoking him with cold remarks.
Xiao Yi, considering they were on the same team, chose to let things go.
He even stepped in to stop her when she was about to enter the altar.
Yet, it turned out that she was ungrateful.
Now she was suffering from the consequences of her actions.
And she still intended to take revenge and blame him.
Xiao Yi snorted coldly and looked at Shu Feng and the others, saying, "Everyone, these blood-red runes in the altar reminded me of something long lost."
"What is it?"
"This damned thing is too eerie. Why was it that none of the other infants had any issues, yet that one infant exploded as soon as Wei Yang picked it up?"
Xiao Yi explained, "This is a dark ritual method created by an evil cultivator in the Nine Heavens Realm, known as the Blood Plague. This evil cultivator once lived in domestic bliss with many descendants, but his beautiful wife caught the eye of a powerful family’s offspring, was defiled and humiliated, and killed herself in despair. The disciples of that great sect, to silence any witnesses, massacred his entire family..."
"The evil cultivator narrowly escaped, and driven by the desire for family revenge, he took the wrong path into evil cultivation. He uniquely invented the evil method of the Blood Plague, secretly abducted infants from that great family, stripped their family’s bloodline with ritual runes, and created a deadly virus specifically for people of that family line. With his power alone, he annihilated a family with a history of tens of thousands of years and a population of over a hundred million..."
Xiao Yi had just learned this information from Fat Cat.
Earlier, he had only sensed something was wrong from the numb expressions of these infants and thus hadn’t acted immediately to save them.
It wasn’t until Wei Yang recklessly rushed into the altar, triggering that infant explosion and being infected by the blood-red ritual runes,
that Xiao Yi, yet without any answers, thought of the orange cat Ling Feng in the Divine King Temple.
Upon inquiry,
Ling Feng indeed knew the origin of these blood-red runes.
Hearing about the origin of these blood-red runes for the first time, Xiao Yi was deeply shocked.
To think there existed such a terrifying method in the world.
By merely extracting the bloodline essence from infants of the opponent’s race, one could create such frightening ritual runes that could destroy a massive family with a population of billions.
Gulp!
The crowd listened to Xiao Yi’s story, and all showed expressions of shock.
Wei Yang’s face was even more ashen as she roared hysterically, "Xiao Lin, since you knew its origin, why didn’t you say anything earlier? You intentionally wanted to harm me, right?"
Although Wei Du said nothing, his expression was dark as he too scrutinized Xiao Yi.
If Xiao Yi had known about the Blood Plague early on but hadn’t said so, then it would be sheer revenge.
Xiao Yi shook his head, not interested in explaining, calmly stating, "I am not targeting anyone, nor any of you present. If I truly intended to target, I could extinguish all of you hundreds of times with just a lift of my finger, so why bother with such elaborate schemes?"
As soon as he said that.
The crowd fell silent.
Even Wei Yang, who was full of resentment, had to close her mouth.
As Xiao Yi said, if he wanted to harm anyone, among all the people present, who could stop him?
Gu Feng chuckled bitterly, "This kid... Even though he’s speaking the truth, isn’t he being a bit too blunt?"
Wei Du smiled wryly, "I was almost misled by that girl Wei Yang. If Xiao Lin really wanted to deal with her, why would he need to do so many things..."
Pausing for a moment.
Wei Du walked toward Xiao Yi, speaking with a deep voice, "Xiao Lin, since you can recognize this Blood Plague, then you must know how to resolve it, right?"
"Resolving the Blood Plague isn’t difficult, but currently, the more important thing is not resolving it, but understanding what the Blissful Heaven Realm intends to do with it," Xiao Yi said.
His brow furrowed slightly, showing a hint of worry.
According to the characteristics of the Blood Plague, it could target all the experts of the same bloodline group.
If they were just targeting some outsiders, that would be one thing.
But if their aim was to extract the bloodline of the Creatures of Unharmed Heaven from those outsiders, and then cause the Blood Plague to erupt within the Unharmed Heaven Realm.
That would be a catastrophic disaster!
Shu Feng raised his head suddenly to look at Xiao Yi, and both saw worry and shock in each other’s eyes. He swallowed hard: "Are you saying... they’re doing this to target the entire Unharmed Heaven Realm?"
Xiao Yi nodded, "That’s exactly what worries me the most. If this is truly the case, then the Blissful Heaven Realm’s move this time is definitely not small. I think we should notify the Military Intelligence Department and let them thoroughly investigate..."
Shu Feng’s expression changed, wavering.
This matter could be either big or small.
If they notified the Military Intelligence Department, and it was confirmed to be true, it would indeed be a great achievement.
But what if no such thing was found?
Their team would be in big trouble!
As Shu Feng hesitated.
The infants inside the altar suddenly became restless, each starting to move their limbs, trying to struggle free of the altar...
Xiao Yi’s face changed abruptly: "Stop them quickly! Once they leave the altar and enter the grand river, they’ll be unstoppable..."