Chapter 401 - Gu Yao
Gu Yao looked at the speechless faces of everyone and couldn’t help but chuckle.
"Looks like my subordinates did much better work than I expected. I never expected them to be able to maintain the disguise for such a long time." Gu Yao laughed.
He then looked at Qing Yuan Tiu before asking "so I assume my brother is in trouble?"
"Master Wu Xun has been taken in by the royal court for questioning. They are investigating the disappearance of the mercenaries and the cultivators along with the commoners." Qing yuan Tiu answered.
"Ah... I see. I guess I’ll have to get him back later on. By the time we’re done here all the accusations will be nullified." Gu Yao replied.
The supreme elder and peak master Yi Deng drew out their weapons and got ready to attack. The supreme elder had a spear as his weapon while the peak master had a fan. From the spirit qi fluctuations that were coming from the two spirit weapons Lin Mu could tell that they were at the high grade.
This was the second time he was actually seeing a high-grade spirit weapon in someone else’s hands. These weapons looked rather simple but Lin Mu could tell the difference between them. The spear of the Supreme elder was a pure forging type of spirit weapon while the fan that the peak master Yi Deng was using was an enchantment type of spirit weapon.
"Oh? You think you can fight me?" Gu Yao taunted.
"It doesn’t matter, we will still stop you." The supreme elder replied before stabbing forward with his spear.
~shing~
Before the spear could stab into the body of Gu Yao though, it was stopped by his finger. The bloodstreams that were flowing around his wrapped around his hand like a gauntlet and he stopped the attack like that.
"Impossible!" The supreme elder exclaimed.
"Ahaha! If it was about a year ago, this would have been enough to injure me greatly. But I’m afraid you all are too late..." Gu Yao replied before flicking the spear away.
~shua~
Wu Teng had never expected that he still had other family except for his mother and father left. From what his father had told them, he knew that Wu Xun was an orphan and had grown up poor.
Gu Yao looked at Wu Hei and shook his head.
"While you are powerful, you still have a lot to learn..." Gu Yao said before waving his hands.
A blood-red glow appeared on his body and spread around the area.
"I should have done this from the start..." Gu Yao muttered.
The supreme elder and peak master tried to defend themselves against the blood-red wave of energy but found it to be helpless.
As soon as the blood-red energy touched their bodies, they were stuck. It was as if their bodies had been frozen and no matter what they tried, they couldn’t move.
~Slick~
Streams of blood flowed out from the blood pool and wrapped around the bodies of everyone here. Lin Mu was the same as others and found it impossible to move. If even peak stage nascent soul realm cultivators could be affected by this skill, then it was obvious that it would be impossible for him too.
"What... is... this...?" The supreme elder uttered with great difficulty.
"Ah... this will make it easy. Now you all just relax until the process is completed. Once it is done, all your sufferings and troubles will go away." Gu Yao replied with a toothy grin that terrified the people that looked at him.
Lin Mu chanted the calming heart sutra to see if it worked, but found it useless. He then tried the severing heart sutra and gained a little control over his body, enough to struggle a bit.
"You, why are you doing this?" Lin Mu questioned.
~clap~
"Seems like we have a rather talented person amongst us. I never expected someone at your cultivation base would be able to resist the blood binding seal." Gu Yao said before spirit sense extended from his body and touched over Lin Mu.
"Oh, what’s this? I sense something familiar on you... Hmm... spatial qi traces? Not just that..." Gu Yao spoke before his eyes went wide in realization.
"You have the plate! You have the beast storage treasure, don’t you?" Gu Yao asked.