Chapter 723 - 214: Awaiting Celestial Thunder, Assisting the Lotus Sect, Devouring the Flower Shop, Mirror of Evil Formed

Chapter 723: Chapter 214: Awaiting Celestial Thunder, Assisting the Lotus Sect, Devouring the Flower Shop, Mirror of Evil Formed

This person once brought considerable pressure to the Divine Wood Hall.

However, roughly thirty years ago, this person was slain by Gu Xuejian. Now it seems they’ve "rebirthed through blood," yet, after thirty years, they have merely regained the strength of the Fourth Grade, far from their peak strength, let alone advancing further.

It seems that a "Fourth Grade Blood Rebirth" is not an easy feat.

"Let’s go."

Li Yuan waved his hand.

Peng Mi respectfully said, "Your help, sir, are you a senior of our Lotus Sect?"

Li Yuan chuckled, neither confirming nor denying.

Peng Mi sighed, "Our Lotus Sect is like a dog without a home, with nowhere to escape. Using this secret passage is just a temporary measure... Ah... Senior..."

Suddenly, he fell to his knees.

The Lotus Sect disciples behind him were stunned, then followed suit and knelt down.

Peng Mi supported himself on the ground with both hands, directly kowtowing to Li Yuan.

The disciples of the Red Lotus and White Lotus also kowtowed one after another.

Peng Mi is a Fourth Grade, supposedly the strongest in this land, as everyone here still holds the old belief — there are no Third Grades in this land.

Yet, for some reason, Peng Mi found the person before him particularly terrifying, unfathomable. He had experienced death and was now barely surviving with some Lotus Sect elites underground, seeing no way out.

The Judges’ people are terrifying; Peng Mi might be able to slay many of them, but those figures wielded treasures gifted by Lady Yama.

Peng Mi had seen with his own eyes, a Fifth Grade member of the Lotus Sect facing a seemingly average figure, who merely waved a Copper Mirror, and the Fifth Grade collapsed to the ground, madly screaming, "I was wrong, I was wrong."

That was back then...

The last two months had been even more terrifying.

Another Fifth Grade Elder from the Lotus Sect, when confronted by a figure from the Judges, suddenly turned "blank," as if he lost all memory, acting like a mere puppet, and was shackled and taken away by the figure.

From start to finish, that Fifth Grade didn’t even make a single move.

Just like that... gone.

Thirty years ago, Peng Mi felt invincibly strong, but now, he was close to collapse.

Whether it was the Judges from the Yama Goddess Temple or the Sixth and Fifth Grade swordsmen from Wendao Palace, who willingly donned Pigman masks and acted as lackeys for the temple, they all filled him with fear.

Because hierarchy could no longer measure power.

The world had changed.

Everything had changed.

Peng Mi couldn’t understand anymore.

And now, this senior before him, whether related to the Lotus Sect or not, Peng Mi wanted to humbly plead to him.

It was an intuition.

In the worst of times, at the worst of places, someone who can extend a helping hand, is someone who can save him.

People just want to survive.

Kneeling isn’t shameful.

Li Yuan gazed at these ten or so people with a mystical calmness.

The more he did so, the faster Peng Mi’s heart raced.

Because Peng Mi understood, the mysterious presence before him could truly save them.

Li Yuan suddenly asked, "Where will you go after leaving here?"

Peng Mi replied, "Reporting to the senior, we will reunite with other Lotus Sect disciples."

Li Yuan asked, "Where will you converge?"

Peng Mi gritted his teeth, "Yanyun Dao, Chixia Mountain, these are the fallback routes prepared by our Lotus Sect beforehand."

Li Yuan glanced at him, not asking further, instead saying, "To the west is Little Ink Workshop, and Xiao Mo Mountain behind the workshop is easy to hide. Tomorrow at midnight, go there to wait for me."

Surprise flashed in Peng Mi’s eyes, "You..."

Li Yuan said, "I have ties with the Lotus Sect. Well, this time, I’ll take you away. Those who believe, come; those who do not believe, don’t. There’s only one chance."

With that, he turned and left.

Peng Mi watched his disappearing figure for a long time before standing up.

After Li Yuan left, he went straight to the Ghost Prison.

Lady Yan in a Black Skirt appeared increasingly exquisite, her original ghostly aura had faded completely, her pale cheeks turned snow-white, flawless everywhere, while her deep, indifferent eyes exuded a natural divinity.

Her headpiece was exquisite, aside from the previous ancient wood hairpin, there was also a white pearl flower,

Her red lips became more vividly fiery, the black skirt shadows of a hundred ghosts became more lifelike, eerie and terrifying...

Upon seeing Li Yuan, a mysterious human-like joy appeared in Lady Yan’s divine eyes.

She suddenly turned aside, gesturing invitingly, and out ran a little girl in a red headscarf, with a flower basket,

Beside her was another little girl in white, pushing a flower cart.

The two little girls surrounded Lady Yan from behind, resembling a matriarch with her progeny, or a queen leading a little princess.

If Li Yuan didn’t recognize that little girl in red, if he didn’t see the pile of corpses in the flower cart of the white-clad little girl, if the two little girls didn’t have pale complexions, their pupils hollow, he truly would have thought so.

Lady Yan said, "Husband, I’ve absorbed the flower shop."

Li Yuan nodded.

He was scrutinizing the two little girls behind Lady Yan.

Lady Yan suddenly laughed.

Her humanized face added a rare touch of mischief.

"Should I send them to you so you can give them a beating?"

Li Yuan laughed too.

"No need for a beating. Just ask them where my Xiaohuang has gone?

Sister Yan, Xiaohuang once saved you too."

Lady Yan frowned, pondered for a long time, then shook her head and said, "What you’re talking about, I can’t remember anymore... My memory is fading fast, not much I can hold on to."

With that, she glanced slightly at the two little girls.

The white-clad little girl bent over into the flower cart, rummaging through, and in no time pulled out a rotten mass, vaguely recognizable as a tiger.

The red-clad little girl searched in her basket and quickly pulled out a pure white flower, tossing it toward the rotten tiger.

Instantly, the tiger began some kind of "reverse growth."

The Yin Qi repaired its decayed flesh, while the pure white flower seemed to be restoring its memories.

In no time, a completely ghostly aura-surrounded tiger appeared next to the little girl, lying obediently at her feet, but when it looked at Li Yuan, its eyes showed some intimacy, confusion, and... suddenly baring its fangs, growling threateningly.

Lady Yan said, "Xiaohuang despises the Yang Qi on you."

Then, she added, "It is a Ghost Servant, even if it has its memories back, it can’t return to your side."

Li Yuan exhaled, saying, "Xiaohuang saved me too; as long as it can continue to exist, that’s enough."

Lady Yan nodded, then with no visible action, a white-clad Evil Ghost suddenly approached from behind her, holding a heavy box, pushing it out of the Ghost Realm.

Lady Yan said, "Our new products, everything prepared a bit, take them, husband."

Li Yuan opened it and saw the box filled with various Evil Ghost Tools.

He temporarily closed the box and said, "Sister Yan, I came this time to let a group of Lotus Sect remnants withdraw from the Southern Land, safely return to the Northern Land, and reunite with their main force."

Lady Yan said, "Alright, give me the route, I will make all guards and judges avoid the path you specify at the time you say."

Li Yuan laughed, "Don’t you want to ask why?"

Lady Yan said, "I’m dull now and can’t understand.

Husband, let me tell you about these things in the box.

If I don’t, you might not know how to use them."

Li Yuan nodded, then reopened the box, listening to Lady Yan explain slowly.

"This three-petaled paper flower in white, named Ashoka Tree, can erase a person’s memory."

"This four-petaled paper flower in white, called Ice Blood Flower, can freeze a person’s Yang Qi."

"This five-petaled paper flower in white, known as Yang-Attracting Flower, can make a person or demon beast lose control, stop whatever they are doing and approach it immediately.

But these are ineffective against the Fourth Grade.

However, I have launched some Multiple Ghost products."

With that, Lady Yan pointed to a snow-white Copper Mirror nearby and said, "That’s a rather useful tool; I call it Mirror of Evil, made from my Lifebound Copper Mirror combined with Ashoka Tree.

Take a look, it can make people lose their memory and indulge in sin.

The deeper the sin, the harder it is to escape.

Effective even against Fourth Grade..."