Chapter 370 353: Flesh and Blood Alchemy

The Public Security Bureau, office of the Great Commander of the Golden Scale Guard.

After hearing what Su Yu said, Li Jingxuan's face was a mask of shock. "Younger Brother Su, are you certain?"

"I'm certain, Brother Li! This matter involves the Black Lotus Sect. How could I treat it as a joke?"

Li Jingxuan pondered for a moment, then said, "Younger Brother Su, the Divine Statue of Mother Black Lotus is a massive threat. Once it's successfully set up, not only can it bewitch the common people, but it also provides immense aid to the Black Lotus Sect Demons. If they set up a few of those inside the city, Black Stone City will crumble from within!"

"I'll personally lead a team to arrest them right now!"

Within minutes, Li Jingxuan, Su Yu, Lin Wanzhu, and the others led several hundred Black Armor Guards, rushing straight for the Anping Square district!

But after searching for a short while, they found the Black Lotus Sect Demon had long since vanished.

"Sir, someone here has been bewitched by a Black Lotus Sect Demon!"

A Black Armor Guard came to report, and Su Yu's group immediately followed him into the house to investigate.

The moment he stepped over the threshold, Su Yu's brow furrowed, and a murderous glint flashed in his eyes.

The group entered the inner room and saw a woman sitting cross-legged on the floor in a bizarre, contorted posture. One hand formed a black lotus mudra, its fingertips touching the point between her eyebrows. Her other hand was raised high above her head, palm facing the sky, as if receiving some indescribable alms.

The woman was not old. Her eyes were deeply sunken, and her eyeballs were covered in a horrifying web of bloodshot veins. Her pupils had completely lost their human light, and she was muttering in a low, nightmarish whisper:

"The mortal world is a prison... Flesh and blood, a cage... The Vacuum Home... Bliss without sorrow..."

And directly in front of the woman, three people were kneeling in a neat row.

An elderly couple in decent clothes, and a young man whose eyes were filled with frenzied, bloodshot veins.

The three of them faced the woman, their eyes filled with a sickly fanaticism and pleading. Like devout believers worshipping a deity, they repeatedly slammed their heads against the hard floor tiles, making dull, wet THUDS. Their foreheads were already drenched in blood.

Even as the murderous Black Armor Guards from the Public Security Bureau stormed into the room, the three remained as motionless as wooden statues, completely lost in their own minds!

Seeing this bizarre scene, Li Jingxuan's face turned ashen as he barked, "What in the world is going on here? Who are these people?"

A nearby Black Armor Guard Captain immediately stepped forward and reported in a low voice, "Sir, we've just gotten an urgent identification from the neighbors. These people aren't displaced migrants; they're the original owners of this house, a family of four."

"The woman sitting cross-legged is the old couple's youngest daughter. The kneeling young man is the eldest son. This family used to be in the leather goods business here in Anping Square, and they were quite well-off. However, a while back, the old man risked the family's entire fortune on a trade journey to the Northern Territory, all to support his son's attempt to break through to the Martial Artist Realm. Unexpectedly, they ran into bandits. Not only were all his guards killed, but he lost the entire investment!"

"To make matters worse, the son used up the very last of their resources and still failed to become a Martial Artist, plunging the family into complete despair. It's highly likely that's when they started believing in the Black Lotus Sect!"

After hearing the report, Li Jingxuan couldn't help but sigh. "Take them back to the cells."

In a chaotic world, the desperation of the common folk, driven by the need to survive, often forces them down the path of believing in the Black Lotus Sect.

Several Black Armor Guards stepped forward to take the family into custody.

Just then, the cross-legged woman suddenly shrieked, "Mother is merciful! Grant us non-birth!"

The next instant, the woman's body abruptly turned red. Immediately after, the skin of her abdomen began to swell and undulate violently, visible to the naked eye. It was as if countless bubbles of boiling flesh were hidden beneath her skin. In the blink of an eye, her stomach stretched out, becoming as large and translucent as a woman ten months pregnant, looking as if it would burst at any moment.

"Not good! It's one of the Black Lotus Sect's flesh and blood demonic Skills! Watch out, she's going to self-destruct! Everyone, scatter!!!"

The Public Security Bureau's Black Armor Guards dealt with the Black Lotus Sect constantly and were all too familiar with such twisted methods. The moment the woman's body began to change, the well-trained guards immediately abandoned the arrest. With a SWOOSH, they scattered at high speed, diving out of doors and windows to find cover.

Su Yu's reaction was lightning-fast. The Great Tendons in his feet flexed, and his figure flashed out the window like a phantom. But he didn't retreat far. Instead, he closed his eyes slightly and released his Divine Sense, probing into the room like a vast, invisible net.

In the instant everyone retreated.

The young man who had been kowtowing inside not only didn't flee, but his face twisted into an ecstatic grin, as if he had just seen a peerless treasure!

"It's ripe! It's ripe! It's finally ripe!!!"

He let out an inhuman, crazed shriek and, like a starving wolf, pounced directly onto his sister's grotesquely swollen belly!

He pulled a rusty dagger from somewhere.

With a muffled SQUELCH!

The dagger plunged viciously into her flesh and was yanked sharply downward!

Instantly, a torrent of foul-smelling, blackish blood mixed with fragments of internal organs sprayed out! The woman's swollen belly deflated in a flash!

"The Black Lotus Holy Pill! Where is my Black Lotus Holy Pill! Give it to me! GIVE IT TO ME!!!"

The young man, his face covered in blood, danced with excitement. He paid no mind to the gore as he shoved both hands into the bloody abdominal cavity, frantically digging and clawing through the viscera.

Soon, his eyes lit up. From that pile of ruined flesh, he forcefully gouged out a strange, dark-red Pill!

The Pill was a lurid red, and its surface seemed to throb with a faint pulse, dripping blood continuously. A visible aura of crimson, demonic energy swirled around it!