Zhang Ruochen naturally couldn’t remove his mask and said, “Since the boss lady is so lacking in trust, we’ll trade one Sacred Stone first. Tomorrow, I will come with enough Spirit Crystals to trade the remaining two Sacred Stones.”
A disappointed look appeared in Duanmu Ya’s eyes.
However, Duanmu Ya didn’t try to force him, after all, the other party’s strength was there, if he were to enrage him, wouldn’t he be stirring up a great enemy out of nowhere?
Mu Lingshi, however, didn’t have so many scruples and directly walked towards Zhang Ruochen, chirping, “Zhang Ruochen, how much longer do you have to pretend? Since you’re still alive, why are you afraid to meet me with your true colours, you can’t trust me that much?”
“Zhang Ruochen?”
Zhang Ruochen’s expression was very calm, the corner of his mouth gently hooked as he said, “Your Highness, I’m afraid you’ve recognised the wrong person.”
“Swish!”
Zhang Ruochen stretched out a hand, his five fingers pinched into a claw shape, and across a distance of five feet, he removed one of the holy stones on the bronze tray and put it into his sleeve.
Afterwards, he turned around and left the Delusionless Inn.
“Zhang Ruochen, don’t go.”
Mu Lingshi cast out her Body Technique and quickly chased after him.
However, she had only just chased her to the outside of the Delusionless Inn when she lost sight of Zhang Ruochen.
Duanmu Ya came behind Mu Lingshi, a little worried, and said, “Lingshi, this person’s figure, indeed, resembles Zhang Ruochen, but it may not be him. People can’t come back from the dead, so why are you so obsessed?”
Mu Lingshi pursed her lips tightly, her eyes were very sour and her heart was quite painful, shedding crystal tears as she said dully, “Auntie, why do you think? He is obviously standing right across from me, yet he doesn’t dare to take off his mask, could it be that he really can’t trust me?”
Duanmu Ya said, “You are the Holy Maiden of the Divine Sect, there are still many great things waiting for you to do, I can’t just stand by and watch you sink so low. If you can’t pull yourself together, I’ll send a message to the High Priestess right now, so that he can send someone, to bring you back.”
Mu Lingshi didn’t seem to be able to listen to Duanmu Ya’s words at all, instead her eyes became even more determined as she said, “Auntie, prepare an altar for me, I want to unseal my body on my own. As long as I regain my cultivation, at that time, let’s see how he can get rid of me.”
“No, it’s too dangerous for you to undo the seal with your own strength, moreover, you will also lose your own cultivation. It’s better for you to make a trip back to the Ancient Moon Cliff first and let the High Priestess help you unseal the seal.”Duanmu Ya was extremely against it.
However, Mu Lingshi was very stubborn and said, “Qingyun County and Gu Yue Cliff are hundreds of thousands of miles apart, so when I unseal the seal and come back, I don’t know where he has gone? The sky is huge and the sea of people is vast, once I miss him, it will be harder than climbing up to the sky to find him again. He is avoiding me now, he must have encountered something difficult and doesn’t want to involve me in it. Auntie, just help me this once, count me as begging you.”
Duanmu Ya was unmoved, not wanting to see Mu Lingshi make a fool of herself.
“Aunt, don’t force me.”
Mu Lingshi took out the Holy Moon Order from inside her spatial ring and held it in the palm of her hand.
The Sacred Moon Order flew up, transforming into a bright, clear moon that hovered above Mu Lingshi’s head, causing the aura on her body to become incomparably powerful.
At this moment, she was like a majestic Saint, standing in front of Duanmu Ya.
In an instant, the aura on Mu Lingshi’s body became very cold and sharp as she said, “Since that’s the case, I’m now ordering you to help me prepare an altar in my capacity as the Holy Maiden of the Moon Worshipping Divine Sect, and tonight, I have to unseal the seals on my body.”
Duanmu Ya had to kneel and salute, saying, “Greetings, Your Highness, Holy Maiden.”
Mu Lingshi put the Sacred Moon Order away and hurriedly went forward to help Duanmu Ya up, saying, “Auntie, you should understand that I was also forced to do so, and I no longer have any other choice.”
“You’ve even used the Sacred Moon Order, what else can I say? Since, you’ve already made up your mind, I’ll help you once, and I hope I’m not harming you.”
Duanmu Ya stared Avray at Mu Lingshi, finally realising that this girl was so Avray in love with Zhang Ruochen, it was truly a sinful relationship.
After hundreds of years of development, the Moon Worshipping Demon Sect was extremely powerful in Qing Yun County City, controlling a large portion of the urban area.
Duanmu Ya led Mu Lingshi to a more desolate urban area in the northern part of Qing Yun County City, entering an estate that covered an area of eight hundred acres.
This manor was a hidden stronghold of the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult, and many of the Demon Cult’s experts were hiding here.
“Swish!”
A slender black-robed man with a sword on his back flashed out from the manor, half-kneeling on the ground and bowing down to salute Duanmu Ya and Mu Lingshi.
“Greetings to Her Highness the Holy Maiden, greetings to the Chief Helmsman.”
Her body was dressed in a tight-fitting black garment, wearing a black hood, with a layer of soft metal armour wrapped around her waist, wrists, and legs, and all over her body, only two bright eyes were revealed, along with a pair of slender and snow-white hands.
Mu Lingshi stared towards her, seemingly recognising her, and said, “Violet senior sister, long time no see.”
The woman in black just nodded without too many words.
Duanmu Ya said, “Zi Xi, get up first and take us to the altar.”
The woman in black was none other than the female assassin of the Hellmouth Sect, Zixi.
Only, during the battle at the Underwater Dragon Palace, the Earthly Mansion Sect had offended Di Yi and had to join the Moon Worshipping Demon Sect to seek refuge. Zixi naturally also joined the Moon Worshipping Demon Cult and became the helmsman of one of the rudders.
A nine-metre-high circular altar was built right in the centre of the manor. The altar was piled up by thousand kilometres of boulders, and on top of the boulders at the edge position, there was a sinister inscription engraved on it.
Duanmu Ya had already ordered that tonight, at four minutes past midnight, a sacrifice was going to be held in the manor.
Thus, the congregation of the Moon Worshipping Demon Sect immediately began to prepare the offerings for the sacrifice. The congregations of each branch rudder purchased livestock and savage beasts throughout the entire county, all of which were sent into the manor and placed on top of the altar.
At four minutes to midnight, it was the exact dividing line of the day, and at the same time, the moon in the sky, would appear right in the centre.
The Moon Worshipping Demon Cult believed in the Moon God, and by performing the sacrificial ceremony at the fourth hour of the midnight, one could communicate with the Moon God and thus obtain the power to unseal the seal.
It was getting closer and closer to the fourth hour of the Zi Hour, and the manor’s guardian formation, was already fully opened.
“The sacrifice ceremony begins.”
Duanmu Ya gave the order.
The Demon Cult congregation on the altar immediately waved their butcher knives, decapitating all two thousand two hundred livestock and three hundred and sixty-seven savage beasts on the altar.
“Clatter!”
The beasts’ blood gushed out as if it were a small stream, flowing inside the altar’s grooves and converging to the centre of the altar, forming a pool of blood that kept rolling over.
Moonlight spilled down from the sky and reflected on the centre of the blood pool, making the blood water appear incomparably bright red.
Mu Lingshi ascended the altar step by step, revolving her entire body’s true qi and began to impact the seal. The skin on her body became increasingly fair, like flawless porcelain.
“Pah!”
Fine cracks appeared on her delicate body.
Between the cracks, an intense light emanated, and the true qi surging wildly within her body seemed to be tearing it apart.
Just as the critical point was reached, Mu Lingshi took a step forward and entered the blood pool, her body was completely wrapped in blood water and sank to the bottom of the pool.
The power of the sacrifice sucked the moonlight from the sky, gathering it into a white pillar of light that surged into the blood pool. The blood and moonlight mingled with each other, creating a strange force that converged towards Mu Lingshi in the blood pool.
The Demon Cult congregation around the altar had long since been cleared out, leaving only Duanmu Ya and Zixi, who was dressed all in black.
Duanmu Ya tensed up, her eyes staring deathly towards the towering altar.
She was quite clear that relying on sacrifices to unseal the seal was very dangerous, and the slightest mishap could result in a backlash. However, Duanmu Ya also believed in Mu Lingshi’s ability, and with her control of power, she should be able to succeed.
Waiting until eight minutes past midnight, the blood in the blood pool began to rotate crazily, emitting a “clattering” sound, forming a vortex.
Suddenly, at the centre of the vortex, a flawless silhouette flew out, connecting with the pillar of moonlight.
At this moment, Mu Lingshi’s body was completely **, delicate and smooth as jade, every inch of her skin emitted a moonlight-white glow.
In the air, a wisp of spirit mist automatically condensed and wrapped it up.
Seeing Mu Lingshi’s true body, Zixi felt incomparably awestruck and said, ”Only an innate holy jade can allow the spiritual qi of heaven and earth to be transformed into spiritual mist, wrapping it up. Could it be that Your Highness is a Saint Body?”
People, if they possessed a Sacred Body, would be no different from an Innate Sacred Jade.
Duanmu Ya nodded and said, “Ice Phoenix Ancient Saint Body. Even for the Wood Clan, it has been a long time since any of their clansmen awakened the bloodline of the Ancient Ice Phoenix.”
Duanmu Ya had seen Mu Lingshi’s true body before, but, at that time, Mu Lingshi was still very young, just a little girl.
The moment she unsealed and flew into the Blood Pool, even Duanmu Ya shook and felt suffocated.
Today’s Mu Lingshi possessed a kind of fairy face that was so beautiful that it was bizarre, just like a Nine Heavenly Maiden flying down to the mortal world from the moon, even Duanmu Ya, who was also a woman, felt a few shudders of trepidation.
Even the first beauty of the new generation of the Eastern Region, Luo Shuihan, as evaluated by the Eastern Region Wind and Cloud Newspaper, was afraid to lose a few points to her.
Mu Lingshi stood on top of the altar, her ebony-black long hair, in the breeze, gently flicked, and strands of silver-gauze-like moonlight sprinkled down, reflecting her in an even more bizarre and fascinating way.
At the centre of her eyebrows, there was a small red phoenix mark, just like a blood droplet, sinking up and down on the surface of her skin.
If one were to look closely, one would realise that the red phoenix mark was filled with mysterious cold power, as if it was a living ice phoenix that would fly out from her brow at any time.
Gradually, as Mu Lingshi familiarised herself with the power on her body, the phoenix imprint on her brow sank, transforming into an ice phoenix that hovered in the centre of her Qi Sea.
Because she had to lurk in the Martial City School Palace, Mu Lingshi’s body and cultivation were sealed, so she had never been clear about her true strength.
It wasn’t until now, when the seals were unsealed, that the results of these years of cultivation were fully revealed.
“Finally restored my true body, it’s true that I’m at the realm of the Third Change of the Fish and Dragon, opening the first Sacred Vein first.”
Mu Lingshi sat at the centre of the altar and began to operate the Eight Desolate ** Gong, an ice phoenix’s silhouette, emerged and transformed into a pair of phoenix feathers wrapping her body in.
The third transformation of the fish and dragon was not Mu Lingshi’s full strength, she could still continue to charge upwards.
Opening up a Sacred Vein, one could reach the Fourth Transformation of the Fish Dragon.
Opening up two Saint Veins, one could reach the Fish Dragon Fifth Transformation.
Mu Lingshi wasn’t sure just how much power she had accumulated, perhaps she could unlock one Saint Vein, or perhaps two, or possibly even more. The deeper the accumulation, the more powerful the power would be when it was unsealed and exploded.
