Ye Feng felt a jolt of surprise upon sensing the powerful angelic force, and found his body immobile.
The potent angelic power surged from Ye Feng, flowing rapidly into Qiao Ying's body. To her astonishment, it enveloped the blood curses attached to her heart and other vital areas, compressing them before drawing them out of her body.
"Ugh!"
Qiao Ying felt a sharp pain at the site of her previously injured neck. Moments later, a burst of blood erupted from her neck.
Amidst the spray of blood was a ball of white light, the angelic power. Encased within it was a bizarre, wriggling rune – the blood curse.
"Bang! Puff!"
At this moment, the ball of angelic power compressed violently. The blood curse inside ignited, turning into ashes, and the angelic power then dissipated.
"You big idiot, be careful from now on. Don't fight the main gods or demons. You absolutely must stay alive!"
Pipi's weak voice echoed in Ye Feng's mind, growing fainter until Ye Feng could barely hear it.
"Bang! Whoosh!"
"Sizzle! Ah!~ Uh!"
Just then, Xiao Xiao rushed forward, killing and repelling the blood race members surrounding Ye Feng and Qiao Ying. She looked at Ye Feng in confusion, "Big Brother, what are you doing? It's dangerous right now, there are so many monsters!"
"Ye Feng, what are you doing? Is this the time for that kind of thing?"
"Are you trying to get yourself killed? I still want you!"
Yue Miao also ran over, glaring at Ye Feng with displeasure.
This was because Ye Feng had inexplicably frozen in place for brief moments, and then, he had passionately kissed the angel.
"I..."
Ye Feng quickly separated from Qiao Ying, his face flushed with embarrassment, unsure how to explain.
After all, he hadn't wanted to move, but simply couldn't.
"The power within Ye Feng just now... angelic power... still... still the power of a King..."
"Wait!"
Suddenly, Qiao Ying's expression changed drastically. "The blood... the blood curse is gone? Was Ye Feng removing the blood curse for me just now?"
Qiao Ying touched the scabbed and healed wound on her neck, her face filled with astonishment.
"Well... you all misunderstood. Ye Feng was just removing the blood curse for me!"
Seeing Ye Feng's dejected look, Qiao Ying explained somewhat sheepishly.
"Mm-hmm!"
Upon hearing this, Ye Feng nodded frantically.
"Is that so?"
After repelling the charging blood race members, Xiao Xiao looked at Ye Feng and Qiao Ying with suspicion.
"It's a bit complicated, but yes, that's exactly what happened!" Ye Feng scratched his head, explaining with a hint of awkwardness.
"Huh?"
Before Ye Feng could finish speaking, all four of them changed expression. The night sky suddenly darkened again, the moonlight vanishing completely.
"Total lunar eclipse!"
As soon as Ye Feng thought this, the blood race members around them became energized, their eyes turning crimson, and they charged forward recklessly.
The blood race members closest to Ye Feng's group even detonated themselves, while others engaged in cannibalism. Blood packs directly used knives, or simply slit their own carotid arteries, in a scene of utter madness.
Before long, a large number of blood race members, blood packs, modified humans, and fused monsters in the spacious courtyard lay dead in droves, the air thick with the pungent smell of blood.
"Big Brother, have these blood race members suddenly gone mad?"
Xiao Xiao exclaimed in surprise.
"These guys... it's the mental control of that Blood San..."
"Blood race, the Brad Base is planning to perform some kind of blood ritual during the total lunar eclipse... The blood is seeping into the ground... What is beneath..."
Qiao Ying said quickly while repelling the frenzied blood race members around them.
"Big Brother, all the blood on the ground is flowing towards the Ten Great Blood Guards!" Xiao Xiao's voice followed closely.
"Waaah!~"
At that moment, a piercing infant's scream echoed from not far away.
Ye Feng followed the sound and saw a figure in a blood-red cloak and a wooden mask appear on the rooftops nearby. It was Blood One, the highest-ranked among the Ten Great Blood Guards.
Blood One was carrying a large white bundle on his back, from which the infant cries Ye Feng and the others had heard originated.
As soon as Blood One appeared, Blood Two, Blood Three, Blood Four, Blood Five, Blood Six, and Blood Nine on the rooftops turned to look at him.
"Including this one just cut from a woman's womb, that makes exactly 99 infants!"
Blood One dropped the bloody, fist-sized, struggling and crying infant from his left hand into the large white bundle in his right hand, then nodded at the six blood guards on the rooftop.
Almost simultaneously, Blood One leaped towards the center of the courtyard. As he was in mid-air, he released the white bundle in his right hand, and crying infants began to fall downwards.
In that instant, Blood One formed a seal with his hands, and countless sharp blades materialized from his body, stabbing towards the 99 infants.
"Wah! Sizzle!"
"Chop! Wah wah!~ Ah!"
"Sizzle sizzle!~"
Instantly, the infants cried out before turning into chunks of flesh, some not even having time to scream.
A large amount of blood mist merged with bizarre runes summoned by Blood One, spreading outwards from the center.
At this point, Blood Two and the other six blood guards also formed a series of strange seals in their hands, and bizarre red runes appeared on their bodies.
The large amount of blood gathered beneath the six blood guards also floated into the air, merging with the red runes the blood guards had created, and rapidly spreading outwards, forming a giant net of blood runes.
Within a few breaths, the six blood guards formed a six-pointed blood magic array, with themselves standing at the six vertices.
Blood One, who had leaped into the air earlier, landed precisely in the center of the six-pointed blood array. The bizarre red runes created from his massacre of the infants also merged into the array, occupying the most central and complex portion.
"Ye Feng, we have to strike now and fight our way out!" Yue Miao shouted to Ye Feng at this moment, as most of the blood race members in the courtyard were injured and lying on the ground, and the few remaining were no longer actively attacking the four of them.
As Yue Miao finished speaking, Ye Feng, Xiao Xiao, and Qiao Ying had already begun to move. However, as the four of them charged forward, several strange red rune arrows shot towards them from different angles, blocking their path.
"It's Blood Eight!"
"Xiao Xiao, Blood Eight's runes possess a strange power. Ordinary weapons like swords cannot harm him. Even mithril is useless!"
"And if you are hit by his rune weapons, you will suffer severe wounds just like being struck by a real sword, and your mental energy will also be damaged!" Qiao Ying quickly explained to Xiao Xiao.
"Is that so!"
Xiao Xiao looked at her severely damaged mithril longsword with lingering fear. She had wanted to slash at the rune arrow shot at her, but Qiao Ying had pulled her back.
"Awaken!"
At this moment, Blood One, located at the very center of the six-pointed blood array, spat out a mouthful of blood, formed a seal with his hands, and slammed it towards the array.
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