Ninety-three wooden crates were neatly arranged in the hall.
In the eastern part of the chaotic banquet hall, Lu Xiuming and Zhang Yashi lay dead, embracing each other.
Lu Xiuming, drained of all blood, resembled withered branches, while Zhang Yashi, with a smile on her lips, her lifeless eyes wide open, seemed to still gaze upon her dreamt-of paradise.
Everything was so eerie.
The Taoist sect, meant to save all living beings, was now cleaning up the bloodstains.
Qing Yangzi tapped a wooden sword against a crate, "How many more do we need?"
"Senior Brother, we still need seven sacrifices. But don't worry, look, there are still quite a few people on the other side."
Qing Yangzi grinned and looked at Qin Yexuan, "Do you want to choose seven people to be live sacrifices yourselves, or shall we do it? Once we Daoists start, the scene won't be very pleasant."
He looked at them like monkeys, with a twisted sense of pleasure.
The ring of fire around Qin Yexuan burned fiercely, his face flickering in the flames, while his disciples behind him, including Wang Jiaqian, remained silent.
This silence made the Daoists across from them a little uneasy.
Why weren't they afraid?
Qing Yangzi's eyes narrowed, "It seems we Daoists will have to take action ourselves."
Just as he was about to give the order, Qin Yexuan spoke, "Where is Xu Chunyang?"
Earlier, through the black mist, Qin Yexuan had felt Xu Chunyang's gaze, but then he lost track of him.
Qing Yangzi's eyes widened, a strange expression on his face, "Is our Zhengyi Sect's Great Celestial Master someone you can just ask about?"
Qin Yexuan interrupted him again, "Xu Chunyang only appeared recently, right? At least during the incident with the Tuo River water monster, I hadn't heard this name. He's barely forty years old, just a clown."
A clown?
The Daoists simultaneously shouted, "Presumptuous, you are too presumptuous!"
Qing Yangzi was enraged. The wooden sword in his hand suddenly shot out, whistling through the air towards Qin Yexuan.
*Poof!*
Before the wooden sword could fly half a meter, it shattered into pieces on the spot, and Qing Yangzi cried out in pain, his right arm snapping at a ninety-degree angle.
All the Daoists fell silent, a deathly silence filled with stunned disbelief.
Qing Yangzi clutched his arm, a look of horror on his face. When had he ever suffered such a setback?
"W-what are you all staring at? F-form the array!" Qing Yangzi cried, tears in his voice.
The Daoists then nervously raised their wooden swords, preparing to take their positions.
Qin Yexuan chuckled softly, flicked his finger, and a spark flew from the flames beneath his feet, blooming in mid-air and transforming into a fire dragon that lunged forward.
He flicked his finger seven times in succession, and seven fire dragons crisscrossed the hall, precisely occupying seven positions.
These were the very positions the Tiān Yī sect Daoists had intended to occupy.
"H-how does he know our formation positions?" The Daoists were in complete disarray. Su Dan Novel Net.
Qin Yexuan laughed heartily, "Your Big Dipper Seven Star formation is actually a knock-off. The true Big Dipper formation uses the Ziwei Star Palace as its core, with Pojun in command, and Wenqu and Yaoguang, Tanlang and Kaiyang... looking at your formation is truly speechless."
He chanted incantations and gently waved his fingers, controlling the seven fire dragons to form the true Big Dipper formation.
Instantly, a massive fireball appeared at the center, and began to compress at an astonishing speed.
When the fireball formed by the seven fire dragons compressed to the size of a glass bead, the light from the ceiling and the floor warped.
This life-chasing little fireball, under Qin Yexuan's command, slowly flew towards Qing Yangzi.
Qing Yangzi cried out and grabbed a nearby junior brother, pushing him in front of him.
With a *bang*, the junior brother directly "exploded."
It was the peculiar effect of the body's moisture vaporizing under extreme heat.
White ash sprinkled across the hall, and the Daoists wailed. Qing Yangzi, in particular, desperately tried to escape, but the fireball pursued him relentlessly.
*Whoosh!*
Qing Yangzi suddenly kicked, sending an uncle standing beside him behind him.
The back of the uncle's Taoist robe vanished, followed by his legs, then his waist, his shoulders, until only his two hands remained, embedded in the floor...
Wang Jiaqian covered her eyes, unable to watch, and even Jun Mengyao could not bear to look.
Qin Yexuan, however, remained unfazed. He subtly changed his finger technique, now controlling the fireball with the Lion Seal. Its power was magnified by tens of millions of times.
Just then, a soft, feminine voice sounded, "That's enough. Tiān Yī Sect concedes defeat. You are indeed an unparalleled national scholar."
Qin Yexuan flicked his finger, and the fireball dissipated.
He gazed into the darkness behind the entrance, "Xu Chunyang?"
The soft voice was still laughing, but a girl in white emerged from the shadows.
Ning Shuang exclaimed first.
Because the one who appeared was Su Xueqing, whose body was being controlled.
Xu Chunyang remained hidden in the darkness, but a red thread was wrapped around "Su Xueqing's" neck.
His laughter was intermittent, "Mr. Qin, you'd better not act rashly, or I'll have to destroy Xue Ji!"
Xue Ji was the alias for Su Xueqing when she was controlled as a Rakshasa.
Qin Yexuan's eyes flickered, "Shen Bingmei is also in your hands?"
"Oh, I almost forgot. She is now called Bing Ji, and she is also one of my controlled subordinates."
"So, Qin先生's two beloved women seem to be under my control."
Qin Yexuan's tone was calm, "Is this how the Great Celestial Master of the Taoist sect conducts himself, so shamelessly?"
Xu Chunyang chuckled, "I have never cared about fame or morality, because history is written by the victors. I cannot defeat you, so I can only resort to these despicable and villainous underhanded tactics."
"Brother-in-law!" Ning Shuang's voice trembled, "I know you don't like being threatened, but that's Ah Xue!"
Qin Yexuan gently squeezed her hand in comfort.
Then, he smiled relaxedly at the darkness, "Fine, I won't interfere. Xu Chunyang, you can continue."
The Great Celestial Master in the darkness let out a surprised sound, "That's it?"
"Yes, that's it. You continue."
There was an awkward silence in the air.
Then Xu Chunyang took a breath, "But I need to complete the sacrifice of one hundred people."
Qin Yexuan said coldly, "I will protect anyone beyond the fire circle. I will also protect Ah Xue and Shen Bingmei in your hands. If you dare to touch anyone I name, Hmph, then I will show you what cruelty is!"
Xu Chunyang was silent for a moment, "That's a bit difficult, we still need seven sacrifices."
Qin Yexuan chuckled, "Do you want me to give you an idea?"
Xu Chunyang exclaimed again, "You're willing to offer an idea? That's wonderful. I've heard that Mr. Qin is peerlessly wise, I'd love to hear how you would solve this dilemma."
Qin Yexuan burst out laughing, "You idiot! Seven living people? You can't touch the people behind me, but the ones in front of me, like that Qing Yangzi, are quite suitable!"
What?!
Qing Yangzi and the other Daoists were instantly dumbfounded...