This Sword Cultivator is Somewhat Dependable

Lu Qingshan looked up at the roiling blood-red fog beneath the sky and did not directly answer Gao Tian's retort, "Deputy Tower Master Gao, are you aware of the origin and function of this blood Qi?"

Without waiting for Gao Tian to reply, Lu Qingshan pointed at the blood on the ground nearby that was disappearing.

"That blood Qi is transformed from the essence blood within the range of the Great Formation, whether it comes from the Human Race or demons. As for the function of the blood Qi..."

He paused, then counterquestioned, "Do the two Tower Masters not find this process eerily familiar?"

"Ah, could this be... Blood Pool Reincarnation!" Dantai Qingrun was the first to realize.

Lu Qingshan nodded.

"All this blood Qi covering the entire city's sky is actually being used for the Blood Pool Reincarnation Great Technique?!" Gao Tian was utterly horrified.

This was an incredibly horrifying matter.

A Blood River running through the entire Zhenjiang City, suspended in the sky - any person with clear vision could imagine what kind of tremendous demons it would reincarnate.

Because Dantai Qingrun and Gao Tian had arrived, surrounding guards who had made room for them, now all inhaled sharply.

If what Lu Qingshan said was true, it was indeed too terrifying.

"We must stop the Netherworld from using Zhenjiang City as a sacrifice for the Blood Pool Reincarnation, or else the consequences would be unthinkable," Dantai Qingrun declared resolutely.

Gao Tian, looking at the bloodstains on the ground disappearing in a very eerie manner, finally began to believe some of what Lu Qingshan had said.

After a moment of silence, Gao Tian suddenly asked, "Tower Master Dantai, is what he says... reliable?"

Given the gravity of the situation, Gao Tian did not understand why a Foundation Establishment Cultivator knew so much, but seeing the familiarity between Dantai Qingrun and Lu Qingshan, he could only seek confirmation from Dantai Qingrun to solidify his own thoughts.

Dantai Qingrun hesitated, his gaze moving over Lu Qingshan's face for a moment before he finally nodded and said, "Yes, it's reliable!"

With Dantai Qingrun's affirmation, Gao Tian's mind was set, and he no longer hesitated.

With the situation being so urgent, the most precious thing now was time.

"Command the Spiritual Supplies Department to bring out the set of Positive and Negative Nine Palaces Formation flags and use Zhenjiang Tower as the center to turn the surrounding area into a safe zone, gathering the city's refugees," Gao Tian ordered.

The Positive and Negative Nine Palaces Formation was a set of formation flags treasured by Zhenjiang Tower, a Fourth Grade defensive formation. If presided over by a cultivator, even a Nascent Soul Cultivator would need to spend a fair amount of time to break through.

Although there were plans to abandon the city and evacuate, with the chaos inside the city, Gao Tian could not neglect the common people. Therefore, the temporary measure was to set up a Great Formation to protect the civilians as much as possible.

"Yes!" A guard immediately responded to the command.

"Have Black Ice Platform bring up the intelligence investigated these past two days for us," Dantai Qingrun also rapidly issued orders.

It was impossible to find the Underworld Cultivators lurking in Zhenjiang City by hard work alone – it was like finding a needle in a haystack.

They needed to rely on some intelligence information to trace their steps.

Black Ice Platform had previously made a military decree claiming that within five days, they would definitely find some clues by using information provided by evil cultivators.

Although only two days had passed in terms of time, due to the current chaos, the investigation could no longer continue.

But in the past two days, Black Ice Platform had still gained some results.

These were now their breakthrough points.

Soon, a cultivator from Black Ice Platform presented the jade slip containing the collected information, and Gao Tian and Dantai Qingrun immediately started to review the contents within the jade slip.

As they read the detailed contents of the jade slip, both of their expressions grew more unsightly.

The investigative method of the Black Ice Platform starts with a rough collection of a large number of suspected cultivators, then, by elimination, excludes those who are unrelated, one by one, until only the most suspicious cultivators remain.

However, over these two days, the work of Black Ice Platform had only reached the first step.

Therefore, in the current intelligence documents, the list of cultivators provided by Black Ice Platform, who might be Netherworld personnel, is surprisingly lengthy.

With their manpower, it is definitely impossible to investigate the whereabouts of all these individuals in a short period of time.

This called for a difficult decision.

But what should be the basis of this choice?

By character? Or by intuition?

…

Suddenly, as if struck by a thought, Dantai Qingrun's cold eyes swept over Lu Qingshan and then passed the jade slip to him.

Gao Tian saw Dantai Qingrun's action and pondered thoughtfully, his gaze toward Lu Qingshan acquiring a more meaningful nuance.

Lu Qingshan was initially taken aback by the jade slip handed over by Dantai Qingrun but quickly grasped Dantai Qingrun's intention.

He didn't decline, and quickly accepted the jade slip, immediately probing it with his divine sense to read the information inside.

Images of cultivators and their detailed data from the open surfaced in Lu Qingshan's mind.

Lu Qingshan skimmed over these profiles as if browsing, and eventually, his attention settled on one particular cultivator.

This cultivator had an extremely tall and lean figure, like a bamboo pole, with a slightly sunken forehead resembling a dish.

This man was known as Five Thunder Child, a loose cultivator of foundation establishment cultivation, who was somewhat famous in Zhenjiang City for practicing thunder spells, known to be the most powerful among all Dharma cultivation spells.

For Lu Qingshan, the Corpse Puppet Chaos was a story he had experienced a very long time ago.

Furthermore, in this version, the players' role in the main storyline was only as cannon fodder, so regarding this plotline, Lu Qingshan had no strong recollection aside from a few core characters.

But this Five Thunder Child happened to make an unexpectedly deep impression on him.

His real identity was one of the two Black Impermanences of Zhenjiang Netherworld.

As for why he had such a strong memory of this Black Impermanence.

The reason was quite peculiar.

For players, the more special and annoying the boss, the more memorable it becomes, and as such, the easier it is to deal with,

These troublesome bosses often have countless counter-strategies developed by players.

On the other hand, the low-profile, inconspicuous bosses often cause players to meet unexpected failures.

This Black Impermanence was just such a boss in the Corpse Puppet Chaos version, with disgustingly irritating skills.

Black Impermanence, a Netherworld cultivator with golden core perfection in Dharma cultivation, was an expert in thunder spells just like his surface identity indicated.

His trademark thunder spell was named Earth Yin Thunder.

It was a crafty thunder spell forged from the gloomy and resentful qi gathered from the heart of the earth, with extremely strong corrosive properties.

Be it a Vajra body or stone, upon encountering Earth Yin Thunder, both would be instantly corroded, and what's more, Earth Yin Thunder specialized in contaminating flying sword magical artifacts, effectively making it the bane of sword cultivators.

As a sword cultivator, it was no wonder that Lu Qingshan deeply remembered Black Impermanence, a sword cultivator's nemesis who mastered Earth Yin Thunder.