nyslfriends Chapter 99 The Bloody Night of Cloud Peak Manor
Chapter 99 The Bloody Night of Cloud Peak Manor
Yunding Mountain Villa, Villa No. 1.
The mountainside, usually brightly lit and heavily guarded, was now deathly silent.
The sentries outside the manor had become cold corpses, each with a thin, long black wooden nail stuck between their eyebrows.
In the villa lobby.
An expensive leather sofa was split in two, a crystal chandelier worth millions was smashed on the floor, and broken glass was scattered all over the place.
Uncle Lu Changhai had his hands tied behind his back and was pressed down on the floor tiles in the center of the hall.
His clothes were torn to shreds, and his chest and back were covered with strange runes drawn with cinnabar and black dog blood. With each stroke, Lu Changhai's body trembled violently, and his face turned ashen.
Jiang Huichun collapsed at the bottom of the stairs.
This renowned traditional Chinese medicine master, famous throughout Jiangnan, had his right leg twisted at an odd angle, a large part of his chest caved in, and he was vomiting blood and foam from his mouth.
Lu Qingxue was pinned against the wall by two men dressed in black.
She didn't cry; she bit her lip tightly, her eyes red as she stared at the middle-aged man in the bright yellow Taoist robe in the center of the hall.
"Master Chen, is the array diagram finished?"
A middle-aged man with a large belly and wearing gold-rimmed glasses sat on a perfectly good single sofa, holding a glass of red wine in his hand, and asked slowly and deliberately.
This is Lu Changfeng, the second son of the Lu family in Yanjing.
He was also Lu Yuan's nominal second uncle.
Master Chen, dressed in a Taoist robe, put away his wolf-hair brush and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"Second Master, the base map has been completed. Lu Changhai is the eldest son of the Lu family's eldest branch, and his heart's blood is extremely yang and strong, making it the most suitable for the array's core. As long as his blood is drained and the spirit-guiding array is activated, the seal at the Dragon-Locking Well in Yanjing will loosen by a third."
Lu Changfeng took a sip of red wine and nodded in satisfaction.
He walked up to Lu Changhai and looked down at his half-brother.
"Brother, it's been twenty years. You've been feigning madness and clinging to life in Jiangnan, all just to protect that bastard child Changfeng left behind, haven't you?"
Lu Changfeng used the tip of his leather shoe to lift Lu Changhai's chin.
"What a pity, the old man has spoken. The Starfall Disc must be obtained, and the Dragon-Locking Well must be opened. Consider your blood a contribution to the Lu family's century-old legacy."
Lu Changhai spat a mouthful of bloody saliva in his face.
"Bah! You beasts! The old master passed the Starfall Disc to Changfeng back then because he was afraid you greedy bastards would open the Dragon Locking Well and cause a catastrophe! You're digging your own graves!"
Lu Changfeng wasn't annoyed; he took out a handkerchief and wiped his face.
"Brother, times have changed. What catastrophic disaster? The Dragon-Locking Well holds the key to immortality! As long as we obtain what's inside, the Lu family of Yanjing will truly rise above the mortal world!"
He turned around and waved to Lu Qingxue, who was standing in the corner.
"Manager Zhao is a good-for-nothing; he even failed to catch a little girl. I had to make the trip myself."
Lu Changfeng looked at Lu Qingxue's face, which was extremely similar to her mother's, and sneered.
"This girl's blood is good too. If Big Brother can't hold on, let's have her blood drained as well. It'll be a double insurance."
"You dare touch her!"
Lu Changhai's eyes were bloodshot as he struggled desperately, but he was held down firmly by two burly men in tight-fitting clothes and could not move at all.
Master Chen took out a poisoned black iron dagger from his sleeve and walked up to Lu Changhai.
"Uncle Lu, bear with it. The bloodletting process is a bit long. The blood from your heart has to flow drop by drop so that the formation can absorb it completely."
He raised the dagger, aimed it at Lu Changhai's heart, and plunged it in without hesitation.
"don't want!"
Lu Qingxue screamed and struggled desperately, but was held down tightly.
Just as the tip of the dagger was about to pierce Lu Changhai's skin...
"boom!!!"
The bulletproof copper door of Villa No. 1, weighing half a ton, along with the entire load-bearing wall, exploded inwards without warning.
A violent shockwave, carrying debris and rain, swept through the entire hall like a tornado.
Master Chen was the first to be affected.
Before he could even see what happened, he felt an irresistible force slam into his chest.
"Click!"
The black iron dagger in his hand snapped in two, and he was thrown back by the blast, crashing heavily into the wine cabinet behind him. Dozens of expensive bottles of red wine smashed onto his head, mixing with blood and spilling onto the floor.
The wine glass in Lu Changfeng's hand shattered, and shards of glass cut his face. He rolled twice on the floor in a disheveled state, then hid behind the sofa, staring in terror toward the door.
The smoke and dust cleared.
A tall, slender figure walked in, stepping over the mess on the ground.
Lu Yuan.
He was still carrying the two cardboard boxes he had brought from the Astronomical Bureau.
"elder brother!"
When Lu Qingxue saw Lu Yuan, her tears instantly flowed uncontrollably.
Lu Yuan placed the cardboard box on the clean coffee table beside him. He glanced at the horrific scene in the hall, his gaze lingering for half a second on the blood talismans on the heavily injured Jiang Huichun and his uncle.
Just this half-second.
The temperature in the entire hall suddenly dropped to freezing.
The two burly men in tight-fitting clothes who were holding Lu Qingxue exchanged a glance, then released their grip, pulled out blood-grooved military daggers from their waists, and pounced on Lu Yuan from the left and right.
These two were personal guards trained by the Lu family of Yanjing. Both were martial artists who had mastered internal strength and were ruthless in their attacks, aiming straight for Lu Yuan's throat and heart.
Lu Yuan didn't even glance at them.
He took a step forward and lightly stomped his right foot on the floor.
"Buzz!"
A visible golden ripple spread out from beneath his feet.
The two burly men in tight-fitting clothes, who were pouncing in mid-air, seemed to have crashed into an invisible wall of steel.
"Bang! Bang!"
The two men froze in mid-air, their bones crackling like firecrackers.
The next second, the two flew backward like kites with broken strings, crashing hard into the wall. When they slid down, they had become a pile of boneless, rotten flesh, bleeding from all seven orifices, and died on the spot.
A deathly silence fell over the hall.
All that remained was the sound of rainwater pouring in.
Lu Changfeng, who was hiding behind the sofa, shuddered.
He didn't even see how Lu Yuan made his move! Two masters of internal energy, gone just like that?
"You...you're Lu Yuan?"
Lu Changfeng stood up, supporting himself on the sofa, and tried to appear calm.
"I am your second uncle! How dare you act so insolently in front of the Lu family of Yanjing..."
"Smack!"
Before Lu Changfeng could finish speaking, Lu Yuan slapped him across the face from a distance.
Lu Changfeng spun around three times on the spot, and half of his face, mixed with teeth and blood, spurted out before he crashed heavily to the ground.
"Second Uncle?"
Lu Yuan walked up to him and stepped on his right hand.
"Click!"
"Ah!!!" Lu Changfeng let out a shrill scream as his right hand fingers were crushed into a pulp.
"Are you worthy?"
Lu Yuan's voice was soft, yet it carried a chilling aura that sent shivers down one's spine.
He turned his head and looked at Master Chen, who was crawling out of the ruins of the wine cabinet.
Master Chen was disheveled, his face covered in blood. He stared intently at Lu Yuan, a hint of madness flashing in his eyes.
"Martial arts master? Releasing internal energy?"
Master Chen suddenly bit his finger and drew a blood talisman on his forehead.
"I cultivate the orthodox Xuanmen sect! Even if you are at the peak of the Transformation Realm, you will die in this Yin Sha Formation today!"
He quickly formed hand seals and roared.
"Charge!"
On the hall floor, the runes drawn with cinnabar and black dog blood suddenly glowed with an eerie red light.
Yin energy from all directions converged wildly into the hall, causing the temperature to plummet once more. Several ghostly figures, formed from pure Yin energy, bared their fangs and claws in mid-air, emitting piercing howls as they pounced towards Lu Yuan.
This is Master Chen's trump card.
This Yin Sha Formation can even trap a true master of the Divine Realm for a short while!
Lu Changfeng clutched his severed hand and laughed wildly on the ground.
"Kill him! Master Chen, skin him alive!"
Lu Yuan looked at the ghostly figures rushing towards him, a hint of extreme contempt flashing in his eyes.
"You dare call a formation a few mindless, wandering ghosts?"
He raised his right hand, his index and middle fingers joined together, and a dazzling pure golden light shone from the tips of his fingers.
The Great Vehicle period, the sword energy that dispels delusion.
Lu Yuan waved his hand casually.
A golden sword aura swept out, cutting through the air in the entire hall.
There was no earth-shattering explosion.
Only the hissing sound of melting ice and snow could be heard.
Those menacing ghostly figures didn't even have time to scream before they vanished into thin air in the golden light.
The eerie blood-red runes on the floor were instantly evaporated by the sword energy.
The madness on Master Chen's face froze.
He stared blankly as his painstakingly set-up Yin Sha Formation was completely destroyed with a single finger.
"This...this is impossible...you're not using internal energy! This is..."
Master Chen seemed to have thought of something extremely terrifying; his eyes almost bulged out.
"This is spiritual energy! You are a cultivator..."
He hadn't even uttered the word "immortal" yet.
Lu Yuan was already in front of him.
"You talk too much."
Lu Yuan grabbed Master Chen by the neck with one hand and lifted him up.
"Where is the array diagram for the Locked Dragon Well in Yanjing?"
Master Chen's feet dangled in the air, a resolute glint in his eyes. He knew he wouldn't survive today, and with a swift movement, he crushed a black jade talisman hidden in his sleeve with his right hand.
"Ancestor... the key... belongs to Lu Yuan..."
He used his last ounce of strength to send the message out.
Lu Yuan watched him crush the jade talisman, but made no attempt to stop him.
"Finished sending?"
Lu Yuan clenched his five fingers.
"Click."
Master Chen's neck was snapped, and his head slumped limply.
Lu Yuan threw the corpse on the ground like trash.
He turned around and looked at Lu Changfeng, who was lying on the ground.
Lu Changfeng was terrified.
He scrambled backward, a pool of yellow liquid leaking from his crotch.
"Don't kill me... Yuan'er... I'm your second uncle... Blood is thicker than water..."
Lu Yuan walked up to him and looked down at him.
"My dad has been missing for ten years. When you were drawing his blood in the basement to support that broken formation, did you ever think about the bond of blood?"
Lu Changfeng froze abruptly.
How did he know about the basement?
Lu Yuan didn't give him another chance to speak, and used his toe to pick up the broken black iron dagger from the ground.
"Pfft!"
The dagger pierced Lu Changfeng's dantian with precision, directly destroying his internal energy.
"ah!!!"
Lu Yuan squatted down and looked at Lu Changfeng, who was rolling on the ground in pain.
"I won't kill you. Go back to Yanjing and give that old bastard a message."
Lu Yuan stood up and clapped his hands.
"Wash your neck clean. Within three days, I will personally go to the Lu family's courtyard house to collect the debt."