Chapter 3035

Ouyang Tianyun had naturally heard the shopkeeper’s implication, so he asked, “What is your plan?”

“They aren’t sailing themselves but waiting for a boat. That boat likely holds a secret,” Yan Xiwan said.

“It seems we must find a way to sneak onto that boat,” Ouyang Tianyun replied.

Yan Xiwan hummed in agreement. “But how do we get on?”

“Why not just search their souls? Then we can take their places after disguising ourselves,” Lu Fang said casually.

Yan Xiwan and Ouyang Tianyun exchanged glances, then looked at Lu Fang together.

“What are you looking at me for? Did I say something wrong?” Lu Fang asked, confused.

“No, you are absolutely right. How did we not think of that?” Yan Xiwan smiled. She then threw a pinch of powder down below.

“Three seconds to knock them out. Just three seconds. Three, two, one.” As she finished speaking, the shopkeeper and her men all collapsed to the ground.

Ouyang Tianyun and the others went down and searched their souls, quickly learning what they needed to know.

“So they used the evil energy of demonic cultivators to open a channel for free passage. This makes it difficult for us orthodox cultivators to enter even if we wanted to,” Ouyang Tianyun explained.

Indeed, without evil energy as a guide, they could not cross to the other side.

Ouyang Tianyun thought for a moment and sent a communication to the Immortal Emperor.

The Immortal Emperor replied, “Alright, I will come handle this.”

Where others could not go, he certainly could.

However, Ouyang Tianyun soon realized that the one arriving was not the Immortal Emperor, but the Black Emperor.

“Godfather,” Yan Xiwan said, surprised to see the Black Emperor.

The Black Emperor smiled slightly. “I happened to hear the news and went to your adoptive father’s place. I heard Tianyun’s message. Although your adoptive father could handle this, I will do it. Being a demonic cultivator by origin, it is easier for me to forge some evil energy. You do not need to go.”

“Understood,” Ouyang Tianyun nodded. “Then we will go find the Blood Pool and rescue the disciples of the Piao Miao Palace.”

“Go ahead,” the Black Emperor nodded.

Ouyang Tianyun and the others returned to the flying boat. The Black Emperor glanced at the bodies on the ground, waved his hand, and they vanished. He then made several hand seals, creating puppets resembling waiters, and transformed himself into the shopkeeper.

The Black Emperor had originally not cared about matters across the Black River. But now that everything there threatened the normal operation of the cultivation world, he would strike and destroy them.

Ouyang Tianyun did not ask how the Black Emperor would proceed. Instead, Ouyang Tianyun and Yan Xiwan, along with Lu Fang and Pan Hongmei, went to the Blood Pool.

The so-called Blood Pool was not far from Four Seasons City. It was located in a canyon a hundred miles away, surrounded by mountains on all sides. Ordinary people could not enter, and since there were no immortal treasures or secret realms here, cultivators rarely visited.

Precisely because of this isolation, demonic cultivators had utilized the place to build a Blood Pool.

From mid-air, they saw a vast expanse of blood red below. Several fragmented figures were visible in the pool. Yan Xiwan recognized them as disciples of the Piao Miao Palace.

Ouyang Tianyun said to Yan Xiwan, “Wife, I will trouble you to heal them later. I will rescue them first.”

“Okay,” Yan Xiwan nodded.

Ouyang Tianyun rescued the Piao Miao Palace disciples one by one, bringing them directly onto the flying boat.

Once on board, they realized these people had been tortured until they were nothing but skin and bones.

“Senior Martial Uncle,” someone still recognized Ouyang Tianyun.

Ouyang Tianyun hummed and looked at Yan Xiwan.

Yan Xiwan quickly took their pulses, administered appropriate medicines, and used gold needles for acupuncture to restore their vitality.

“Their condition is stable, but their cultivation has been completely lost and must be rebuilt,” Yan Xiwan said. She noticed their cultivation base was gone, which explained why they were trapped and could not escape.

“It doesn’t matter. Our foundations are not destroyed. We just lost our cultivation. We can practice again,” the disciples said with open-mindedness.

This was indeed a characteristic of the Piao Miao Palace disciples.

Yan Xiwan nodded and gave them some Foundation Establishment Pills. “You can use these for now. When we return, I will refine some medicines to help you recover your cultivation faster. However, cultivation aided by medicine is not as good as self-cultivation. Unless necessary, I do not recommend relying on them.”

“Thank you, Senior Martial Aunt. We will remember,” the disciples said gratefully.

Ouyang Tianyun looked down and said to Yan Xiwan, “The blood qi below is quite strong. Do you want to absorb it?”

Yan Xiwan glanced down and shook her head slightly. “No need. Although I can transform any energy, I dislike the smell down there. Destroy it.”

Yan Xiwan had her own bottom line. Although she could absorb the energy in the Blood Pool, she was unwilling to do so.

Seeing that Yan Xiwan truly did not want to absorb it, Ouyang Tianyun did not force the issue. He clapped his hands lightly, and instantly the surrounding mountains began to shake. Countless stones fell down.

In just ten minutes, the entire Blood Pool was filled. From then on, the Blood Pool would no longer exist.

Yan Xiwan said, “I wonder how Godfather is doing?”

“Rest assured. With Godfather’s ability, we have no need to worry. If anyone needs to worry, it should be his enemies,” Ouyang Tianyun said. He truly did not worry about the Black Emperor.

As the Black Emperor, the supreme ruler of the Supreme Universe, he could destroy the other side of the Black River with a single finger.

Yan Xiwan said calmly, “I was just being polite. Please don’t pick a fight with me.”

“Okay, my mistake.” Seeing his wife looking slightly angry, Ouyang Tianyun quickly admitted his fault.

The Black Emperor returned three days later, arriving at the estate in Four Seasons City where Yan Xiwan and the others were staying.

“Godfather, you actually knew we were here?” Yan Xiwan asked with a smile, pouring a cup of tea for him.

The Black Emperor did not hesitate. He drank the tea and said, “I can find you in any corner. Besides, this is not some remote corner.”

His expression then turned serious as he addressed Ouyang Tianyun. “The demonic cultivators in this cultivation world have been mostly eliminated. I will not stay long. If I remain, the Heavenly Dao here might not dare to appear. I will go to the Immortal Realm to help your adoptive father deal with the demonic cultivators there.”

“Are these demonic cultivators from the Immortal Realm?” Ouyang Tianyun asked.

“Some are. Others come from different planes. Anyway, we will clean up the Immortal Realm first, then deal with the other planes.”