Chapter 5124: Blood Turns Into Poison |
Silence descended over the Bloodline Hall.
The disciples stood rooted in place while the corpse slowly leaked darkened blood across the stone pathways.
The smell alone was enough to make them shiver.
Within moments, alarms rang throughout the Miredon Family Estate.
Elders and physicians rushed over at full speed, only to come to an abrupt stop after seeing the corpse lying before the Ancestral Hall.
Even the elders felt chills spread through their bodies.
The old ancestor no longer looked human.
His skin had blackened in several places while his veins bulged grotesquely beneath the flesh. His body looked hollowed out from within, as though every drop of bone and blood inside him had decayed into corruption.
One elder quickly knelt beside the corpse and sent his spiritual sense inward.
"The bloodline..."
His lips trembled, "It’s corrupted..."
"What nonsense are you saying?" Another elder who stood behind him, maintaining a careful distance, barked.
The elder who checked turned around and roared, "The bloodline itself became poison!"
The surrounding elders instantly stiffened.
Only one thought dashed across their mind like a million horses galloping across the battlefield: Impossible!
How can one’s own bloodline turn into poison?
That was saying that their own blood turned into poison. It didn’t make sense at all. If the ancestor’s blood was poison itself that was harmful like this, then how come he survived to this day?
"Elders..."
Suddenly, one of the terrified disciples who witnessed the scene spoke through clattering teeth.
"Speak boldly." One of the elders encouraged him.
The terrified disciple nodded, "Ancestor... he kept saying there was a hex..."
The moment the word left his mouth, silence fell again.
The elders exchanged uneasy glances.
A hex was a troublesome thing to encounter. It wasn’t a rune, but it acted like one, latching onto blood, soul, and other spiritual factors that karma could integrate and be borne from. Even in the Six-Headed Hydra Upper Realm, known for poison and darkness, a hex was still rare to come across, unlike a curse.
Fearing the origin of this hex, one elder immediately began inspecting his own body.
At first, he found nothing of concern, but he kept checking. .
Then his face turned deathly pale.
Deep within his soul, hidden so carefully it was nearly impossible to detect, a black-red mark pulsed with a green glow silently beside his soul essence.
The elder’s pupils constricted violently.
Cold sweat drenched his back as he found it difficult to breathe.
"No..."
He hurriedly circulated his cultivation art and surged with his soul force, trying to squash the hex.
The black-red hex mark that glowed in a sinister green reacted instantly.
He spat a mouthful of blood as the hex exploded within him again, causing him to cry out miserably before he pointed in a direction and fell.
"The hex... the hex’s source..es from the Hayden Family...! Ah!"
Soon, that elder also turned into an empty husk as black blood formed a huge puddle below him. He wasn’t even able to escape with his soul as though it was affected by the hex.
The other elders watched him die with eyes full of calm and indifference, but rage brewed in their hearts.
A Level Three Primarch of their family was gone just like that. Since he was a Primarch, this elder was still young compared to the Exalts who were here. With rage brewing in their hearts, they all turned to look in one direction.
This was all because of one family that they openly despised and offended! To think they had such a powerful hex expert who could hex their entire family.
"Hayden Family, just you wait! We can’t live under the same sky!"
In the skies, the Patriarch, who was observing all this, said with a cold gaze as he took out his legacy artifact and placed it on his head. It was a blue oceanic crown. Once he put it on, he waved his hand.
"Elders and disciples! Heed my command, prepare for war!"
Unbeknownst to them, a similar scene was playing out in the Hayden Family.
The source of the hex they found was none other than the Miredon Family’s grounds.
Why? Because Evelynn went on a walk with her avatar and placed her karmic substitute in the alleyway behind the Miredon Family’s Estate. It was in the form of an eye, waiting patiently for someone to trace it once the main body hid itself from prying eyes.
She set them up both.
But what did City Lord Davis do?
"What!? There’s a martial curfew!?"
The members of the Hayden Family and Miredon Family barely got out of their estates before the city guards stopped them, causing them to become even more enraged.
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