Chapter 1673 - 623: Luring the Enemy Into the Trap (Part 3)
No pain could attach itself to their bodies.
Blades hacked and axes chopped around them, Hand Power and Fist Strength crashed down, yet nothing could interrupt this sequence of methods they were performing.
In just a brief moment, this group was already covered in blood, each of them bleeding all over.
And even so, it still was not over.
The last acupoint was the Baihui acupoint!
They all reached back and pinched at the tops of their heads.
In an instant, blood burst open, spilling from their crowns and drenching their faces.
The Qingming acupoint had already been punctured, making it look as if their eyes were weeping blood; now they each turned completely into blood gourds.
At this point, they casually picked up the Longswords at their sides and thrust with a lift of the hand.
The people besieging them were almost all scared stiff by these women.
They’d seen plenty of killing in the Jianghu.
But they really had never seen anyone, before the fight even started, torment themselves until their whole bodies were streaming with blood.
This was a Jianghu bout, not some street thug putting on a show of brute swagger.
Who does that?
Yet seeing the Longswords coming, they still had to block where they must and respond where they must. What they didn’t expect was that the strokes they could originally handle suddenly became of Infinite Strength.
The weapons being wielded didn’t look particularly refined, but they cut iron like mud all the same.
Wails of misery rose once more in waves, only this time it wasn’t the Blood Lotus Sect’s Evil People screaming, but these Jianghu people inside the inn.
The red‑robed woman who’d been impersonating the Blood Lotus Sect saw this and her pupils involuntarily shrank:
"So they really are Demon Path Evil People...
"What kind of Evil Technique is this?"
"The Blood Lotus Great Method is Divine Skills personally granted by our Blood Lotus Mother. Only with Blood Lotus Mother’s Sincere Worship can it be performed.
"You foul beings of this filthy mortal world, whose desires have turned to demons—how could you comprehend the vastness of our Divine Skills!?
"Rest easy, you won’t die right away. What you said just now, I deeply agree, and will naturally follow it to the letter!!"
The Blood Lotus Sect Master saw this and burst into loud laughter. With a flick of the Longsword in her hand, it was as if a blood‑red Lotus bloomed in the air.
The red‑robed woman opposite snorted, sending her Longsword forward.
But she felt as if the sword tip sank into a quagmire.
No matter forward, back, left, or right, she couldn’t pull free. Startled, she immediately understood she’d walked right into the opponent’s stratagem.
First show weakness, then suddenly strike as an Assassin—this was a commonly used tactic in the Jianghu.
She had been shocked by this Blood Lotus Great Method and was careless for a moment, ultimately falling for a vicious trick. At this point, even if she wanted to pull her Longsword back, it was nigh impossible.
She heard that Blood Lotus Sect Master give a cold shout:
"Let go!!"
The sword edge twisted; if the woman didn’t let go, her arm would definitely be cut off at the root.
But the woman just let out a cold laugh:
"Dream on!!!"
At that razor‑thin instant, she flung the Longsword, turning her right hand left and right, taking a perilous line through the dense web of blades, and forcibly seized the sword hilt. With a swift thrust of the hand, she aimed to stab into the Blood Lotus Sect Master’s throat.
This Blood Lotus Sect Master’s martial arts were indeed formidable.
Her move had yet to be fully executed, and the sword edge was already about to stab into the opponent’s shoulder.
But if that sword truly landed, she herself would die on the spot.
The other party was trading one arm for one life—how could she allow that to succeed?
She immediately flung out sword light; blood‑colored Sword Qi filled the blade, and three blood Lotuses shot up in an instant.
They struck exactly at the fall of the opponent’s sword light.
There was a ringing "ding" as the red‑robed woman’s Longsword was forcibly twisted into half a blade.
The broken half of the sword flew off; the Blood Lotus Sect Master’s heart instantly relaxed.
The Longsword is broken—what are you going to use to fight me?
As that thought arose, a streak of sharpness suddenly changed; silver light flared, almost too bright to see.
The next moment, a broken sword was pressed against her throat.
At the same time, more than ten acupoints behind her were consecutively sealed, and her entire body became like a piece of wood, unable to move in the slightest.
She ground her teeth:
"Swordsmanship isn’t what you’re good at..."
"Who says people who use swords can’t wield Blade Technique?"
When the Longsword snapped, the Blood Lotus Sect member thought her opponent had no way left, but she hadn’t expected that this was exactly when the map ends and the dagger appears.
A brilliant Blade Technique unfolded, seizing on that one instant when her heart relaxed, and she was forcibly taken alive.
At the same time, the red‑robed woman glanced around and shouted angrily:
"How much longer are you going to watch?"
Little Situ heard this and instinctively looked at Su Mo.
He thought, does this woman know we’re watching?
Su Mo made a gesture for silence.
Sure enough, from a room on the second floor, an Old Man in coarse cloth walked out.
He was bent and decrepit, looking as if he was about to step into his coffin.
His gaze swept over the red‑robed woman, full of reproach:
"You child, still so lacking in manners.
"Jingxin Hall colluding with the Blood Lotus Sect is no trivial matter. If I, this old man, cannot see things clearly, how could I easily take your side?"
"But... people are dying every moment out here."
The red‑robed woman looked at the Blood Lotus Sect Disciples in the field, massacring with the Blood Lotus Great Method, and couldn’t help stomping her foot as she said:
"If you don’t act now, a few more will die."
"If they die, they die."
The Old Man was utterly unconcerned:
"Murderers running black inns, Jiangyang bandits, Evil experts of the Evil Path...
"If you say you lot are trying to band together to wipe out an Evil sect, I doubt anyone would believe it—but if you say you yourselves are an Evil sect, there would surely be many who believe.
"Hmph. If you’re going to ask for help, couldn’t you find some people whose background and identities are clean? What kind of rabble is this?"
Though he spoke thus, the Old Man still sighed and thumped his staff:
"Why aren’t your souls returning to me!!"
His voice suddenly rang out; the Blood Lotus Sect Disciples who had been madly slaughtering all felt as if struck by lightning.
The next moment, shrill screams tore from their mouths.
They all flipped over and knelt, howling in agony.
And just then the Old Man suddenly looked toward the outside of the inn and laughed coldly:
"Since Song Sect Leader is already here, are you really not planning to come in and see this old man?"
His voice drifted, transmitting to all directions.
Outside the door, the group of Black clothed Men who’d nocked arrows and waited half the day for someone to rush out so they could shoot them suddenly heard this.
They all looked at one another.
The leading Black clothed Man’s expression shifted between gloom and light: "Elder Yushu!"
He suddenly took out a Fire Meteor from his robe and flung it up toward the sky.
In a flash, a blood‑colored Lotus blossomed, dyeing half the heavens red.
The Old Man inside the inn saw this and his face changed sharply:
"You’ve got some nerve!!"
Su Mo, who’d been watching from the shadows, saw this and couldn’t help but be overjoyed:
"So this man had such a good thing hidden on him?"