Chapter 1112: Blood Pool Again
She looked at Xu Wang coldly, "As for you..."
Xu Wang was so frightened that he kowtowed repeatedly, trying to get Luo Li to spare him: "City Lord, spare my life! I was confused for a moment..."
"Take him back," Luo Li turned around, "and deal with him publicly tomorrow as a warning to others."
Emperor Xuanming frowned, waved his hand to seal Xu Wang's cultivation, and picked him up like a chicken.
By the time the three of them returned to the City Lord's Mansion, it was already late at night.
Luo Li ordered his men to lock Xu Wang up in the dungeon and keep him under strict guard, and then went to the medicine pavilion with Di Xuanming to inspect the damage.
The lights in the medicine pavilion were on, and countless alchemists were walking around. Mo Wuyan was leading the alchemists to count the damaged spiritual plants.
Seeing Luo Li's arrival, he hurried forward, his face solemn. "City Lord, preliminary statistics show that the losses are even more serious than expected. Not only have 30% of the high-level spiritual plants lost their medicinal properties, but dozens of thousand-year-old spiritual plants and five ten-thousand-year-old spiritual plants have also disappeared."
Luo Li's eyes darkened: "Have you found any signs of the formation being destroyed?"
Mo Wuyan nodded and pointed to the corner of the storage room. "This was originally the center of the formation, but someone used a special method to cover up the signs of destruction. If the City Lord hadn't pointed out the problem with the Moonlight Grass today and asked us to inspect it, we would probably still be in the dark."
Luo Li walked to the center of the formation, and her fingertips touched the remaining formation patterns. Beneath the cold touch, there was a strange burning smell.
She suddenly leaned over and picked up a strand of silver-grey thread from the cracks in the broken bluestone slab. As soon as the thread touched her palm, it turned into a dark blue flame and went out instantly.
"Illusionary Demonic Spider Silk," Di Xuanming flicked a strand of floating spider silk, his dark robe fluttering without a breeze. "This kind of demonic spider only produces half an inch of silk every ten years. It can conceal all auras. If it weren't for the deliberate clues left behind, ordinary spiritualists wouldn't be able to detect it at all."
Mo Wuyan's expression suddenly changed: "The Phantom Demon Spider has been extinct for a hundred years. How could it appear here?"
Luo Li lowered her eyes. Now that there were more and more demons on the Continent of Gods, these magical beasts with subtle demonic energy were also starting to become active.
She said, "No matter what, Xu Wang definitely can't get this thing on his own."
She lightly twisted the remaining ashes with her fingertips, a cold light flashing in her eyes: "It seems that behind Xu Wang is not only the Mu family, but also a big fish."
Emperor Xuanming suddenly raised his hand and formed a seal, and a dark golden barrier instantly enveloped the entire medicine pavilion.
Almost at the same time, the medicine cabinet in the northwest corner exploded, and faint green flames shot out from hundreds of jade boxes. Wherever the flames licked, even the medicine racks made of green spirit stone began to corrode.
"Bone-eating Hellfire!" Mo Wuyan quickly retreated several feet, "Everyone, leave the medicine pavilion immediately!"
Luo Li's wide sleeves fluttered, and nine icy silks shot out from her wrists.
The extremely cold air collided with the netherworld fire, and dense spells emerged from the steaming mist - it was actually the long-lost soul-devouring formation.
Emperor Xuanming said coldly: "Hidden formation, it is a good plan."
Before he could finish his words, the floor of the entire medicine pavilion suddenly collapsed, revealing a surging pool of blood below. White bones were faintly visible in the fishy smell.
Luo Li narrowed her eyes, it was indeed the Demon God Temple.
However, it seems that this was not laid recently, but had been laid for a long time and was only discovered now.
Moreover, the spiritual power in those spiritual plants seemed to have been absorbed by this blood pool.
"City Lord, be careful!" Mo Wuyan exclaimed as dozens of pitch-black claws stretched out from the blood pool, each claw tip wrapped with the same phantom spider silk as before.
Luo Li lightly tapped the ice silk with her toes and flew into the air. When the Xuan Yue Sword was unsheathed, it let out a clear whistle like a dragon's roar.
As the sword flashed, the sharp claws broke one after another, but turned into sticky black mist and gathered together again when they hit the ground.
She suddenly noticed something strange and stabbed the air behind her with her sword.
"bite!"
Amidst the sound of metal clashing, half of the transparent spider blade broke off.
A half-human, half-beast monster slowly emerged from the shadows. From the waist up, she looked like a charming woman, but her lower body was a spider torso covered with eyeballs.
"Young Master Luo is truly worthy of his reputation," the Phantom Demon Spider licked the purple blood flowing from the broken blade, its eight compound eyes simultaneously reflecting Luo Li's figure. "Unfortunately, today's game was originally intended to be the burial place for the Medicine Pavilion. I didn't expect to have such an unexpected gain. Then Young Master Luo will stay here with us."
Luo Li crossed her arms, Young Master?
How long had this phantom spider been hiding here? Even when she succeeded the city lord, she didn't know.
Emperor Xuanming sneered and waved his hand. His soul power transformed into twelve flying swords, each ablaze with black soul fire, surrounding the monster. "A Grand Lord-level Phantom Demon Spider Mother is so presumptuous in front of me?"
The eight compound eyes of the Phantom Demon Spider Mother contracted at the same time, and the eyeballs on her abdomen spun wildly, obviously recognizing Di Xuanming's identity.
She screamed, the sound waves shaking the beams and pillars of the medicine pavilion, "Master of the Underworld?! You betrayed—"
Before he finished speaking, the twelve Soul Fire Flying Swords had formed a net that stretched across the sky and the earth.
The spider mother hastily spurted out silver threads to resist, but those phantom spider threads that had killed countless people melted like ice and snow the moment they touched the black soul fire.
Luo Li's Xuan Yue Sword suddenly emitted a clear sword sound, and fine ice cracks appeared on the sword body.
Her heart skipped a beat. The Xuanyue Spirit had been silent for a long time. How could it be that just now—
Luo Li looked at the pool of blood and narrowed her eyes slightly.
She spun around and slashed towards the center of the blood pool. The sword energy split the surging blood waves, revealing a long sword at the bottom of the pool that looked like white jade and was wrapped in spider silk.
The Moon Soul Stone inlaid on the hilt of the sword is emitting a faint blue light.
Seeing this, the spider mother screamed miserably: "Damn it, stop it!"
Di Xuanming raised his fingertips slightly, and a stream of soul fire pierced directly through her throat.
The spider mother's huge body began to disintegrate and dissipated unwillingly on the spot.
Luo Li flew down, and the Xuan Yue Sword drew a cold arc of light, cutting off all the spider silk wrapped around the white jade sword.
The dagger flew into her palm automatically as if it had a spirit, and the light of the Moon Soul Stone produced a wonderful resonance with the Xuan Yue Sword.
"This is..." Luo Li's fingertips gently stroked the ancient patterns on the sword. "Moonlight Sword?"
Emperor Xuanming put away his soul fire and his eyes fell on the dagger: "It's the sacred object of the Great Wilderness Moon Clan. No wonder it can trigger the vibration of the Xuanyue Sword."
Luo Li tossed the Yuehua Sword. "It contains the power of the Moon God. People in the Demon God Temple can't use it. It seems they want to transform the power inside it."
Di Xuanming curled his lips, "But they are really stupid enough to put it in the medicine cabinet in the city."
"They bribed Xu Wang, the head of the Medicine Pavilion. If Grandpa and the others hadn't come here in person to take a look, they probably wouldn't have noticed anything unusual."
Luo Li frowned, "But there is also a traitor from the Demon God Temple in Buli City. It seems that we need to thoroughly investigate Buli City."
Mo Wuyan and the others looked at each other and didn't dare to say a word.
Luo Li didn't even look at them, she just said, "I'll send someone to clean up the mess here later. You guys sort out the spiritual plants that can still be used and then go and rest."
"Yes, City Lord."
Luo Li immediately left the medicine cabinet and went to find Luo Yuanxiu.
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