Dashing Student-Chapter 1189: Able to Yield or Stand Tall

The valley where the Elders of the Wang Family came was simply like Purgatory, and the cultivators tied to the pillars were exactly those who had previously disappeared.

Several stationed Wang Family Elders in the valley greeted them, one of whom suddenly asked: "Why did you suddenly come here? Weren’t you told not to come over unless necessary?"

Wang Tuo swung the large blade in his hand, and the chained Chong Xiao and Zhang Yunyi were thrown to the front: "Didn’t I just bring you two more blood worms?"

"They were sent by Qingfeng Temple and the Demon Suppression Sect to investigate. The patriarch feared they’d discover something, so we were ordered to capture them and bring them here."

"Ah, that’s how it is, then hang them up. Just now, two blood worms died, let these two replace them."

This hellish scene even made the usually fearless and bold Chong Xiao afraid; he wasn’t afraid of death, but he feared being tortured to a fate worse than death.

"Let go of me, if you have the guts, fight me one-on-one!" Chong Xiao began to struggle vigorously.

But just then, two Golden Core Realm cultivators guarding the valley came over, one stomped ruthlessly onto Chong Xiao’s chest, pinning him firmly to the ground.

The other held two sharp iron hooks that directly pierced through Chong Xiao’s scapula, the hooks engraved with spirit patterns to suppress cultivators’ mana.

Thus, after being pierced by the hooks, Chong Xiao let out a painful scream: "Ah!"

Then a wave of weakness overtook him, leaving him without the strength to even lift a finger.

On the other side, Zhang Yunyi was treated similarly, and the two, like dead dogs, were tied to the pillars above the blood pool, and an iron tube was inserted into their hearts.

"Are they extracting heart blood?" Zhang Yunyi, though extremely weak, was clear-headed, watching as his heart blood flowed through the iron tube into the blood pool below.

Those cultivators who arrived here before them had almost turned into walking corpses, their heart blood nearly exhausted, only able to drip out a drop after a while.

For cultivators, heart blood is exceedingly important, even if it can regenerate, losing too much becomes highly troublesome.

But in the eyes of demon cultivators, a cultivator’s heart blood can be used for alchemy or to refine evil creatures, making it prime material.

Chong Xiao’s eyes wandered frantically, seeing that a large array surrounded the blood pool below, formed with human bones, enveloping the pool.

He also saw mortals, men and women, young and old, caught and caged around the blood pool, like livestock.

Their only purpose here was being killed for their blood.

The intense stench made Chong Xiao nauseous, yet he lacked even the strength to vomit, weakly muttering: "Damn Chen Nan, why hasn’t he come yet?"

"If I die, I won’t spare him even as a ghost."

Chen Nan, who was arranging the Star Constellation Sword Formation around the valley, suddenly sneezed, rubbing his nose in confusion: "Is someone thinking of me?"

He had been following behind the Wang Family Elders, sneaking in when they activated the array, and upon discovering the horrid scene, began to arrange the Star Constellation Sword Formation.

Now he could control only seven array swords, so the sword array couldn’t be too large, otherwise, its power would weaken, nor could he let the Wang Family cultivators escape here.

"I’m so foolish, how could I still have hopes for the Wang Family when the upper beam is crooked and the lower one slanted?"

Recalling almost giving up revenge on the Yaoxing City Wang Family branch, Chen Nan felt foolish; what the Wang Family did in the city was nothing but pretenses.

Having completed the Star Constellation Sword Formation, Chen Nan checked the valley’s situation, finding the Wang Family Elders chatting at one side of the valley, with no guard at the blood pool.

Since they believed no one could possibly find or enter the valley.

Apart from the five Elders who captured Zhang Yunyi, three Golden Core Realm cultivators guarded the valley, the highest having a cultivation at the Golden Core Realm Fifth Layer.

"Chen Nan, why haven’t you come? I curse you, I won’t spare you even as a ghost..."

Even though weak and bound to the pillar, Chong Xiao continued cursing, unexpectedly Chen Nan’s face suddenly appeared before him.

This made Chong Xiao feel more affectionate than seeing a relative, tears instantly welled up: "Chen Nan, you’ve finally come, hurry and save me..."

Chen Nan raised an eyebrow: "I heard someone cursing me just now, even saying they wouldn’t spare me as a ghost."

"I was wrong!" Chong Xiao quickly apologized: "I judged a gentleman with the heart of a petty man, please be kind, save me quickly."

Seeing his pitiful pleading, Chen Nan smiled helplessly: "Who would have thought you can bow and bend as well."

Leaping forward, Chen Nan directly grasped the iron hook piercing through his body, then suddenly exerted force.

"Use a weapon! What’s the use of your hand... hiccup..."

Scared, Chong Xiao hiccuped because, amazingly, with Chen Nan’s exertion, cracks appeared in the sturdy iron hook, then it snapped with a "bang."

Following suit, Chen Nan broke the other iron hook, as well as the chains binding Chong Xiao, tossing him directly to the ground near the blood pool.

Though treated so roughly, Chong Xiao had no complaints, as regaining strength felt simply exhilarating, he immediately sat down and took out Healing Pills to swallow.

The second to be rescued was Zhang Yunyi, who also began taking Healing Pills, knowing that a fierce battle would soon erupt.

Chen Nan also freed the other cultivators who had been long captured, their formerly lifeless eyes now sparked with a hint of light.

Some could scarcely believe they were truly saved, crying nonstop.

Suddenly, Wang Family Elders from afar looked towards the blood pool’s sky, Chen Nan was startled, and hurriedly used an illusion technique to cover all the pillars above the blood pool.

From the Wang Family Elder’s perspective, those blood worms were still bound well to the pillars.

"Phew." Chen Nan exhaled, taking out many Healing Pills from his storage bag, distributing them to the rescued cultivators: "My illusion technique can’t hold for long, quickly heal yourselves."

"In a moment, I’ll lead you out to kill them!" 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

Though Chen Nan seemed young, he now gave an inexplicable sense of security, as if every word he spoke would come to pass.

Thus the numb cultivators regained hope, quickly taking pills to heal.

Finally, an hour later, Chen Nan’s illusion technique could no longer hold, and the Wang Family Elders finally noticed something amiss at the blood pool.

"No good, the blood worms ran away!"