The sky was gray, and the afterglow of the campfire on Chiya Mountain jumped between the remaining snow and the stone forest, as if the rage of the battlefield had not yet been extinguished. And at the moment when the night was the darkest, three strange blood shadows broke through the air from the Tulmus Sanctuary at the same time.
Three priests, all out.
"... Su Yue, you must leave immediately." Kain's face was pale, holding the urgent report just sent from the intelligence network. He handed the intelligence brief to Su Yue, and his tone was almost trembling, "They are going to "hunt you for the death oath." "
"What?" Ethan frowned and took the bloody letter - six words were written on it, engraved with the blood of the death oath: "The royal descendants betrayed the master, and the blood hunt was unforgivable."
This is the highest hunting level of the Night Rest Society, which is only used for hunting orders for "royal traitors, absolute threats, and blood sacrifice instigators."
"The three priests have already set off." Kain whispered, "At the latest, they will arrive at Chiya at noon tomorrow."
The atmosphere in the tent froze for a moment.
Ethan looked at Su Yue, whose face was still calm but faintly pale: "You go, I'll stop you."
"You can't stop me." Su Yue replied softly.
"Then what should we do?" Mia asked in a deep voice, holding the double blades tightly in her hands, with veins bulging. Obviously, she also knew what the three priests' actions meant - it was no longer a battle, but a massacre.
Su Yue slowly put the blood letter back on the table, her eyes showing an unprecedented calmness.
"Chiya can't keep us. But we can't just run away like this."
"I'll set up a trap."
She swept her eyes among the crowd: "I want them to think we are running away... Actually, I'm leading them into the 'Blood Breaking Formation'."
Everyone was shocked.
"You dare to use that ancient formation?!" Cain took a breath of cold air, "That is the 'Blood Echo Formation' left over from the old king's era. There is no complete formation diagram. If it is used incorrectly once, it will backfire on everyone!"
"I have half of the formation diagram, and the other half is in the relics left by my mother." Su Yue said firmly, "As long as the 'Blood Echo' can be triggered, even if it is only half powerful, it is enough to trap a priest for three breaths."
"Three breaths?" Ethan murmured again.
"Enough for me to kill one person."
Before dawn, the Chiyashan camp had been urgently transferred.
Su Yue took the remaining five elites with Ethan and Mia and left, and deliberately left a lot of blood traces and transfer formation traces to induce the tracker to misjudge the direction.
At the same time, Cain and the remaining troops broke up into small pieces and buried the half-formation of the "Blood Echo" at the entrance of the old mine valley according to Su Yue's arrangement.
"Are you sure... she won't get into trouble?" asked an alien officer.
Kain looked at the end of the mountain range and whispered, "She is the one who should not be forced into a desperate situation among the blood of the royal lineage."
At noon, the three priests arrived as scheduled.
The leader was named "Levita", claiming to be the oldest "blood judge" in the Night Breath Society. His hair was gray and his robe sleeves were torn, but his eyes were still burning with ruthless flames. He held a black sickle in his right hand. It was said that the "vein destroyer" had harvested the blood power of the entire royal lineage branch.
To his left was Esta, whose shoulder injury had not healed, but his aura was stronger than before, as if he had activated a deeper level of blood runes after suffering a severe injury.
To the right was the third priest, "Setel", who was silent, but his aura was as heavy as a stone wall. He was the oldest "vein controller" in the Night Breath Society.
When the three landed, the red cliff was empty.
"She is leading us." Setel said in a low voice.
"Even if it's a provocation, we must fight back." Esta sneered, "What I've been waiting for... is the moment when she makes a mistake."
"The dead oath hunts, and no one should be left alive."
At the same time, Su Yue and others were stepping into the old mine valley.
This is a long-abandoned royal mining site, with rusty blood crystal ore and rune remnants all over the ground. Indistinctly, the breath of the old glory and the ashes of war still lingers.
Su Yue stopped at the depths of the valley and took out the "Royal Vein Crystal Box" left by her mother.
"What is this?" Ethan asked.
Su Yue looked up and slowly answered: "This is the source of the royal oath, the 'source seal' used to pass on the blood oath."
She touched it with her finger, and the crystal box trembled slightly like a heartbeat, and a pure blood royal seal slowly emerged.
Mia took a step back in shock: "You...are you a direct descendant?"
"The last line of the royal family, Althea." Su Yue whispered.
"Before my mother died, she engraved this blood oath into my soul. But what I want to accomplish is not continuation, but an end."
At the moment when the formation was activated, the three priests had arrived.
"Su Yue, the dead swearer!" Levita's voice was like a bell, "You abandoned your ancestral blood and betrayed the descendants of God, and your crime deserves to be exterminated!"
"My surname is not Lai, my surname is Su." Su Yue slowly drew his sword, and the power of the king's seal was injected into the sword. The silver long sword emerged with blood-patterned petals, like a blooming royal thorn.
"Today, it is not me who will die."
"It is you who should be settled."
The formation moved.
The moment the "Blood Echo Formation" half-map was activated, the entire valley seemed to be punished by heaven. The ancient king vein runes emerged on the surface, forming a giant vein map.
The first moment Levita stepped into it, he was shocked: "Not good - this is not an ordinary old formation, this is the king's blood punishment!"
Boom!
The formation roared, and within three breaths, the entire formation diagram turned into thousands of blood lines that trapped the three priests.
Su Yue slashed with a sword in her backhand, aiming directly at Esta!
The latter sneered: "You dare?"
The two of them clashed instantly, and the air waves exploded!
Ethan rushed towards Setel, and his fists turned into thunder hammers when the thunder pattern burst out, and he clashed with his heavy spiritual armor-
Mia lurked in the dark, waiting for the last opportunity to assassinate Levita when he was trapped.
The entire mining valley fell into a crazy battle.
The blood of the royal descendants burned under the old land, pointing directly to the source of the night breath.