Chapter 1436 - 1346: Complete Suppression

Chapter 1436: Chapter 1346: Complete Suppression

Ordin was still stewing over his earlier misjudgment. Hearing Hope’s complaints now, he roared in irritation, "What’s the point of saying this now? If we keep hiding here, we’ll have even less chance to escape! We fight our way out! Use the chaos to break through and flee the Vlad Clan. As long as we survive, we’ll seek refuge with another Blood Race and completely abandon the Vlad Clan’s bloodline. That way, even if Pei Yan uses some bloodline tracking method, he won’t be able to find our trail!"

"Completely abandon the Vlad Clan’s bloodline..." Hope felt as if he’d been struck on the head. Doing so meant accepting the baptism of another powerful Blood Race’s bloodline, becoming a member of that family, while that family would also fully grasp his fate. Those former outsiders who hadn’t belonged to the Vlad Clan, yet now had its blood flowing in their veins as vassal families, had all come into being this way.

"But! But once we switch bloodlines, our cultivation realm will drop a whole tier! And for the rest of our lives, we’ll never be able to return to the Duke level!" Hope was still wavering. The higher one’s cultivation, the greater the damage caused by bloodline conversion. Their descendants born in the future might be able to break this shackle and reach higher realms, but they themselves were already fully molded. Once they changed bloodlines and their realm plummeted, in the remaining years of their lives, unless they encountered some great stroke of fortune, it would be extremely difficult to ever return to the Duke realm.

Ordin glared at Hope and refuted, "So what? It’s still better than dying! We’re Dukes. If we abandon the family name and go into hiding, merely seeking shelter, there should still be Blood Races willing to take the risk to harbor us." As he spoke, Ordin swept his gaze over the increasingly restless crowd inside the castle and sighed. "Restoring the family’s former glory is impossible! Most of the people here today are going to die! All we can do is preserve ourselves and get as many Marquis-level family members out as we can. That way, when we pledge ourselves to another family, with this strength, we won’t end up too miserable. As for revenge, we can only lie low and wait for the right time!"

That sentence—"still better than dying"—completely shattered Hope’s final bit of hesitation. At his level, the more he had seen and enjoyed, the more he feared death. With that in mind, he no longer wavered and nodded in agreement. "Fine! Then we’ll break out together!"

"You, I, and Ackman each take a squad! In a bit, we abandon every defensive function of the Array and use all remaining power to launch a single counterattack. We’ll use that moment to break through. Once we punch through the Investigation Office’s lines, we split into three groups and retreat in three different directions! Don’t worry about the members below Marquis; whoever can run faster, runs faster!" At the end, Ordin lowered his head and fell silent for a moment, then said slowly, "If, in the end, the Investigation Office’s pursuit is too tight, the Marquis members can be abandoned as well. We must do everything we can to survive and join a new family together. Only that way can we secure a place in that family’s future."

"Alright!"

Outside the castle, Pei Yan was still immersed in the changes brought about by absorbing bloodline essence from the Vlad Clan’s counterattacks. He discovered that the Blood Race’s spells indeed had their unique merits. Besides their bizarre variety, they were like a kind of lubricant. As he absorbed more and more of the Vlad Clan’s bloodline essence, the originally mixed and chaotic bloodlines within him began to gradually merge into one, gradually becoming truly Pei Yan’s own bloodline and power, rather than a pile of disparate bloodlines stacked together. Pei Yan felt that if he could completely fuse these bloodlines, from then on he could freely unleash the Demon God Transformation and the remaining Mana within the various divine beast bloodlines of the Dragon Realm.

The fusion of bloodlines also loosened the seal on Pei Yan’s right eye. Although half of his head was now throbbing with pain from the pressure of breaking the seal, he didn’t mind in the least—it was truly pain mixed with joy. He had not expected exterminating the Vlad Clan to bring him such a huge windfall. Right now, he was even more interested in the bloodlines of the other Blood Race survivors inside the castle.

Just as Pei Yan was looking forward to more bloodline essence throwing itself into his arms, the blood tide in front of him, which had stagnated, suddenly surged violently once more. A massive amount of bloodline essence filled it, instantly breaking through Pei Yan’s control and continuing to surge forward.

Pei Yan certainly knew this wasn’t heaven answering his request; this was the Vlad Clan preparing to break out! Having already made arrangements for this, Pei Yan wasn’t anxious. He still spread his arms and stood in midair, doing his utmost to draw out the bloodline essence from the blood tide, reducing the offensive power of their counterattack.

When the blood tide, as overwhelming as a flood bursting through a dam, was about to crash into the defensive formation built by Xia Yu, countless figures appeared within the blood tide. Every member of the Vlad Clan had hidden inside it and launched their breakout along with the spell’s assault. Ordin, charging at the forefront, raised his head to glance at Pei Yan in the sky. Seeing that the other party had no intention of striking at him, he immediately shifted his gaze to the towering copper walls and iron ramparts not far away.

"Hmph! Newly risen powers really can’t bear to lose the forces they’ve just trained up!" Ordin snorted coldly in his heart. Still, that was fine; the Investigation Office was timid and afraid of casualties, which was to his advantage in breaking through! With that thought, he shouted loudly, "Do not get entangled with the enemy! Go around their frontal defenses! I want that strange Mechanical Puppet position destroyed, then we focus everything on breaking out!"

The many Blood Race members followed orders, preparing to bypass the Investigation Office’s front line, break through their defensive encirclement, and then flee for their lives separately. Yet at this critical moment, Ordin was stunned to see Pei Yan suddenly leave his current position and rise higher into the sky. At the same time, the personnel of the Investigation Office, who a second ago had been standing above the defensive wall launching attacks, all dropped lower and shrank back inside the wall.

What trick are these people trying to pull now?

Ordin and the others were filled with doubt, while inside the defensive wall, Mei Simiao and Xia Yu were inspecting the troops behind them. Their gazes swept over every person as Mei Simiao reminded them aloud, "Squad leaders, check whether all your members have withdrawn inside the defensive wall! Make sure everyone has taken to the air, no one is allowed to remain on the ground. At the same time, use Origin Qi for body protection to seal your own hearing. Only lift the hearing seal together after receiving orders."

Every member brought along for this mission was an elite of the Investigation Office. Regardless of their abilities, at the very least their realm had reached the seventh-tier Awakening, so everyone was capable of using Origin Qi to take flight. Once each squad leader confirmed that all members under their command had withdrawn inside the defensive wall, sealed their hearing, and were hovering in midair with their feet off the ground, each of them raised their left hand to indicate their check was complete.

After sweeping his gaze around once more to confirm there were no problems, Mei Simiao nodded at Liang Qian and ordered, "You may begin!"

Hearing this, Liang Qian closed her eyes slightly and raised her arms above her head. As her five spread fingers slowly clenched into a tight fist, everyone felt the earth beneath their feet begin to heave faintly!