Blood Moon

A few days ago, in the grand mansion of the Su family, an ordinary woman swiftly approached through the mansion corridor. She reached the front of the grand door and entered the hall.

The hall was extremely spacious and luxurious, adorned with numerous sculptures of beasts made from expensive and rare materials. At the end of the hall, there was a throne crafted from precious blue stones where a middle-aged man sat, his most striking feature being his short dark blue hair.

"I've come to see Master Su," the woman said, bowing respectfully.

"Hmm, you are… ah, from that city near the frozen abyss," the man remarked.

"So, what business would bring you from so far away to report directly to me?" The man spoke calmly.

If Li Yuemei were here, she would notice that this woman was the same one who took her to the third floor of the Su restaurant.

"Yes, I found someone matching the description of the young lady from the Su family," the woman said with a somewhat strange expression as she took a white stone from her ring.

From the stone, a hologram appeared, showing two individuals, a divinely handsome young man and an equally beautiful girl.

The man looked at the young man in the hologram and was completely surprised for two reasons, his face momentarily turning serious.

He then produced a wanted poster from nowhere, and a young man identical to the one in the hologram appeared.

"So, it's him. Well, you're right. He fits perfectly into the requirements the young miss is looking for."

"When I saw this poster, I thought the young man's appearance was exaggerated, but looking at the image from the stone, he's even more beautiful."

The woman looked at the poster and said nothing.

"Oh, it seems you've already seen the poster. Tell me what happened in the restaurant and everything you know about the young man."

"Yes, that young man is extremely peculiar. Besides his extremely handsome appearance, his strength is unknown. I felt no trace of Qi or life energy from his body; it was as if he wasn't alive."

"The city lord said the young man arrived in the city by flying, so he must be in the King realm, maybe more," the woman explained.

"And what about the girl with him?" The man asked.

"They seemed close, but the girl seemed to follow his orders despite him not speaking much."

"Where did they go after leaving the restaurant?"

"I don't know, sir, but when one of the waiters went to deliver their food, he overheard them saying they were going to the central continent, so they will probably appear in the Sea Fortress City at some point."

"Oh, understood. You may leave, and you can go to the treasure hall and choose a treasure for yourself for your work," the man said, handing her a golden paper.

"Thank you, Master Su. I'm leaving," the woman said, bowing again and then leaving the room.

The man on the throne fell silent for a moment and then spoke.

"It seems the information was correct. When the southern sacred land investigated the frozen abyss, they returned with terrible expressions."

"And soon after, posters were distributed everywhere, confirming the information that Li Yuemei from the southern sacred land was indeed kidnapped," he said, looking at the woman with a red moon on her forehead in the hologram.

"If the young man could do that in front of the leader of the sacred land, an extremely powerful saint, and several emperors, his strength must be at least that of a late-stage saint, maybe at the peak."

"Wait, this happened when they were investigating the abyss, and it was right when that strange snow fell over the world." The man then looked at the snowflake on the boy's forehead.

"Maybe the change in the planet and the abyss was caused by… him? There has never been anyone even remotely similar to this boy on the continent, and now, after the changes in the abyss, he appeared out of nowhere and is extremely powerful."

'Hehe, it seems that interesting things will happen on the southern continent in the next few days.' Then, he rang a golden bell that he took out of his ring.

An inaudible sound rang out. Then, five people, all dressed in black, appeared. They had no leaking aura and showed no part of their bodies.

"One of you will go to the main family on the central continent and report the information discovered about the frozen abyss and the boy who probably came from there."

"Besides, show his appearance to the young lady of the family and see what she thinks."

"Go as fast as possible and bring back the family's orders," the man said, handing one of the men a red piece of paper with the Su symbol written on it.

The man took the letter, and just as he appeared, he disappeared mysteriously.

"The rest of you are in charge of finding any information about the young man. Even if you have to invade the sacred land, I want to know how the boy appeared as soon as possible."

Then, they all nodded and disappeared from the hall quickly.

'If what the woman said was right, in a few days, someone from the sacred land will come to confirm whether the information about the two appearing in my restaurant is true. After all, the ruler should have gone to claim a reward of that size.'

'Well, when the time comes, I'll decide what to do,' the man said as he took out a glass of wine from his ring and drank calmly.

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In the Beast Mountain Range, the handsome young man watched attentively as Li Yuemei stood still, breathing deeply.

Then, in moments, the moon on Li Yuemei's forehead glowed with a deep red color as a bloody aura was constantly released.

The full moon bathed Li Yuemei's body as it reached its zenith in the sky.

Then, the blood energy on her forehead met with the pure lunar energy released by the moon. As those two energies mixed, the atmosphere began to thicken, and a corrupted and sinister presence surrounded the mountaintop.

The corpses of the beasts slowly shrank as a mysterious force slowly drained their blood.

Then, an extreme and sinister blood aura radiated from Li Yuemei's forehead. The full moon, once white, suddenly started turning red as the blood of the beasts was completely drained from their bodies.

In a few hundred kilometers around the Beast Mountain Range, a blood moon in the sky and the sinister energy it emanated were visible. The beasts decided to hide and stayed away from Li Yuemei's mountain.

At the moment when the moon finally reached its peak in the sky, all the blood from the corpses was completely drained and flew around Li Yuemei. The corrupted blood moon in the sky seemed to synchronize perfectly with Li Yuemei's body and the blood flying around her.

A portion of the beast's blood turned into a red blood crown with a crescent moon in the middle, while the rest seemed to dance joyfully around her body.

At that moment, Li Yuemei opened her eyes with dark red pupils. Her black hair turned a deep red, and the moon on her forehead absorbed all the corrupted blood in the moonlight.

Li Yuemei's body, now immersed in corrupted lunar energy, began the assimilation process as the crescent moon on her forehead started absorbing all the corrupted blood by moonlight.

The corrupted lunar blood penetrated deep into Li Yuemei's body, and the corrupted lunar energy entered through all her pores, merging with her own blood, while the corrupted moon in the sky continued transforming her physique.

At the peak of the transformation, the corrupted blood moon emitted an intense light into Li Yuemei's body, feeling an internal explosion; her cultivation broke through while the rest of her physique transformed under lunar influence.

The transformation seemed to be almost complete, but something seemed to be missing; the blood moon in the sky seemed to be rapidly fading, and the blood around Li Yuemei was running out.

The young man who watched the transformation attentively noticed that something was wrong but didn't know how to solve it.

Then, after thinking for a while, an idea came to his mind.

"That's it, blood!" He said this as almost transparent ice emerged from one of his nails like an ice claw and made a deep cut in his wrist.

Then, freezing blue blood flowed out of his body. He froze his blood and sent it flying near Li Yuemei's body, then unfroze it.

'I hope this works,' he said, slightly worried about Li Yuemei. He realized that while her physique was getting stronger, the feeling of being drawn to her was getting stronger.