According to Shangguan Jingling's description, although she had not learned the complete magic door, her biological father, as the curator of Qingxiu Temple, naturally kept many precious ancient texts.

However, it seems that those ancient texts all have problems, making it impossible to cultivate.

The extermination of the Jiang Family had always been a thorn in her heart.

So she constantly pondered these books, hoping to find a true path to cultivation and avenge her family.

Unfortunately, no matter how hard she tried over the years, she never found the correct path to cultivation in those ancient texts.

But half a year ago, a fruitless cultivator, Shangguan Jingling suddenly discovered that she had somehow cultivated True Essence Power.

She hid this fact well and didn't even tell her husband, whom she lived with day and night.

So, with expectations in mind, Shangguan Jingling silently cultivated these ancient texts.

She planned to tell all of this openly after understanding the path and avenging her family.

Unfortunately, although she could cultivate Spiritual Power and True Yuan, her progress was abnormally slow.

Even now, she was only at the entry-level.

The great formation in the backyard was actually not set up by the demon, but by Shangguan Jingling, a half-trained cultivator, according to the family's books.

The function of this great formation was precisely to enhance her cultivation.

However, when the monster occupied her body later, it used it to absorb human essence blood to aid in its tribulation and transformation.

As for the origin of this monster, it was also closely related to Shangguan Jingling.

According to her records, she was eager for revenge and hastily cultivated all the ancient texts she had.

Because of this, she knew only half of the cultivation method and didn't realize that one of them was a vicious forbidden magic called "Heavenly Blood Worm."

This Heavenly Blood Worm, to put it simply, is a magic door for raising a gu.

The practitioner uses themselves as the medium to cultivate a Blood Worm, which sucks the essence blood of living beings to promote its growth and ultimately feeds back to the practitioner to improve cultivation.

Although Shangguan Jingling was eager for revenge, she was kind-hearted and mostly secretly used the blood of livestock for cultivation, and not frequently.

But because of this, the Blood Worm didn't get sufficient nourishment and eventually became the master, swallowing the host and completely occupying her body, leading to the scene Bai Yue witnessed later.

This note was written by Shangguan Jingling after she noticed something was wrong, but shortly after writing it, she was taken over by the Blood Worm, resulting in a great disaster.

After reading all this, Bai Yue remained silent for a long time, just standing at the head of the bed without saying a word.

He simply didn't expect his wife was actually a cultivator and had caused the current situation due to a moment of carelessness.

However, Bai Yue didn't harbor any blame or resentment towards her.

Although his wife indeed made a mistake in this matter, she was his partner for over twenty years, and given his character, he naturally wouldn't hold a grudge.

But, regardless of his thoughts, since things had reached this point, he must find a way to resolve the situation.

Otherwise, the millions of citizens in Han Yue City would likely face catastrophe.

Lost in thought, he suddenly heard booming thunder from the sky, awakening from his trance, and hurriedly ran outside to check the situation.

The sky was already thickly covered with dark clouds.

Countless lightning bolts rolled within, flickering, as if enveloping the whole world.

Bai Yue was greatly shocked at the sight.

When he had just escaped from the monster's grasp, the sky, although beginning to gather clouds, was nothing as terrifying as what he saw now.

To him, this scene seemed like the apocalypse.

The incredible power of the heavenly thunder, even before it erupted, was intimidating.

He carefully recalled the content left by his wife, but it didn't describe what this spectacle was, leaving him at a loss.

However, Bai Yue was the City Lord, and after a brief loss of focus, he immediately recovered and rushed out the door.

He needed to regroup with the City Guard Army and urgently discuss a plan to address this incident.

...

On the other side, Pei Laoliu, after arranging for Yan Jiantong and others, hurriedly piloted his Flying Sword toward Han Yue City.

This trip required consuming a large amount of Spiritual Power.

If Master Liu hadn't had Spirit Stones to assist in replenishing, let alone stopping the monster, he would have run out of Spiritual Power halfway.

But using Spirit Stones to replenish energy is effective but cannot be used endlessly.

Spirit Stones are not pure Spiritual Power, and they contain a certain amount of impurities, with lower-quality Spirit Stones having more.

After absorbing the Spiritual Power from Spirit Stones, impurities are also absorbed into the meridians, causing blockages.

One must find a secluded place to meditate to expel the impurities.

Because of this, using Spirit Stones for battle recovery has limitations and can't be absorbed indefinitely.

"It seems I can absorb one last piece..."

Master Liu felt the impurities within and knew he could use this method one more time today to replenish Spiritual Power but felt disappointed.

Forcibly absorbing is possible.

But doing so would not only be inefficient but the excess impurities would also damage his cultivation, making it not worth the risk.

Fortunately, he had returned to Han Yue City and headed straight for the heavenly tribulation area, seeking an opportunity to sneak attack and eliminate the demon.

Though the trip there and back was quick, and Pei Laoliu burst out at the fastest speed, nearly twenty minutes had passed, and now the thunder clouds above had finally accumulated enough to attack.

"Boom!!"

A deafening explosion sounded, with massive lightning bolts roaring toward the backyard of the City Lord Mansion.

For a moment, the entire world seemed to fall into silence.

Especially the people within, who felt as if their ears would go deaf, their minds dizzy, and some elderly and infirm directly fainted.

However, the heavenly thunder was blocked by a translucent barrier just before reaching the ground, preventing it from truly striking down.

In the City Lord Mansion, Bai Yue had already gathered with his trusted aides, and before they could converse, the thunderbolt had already descended.

"It's the formation!"

Seeing the barrier in the direction of the backyard, he immediately understood what was happening; it was clearly the formation that had just blocked his escape.

"City Lord, what just happened? What's with those thunder clouds? What about Lady?"

Ye Lin quickly voiced his concerns.

Bai Yue quickly explained the situation to them as he needed to gather people to return.

Even if Heavenly Thunder was striking, he had to confirm his wife's condition.

Entertainment is scarce for people in this world.

Moreover, Emperor Xuan Yang's extermination campaign meant they had no impression of heavenly tribulation and had no concept of tribulation.

Thus, Bai Yue's first reaction after seeing the thunder was that the monster's evil deeds angered the heavens, bringing thunder punishment.

Under other circumstances, he would certainly be pleased to witness this.

But now, it was his wife's body being struck, making Bai Yue extremely anxious.

However, what this group didn't know was that while they were preparing to enter the City Lord Mansion to kill the monster, there were already dozens of eyes full of murder intent watching them.

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