"Second Form, activate! Sage Mode, activate! Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Seeing this, Li Chuan immediately transformed into his Second Form, then fused the True Essence within his Golden Core with Chakra to activate Sage Mode, using the Multiple Shadow Clone Jutsu.
However, this time he didn't split into his limit of Shadow Clones at once, but only created ten.
Under Sage Mode, his limit for Shadow Clones was a full two thousand, and the power of the Ninjutsu used by each Shadow Clone was also much stronger than before; doing so would directly frighten the Blood God Child.
Since Daoist Qingzhu was still in the opponent's hands, he couldn't reveal his trump cards right from the start.
Although Daoist Qingzhu had nothing to do with him, he was, after all, bearing the identity of his disciple and enjoying the benefits brought by this status; in the past half-month, he had even memorized almost all the books in the Xiao Zhu Mountain library.
Therefore, if possible, he still wanted to save Daoist Qingzhu if he could.
Moreover, this whole affair was originally caused by him, and if Xiao Zhu Mountain were implicated, he would feel somewhat guilty.
"Only ten clones? It seems that without anyone to help you, your strength isn't much."
Seeing that Li Chuan didn't split into hundreds of Shadow Clones at once this time, the Blood God Child immediately began to mock him.
"Although the quantity isn't as high as last time, the quality has improved quite a bit. You'd better be careful, lest you get shocked away by me again like last time."
Li Chuan retorted without the slightest politeness, then had the ten Shadow Clones perform hand seals together: "Immortal Art Super Lightning Release Pseudo-Dark!"
In an instant, spears of purple lightning appeared in mid-air and shot rapidly toward the river of blood.
When the purple lightning spears met the river of blood, large swaths of the blood river were instantly evaporated and depleted.
It was obvious that these purple lightning spears were much, much more powerful than the blue lightning spears from two years ago.
Moreover, it didn't disappear after firing eight or nine shots due to Chakra exhaustion like two years ago; instead, they shot out densely and continuously like a machine gun, firmly suppressing the river of blood above the valley.
The more Shadow Clones there were, the less Chakra each one possessed. While their combined volley was indeed powerful, its sustainability was not strong.
Now, due to his physical enhancement and the buff from Sage Mode, Li Chuan's own Chakra reserves were much, much greater than two years ago. Since he only split into ten Shadow Clones, the amount of Chakra allocated to each was naturally absurdly high.
Coupled with the boost from Sage Mode, the power of Lightning Release: False Darkness was also greatly enhanced, which was why he achieved such an effect.
In fact, this was also intentional. He only wanted to maintain a stalemate so that the opponent would reveal a flaw, making it easier to rescue Daoist Qingzhu.
His main body was not idle either; he took out his wand and unleashed "God of Fire Opens the Way!" toward the direction of the sea of blood.
Although fire was not as effective against the sea of blood as lightning, it could still serve to deplete it somewhat. Crucially, the massive sea of flames could effectively obscure their vision.
Above, the Blood God Child saw that Li Chuan's strength had indeed improved significantly and immediately signaled Yin Jiutian secretly.
Taking advantage of the stalemate between Li Chuan and the Blood God Child, Yin Jiutian quietly moved a distance away with Daoist Qingzhu, trying his best to avoid Li Chuan's line of sight, and then secretly released the Great Sumeru Profound Yin Cauldron.
Under his control, the Great Sumeru Profound Yin Cauldron shrank to the size of a thumb, slowly circled to the back of the valley, passed through several buildings, and arrived beneath Li Chuan's main body.
"It's over! Take him!"
Seeing that Li Chuan was still continuously releasing one sea of flames after another and had not noticed the approach of the Great Sumeru Profound Yin Cauldron at all, Yin Jiutian pinched a magic seal again to launch the attack.
The thumb-sized black cauldron instantly grew larger, then emitted a black light that sucked Li Chuan's main body, who was holding the wand, inside.
Just to be safe, after sucking in Li Chuan's main body, Yin Jiutian did not lower his guard, but instead sucked all the remaining ten Shadow Clones into the Great Sumeru Profound Yin Cauldron as well.
"Hahaha, to actually believe that I would abide by that ridiculous agreement and not make a move—you righteous cultivators have truly always been this naive."
"Master Brother!"
Seeing Li Chuan being sucked into the black cauldron, Yue Xiaming and the others immediately revealed expressions of terror.
The three Foundation Establishment uncles indignantly unleashed their own magic treasures: "You Demonic cultivators, all of you are famous figures, yet you are so despicable! We will fight you to the death!"
At this time, the Blood God Child, having already retracted the river of blood, spoke viciously to Yin Jiutian: "Junior Brother, capture them all as well. When we take them back, I will deal with them properly. I will make Li Qingfeng watch as I personally skin, strip the tendons, refine the souls, and snatch the spirits of everyone in his sect, one by one!"
"A trivial matter!"
Yin Jiutian naturally would not refuse the Blood God Child. Pinching a magic seal, his magic treasure, the Great Sumeru Profound Yin Cauldron, immediately turned toward Yue Xiaming and the other seven.
However, right at this moment, the Great Sumeru Profound Yin Cauldron suddenly started to shake, as if a firecracker had been thrown into a bottle, and as time passed, the amplitude of the shaking became larger and larger.
"Even a cultivator at the peak of Nascent Soul stage would be immobilized in body and cultivation if they entered my Great Sumeru Profound Yin Cauldron. How can the resistance be so intense!"
Watching the Great Sumeru Profound Yin Cauldron shaking more and more violently, Yin Jiutian assumed that Li Chuan had broken free from the restrictions inside the cauldron after being sucked in and was resisting fiercely, so he hurriedly pinched magic seals to suppress it with all his might.
Unfortunately, no matter how hard he tried, the effect was not very obvious, and because his natal magic treasure had suffered an impact, his own True Essence was also affected to a certain extent.
"Watch out behind you!"
Just then, Yin Jiutian suddenly heard a warning from the Blood God Child, who was some distance away, and immediately sensed a very violent fluctuation of spiritual energy behind him.
Then, before he could mobilize his True Essence to defend, he felt a violent blow to his back, and a terrifyingly powerful force instantly destroyed his physical body.
"How can this be? How could I just die like this? Who ambushed me?"
This was Yin Jiutian's final doubt before death.
Li Chuan had already been sucked into the cauldron and was still struggling violently; who was so fast as to get close to him, and had the ability to take the life of this old Nascent Soul demon in one blow?
Li Chuan deactivated the Eight Gates, stopped the Mutually Multiplying Explosive Tags Technique, grabbed the stunned Qingzhu Daoren beside him, threw him to Yue Xiaming below, and then instructed the three uncles: "Three Uncles, close the Heavenly Evolution Thirty-Six Divine Bamboo Restriction! I'm going to shut the door and beat the dog!"
It turned out that upon hearing Yin Jiutian announce his own name and identity, he immediately knew that Yin Jiutian possessed a Great Sumeru Profound Yin Cauldron that could capture people, and generally knew what functions that cauldron had.
Over the past two years, when he was building relationships with the Emei Sword Cultivators in the Emei Sect, he wasn't just chatting idly; most of the time, he was extracting useful information, such as what magic treasures some powerful cultivators had and what functions they possessed, and so on.
This World was so dangerous; how could he not be a bit more cautious?