Yu Ren saw during the confrontation that a non-descript elder in the party of Song Zi Chen had disappeared an uneasy feeling gripped his heart he knew that his survival now hinges on two things

First the fact that he will go so far as to self-detonate to muddy the waters and secondly to transfer his soul to his target through the mother-child doll and he now currently held the mother doll ready to activate at anytime also with a switch to self-detonate as soon as his soul leaves his body .

'This will buy me time to posses the otherworldly body and bring my plan to fruition' he thought.

However the moment he tried to get close to Song Zi Chen to engage him in 'combat', he never expected Song Zi Chen who will welcome him directly in combat previously to suddenly change his style and switch to the pretentious sophistry of him being the arbiter of heavens and whatnot.

Before he could clearly read the situation he realized that he had been trapped, he has had a premonition of betrayal for long he never expected the act from the senior elders though but from the ordinary elders of his sect, and so he fell for a betrayal.

' It is no wonder Song Zi Chen had the time to babble about some arbiter crap , no wonder the lackeys he brought did not make a move', he looked down his forces below been decimated and captured .

As one final gambit simply activated the mother doll which sent his soul out of his body towards the child doll and the body it's on, but someone had added a soul layer to the formation trapping him.

He saw the knowing condescending smile of Song Zi Chen the conniving smile of the third and second elder and the first elder was subdued... by them of course and his cultivation hamstrung.

And then he did one last and spiteful thing of his life, he activated the exploding formation carved in his very own flesh with all his Qi and even a part of his soul.

Kaboom! went Yu Ren, louder than the fireworks of the 4th of July did his body exploded, before darkness could claim him, he saw everyone plummeting from the sky at what could be called terminal velocity, felt a tug in his soul pulling him to the child formation still.

'If I can't be transferred whole at least I still got transferred in pieces heh!' a bit of humor leaked in his thought and then he knew no more.

Unbeknownst to everyone this transfer of soul or what is left of it, is what made it possible for Elder Lan Nuo Fu to spot Yin'er before their fight.

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Yin'er felt the impact of something... sharp, tearing into her flesh, she whirled lashing out a kick to an empty area she thought the attack came from, bang! the area exploded in dust and debris even though the kick did not connected to anything.

'A sneak attack, who dares to...' she thought, shocked she used her senses to scan the area only to discover that there was no one around, then just as sudden did the bushy area not so nearby 'burst', what flooded her was hundreds of disciples rushing to her with the intent to make her dead.

Yun Xiao wanted Yin'er dead so badly, but you can't just go waving your sword blatantly in front of the person who killed your sect elder in three moves would you?, he swallowed a blood Qi ignition pill

Using a body strengthening talisman, a sharpness talisman and a concealment talisman, just to land a nigh fatal blow unto her even so almost received a retaliation which would have surely killed him if it connects of which Yun Xiao is in no illusion that he could dodge.

He then used a delayed flash spell, launched towards the sky as a flare, to summon more disciples to swamp the injured and exhausted girl to the death though he'll still continue his assassination attempts until successful anyways, oh how he was so wrong the spell while not breaking his concealment indicated the position he was in which sealed his fate.

Yin'er simply used the forbidden form of the BLOOD RETRIBUTION SECRET TECHNIQUE which burnt her vital Qi and spirit Qi as one, killed the disciples surrounding her around the direction she sensed the flare's spell aura coming from, bolted towards the location and bombed the area with a crowd control spell which later broke his concealment, spotted him and ended him with a kick to the chest and Yun Xiao was no more.

The reinforcement called by Yun Xiao came but that was useless, it was not the time that she just finished fighting the senior elder that they came, even though they came in many, they died also in droves, suddenly she felt a chill down her spine, she was about to dodge but too late she have been severed in half.

Song Zi Chen woke up in a crater, of his own making though, he stood up slightly disoriented and checked his surroundings, there he saw the ruinous aftermath of Yu Ren's self destruction among his retinue.

'Only me survived... again?!'he thought.

It gave him the flash-back of the past where Yu Ren gave him a bitter loss where only him escaped alive but this time he did not escaped, he survived, were it not for his sect clothes which serves as a body armor that soaked in what would have been the straw that broke the camel's back for him he will not have survived that blast.

He was not prepared for such an attack which was unleashed at point blank range, making him suffer a huge loss, and now one of the vile spawns of his own creation was running amok in the army that he Song Zi Chen commanded?

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He in a fit of rage took out his sword, quickly layered with his SWORD PIERCES THE HEAVENS TECHNIQUE and released it, the sword sailed towards its target and severed her into two.

He then ordered the death of the BLOOD CONTROLING PROFOUND SECT members, put a sizable resource out for bounty as far as they bring the heads of the BLOOD CONTROLING PROFOUND SECT, sect members, elders and so on then ordered an investigation on what Yu Ren summoned and it's whereabouts also the rest of that slain girl's teams whereabouts too, he wants it done and it should be done with immediate effect.

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Liang Yun was running for all his worth breaking the sound barrier beyond the factor of two with augmentation of his talismanic formation of course, prior to this he received a bag from his shimei earlier on which contains the single most important part of the mission, the master's body or at least, the otherworldly body he intends to posses.

He like the rest of his siblings knew that the war was a sham anyways, but things could go from 'swimmingly' to 'so wrong so fast' and he is not the one to take chances, he preferred to have an expected outcome in every situation.

The master Yu Ren , had recognized this tendency of his and cultivated him towards that direction till he is the young man that he is now, though unassuming at first sight he is a brick wall of competence, should anyone becomes unlucky enough to smash his or her head against, the person will feel very, very sorry to have done that.

And so did he took the body away, forging ahead towards the rally point which will be the area where all of this debacle will end and master wakes up in a new body, he met an obstacle, nothing much just another group of orthodoxy's Qi cultivators 'well well well' he mused he then set the place up, chocked full of talismanic formation.

Done with the setup, he then threw the bag to the middle of the formation making a loud thud, how sensitive could a cultivators ear be?, they quickly came to the site of the dropped bag and secured the perimeter against the would be aggressor

Seeing that things fell perfectly Liang Yun decided to spring his trap, he sets off the earth spikes talisman not the one that create earth from Qi but the one that quickly moulds the earth into spikes and throw it, it was dodged, then it exploded, sending flames, Qi earth spikes and a concussive shockwave.

The result?, one standing, three slightly injured with one among them incapacitated and most killed, of which even the one standing upright has to reinforce blocked some of the attack and also shield himself using a lot of his Qi before surviving his trap.

He came out swiftly to engage the one standing in battle, but not after he used some hidden weapon an exploding talisman stuck on it, kaboom!, and so did the lives of the incapacitated and injured ended, the only one left in the team was the un uninjured but exhausted Fu Yan the leader of the vanquished team.

'However there are still some others that were not caught within the formation who still needs to be eliminated before they sing song to the wrong person who will come tracking me down as for the lone leader he is just a fish on a chopping block' he thought in derision

'though I have to act fast some fishes can get uppity at times he must have had one or two hidden move under his sleeves to somehow keep his cool'. he noticed that the leader.

Fu Yan during the time when Liang Yun was eliminating the 'stragglers' had sent an invisible 'sos' to whichever team is nearby able to help him, 'at least even if one team comes I can burrow the chaos that ensues to escape no amount of promised treasure can buy my life back if I die that's if I even get as much as was promised after I do their bidding' his thought to fight this adversary of his had waned, only leaving the will to survive was left in him,.

Unfortunately for Fu Yan no help was forth coming, at least for the immediate present when he needs to preserve his life from this unassuming grim reaper he is unfortunate to come in contact with, he readied his jian sword which is a spirit weapon and his spirit armor then he went to confront Liang Yun.

While eliminating the group he was on, he noticed an approach from his back turned he coated his fist with a dense layer of Qi and without any superfluous movement he delivered a punch the punch and the jian connected... the punch won, sending shockwaves into the surroundings and Fu Yan staggering away.

Fu Yan tried some more , but he was foiled at every step of his plan, and what's with the help that is not forth coming, Fu Yan decided to breakout his secret weapon THE BLACK SLAYER'S AWL of which he made use of promptly in his next bout.

The little radiance that seeped out from the bag, in a weak flash it came and went, not one of them on the battlefield felt it or saw it, they were too occupied in killing or trying not to get killed to do so.

Liang Yun had sensed something off from Fu Yan when he managed to land what should have been a decisive blow in his third confrontation with this purplish blue robed individual, not only did he stood back up he even had the energy to charge back at him.

Doing a scan with his spirit sense at the person he about fell, he discovered what his master has once described as spirit armor on him, "oh no wonder he had not scurried yet he seems to be a fat sheep save you for last then I will eliminate you and get your gears to sell for more cultivation materials" he mocked.

'I Fu Yan... was mocked?', Fu Yan saw red never in his life had he Fu Yan been treated like this even in the sect where he came from not even some of the core disciple wants to incur his displeasure becuase of one person his grandfather who is an alchemy hall elder and also his backer who has immense political connection in the alchemy hall no one wants to offend the big shot it doesn't worth it for them to do so.

"I will get you for this" he swore full of grievance, "I will get revenge for this indignation that you heaped upon me this I swear by the heavens and my life". he then attacked.

Liang Yun full of confidence that the youth attacking him is already a turtle in a jar decided to end the farce quickly due to the fact that the 'fight' had lasted longer than it should have due to him having to eliminate the easier target first, anyone might overhear the aftershocks of the fight happening here and worse come to interfere which will be unfavorable to him he has a rally point to reach.

He dodged the first swing followed by delivering his IRON FIST TECHNIQUE to Fu Yan's torso and caved in his head with the next punch he missed the small smile that came from his enemy while he dodged his opening move he did not quickly feel the venomous needle piercing his flesh which sealed his fate even if he was the winner

It was during the time he had almost fully gathered his spoils into a spatial pouch disguised as a common rucksack that he felt the prick he looked to his torso a black needle was stuck in there he searched for an antidote any he could recognize but found none, then dizziness overtook him, he staggered unto a nearby tree, slumped and never to rise again.

A bit into the distance some few yards away, the previously unmoving bag was twitching for all it's worth, it then ripped and a hand poked out a body about to emerge.