Chapter 3

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"If you ask me where the turning point in my destiny lies, I would say without hesitation, it is the Master of Lianhua Pavilion! He fulfilled me, and I fulfilled him. We are brothers who have shared hardships, and no matter how the world changes, this is something I will never forget! And my story, of course, begins with the shocking event that Master of Lianhua Pavilion caused back then...!" —— Yun Mo, the Lord of Ten Thousand Transformations.

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A blood-red curved blade emitted an eerie, sinister light in the dark night, resembling a terrifying beast eager to feast on blood!

This blade, including the hilt and scabbard, was two meters and ten centimeters long! Strangely, the blade itself, when drawn, was pitifully narrow, only eight centimeters wide! It was polished with a thousand-patterned texture, looking uniform and exquisite. The blade curved beautifully in the middle, with an extremely sharp edge that faintly glowed with a golden aura, indicating that it was indeed an extraordinary weapon! It could cut through hair and kill without a trace of blood, truly a masterpiece!

Simple killing was not its style; it had its unique way of operating, which was flight!

Indeed, it was a divine weapon capable of flying thousands of miles to take the life of its enemy! It had a name that struck fear into the hearts of all—'Flower Wheel Blood Blade'!

The 'Flower' in its name came from the fact that its blood-red scabbard and hilt were intricately carved with ten thousand different and beautifully exotic flowers!

From the regal peony to the passionate rose, the pure lotus, and the golden chrysanthemum... virtually every known flower could be found on it! The 'Flower Wheel Blood Blade' was truly deserving of its name!

At that moment, it joyfully and swiftly split a stunningly beautiful woman from her forehead to her hips, precisely cutting her into two halves from a hundred meters away! Then it howled and screamed, arrogantly circling the crowd in a flash before gracefully flying back into the Flower Wheel scabbard on its owner's back! The entire killing process took less than a second, so fast that people couldn't even react!

'Whoosh!' The blade was back in the scabbard, and only then did the woman's body, split into two, spurt out a large amount of blood, staining the sky and the stars red! The two halves of the body then crashed down with a loud thud!

'Boom!' A deafening sound! Falling from ten thousand meters, with a terrifying force, her body shattered the ground, causing trees to break and dust to fly! A terrifying crater appeared on the chaotic forest floor, startling countless birds!

Only then did they notice that, ten thousand meters above their heads, a group of strange beings had been floating there! The moment they released a hint of killing intent, they almost frightened all the beasts in the forest to death!

For a moment, the beasts defecated and urinated, filling the forest with a foul stench!

"Damn you, Ye Lianhua! You will surely die tonight! Don't resist futilely. If you surrender obediently, I can give you a quick death!"

A woman with a red mole on her forehead, dressed in a purple palace gown with her hair high up, her figure alluring and her chest high, glared with her beautiful eyes and spoke coldly, her words filled with murderous intent!

Her body, suspended in the air, seemed to emit a surging tide, waves of power surging out, carrying a world-conquering momentum as she charged towards the handsome and sinister man a few hundred meters away!

"Hmph, beauty, why must we come to blows? I am the best in the world at this, and if you taste my flavor, I guarantee you will never leave me! How about it, consider it. I have 9,999 beauties in my harem, and with you, it will be a perfect ten thousand. I will definitely treat you well!" This man spoke lewdly, but his actions were swift. He stepped back nine steps on red lotuses in the air, his body flashing several times to evade the woman's mental attack!

He was an extremely handsome man, a typical pretty boy! He wore a moon-white protective armor, black leather boots, and his skin was fair and healthy, shining with a luster! He was tall and full of vitality! His purple hair, flowing to his shoulders, danced in the wind, looking graceful and extraordinary! His eyes were long and sharp, his nose straight and elegant! His eyebrows slanted, his face square and his mouth firm! He was truly a man who could make anyone fall in love, a man who could make flowers bloom! In terms of appearance, he was absolutely flawless, a man of timeless charm! However, what made him unpleasant was that this handsome man's face was always filled with a deeply repulsive lewdness! His long, narrow eyes occasionally cast lecherous glances at the surrounding women, making one's skin crawl!

Not to mention his disgusting habit of licking the corner of his mouth with his long tongue, openly revealing that he was a big pervert!

Indeed! This man was the number one wanted criminal of the Purple Vine Empire, the terrifying pervert known as the Master of Lianhua Pavilion, Ye Lianhua!

He was 122 years old, with extraordinary cultivation, having been among the top experts for nearly fifty years! He was extremely cruel and obsessed with women! His master's sect was said to be the 'Wan Hua Men' of the Inviting Moon Empire!

In Wan Hua Men, there was an ultimate secret technique called 'Wan Hua Gong Jue'! It could only be passed down to the next sect leader, and besides its immense power when cultivated, its only function was the art of transformation! It allowed one to change their appearance and physique at will, even transforming into a woman with perfect accuracy and no detectable aura! It was truly a divine technique, the best in the world!

Originally, Ye Lianhua should not have been able to obtain this heaven-defying technique, but somehow he managed to steal most of it! Later, when he realized his actions were about to be exposed and his life was in danger, he fled the Inviting Moon Empire in the dead of night, crossing thousands of miles of mountains and deserts, enduring countless hardships, and finally entered the territory of the Purple Vine Empire, the archenemy of the Inviting Moon Empire!

For some unknown reason, Wan Hua Men did not send anyone to pursue this traitor, but let him fend for himself! This gave him a heaven-sent opportunity to turn his life around!

Ye Lianhua hid in forests, lakes, deserts, and ghostly realms! After ten years of hard work, he finally broke through the bottleneck and ascended to the rank of a great cultivator, thus beginning his terrifying career of debauchery!

With his shocking cultivation and the divine weapon 'Flower Wheel Blood Blade,' he began to seduce and ravage women without restraint! At first, he would break into homes and kidnap virtuous women! As his character became more twisted and cruel, his actions became increasingly uncontrollable! In the past fifty years, at least tens of thousands of women's purity was destroyed by his hands, causing widespread resentment and unrest in the Purple Vine Empire!

The wanted posters featured a thousand different portraits! Because he had mastered the 'Wan Hua Gong Jue,' he always transformed into someone else's appearance when committing crimes, making it impossible for anyone to know his true identity, and thus impossible to capture him! This caused the 'Investigation Bureau,' responsible for the empire's security, to be in a state of chaos and embarrassment! The two heads of the Investigation Bureau were scolded by the emperor, almost being beaten to death as a warning to others!

The two heads of the Investigation Bureau, with their shocking cultivation, hated this scoundrel to the bone, but with his countless transformations, what could they do? The matter was thus delayed, becoming a major threat hanging over the heads of all virtuous women in the empire!

Countless women dared not go out for fear of being kidnapped and ravaged by the 'Master of Lianhua Pavilion'! According to statistics, in the past fifty years, the sales of cosmetics in the empire had decreased by sixty percent, and many merchants hated him to the point of gnashing their teeth, hoping for his swift demise!

As the saying goes, when a person is about to perish, they will act recklessly!

Ye Lianhua, having been at large for so long, gradually felt a lack of challenge and a sense of unfulfilled desire. In his audacity, he even set his sights on the Holy Maiden of the empire's top sect, 'Yunxiao Palace'!

He found an opportunity to kill a Yunxiao Palace inner disciple, destroyed the body, and transformed into the disciple's appearance, boldly entering Yunxiao Palace! He then secretly added a special drug to the Holy Maiden's food and drink, which could render cultivators unconscious, and finally, he achieved his goal of taking the Holy Maiden to bed! After a night of passion, Ye Lianhua left his unique mark and left with extreme satisfaction!

When the Holy Maiden regained consciousness, she saw the 'Blood-colored Night-blooming Cereus' symbol carved on the bedhead and, feeling the changes in her body, saw the spots of blood on the bed. She immediately reported the incident to the palace master, and a manhunt for Ye Lianhua began!

Was it so easy to take advantage of Yunxiao Palace? The Holy Maiden's aura lingered in Ye Lianhua's body, and he was unaware! Instead, he kept recalling the wonderful process of obtaining this celestial beauty, feeling almost ecstatic! He never imagined that the Holy Maiden's tracking method was so ingenious! It was a secret technique of Yunxiao Palace's female cultivators, created to always know the whereabouts of their lovers! Once you had a relationship with these female cultivators, the tracking technique would remain on your body for a month, making it impossible to escape, no matter where you went!

Riders often fall, and just as Ye Lianhua was flying through the air, he was suddenly surrounded by over twenty cultivators, with no chance to transform and escape! Reacting quickly, he knew the game was up, killed a female cultivator, and decided to go down fighting!

This was the reason for the bloody battle in the forest that night!

Since he had made up his mind, he spoke without any courtesy! His eyes lingered on the chest and hips of the woman speaking, spouting lewd words, while secretly gathering all his strength, planning to take as many down with him as possible!

"You damn bastard, go to hell!" The palace woman, hearing the scoundrel's foul words, was so angry that her eyebrows furrowed and her chest heaved!

This woman with the red mole on her forehead was the newly appointed Holy Maiden of Yunxiao Palace! The previous Holy Maiden, having been defiled by Ye Lianhua, had lost her status! Therefore, the person responsible for hunting Ye Lianhua that night was this beauty! Behind her floated twelve stunning beauties in gray dresses with long, flowing hair! However, their faces were cold and emotionless, looking at Ye Lianhua as if he were already dead! Their eyes were filled with murderous intent, and if possible, they would not hesitate to tear him to pieces!

The reason was simple: the female cultivator who was split in two by Ye Lianhua was one of their fellow disciples!

These gray-dressed female cultivators had grown up together, with deep bonds, almost like sisters! They shared in each other's glory and pain, and over the years, the '13 Gray Guards' of Yunxiao Palace had become famous throughout the world, with no one daring to challenge them! But today, they had suffered a loss due to carelessness, and each of them was in deep pain! If not for the Holy Maiden's order to attack, they would have already swarmed and cut this scoundrel to pieces!

So, they naturally looked at the lecherous and shameless Ye Lianhua with murderous intent!

Another group gave a very strange impression! The two leaders, one wearing a blood-red official robe! A golden phoenix was embroidered on his chest, and he wore a jade crown on his head! From his appearance, everyone knew he was a first-rank eunuch of the palace!

Seeing his pale, beardless face, which was neither male nor female, it was easy to confirm his identity as a high-ranking eunuch of the palace!

The other was a valiant woman! She wore a pure black noble dress, her delicate face without makeup, her expression calm! Her short green hair was neat and experienced! Her eyes slanted upwards, and her waist was incredibly slender, clearly indicating that she had a bit of the bloodline of the fallen royal family of the Inviting Moon Empire, the 'Moonlight' clan!

These two were the heads of the empire's 'Investigation Bureau,' the chief eunuch 'Blood Robe Yama' Hong Wang and the deputy head 'Black Shadow' Li Xiangxiang!

Behind them floated eight more people, the eight heads of the Investigation Bureau! Four men and four women, all wearing dark golden brocade robes with wolf heads embroidered on the chest! The men had firm faces and calm expressions, seemingly experienced in great events! The women were each beautiful in their own way, with extraordinary charm and beauty! They were all watching Ye Lianhua tease the new Holy Maiden of Yunxiao Palace with interest, secretly laughing and enjoying the spectacle!