After taking care of that middle aged man, Lin Fan didn’t care as he left his corpse lying there in the cave.
Instead, he waved his hand and applied the same illusion spell around himself before heading out of the cave.
When he came out of the cave, he turned in a certain direction and headed forward.
The direction that Lin Fan was heading in wasn’t the way out of this Dragon Beard Valley, but rather he was heading to the center of this Dragon Beard Valley. It seemed like he was heading to the same place that he was before.
He was heading to the place where the statue was.
As for why Lin Fan was heading to that place, only he would know the reason.
But it didn’t seem like he was able to leave matters as they were.
Since he had scattered Greeny’s puppets all over the place, Lin Fan had a good idea of what the situation in the entire Dragon Beard Valley was.
With them using the cultivators from the other sects as bait, those from the Love Sect were able to take down quite a few of the demonic cultivators. Even when the demonic sect masters went to help, they weren’t able to do anything against those from the Love Sect.
That was just how strong the Love Sect had become during this time.
There was no need for him to worry about a single thing.
Instead, Lin Fan came to where the statue was and he found that there were quite a few people that were gathered here. There were three people that he recognized in particular that were here.
They were three of the sect masters from the demonic sect.
However, it seemed like all three of them were injured from their fights and they had run back because they had no other choice.
It seemed that even though the three of them were powerful Golden Core Realm Cultivators, they weren’t able to deal with the elders from the Love Sect.
Those elders had grasped the foundational techniques much more than Lin Fan had expected.
Especially since these sect masters were all in the Mid Golden Core Realm, so they were stronger than most of the elders from the former Hidden Dragon Sect.
Even with the resources of the Love Sect, it wasn’t easy for those elders from the former Hidden Dragon Sect to break through. Though Lin Fan also suspected that they didn’t even bother trying to break through most of the time with the way that they acted.
It was as if they were kids that hadn’t been allowed to be on the internet for their entire lives and finally had a taste for it, turning them into addicts.
That was how much they pursued their own personal interests in the Love Sect.
There were times that Lin Fan even wondered if he should give them a warning, but he didn’t since they did their jobs as elders properly.
It also seemed like those personal interests had paid off as they could fight cross realm. It seemed that they had been focused on developing their powers, rather than just breaking through to the next realm.
That was how the Love Sect should be, invincible in their realm.
Watching these sect masters and the elders that were gathered here for a bit, Lin Fan quickly realized what they were planning to do.
First, they had withdrawn back to this place to recover from the injuries that they suffered at the hands of the Love Sect elders.
Second, they had come to this place specifically because of the statue that was here.
They were here to sacrifice something to the statue to gain power to fight back against those that were attacking them.
But before they could hold any sacrificing ceremony, they had to recover from their wounds.
This kind of sacrifice ceremony was not the normal kind of sacrifice ceremony, this was a sacrifice ceremony to a high demon. This was the kind of sacrifice ceremony that had to be guided with spiritual energy and they couldn’t do this while they were injured like this.
So they could only wait until they had recovered enough to do this.
“The sacrifices are missing!”
This was someone who ran from the same direction that Lin Fan had come in.
It was clear that this person had gone to check on the cave where the girls had been held and he must have found that they were missing, which was why he ran back in a hurry like this.
Without the sacrifices, it wasn’t as if they could hold the ceremony.
So the only thing that could be done was…
The three sect masters exchanged glances as if there was some kind of secret communication between them before they called out to the normal disciples that were here.
The disciples were confused why the sect masters called them over, but they were even more shocked when they were suddenly bound by the sect masters. All of them were caught by the attacks of the sect masters and found that they couldn’t move at all.
“While the quality of the sacrifice will be lower because of this, it doesn’t seem like we have a choice.” One of the sect masters said this to which the other two sect masters nodded in agreement.
At this point, they were desperate, so they didn’t have another choice.
They had to do this before they lost their lives.
“You can’t do this to…ugh.” The disciples tried to complain, but they were gagged before they could make any complaints.
It seemed that the sect masters and even the elders had already made up their minds, so there was nothing left for them to turn to.
Well that was except for a single person who had been watching all of this happen.
Lin Fan was hidden by his illusion spell, so he had been watching all of this happen from the side. He saw when the sect masters suddenly made a move on the disciples, but he didn’t do a single thing to help them.
It wasn’t that he wasn’t able to do anything to the sect masters, it was just that he didn’t want to help.
It would have been easy for him to take down the sect masters, especially since they were injured like this. Only, he didn’t do it because he had another thought in mind.
There was no doubt that whatever was behind this statue would eventually make its way into this world, that was why Lin Fan was considering letting them perform this sacrifice ceremony to see what it would be.
He was certain that with the quality of the sacrifices, the power that they would gain wouldn’t be that great and would still be manageable by him. So this was his chance to see just what kind of power this statue had.
It would be an important reference for the future.
The sect masters brought the disciples over to the statue and then picked up the sacrificial daggers.
The disciples did all that they could to struggle against this, but there wasn’t a single thing that they were able to do when they were bound up like this. It really seemed that at this rate, they would be sacrificed to the demon that they worshipped.
“Squirt.” There was the sound of blood spurting out.
Regret filled the eyes of the disciples that had been stabbed in the stomach by these sacrificial daggers.
They never would have thought that they would be in this situation one day.
But there was no one to blame but themselves for choosing this path.
The sect masters and elders didn’t hold back at all as they stabbed all of the disciples in the stomach and then used the daggers to cut through their abdomens to reveal the organs inside.
With their bare hands, they reached into the cavities of their body and pulled out those organs to offer in front of the statue.
Then with their hands covered in blood, they clenched them together in prayer and started chanting this strange chant.
As they chanted this strange chant, it didn’t seem like anything was happening at first.
But then, there were flies that appeared.
There were only a few at first, but more and more flies started to gather in the area before landing on the organs that were offered in front of the statue. These flies gathered so densely that that completely covered all of the organs that were there.
After landing on the organs for a bit, the flies suddenly started to fly away again.
When they flew up, it was revealed that the organs that had been there completely disappeared.
The flies didn’t leave the area as they flew around the statue for a bit before gathering all around the statue. They completely surrounded the statue and blocked it from view.
As this happened, this was this strange aura that came from the statue.
This was an aura that was completely different from anything that Lin Fan had felt before, but it was also an aura that was somewhat similar. In a sense, it was like the aura of the gods that he had met before, but there was this corrupted feeling to it.
At the same time, it felt like there was this kind of ancient power that shouldn’t exist in this world.
The flies seemed to be agitated as they moved around the statue until they suddenly stopped and a voice rang out. This was a powerful voice that only said a single word.
“Disgusting.”
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