Escape?
She was indeed escaping. Burning her own life force, the heavily injured Blood Phoenix Sage Ruler fled with her last bit of energy towards the northwest where the Brahma Sound Pure Land was located.
But her battered body didn't have much vitality left to burn. She soon exhausted her strength and plummeted from the sky, crashing into the ground and leaving a large crater. Yet the Blood Phoenix Sage Ruler wasn't dead!
Abandoning the dignity of being a Sage Ruler and not fighting to the death, instead choosing to flee, was all because she still had a slim chance of survival!
This chance of survival didn't reside within the Blood Phoenix herself. Lü Chunqiu wasn't mistaken that the Blood Phoenix's own lifeline was already severed!
However, among the ten great Sage Rulers of Brahma Sound Pure Land, each one possessed unbelievable miraculous secret techniques.
Among them was one, Sage Ruler Qing Qiu! If she made her move, she could extend the Blood Phoenix Sage Ruler's lifespan by fifty years!
Although using such a secret technique would come at an extremely high price, the Blood Phoenix wasn't worried at all that Sage Ruler Qing Qiu would definitely come save her.
This wasn't because she had an exceptionally close private relationship with Qing Qiu. In fact, of the ten great Sage Rulers in Brahma Sound Pure Land, Sage Ruler Qing Qiu had the most aloof personality. She basically didn't have any friends within the Pure Land, only eternally cultivating by herself day after day.
This kind of aloof coldness from Sage Ruler Qing Qiu was also what the Blood Phoenix Sage Ruler detested the most. So to be honest, the Blood Phoenix Sage Ruler actually quite disliked Sage Ruler Qing Qiu.
Another important reason she disliked her was because among the ten great Sage Rulers, Sage Ruler Qing Qiu was ranked ninth, right above the Blood Phoenix.
But Brahma Sound Pure Land had an ironclad rule: Masters and disciples were like mother and child, those of the same generation were like sisters.
The ten great Sage Rulers of the Pure Land must treat each other as close as golden orchid sisters. Unity was valued in Brahma Sound Pure Land above all else!
"As long as I send out a distress signal, Sage Ruler Qing Qiu must come save me... Fifty years of lifespan is too short. It's far from enough for me to cultivate to the Tribulation Realm. Ascending to immortality is now but a bubble dream... But it's enough to take revenge!"
"After recuperating from my injuries for ten years, I will return to Great Chu to settle scores with Fan Li! What level of progress could a mere Foundation Realm cultivator make in ten years? I will have my revenge!"
The Blood Phoenix Sage Ruler's gaze was filled with hatred. With her right hand already severed, she could only use her trembling left hand to summon out a jade platter.
This place was already at Great Chu's northwestern borderlands, an extremely desolate location that could be considered a temporary safe zone.
As long as she crushed this jade platter, a message would soon reach the Brahma Sound Pure Land's side, prompting them to take action.
The Blood Phoenix Sage Ruler's half a day of remaining lifespan was enough for her to wait until Sage Ruler Qing Qiu came to her rescue!
"Come...come quickly...Have Qing Qiu come...I'm dying..." The Blood Phoenix Sage Ruler whispered towards the jade platter, then crushed it!
A fist-sized red glow emerged from within the platter. After a brief pause, it flew towards the direction of Brahma Sound Pure Land at extreme speeds. The speed of the red glow was astounding. It nearly vanished from the Blood Phoenix's line of sight instantly!
The very next second, an exquisitely beautiful white figure descended before her. The newcomer was an exceptionally beautiful woman. Both her alluring figure and graceful movements affirmed this. Yet the Blood Phoenix Sage Ruler's expression contorted in fury! Because the rescue couldn't have possibly arrived this quickly!
The newcomer was clearly lurking nearby already, laying in ambush for her return. How could such a lurking ambush possibly harbor good intentions...
"Hehehe, this Princess's luck really was somewhat lacking. I could only confirm your location after seeing the red glow emitted by that jade platter. But that couldn't be helped. Even knowing the general direction you would flee towards, it would definitely be back to Brahma Sound Pure Land. I still needed luck to run into you."
Seeing the newcomer clearly, fury and puzzlement appeared on the Blood Phoenix Sage Ruler's face. "You...you're Sage Ruler Qing Qiu's disciple...Princess Liu Man of Great Han?"
Princess Liu Man of Chang Le smiled brilliantly. She gave the proper disciple's greeting to the Blood Phoenix Sage Ruler.
"Greetings Sage Ruler. This disciple Liu Man pays her respects."
The Blood Phoenix suddenly erupted furiously. "The three retainers of your Great Han actually dared attack me. And now you lie in ambush at this place. Just what exactly are your intentions!? Liu Man, have you forgotten your own identity as someone from the Pure Lands? How dare you disregard the iron rules of the Pure Lands, fancying to defy your master and exterminate your ancestors!? Just you wait, once your master Sage Ruler Qing Qiu arrives, see how she punishes you!"
The Blood Phoenix seemed enraged on the surface, but she was crying out bitterly in her heart. She was now completely without any fighting strength. She could only await rescue.
Yet not only would her rescue, Sage Ruler Qing Qiu, still take quite some time to arrive, she had encountered Princess Liu Man first instead! She could only try to stall for time with words now, lest Princess Liu Man impatiently make her move.
"How can this be? I, an exalted Sage Ruler of the Pure Lands, was first schemed against by a weaker practitioner in the Body Refining Realm, almost killed in battle. Now, I'm being intercepted by the younger generation of the Pure Land? How did the rules of this world become so chaotic?"
The Blood Phoenix Sage Ruler became increasingly angry as she thought about it, truly despairing and furious. But in order to buy time, she softly advised.
"Liu Man, I don't interfere in the political affairs of the Chu Han Nation. I believe there must be other reasons for the three Han officials to take action against me. You must not make repeated mistakes; you have a bright future ahead of you. In a thousand years, you will surely have a seat among the ten great holy lords of the Pure Land..."
Pfft!
Before the Blood Phoenix could finish speaking, she saw a seemingly delicate and boneless jade hand inserting itself into her own chest.
The jade hand passed through her chest, piercing through the Blood Phoenix Sage Ruler's back, clutching a barely pulsating heart.
Crack!
With a muffled explosion, the heart was crushed. While the Blood Phoenix Sage Ruler's face still retained an expression of disbelief, her body had already collapsed softly.
"You're really foolish, the power of the Fan Clan dominates Great Chu. If you want to annihilate the Fan Clan, it's equivalent to confronting the entire national power of Great Chu.
Without a well-devised plan, relying only on formidable cultivation, thinking you can smoothly push through? You truly believe that in the mundane Three Kingdoms, where experts in the Unity and Great Vehicle Realms are scarce, you can be casually oppressed by the sects from the outside world? The strength of an entire nation, is it comparable to the practices of a meager hundred people in a cultivation sect?"
"Simply foolish..." Princess Chang Le looked at the deceased Holy Lord with only a faint trace of mockery in her eyes.
Experts from the outside?
Apart from having a higher realm, their strategic intelligence was a complete mess, and their characters exposed countless flaws.
"Why is Emperor Jiajing referred to as the number one person under heaven? Besides his high-level cultivation in the Great Vehicle Realm, controlling the power of a whole nation is also crucial.
What if Dong Zhuo, upon entering the Great Vehicle Realm, is it any different? Even if he is the number one Holy Lord of the Pure Land, he is unwilling to provoke him."
Princess Chang Le casually released a cold air, instantly freezing the Holy Lord's corpse into an ice sculpture. She kicked it casually, and because the ice sculpture couldn't bear the force, it shattered inch by inch, turning into a pile of ice debris mixed with the soil.
A generation of Pure Land Sage Ruler died in such a fragmented manner. However, Princess Chang Le seemed to be somewhat entertained.
"Fan Li is even more outstanding than I expected. He truly deserves to be my man. It's just that for the sake of obtaining the world, even the qualification to inherit the position of Sage Ruler can be given up. Fan Li still needs to continue working hard, or else I might change my mind..."
As she spoke, Princess Chang Le seemed to sense something. Her playful expression instantly disappeared, replaced by a calm and dignified demeanor. The princess slowly turned around, only to see a woman in plain clothes and without makeup standing quietly behind her.
Without any makeup, she still couldn't suppress the peerless beauty of the woman. She naturally exuded a kind of charming temperament, seemingly able to captivate souls. However, her cold and indifferent gaze and expression proved that this temperament was not intentionally released by the woman. Destiny ordained her to confuse all living beings, but she insisted otherwise?
Princess Chang Le knelt down respectfully. "Disciple Liu Man, pays respects to Master."