Chapter 173: Chapter 173: A Drop of Blood


    The Evil Buddha was sliced in two with a single stroke.


    Such a massive body.


    In an instant, it turned to ash and dispersed.


    As the Evil Buddha perished, the strange and chilling aura that had hovered at Nine Curves Road seemed like rootless duckweed, gradually dissipating.


    However,


    Gu Qingfeng didn''t care about these things.


    His gaze,


    from beginning to end, was fixed in the direction where the Evil Buddha had fallen.


    At the spot where the Evil Buddha once was, a drop of golden, murky blood suddenly appeared.


    "Blood!"


    Gu Qingfeng''s expression shifted slightly.


    One must know that when an Evil Spirit falls, it is like the eerie death of a body: once slain, it only leaves behind black ash.


    But,


    this time as the Evil Buddha fell, a drop of blood remained, giving Gu Qingfeng an instinctive feeling that this drop of blood was not simple.


    Immediately,


    Gu Qingfeng approached the drop of blood.


    He saw the golden, murky blood, filled with an odd and evil aura. The moment Gu Qingfeng''s thoughts touched upon the blood, he suddenly felt a terrifying pressure overwhelm him.


    Above the nine heavens,


    a Buddha picked flowers.


    But the body of the Buddha was incomplete, its eyes gouged out, with only tears of blood flowing.


    When Gu Qingfeng''s gaze met the Buddha''s, a majestic heavenly might swept through heaven and earth, and an indefinable great terror surged in his heart.


    The next moment,


    the vision shattered.


    The so-called Nine Heavens Buddha was nothing more than an illusion, fleeting as a bubble.


    Only the blood before his eyes emitted strange fluctuations.


    "So this is the origin of the Evil Buddha!"


    "One drop of blood created an Evil Spirit of immense power!"


    Gu Qingfeng''s heart trembled.


    He had always been curious about how Evil Spirits came to be.


    Much like the appearance of oddities, which arose from the resentment of living beings unwilling to accept consecutive natural disasters, ultimately transforming into oddities.


    But as for Evil Spirits, Gu Qingfeng did not have much of a clue.


    But now,


    Gu Qingfeng saw this drop of blood, and he understood that the appearance of the Nine Curves Evil Buddha originated from this.


    However,


    Therefore.


    Gu Qingfeng naturally would not leave hidden dangers unaddressed.


    Even though he had slain the Evil Buddha, he could not deny the Evil Buddha''s might.


    After devouring the beings of the Nine Curves Road, the Evil Buddha had grown mightier than Gu Yutian and was, perhaps, not far from the rumored Divinity Realm.


    If the Evil Buddha left Nine Curves Road and continued to devour other beings, completing its final transformation, then even Gu Qingfeng, with his two Heavenly Veins, might not be able to suppress his opponent with his current strength.


    Therefore.


    Gu Qingfeng always held the utmost seriousness regarding the Evil Buddha.


    When Gu Qingfeng stepped out of the ancient city again, Gu Peng had long been waiting outside.


    "Elder Manor Master!"


    Gu Peng looked upon the person before him with a face full of reverence and awe.


    He had witnessed every bit of the battle between Gu Qingfeng and the Evil Buddha.


    That terrifying and might (earth-shattering, ghost-weeping) force, even a mere leakage of it, was sufficient to suppress him completely.


    The so-called Innate Grandmaster.


    In front of such a powerhouse, he was no different from an ant.


    It wasn''t long since Gu Peng had heard about Gu Qingfeng''s feat in Prefecture, where he had slain the Sect Master of Tianyang Sword Sect, Gu Yutian, with a single strike, but no matter the rumors, witnessing it firsthand left a much greater impact.


    For Gu Peng.


    Witnessing this battle in his lifetime was an honor he would treasure forever.


    "Let''s go, the problem with the Evil Buddha has been resolved, but this place where the Evil Buddha long occupied, the remaining Evil Spirit power will take some time to completely disperse,"


    Gu Qingfeng softly declared.


    The Evil Buddha was slain.


    The leftover Evil Spirit power here was like rootless duckweed, its dissipation was just a matter of time.


    Of course.


    If Gu Qingfeng wished, he could also use his own power to disperse this Evil Spirit power prematurely.


    But there was no need.


    It was bound to dissipate sooner or later.


    A bit sooner or later was of no consequence.


    Once the aura of the Evil Buddha here completely vanished, relocating some of the common folk to this area would allow the Nine Curves Road to regain its former prosperity.


    But such matters were not for Gu Qingfeng to handle.


    Reestablishing the order of Nine Curves Road was something for Gu Yang to do; Gu Qingfeng only needed to eradicate the Evil Spirit from this place.


    ...


    Half a day later.


    When the commotion of Nine Curves Road faded, some folks couldn''t help but enter the area.


    Before long.


    The news of the Evil Buddha''s fall spread like a hurricane.