Chapter 292: Divine Blood
Chapter 292: Divine Blood
The current situation remained awkward. Jiu Yang Sacred Palace and Tianlei Sacred Church kept mutual vigilance, while Heavenly Fire Sect and Shanhua Alliance faced off against each other, breeding numerous issues.
Take Heavenly Fire Sect for instance. Bai Ruomei currently led the charge. Should she manage to pass the Seventeenth Gate into the Eighteenth Gate, it’d be cause for celebration – but subsequent developments would turn grim.
Why?
Once Bai Ruomei entered the Eighteenth Gate, only two experts from Heavenly Fire Sect would remain at the Seventeenth Gate, compared to Shanhua Alliance’s three.
If all failed to progress and resorted to sacrificing others’ corpses, Heavenly Fire Sect’s two experts would face Shanhua Alliance’s three. The outcome spoke for itself.
This mirrored scenario applied to Jiu Yang Sacred Palace and Tianlei Sacred Church too. Should Jiu Yang Sacred Palace’s strongest member breach the Eighteenth Gate, the same predicament would unfold.
Conversely, if Tianlei Sacred Church sent someone through, identical consequences would follow.
These straightforward cause-effect relationships were well understood by all four Forces’ experts, paralyzing them with caution against reckless moves.
Heavenly Palace alone operated without such concerns. Lacking competitors, its Three Experts could act freely and push their limits.
Hua Yuehong initiated another challenge attempt with the beautiful jade coffin hovering above her.
Though everyone assumed this coffin to be another Holy Artifact, why couldn’t she clear the Seventeenth Gate?
The answer lay in the blood lake’s connection to Xuan Star Palace. When Shui Yingyue, Ye Anlan, and Yunxiu approached the blood lake, their Holy Artifacts had shown strong reactions and signs of spontaneous revival – reactions absent from Hua Yuehong’s coffin.
At her current cultivation level, Hua Yuehong couldn’t fully unleash the Holy Artifact’s power without its autonomous revival. Her manual activation only yielded limited effects.
Noticing Hua Yuehong’s renewed attempt, Bai Ruomei of Heavenly Fire Sect grew restless. The two women’s rivalry flared anew, neither willing to concede defeat.
Tianlei Sacred Church and Heavenly Fire Sect now occupied the most precarious positions. With Ye Anlan of Jiu Yang Sacred Palace already leading, Jiu Yang Sacred Palace could afford patience while Tianlei Sacred Church exhausted itself.
Heavenly Fire Sect’s dilemma stemmed from Bai Ruomei’s rivalry obsession. Should she succeed, Azure Sky Dragon and their remaining expert would be dangerously exposed.
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Beneath the blood lake’s island, within the mysterious cave, Cheng Lingyu encountered great fortune.
The cave’s depths revealed interweaving runes and divine light. Countless ultimate skills materialized in the void, all emanating from the modest blood pool.
Cheng Lingyu stared in awe. The ever-shifting runes proved elusive to track.
Amber-like stone walls glowed faint red, their intricate patterns forming profound mysteries.
Standing there, Cheng Lingyu felt his true essence accelerate autonomously within this enchanted space.
After steadying himself with deep breaths, he relaxed his body and stilled both true essence and thoughts, entering Withering Silence.
Though his aura vanished, physical presence remained. While essence and consciousness froze, his senses continued perceiving environmental shifts – a wondrous state where flesh and blood adapted naturally.
Moments later, his tranquil mind stirred. Thought frequencies quickened, flooding him with expanding information about the cavern.
The mountain’s natural cavern had three entrances, each shielded from external contact. Cheng Lingyu recalled struggling through these barriers earlier.
Beyond the entrances, he detected two peculiar vibrations outside the mountain connecting to this cave.
“Directionally… those must be the Blood Moons.”
The sky still held one Blood Moon before dawn.
Cheng Lingyu’s probing gaze eventually settled on the cave’s central blood pool.
The blood pool was only fist-sized, containing sparkling five-colored blood that leaped and flew like divine light, exuding the profound mysteries of the Dao.
Cheng Lingyu stared transfixed, his eyes shifting mysteriously. His Destruction of Space Divine Thought Wave operated rapidly while the mysterious grass in his sea of consciousness swayed gently, emitting mystical radiance.
“Five-colored luminescence, essence of divine blood.”
The voice of the mysterious grass echoed in Cheng Lingyu’s mind.
Cheng Lingyu was startled to discover the fist-sized cavity contained not ordinary spirit blood, but the far superior essence of divine blood.
Spirit blood came from spirit beasts, graded by their species and quality. Divine blood from divine beasts was infinitely more precious.
The divine blood pulsed with celestial rhythms and heavenly aura, its intertwined runes forming fused ultimate skills containing endless mysteries.
Through intense observation and the Destruction of Space Divine Thought Wave’s analysis, Cheng Lingyu discerned crucial information. Five drops of divine blood occupied the cavity, each holding a supreme ultimate skill. Combined, they formed an unparalleled celestial art whose complex runes defied even his technique of origins.
“Five divine blood drops with distinct skills… Could these be merged essences from different divine beasts, their powers perfectly unified into peerless celestial art?”
Despite exhaustive efforts, Cheng Lingyu couldn’t unravel this mystery.
When the Blood Moon sank into the blood lake, violent ripples stirred the mountain cavern. The five divine blood drops became agitated.
Cheng Lingyu noted changes after the Blood Moon settled beneath the island at the center of the lake.
By day, three Blood Moons rested silently in triangular formation beneath the island’s rocks, intricately connected to the divine blood.
At night, one Blood Moon ascended while the remaining two maintained altered connections with the divine blood.
Luminous runes streamed from the divine blood, forming ordered divine chains that pierced cave walls to link with the three Blood Moons, exchanging energies that conveyed Dao’s profundity and heavenly unpredictability.
Though Cheng Lingyu’s Realm couldn’t fully grasp these mysteries, he understood the deep connection between Blood Moons and divine blood.
After prolonged observation, Cheng Lingyu suddenly looked upward. Through translucent crimson stone, he detected two powerful conflicting energies – one red, one white – locked in stalemate within the island’s core.
His probing thought waves disintegrated instantly when nearing this Special Area.
“Three Blood Moons, two energies, one cave… This island hides countless secrets.”
Cheng Lingyu withdrew his gaze, edging closer to the divine blood while devising retrieval methods.
The sentient divine blood radiated Arrogance, its rune-woven barrier repelling intruders with lightning-born destructive force.
Summoning Fang Tian Bao Yin’s defense proved futile against the divine lightning’s Power, leaving Cheng Lingyu battered against cave walls.
Even the sacred aura from his mysterious scroll only allowed gradual retreat under relentless lightning strikes.
Cursing inwardly, Cheng Lingyu observed from safety. Force failed, subtlety faltered – he stood impotent before the blood’s contempt.
Sitting cross-legged, he activated various techniques, exuding Temptation. The divine blood ignored him, its five drops dancing joyfully amidst shifting runes.
In his sea of consciousness, the mysterious grass trembled violently as the glowing pyramid drove Destruction of Space Divine Thought Wave to analyze possibilities.
Time flowed as Cheng Lingyu’s body shone with multicolored energies. Finally, the three-layered ten-vortex pyramid in his dantian’s True Essence Sea quivered.
“Heavenly Soul Essence reacts! This blood could nourish it immensely.”
The Primordial Stone soon echoed this response, hinting at benefits for the Primordial Realm.
Night fell without solutions. Watching the rising Blood Moon weaken the blood’s connection, Cheng Lingyu sighed.
“Triangles stabilize… Could the three Blood Moons’ formation be restraining these five drops?”