Chapter 293: Blood Fusion Triggers Mutation

A sudden idea jolted Cheng Lingyu’s mind, sparking rapid thoughts.

First: What’s the true connection between the divine blood and three Blood Moons?

Second: Could the ordered divine chains between them be binding forces anchoring the divine blood here?

Third: After one Blood Moon rose, the remaining two maintained only feeble connections with the divine blood – might this weakness create an opening?

Guided by these thoughts, Cheng Lingyu leapt up, directing his floating scroll toward the divine blood.

Runes interwove within the cave as lightning crackled. When Cheng Lingyu approached, the defenses activated automatically.

Prepared, Cheng Lingyu defended while assessing the assault’s intensity.

Thunder boomed and space quaked, forcing retreats – yet the attacks proved weaker than daytime strikes.

“Night defenses are indeed weaker,” he confirmed.

Cheng Lingyu pressed harder, attempting to seize the divine blood under Blood Moon’s glow.

The divine blood hovered in a fist-sized cavity protected by luminous rune-networks, impenetrable to all.

After two futile hours of attempts, Cheng Lingyu muttered: “What’s missing?”

Forced entry failed. He needed proper strategy to approach, let alone absorb the divine blood.

Exhausted from constant trials and cultivation, Cheng Lingyu closed his weary eyes and slept.

The Dreamless Technique activated naturally. In mysterious space, pyramids stirred, emitting waves that took control of Cheng Lingyu’s body.

His entire form glowed. The pyramid in his dantian’s True Essence Sea blazed, containing the nut-shaped Heavenly Soul Essence with ancient patterns emitting strange vibrations.

In his mind, mysterious grass swayed. The three-layered ten-Yuan Dan pyramid materialized as the Destruction of Space Divine Thought Wave spun unprecedentedly fast, elevating his consciousness.

Across five lakes and four seas, pyramids trembled. Fang Tian Bao Yin, Ghostly Magic Blade, Celestial Measurement, and mysterious lock-piece shone together with Ten Immortal Souls, activating Ten Cave Heavens and expanding Soul Domain to manifest Soul Domain Avatar.

The divine blood noticed Cheng Lingyu’s transformation, intrigued by Heavenly Soul Essence, mysterious grass, and Soul Domain Avatar. More astonishingly, Cheng Lingyu’s display summoned vast cosmic void that engulfed the cave, blurring reality.

Though unconscious, Cheng Lingyu emanated captivating aura blending Dao marks and heavenly way’s mystery. The usually arrogant divine blood found itself outshone in mystique.

Sleeping Cheng Lingyu devoured power of all things – visible and invisible energies flooding his body. This rare absorption ability shocked even the divine blood.

Curious, the divine blood circled Cheng Lingyu, emitting probe waves. Unaware, Cheng Lingyu kept absorbing spiritual energy and runes meant to be indigestible to humans.

The divine blood marveled – its own runes were being absorbed against all logic.

In the dreamless state, Cheng Lingyu became immensely powerful. All the forces he had absorbed along his journey were stored within the pyramid in the mysterious space.

Now controlled by the six-star pyramid, his body unleashed energy fluctuations far surpassing those of his original Seven Levels of Soul Martial Arts cultivation.

His enhanced strength amplified his allure a hundredfold, overwhelming even the divine blood’s resistance. Combined with the temptation from the Heavenly Soul Essence, Primordial Stone, mysterious grass, and Soul Domain Avatar’s special aura, the divine blood grew determined to possess Cheng Lingyu.

Though inherently arrogant, the divine blood recognized Cheng Lingyu’s unique constitution containing superior elements like the Heavenly Soul Essence and the Heavenly Passage mark.

The divine blood condensed five drops into one glowing mass, its multicolored light brushing Cheng Lingyu’s skin like probing tendrils. It sought to invade and reshape his physical body.

Cheng Lingyu remained unresponsive as the hovering scroll above him spun slowly, offering no resistance. Time flowed within the cave as the divine blood escalated its tests before finally invading.

The crystalline blood easily entered his veins. Instantly, the six-star pyramid in his mysterious space trembled brightly, seizing control of his body to seal all passages and force the divine blood’s assimilation.

This provoked fierce resistance. Battle erupted within Cheng Lingyu’s flesh as the pyramid and divine blood clashed. Though powerful, the divine blood fought at disadvantage within foreign terrain.

Worse, the pyramid wielded the Celestial Measurement – a suppressive divine weapon intertwined with time itself, capable of sealing even entities like the divine blood into temporal imprisonment.

Splitting into five streams, the blood launched a desperate counterattack to rupture Cheng Lingyu’s body and escape. But twelve pyramids manifested internally, activating Ten Cave Heavens to trap the invader completely.

The divine blood’s severance from the twin Blood Moons triggered cascading effects. The blood lake churned violently, its turbulence felt by all experts standing on stone pillars.

By dawn, the guarding blood shadow’s power had visibly waned. Shui Yingyue, Ye Anlan, and Yunxiu seized this weakening to breach previously impassable barriers.

Following them, Bai Ruomei, Hua Yuehong, and representatives from Jiu Yang Sacred Palace, Tianlei Sacred Church, Heavenly Palace, Heavenly Fire Sect, and Shanhua Alliance found their challenges drastically easier.

Hu Yuer frowned while breaking through the Seventeenth Gate, noticing rising lakewaters and sinking pillars. “Trouble,” she muttered, blasting into the final trial.

Shui Yingyue’s group reached the island at the center of the lake first, with Bai Ruomei and Hua Yuehong close behind. Fifteen experts from five major forces followed.

Two stranded cultivators failed, leaving nineteen survivors on the blood-red island resembling a face’s protruding nose. Deadly formations lay hidden beneath serene appearances, erupting in spiritual light to slaughter intruders.

The first trio relied on Holy Artifacts to detect danger. Hua Yuehong’s beautiful jade coffin and others’ spirit artifacts provided protection as later arrivals recklessly triggered slaughter formations.

Crisscrossing crimson blades shredded the landscape. Screams echoed as blood soaked into rocks, fueling darker magic. Hu Yuer’s Heavenly Umbrella shattered within moments.

When the carnage ended after an incense stick’s time, four lay dead. Fifteen remained – including those shielded by Holy Artifacts and the luckiest experts.