Chapter 620 - 398: Spirit of the Blood Infant! I Don’t Want to Be Human Anymore! (3)

Chapter 620: Chapter 398: Spirit of the Blood Infant! I Don’t Want to Be Human Anymore! (3)

Just like Fang Hai, who once held a high position in Yifeng Province, in order to climb to higher power, he sought the Red-clothed Taoist to use Magic Skill to alter his career fate.

But he did not know that this seemingly smooth "fate change" had already planted the seeds of catastrophe for him.

Over a decade ago, Fang Hai’s wife and child died in a sudden "accident," a tragic event that saw them perish in a car crash, plunging him from cloud nine to rock bottom overnight.

Yet Fang Hai was kept in the dark the entire time, thinking it was merely the capricious nature of fate, never suspecting the truth behind the "calamity-avoiding fate change" years ago.

Later, he retired to the background, moving into a retirement villa to cover up his embarrassing situation of having no heirs and to maintain his dignity in the eyes of others.

Fang Hai secretly adopted a child from an orphanage, claiming to the outside world that it was his illegitimate child from his youth, thus silencing gossip and maintaining this false sense of completeness.

What’s more surprising is that the Red-clothed Taoist somehow learned an extremely sinister dark sorcery.

He could transfer all karmic consequences of his actions to those powerful individuals he manipulated, or even to innocent victims.

Allowing himself to completely evade the backlash of karma, like a ghost living outside of causality.

For this reason, he dared to brazenly sacrifice living humans, using living, vibrant lives as stepping stones to advance his sorcery and achieve his goals.

Those harmed by the Red-clothed Taoist under the guise of "sacrifices," whether they carried special destinies or were mere innocent passersby, became nutrients for the grand conspiracy he had been planning his whole life.

"For the Spirit of the Blood Infant!"

The Red-clothed Taoist’s voice trembled as he confessed truthfully, "The Spirit of the Blood Infant must consume newborns every year to maintain its vicious power!"

The reason he spent thirty years sparing no effort to ward off disasters for those powerful individuals was not for so-called wealth or power.

It was to control them by their weaknesses, binding these political and business elites firmly to his ship, turning them into an impenetrable umbrella of protection.

During these thirty years, many newborns mysteriously disappeared each year in Yifeng Province.

After the families reported to the authorities, investigations would often stall just as they found leads, all becoming unresolved cases in the end.

Without a doubt, behind all of this were the power players, who had received "favors" from the Red-clothed Taoist, quietly maneuvering things from the shadows.

They used their power to suppress and brush off cases, erase traces, covering up the heinous acts of the Red-clothed Taoist nurturing the Spirit of the Blood Infant.

Watching innocent infants becoming sacrifices with their own eyes, yet fearing exposure of their misdeeds, they chose to abet the abuse.

Amidst the fear of death, past pursuits of power and wealth, once sought by countless people, meant nothing to the Red-clothed Taoist, merely fleeting clouds without value.

His true obsession, from beginning to end, was that fierce Spirit of the Blood Infant.

If he could thoroughly refine it, he would harness the endless yin energy and life essence that the Spirit of the Blood Infant aggregated.

He could thereby help himself break free from the shackles of the mortal coil, escape the suffering of life and death, truly transcending human limits.

For in the heart of the Red-clothed Taoist, he believed the power of Magic Skill was as vast as the starry sea, with no upper limit.

But the caster’s physical body and lifespan were like an invisible shackle, firmly confining the Red-clothed Taoist’s progress.

It was this unwillingness that caused him to completely extinguish his humanity.

He no longer wished to be a "human" bound by life and death, but to achieve a bizarre symbiosis with the Spirit of the Blood Infant, freed from all constraints, to unleash truly unfettered, world-destroying Magic Skill.