Chapter 320: Nether Blood Fiend

Chapter 320 -318: Nether Blood Fiend

“Kill! Kill! Kill!”

The old man in the Battle Armor roared, but his throat could only manage to rasp out that single, twisted syllable.

The thick, black blood in the Blood Pool instantly condensed in his hand, forming a Blood Saber. It carried a monstrous killing intent as it slashed toward Chen Yuan and Wen Rou!

The old man had been utterly reduced to a puppet of the Seven Kills Stele. With only killing intent left, his base instinct was to slaughter anyone who appeared before him.

“Get back!”

Chen Yuan barked the command, and Wen Rou immediately dodged to one side.

‘I probably can’t even withstand a single blow from a being of this level.’

Blood Fiend swirled around his Blood Sea Listening Tide, its Saber Intent blazing.

Chen Yuan met the attack with his saber, but he was immediately struck by a wave of Netherworld Power wrapped in a monstrous Blood Fiend. The force was so immense that it sent him flying backward.

With a thunderous crack, the armored elder moved, swinging the Blood Saber around to slash at Chen Yuan once more.

“Sever the blood threads connecting him to the Blood Pool!”

Chen Yuan yelled as he retreated rapidly, simultaneously loosing three Mulan Continuous Jail-Piercing Arrows. The successive shots were just enough to block the old man’s power.

The moment the old man had moved, Chen Yuan had noticed the faint blood threads connecting him to the Blood Pool.

The nearly dry black blood in the pool was the source of his power.

Although the old man was merely a puppet of the Seven Kills Stele and had long since lost his consciousness, he could no longer use the various Secret Techniques and Methods of the Blood Shadow Nether Kill Sect he knew in life.

However, the power behind his slashes was so formidable that even Chen Yuan had to fight with all his might to defend against them.

Hearing his command, Wen Rou immediately moved to sever the blood threads.

But as soon as she cut them, an invisible force reconnected them.

Wen Rou unleashed her full power, creating a massive True Qi Barrier in an attempt to block the threads.

But to her surprise, the blood threads suddenly erupted with immense power, piercing straight through her True Qi Barrier and reconnecting to the elder.

“It’s no use! They can’t be severed! Even if I cut them, they just reconnect!”

Wen Rou cried out in alarm.

“Then get all the blood out of the pool!”

Wen Rou rushed to the edge of the Blood Pool. She formed a Seal Technique and poured her True Qi into the pool, creating a powerful suction to draw the black blood out.

But then, points of light from an Array began to glow within the Blood Pool, emitting a powerful repulsive force.

Almost all the Array runes in the ruins of the Blood Shadow Nether Kill Sect had long since failed.

However, perhaps because they had been steeped in black blood for ages, the runes at the bottom of the pool were still active.

Gritting her teeth, Wen Rou burned her Qi Blood and unleashed her absolute limit. Instantly, a large volume of black blood was pulled from the pool.

As the black blood was drained, the threads supplying the elder dwindled, and the force of his attacks steadily weakened.

When the Blood Pool was completely empty, Wen Rou let out a long sigh of relief, her forehead beaded with sweat.

Fortunately, the pool had been less than half full. Otherwise, she probably couldn’t have managed it, even by burning her Qi Blood.

The killing intent surrounding the old man weakened, and the Blood Fiend around him slowly receded.

Seizing the opportunity, Chen Yuan struck with his Blood Killing Heaven-Seizing Hand and Gouli Blood Flame Divine Seal simultaneously. Amid a flurry of blood-red flames, he finally shattered the Blood Fiend surrounding the elder.

Without the power of the Blood Qi from the pool, the elder’s body convulsed twice. His flesh rapidly shriveled until he resembled a dried corpse, and the killing intent in his eyes gradually faded.

But just then, a flicker of clarity returned to the old man’s eyes. His mouth opened, and he haltingly forced out a few words.

“The Heaven-Reaching… Tower… doesn’t reach heaven! It… it lied to us!”

Chen Yuan froze. Just as he was about to say something, the clarity in the elder’s eyes vanished. His eyeballs shriveled and decayed, and all power left his body.

Wen Rou walked over, surprised. “That old man wasn’t dead yet? What did he say?”

Chen Yuan frowned slightly. “He’s dead, of course. That was just a lingering obsession from the moment of his death.”

“He said the Heaven-Reaching Tower doesn’t reach heaven, and that someone lied to them.”

Wen Rou pursed her lips. “Did we really need him to tell us that? If the Heaven-Reaching Tower truly reached heaven, couldn’t we all follow in the footsteps of the Ancient Divine Demons, break the limits of the Martial Dao, and achieve Ascension in the Daylight?”

“And when he said someone lied to them, did he mean just the Blood Shadow Nether Kill Sect, or all the Sect Clans in the entire Heaven-Reaching Tower?”

Chen Yuan shook his head. “Who knows? The Heaven-Reaching Tower is too mysterious, and no one can pry even a few words out of that Tower Guardian Elder.”

Although Chen Yuan was curious about the truth of the Heaven-Reaching Tower, he didn’t investigate it further.

The third Seven Kills Stele Fragment was right in front of him. Fusing with it was the most important thing right now.

The Seven Kills Stele Fragment was embedded in the elder’s body. Chen Yuan took out his Blood Sea Listening Tide and began to cut it out carefully.

Watching from the side, Wen Rou couldn’t help but sigh. “They weren’t exaggerating when they said the Heaven-Reaching Tower is full of hidden dangers.”

“Even the smallest trap left behind by these Ancient Sect Clans is enough to be a huge problem.”

“You’re the only one who could withstand an assault of this level. Any other Condensing Truth Realm Martial Artist would have been killed by the first slash.”

“This was just an appetizer. These Blood Shadow Nether Kill Sect ruins only had one contingency. Or to be more precise, it wasn’t a contingency at all, just a coincidence.”

“This elder tried to save his own life by forcibly fusing with the Seven Kills Stele just before he died. He ended up being controlled by it and turned into a puppet. It was pure chance that this Blood Pool was here to provide him with power, allowing him to last until today.”

“The ruins of some Sect Clans have deliberate defenses set up to guard against outsiders. Those are the ones that are truly difficult to deal with.”

As he spoke, Chen Yuan finished cutting the Seven Kills Stele Fragment from the elder’s body.

“Tower Master Wen, stand guard for me.”

Wen Rou nodded and walked over to the hole they had descended from, keeping an eye on the area above.

If anyone approached, she could immediately warn Chen Yuan to be prepared.

Chen Yuan had already fused with two Seven Kills Stele Fragments, so he was quite familiar with the process by now.

He proactively opened his spirit to accept the descent of the Killing Intent Origin. This time, the impact he felt wasn’t too severe.

This was partly because his control over the Killing Intent Origin was already quite strong, and partly because his Spiritual Power had grown from cultivating the Emperor’s Qi Observation Skill.

Next came the impact of the Blood Fiend Power, which was also no problem for Chen Yuan.

Controlling two fragments, he could easily draw upon enough Blood Fiend Power to offset the new influx.

Fusing with the first Seven Kills Stele Fragment is the most difficult part.

But once you successfully fuse with the first, gain some control over the Killing Intent Origin, and become familiar with Blood Fiend Power, fusing with the remaining six becomes progressively easier.

This time, Chen Yuan barely felt the impact and didn’t even need to recover afterward.

But that was only his own perception. From Wen Rou’s perspective, Chen Yuan was surrounded by an unimaginably powerful torrent of Blood Fiend, and its sheer might was terrifying.

It was a good thing it was Chen Yuan. Anyone else would have likely exploded and died under the impact of this boundless Blood Fiend.

This time, it took Chen Yuan about half an hour to completely absorb the power of this Seven Kills Stele Fragment.

This fragment’s Attribute was very strong: a Nether Blood Fiend that carried a portion of Nether Attribute Power.

Its power was sinister and domineering, a fusion of killing intent and Nether Death Intent.

The Cultivation Technique contained within this fragment was even more formidable, named the Nine Deaths Nether Slash.

A single slash promised nine deaths with no chance of survival. It was a fusion of Nether Death Intent and Extreme Killing Intent, creating an incomparably domineering and tyrannical Saber Intent. However, its cost was also enormous.

A cycle of life and death. To execute this single slash of nine deaths, one had to convert their own Qi Blood into Vitality, and then convert that Vitality into Nether Death Intent.

Chen Yuan estimated that for an ordinary Martial Artist at the Peak of Condensing Truth Realm, executing this one slash would probably cost them half their life.

Besides someone with formidable Physical Cultivation like himself, he estimated that only a Martial Monk like Ming Chong of the Vajra Prajna Temple, who practices Vajra Zen, could possibly use this technique while in the Condensing Truth Realm.

The Cultivation Technique alone showed that this Seven Kills Stele Fragment, with its Nether Blood Fiend, was truly extraordinary.

Previously, both the Blood Killing Heaven-Seizing Hand and the Gouli Blood Flame Divine Seal only required the consumption of Blood Fiend Power. This Nine Deaths Nether Slash, however, consumed Vitality Power.

After fusing with the fragment, Chen Yuan sat cross-legged and cultivated for another hour to consolidate his Cultivation.

With three Seven Kills Stele Fragments in his possession, Chen Yuan’s Blood Fiend Power had reached a terrifying level.

When Chen Yuan stood up, Wen Rou finally breathed a sigh of relief. She then asked in astonishment, “Have you already touched the threshold of the Primordial Pill Realm? Does this make you a Half-Step Primordial Pill Realm expert?”

The aura of power emanating from him now vaguely resembled that of the Primordial Pill Realm.

Chen Yuan shook his head. “In terms of my Realm, I haven’t actually touched the threshold of the Primordial Pill Realm, so I can’t be considered Half-Step Primordial Pill Realm.”

“But in terms of raw power, even someone at the Half-Step Primordial Pill Realm can’t compare to me.”

“I’m not half a step away from the Primordial Pill Realm. What I’m missing is a catalyst.”

“Once that catalyst appears, I won’t need to take that half step. I can advance directly to the Primordial Pill Realm in a single leap.”

A Half-Step Primordial Pill Realm Martial Artist is someone who has touched the threshold of the realm but lacks the power to succeed in Solidifying the Pill.

Chen Yuan, however, had already surpassed the power level of the Half-Step Primordial Pill Realm. What he lacked for Solidifying his Primordial Pill wasn’t power, but that catalyst—a single missing component.

The pill Chen Yuan wanted to form was the Mixed Element Divine Pill, which required the Three Sacred Artifacts of the Daoist, Buddhist, and Demon sects as its core.

He already had the Buddhist Sect’s Supreme Mahasari and the Daoist Sect’s Essence of Profound Yin. He was only missing the Demon Sect’s Sacred Artifact to form his Mixed Element Divine Pill.

Therefore, as soon as he obtained the Demon Sect’s Sacred Artifact, he could easily take the final step from the Condensing Truth Realm to the Primordial Pill Realm.