Chapter 596 581: Blood God Atlas, The Chaos of the Blood Race

Yu Lingfeng's gaze seemed to pierce through time and space, seeing this land as it was in the primordial chaos of the ancient past.

Secrets about the Witch Race, about the Feather Wood Race—histories that even Shen Lang had never known—began to spill from her lips...

The Star Continent wasn't actually a single landmass, but the collective name for this world.

It was a star in the Cosmos.

And this star had formed far more recently than others.

Over one and a half million years ago, the Pangu Divine Race from the Pangu Realm descended upon this world.

No one knew why they came.

In fact, almost no one even knew they had arrived.

When the Pangu Divine Race arrived, this world was in a much more primitive state.

It was a vast land where grass grew taller than a person and trees soared over a thousand feet high. Demon Beasts roamed the untamed wilds, and colossal Divine Demons walked the earth.

To the Pangu Divine Race, it seemed like nothing more than a deserted island, utterly lacking in resources and unworthy of notice.

However, after settling in this world, the powerful Pangu Divine Race soon discovered something was wrong.

This world, which they had dismissed as a desolate island, was more frenzied and bloodthirsty than any they had ever seen!

Here, brutal slaughter was a constant occurrence, and unimaginable wars between Divine Demons raged without end!

Whether they were Divine Demons who had descended from the Upper Realm through a Reverse Passage or native Divine Demons born in this world, they had all inexplicably fallen into a state of frenzy, warring with one another ceaselessly.

The heavens crumbled, the Earth Split, and rivers flowed backward...

The Pangu Divine Race had not wished to interfere in the affairs of the Human Realm, but this abnormal situation persisted for several thousand years with no sign of stopping.

Many powerful Divine Demons fell one after another, and the entire world became saturated with an aura of death...

Weaker races struggled to survive, trembling in despair, on the verge of total annihilation at any moment.

Powerful races were dragged into the vortex, forced to survive in the crossfire, unable to escape involvement no matter what...

The benevolent Pangu Divine Race finally could not bear it any longer and intervened, beginning to investigate this anomaly.

Soon, they discovered the source of the problem.

The Pangu Divine Race sensed that in one Divine Demon war after another, a hidden hand had always been present.

This hidden hand remained in the shadows, discreetly fanning the flames and even manipulating everything from behind the scenes!

This hidden hand secretly stoked the chaos, causing countless Divine Demons to be utterly annihilated... and all the power of these Divine Demons was completely absorbed by this hidden hand!

The immense, indestructible bodies of the fallen Divine Demons were also taken by this hidden hand...

And in the hidden hand's subterranean palace, a terrifying Divine Demon Cemetery was thus formed!

Meanwhile, the endless wars between Divine Demons had shattered the world into countless continents, unleashing cataclysmic floods and bringing untold suffering to all living things.

The entire world was a scene of utter devastation; its very fabric had begun to unravel and fall apart.

Countless Elemental Power Fragments began to appear, only to be snatched away by this hidden hand...

The Pangu Divine Race, who originally had no desire to interfere in the Human Realm's conflicts, was utterly enraged by this!

They immediately dispatched their experts to hunt down this hidden hand, intending to capture and eliminate it.

However, when they finally made their move, they discovered...

The hidden hand, originally one of the native Divine Demons, had become powerful beyond their wildest imagination!

The Pangu Divine Race experts sent to hunt it down were grievously wounded one after another; no one was a match for this powerful Demon!

Horrified, the Pangu Divine Race used the Innate Divine Calculation to discover...

The source of the hidden hand's immense power was the "Blood God Atlas," one of the legendary Nine Great Celestial Books of the lower planes.

In truth, the Nine Great Celestial Books were not well-known in the Six Realms.

But in the lower planes—the Three Thousand Great Worlds and the Billions of Little Worlds—countless legends about them circulated, and their fame was immense.

And this "Blood God Atlas" was the most mysterious and powerful of the Nine Great Celestial Books, ranked as the very first among them!

For countless years, the Divine Demons of the Three Thousand Great Worlds had fought endless wars over the Nine Great Celestial Books, and an unknown number of them had been reduced to dust.

After who knows how many more years of brutal slaughter and how many Mythical Eras had passed, the Nine Great Celestial Books truly became the stuff of legend, their whereabouts completely unknown.

Eventually, many even came to believe they were nothing more than fabrications, things that never existed.

Who would have thought that the "Blood God Atlas," the legendary first of the Nine Great Celestial Books, would appear in a Little World like the Star Continent!

And the hidden hand who had plunged the Star Continent into endless turmoil and slaughter had done so because he had cultivated the "Blood God Atlas," attaining a Supreme Divine Body that even the Pangu Divine Race could do nothing against!

The Heaven and Earth Rules in the Billions of Little Worlds restricted the power of Divine Demons descending from the Upper Realm.

This caused the power of all Divine Demons who descended from the Upper Realm to be capped at this world's peak level.

The more powerful a Divine Demon was, the more difficult it was to enter a world like the Star Continent.

The Pangu Divine Race who had come to this Human Realm also had their power suppressed by this world.

Besides being suppressed in power, the Pangu Divine Race also worried that an all-out battle with that Demon would accelerate the world's destruction.

For a time, the Pangu Divine Race, with all their Divine Techniques, was completely helpless...

The Demon's power forced the Pangu Divine Race to re-evaluate the entire situation.

The Pangu Divine Race finally turned their attention to the "Blood God Atlas," wanting to seize this mysterious Celestial Book and find a Dharma Gate to destroy that heaven-defying Demon.

However, whether they were hunting the Demon or investigating the "Blood God Atlas," a direct confrontation with the Demon was inevitable.

And if they were to clash, the collision of the two most powerful forces in this world would only shatter this already unstable land further, accelerating its demise.

After careful consideration, the Pangu Divine Race temporarily gave up their plan to hunt the Demon.

Seeing that the Pangu Divine Race had given up the chase, the Demon became even more brazen and fearless!

After accumulating enough Elemental Power Fragments, the hidden hand finally stepped out of the shadows and into the light.

And at that moment, a force that this hidden hand had kept concealed was finally revealed to the world!

This was a race that had previously gone unnoticed, their appearance not much different from the Human Race.

They strengthened themselves by drinking blood and absorbing the power within it.

Not only did they live far longer than other races, but they could also use the "Initial Embrace" to turn members of other races into their own kind!

The moment they appeared, they spread like a virus, leaving not only the Pangu Divine Race dumbfounded but also plunging the entire Star Continent into unprecedented panic!

This powerful and evil race was called...

The Blood Race!

And the hidden hand called himself the "Blood Ancestor"!

The Blood Race was an evil race created by the Blood Ancestor using the "Blood God Atlas."

At that time, although many powerful races had emerged and countless powerhouses had reached the pinnacle...not a single person, not a single race could stand against the Blood Race and the Blood Ancestor.

No Divine Demon could withstand the Blood Ancestor, who had cultivated the "Blood God Atlas" and collected innumerable Elemental Power Fragments!

The Star Continent entered a brief period of respite.

Because of the Blood Race's emergence, the previous chaos was halted. The major races, the various powerful Divine Demons, and the Peak Powerhouses stopped fighting each other and instead focused their attention entirely on the Blood Race.

The Blood Ancestor led the Blood Race in a campaign to conquer the world, intending for this race that spread like a virus to ascend to the world's apex.

Meanwhile, many of the world's races began to grow stronger. The Ten Thousand Races united, led by the Human Race and the Demon Race, to fight against the Blood Race!

The Pangu Divine Race, who had been watching the Blood Ancestor with helpless sighs, finally saw a glimmer of hope for the future.

The most powerful Elder of the Pangu Divine Race took action, exhausting his Divine Power over a century to perform a Divination of the future...

He hoped to find a single sliver of hope amidst this catastrophe!

This calculation of the future left the Pangu Divine Race both deeply worried and greatly relieved.

No one knew what they had seen.

Later, they told the Eternal Tree that the world's single sliver of hope would appear a million years later.

"The Two Lives Flower blooms, the Emperor Star appears, Heaven and Earth are reversed, and the world descends into chaos!"

When this world is on the brink of collapse, the Emperor Star will appear, and that single sliver of hope will emerge!

When the Emperor Star appears, a youth clad in black will arrive from an Otherworld, wielding the Blade of Destruction. In the name of slaughter, he will lead all the races and countless beings of this world out of darkness and into the light...

"Hold on." Shen Lang rather rudely interrupted Yu Lingfeng. "Didn't that phrase only appear eleven years ago? Ling Feng, are you saying it's been around for over a million years? And that it came from the Pangu Divine Race?"

Yu Lingfeng froze for a moment before replying, "Yes, that is what Mother told us."

Shen Lang fell silent.

Of course, Yu Lingfeng had no reason to deceive him.

Besides, Yu Lingfeng had left the Feather Wood Race three hundred years ago to come here. At the very least, she had known of this phrase for three hundred years.

'When the War Emperor fell, that same phrase appeared within the major Legendary Sects... It looks like the Witch Race was behind it.'

'But when I first met Alice, she said the phrase came from the Blood Race and was even recorded in the Blood Race Secret Scripture, where it had been for countless years... The Pangu Divine Race wanted to destroy the Blood Ancestor, so why would a phrase like that be in the Blood Race's scripture?'

'Could it be that the Blood Ancestor also possessed the Pangu Divine Race's ability to predict the future? So, at his peak over a million years ago, he foresaw his own demise and prepared Alice as a key, just waiting for his return?'

'Could the Blood God Atlas really be that powerful...? No, if it was really powerful enough to predict the future, how could the Blood Ancestor have fallen for the Pangu Divine Race's trap, leading to the complete annihilation of the Blood Race he worked so hard to build? And why would he himself have been ganged up on and killed?'

'Based on that, it's more likely the Pangu Divine Race or the Witch Race deliberately told the Blood Ancestor that phrase to intimidate him... But what screw was loose in the Blood Ancestor's head that made him record such a phrase in the Blood Race Secret Scripture?'

'In any case, it seems the Blood Ancestor knew his fate countless years ago and set his plans in motion, waiting for the Nine-Star Linked Pearls and the world's transformation to return to the mortal world... That cunning old devil. Truly worthy of being the head of the Six Ancestors!'