In the secret meeting, everyone remained silent, waiting for Sol to continue speaking.
"Many might think that since the Chana Tower has unlocked one of the three secret locks, we should be more worried about Long rather than the Blood Alliance," Sol's voice was grave.
"I thought so too before."
"Please, don't keep us guessing, just say it clearly. Everyone has more or less discovered some traces," said Fen from the Spirit Alliance gently.
"I'm not sure how everyone found discrepancies, but here, a week ago, while testing atmospheric composition and various gas concentrations, we identified a problem," Sol continued.
His gaze turned to Palace Master La of the Eternal Palace.
"Palace Master La, surely you have discovered it too?"
"....." La remained silent; she didn't discover it through the atmospheric composition but rather from the water flow and groundwater cycles. However, she chose to remain silent and continued listening.
"Autumn leaves know the wind, and the moon knows your thoughts; it seems Palace Master La has also noted it from other aspects," Sol sighed.
"What did you discover in the end?" Xuezelas was the youngest among the participants present.
Both Sol, La, and Fen of the Spirit Alliance were all over a hundred years old.
Only he was the exception.
The scene fell into silence.
Everyone suddenly fell silent, seemingly unwilling to mention the matter.
Xuezelas frowned slightly, feeling puzzled, but ultimately, he was the elite representative chosen from countless individuals, possessing such composure.
He too did not speak further, choosing to sit quietly and wait.
After a full ten minutes, Sol glanced at La, considering her the most critical among the attendees here.
Whether it was for opening long-distance passages or designing the next plan to curb the Blood Alliance, La was needed as a key participant.
"Since everyone is reluctant to mention it, let me speak," he sighed.
"It was also an accidental discovery on our part."
"Within the atmospheric cycle system, we collected samples and found rays extremely similar to the Bloodline's radiation."
"And the location where we conducted sampling was here, in Lingtu State!"
These sentences were linked together, causing the expressions of those present to change slightly.
"I....also found microscopic Bloodline spores, hyphae, and viruses in groundwater samples," La slowly spoke.
Groundwater, atmospheric circulation airflow.
In both, microscopic components representing the Bloodline were found. Everyone present understood what this meant in their hearts.
"Previously in the Eternal Tower, I saw the Blood King simulating himself, transforming into extremely tiny viral bacteria."
La gave a final reminder.
"In other words...." Xuezelas by this time had completely understood.
"Is the Blood Alliance trying to turn all living beings into Bloodline?" He uttered these words, his voice trembling slightly.
"It's not that exaggerated," Sol shook his head. "Currently, the situation is that the Blood Alliance is respectively spreading its contamination through the two fastest systems—atmosphere and groundwater. This contamination is far stronger than Evil Spirit radiation by an unknown magnitude."
"No one can abstain from drinking water, nor can anyone avoid breathing."
He sighed.
"Upon discovery, we immediately subjected samples to elevated heat treatment. But....after exposure to over a thousand degrees Celsius, the sample remained intact, only slightly reducing its activity, yet still surviving perfectly."
Even over a thousand degrees Celsius couldn't kill the Bloodline pollution bacteria....
Everyone knew what this represented, including Xuezelas and Fen.
"When we weren't aware, the Blood King was secretly attempting to devour all living creatures of the world..." Sol lamented.
"I calculated..." Suddenly La spoke.
Her voice drew the attention of everyone present.
She paused slightly.
She continued to speak.
"Only need another twenty years, all living organisms in this world will unknowingly transform into the lowest-grade ordinary Bloodline without exception."
"My results are consistent with yours, precise calculation should indicate twenty-one years and three months. Though exceptions for accidental acceleration or deceleration might occur," Sol nodded in agreement.
"So fast?" Fen's expression was extremely serious, "Is there a solution?"
"Naturally there is," Sol nodded. "Research shows that the core of all Bloodline pollution originates from the Blood King. Therefore, as long as the Blood King is utterly destroyed, all other Bloodlines will be completely obliterated simultaneously."
"According to natural evolution, whether it's an interaction zone or any environment, Bloodlines, these peculiar mutated organisms, shouldn't emerge," he questioned, "No matter which evolutionary theory or biological research, one can't deduce the foundational condition for Bloodlines to appear. It's as if they suddenly emerged out of thin air, without any forewarning."
"Which means, our purpose in gathering here is ultimately to find a way to kill the Blood King?" Xuezelas couldn't help but ask.
"If possible, that's the fastest and most effective solution. Of course, if the Blood King can self-control to retract the contamination, that'd be ideal, but he's been scheming deeply, secretly plot against us, and manipulates invisibly while drawing our attention away using the Chana Tower; one can imagine the depth of his plotting," Sol answered.
"Our strength likely can't affect the Blood King at all," Fen said solemnly, "But, since Sol, you Secret Keepers have gathered us here, surely you must have some ideas or strategies for dealing with this? What might they be?"
"We'll have to wait and see how the contest between Long and the Blood King turns out," Sol replied.
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Outside Chana Tower.
Zhang Rongfang and Bells flew slowly towards the tower's main entrance.
As they proceeded forward, large Evil Spirits rose and cleared the path. They did not dare to obstruct.
Finally arriving at the entrance resembling a gigantic beast's gaping mouth, Zhang Rongfang's figure halted.
"Truly worthy is the Pure Land...." he murmured softly.
The sentence was so light, so light that the Bells in front couldn't clearly hear what he was saying.
"We've arrived, you…." She was about to continue speaking, and within this short flight time, she had already thought of over ten different excuses and methods to purposely delay time.
But.
Zhang Rongfang didn't pay any attention to what she was saying, and simply pushed the door open on his own.
The door was made of black stone, extremely heavy, with a faint purple glow lingering on its surface.
Yet with a gentle press of his palm,
The purple glow instantly dispersed, and the stone door, weighing dozens of tons, silently opened inward.
Bells' eyes trembled, if before this moment, someone had told her that this door, connected to the radiation of evil energy throughout the surrounding Chana Tower, could be opened so easily,
She would surely have scoffed.
After all, even the three kings couldn't easily open this door.
But now….
She watched with her own eyes as this stone door, which should have opened outward, was forcibly and naturally pushed to open inward.
The Blood King walked in step by step with ease.
But unfortunately… as soon as he reached the door, he suddenly stopped.
It wasn't that he wanted to stop.
But inside the door, under a decadent and rugged hall chandelier, sat quietly a tall humanoid figure clad in a white, fitted uniform.
The face of the humanoid had no eyes or nostrils, only a line-shaped big mouth, and it was none other than Long, who had appeared here at some unknown time.
The uniform on its body was exquisite, fitted while having slots and various twisted patterns, much like the spacesuits in Zhang Rongfang's memory.
Just without the helmet.
"An uninvited guest is an unwelcome guest, would the Blood King not even know this?" Long stood up from the leather sofa, directly facing Zhang Rongfang.
"Apologies, I just really wanted to visit the legendary Chana Tower, which resulted in a lack of etiquette." Zhang Rongfang calmly replied.
At their level, even if they are quite far apart, once their base is attacked, they can definitely react immediately.
Thus, Long's appearance didn't catch him by surprise.
"So, what are you here for?" Long asked. It was originally continuing unfinished business in the Sea of Oblivion.
But sensing the huge impact here in the tower, it promptly returned here at the first moment.
Fortunately, it made it in time.
The tower had secrets it didn't want others to discover. Others could still be countered and resolved using the tower's own defense mechanisms.
But the Blood King….
"Have you seen the snow that flutters and dances?" Zhang Rongfang did not answer his question but suddenly asked back.
"I have seen it before." Long paused and answered. Its lips forever bore a smile line, since there were no eyes, the expression could only be expressed through the mouth.
"That was many years ago, when the daylight wasn't so strong." It added.
"They fly unbound, aimlessly, swept away by the wind." Zhang Rongfang sighed. "And now I am like the scattered snow. And fate is the wind that drives the snow."
"Snow will melt when it falls…" Long flexed its wrist and took steps closer to the door.
"Then what do you think, is the snow now white or red?" Zhang Rongfang suddenly spoke an enigmatic sentence.
Transforming snow into blood.
This thought flitted through Long's mind instantly. At the same time, it also guessed the other's purpose for coming.
Melted blood is still blood.
This is what Zhang Rongfang wanted to convey.
However, what he had in mind, in some sense, was also Long's intention.
"Go to the Evil Forest." Long said with a smile.
Of Black Sand, Spirit Map, and Evil Forest, only the Evil Forest was the most perilous among the three continents.
There, only countless daylight shone directly. Neither the Evil Spirit, Bloodline, nor Spirit People could survive there.
Only top-level beings like Long could ignore such harsh environments.
"Alright!" Before Zhang Rongfang's words were finished,
The two suddenly transformed into flowing light and shot out, flying towards the distant sky.
Only after flying less than a mile, both of them flickered at the same time and disappeared into the twisted space rift out of thin air.
They both actually used their space passage capabilities simultaneously.
There is a limit to the distance of space jumps, but if activated continuously, the limitation disappears.
More than ten minutes later.
At the center of the Evil Forest continent.
The platinum-colored sky, dazzling and blinding, like a giant light bulb.
The ground below was completely filled with innumerable columns of daylight.
Thin clouds barely partitioned the daylight into countless light pillars.
The ground was like a vast black and white chessboard, with all the squares constantly changing with the dispersing clouds.
The soil was pitch black, with no magma, no trees, only endless black sand.
Swish.
Two space rifts opened one after another several hundred meters above this piece of land.
"When those three little ones failed, I guessed that you might want to make a move." Long said with a smile, "In fact, many times, you and I are very alike, more than any other existence, more than any force."
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