The Bixuan Dragon King’s massive flood dragon body rapidly withered in the Blood Sea, its scales peeling off inch by inch and scattering like golden dust.
When the last drop of its blood essence was drained, the entire Blood Sea fell deathly silent, the sound of its waves vanishing for a moment.
Nether Spring stood motionless in the void, his eyes tightly closed.
The Blood Sea churned, and countless tiny motes of light floated up from its depths. This was the most refined part of the Bixuan Dragon King’s thousand years of Cultivation—its True Dragon Bloodline.
The moment these motes of light touched the Blood Sea, they spread like ink in water. The sea’s color shifted from dark crimson to a deep, golden red. Faint, serpentine dragon phantoms even appeared on the surface, writhing and swimming.
[Magic auto-update complete. This was a minor version update. The Magic’s effects have been adjusted as follows:]
[Blood God Child 3.0: Overall power of the Magic has been increased. Blood God Child strength increased to one-tenth of the main body’s.]
The moment the words appeared in his Sea of Consciousness, Nether Spring’s eyes shot open, a golden-red light flashing within them before disappearing.
"ROAR—"
Not one roar, but seven thousand five hundred roars erupted at once.
The seven thousand five hundred Blood God Children surrounding him threw back their heads and howled in unison. Each Blood Shadow swelled violently, solidifying.
Their once-blurry humanoid shapes sharpened, revealing knotted muscles and ferocious faces. Their eyes glinted with the same golden-red light as Nether Spring’s.
Their auras climbed madly, breaking through the Qi Refining level all the way to the Foundation Establishment barrier—
"BOOM!"
The sound of the barrier shattering echoed through the clouds.
Seven thousand five hundred auras at the Foundation Establishment Level soared into the sky, stirring the sea of clouds for a thousand miles around.
The entire Seven Stars Arching Moon Sea roiled with hundred-zhang-tall waves. Countless aquatic creatures fled in terror. Some Demon Beasts that couldn’t escape in time were crushed by the horrifying pressure, exploding into clouds of blood mist that the Blood God Children instinctively absorbed.
Nether Spring narrowed his eyes, sensing the changes in his Blood God Children. Though they were at the level of a Foundation Establishment Master, these Blood God Children were ultimately just creations of Magic, lacking the many profound Techniques of a true Foundation Establishment Cultivator.
Even so, they still possessed the purest, most savage power of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator.
Vast Magical Power, enough to move mountains and fill seas, surged within each Blood God Child. It was crude, but violent.
If a true Foundation Establishment Cultivator was a finely crafted sword,
then these Blood God Children were seven thousand five hundred incredibly heavy warhammers, with no technique to speak of, only brute force.
"Amitabha Buddha."
"Patron Nether Spring, you have committed a grievous sin by devouring the Bixuan Dragon King." The gaunt monk in a moon-white robe placed his palms together. "This humble monk shall deliver you from this sea of suffering today."
Nether Spring laughed, his voice echoing across the Blood Sea.
"Two Middle Stage Foundation Establishment Arhats dare to speak of delivering me?"
Treasure Light shook his head without a word, while Treasure Mountain’s eyes went wide with fury.
"Foul spawn! Today, I’ll show you the methods of the Buddhist Sect!"
Before his words had faded, Treasure Mountain was the first to act.
The jet-black Buddha Beads on his chest suddenly burst, the eighteen beads transforming into eighteen three-zhang-tall Golden Body Arhats. Wielding Magical Artifacts like the Demon-Subduing Pestle, Demon Suppression Circle, and Sin-Cutting Blade, they formed a battle formation and charged at Nether Spring.
Each Arhat possessed the might of the Foundation Establishment Early Stage. With the eighteen of them linked together, their auras connected, they seemed capable of trapping and killing a Foundation Establishment Middle Stage expert.
Nether Spring didn’t even move.
He simply raised his right hand and waved it lightly.
A thousand Blood God Children moved.
They didn’t use any Magic, form any arrays, or even try to surround them—they just crashed straight and savagely into the eighteen Golden Body Arhats.
"BOOM!"
The first wave collided.
Three Golden Body Arhats were hit head-on. Their Golden Bodies, strong enough to withstand attacks from a Top-Grade Magical Artifact, shattered inch by inch like glass under the impact of pure, savage power.
The Blood God Children themselves were blasted apart by the recoil, their forms dissipating.
But in the next moment, the scattered blood mist reconverged and charged forward again.
Treasure Mountain’s expression changed. He quickly formed a hand seal, and the remaining fifteen Arhats shifted their formation. The Demon-Subduing Pestles swung out, creating a thousand golden lights; the Demon Suppression Circles threw countless rings into the air; and the Sin-Cutting Blades slashed out with crimson arcs of light.
These were all Buddhist Divine Techniques, each attack imbued with the Power of Laws that broke heresy and vanquished demons.
But the Blood God Children didn’t care at all.
They charged straight into the Divine Techniques, letting the golden light pierce their bodies, the rings bind their limbs, and the blades sever their arms, only to be destroyed and reborn.
In the second wave, another five Golden Body Arhats were smashed to pieces.
Sweat beaded on Treasure Mountain’s brow. He realized he’d made a fatal mistake.
These Blood God Children weren’t enemies in any conventional sense.
They felt no pain, no fear, and were undeterred by injury. They didn’t even care about life or death.
They were like seven thousand five hundred tireless warhammers, raised and smashed down again and again, until everything before them was pulverized.
"Senior Brother, help me!" Treasure Mountain roared.
Treasure Light finally moved.
He sat cross-legged in the void, formed a Lotus Seal with his hands, and began chanting a sutra:
"All conditioned phenomena are like a dream, an illusion, a bubble, a shadow, like dew or a flash of lightning; thus shall you perceive them..."
With each character he chanted, a ring of Buddha Light appeared around him. Upon completion of the nine-character verse, the nine rings of Buddha Light overlapped and merged, forming a golden domain three hundred miles wide.
[Treasure Light Realm Heaven·Lotus Pure Land]
Within the domain, golden lotuses covered the ground, sweet rain fell from the sky, and the sound of Brahma Chanting echoed in every corner.
The moment the rampaging Blood God Children entered this domain, their movements slowed by thirty percent. The bloody, baleful aura on their bodies was continuously purified by the Buddha Light, making a sizzling sound.
Seeing this, Treasure Mountain’s spirits lifted. He also sat cross-legged and pressed his hands to the ground.
"My Buddha is compassionate, but also delivers a lion’s roar to awe all demons and protect the true dharma!"
The great earth trembled as a phantom Sumeru Mountain Shadow rose from beneath him. On the mountain, the Eight Celestial Dragons coiled, Vajra Warriors patrolled, and countless Buddha Sons chanted sutras in worship.
[Treasure Mountain Realm Heaven·Vajra Sumeru]
The two layers of Realm Heavens stacked, their power surging exponentially.
The Blood God Children were like they were trapped in a mire, each movement costing them several times the normal effort.
The Buddha Light burned their bodies like a blazing fire, and the Brahma Chanting struck their cores like heavy hammers.
In just ten breaths, more than three hundred Blood God Children had completely dissipated, returning to the Blood Sea.
Nether Spring raised an eyebrow.
’Interesting.’
He raised his hands. The Blood Sea roiled behind him, and the seven thousand two hundred remaining Blood God Children all looked up, a golden-red light burning in their eyes.
Then, Nether Spring made a simple motion—
He pressed his hands down.
"RUMBLE—"
Not one, not a hundred, but all the remaining Blood God Children erupted at once.
They abandoned their attacks, even abandoning all defense.
Each Blood God Child began to frantically draw upon the source of the Blood Sea, compressing all its power to the absolute limit, and then—
Self-destructed.
The first wave: one thousand Blood God Children exploded.
Half of the golden lotuses in the Treasure Light Realm Heaven instantly withered, and its Buddha Light dimmed like a candle in the wind.
Treasure Mountain grunted, a trickle of golden blood leaking from the corner of his mouth. The Sumeru Mountain Shadow beneath him shook violently, and dense cracks appeared on its surface.
"Madman! This is a madman!" Treasure Mountain’s face darkened.
’What kind of Foundation Establishment Cultivator fights like this?!’
Expressionless, Nether Spring pressed his hands down again.
The second wave: two thousand Blood God Children exploded.
"CRACK—"
The Treasure Light Realm Heaven shattered completely, the sky full of golden lotuses dissolving into motes of light.
Treasure Light’s monk robe exploded, and his gaunt body was covered in fine, bloody gashes.
His eyes were wide with disbelief—his Realm Heaven, which he had spent three hundred years of bitter cultivation to form, had been shattered by such a savage, unreasonable method!
The third wave: four thousand two hundred Blood God Children exploded at once.
This time, there was no sound.
The force of the explosion had surpassed the speed of sound.
Countless black fissures tore through the space for a thousand miles around. The water completely evaporated, revealing the dry seabed.
The earth subsided, mountains collapsed, and the clouds in the sky were swept clean by the shockwave, revealing the deep, dark void behind them.
Treasure Mountain’s Vajra Sumeru Realm Heaven didn’t even last a single breath before it popped like a bubble.
The two Arhats were sent flying. Treasure Light was covered in blood, his chest caved in, his ribs clearly shattered.
Treasure Mountain was in worse shape. Both of his arms were blown off at the shoulder, and a transparent hole had been blasted through his chest, revealing his faintly beating heart inside.
Nether Spring strode through the air. The Blood Sea reconverged behind him, though it was now nearly half its original size.
Of the seven thousand five hundred Blood God Children, fewer than a hundred remained, circling him with faint auras.
But he had won.
"You... what are you..." Treasure Light struggled to speak, but only coughed up bloody froth mixed with fragments of his internal organs.
Nether Spring crouched down and looked at him. "My Blood God Children lack the profundities of Foundation Establishment. They can’t use exquisite Magic or communicate with the Heaven and Earth Laws."
"But they have one-tenth of my power."
"Seven thousand five hundred one-tenths is seven hundred and fifty of me."
"And you..." Nether Spring reached out and placed a hand on Treasure Light’s forehead. "There are only two of you."
A flash of bloody light.
Treasure Light’s body rapidly shriveled as all of his blood essence and Cultivation flowed into Nether Spring.
Treasure Mountain’s eyes looked ready to split with rage. He wanted to self-destruct his Dao Foundation to take his enemy down with him, but the last hundred Blood God Children swarmed forward and pinned him down.
Ten breaths later, only Nether Spring remained, standing alone above the Bixuan Dragon Palace.
He felt the newly gained power within him, and the new Blood God Children beginning to gestate in the Blood Sea. This time, they would be stronger.
In the western sky, more Buddha Light was faintly gathering.
Nether Spring glanced over, chuckled softly, and his figure transformed into a Blood Shadow, merging into the seawater that was beginning to well up below before disappearing.
A thousand miles of scorched earth under a blood-red setting sun.
This land would need a hundred years to recover.
And the aftershocks of this battle were only just beginning to spread.
...
Thousands of meters down in a trench was a realm that even light had abandoned.
Nether Spring sat cross-legged at the bottom of the trench, on cold sedimentary rock that had accumulated for hundreds of millions of years.
He wasn’t deliberately circulating his Magical Power, but the Blood Sea behind him still churned on its own, now almost fifty percent larger than it was before the battle with the Arhats.
The surface of the sea no longer just held the phantoms of Blood God Children. Occasionally, a draconic form would snake by—the lingering imprint of the Bixuan Dragon King. At times, golden lotuses would bloom and wither—the devoured Buddha Nature of the Treasure Light Arhat. And deeper still, the faint Mountain Shadow of a floating peak could be seen—a Vajra Sumeru Realm Heaven Fragment from the Treasure Mountain Arhat.
Three completely different powers collided, tore at each other, and fused within the Blood Sea.
Nether Spring held his hands cupped before his chest, a posture he had maintained for seven days and seven nights.
From the depths of the Blood Sea, an unusual point of bloody light slowly ascended.
The point of light passed through layer after layer of bloody waves, finally settling in Nether Spring’s cupped palms.
"POP—"
A sound so faint it was almost nonexistent.
The bloody light dissipated in his palm, dissolving as naturally as a drop of water into the ocean.
At the same time, an unprecedented understanding welled up in Nether Spring’s mind like a clear spring, quickly flowing through every meridian and acupoint in his body.
Slowly, he opened his eyes.
Two golden-red lamps suddenly lit up in the ocean trench.
The light in Nether Spring’s eyes shifted, first with confusion, then contemplation, and finally, complete understanding.
He looked down at his cupped hands. His palms were empty, yet the perception of the seed’s existence was incomparably clear.
"So that’s how it is..."
"The Dao Fruit... was actually within the Blood Sea all along."
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