lovenovelstory #266 - Drain the sea of blood
#266 - Drain the sea of blood
Chapter 265: Draining the Blood Sea
The Qi of the Blood Sea was filled with corrosiveness. Zhang Chen had only absorbed a mouthful of it, yet it ruined his entire being. How much more devastating would it be to be kicked directly into the Blood Sea?
The Blood Sea's water churned up a wave as Zhang Chen sank straight in. The black-robed freak on the boat cackled with laughter, his voice filled with smugness. He then steered the small boat silently into the depths of the Blood Sea, casually tossing the blood-red flower into the sea, before quickly piloting the boat away, disappearing without a trace.
Not long after he left, the Blood Sea suddenly roiled, stirring up a massive wave, and then the red flower vanished.
When the storm subsided, the black-robed freak reappeared in the Blood Sea, his eyes fixed on the depths. A cold smile crept onto his lips: "You consumed my physical body, and I will seize your body in return. Isn't that fair?"
When Zhang Chen was kicked into the Blood Sea by the black-robed freak, the overwhelming waves of blood surged, threatening to dissolve him completely. At this moment, Zhang Chen's magic power had collapsed, and he couldn't use any techniques, so he could only obediently await his death.
But then, the crystalline core in Zhang Chen's heart suddenly pulsed. Countless runes within the core lit up, and the numerous runes flickered, as strands of order chains twisted and reorganized. Then, a force of whale-like devouring emanated from the core, and the blood Qi that had invaded Zhang Chen's body was directly absorbed by the core.
The azure lotus, which had been stained with red filth, instantly shed its crimson glow, as if a vacuum cleaner had sucked it away.
A hint of surprise flickered in Zhang Chen's eyes, but it quickly faded, and his expression darkened again. For him, the mere filth within his body was no longer the greatest crisis. He was now plunged into the vast Blood Sea, and the immense sea that enveloped him was the greatest danger he would face.
Just as the blood was about to invade his skin, about to dissolve and break down his flesh, a suction force came from the crystalline core within Zhang Chen's body. His pores opened, all forty-eight thousand pores simultaneously opening, and a powerful suction force emanated directly from them. The surrounding Blood Sea water was dragged into Zhang Chen's body by a pulling force, flowing into his crystalline core.
At this moment, the crystalline core in Zhang Chen's body shimmered with a strange blood-red light, and his body seemed to have turned into a bottomless pit, allowing the endless Blood Sea water to surge in. No matter how much blood poured in, he devoured it all without fail.
Even the Blood Sea water around Zhang Chen formed a vortex, causing the surrounding water to continuously spin in circles, drawing the Blood Sea water to surge in.
"My crystalline core…" Zhang Chen was stunned by the scene before him, somewhat in disbelief as he 'watched' the crystalline core within his body. He never expected such a change to occur.
"Could it be that the monster that fought the Emperor back then came from the Blood Sea?" Zhang Chen thought to himself, inwardly shocked.
At this moment, a sense of drowsiness washed over him, the urge to sleep was so strong that Zhang Chen couldn't keep his eyes open. Fortunately, he had already escaped the crisis, so Zhang Chen relaxed and fell asleep.
After Zhang Chen fell asleep, the speed at which the crystalline core in his body devoured the Blood Sea increased a thousandfold. It was even no longer satisfied with the backflow of Blood Sea water, but actively pulled the seawater to surge in.
Zhang Chen's crystalline core was small, so naturally it couldn't hold so much seawater. However, as countless Blood Sea waters poured in, the internal space of the crystalline core in Zhang Chen's body began to collapse. Along with the collapse of space, countless chains of order runes intertwined, actually reshaping the space inside the crystalline core.
However, this process was extremely long. The Netherworld had no sun, so time passed unnoticed. After an unknown period, the countless chains of order finally recombined, forming an opened space inside the crystalline core. As soon as the space appeared, the pores around Zhang Chen's body emitted an even stronger suction force. At this moment, Zhang Chen transformed into a black hole, actively pulling the Blood Sea between heaven and earth to pour in, flowing into the internal space of the crystalline core.
Before long, blood began to gather in Zhang Chen's crystalline core space, forming a prototype Blood Sea. In the center of the Blood Sea, ten thousand feet of red light burst out, as if a spiritual light was being nurtured.
As the endless Blood Sea flowed in, the space inside Zhang Chen's crystalline core gradually filled up, and then the space began to collapse again, continuing to expand and reorganize.
As Zhang Chen's crystalline core space expanded, the suction force around his pores also grew stronger. As the suction force grew stronger, the absorption of blood also became faster. The more blood absorbed, the more Zhang Chen's crystalline core space had to be re-expanded and opened up, causing the internal space of the crystalline core to become larger and larger.
Farther away,
a mosquito as tall as a small building was sleeping. At this moment, the black-robed freak rowed over in his small boat. Seeing the sleeping mosquito, he directly transformed into a stream of light and drilled into it, intending to take advantage of the mosquito's evolution to launch a sneak attack and seize its body.
However, after seizing it for a while, he suddenly noticed something was not quite right: "Why is the water level of the Blood Sea dropping? And the rate of decline is so fast? It's unbelievably fast!"
The black-robed freak finally panicked: "Could it be that the great changes in the world have reached their ultimate moment, and even the Blood Sea can't withstand the final changes in the world, and is about to dissipate between heaven and earth under the End of Dharma?"
He was born in the Blood Sea. It could be said that the Blood Sea was his lair, his foundation. He shared the same fate and Qi number with the Blood Sea. If something happened to the Blood Sea, he would also be in big trouble.
"That shouldn't be. When I reincarnated in the past, I had already calculated that the Blood Sea was the last hotbed under the End of Dharma tribulation, and there was hope to survive the End of Dharma catastrophe. How could the Blood Sea suddenly dry up now?"
The black-robed freak panicked, but he had already started to seize the mosquito and was connected to the mosquito's origin. Where would he have time to free up his hands to check the changes in the Blood Sea? He could only do his best to seize this mosquito, otherwise, once the mosquito woke up and he hadn't completed the seizure, he would be in big trouble.
Seeing the blood water level drop, even if the black-robed freak was anxious, he could only stand by and do nothing.
The black-robed freak was very anxious, but he was busy seizing the body and couldn't spare the energy to check.
At this moment, a throbbing sensation rose in the black-robed freak's heart, an indescribable sadness rising in his heart: "Could it be that the End of Dharma has swept into the Blood Sea, and won't even leave a glimmer of hope for all living beings?"
While the black-robed freak was filled with grief and indignation, Zhang Chen's body had already turned into a bottomless pit. The endless Blood Sea was absorbed by him, pouring into Zhang Chen's body. As countless blood poured in, Zhang Chen's crystalline core also began to undergo subtle changes.
After an unknown period, the Blood Sea gradually dried up, but Zhang Chen's devouring still hadn't stopped. The blood Qi on the riverbed was transformed into a blood mist by the suction force on Zhang Chen's body, gently floating up and pouring into Zhang Chen's body.
The transformation of Zhang Chen stopped abruptly only when the bottom of the sea of blood was completely dry, and the riverbed turned into loose sand.
When Zhang Chen opened his eyes again and looked up at the gray sky, the sea of blood surrounding him had disappeared, and all around him were endless blood-red sands.
"Where is the sea of blood?" Zhang Chen was stunned for a moment. Where had the sea of blood gone?
Then, Zhang Chen seemed to remember something and hurriedly checked his body. Then, Zhang Chen was completely stunned.
His core had turned golden yellow at some point, a pure golden yellow. The size of the core remained the same, only the size of a grain of rice, but Zhang Chen noticed the strangeness of his core. There seemed to be an infinite space within his core, and in that space, a turbulent sea of blood was constantly surging.
In the very center of that sea of blood, ten thousand zhang of red light burst forth, seemingly absorbing the power of the sea of blood to nurture something.
Just then, Zhang Chen's heart stirred, and a stream of information flowed into Zhang Chen's mind. Zhang Chen digested the information, his eyes filled with disbelief:
【Skill 3 (Tier 5): Transformation into Bloodlight (0/20000000000)】
The fifth-tier Blood Control Technique actually required 20 billion experience points. The most crucial thing was that when Zhang Chen upgraded to the third, fourth, and fifth tiers, he gained three more abilities.
Fifth-tier ability: Ultrasonic Positioning. Fourth-tier ability: Transformation into Bloodlight. Third-tier: Blood Poison Contamination.
Ultrasonic Positioning was easy to understand. Zhang Chen could emit a kind of ultrasonic wave, like a bat, so that even with his eyes closed, he could locate things in the dark. The stronger his strength, the farther the distance he could emit. Zhang Chen's fifth-tier Blood Control Technique could emit sound waves for about a hundred miles.
This distance was definitely not bad. As long as he emitted sound waves, unless someone had the means to eliminate sound waves, the position of all living things and obstacles within a hundred miles could not be hidden from Zhang Chen.
The fourth-tier ability, Transformation into Bloodlight, was also easy to understand. With a thought, he could split into four streams of bloodlight, and the bloodlight could seize the blood of all creatures with skills lower than his own. The ability gained at the third tier was Blood Poison Contamination. Zhang Chen couldn't help but be secretly shocked when he saw it. This skill was too vicious and could contaminate all spiritual objects.
It could be said that as long as the other party's cultivation level did not exceed Zhang Chen's Blood Control Technique level, if Zhang Chen sprayed a mouthful of blood on them, the other party would be finished, equivalent to black dog blood among black dog blood.
Even great cultivators with higher cultivation levels than him would have blood poison enter their bodies and erode their spirituality if they were hit. It could be said that this method was quite difficult to deal with.
"Still no Blood Rebirth or means to control other people's blood that I want." Zhang Chen felt somewhat helpless. He wanted Blood Rebirth the most. At the very least, give him a Blood Control Technique. If he had the Blood Control Technique, martial arts experts would be a joke in front of him.
"But where did such a big sea of blood go? Why did it suddenly disappear?" Zhang Chen moved his gaze away from the core, and his eyes swept across the scarlet seabed, his eyes full of astonishment.
He remembered that before he fainted, the sea of blood was endless and turbulent, and it seemed like it would swallow him at any time. But now, after he woke up from a sleep, the sea of blood was gone?
"Could it be related to that old undead Black-Robed Monster?" Zhang Chen's mind flashed with thoughts: "That old guy really deserves to die. I almost capsized this time! Old guy, since I escaped by luck, I must let you know how powerful I am."
Zhang Chen's heart moved, and he directly urged the chain mark, sensing the location of the Black-Robed Monster in the dark.
"Found you! Let's settle the new and old scores together." After Zhang Chen sensed the Black-Robed Monster's trace, he wanted to pull the other party's soul, but he couldn't pull it. It was as if there was a force in the dark resisting his pull. Zhang Chen couldn't help but raise his vigilance: "Interesting, could it be that the old guy used my Jade Dew to confuse the monsters in the sea of blood, and then secretly do something?"
He thought of seizing the body!
"If that's the case, then it would be too interesting. Hehehe, old guy, I'm coming!" Zhang Chen thought of this and turned into a vampire bat and flapped his wings and flew away.
At this time, after Zhang Chen turned into a vampire bat, his body also changed its appearance. The vampire bat he transformed into spread its wings, a full two meters in size. The bat's wings were imprinted with mysterious and unpredictable patterns, which looked mysterious and noble.
Zhang Chen followed the induction in the dark, directly flapped his wings and flew away, disappearing into the blue sky.
At this time, the Black-Robed Monster, who was seizing the body of a mosquito, panicked, because Zhang Chen's target mark was mutual. Zhang Chen locked on to him, and he also sensed Zhang Chen's position.
Especially after noticing that Zhang Chen was approaching at an extremely rapid speed, he panicked to the extreme. Right now, he was at the critical moment of seizing the body and rebirth, and he couldn't stand the slightest disturbance.
"Impossible! How could that kid still be alive? Even the existence that has attained a low-level fruit position can't withstand the erosion of the sea of blood. How can he, a mere Qi training ant, survive the attack of the sea of blood?"
The Black-Robed Monster muttered to himself at this time, his voice full of horror. He was completely panicked at this time. Now he had two choices. First: give up seizing the body, and the soul withdraws from the body of the black mosquito.
But this was impossible, because the seizure had already begun, and part of his origin had been integrated into the body of the mosquito. Once he gave up seizing the body, the only end waiting for him would be the end of his soul flying away.
Before seizing the body, he was 100% sure that he would not fail, so of course he went all out and did his best to inject his origin into the mosquito's body perfectly, but who knew that there was no accident in the process of his seizure, but there was an accident in the grandson Zhang Chen.
The second choice was to directly awaken the sleeping will of the Innate Mosquito, and then the two of them would fight against Zhang Chen together, but that Innate Mosquito mastered the law of devouring. Once its will was awakened, it would be difficult for him to seize the body at that time. Most likely, he would be devoured by the Innate Mosquito and completely become the fortune of the Innate Mosquito.
His hard work and calculations, could it be that he can only make wedding clothes for others?
Of course, there was a third possibility, that was, the kid Zhang Chen came to take advantage of the fire and directly killed the Innate Mosquito, strangled the Innate Mosquito, and then he failed to seize the body and was suppressed by Zhang Chen.
However, this possibility was too low. The cultivation of the Innate Mosquito was too high, and it was not something that Zhang Chen could kill. Even if the Innate Mosquito did not resist and lay there quietly, Zhang Chen could not kill the Innate Mosquito.
However, even if the third situation was ruled out, he still couldn't accept the first and second situations!
This was simply going to kill his old life!