Chapter 505: The Oddities in Time

As the Chaos Body upgraded, the primal ancient blood was fused by Lu Xun.

Inside the Heroes' Mausoleum, strange phenomena suddenly arose.

One after another, azure lotuses burst forth from the void, their petals flowing with the Hongmeng purple qi that existed when chaos first opened.

When these lotuses blossomed, they made not a sound; only the Dao's resonance rippled in layers through the void.

Each lotus leaf bore ancient runes, at times condensing into the phantom of an immortal expounding the Dao, at times transforming into the scene of heaven and earth being split apart.

Amazingly, the root systems of these azure lotuses actually penetrated the barrier of the present world, intertwining in the depths of the void into the true form of the Chaos Azure Lotus.

Moreover, upon closer inspection, one could discover even more astonishing phenomena.

A blurry phantom outline flickered in and out of visibility within the Hongmeng.

It resembled none of the divinities recorded in later ages, nor any being that myths could depict.

Its outline was older than the act of splitting heaven and earth; its aura was more primordial than the era of the Great Wilderness.

It seemed as if it were the primal spirit nurtured by Chaos itself!

It governed creation, trod upon chaos, and its eyes held the galaxy.

This is the phenomenon of the primal blood.

Fortunately,

These phenomena were restrained by the system.

The range is extremely small, even incomplete.

Otherwise, if there were no restrictions, just these phenomena alone would be enough to blanket the entire Lan Xing, even shaking the starry sky.

"There are really many phenomena today."

"Yes, they all involve the Heroes' Mausoleum."

The guards of the Heroes' Mausoleum saw these phenomena, but did not think much of them.

They were merely Second Realm cultivators.

Most of them were warriors who had been wounded on the front lines.

After being wounded, the authorities assigned them here, which counts as providing them a livelihood guarantee.

With their limited perspective, they still struggled to gauge just how astonishing the phenomena that had just appeared in the Heroes' Mausoleum were.

And the instigator of these phenomena, after completing the upgrade of the Chaos Body and fusing the primal ancient blood, bade farewell to his parents and quietly left this place.

"Little Xun, come quickly."

Lu Xun did not directly leave Rong Cheng; instead, he went to visit Martial Teacher.

Martial Teacher's cultivation had evidently broken through to the Fourth Realm.

This naturally benefited from the medicinal pills Lu Xun gave him.

"During this time, the foreign tribes have started causing trouble again, so I stayed behind to garrison..."

Martial Teacher and Lu Xun began chatting.

Seeing Lu Xun improving more and more, Martial Teacher felt greatly relieved, as if seeing his own descendants succeed.

Lu Xun stayed at Martial Teacher's place for half a day, ate a meal together with him, and then successively visited the Chu family and the Murong family.

However, the Chu patriarch and Murong Zhan were not present.

The main figures of both families were also absent, so after presenting his gifts, Lu Xun went to the Rong Cheng Martial Manor.

"Haha, Brother Lu, I didn't expect you to come."

The President of Rong Cheng was overjoyed.

Although Lu Xun only stayed here a short while, it still made the President of Rong Cheng happy for a long time.

Lu Xun is growing too fast nowadays.

Even with the strength he knows, it makes the President of Rong Cheng somewhat reluctant to address Lu Xun as brother.

When Lu Xun arrives in Rong Cheng and makes a special effort to see him, in the President's view, it is granting him tremendous face.

Thus, Lu Xun made his way back to the capital city.

Now, the Chaos Body has completed its upgrade, and the primal ancient blood has been thoroughly fused.

We can now begin dealing with the witch.

Lu Xun is not in a hurry; he wants to stabilize first, then ponder the abilities of the Chaos Body.

At the same time, he still needs to concoct some medicinal pills to stabilize the primal ancient blood and replenish the consumption it previously caused.

Temporarily fusing the primal ancient blood naturally incurs consumption of it.

Fortunately, this consumption is merely at the energy level, not the bloodline level.

If it were at the bloodline level, it would weaken the bloodline's power.

As for the witch's nightmare, Lu Xun also prepares to resolve it by seeking Gu Yao.

"Huh? Has a heart demon been born?"

Lu Xun had just finished concocting the medicinal pills when he suddenly discovered that one of the Fusang geniuses in the inner vision space was acting strangely.

This fellow seems to have gone into qi deviation.

Up to now, about three months have passed since Lu Xun conducted this experiment.

Three months, when placed in the inner vision space, amount to thirty months, i. e., two and a half years.

A total of eight Fusang geniuses were captured by Lu Xun and placed into the inner vision space.

Two years ago, their cultivation progress was rapid.

Basically, they all surged to the late Third Realm or reached the peak.

As for the heart demon, it has shown no signs.

Until now,

A Fusang genius who was attempting to break through to the Fourth Realm suddenly had his expression twist.

His eyes were blood-red, veins bulged on his forehead, and as he clenched his teeth, traces of blood seeped out.

Originally handsome, his face now became hideous and terrifying, as if possessed by an evil spirit.

His fingers dug deep into his palm, fresh blood dripping between the gaps, yet he felt nothing.

From his throat came a beast-like low growl, at times mournful like an evil spirit's wail, at times frenzied like a demon's hysterical laughter.

Most shocking were his eyes: the left pupil was scattered, reflecting a sea of corpses and blood; the right eye remained clear as before, struggling to hold onto the last vestiges of reason.

Two utterly different divine lights intertwined and collided in his eyes, splitting his whole face into yin and yang halves.

"Get... out......"

He hoarsely squeezed out a few words, his voice like sandpaper rubbing, each word tinged with blood.

But in the blink of an eye he burst into uncontrollable laughter: "Too late... already... too late..."

Amid his laughter, his internal power became unbalanced, his meridians completely destroyed.

His cultivation plummeted, leaving him with only the strength of an early-stage Third Realm cultivator.

"He's gone mad."

Lu Xun seized him and pulled him out, discovering that this Fusang genius had already gone mad.

"Is it really that easy to encounter a heart demon when breaking from the Third Realm to the Fourth Realm?"

Lu Xun frowned.

Generally speaking, cultivators at the Second and Third Realms have a low probability of encountering a heart demon.

Especially for geniuses.

Some ordinary cultivators, if they have suffered some tragic experience in the past and then stagnate for a long time at a certain realm, may give birth to a heart demon.

For geniuses, breaking through the first four realms is relatively easy, and the chance of giving birth to a heart demon is minuscule.

When this Fusang genius was captured by Lu Xun, he was only at the early stage of the Second Realm.

In just two and a half years he surged to the peak of the Third Realm, his talent no less than that of the top geniuses of Qingbei.

Logically, he should not have been prone to giving birth to a heart demon.

Yet the result was that he did give birth to one.

Not only did he give birth to a heart demon, but due to the heart demon going berserk, his meridians were damaged and his cultivation plummeted.

This is not normal.

This is extremely abnormal.

"Let me see what's going on."

Lu Xun decided to take some time to observe.

Coincidentally, in the inner realm, another genius faced a breakthrough.

Due to the tenfold difference in time flow speed, the Fusang people inside the inner realm, from Lu Xun's perspective, seemed as if watching a video at ten times speed.

If they were ordinary people, it would be so fast as to be impossible to see clearly, or they would obtain too little information.

For Lu Xun, it posed no problem at all.

However, after this Fusang genius gave birth to a heart demon, another Fusang genius who had originally been preparing to break through to the Fourth Realm dared not attempt it rashly.

"You have only three days to break through to the Fourth Realm, or die—you choose."

Lu Xun transmitted his words coldly.

Upon hearing Lu Xun's voice, that Fusang genius's complexion turned uncertain.

From their perspective, they were inexplicably seized by a great expert and brought to this unknown place.

This great expert treated them extremely well, giving them very powerful cultivation techniques.

These techniques are secret in the East; they cannot access them in Fusang.

Besides the techniques, he gave them vast amounts of Dark Energy and even extremely precious elixirs.

Their only requirement was cultivation.

They did not know what this great expert intended.

In the view of some Fusang geniuses, this is a tremendous boon.

But some also felt that this great expert would not be so kind-hearted.

Now, this great expert is forcing him to break through to the Fourth Realm.

From this Fusang genius's perspective, this is likely a misfortune rather than a blessing.

Even without a heart demon, perhaps after he breaks through to the Fourth Realm, the other side will take him as material.

But he has no choice.

So, after three days, this Fusang genius had no choice but to begin his breakthrough.

Lu Xun, to make it smoother for him, also provided him with a Saint-grade breakthrough pill to aid his breakthrough.

Given his talent, breaking through to the Fourth Realm was easy.

But when this Fusang genius was about to break through, an accident occurred again.

"Ah..."

He first cried out as if he had seen a ghost.

After realizing his loss of composure, he quickly steadied his mind, but his expression turned grim.

"No, no..."

Not long after, he lost control again and shouted loudly there.

"Here it comes again."

Lu Xun observed closely.

The inner scene space is a space under his complete control, allowing Lu Xun to do a comprehensive observation.

Just that, until this Supporting Mulberry genius forcibly stopped and barely controlled his heart demon, Lu Xun still hadn't observed much.

Strange.

Lu Xun drew a conclusion.

Strange!

It's not that the Earthcore Secret Realm is strange.

But rather... the Time Domain!

His inner scene space is not the same place as the Earthcore Secret Realm.

The similarity is that both places involve the Time Domain.

The flow rate of time has changed.

The Earthcore Secret Realm has a hundredfold time flow; Lu Xun's inner scene space has a tenfold time flow.

Back when cultivators were in the Earthcore Secret Realm, the probability of giving birth to a heart demon was very high.

According to Old Sir Fu, just from the East, over a million people have entered the Earthcore Secret Realm one after another.

But among those over a million people, 99.9% of them gave birth to heart demons.

Those who didn't give birth to heart demons numbered less than a thousand, I suppose.

And among those 99.9%, another 90% had encountered heart demons before reaching the Six Realms.

Even Old Guy Fu had encountered it, though his will was extremely steadfast, and he stubbornly pulled through.

Now, in the inner scene space, there are only eight people, and they are still geniuses.

As it turns out, two Supporting Mulberry geniuses successively gave birth to heart demons.

This only shows that the Time Domain is strange, so only after the time flow rate changes does it become so prone to giving birth to heart demons.