Chapter 309: Trial's End

"Don't cut it off! Twice! I'll trade two chances with you!"

"Three, it really can't be any more!"

Although Bai Ze was unusually agitated and kept raising the price, Mu Yi still cut off the last thread of contact between them.

Sometimes, knowing too much isn't a good thing.

However, with the all‑knowing Bai Ze Fu, he now has a new plan for solving the current problem.

As Bai Ze said, influence is mutual.

The power of the Blood Sacrifice can affect heaven and earth, so it can also use the Barrier—a small world—to affect the Blood Sacrifice in return.

Mu Yi returned to the Great Capital City; although the Central Plains has connections to the Blood Sacrifice everywhere, the tightest link is still the Great Capital City node.

It can be said to be the starting point of everything, and now it will also become the end of everything.

"Six Paths of Reincarnation, bind upon me!"

Mu Yi took a deep breath, poured all his strength, and spread the Reincarnation Barrier across the entire Great Capital. With no enemies present, he could ignore the barrier's strength and expand its range to cover the whole Great Capital City.

Whether cause or effect, life or death... everything will be under my control.

All sins are judged by me; using the Reincarnation Barrier as a conduit, I expand the barrier to an absurdly vast scope.

Unlike before, when the giant generated by the Blood Sacrifice could not be affected, this time Mu Yi clearly sensed the presence of the Blood Sacrifice.

The giant is merely a product of Mu Yi's perception; now, spreading through the barrier, it feels to Mu Yi like an ocean, recklessly expanding in all directions, continuously striking the surrounding heaven and earth, swallowing them bit by bit.

"I feel it!"

Mu Yi felt this grandeur and his heart grew exceedingly heavy.

This magnitude stems from countless sacrifices; even though he rescued most souls not yet fully claimed by the Blood Sacrifice, the ritual still devoured too many lives and souls.

Mu Yi tried to use the barrier to absorb the now ownerless power of the Blood Sacrifice.

"Detestable! Detestable! Detestable!"

In an instant, endless blood tears welled up in Mu Yi's eyes.

The Blood Sacrifice's power is influencing Mu Yi's will; had his resolve not been firm, he might have instantly become a monster devoured by negative emotions.

The Blood Sacrifice's power expands, and the small world of the barrier Mu Yi upheld is no exception; its power begins to affect everything within the Reincarnation Barrier, and Mu Yi, as the source, is impacted even more severely.

In the void, countless cries seem to echo; the Blood Sacrifice ceremony is extremely cruel, the entire existence is wholly devoured, and the pain it brings is far from a mere trifle.

"Boom!"

The barrier shattered with a roar, and Mu Yi lay on the ground, panting heavily.

It failed, but not entirely.

The Blood Sacrifice's power eroded the Reincarnation Barrier; Mu Yi couldn't withstand this mental assault, causing the barrier to break.

Yet as it shattered, the barrier retained a portion of the Blood Sacrifice's power.

This portion of power is continuously worn down within the cycle: the Heavenly Path absorbs, the Hell Path burns, the Hungry Ghost Path devours, making the Blood Sacrifice's power the finest tonic.

Mu Yi also realized at this moment why those foreign deities don't directly apply the Blood Sacrifice's power to themselves—not because they don't want to, but because they can't.

Perhaps at their peak they could achieve this, but now they clearly cannot; directly absorbing that power would inevitably lead to complete mental breakdown, after which they'd become prey for other foreign deities to divide.

The irreversible Blood Sacrifice itself is used by many foreign deities to restore their strength, naturally a great tonic, but it's far more brutal than incense; thus, after research, these deities chose to forge an Everlasting Heaven as a filter to absorb it.

They use the Everlasting Heaven to influence the whole world, and by controlling it they seize the world's authority; once they gradually carve up the entirety of the Everlasting Heaven, they will also grasp the world's dominion, turning the world into a part of themselves.

"The idea should work, but this method..."

Mu Yi sat cross‑legged on the ground, adjusting his state and pondering what he should do.

"No, that's wrong, the method is wrong; we can't absorb directly, we must store it and wear it down bit by bit!"

"Store it... like a divine artifact?"

Mu Yi thought for a moment, then drew his broad sword, recalling the divine artifacts he had previously seen that sealed remnants of deities' souls.

In theory, using a weapon to absorb the Blood Sacrifice's power should prevent backlash of negative emotions, but a weapon that stores that power would likely become unusable.

"We can give it a try!"

Mu Yi thought, then searched the database he had stored on Zongwang before, and from the combat skill database found a method to forge divine weapons.

Although the procedure differs slightly, the principle should be the same.

"Zongwang Prompt: Spend 2000 points Universal Experience and 2000 Zongwang Disaster Coins to learn Combat Skill – Forge Divine Weapon?"

Combat Skill – Forge Divine Weapon

Type: Professional Skill / Forging

Current Level: Level 1 (currently can be raised up to Level 5)

Description:

After a standard action, the character can perform one forging guide.

If the forging guide succeeds, the weapon gains a special effect (affected by perceived attributes and material quality).

ps: The most basic forging method is the source of all forging methods.

Later Mu Yi raised it to Level 5; the effect changed little, but he could feel the improvement, and many forging methods appeared in his mind.

Organizing his memory, Mu Yi held his breath, focused, and opened a small‑range barrier, placing the broad sword at its center.

The Blood Sacrifice's power arrived as expected; the Great Capital City can be said to be the beginning of everything, and also the location of the Blood Sacrifice's core.

He linked the Blood Sacrifice's power again, rotating through the barrier, guiding the power bit by bit into the broad sword.

"It's effective!" Mu Yi exclaimed, looking at the broad sword within the barrier.

At this moment, in his view, strands of blood‑red thread hung through the barrier onto the broad sword.

It truly made Mu Yi overjoyed; this proved that the forging method he learned from the combat skill database was indeed useful.

But the next instant, he felt boundless negative emotions, and immediately steadied his mind, refusing to let thoughts wander, focusing intently to guide the Blood Sacrifice's power into the broad sword.

It seems that because this barrier was small and he didn't recklessly absorb the Blood Sacrifice's power, the negative emotional shock he endured was not severe.

This impact still doesn't match the stimulation from the environmental changes he encounters during meditation.

The broad sword is gradually filled with the power of blood sacrifice, turning entirely scarlet; even the armor forged by an Asura is not as deep red. A single glance conveys boundless blood hue.

Crack~

Just as Mu Yi was concentrating on the sacrificial cultivation, a crisp cracking sound suddenly emanated from the broad sword.

Mu Yi looked up and saw a crack already appearing on the broad sword, and with the influx of blood sacrifice power, the crack kept widening.

In a panic, he collapsed the barrier, reached out to touch the crack on the broad sword, and the moment his fingers made contact, his vision was instantly engulfed by blood‑red.

Completely unusable now!

Mu Yi withdrew his hand, expelled the blood‑red from his consciousness, and squinted at the broad sword.

By the outcome, he succeeded: the broad sword now bears a massive amount of blood sacrifice power, but it seems that with his current ability he can no longer wield it, and the sword's own power is saturated; further infusion could cause it to burst.

It is even leaking blood‑red power bit by bit, affecting everything around it.

Seeing the faint blood aura surrounding the broad sword, Mu Yi sealed it within the Reincarnation Barrier, using the Reincarnation Barrier's erosion method to gradually wear down its power.

Although it works, it's like a drop in the bucket!

Watching the sky with almost no change, even the expanding blood‑red giant, Mu Yi felt a headache.

He must find a carrier with great bearing capacity, preferably one that can self‑repair.

Just as Mu Yi's headache peaked, Chu Yi burst out of the earth.

The moment he saw Chu Yi, Mu Yi's mind lit up.

Of course, Chu Yi is not the carrier; the mountain range will be.

The blood sacrifice power itself spreads over heaven and earth; instead of merely blocking it, it's better to try channeling it into a specific place.

As the saying goes, it's better to divert than to block; this is also a method.

"Chu Yi, cooperate with me!"

Mu Yi hurriedly called Chu Yi to cooperate with him.

Within the barrier, the blood sacrifice power merged into the mountain range, while Chu Yi continuously manipulated Earth Vein Power to preserve the mountain's integrity.

Mu Yi wants to forge a place like a restricted zone, at least to temporarily confine the blood sacrifice power within a region, preventing its free spread and affecting creatures in all directions.

The mountain range, like the broad sword, gradually turned red and began emitting an ominous aura; a single glance was enough to make one feel blood‑red rushing toward them, terrifying and chilling.

The various plants on the mountain also began to mutate, everything developing toward a scene of collapse.

Mu Yi felt a chill; if the blood‑sacrifice conglomerate Chang Sheng Tian were allowed to keep expanding, perhaps the whole world would be covered in blood‑red, and all beings would undergo this catastrophic mutation.

"Chu Yi, seal it with the Mountain Water Seal!"

Mu Yi shouted, this was the method he thought of—removing part of the lesion, perhaps beneficial to the whole world.

The result was good; the Mountain Water Seal absorbed the mountain, and a bright scarlet mountain appeared on the seal tablet, making the Mountain Water Seal itself seem somewhat ominous.

Chu Yi sensed it briefly and shook his head at Mu Yi.

With his ability to shape the mountain, digesting the mountain within the Mountain Water Seal would still take at least several months.

"This path also leads nowhere!"

Mu Yi, with a headache, looked at the sky; to the naked eye, the blood‑red giant had shrunk slightly, yet compared to its massive size it was still but a drop in the bucket.

If Chu Yi's absorption speed were faster, one could consider repeatedly contracting and releasing the mountain to absorb it.

But at Chu Yi's current speed, it's clearly too slow.

He doesn't want to spend years, even decades, here for a Trial.

As Mu Yi continued to ponder, a prompt from the Incense Golden Body shifted his focus to the Incense Golden Body.

Praise the Demon‑Pursuing Filth‑Sweeping Celestial Lord!

Praise the Demon‑Pursuing Filth‑Sweeping Celestial Lord!

Praise the Demon‑Pursuing Filth‑Sweeping Celestial Lord!

The survivors rescued by Mu Yi from the Mongol Slaughter Knife are now worshipping Mu Yi.

The dense incense merged into the Incense Golden Body, then spread toward the Temple, giving the entire Temple a hint of sanctity.

Got it!

Mu Yi blinked; after all that searching, the best carrier was his own Incense Golden Body.

It can bear incense and this blood sacrifice power, which is a given.

Thinking of it, he acted: the Incense Golden Body stepped out of the statue, then turned into a golden beam shooting toward Mu Yi.

The survivors, seeing this, began to worship Mu Yi even more devoutly.

They once again witnessed Mu Yi's manifestation, proving that what they saw before was not an illusion.

The incense converged into the statue; the statue, which had just lost its mystique, began to regain its divinity.

The fact proves that Mu Yi was indeed looking for a donkey while riding a donkey.

The Incense Golden Body can contain incense and also the blood sacrifice power.

The sky‑filled blood sacrifice turned into countless threads converging into the Incense Golden Body, wrapping it like a gigantic rice‑dumpling.

Mu Yi tried to shift his perception to the side of the Incense Golden Body; the sudden negative emotion forced him back instantly, and even so he was jolted as if someone had hammered his head.

Only when the blood‑red giant's form vanished between heaven and earth did Mu Yi stop, sealing the Incense Golden Body and the broad sword deep within the Reincarnation Barrier.

"This time, we can't act for a while!"

Mu Yi felt helpless; if someone shattered the barrier and let the forces leak out, that wouldn't be fun at all.

The entire barrier now resembles a bomb; before it finishes absorbing its power, any sudden external strike would cause it to explode.

According to Mu Yi's estimate, including blowing himself up, it could instantly kill dozens of Legends, or even low‑tier divine beings couldn't directly bear such an explosion.

Zongwang Prompt: Your campaign mission objectives are all completed, the Kunlun Trial has ended, teleport out immediately?

After thinking, Mu Yi set some parameters for his new golden body within his statue; since he is the Demon‑Pursuing Filth‑Sweeping Celestial Lord, he will see this responsibility through to the end.

If there are still indigenous deity-like beings hidden in this world that I haven't discovered, then the moment they reveal themselves, the incense golden body inside the deity statue will automatically activate and go forth to chase demons and sweep away impurity.

After all, he has no specific divine post; he cannot ensure harvests, grant children, or regulate the weather. The only thing he can do is slay demons and eradicate evil.

This can also be considered a kind of reward from Mu Yi to those followers who pray to him.