Chapter 359: Mystery Blood Drop

Mu Yi followed the Blood Demon aura inside the Heavenly Mirror all the way.

The countless demons and monsters along the way made Mu Yi hard to imagine that this world, in the past several hundred years, was a world where immortals and Buddhas could descend to the mortal realm.

What exactly are the orthodox sects of this world doing?

The Shushan Sect merely slashing demons is one thing; what about the Emei Sect? The other sects?

Or perhaps the appearance of these demons is linked to the Blood Demon growing stronger?

In any case, the principal culprit is undoubtedly the Blood Demon.

Mu Yi was too lazy to care where these Evil Demons and Heretics came from, and launched a massive slaughter; anything Mu Yi encountered was cut down by his sword.

All souls were pressed beneath the Ghost Gate; except for a portion of overwhelmingly sinful ones, the rest were processed by the barrier's rotation, worn down into true spirits, and directly sent into reincarnation.

Racing along, slaying hundreds of demons and monsters, Mu Yi finally found the Blood Demon's lair.

"Finally found you!"

The Heavenly Mirror trembled slightly; sensing something, Mu Yi immediately looked up toward a mountain peak, which was riddled with caves and exuded an extremely strong scent of blood.

If it were someone else, they'd say they were weakened by three points before even fighting, but Mu Yi in this environment was like a fish in water, feeling no discomfort at all.

Mu Yi activated the Heavenly Mirror with energy; the mirror instantly projected a golden ray that locked onto a section of the mountain wall, clearly indicating the Blood Demon's true body was here.

"Slash!"

A blade of light shattered the void and slammed straight at the mountain wall.

As Mu Yi moved, he casually took two flying swords from Changmei; he doesn't know sword‑wielding techniques, but swords are still more useful in hand.

"Roar!"

A mournful roar echoed from the cracked part of the mountain wall; Mu Yi raised an eyebrow—this vigorous roar didn't sound like someone still nursing a serious wound.

That old Changmei can't be deceiving himself, can he?

From the cracked mountain wall, blood aura surged outward, and the wall slowly opened a ferocious huge mouth; its outer fangs interlaced, and the dense scent of blood spread across the heavens and earth.

Seeing the red light swirling inside the huge mouth, Mu Yi immediately used the commander's might to push the flying swords in his hand to the limit, then flung them outward.

Boom!

The flying swords detonated inside the huge mouth, triggering a massive roar.

The entire mountain peak began to collapse, yet beneath the collapse the abyssal huge mouth remained in place.

Mu Yi watched the scene thoughtfully; it is said that Longzi Baxa possesses boundless strength, enjoys carrying heavy loads while running, and in ancient times often bore three mountains and five peaks on his back.

Perhaps this peak is the seal used by Baxa's descendants to suppress this bizarre abyssal huge mouth.

Because Baxa was captured by the Shushan Sect, the peak lost Baxa's maintenance, its power waned day by day, causing the seal to break.

This adds another sin to the Shushan Sect.

Come to think of it, suppressing this place must be a great achievement; perhaps the Shushan Sect even ruined Baxa's path to ascension.

Mu Yi could only give the Shushan Sect a thumbs‑up; among the beings whose power he has seen, the Shushan Sect's self‑destructive might ranks only below Bai Ze.

After waiting a while, the abyssal huge mouth showed no movement, the Blood Demon did not appear, and it merely kept spewing blood aura outward.

"Asura Path!"

Mu Yi erected a barrier, gathering the sky‑filled blood aura into the Sea of Blood of the Asura Path.

He then drew a second sword and flew into the huge mouth.

Within the Jiuzhou realm, he is not an ordinary Legend; even a counterfeit Fifth‑grade Deity is still Fifth‑grade, especially since he has incense offerings, allowing him to wield many powers beyond his own realm.

Diving headfirst into the huge mouth, he discovered another world within.

"It's getting even more intense..."

Mu Yi frowned; what on earth is this place? From the feeling, at least millions must have died here to achieve such a dense blood scent.

Yet there is only blood without any trace of resentment, clearly not created by slaughtering living beings.

This place is extremely sinister!

Mu Yi cautiously flew along the long passage toward the depths; the blood scent clung to the air like a viscous substance. If the Shushan Sect's disciples were here, they would likely be mentally deranged, plagued by inner demons.

After an unknown amount of flying, he finally emerged into a clearing of blood light.

It was a space of indeterminate size, with a dense river of blood flowing at its floor, its source and destination unknown.

Looking up, concentric ring structures seemed to reach the heavens, but Mu Yi's Thousand‑mile Eye keenly sensed that these rings differed from the passage he just traversed; they were not stone but actual flesh.

They rose beyond sight, certainly taller than the whole mountain; this is an entirely separate space, nothing like what is seen from outside.

The Heavenly Mirror trembled again, indicating the Blood Demon was nearby.

However, at this moment Mu Yi's attention was not on the Blood Demon; his gaze was firmly drawn to a single droplet of blood floating in midair.

"What a joke..."

Mu Yi gritted his teeth, staring intently at the droplet; he could feel that the blood aura permeating the entire space was emanating from that single drop.

"Isn't it amazing?"

"A single drop of blood possessing such great power—perhaps even legendary immortals and deities could not surpass it!"

The Blood Demon's silhouette rose from beneath the Sea of Blood, its gaze greedily fixed on the droplet, yet it dared not approach even a hair's breadth.

"Do you know what this is?" Mu Yi asked, frowning.

The Blood Demon was right; this droplet is not something ordinary immortals or deities could even touch.

He also possessed many artifact fragments stained with divine blood, yet even the divine blood of the mightiest Beast God could not compare to this thing's magnitude.

"Of course I don't know; how could I possibly know such a thing!" the Blood Demon chuckled self‑deprecatingly.

"I'm just an ordinary demonic cultivator who happened to come here by chance!"

"How dense the blood aura is; I don't even need to kill anyone or provoke those self‑righteous guardians of the Dao."

"Three years—just three years—and I'll become stronger than Changmei and Jingwei. Once I refine this droplet, even those celestial gods won't be my opponents!" the Blood Demon boasted arrogantly.

"Those Shushan Sect idiots!" Mu Yi said, his face dark.

Honestly, if you let the Blood Demon develop for a few hundred years, even the founding patriarch of the Shushan Sect descending to the mortal world might not be able to handle this Blood Demon.

"Are you using the blood qi here to bring down Changmei and Jingwei?" Mu Yi surveyed the sea of blood beneath his feet.

To tell the truth, for cultivators who master blood‑type abilities, this place truly is a heavenly sanctuary.

Converted into ordinary world qi, it's roughly ten times, or even more, the amount found outside.

No wonder Changmei and Jingwei, even while clutching precious treasures, are still battered helplessly by the Blood Demon and even dragged into a desperate predicament.

"Of course!" the Blood Demon replied calmly.

"Alright, the time is about right; it's time to send you on your way!"

The Blood Demon's complexion suddenly changed, and a massive blood‑colored skull floated up from the sea of blood, enveloping the Blood Demon within it.

"So, you're stalling for time?" Mu Yi tilted his head, looking at the Blood Demon.

"You think I talked so much because I was waiting for my formation to re‑condense!" the Blood Demon's grim grin echoed from the massive blood‑colored skull.

"Hahaha, within this blood domain, my power can increase exponentially!"

"Don't worry, I'll leave you a whole corpse! Such premium corpse material is hard to come by!"

"Turn me into a puppet!" the Blood Demon shouted arrogantly, as if victory were already assured, though the source of its confidence was unclear.

Ooooo!

A chilling shriek, like ten thousand evil ghosts howling together in his ears, and countless blood‑colored skulls, formed from the Blood Demon's formation, turned into a blood‑colored torrent aimed at Mu Yi.

The swift speed left a trail of afterimages in the air, and the ferocious blood qi pressed down like the heavens collapsing.

Mu Yi snorted disdainfully.

The sea of blood beneath his feet surged with towering waves, completely swallowing the Blood Demon's attack.

"Impossible!" the Blood Demon's frantic voice rang out from its formation.

"You're stalling, and I'm stalling too!" Mu Yi calmly held his sword horizontally before him, pointing at the Blood Demon.

"You don't think you're the only one who can manipulate blood qi, do you?"

The Blood Demon is merely an ordinary demonic cultivator who stumbled upon a fortuitous encounter, gaining this uniquely advantageous cultivation ground, which caused its strength to skyrocket.

But honestly, it is only absorbing the blood qi that leaks from refined blood, and it is still extremely far from mastering that refined blood.

If the Blood Demon can absorb it, Mu Yi naturally can as well.

Moreover, Mu Yi's Asura Path is far more advanced than the Blood Demon's technique.

A massive Great Asura formation instantly manifested in the space.

Unlike the Blood Demon's formation, which has only a single blood‑colored skull, Mu Yi's Great Asura formation, with three heads and eight arms, wields a distinct weapon in each hand, as if it were truly a living being.

"You die!"

Seeing the sea of blood he relied on being seized by Mu Yi, the Blood Demon felt as if confronted by a bull‑headed man, and instantly became incensed.

The blood‑colored skull formation rushed straight at the Great Asura formation.

Amid the massive roar, the Great Asura formation slammed all its weapons onto the skull, nearly shattering most of it, while the blood‑colored skull spewed a torrent of blood light, tearing apart most of the Great Asura formation's body.

"So you're all show and no substance; I thought you were an invincible monster!"

Seeing this, the Blood Demon burst into laughter, while Mu Yi simply shrugged without rebuttal.

His formation was indeed intricate, but it was hastily assembled, and it certainly differs greatly from the Blood Demon's formation, which directly concentrates all its cultivation into it.

Nevertheless, it was enough to block the Blood Demon's formation, since here blood qi, which is used to repair formations, is never lacking.

Both the Great Asura formation and the Blood Demon's formation restored to their original states within moments, then again launched attacks at each other.

The two massive formations engaged in a frenzied brawl, yet, supported by the seemingly endless sea of blood, showed no sign of collapse for a while.

However, the Blood Demon's formation grew increasingly intricate, evolving from a massive skull into a blood‑colored giant, with faint hints of an Asura's silhouette.

"You're learning quite fast!"

Mu Yi raised an eyebrow, noting that the Blood Demon's innate talent was also impressive; otherwise it couldn't have improved during the fight.

But Mu Yi had no interest in nurturing his enemy's strength.

"Heavenly Human Path!"

Mu Yi pointed a finger, and the Great Asura formation, which had just been puppet‑like, instantly transformed into an unbreakable mountain‑like mass, with a force as unstoppable as a volcanic eruption.

All the murderous intent within its husk became an awe‑inspiring, inviolable presence.

Even a basic augmentation caused a qualitative shift in the formation; the Great Asura formation now exuded a divine, god‑like majesty.

If the earlier situation was evenly matched, the upcoming scenario would be a total annihilation.

The Great Asura formation, leveraging its duel advantage, crushed the Blood Demon's formation, which collapsed at an unimaginable speed; in just half a minute, it was shattered by the Great Asura formation's exquisite martial skill.

"You'll never stop me!"

Seeing its formation shattered, the Blood Demon instantly realized it was no match for Mu Yi, and its body flashed toward the floating blood droplets in mid‑air.

It self‑detonated its formation, and the massive shock repelled the Great Asura formation and also sent Mu Yi flying outward.

"It's mine!"

The Blood Demon opened its mouth and swallowed the blood droplet whole.

Mu Yi flapped his wings, barely maintaining his posture, frowning as he stared at the Blood Demon—or more precisely, at the blood droplet inside its belly.

The blood droplet swallowed by the Blood Demon seemed to switch on, emitting a terrifying aura.

"Ah!"

The Blood Demon was instantly blown into countless fragments of blood light that filled the sky, yet it didn't die; after fragmenting, it trembled weakly and astonishingly turned into pools of blood that reconverged toward the blood droplet.

Mu Yi shook his head; that fleeting moment, the power unleashed by the blood droplet was terrifying, accompanied by an overwhelmingly forceful will—trying to reconstruct a human body from the converging blood, even to devour the droplet, was nothing but a fool's fantasy.

Sure enough, the pools of blood merged, fusing into a constantly churning mass of blood, resembling a continuously morphing blood‑colored slime.

"Ah! How could this happen!"

A heart‑rending wail erupted from the blood mass, then gradually faded, causing Mu Yi to furrow his brow.

【Zongwang Prompt: You have defeated the battle leader Nether Blood Demon, helping the Shushan Sect achieve a camp victory. Return now?】

「No」

Mu Yi looked at the Zongwang Prompt, still a bit incredulous.

This Blood Demon, after all, counted as a high‑level Legend; its survivability was comparable to a cockroach, and it just died like that?

Honestly, unless Mu Yi possessed a dual divine rank that could harness the power of Jiuzhou's heavens and earth to suppress the Blood Demon from innate, Mu Yi alone might not have been able to defeat the Nether Blood Demon.

It apparently thought that force‑swallowing a blood droplet would trigger some massive power surge, but instead it instantly burst into death.

With the Blood Demon's death, the space fell silent.

Only the single droplet floating in midair continued to emit a bewitching red light; after it had swallowed the Blood Demon entirely, the droplet seemed to revive with new life.