[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c":3,"chapter-surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-535":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Surviving the Doomsday Apartment—With Infinite Clones!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},950232,1242,"Chapter 535: Changes in the Blood Pool","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-535",535,"\u003Cp>Holy crap?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Does this count as solving the case?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Du Yuheng… is really a clone?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A clone severed from the other clones, undetectable?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So after the eyeball ripped from his body was installed into Li Si’s body…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye could sense the “Li Si” clone?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Si’s appearance didn’t change into Jiang Ye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe Jiang Ye’s previous understanding of clones was one-sided?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Maybe the core criterion others used to judge someone as a “Jiang Ye clone” wasn’t that the whole face had to match the clone’s face…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But rather… the eyeball?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, even if the outward appearance didn’t change, if the eyeball became his eyeball, it could still be judged as a “clone”?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The eyeball…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It actually made sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye remembered that the uniqueness of a person’s iris is supposedly even more precise than fingerprints.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many high-precision identity systems use iris recognition technology.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was indeed very likely that the basis for judging his clones was the iris?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, at this moment Li Si’s clone was still only a Fake Clone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Witch Gui Jiang Ye could sense him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Witch Gui Jiang Ye had not yet bound a Formless Leaf, and still couldn’t use Clone Skills.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So this clone sensing could only be a small surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye’s attention quickly fell back to Li Si, using the remaining viewpoint from Du Yuheng’s lone left eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Li Si installed Du Yuheng’s right eye, nothing abnormal happened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He still seemed unable to clearly see the surrounding world with that right eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, his right hand had again transformed into that same “Hidden Hand” state he had displayed in front of Chen Cang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then that now-solid black Hidden Hand slowly touched the eyeball that belonged to Du Yuheng.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black mass seemed to merge into that right eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Visually it looked as if Du Yuheng’s right eye had swallowed Li Si’s Hidden Hand!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the entire right hand was swallowed…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The right eye sitting in Li Si’s eye socket slowly emitted a dark purple gleam.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A hint of surprise appeared on Li Si’s face as he breathed, “It worked!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the dark purple light flowed in his eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked like he really had contacted the outside players again through Du Yuheng’s eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not long after…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The whole Blood Pool space seemed to ignite anew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This group of players felt a sudden inexplicable warmth!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the previously calm Blood Pool strangely began to seethe!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After this phenomenon lasted for a dozen seconds or so…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a “whoosh,” a giant flame-shaped illusion tore through the sky and came through the void!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That massive flame-like figure descended from the horizon and landed among the players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Witch Gui Jiang Ye immediately recognized it—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That fiery figure was the same presence that had earlier forced Chen Cang to abandon the Fire Chain and hide in the Blood Pool!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, this being had actively entered this Blood Pool space!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flame figure didn’t seem to care about this group of players at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It only lingered briefly, then charged straight into the now-boiling Blood Pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a strange sight appeared—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, the eerie creature that formed from the giant skeleton in the Blood Pool hadn’t caused the pool water to spill even a drop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the flame figure plunged into the pool…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if a bathtub already full of water had suddenly swallowed a colossal creature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blood Pool water crazily surged out!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taken off guard, the players instinctively tried to avoid the gushing Blood Pool water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Very quickly they discovered that the spilled Blood Pool water rapidly changed from liquid to solid!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flowing Blood Pool water instantly turned into blood-colored iron chains!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Weren’t those the same iron chains that extended from the Blood Pool up to the Apartment Rooftop?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After flowing out of the pool, the chain solidified immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet it still seemed to retain a fluidity!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One by one, blood-colored iron chains spread outward like a liquid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sight left Lin Dong dumbstruck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had entered the Blood Pool space earlier and hadn’t seen that flame figure before, so he thought—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Could that flame figure be the Fire Chain Key evolved into a being?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Fire Chain Key… has become sentient??”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Ku and Li Si didn’t answer him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Ku stared at the iron chains spilling from the pool and said bluntly, “Now we should be able to explore the Blood Pool!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that he moved to probe into the Blood Pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Si followed closely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their swift actions showed not the slightest intention of returning Du Yuheng’s eyeball.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Du Yuheng also headed toward the Blood Pool, frowning, “My right eye, you’re not planning on giving it back?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Si paused, then replied in a low voice, “One eye won’t affect vision.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why not let me borrow the right eye a bit longer?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’ll return it after we explore the Blood Pool?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That shameless line…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both Jiang Ye and Lin Dong thought Du Yuheng would lose it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he only kept a stern face and swallowed his anger: “You better keep your word!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Li Ku and Li Si were the first to jump into the Blood Pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Dong hesitated a moment, then followed immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the Blood Pool, where the blood-colored chains continued to spread, only Lin Jing’s five-man team and Du Yuheng the one-eyed remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Jing looked at Du Yuheng with a complicated expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said little, then felt around for a chain and jumped into the Blood Pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining four copied him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time Jiang Ye saw clearly…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the blood-colored chains seemed to be the Blood Pool water that had flowed out then solidified, those same chains also existed within the pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This group of players could explore the Blood Pool by following the chains as a path…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When only Du Yuheng remained, Jiang Ye couldn’t help asking, “You’re not going to explore the pool?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Du Yuheng was silent, offering no answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few minutes passed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground of the Blood Pool space became covered with blood-colored iron chains.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the entire ground inexplicably began to tremble slowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This kind of tremor was not unfamiliar to Jiang Ye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had felt this on the Apartment Rooftop before!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, along with the tremor…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A strange stone pillar rose slowly from the center of the Blood Pool!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked exactly like the pillar the Blood Skin clone had seen in the pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When the Formation Master took the Blood Skin clone, it had been by peeling the clone’s blood from this very eerie pillar!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now he saw the pillar again…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye’s mind stirred, and in the next second his vision darted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Du Yuheng, sharing the dual-soul fusion with him, leaped directly onto the pillar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hadn’t jumped into the Blood Pool like the other players; rather, he seemed to be waiting for this stone pillar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The pillar obliged him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once he stood on it, the pillar slowly sank deeper into the pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did Witch Gui Jiang Ye get a deeper perspective of the Blood Pool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the outside, it didn’t seem very large.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But inside it resembled what the Blood Skin clone had experienced—the space seemed boundless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using Du Yuheng’s view, Jiang Ye saw blood-red stretching in all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the eerie pillar descended, the pool’s surface above seemed to vanish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where he looked was nothing but blood-red.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other players who had jumped in were completely out of sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They sank on with the pillar for an unknown length of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The red in the view grew deeper and deeper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It shifted from red into a dense black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until the black approached a kind of visual void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as Jiang Ye wondered if Du Yuheng’s remaining left eye had a problem…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The steadily descending pillar suddenly hit a pause.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came a slight vibration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the view remained a black void…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt like the sinking pillar had finally reached the bottom region of the Blood Pool?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye was puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shared body with Du Yuheng felt his left hand once more cover the left eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That movement… it seemed as if he removed the left eye, too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye didn’t know how Du Yuheng handled the peeled-off left eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He only sensed Du Yuheng press the right palm onto the pillar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately a dull pain came from the center of his right palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed something had cut his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came a very familiar sensation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The feeling of blood being sucked away!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sensation could transmit across all disconnected clones, terrifying every clone!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier, when drained by the Little Red Snake and when the Formless Tree had drained blood…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye had felt this extreme fear before!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time it felt exactly the same!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was stunned—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was Du Yuheng trying to turn himself into a Desiccated Corpse?!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or… a Blood Corpse?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t ask, only waited quietly and endured that inexplicable fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The final result was…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His body, or rather Du Yuheng’s body, seemed to transform into a blood-like state!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked similar to the clones who had been arranged by Salvation to jump into the Blood Pool and become blood-state clones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there were clear differences—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those blood-state clones were immersed in the Blood Pool water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, somehow, Du Yuheng’s blood-state seemed to flow inside the eerie pillar!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not along the surface patterns of the pillar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if inside the pillar there existed an internal space the blood flowed through!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this state Jiang Ye’s vision remained pitch black.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He only felt himself flowing like a liquid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tried calling, “Du Yuheng?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if the Du Yuheng who had his blood sucked dry had vanished…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Jiang Ye remained in this strange liquid state, flowing down inside the pillar…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After an unknown time of drifting in that void, a faint light finally poured into his blank vision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“tic-tic—tic-tic—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The faint sound of water broke the long, deathlike silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye’s sight and hearing slowly reawakened, making him feel as if he had died and been brought back to life!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although his Conscious Soul Body did not rely on a physical body, Jiang Ye felt a strange rot, as if both flesh and spirit had decayed…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was like he had slept for a very long time and was just now awakened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After quite a while, his decayed consciousness and senses became fully alert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sight, hearing, sensation, and thought gradually cleared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He found he was still a strange liquid body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But not the red liquid of the blood-state clones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a milky white mist-like liquid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This liquid body seemed contained within some vessel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Drops of fluid from the same source kept falling, one by one, into his liquid form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The “tic-tic—” water sounds were probably those drops falling into his liquid body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>was happening?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye tried to move, or at least use Witch Gui’s conscious soul body to change into a physical form…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But all attempts failed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt sealed inside a vessel as a liquid body!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He called again inside his mind, “Du Yuheng?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still no answer!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he wondered whether he would be sealed here for a long time…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides the dripping, he suddenly heard other voices at his ear:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This… is the bottom of the Blood Pool? Or… the root of the World Tree?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But… it’s so dark, I can’t see anything!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is there something wrong with my eyes, or is this place inherently so dark?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those voices—surprisingly—were Lin Dong and the Moon People who followed him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their voices sounded distant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their tones carried obvious fear and cautious probing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To Jiang Ye’s surprise…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although his vision couldn’t clearly see, he perceived a definite brightness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The light even felt a bit dazzling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed the container holding his liquid body existed in a particularly bright space.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Lin Dong and the others were saying… darkness?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps their eyes were malfunctioning?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Jiang Ye thought this, the discussion settled to a conclusion—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It should be that the World Tree root area has no natural light… that’s why it’s so pitch black here…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Quiet for a bit, I think I hear… faint water sounds coming from afar?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That water sound should be the droplets falling where Jiang Ye was located.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the talk paused, Lin Dong said, “Let’s try walking toward the water sound.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Light footsteps followed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jiang Ye was judging something by those footsteps when another uncertain voice from the distant discussion said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is this really the World Tree root?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Would there really be such solid ground beneath the earth?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came two knocks, “dong dong,” and the questioning voice continued, “Listen, the sound my finger makes when I tap the ground…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This ground doesn’t feel like soil at all, more like… crystal?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Could we have… fallen into some crystal palace?”\u003C\u002Fp>",2151,"2026-06-03T07:17:57.310Z","2026-06-03T07:18:01.092Z",1,"novelbin.me","c395ff0384432b097812fec5c45e4163a781c503aca3148f52a72307e3318528","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-536","surviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-chapter-534",575,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fsurviving-the-doomsday-apartment-with-infinite-c-cover.jpg"]