Chapter 878

Qian Chen looked over the usage instructions for the Blood of Temptation twice.

It satisfies the senses, fills the hunger and thirst, and creates illusions to satisfy all your needs, but the satisfaction after use is only temporary, and one will become increasingly empty afterward.

This is one of the most commonly used potions on the Path of the Blood Cup, usually used before the Blood Cup ritual to create the "Hungry"—beings devoured by desire and emptiness—and then, by using this hunger to consume refined Original Sin flesh and blood, one can transform into a dark creature.

"What kind of junkie's path is this..."

Qian Chen complained, the Four Spirits Blade in his heart stirring restlessly.

This potion, retrieved from the Spirit Realm using the Blood Cup, along with the various potions concocted from it, is known as "Blood Medicine"! It is an important resource for the Original Sin Sect, the Path of the Blood Cup, and dark creatures.

The first volume of the "Book of the Blood Cup" records seven types of blood medicine, including the Blood of Temptation.

They are: the Blood of Greed, which becomes the Original Sin of a vampire while possessing powerful healing effects; the Blood of Wrath, which becomes the Original Sin of a werewolf while possessing powerful strength augmentation; and the Blood of Envy, which becomes an evil spirit while possessing invisibility effects.

The Blood of Gluttony, which becomes a ghoul while possessing damage reduction, strength, and agility augmentation.

The Blood of Pride, which becomes a demon while possessing fire and spellcasting abilities.

The Blood of Sloth, which becomes an aberration while possessing massive size, a grotesque body, and alienation abilities.

Seeing the end, Qian Chen shook the "Book of the Blood Cup" with dissatisfaction: "What about Lust? Where is the Blood of Lust that turns one into a Succubus/Incubus, possessing powerful sexual ability, charm, and a giant member?"

"You've almost finished the seven original sins, so why did you specifically forget this one?"

After flipping through the entire book and finding no record of the Blood of Lust, Qian Chen helplessly put down the "Book of the Blood Cup."

"This thing must have been used too much by others and was heavily targeted by the Holy Church, or perhaps humans and dark creatures have been indulging in it for so long that it squeezed out the other paths and was ostracized by its own kind!"

Qian Chen wanted to throw the "Book of the Blood Cup" away; the truly useful things were all gone, so what use were you?

But in the end, he patiently flipped to the back—what if it was hidden in code?

After the Blood Medicine section was finished, there was another ritual for wandering the Spirit Realm.

But this time, the cup placed in front of the mirror had become a woman. This is also a restricted ritual, requiring one to enter the Spirit Realm while engaged in sexual intercourse with high desire.

In this situation, the spirit will arrive at a place called the Court of Chaos, and by sacrificing to the monsters within, one can gestate the seeds of monsters in the mundane world.

Another type of "Holy Cup" gives flesh to Spirit Realm creatures.

Before vampires, werewolves, and other monsters appeared in the mundane world, this was how they obtained the bloodlines of these dark creatures.

Of course, the current Blood Cup ritual only requires putting a drop of a vampire's source blood or a werewolf's venomous blood into the blood in the cup for the incarnation ritual; there is no need to steal and sacrifice the essences of various existences in the Spirit Realm.

"Heavy taste!"

Qian Chen flipped through it hurriedly, and the next page gave him another huge shock. This page was the "Incarnation Ritual," which is the Blood Cup Secret Ritual, the ritual of drinking Original Sin blood to become a dark creature.

However, this was the original version.

Fetal eating...

Taking the aberration fetus stolen in the previous ritual and eating it through a ritual to obtain their bloodline.

Qian Chen thought it was about planting seeds, but he didn't expect it to be eating people... no, eating aberrations. But considering that the fetus also has a mystical bloodline connection with the practitioner, it could be called the "Child-Eating Ritual."

"The dependents of the Cauldron of Creation are truly evil; no wonder they were beaten by the Holy Church under my light until they couldn't lift their heads, fleeing everywhere and hiding in the shadows!"

Then, the latter half of the book was all "Corpse-Eating Rituals"!

Including alternative uses for blood medicine.

Blood medicine will be infected by the Real and polluted by Original Sin. Original Sin pollution is also the source of power for dark creatures. The so-called fear of the Lamp Father's light, the tendency to lose one's mind in rage, and the greed that can only be satisfied by drinking blood—these are all the prices paid for obtaining power and are not worth mentioning.

If it weren't for this, they wouldn't be dark creatures.

But the infection of the Real is very troublesome!

It is said that the first generation of dark creatures had huge flaws and sank into the True Realm layer by layer, only becoming near-real at the end; otherwise, they wouldn't have been hit so miserably by the Holy Church.

Likewise, blood medicine infected by the Real may deteriorate significantly.

Qian Chen knew this, because the essence of potions is false. Even though the logic behind the potions used to refine blood medicine had been refined generation after generation to be near-real, the power itself was false.

Therefore, to turn the power of blood medicine into reality, it needs to undergo transformation.

The transformation channel left by Qian Chen is the "True Realm," which is the true darkness, but there are always people who like to take shortcuts. The mundane world is where the True Realm and the Spirit Realm intersect, and the living beings and flesh created by the Dao Fruit of Creation carry the aura of the Real.

And Original Sin—although Qian Chen hasn't figured out exactly what that is yet—can be imagined as some kind of real existence created by the Dao Fruit of Creation.

"I estimate there is still an Original Sin Dao Fruit. Hmm! It should be something refined by the Cauldron of Creation. After so many years of refining and piecing together, it's probably already complete! It doesn't even mention it, so there must be a trap..."

Qian Chen opened this "Book of the Blood Cup" and found that the seams of the book were full of—just trapping Zhuzhu, just trapping Zhuzhu!

But the method given in the book was very simple—feed the blood medicine to people, and then we eat the people...

Use people to raise medicine, use people to refine medicine, and we eat people.

So why is the Blood of Temptation the most widely spread, and can be called the foundation of the Path of the Blood Cup?

It is because it can be mixed into anything and sold as a psychoactive drug and poison.

People who take the Blood of Temptation for a long time are not only excellent supplements for dark creatures and refining materials for the Path of the Blood Cup, but they are also reserves for becoming transcendents of the Path of the Blood Cup.

And this kind of thing is usually sold very expensively, even solving the economic source of the transcendents along the way!

"Potions—blood medicine from the Spirit Realm; Incantations—actually simplified secrets; Secrets—from the secret 'Corpse-Eating Sect Ritual'; Spirituality—from people."

"The four elements of the Path of the Blood Cup are very comprehensive."

"But among the four elements of mysticism, incantations are actually just fillers: the power of an incantation comes first from the secret content of the incantation, and second from the language. The more widely used a language once was, the stronger its power; and the fewer people who use it now, the less shared power it has—this is the secret!"

"The true second element is actually the Real!"

"The power of mysticism comes from potions, spirituality, secrets, and the Real!"

"Potions are illusory truths extracted from the fantasies of all living beings; spirituality is the spiritual light flowing out from the Dao Dust Pearl; secrets are powers created by all living beings together—the faith and wishes of all living beings. Therefore, the more people secrets once influenced, the more powerful they were; the fewer people who know them now, the more they can be uniquely possessed."

"And the Real... is the Real!"

Qian Chen only read halfway before confirming that dark creatures and transcendents of the Path of the Blood Cup must live in darkness, chaos, and slaughter, and the entire transcendent ecosystem is based on the overly rampant drug abuse in the Western Continent and the New Continent.

"Hmm, no wonder the ban in the Eastern Continent is so severe; the Path of the Blood Cup probably has no room for survival there!"

"This 'Book of the Blood Cup' is indeed extremely evil. The corpse-eating rituals in the second half, besides using people to turn blood medicine into reality, are themselves rituals that possess all four elements. Hmm! I estimate there are also eighty-six ways to control people with the Blood of Temptation, seventy-two uses for the Blood of Greed, and other such practical classics. But they aren't written here..."

"The Corpse-Eating Ritual explains how to gather human spirituality into certain specific flesh and blood organs, and then use them for rituals and potions."

"The four elements of mysticism: potions, spirituality, the Real, and secrets."

"Let me think about how to rewrite it: first, secrets..." Qian Chen wrote down "A Study of Folk Festivals" and "Festival Food—Tracing the Origins of Sacrificial Feasts."

"The one who created this world was a thought of mine! So the most real thing is the world that Tai Shang opened up with the Illusory Dao Fruit in my subconscious. Everything in that world is the reality of the root."

"Therefore, the two books I wrote are the secret transmissions that are truly closest to the Real."

"Then potions... it's still blood medicine, no need to change that, but why must it conform to Original Sin? The Path of Original Sin is definitely a huge trap that the Cauldron of Creation is waiting to catch me in. Spirituality is carried by the cup and turned into matter—this logic is correct. After all, all matter in this world was opened up by the Dao Fruit of Creation."

"But why must it be blood in the cup?"

"There are three things in the cup: blood is the fruit of sin, water is the fruit of purification, and oil is the fruit of light."

Qian Chen drew a vessel where oil is held in a cup, a wick is inserted into the oil, and the lamp is lit—a vessel of cup and lamp as one.

"Light has no carrier, so corresponding mundane objects can be put into the water to carry it, and it can be sealed in the oil. Hmm! Gemstones, beautiful jades—this way, spirituality and potions can also be sealed within the gemstones."

"The three substrates in the cup: blood, water, and oil, represent the powers of sin, purification, and light, and are also representatives of the Cauldron of Creation, the Kunlun Mirror, and me."

"The Real—using people might be a bit worse, but aren't chickens, ducks, cows, and sheep also part of the Real Creation? The reality they represent is not bad. Feeding them with blood medicine and potions can still refine the potions. The Blood Cup Church is unwilling to use them; it should be because they lack 'spirituality'."

"But the light of the sun, moon, and stars, which is the light of the celestial bodies, and the timing of their operation, represent my Dao Dust Pearl and are the greatest source of spirituality."

"Therefore, with secrets, potions, the Real, and spirituality all present, come forth! The ultimate ritual of the Corpse-Eating Sect—New Year's Eve Dinner!"

Qian Chen wrote furiously in the "Book of the Blood Cup": "The first dish, 'Fish Every Year'! Secret: Carp leaping over the Longmen, so it possesses the power of sublimation and transformation; Black carp are huge and eat snails, they are the freshwater holy fish of anglers, so they possess strength, life, youth... Eh! These four great domestic fish seem to be eaten less in the New Continent, whatever! Sturgeon, like a dragon, huge, many offspring, representing prosperity, fertility, and the dragon..."

"Potions: star anise, cinnamon, green onion, ginger, garlic... Spices are one of the most important things in mysticism."

"Oil base is best in the cup, oil seals various potions, green onion and ginger oil is the best!"

"Feed the fish various potions; carp are best fed with silkworm moth cocoons representing transformation. Sichen: the reflection of the moth in the Spirit Realm, can be raised on mulberry trees in the garden, and there are also wild ones in the forest. All insects that can spin cocoons can be substituted. Then on New Year's Eve, hmm! The important timing when the 12th Sichen and the 1st Sichen alternate, carp raised on silkworm moth cocoons, cooked with green onion and ginger oil and tomato juice, sweet and sour flavor..."

"Leaping over the Longmen!"

"By obtaining this corpse-eating feast, one can use the Dragon phase of the 4th Sichen Ouroboros, the bright spirituality of the 1st Sichen Lamp Father, and the dark true nature of the 12th Sichen Corpse to transform into an aberration—a Dragon-Blood Dependent."

Lines of text were written out furiously by Qian Chen.

In the proper "Book of the Blood Cup," besides the blood medicine of the seven original sins being preserved as part of the later Corpse-Eating Sect ritual—Dark Cuisine.

There remained—Seven Holy Oils: green onion oil, ginger oil, garlic oil, soy sauce, sesame oil, red oil, clear oil.

Three Spirit Waters: Water of Purification, Water of Holiness, Water of Reality.

And finally, the most important "Corpse-Eating Ritual," besides the New Year's Eve dinner which occupied nearly half, there were also Zongzi for the Dragon Boat Festival, mooncakes for the Mid-Autumn Festival, Tangyuan for the Lantern Festival, turkey for Easter, gingerbread for Christmas...

"The mere 'Book of the Blood Cup' only has six paths of original sin and three secret rituals: the Secret Ritual of Blood Cup Incarnation, the Secret Ritual of Blood Cup Mediumship, and the Secret Ritual of Blood Cup Corpse-Eating."

"But after my rewriting, the 'Book of the Blood Cup: Feast Ritual' has a total of twelve Sichen paths and more than ten types of secret rituals. Besides the foundational cup mediumship, feast canon, and incarnation secret ritual, there are more than ten types of festival secret rituals, including New Year's Eve dinner, Dragon Boat Festival sacrifice, Mid-Autumn Festival, Christmas, and Easter."

"It can be called the ultimate book of secret rituals combining Chinese and Western styles."

Qian Chen looked at it for a long time and felt more and more that the "Book of the Blood Cup" was no longer suitable, so he used the pen left on the notebook when his original body died to cross it out and rewrite it as—"Book of Lamps—Festival Celebration Recipes."

"With this book, I present it to my friend Tai Yi, hoping he can smell the taste of his hometown in his dreams."

This was a sincere blessing!

Qian Chen examined it for a while and added—Chapter of Feasts—at the back.

Path of Ascension—New Year's Eve Dinner, experiencing the long, nearly month-long New Year ritual, ascending with the help of the Sichen power of the 1st, 12th, and 4th months, containing the powers of solar terms, time, yin and yang, etc.

What Qian Chen prepared for the ascender is the Dao of the Leap Month.

Path of Ascension—Christmas Feast, a ritual of spiritual ascension approaching the Savior...

"Hmm! Currently, there are only these two paths that can lead to ascension. The Three-Origin Ghost Food Feast of the Shangyuan, Zhongyuan, and Xiayuan festivals barely counts as one, but it is not as good as the first two, which have clear Leap Month Sichen and the Savior's position in this world that can be contested. The Three-Origin Ghost Food Feast requires screening a large number of illusory truths about the ghost path, reincarnation, death, darkness, and the three origins, refining them into spirit medicine, and then refining them into Three-Origin Ghost Food according to the 'Book of Lamps,' condensing the Dao Fruit through the feast."

"I estimate that it will be 3,000 years after the 'Book of Lamps' is spread before there is hope of piecing together the Dao Fruit, but it is also a Dao Fruit that can truly jump out of this world, not a Sichen or a pseudo-Sichen!"

"I still have a lot of inspiration, but I can't write it all down here. When I get the later volumes of the 'Book of the Blood Cup' one day, I will write them out!"

Qian Chen put down the black-covered book.

It carried the secrets personally written by the incarnation of the Lamp Father and personally hidden by the Tai Shang Dao Ancestor within the True Illusory Dao Fruit.

This secret transmission, with its pitch-black cover slippery like human skin and feeling like it had life to the touch, gradually turned into an ancient, bronze-edged book with thick, substantial pages.