Chapter 152: The Bait Is the Blood Clan!

Deep underground of the Shenglande world ecology.

Compared to the cavern ecology beneath Lamoer.

The underground world of Shenglande is affected by Shenglande's multiple layers and the ecology of the world itself.

Here the subterranean space is broader.

Thus, this gives the blood clans ample room to operate.

Along the way, the massive tunnel fissures, often hundreds of meters high, are swarming with countless blood‑sucking bats.

No wonder when Ta Ke was copying the magical map, Xi Luoer cautioned him from beside.

"Even if you are a wizard, you must not recklessly open exposed areas; once the blood clan discovers you, those bats alone can easily kill you."

Sharp, faint squeaks pervade this vast underground realm, like a dense net.

Any transcendent who intrudes into this area finds it hard to evade the probing of this dense sound net.

And at this moment.

In the dark, damp depths.

Ta Ke, in Shadow Form, stands silently in a corner of the rubble.

The sound waves surging around Ta Ke silently penetrate his Shadow Form without any unusual fluctuation.

Within the detection system of those blood‑sucking bats, Ta Ke is completely invisible.

Precisely because of this, Ta Ke can delve into these deeper underground reaches.

Now hidden in the corner, Ta Ke scrutinizes a sizable blood‑clan castle perched on a distant cliff wall.

There are many blood clans inside.

Ta Ke's purpose on this expedition is those numerous blood clans.

Of course, the bats overhead are also a resource Ta Ke can exploit.

After a long stare, Ta Ke slowly withdraws his gaze, focusing on the massive pillars and wall barriers surrounding him.

"My base is established near the blood‑clan castle."

"Even they probably wouldn't expect anyone to hunt so boldly at their doorstep."

After pondering for a moment.

Ta Ke then begins his action.

In a secluded corner, using Shadow Form, Ta Ke squeezes into the depths of a fissure.

Having found a suitable spot, Ta Ke takes out the small wooden board for the Barrier Ritual.

He lights a candle and begins to softly chant, summoning the great Barrier.

Soon the Barrier's power, guided by the offering and the ritual flame, descends.

This scene is simultaneously spotted by the bats in the fissure.

"Squeak squeak squeak…"

The bats in the crevices quickly begin to screech.

But soon, the rock walls on either side of Ta Ke are pried open like soft dough, then converge at the edges, completely isolating Ta Ke from the outside world.

The slightly agitated blood‑sucking bats sniff around, find nothing, and gradually fall silent.

Now, Ta Ke, having absorbed the power of the Iron Pair Source Wall, has reached an extremely high limit.

Ta Ke's own steam‑wizard ecology has, in the marginal zone, begun to show the outline of the Iron Pair Source Wall's barrier state.

This is a very good phenomenon, and one Ta Ke has long awaited.

Transcendent ecology!

The more complex, the stronger, the better.

The balance of multiple transcendent ecologies enables Ta Ke to resist even stronger ecological forces.

As Ta Ke's own Iron Pair Source Wall power becomes sufficiently strong.

Now Ta Ke can employ the Barrier Ritual to pry open space within the wall and barrier, allowing free movement.

The Rune Hand picks up the ritual's small wooden board.

Thus manipulating the Barrier Ritual, he treats the rock as water, his opened space as a bubble, and begins shifting his position within it.

Positioning with phase ability.

Soon Ta Ke enters a spot roughly twenty meters deep within the rock wall.

After rapidly expanding the internal space.

Ta Ke commences a series of operations to construct the internal environment of the wall barrier.

Previously, Ta Ke's rented small house was just as dry.

Now redoing it feels like a familiar, easy ride.

About two hours later.

An extremely spacious Barrier Chamber, with hidden passages and wind tunnels, has thus been erected by Ta Ke.

Inside the Barrier Chamber, after patrolling back and forth and taking a careful feel, Ta Ke nods in satisfaction.

A Barrier Chamber combining the Iron Pair Source Wall with the Silver Radiance Sacred Wall.

Even if discovered by sixth‑rank blood clans.

Ta Ke can still escape calmly.

Before arriving here, Ta Ke had already left numerous phase nodes along the way; escaping would be too easy.

Moreover, the wall itself, due to Shenglande, is extremely hard.

Given that blood clans are not adept at siege tactics, they may not be able to break through.

"The stage is set; now the protagonists can make their entrance, um… that is, capture the blood clans."

With that thought, Ta Ke performed a phase shift and arrived at another passage that was higher up and farther from the Bastion Secret Room.

This passage was located at the upwind of the Blood Clan Castle, rather narrow, about three to four meters in diameter, making it suitable as a trap passage.

Using the Bastion Ritual, he slightly modified the trap passage.

With a flip of his hand, Ta Ke took out the fresh blood he had prepared earlier.

This was the blood of an unbroken second-tier female supernatural being.

It wasn't cheap, but for those blood clans, it had a deadly allure; after three or four drops of blood fell to the ground.

Ta Ke used the Shadow State to perfectly blend into the darkness of the corner.

Even though the blood clan possesses night-vision ability.

Given Ta Ke's current concealment mastery, he is confident that blood clans below level forty cannot see him.

Unnoticed, half an hour passed.

Ta Ke frowned slightly.

"Is the amount of dripping blood too little? Should I increase the flow?"

"If I increase the flow and a whole group comes at once, that could be troublesome."

Just as Ta Ke was pondering whether to add more or not add and keep waiting.

A giant bat with jet-black fur and a wingspan of a full meter swooped down, accompanied by surging dark-source mist; this level-15 bat-shifter transformed into human form.

He looked about seventeen or eighteen, with clear eyebrows and bright eyes, and fair skin.

The young blood clan took two deep sniffs of the air.

Instantly, a thirst for blood surged.

"It's filled with the rich fragrance of a maiden and the sweet scent of blood."

"Could it be an injured, fleeing human maiden?"

For a moment, the young blood clan vaguely recalled an old blood clan's tale at a gathering, of a human maiden who willingly offered her blood and life to the blood clan in exchange for the wonderful fairy tale of the first embrace.

"Mmm..."

While daydreaming about that wonderful story, this level-15 blood clan was about to investigate further.

But he discovered he was rapidly shrinking.

"What's going on? I thought I had fully mastered human form—why am I automatically shifting back to bat form?"

But the next moment, the young blood clan noticed something was off.

"Damn… this isn't bat form, it's… baa!"

The young blood clan trembled and let out a sheep's cry.

Lowering his head to examine himself, he found he had turned into a sheep.

The next moment, the young blood clan–sheep was shoved hard by a hand.

The blood clan–sheep only felt the surrounding space instantly stretch, and his vision blurred.

When he steadied his form again.

He found himself already inside a gigantic enclosed stone cavern.

And here… it felt like a slaughterhouse!

A trap!

This is a trap specially set up by despicable, shameless humans!

The young blood clan roared in anger.

But he could only impotently rage, emitting a 'baa-baa-baa' sheep's cry.

Sheep Transformation Technique, Rune Hand Phase Throw—directly phase‑throwing the target into the previous Bastion Secret Room.

This move, Ta Ke employed it as smoothly as flowing clouds and water.

"Not bad, not bad!"

Ta Ke gave a light laugh.

"It's just that the efficiency is a bit slow; a slight increase in force will do."

After dripping a few more drops of fresh blood, Ta Ke continued waiting.

This time, it took less than five minutes.

Two blood clan bats flew together into the passage interior.

One was a level-29 blood clan nearing adulthood, the other a level-18 immature blood clan.

"Be careful, there's human blood traces."

After the level-29 blood clan looked left and right, he spoke softly.

The next moment, the level-29 blood clan had already turned into a sheep.

While the level-18 blood clan beside him had not yet reacted.

"Bang!"

A fierce punch, containing terrifying power, shot straight along his skull into his brain and deep soul.

The strong physical hypnosis effect was perfectly displayed on this level-18 blood clan.

"With this third hand, it's convenient."

"One turns into a sheep, one gets hypnotized."

Ta Ke, hidden in the shadowy corner, thus used fresh blood to begin fishing for those blood clans.

One—directly turned into a sheep,

Two—sheep transformation and hypnosis.

Three or more.

Ta Ke directly used the power of the wall-barrier ritual to close off both side passages, then gradually tidied up.

As time passed, the number of vampires captured by Ta Ke kept increasing.