Chapter 1422: Blood Spring

"Board the island." Chen Yu pointed his right hand into the void, and Lichen appeared. The three-foot-long azure blade emitted a faint glow in mid-air. Following his deep shout, with a 'Boom—', the water path before him was cleaved open by the Lichen sword in his hand.

A passage appeared, and Chen Yu walked across first, followed by Liu Ruxi and Li Yunshan.

They stepped onto the small island and entered a cave that was clearly excavated by human hands.

They saw a stream of blood at the cave entrance, gathering into a small brook, flowing slowly inward. This blood stream did not know where it came from, nor where it flowed.

"A very dark aura..." As soon as the few arrived here, this was their first reaction.

"As expected of a place where the Yellow Springs Nine Nether and the Dark World intersect," Li Yunshan muttered. "As soon as I came in, I felt a cold, gloomy aura rushing toward my face."

"Correct, the situation in this place is extremely complex," Liu Ruxi also nodded with a solemn expression.

"Senior Li, you must prepare yourself mentally," Chen Yu glanced at Li Yunshan. "For people living in a place like this, disturbed by the auras of three sides, it would be abnormal if they could maintain clarity."

Li Yunshan gave a bitter smile and said, "That Senior Brother of mine, he cultivated his state of mind. When he was young, he once bitterly practiced the Three Realms beneath a waterfall."

"He practiced through the three nines of winter and the three dog days of summer, all to hone his mind. His Dao Heart was the most resilient Dao Heart I have ever seen, but the yin energy and dark aura in this place are too severe."

"Moreover, he has stayed in this place for thirty years, so whether he can hold on really depends on whether his Dao Heart has improved over these years," Li Yunshan said.

"That is fine, but Senior Li, you must know that the more resilient a person's Dao Heart is, the stronger their perception of the Heavenly Dao becomes," Liu Ruxi said. "And once he goes mad, he is even more terrifying than an ordinary person."

Li Yunshan dared not speak further. He knew that what Liu Ruxi said was the truth. Indeed, the more resilient such a Dao Heart is, once faith is lost, it will be extremely terrifying.

He is even more terrifying than one who has fallen into being a Demon.

"Let's go, let's go in and take a look. Perhaps the situation is not as bad as we imagined," Chen Yu said.

"Very well, let's go in." Li Yunshan also gathered his spirits, and the group walked forward together along the brook stained red with blood.

After walking for a long time along the winding path, the group finally arrived before a cave dwelling excavated by hand.

This place was blocked by a massive Duanmen Stone, and the brook flowed out from within; a gap beneath the Duanmen Stone allowed the water to flow out.

Countless severed limbs and arms came from the other side of the Duanmen Stone, and this place was filled with many strange-looking creatures.

These creatures varied in size; some were as large as cats, others as small as old men. Some had three heads and six eyes, others had two limbs leaning forward—strange and extremely bizarre.

They were constantly devouring the severed limbs and arms flowing out from inside. Some of these limbs were human, and some belonged to unknown creatures.

In fact, this place was already in another plane, not the same dimension as where Earth is located.

These creatures could only wander at this cave entrance, unable to leave.

"Dark Creatures, Yellow Springs Filth Demons... all sorts of messy things," Liu Ruxi frowned slightly. Looking at these creatures before her, even with her cultivation as strong as it was, she felt her scalp tingle.

"This place is truly a place where demons dance in chaos," Li Yunshan muttered. He raised his head and said, "Let's go in."

"How do we enter? There is a Duanmen Stone here," Chen Yu asked.

"The Yunying Map is the key to this place," Li Yunshan said. "As long as we place the Yunying Map here, we can unlock this place."

"Then Senior, please try as soon as possible," Chen Yu said. "I hope your Senior Brother Li is still well."

Li Yunshan nodded slightly. He unfolded the Yunying Map in his hand and waved it slightly at the Duanmen Stone.

Following a flash of flowing light, a rumbling sound arose, and the Duanmen Stone rose upward.

A faint Restriction appeared inside the cave; this was an Ancient Forbidden Array, intended to prevent those inside from escaping.

The group walked in slowly, and everything they saw left everyone in Silence.

The cave dwelling was not large, excavated by hand, with very smooth surroundings; it was a stone chamber.

And inside, the blood-colored Blood Eye was slowly overflowing with blood; the blood-colored brook outside flowed out from this place.

Standing within the Blood Eye was a 'person'.

The reason he was called a person was because he still had breath. His body was locked by three arm-thick iron chains, which were wrapped around his waist.

Furthermore, his body was carved with mysterious symbols using special Dharma Artifacts; these symbols were all Restrictions.

And the space above was likewise filled with layers of Restrictions.

This person held a sharp knife in his hand, and he was splicing something together.

It was a human body, and this person still had breath. He was trying every possible way to attach a pair of wings onto this person.

And those wings were shrouded in black energy; clearly, they did not come from this world.

All three were shocked speechless by everything before them. They were not shocked that this person could survive in such a harsh environment, but shocked by what he was doing.

He was actually attempting to combine Yellow Springs creatures with a human body to create a brand-new species? This was something only a madman could do.

One must know that humans are the Spirit of all things, while Yellow Springs creatures are Demon things. What kind of species is formed when the two are combined?

This already violated the moral order; this could no longer be described as defying the heavens—this deserved to be struck by lightning.

Moreover, he was doing it tirelessly; the madness and excitement revealed in his eyes showed that he was extremely passionate about what he held in his hands.

The person in his hands should be one of the village chief's group; they actually all still had a breath of Life.

The person before them was Li Hongyu. He could not leave the cave, but he could drive some Dark Creatures to capture people for him to study.

Just as he was carefully attaching the wings and using a Secret Method to stitch them, that man suddenly let out a strange sound from his throat, and then immediately breathed his last.

"A pity, it failed," Li Hongyu sighed helplessly. He swept his hand, and the severed limbs were swept away. He sat in the Blood Spring, closed his eyes, and pondered bitterly.

"The Heavenly Dao is as it is; you cannot change anything," Liu Ruxi said indifferently.

"Bullshit Heavenly Dao," Li Hongyu opened his eyes. "I, your father, am defying this Heavenly Dao. If I can succeed, I will become a creator."

"Then have you ever thought about using other methods to do this?" Chen Yu smiled. "For example, extracting the genes of both sides to fuse them, taking the path of technology?"