At first, neither Heavenjade nor Sang Jinghe understood what Luo Chen wanted to do with so many dragonworms. It was only as they watched him kill the worms one after another and pour their murky blood into the crystalline pool that they gradually realized his intention.

Even though the hundreds of thousands of dragonworms simply lay there without resisting, slaughtering hundreds of thousands of dragonworms was an exhausting task. It took a few days to finish the task even with the three of them working together. By the end, the crystalline bottom of the pool was nowhere to be seen; it was now covered by a thick, murky fluid. Its dark red surface rippled slowly, and the stench of fresh blood hung so heavily in the air that it seemed impossible to disperse.

Sang Jinghe looked at it and sighed regretfully. "What a waste. If these dragonworms were used properly, they could support the rise of an entire sect."

He had never expected Luo Chen's solution to the dragonworm problem to be so direct. Instead of setting...