Volume 1, Chapter 306 – Ancestral Blood Pool

This place lay more than a million li deep within the Boundless Demon Domain, and it was already not far from the Lan Clan’s territory.

Cangyue and the other Demon Kings sensed something in their hearts. Realizing that Shi Lan was in danger, they immediately came to her aid.

“We came too late. We beg Your Excellency’s forgiveness.”

Cangyue lowered his head. He could not help feeling a lingering fear in his heart. Shi Lan’s condition at this moment was terrible to the extreme. Had they arrived even one step later, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

As time passed, the bloodline connection within the Lan Clan had already become closer and closer.

This was not a bad thing, but the Lan Clan was still far too immature at present. Aside from Shi Lan, there was not yet a “second generation” capable of supporting the clan’s bloodline.

Shi Lan was the central link of the Lan Clan, the source of their symbiotic bloodline. Once Shi Lan fell and that source of bloodline was cut off, the Lan Clan, which was now gradually growing stronger, would immediately collapse and fall apart.

Though it would not be as severe as with an innate race, where the bloodline would be stripped away and the race would perish entirely, at best their foundation would be shaken and they would be unable to advance another step from then on, while at worst all their cultivation would be lost and they would be beaten back to their original state overnight.

Shi Lan swept a glance over the Demon Kings surrounding her. The resonance of their shared bloodline gave her, for the first time in a very long while, a sense of peace.

With her mind, which had been drawn tight the entire time, finally relaxing, Shi Lan could no longer hold on. Her vision went black and she fell into unconsciousness.

After arranging for two Demon Kings to open a spatial passage and escort Shi Lan back to the Lan Clan territory, Cangyue turned his gaze toward the stiff-bodied old man in the distance.

One shape-shifted Demon King looked him up and down, then asked,

“What do we do with this one?”

“Kill him, of course!”

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Several Demon Kings nearby were all flexing their hands, seething with killing intent.

“No.”

The massive wolf head gave a slight shake, and Cangyue stepped forward first.

“Take him alive. When Your Excellency wakes, she will deal with him personally!”

During the time Shi Lan had been away from the Boundless Demon Domain, the Lan Clan’s overall strength had grown quite a bit.

There were now fourteen shape-shifted Demon Kings alone. Among them, Cangyue had even broken through the shackles of his bloodline and stepped into the Nascent Soul Realm, becoming a true great demon in name and fact.

However, because he had only just broken through, he still could not control it freely and could only remain in his true form at all times.

“Just you few pieces of trash?!”

The old man let out a cold laugh. His massive nascent soul began to burn, releasing the blazing brilliance of the end of life in exchange for the power to fight again.

Though he was at Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul Realm, his blood and qi had already entered old age, and his combat strength was no longer at its peak. Along the way, he had gone through many fierce battles and had already been injured. His situation was far from optimistic.

A shocking battle erupted. Heaven and earth shook violently, the surrounding essence suddenly exploded outward, true qi roared and churned, and booming thunder mixed with beastly howls that seemed to shatter the sky, deafening to the ear.

Pfft!

Half an hour later, the old man’s body exploded in midair and was torn into a rain of blood by Cangyue’s innate divine ability.

The old man’s nascent soul fled out and condensed several sharp soul blades, slicing through the sky and cutting into the sea of consciousness of two shape-shifted Demon Kings, shattering their souls and extinguishing all life.

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“I strode across the world for a lifetime and never thought I would die here. Had this been five hundred years earlier, I would have slaughtered you all like dogs and pigs!”

In a final counterattack before death, the old man dragged two Demon Kings down with him. With a mournful howl, he severed his own nascent soul and shattered the small world he had nurtured, burying everything within the chaotic currents of the void.

“When I became a Demon King, you had not even been born yet.”

Cangyue’s gaze was icy. Had it not been for the innate shackles of his bloodline, how could his cultivation have stopped at its present level?

When he turned and saw the two completely intact corpses of the Demon Kings, the coldness in Cangyue’s eyes faded somewhat.

“Take them back to the clan territory and bury them.”

With that, Cangyue tore open a passageway, and his massive body slowly disappeared. The remaining Demon Kings filed in after him.

…

Chengtian Domain, Xianwu City.

Night had already quietly fallen, yet the entire city was still brilliantly lit and incomparably lively.

The Demon-Suppressing Army had already withdrawn by nearly ninety percent, and many disciples of the Sacred Martial Immortal Sect had appeared in the city.

This battle had also cost the Sacred Martial Immortal Sect a great deal of vitality. Although the core disciples had not suffered many losses, the outer disciples had almost all perished.

During this period, the Sacred Martial Immortal Sect had also been opening its gates wide to recruit disciples, but the results had not been very good.

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First, because its near abandonment of all outer disciples during the demon calamity had been far too chilling. Second, because the forces relocated into Chengtian Domain were far too mixed and numerous.

There was more than one second-rank force among them, so those young men and women naturally had many more choices. The former pattern of the Sacred Martial Immortal Sect standing alone above the whole domain in Chengtian Domain had completely vanished for good.

At the end of the long street stood the Residence of Lord Yu Tianjun.

Yu Hong, dressed in a loose jade robe, stood inside a secret chamber, his hands clasped behind his back as he stared at several extinguished soul lamps before him without saying a word.

“I never thought I still underestimated her…”

After a long while, Yu Hong let out a sigh, dark currents surging in the depths of his eyes.

Two great cultivators of the Nascent Soul Realm, along with four Myriad Phenomena Realm martial artists. For such a force to go kill a single Heavenly Astral Realm martial artist, only to fail and instead perish, was simply unbelievable.

…

In the Boundless Demon Domain, at the center of a mountain range stretching more than a hundred thousand li.

This place had originally been a land devoid of spiritual qi, but it had now become the Lan Clan’s territory.

At the center of the territory stood a grand formation. At the heart of the formation towered a blood-colored stone stele more than ten zhang high, and upon it was carved a lifelike ancient green lotus.

Beside the stele was also a newly opened blood pool, four chi square, filled with a thick liquid like blood.

This was the Ancestral Blood Pool, formed from the condensed blood and qi essence of an entire clan. Among the demon race, it was an absolutely sacred place. Only the most supremely gifted descendants were qualified to enter the pool, temper their bloodline, and help it return to the ancestral state, reviving the glory of their forebears.

At the center of the blood pool lay a woman in silence. Her eyes were closed, her bright silver hair spread across the surface of the pool, and her exquisite face was deathly pale. Her lips held no color at all. She looked like a porcelain doll on the verge of shattering, her body covered in cracks, soaked within the blood pool and utterly devoid of vitality.

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Cangyue stood by the pool with several Demon Kings, all of them looking rather grave.

“Cangyue, this is our clan chief?”

“Why do I feel like she doesn’t seem to be a demon?”

“And her strength doesn’t seem all that impressive either.”

Several Demon Kings who had never seen Shi Lan before all spoke up, their expressions carrying traces of doubt.

Although the pressure from her bloodline could not be faked, these Demon Kings still could not help growing suspicious.

“Knowing too much is not a good thing. You only need to remember that she is our clan chief. That is enough!”

Cold light flashed in Cangyue’s beastly pupils, and his tone carried a stern warning.

Shi Lan was not a demon. He had known that long ago. He had even once guessed that Shi Lan was neither demon nor devil, and even less human, but rather one of the long-vanished Half-God Race.

Suddenly, the formation rippled. A Profound Jade Leopard was being blocked outside the formation by one of the Demon Kings, leaping up and down in obvious agitation.

“Let her in.”

Cangyue frowned slightly and spoke softly.

The formation opened, and the Profound Jade Leopard darted in. She did not even glance at the Demon Kings standing nearby, and only kept circling the blood pool.