Chapter 52: The Marvelous Uses of the Bloodline

At the core of the Soul Devouring Bloodline lies the Blood Core.
The Blood Core is actually an independent space located at the center of the heart, surrounded by an invisible energy flow that keeps it separated from the blood inside. The soul of the Soul Devouring Bloodline resides within the Blood Core.
Inside the Blood Core, there are two parts: one is the Birth Chamber, and the other is the Rest Chamber.
When the soul enters the Birth Chamber, the entire Soul Devouring Bloodline becomes highly active, drawing in continuous streams of spiritual energy from various places and transporting them to the heart to refine energy and comprehend the mysteries of primal energy. When the soul enters the Rest Chamber, the Soul Devouring Bloodline calms down, releasing the energy from the blood back into the earth.
At this time, the soul of the Soul Devouring Bloodline is in the Birth Chamber, which is why the Artifact God did not want Qu Yi and the others to enter the Blood Core and fight against its soul.
“Artifact God, why can’t we fight against the soul of the Soul Devouring Bloodline now?” Qu Yi asked curiously.
The Artifact God bit his lip and shouted, “The Soul Devouring Bloodline belongs to the realm of lower-level Earth Soul Immortals. As soon as you guys enter this heart, the primal energy contained in its blood will explode—do you still want to survive?”
After saying that, the Artifact God simply flew onto the soft chair and fell into a deep sleep, clearly displeased by Qu Yi’s question.
Qu Yi smiled awkwardly. The Artifact God was really impatient. Since he didn’t know what the Soul Devouring Bloodline was or what kind of cultivation it had, nor what strange attacks it might use, it was necessary to ask more details.
Seeing the Artifact God’s impatience, Qu Yi understood he should stop pressing further. Since the Artifact God said it could easily subdue the Soul Devouring Bloodline, he would just wait for its instructions.
A day passed.
The Artifact God on the soft chair suddenly opened its eyes, jumped up, and stood on the chair, shouting, “Fire Lord, the soul of the Soul Devouring Bloodline has entered the Rest Chamber. You can now use the Floating Flame Ribbon to split the Blood Core. I’ll activate the Tiny Realm Sphere to enter. Oh, and Fire Lord, remember to bring the Star Luo Cauldron for protection.”
Fire Lord was momentarily stunned but quickly understood the Artifact God’s meaning. He smiled and said, “Alright, I’ll go confront this Soul Devouring Bloodline.”
In an instant, Fire Lord disappeared inside the Tiny Realm Sphere.
At that moment, inside the heart of the Soul Devouring Bloodline, the blood flowed like volcanic lava, with various energies being extremely powerful and boundless.

Fire Lord suddenly appeared near the Blood Core, already holding the mid-grade immortal weapon Youhuo Ling in his hand. As soon as he sent his Fire Immortal Energy, Youhuo Ling transformed into a thin, straight sword-like object that pierced straight into the Blood Core. At the same time, flames erupted on the sword, burning a hole in the two-person-tall Blood Core.

The Inch Realm Ball was also carried by Youhuo Ling and sent directly into the Blood Core’s breathing chamber.

Just as Youhuo Ling struck the Blood Core, the soul of the Devouring Soul Bloodline, which had just been about to fall into slumber, was instantly awakened, emitting a furious mental impulse.

Inside the entire heart, the blood there actually solidified, quickly pinpointing Fire Lord’s location. The solidified blood then rapidly reverted to liquid form before exploding.

This blood was all primal energy, and when it exploded, it caused spatial tears, with unimaginable violence.

The solidified blood turned back into liquid and then exploded—this process continued endlessly, and so did the explosions.

However, Fire Lord was prepared. After sending the Inch Realm Ball into the Blood Core, he immediately entered the Star Luo Ding.

Countless explosive energies struck the Star Luo Ding, yet none managed to cause even the slightest damage to it. Fire Lord remained safe.

Inside the Blood Core’s breathing chamber, Qu Yi suddenly jumped out and saw only a red blood mass in the dark space, about the size of a human head—that was the soul of the Devouring Soul Bloodline.

“Devouring Soul Bloodline, I’ll kill you!” Qu Yi shouted, wielding his Liuhe Knife as he flew toward it.

The blood mass showed no fear. When it saw Qu Yi approaching, it suddenly disappeared and reappeared right above Qu Yi’s head. The soul of the Devouring Soul Bloodline had reached the rank of Lower Earth Soul Immortal and had already grasped the concept of primal space. It had used spatial traversal to evade Qu Yi’s attack.

As soon as it appeared above Qu Yi’s head, the soul emitted three red rays that pierced into Qu Yi’s brain.

It aimed to enslave Qu Yi outright, trying to imprint a mark on his Soul Flower.

Qu Yi’s body froze as if turned to ice, seemingly lacking any resistance in the breathing chamber.

Just as the three rays entered Qu Yi’s Soul Flower and were about to imprint a mark on it, the Inch Realm Ball hidden within the Soul Flower suddenly emerged, shooting out a golden beam that split into three strands, blocking all three red rays. Moreover, these three golden beams followed the red rays and counterattacked, entering the soul of the Devouring Soul Bloodline.

This golden light was, of course, the soul of the Artifact God. Given the power of the Artifact God, it was something no soul from the Soul Devouring Bloodline could withstand. In an instant, the Artifact God left its mark within the soul of the Soul Devouring Bloodline. Thus, the Soul Devouring Bloodline now became a slave to the Artifact God, and by extension, to Qu Yi as well. Everything happened so quickly that the Soul Devouring Bloodline was subdued by Qu Yi in no time. At that moment, the explosive energy in the heart also stopped abruptly, as Qu Yi had ordered the soul within the blood core to cease its attack. After a short while, Qu Yi emerged from the blood core and walked over to the Star Luo Ding with a smile. “Fire Venerable, you can come out now,” Qu Yi said. Fire Venerable immediately flew out of the Star Luo Ding. Seeing the quiet blood core beside it and the blood in the heart, which had returned to a liquid state and was flowing again, his eyes flashed with surprise. Soon, Qu Yi and Fire Venerable entered the Inch Realm Sphere. “Artifact God, since we’ve subdued the Soul Devouring Bloodline, what use does it have? It’s time you tell us now,” Qu Yi asked, sitting on his soft chair and looking at the Artifact God. Seeing how eager the six of them were, the Artifact God smiled and said directly, “The blood of the Soul Devouring Bloodline is called Origin Blood. It replenishes immortal essence faster than Origin Stones. As long as you consume enough Origin Blood, you won’t have to worry about running out of immortal essence during battles. Of course, that’s just a secondary benefit. Its main function is that it can mobilize the blood within the bloodline and release it to form a special kind of spiritual energy. Once you’re immersed in this spiritual energy, your ability to comprehend the principles and powers of the origin will improve significantly, helping you break through your cultivation level quickly.” After hearing the Artifact God’s words, Qu Yi, Gold Venerable, Wood Venerable, Water Venerable, Fire Venerable, and Earth Venerable were all stunned and remained motionless. The effects of the Soul Devouring Bloodline were indeed extremely powerful. Just think—this bloodline extended throughout every corner of the Fire Phoenix Continent. How much blood must there be? This blood was equivalent to immortal essence pills. Drinking just a sip of it was more effective and faster than painstakingly refining pills over thousands of years.

Most importantly, cultivators in the immortal realm need a long time to advance by one level, with tens of thousands of years being quite common. This is because they must grasp various fundamental laws and forces of origin, encounter a vast amount of knowledge, and discern the essence through various phenomena—all of which take considerable time. In contrast, the Soul Devouring Bloodline allows one to instantly create such laws and forces of origin using spiritual energy derived from what has been understood, greatly facilitating the cultivator’s comprehension.

Moreover, Qu Yi possesses divine formula cards, including the Enlightenment Stele, along with the special spiritual energy emitted by the Soul Devouring Bloodline, which further accelerates his cultivation speed.

“Divine Tool God, this Soul Devouring Bloodline is truly extraordinary,” exhaled Qu Yi and the other five in awe.

There was no choice but to acknowledge its power.

The Divine Tool God smiled and said, “Golden Venerable, Wooden Venerable, Water Venerable, Fire Venerable, Earth Venerable—you five are currently at the level of lower Human Soul Immortals, so it’s not suitable for you to cultivate here inside the heart. It’s better to go to a branch mountain range on the plateau first, find a place, establish a cave dwelling, and cultivate using the spiritual energy emitted by the Soul Devouring Bloodline.”

It turned out that the “veins” of the Soul Devouring Bloodline could be divided into main veins, branch veins, and fine veins. The spiritual energy from fine veins helps Human Soul Immortals comprehend the forces of origin, that from branch veins helps them grasp the fundamental laws of origin, while that from the main veins accelerates the comprehension of these forces by Earth Soul Immortals.

As for the heart of the Soul Devouring Bloodline, it might help cultivators advance from six-star Earth Soul Immortals to lower-level Earth Soul Immortals—though this depends on opportunity.

The five—Golden Venerable, Wooden Venerable, Water Venerable, Fire Venerable, and Earth Venerable—also understood this principle. Cultivating inside the heart could easily cause their origin energy to overwhelm them.

Cultivation still had to proceed step by step.

Soon, Earth Venerable left the Dimensional Sphere and used a Subterranean Shuttle to reach a branch mountain range on the plateau. The other four—Golden Venerable, Wooden Venerable, Water Venerable, and Fire Venerable—also went to four nearby branch mountain ranges and established cave dwellings inside the peaks of each.

The Soul Devouring Bloodline then activated its veins to create passages underground, leading directly to the cave dwellings, from where it emitted spiritual energy of fundamental laws.

The five immediately began cultivating quietly in their respective cave dwellings.

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Three months after arriving on the plateau, the disciples of Tongzhou Hall had found many places suitable for crafting. The eighteen peak leaders then selected a few locations as their own crafting sites.

All sorts of buildings rose from the ground.

Of course, the most important structures were the various crafting rooms.

Fire Lord, who had been gone for so long, finally returned. After flying through the air for a while, he arrived at the refining site built on Peak Absolute Fire.
“Fire Lord, you actually disappeared for three months!” Suddenly, a person flew up from the ground and blocked Fire Lord’s path in mid-air.
It was Zhen Nantian.
Fire Lord looked at Zhen Nantian, smiled for a moment, then suddenly stepped closer and said, “Fatty, I’ve found something great. I think I should give you a reward.”
Zhen Nantian’s eyes immediately lit up.