Sage of Humanity-Chapter 1833 - 1831: Ancestral Artifact
Outside the Blood Termination World, not much could be discerned, but once inside, Lu Ye immediately noticed many anomalies.
Looking around, he saw that within the Blood Termination World, columns of blood light soared into the sky from all directions, like blood pillars connecting heaven and earth.
The entire Blood Termination World had over a thousand such blood pillars, forming a magnificent sight from afar.
Master and servant entered the Blood Termination World from a central position, and the nearest blood pillar was no more than a few dozen miles away. Lu Ye focused his senses, eager to glimpse the source of this blood pillar.
If he wasn't mistaken, these unusual phenomena must be related to the Blood Race's use of an ancestral artifact. However, at this moment, Lu Ye was puzzled about what this ancestral artifact was and why it would cause such visions in the Blood Termination World when activated.
Before long, Lu Ye saw the source of the blood pillar, and to his surprise, it was a Blood Pool!
Blood Pools existed in the Blood Refinement World as well, and there were quite a few of them. Ambitious members of the Blood Race could choose the nearest Blood Pool to dive into for cultivation. Of course, those who did so typically ended up dead inside them.
The Blood Termination World naturally also had Blood Pools, but right now, the pool seemed to be boiling, with dense blood light surging out from it, soaring into the sky to form the blood pillar Lu Ye had seen.
Lu Ye understood now; it seemed that the sources of all these other blood pillars must be Blood Pools as well.
What enraged him was that, at this moment, numerous living beings were being brought by the Blood Race from all directions to the Blood Pool's side. The Blood Race ignored their cries and pleas, mercilessly tossing them into the pool.
The Blood Pool was like a man-eating beast; any creature thrown into it only floated and sank a few times before disappearing without a trace.
"Has anything like this happened before?" Lu Ye asked via audio transmission.
"Never seen it, nor has it ever happened." Dhing Beifeng shook his head. It was the first time he had witnessed such a scene. Within the Blood Termination World, an unknown number of Blood Food had been corralled. Yet under Mental Consciousness perception, it seemed the Blood Food within the domain had almost all but vanished, and their fate was easy to imagine.
At that moment, the aura of Moon Jade approached swiftly. Master and servant turned their heads and saw a Blood Race member approach, casting a surprised glance at Dhing Beifeng: "You're still alive?"
Dhing Beifeng snorted coldly: "You're not dead either?"
Seeing their manner of speaking, Lu Ye guessed that Dhing Beifeng did not have a good relationship with this Blood Race Moon Jade. During the previous invasion of the Southern Region Mount Fangcun by the Blood Race army, they suffered heavy losses. Those quick to react fled quickly, while the slower ones were left inside Mount Fangcun.
A few Blood Race Sun Blaze returned quickly to the Blood Termination World, but many from the Blood Race had yet to return to their home domain.
This was why Dhing Beifeng and Lu Ye's intrusion into the Blood Termination World did not raise any suspicion among the Blood Race, as those scattered outside were returning one by one.
"If you're not dead, get moving, stop spacing out!" the Blood Race Moon Jade snapped impatiently. 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖
Dhing Beifeng frowned and asked, "What is going on?"
The Blood Race Moon Jade flashed away, showing no interest in dealing with Dhing Beifeng. In the past, Dhing Beifeng surely would have ignored it, as they had disliked each other not just for a day or two, but for many years.
But now, as Lu Ye's Blood Servant, Dhing Beifeng knew Lu Ye was eager to understand certain information about the Blood Termination World and couldn't let the other party just leave.
He immediately activated his saintliness and stared coldly at the other.
The Blood Race Moon Jade was initially stunned, then shock and fear swept over him as he looked at Dhing Beifeng: "When... did you refine the Sacred Blood?"
"Insolent!" Dhing Beifeng snorted.
The Blood Race Moon Jade's face turned blue and red. Though unwilling, he respectfully saluted, "Greetings, Saintly Venerable!"
Those who refine Sacred Blood are known as Saintly Venerables. The Blood Race Moon Jade couldn't fathom where Dhing Beifeng had obtained Sacred Blood, and more shockingly, how he successfully refined it. Suddenly, their standings were drastically different, and unless he also refined a drop of Sacred Blood, he would forever be beneath Dhing Beifeng.
Filled with envy, jealousy, and unwillingness.
"Explain," Dhing Beifeng said indifferently.
This time, the Blood Race Moon Jade dared not show any attitude and immediately explained that after several Blood Race Sun Blaze escaped and returned, they began jointly activating the ancestral artifact's power. Within the Blood Termination World, all Blood Food was to be thrown into Blood Pools for a Blood Sacrifice, which was part of a ritual.
Currently, the entire Blood Race of the Blood Termination World was busy with this. In just a few days, an unknown number of Blood Food had been sacrificed.
After the Blood Race Moon Jade finished speaking, he cautiously watched Dhing Beifeng. Although he knew that even if relations with Dhing Beifeng were bad, his life wouldn't be in danger, yet if Dhing Beifeng decided to humiliate him, there was nothing he could do to resist.
Fortunately, Dhing Beifeng had no such intentions, merely waving a hand: "Get lost!"
Like receiving a pardon, the Blood Race Moon Jade cupped his fists and saluted, then turned and fled away as a streak of blood light.
Dhing Beifeng looked at Lu Ye, who was staring in a particular direction. If the entire Blood Termination World were considered an arm, that direction would be the wrist.
Lu Ye could sense that the Blood Race Sun Blaze were gathering there, and it was also the place with the most chaotic energy fluctuations in the entire Blood Termination World.
If nothing went wrong, that place must be where the ancestral artifact is located.
Lu Ye was eager to know what the ancestral artifact was exactly, but he also knew it wasn't the time to investigate. His purpose here was to stir up chaos and disrupt the Blood Race's plans. The basic goal was to free Mount Fangcun in the Southern Region from the constraints of the Blood Termination World and get out of this Star System.
If possible, on this basis, he could make further moves, but of course, he'd have to play it by ear.
Withdrawing his gaze, Lu Ye instructed, "Throw me into the Blood Pool."
"Yes!" Dhing Beifeng replied, stepping forward and grabbing Lu Ye by the collar. Lu Ye instantly put on an angry and struggling posture.
According to his previous attempts in the Blood Refinement World, to mobilize the entire domain, he had to delve deep into the Blood Pool. Originally, he had been thinking about how to achieve it secretly, but he hadn't expected the entire Blood Termination World to be conducting a Blood Sacrifice at this moment.
This made things very convenient for him.
With a cold face, Dhing Beifeng ignored Lu Ye's struggles, bringing him to the nearest Blood Pool under the watchful eyes of many Blood Race members, and threw him directly in.
Lu Ye's figure floated and sank in the Blood Pool twice before disappearing.
Under the Blood Pool, Lu Ye plunged deeper. The internal passages were intricate and winding.
The underground passages were undoubtedly the blood vessels of the Blood Ancestor. Having entered smoothly, Lu Ye faced a dilemma because previously in the Blood Refinement World, he had entered the heart of the Blood Ancestor. For any living being, that place was a vital area. Mobilizing energy there yielded twice the result with half the effort.
The Blood Termination World, transformed from an arm of the Blood Ancestor, did not have such vital points.
Thinking it through, Lu Ye suddenly had a flash of insight. While there weren't vital points on an arm, there were spiritual orifices. These spiritual orifices were undoubtedly the points where energy converged.
However, the Blood Ancestor was ultimately not of the human race, so it was unknown how her spiritual orifices compared to humans'. He would have to search and compare carefully.
The location of the Blood Pool Lu Ye entered was close to the elbow. For humans, this was a critical spiritual orifice and also a place where blood Qi converged.
After some searching, he indeed found a location that fit the description. This area was different from others he had encountered; if other passages were straight roads, this area was a crossroads, or more precisely, a complex intersection of many passages.
If he wasn't mistaken, this should be one of the Blood Ancestor's spiritual orifices, suggesting some similarity between the Blood Ancestor's orifices and those of humans.
Lu Ye then stabilized his body and concentrated his mind.
The connection with the Blood Termination World grew increasingly close. Lu Ye once again felt as if he were donning a heavy coat of armor.
He had experienced this in the Blood Refinement World, but the sheer scale of that world made the armor feel so heavy he could barely move, preventing him from mobilizing the Blood Refinement World.
Now, in comparison, although it was still heavy, it was much more manageable than in the Blood Refinement World.
This confirmed his previous guess that the Blood Termination World's scale was much smaller than the Blood Refinement World's, making it easier to mobilize.
As time passed, the connection grew tighter, and Lu Ye's entire being sublimated until at one point, when the miraculous connection reached its limit, Lu Ye suddenly felt as though the entire domain was under his control.
Whatever came to his mind was vividly imprinted in his heart.
He saw countless Blood Race members flying back and forth within the domain, busy with their tasks. He heard the cries and curses of many Blood Food, and he sensed the tremors of the entire Blood Termination World. This long-dead arm seemed as if it wanted to come back to life, but at this moment, the foundation of the Blood Termination World was rapidly dwindling, being drawn out and pouring away by some force.
Following the source of that force, Lu Ye observed.
He finally saw the ancestral artifact!
It was right at the wrist; there lay a valley with a hundred-meter-high altar in its center, and atop the altar was placed a copper green scepter, several meters long.
At first glance, there was nothing too unusual about the scepter, except for its profoundly ancient feel, indicating its long history. The copper had turned green, and many complex patterns were missing.
Around the altar, many powerful Blood Race members gathered, each channeling force into the copper green scepter, causing the altar to shake ceaselessly.
Lu Ye's Mental Consciousness drifted over without alerting any Blood Race members. This mode of observation offered an absolutely grand perspective, so even those as powerful as Sun Blaze couldn't detect anything amiss.
