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A vast and incomparable Blood Pool appeared before everyone's eyes.

Gurgling, gurgling, gurgling…

With the rotation of the vortex, the blood, like flowing sludge, continuously churned, and a crimson blood light lingered, brewing something ominous.

After a while,

a bizarre bulge emerged from the Blood Pool.

It was an exceedingly ugly flesh egg, closely resembling a placenta, with thick blood incessantly dripping down from it.

Since the appearance of the flesh egg, the blood in the Blood Pool had been rapidly decreasing at a rate visible to the naked eye, all of it absorbed by the flesh egg.

Simultaneously, a bright red glow intensified atop the flesh egg.

Thud!

Thud!

Thud!

A suffocating heartbeat rhythmically emanated from within the flesh egg.

The heartbeat, brimming with a majestic life force, yet caused the cultivators present to feel a sinking feeling in their hearts.

Thud, thud, thud…

But after only a few tremors, the deafening heartbeat gradually subsided.

"Cursed! Cursed!" Seeing this scene, the Asura's face was filled with unwillingness and annoyance.

The premature arrival of the Human Race reinforcements forced him to initiate the Blood Pool Reincarnation before he had gathered sufficient Blood Qi.

The drawback became apparent at this moment, as the Blood Pool could not provide the Essence Blood needed for the Demon Egg to form.

The heartbeat emanating from the flesh egg grew weaker and weaker.

Finally, a sinister look flashed in the Asura's eyes, as if he had made a difficult decision.

"Sacrifice the blood of my Underworld Cultivators to welcome the descent of the Luohu Demon Child," the Asura silently recited in his heart.

A pure white Gu Insect, no longer than a finger, appeared in his hand.

This was the Heart Demon's mother Gu, entwining the Soul Split Gu within all the Underworld Cultivators in Zhenjiang Prefecture.

The Gu Insect, held between the Asura's fingers, writhed continuously.

The Asura pinched the Gu Insect between his fingers, revealing a ferocious smile, then squeezed it forcefully.

The pure white Gu Insect instantly transformed into a mist of blood and vanished into the air.

With the death of the mother Gu, the child Gu too must die.

But before dying, the child Gu would frenziedly devour its host's Divine Soul, dragging the host down to death with it.

…

At the moment the Asura crushed the Heart Demon mother Gu,

Inside Zhenjiang City,

Mu Ke, filled with despair, stared at the cultivator clad in black robes before her.

At her side, five corpses lay scattered in disarray.

As a Guard of the Tower, she and her teammates were responsible for checking four suspected Underworld Cultivators in the southern part of the city and had successfully disrupted a Formation Point of the Demon Formation.

But she could never have expected that during their investigation of the third cultivator, they would encounter a Golden Core Stage Underworld Cultivator.

Even though all six of them were strong Foundation Establishment Cultivators and collaborated exquisitely,

the gap between a Golden Core Cultivator and a Foundation Establishment Cultivator was still an insurmountable chasm.

The Underworld's Golden Core Cultivator, with devastating ease, had promptly slain them one by one.

And now, out of the six, only she was left.

Once again, a black flame rose in the hands of the black-robed Golden Core Cultivator.

"Such is the prowess of a Tower Guard cultivator…" the black-robed Golden Core Cultivator sneered, waving his left hand, readying to direct the black flame towards Mu Ke.

Ahh!!!

The Golden Core Cultivator in black suddenly let out a scream like that of a ghastly demon, the black flames in his palm dissipating instantly. He clutched his head with both hands and collapsed to the ground, his body convulsing ceaselessly.

Each scream was more miserable than the last; one could feel the immense pain he was enduring.

However, in a moment, the screams subsided and the body of the Golden Core Cultivator in black no longer twitched.

Mu Ke, who had been prepared for death, was taken aback and tentatively extended his Divine Sense towards the body of the Golden Core Cultivator.

There were no wounds on the physical body; however, his facial expression was so distorted and convulsive it was grotesque.

There was no sign of life left.

Dead.

A moment before, this Golden Core Stage Underworld Cultivator's demeanor was incredibly ferocious and his aura imperious, but in the blink of an eye, he had become a corpse.

Quite bizarre.

What happened?

Surviving the ordeal, Mu Ke was utterly baffled.

...

In every corner of Zhenjiang City and even across the distant 107 Prefecture Cities under its jurisdiction, the same scene was playing out simultaneously.

Many cultivators, after inexplicably letting out agonized screams, turned quite bizarrely into corpses.

...

The Asura watched the blood pool in the sky that had nearly dried up, and his face twisted into a ferocious expression as a layer of crimson blood began to appear again.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

This is what you forced me to do.

The Asura muttered repeatedly in his mind.

The Heart Demon Gu, of which each Heart Demon can only birth one in a lifetime, is a strategic resource.

He willingly killed the Heart Demon Gu, even at the cost of the lives of all Underworld Cultivators affiliated with the Zhenjiang Prefecture region, employing such grandiosity and insane methods, solely to replenish the nearly dried blood pool.

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The number of Underworld Cultivators in Zhenjiang City wasn't large, but each possessed profound cultivation. The Essence Blood they could provide was potent enough that a single individual could equal the combined essence of thousands, even tens of thousands, of mortals.

Thump, thump, thump!

Under the influence of the Underworld Cultivators' Essence Blood, the heartbeats from within the demon egg, which had almost stopped, once again began to pulsate.

Finally, after absorbing enough Essence Blood,

Thump!

A blue-black giant hand pierced through the outer flesh membrane of the meat egg and stretched out.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

One after another, the sounds of the flesh membrane being pierced echoed as three more blue-black giant hands followed, making a total of four arms visible to the spectators.

Once the flesh membrane was breached, it deflated swiftly like a burst balloon, revealing the entity incubated inside.

Four arms, a fierce and ugly head with four tightly shut blue eyes, and rather than legs, several tail-like structures resembling snake tails.

Luohu Incarnation.

Viewing the demonic creature causing goosebumps to rise on his skin, Lu Qingshan murmured.

The Demon Race, unlike the Human Race, holds their Bloodline in the highest regard, with the strongest being the Eighth Grade Bloodline, also known as the Holy Demon Bloodline.

The leader of the Qing State Underworld, the Void Demon Child, possesses one of the eight great Holy Demon Bloodlines of the Demon Race, the Void Bloodline.

The Heart Demon capable of birthing the Heart Demon Gu also possesses one of these Holy Demon Bloodlines.

The eight great Holy Demon Bloodlines of the Demon Race, besides the Void and Heart Demon, include one known as Asura.

Unlike the Void Bloodline, which masters the True Intent of Space, Asura boasts extreme strength as its bloodline talent; all Asuras possess supernatural strength beyond mortals.

The battle-hardened and valiant Asuras have always been among the most warlike and skilled fighters in the Demon Race.

Among the Asura lineage, there have been four Asura Kings, namely Po Zhi Asura King, Luo Qiantuo Asura King, Vimozhiduoluo Asura King, and Luohu Asura King.

Luohu, meaning 'covering barrier', is so named because of his ability to cover the light of the sun and moon with his giant hands, a show of power that inspires awe and fear.

The Luohu Incarnation is shaped by the power of the Blood Pool, forming a Physical Body that contains a trace of the Luohu Bloodline, allowing it to accommodate the possession of a Luohu Soul Split.