Chapter 209 – The Blood Immortal Scripture, Secret of the Blood Demon Realm! (5k)

Su Xing looked at the simulator text before him, his brow furrowing ever deeper.

“No spiritual energy needed, no spirit root cultivation… one can cultivate immortality through blood qi alone?”

“This… is truly a heaven-defying act!”

After a pause, Su Xing wondered aloud:

“But who exactly is this Blood Immortal… to have truly created such a heaven-defying cultivation method? Could they actually be an immortal?”

“Could it be… is the Blood Immortal actually Old Dog Dragon?”

Su Xing’s heart clenched, but he quickly shook his head in denial.

“Impossible. With Old Dog Dragon’s Void Return stage cultivation, there’s no way he could have created such a heaven-defying technique!”

“To create such a method, one would need a profound comprehension of the Great Dao — at minimum an immortal, or perhaps even higher!”

Though Su Xing didn’t know what level of cultivation was needed to fully comprehend the Great Dao, he surmised it was likely above that of an immortal.

Even ordinary immortals might not possess such deep comprehension of the Great Dao.

“This Blood Immortal is probably not Old Dog Dragon… but they likely have a significant connection to him…”

“Could it be that the Blood Immortal is Old Dog Dragon’s superior — the leader of the Advent Cult?”

At this thought, Su Xing drew a sharp breath.

“How can this be… the leader of the Advent Cult is an immortal!?”

Su Xing shook his head slightly. Based on the information he currently had, he couldn’t make such a rash judgment.

But surely the Blood Immortal and the Advent Cult had some connection…

“Never mind. Let me continue reading…”

His gaze returned to the simulator panel.

【You collected the corpses of these Golden Core cultivators and carefully examined their storage rings.】

【In the storage rings, you discovered several bottles of unusual pills.】

【These pills were smooth and round, red in color, each one the size of a fist.】

【You took out one pill and examined it closely in your hand, only to find it brimming with karmic energy and violent power, as though it had been refined from blood…】

【Bringing it close to your nose for a sniff, your expression immediately shifted — the thick stench of blood on this pill came not from animal blood, but from human blood!】

【The energy within the pill was similar to spiritual energy, yet carried a dense baleful aura. Prolonged consumption could enhance one’s cultivation, but would likely damage one’s lifespan…】

【You immediately understood — these pills were likely what the cultivators of this realm used for their cultivation…】

【You stored away these pills and quickly moved to leave the area.】

【But before you had traveled even a few dozen li, you were pursued by Blood Demon Sect cultivators.】

【Several Nascent Soul cultivators and one Spirit Transformation cultivator, wielding spirit-baleful artifacts, attacked you.】

【You stood your ground, brow slightly furrowed, and with a wave of your hand, slaughtered every last one of them.】

【The sole Spirit Transformation cultivator attempted to flee.】

【But you effortlessly captured this Spirit Transformation cultivator and interrogated him.】

【Under your questioning, you quickly learned the Blood Demon Sect’s exact location and the extent of their strength.】

【According to this Spirit Transformation cultivator, the Blood Demon Sect had Void Return stage cultivators guarding it, as well as the legendary Blood Dragon Ancestor. He threatened that if you didn’t release him, you would surely die.】

【You merely sneered at this, somewhat regretting that you hadn’t cultivated the Soul Search Art — otherwise you could have effortlessly extracted far more information from this Spirit Transformation cultivator’s soul.】

【For now, you could only suppress his spirit and press him for more information.】

【While suppressing his spiritual sense, you noticed that this Spirit Transformation cultivator’s aura was hollow and unstable. Though he was at the mid Spirit Transformation stage, his actual strength was probably only equivalent to early Spirit Transformation.】

【Spirit Transformation cultivators should have long, enduring auras and extensive lifespans…】

【Yet you could plainly see the unmistakable mark of death on this cultivator’s face, as though most of his lifespan had been consumed, with little time left.】

【You asked him how long he had been cultivating. Under your pressure, the Spirit Transformation cultivator dared not hide anything and honestly answered that he was one hundred and seventy years old this year, having cultivated for over one hundred and sixty years…】

【You frowned slightly upon hearing this. This Spirit Transformation cultivator’s aura was decrepit — he had at most another twenty to thirty years to live. An ordinary Spirit Transformation cultivator could easily live a thousand years, and with life-extending treasures, reaching fifteen hundred years would be no difficulty at all.】

【You immediately understood — this heretical cultivation method consumed lifespan at a devastating rate! Their lifespans were less than a fifth of cultivators at the same realm!】

【At the same time, you were inwardly astonished. For someone without a spirit root, reaching mid Spirit Transformation in just over one hundred and sixty years put their aptitude on par with a Heavenly Spirit Root cultivator!】

【You wanted to continue questioning this Spirit Transformation cultivator, but he persisted in making threats. Finally, he seemed to see something terrifying — an expression of agony twisted his face, and within minutes he collapsed, lifeless.】

【After this Spirit Transformation cultivator’s death, his features aged rapidly, his body withering to skin and bone… as though all his blood essence and vital energy had been drained completely.】

【In just a few breaths, he transformed from a middle-aged man into a decrepit husk, ultimately becoming a desiccated corpse.】

【Resentful energy and karma coiled around the dried corpse, and even his spiritual soul had been utterly obliterated.】

【You were immediately alarmed and quickly extended your spiritual sense to examine the body.】

【Beneath the corpse, you discovered a thumb-sized worm!】

【It was a gu worm!】

【Entirely crimson red, wreathed in resentful energy and the stench of blood, it gave off an extremely sinister feeling.】

【If your suspicions were correct, the reason this Spirit Transformation cultivator’s body had shriveled so rapidly was because all his blood essence, cultivation, and even his spiritual soul had been devoured by this gu worm.】

【You channeled your spiritual energy and seized the gu worm.】

【Once captured, the gu worm glared at you with venomous hatred. Its sesame-seed-sized eyes glowed blood red, seemingly possessing considerable intelligence.】

【The gu worm then bared its teeth at you, as if wanting to consume your flesh and blood.】

【But after you scorched it with a burst of fire-attribute spiritual energy, the gu worm instantly became docile.】

【You then examined the gu worm carefully.】

【Through your spiritual sense, you detected an enormous amount of energy hidden within the gu worm’s thumb-sized body.】

【This energy shared the same origin as what you had sensed from the Spirit Transformation cultivator, but with less resentful energy and karma, and the energy itself was far more refined.】

【You weren’t sure what to make of it, so you produced a jade bottle and stored the gu worm inside.】

In the Real World, Su Xing studied the simulator text before him, lost in thought.

The information contained in these lines of text was truly staggering.

“Cultivators consume blood pills to enhance their cultivation, able to reach the Nascent Soul stage in just a century… and achieve Spirit Transformation in less than two hundred years!”

“Hiss~ Who exactly is this Blood Immortal? To have created such a heaven-defying method!”

In Su Xing’s view, the Blood Demon Sect’s cultivation method had clearly become a complete system.

It had a dedicated cultivation technique — the Blood Immortal Scripture!

And dedicated cultivation resources — those fist-sized blood pills from before!

“An ordinary cultivator who can reach Foundation Establishment Great Perfection within a century is already considered quite talented…”

“For the Golden Core and Nascent Soul realms… even those with excellent aptitude need three to five hundred years!”

“Not to mention Spirit Transformation cultivators… countless among them cultivate for a thousand years without achieving a breakthrough, ultimately turning to dust…”

After a pause, Su Xing murmured:

“Yet the cultivators in this Blood Demon instance can achieve Spirit Transformation in less than two hundred years… though at the Spirit Transformation stage they can only live for two hundred years…”

“But this is essentially trading lifespan for cultivation… An ordinary person can only live eighty years, but becoming a Spirit Transformation cultivator lets them live for two hundred.”

“When you think about it that way, it’s not a bad deal. I just wonder whether cultivators of this realm suffer any side effects beyond their shortened lifespans?”

Su Xing closed his eyes in contemplation.

“And then there’s this gu worm… Though it has some intelligence, it can’t communicate. It seems to be nothing more than a frenzied creature. Whoever cultivated it fed it with cultivators’ vital blood and lifespan combined into one — their ambitions are no small thing!”

Su Xing let out a soft sigh and finally said:

“Beyond all that, this trip to the Blood Demon’s Lair has revealed another weakness of mine.”

“Though my cultivation is powerful, I don’t know the Soul Search Art — such a fundamental technique… It seems I need to find time to study it.”

Among the legacy Su Xing had obtained from Old Dog Zong, there were techniques similar to the Soul Search Art and the Blood Ignition Art.

While they had some side effects or were somewhat sinister, they still fell short of truly heretical cultivation methods.

Learning them would give Su Xing several more tools at his disposal.

“With my current cultivation level, learning these basic techniques should be considerably easier…”

“Later, during simulations, I can spend some energy and use immersive simulation to study them!”

“But for now, let’s continue exploring this Blood Demon Sect!”

Su Xing thought to himself, his gaze turning to the simulation panel.

【After dealing with the gu worm, you released your divine sense and prepared to head in the direction of the Blood Demon Sect.】

【The Blood Demon Sect was over a thousand kilometers from your location, but at your current speed, you could arrive in less than half an hour via sword flight.】

【When you arrived at the Blood Demon Sect, you discovered the entire sect had already assembled in battle formation to meet the enemy. Tens of thousands of cultivators guarded the mountain gate, and countless strands of divine sense swept toward you.】

【A blood-red barrier of light enveloped the entire Blood Demon Sect.】

【With your mastery of formation arrays, you could tell at a glance that this was at least an intermediate-level composite defensive formation! Its power was even comparable to the defensive formation you had encountered previously at the Five Elements Sect.】

【You lightly tapped the tip of your foot, and the Blackice sword fell into your hand. Supported by spiritual energy, you stood high in the sky above.】

【Your robes fluttered in the wind. With a thought, you slashed out a streak of sword qi!】

【The sword qi stretched endlessly, tracing across the sky like a lone shadow before slamming violently into the blood-red barrier of light.】

【With just a single sword strike, the Blood Demon Sect’s defensive formation cracked layer by layer like a spider’s web, on the verge of shattering completely at any moment.】

【Seeing that your single sword strike had nearly destroyed the sect-protecting formation, the cultivators of the entire sect immediately fell into panic.】

【Some cultivators began urging you to leave at once, while others threatened you.】

【But you paid them no heed. Your purpose in coming here was precisely to test the Blood Demon Sect’s true depth and strength.】

【So you steadied your breathing and once again slashed out a streak of sword light that cut across the heavens.】

【As this sword light flashed past, the Blood Demon Sect’s sect-protecting formation finally could hold no longer. The blood-colored barrier transformed into a rain of blood filling the sky, shattering layer by layer.】

【Seeing the sect-protecting formation shatter, the cultivators within the Blood Demon Sect could no longer remain calm. They hurriedly rallied their fellow cultivators to charge toward you.】

【In an instant, flashing blades and sword shadows, spiritual energy and magical artifacts… all manner of offensive techniques rained down upon you like a storm.】

【But you merely smiled faintly and casually raised your Protective Hardened Qi, blocking every single attack on the outside.】

【Next, your divine sense swept over all the cultivators on the ground below. You discovered that most of them were at Foundation Establishment or Golden Core stage, with far fewer cultivators at Nascent Soul and above.】

【Cultivators of such realms couldn’t possibly withstand even a casual strike from you.】

【After a moment’s thought, you sheathed the Blackice sword in your hand. Terrifying spiritual energy gathered in your palm and began compressing continuously.】

【You expended a third of your spiritual energy to construct a wood-attribute vortex, then injected a wisp of fire-attribute spiritual energy into it.】

【With the cultivation levels of these low-ranking cultivators, they had absolutely no way to withstand Spirit Burst.】

【And compared to swordsmanship, Spirit Burst had a far wider area of attack, making it perfectly suited for clearing out these low-ranking cultivators.】

【With a thought, you hurled the Spirit Burst from your palm into the heart of the Blood Demon Sect!】

【Boom! In an instant, the terrifying spiritual energy explosion swept across more than half the sect…】

【After several breaths, the smoke slowly dissipated, revealing thousands of low-ranking cultivators below who had been blown to pieces like ants beneath your power.】

【Screams of terror and anguished howls instantly filled every corner of the Blood Demon Sect.】

【But you remained utterly unperturbed. You casually produced a bottle of spirit liquid, took a sip, then once again condensed a vortex and unleashed Spirit Burst upon those below.】

【In this manner, you released three Spirit Bursts in succession.】

【Of the tens of thousands of cultivators in the entire sect, in less than a quarter of an hour, only a scant few dozen remained.】

【Every cultivator below Spirit Transformation stage had been indiscriminately killed by Spirit Burst.】

【And even those Spirit Transformation stage cultivators were severely wounded, their auras weak and feeble.】

【After clearing the field, you controlled your spiritual energy to slowly descend into the Blood Demon Sect’s great hall, where you saw the last few dozen cultivators huddled together in a final defense.】

【Apart from two Void Return stage cultivators who warranted a second glance, the Spirit Transformation cultivators were equally no match for you.】

【You walked slowly into the great hall and casually killed a Spirit Transformation cultivator with a single sword strike.】

【Then your divine sense swept over the corpse. Sure enough, just as you had previously suspected, the body rapidly decayed, and soon a gu worm slowly crawled out from within.】

【You channeled spiritual energy to grab the gu worm, which immediately bared its teeth at you.】

【You furrowed your brow slightly. It wasn’t just the Spirit Transformation cultivator you had killed earlier or the corpse before you now — throughout the entire sect, every cultivator from Foundation Establishment stage all the way up to Nascent Soul stage had turned into decaying corpses after death.】

【You looked up at the cultivators before you, and they immediately trembled from head to toe in terror.】

【Your divine sense swept over the only two Void Return stage cultivators.】

【Sure enough, both of these Void Return stage cultivators appeared to have diminished lifespans, their auras unstable and hollow.】

【One of them, a tall and powerfully built Void Return cultivator, was in somewhat better condition, but the other was already wreathed in dark qi, with no more than fifty years of life remaining at most…】

In the real world, Su Xing looked at the text before him and furrowed his brow slightly, murmuring:

“Even Void Return stage cultivators have shortened lifespans?”

“A normal Void Return stage cultivator could easily live for two or three thousand years… but the Void Return cultivators of this world probably have lifespans of only four or five hundred years at best?”

“Is it because of the Blood Immortal Scripture?”

Su Xing took a deep breath, then silently intoned:

“Activate the immersive simulation function, duration twenty-four hours!”

【Ding. You have successfully activated the immersive simulation function, spending 2.4 million energy points. Remaining: 1,047,930,000 points.】

As the simulator’s notification faded, the scene before Su Xing’s eyes shifted and transformed.

The next second, Su Xing found himself in an unfamiliar environment.

First came the thick stench of blood, along with a viscous, unsettling presence saturating the air.

Su Xing furrowed his brow slightly and swept his gaze forward.

Several dozen meters ahead of him stood dozens of cultivators with varied appearances, weapons and magical artifacts at the ready, braced for battle.

Every single cultivator’s eyes were filled with deep, undisguised fear.

Su Xing glanced at the cultivators nearby who had already turned into rotting corpses, then swept his divine sense over the several dozen living cultivators before him, murmuring:

“Just as I thought — exactly as the simulation text described… These cultivators have diminished lifespans. They don’t resemble real cultivators at all!”

Su Xing shook his head slightly.

The cultivation methods practiced by the cultivators of this world had already deviated from the fundamental essence of the cultivation path, veering toward a kind of extreme.

What was the true path of cultivation?

Though Su Xing had entered the cultivation world less than two years ago, having passed through the five trials of Spirit Transformation, his cultivation mindset and his resolve in seeking the Dao were quite firm.

In Su Xing’s view, for any cultivator, the ultimate goal of pursuing the Dao was one and only one thing — eternal life!

Eternal life: to share the lifespan of heaven and earth, to shine alongside the sun and moon.

Beyond that, some cultivators wished to settle grudges and live freely, others desired carefree wandering… or perhaps the more ambitious ones wished to hold the world’s power in their waking hours and rest upon a beauty’s lap when drunk.

But regardless, none of it could be separated from cultivation’s ultimate goal — eternal life!

Yet the cultivators of this world, even upon reaching Void Return stage, had lifespans that couldn’t even match ordinary Golden Core or Nascent Soul cultivators.

This fundamentally violated the very essence of cultivation.

“Shortcut methods truly are inadvisable…”

Su Xing shook his head slightly. The only advantage was that the Blood Immortal Scripture was not selective about who could practice it.

Just as Su Xing was lost in thought, the dozens of cultivators before him spoke up one after another, their voices trembling:

“Senior, what grudge or grievance do you even have against us? Why must you annihilate our entire Blood Demon Sect?”

“Exactly… Senior, those low-ranking cultivators — killing them is one thing… But for those of us at Spirit Transformation stage and above, our cultivation did not come easily!”

Su Xing regarded the pleading cultivators before him with cold eyes, saying nothing.

Seeing that Su Xing was completely unmoved, the cultivators switched to threats:

“Senior, although your strength is formidable… our Blood Demon Sect is not to be trifled with!”

“You may have broken through our Blood Demon Sect’s defenses this time, but that’s only because our Blood Dragon Ancestor is away from the sect!”

“But now that you’ve destroyed the formation, Blood Dragon Ancestor will surely return soon. If you leave now, we can pretend none of this ever happened… Otherwise, when the time comes, you won’t even be able to escape if you try!”

Upon hearing the words of the two Void Return stage cultivators, Su Xing’s expression actually shifted to one of interest. He countered:

“Oh? I’ve slaughtered tens of thousands of cultivators across your entire Blood Demon Sect, and you can just pretend none of it happened?”

“Do you take me for a fool?”

The two Void Return stage cultivators exchanged a glance.

The slightly more robust cultivator stepped forward and addressed Su Xing:

“Senior, I’ll be frank with you — Blood Dragon Ancestor is none other than my father!”

“If you are willing to show mercy, we will absolutely treat this as if nothing happened… We would even be willing to present you with a generous gift!”