I picked up skill fragments in the demon world

#279 - Blood God

Chapter 278 Blood God Child

Zhang Chen's consciousness examined the cultivation incantation of the Blood God Child, a hint of excitement appearing in his eyes.

After carefully reading the key points and incantations, a trace of fear emerged in Zhang Chen's eyes: "The Blood God Child can be a substitute in critical moments and can also rush out to kill enemies during group battles. This divine power is truly heaven-defying!"

"A single Blood God Child has about one-tenth of my strength, but it's not that easy to cultivate a Blood God Child. I'm only at the Qi Refining stage now, and the Blood God Child I cultivate will only be one."

Zhang Chen shook his head. Everything was still limited by his own strength.

If his strength was sufficient, cultivating hundreds of millions of Blood God Children, who could kill him then?

"It's a pity there's no Blood Control Art, which I'm most interested in," Zhang Chen muttered to himself.

To cultivate the Blood God Child, one needs to split a portion of their essence, Qi, and spirit into the sea of blood, and then refine it according to the secret method for forty-nine days.

When that time comes, the Blood God Child can be formed.

In critical moments, the Blood God Child can be a substitute; when fighting with others, the Blood God Child can go out to meet the enemy.

"This divine power must be cultivated.

Whether it's fighting for the tree coffin next, or figuring out how to settle the karma with the Peaceful Border Prince's Mansion, or even the connection between Little Bean Sprout and the Yellow Sky Dao, all require strength to cope with the unknown."

Zhang Chen summoned Little Bean Sprout, instructed him that he needed to go into closed-door cultivation, that the chores would be temporarily suspended, and told him not to worry.

After that, Zhang Chen directly went to find Liu Feng to ask for leave, saying that he was going to find Xie Lingyun.

As expected, Liu Feng didn't make things difficult for Zhang Chen.

This time, Zhang Chen swaggered directly out of Huangli Temple.

After Zhang Chen left Huangli Temple, he quietly arrived at his secret base and then used his divine power to enter the cave, quietly cultivating the Blood God Child.

Zhang Chen possessed 60% of the Blood Dao's luck; the sea of blood was incorporated into his crystal core.

If he couldn't cultivate the Blood God Child, it was likely that no one else in the world could succeed.

As Zhang Chen circulated his energy, a wisp of his soul was split off according to the incantation, absorbed by the crystal core, and fell into the sea of blood.

Then Zhang Chen silently circulated his energy, forming hand seals, and constantly refining it according to that chapter.

Three days later, a blood-red shadow flickered out from the sea of blood, transforming into a red light that flew out from the crystal core and landed beside Zhang Chen.

The red light transformed into a blood-red shadow, quietly standing beside Zhang Chen.

The two looked at each other, and at this moment, a wonderful feeling surged into their hearts, a feeling that was indescribable.

The next moment, the blood-red shadow transformed into a red light, plunged into Zhang Chen's body, and re-entered the sea of blood in the crystal core to gestate again.

At this time, three days had passed.

Zhang Chen felt the mystery of the Blood God Child and felt even more that this Blood God Child was even more powerful than the true scriptures described.

Most importantly, even if the Blood God Child died, it would automatically regenerate in the sea of blood after only one day, without Zhang Chen having to spend any effort to refine it again.

Zhang Chen finished cultivating the Blood God Child and calculated that three days had passed.

Now it was night, and returning to the Taoist temple at this time would only result in being locked out.

He simply continued to observe the secret methods in the Red Lotus chapter in the stone cave.

Zhang Chen couldn't muster any interest in the other secret methods, but the eleventh petal recorded the incantation for refining a magic weapon, which piqued Zhang Chen's interest: "Blood Transformation Divine Blade?"

"This divine power is somewhat interesting," Zhang Chen said, looking at the chapter on the Blood Transformation Divine Blade, a hint of curiosity appearing in his eyes.

The Blood Transformation Divine Blade was a very strange secret method, with neither an upper limit nor a lower limit.

Whether its power was strong or weak depended entirely on the quality and quantity of the blood poison refined into it.

In the early stage of this secret method, eighteen kinds of living beings' blood were selected to refine the initial Blood Transformation Divine Blade.

Once injured by this Blood Transformation Divine Blade, it would come with the attribute of incessant bleeding.

Then, eighty-one kinds of living beings' blood, six hundred and sixty-six, eight hundred and eighty-eight kinds…

Continuing to upgrade it infinitely like this, it could eventually be cultivated into a secret treasure that could slaughter gods and demons.

Of course, the so-called attribute of incessant bleeding here was also relative.

"The Blood Transformation Divine Blade is truly a good treasure, but it's not easy to find blood that meets the quality requirements for cultivating the Blood Transformation Divine Blade."

Zhang Chen tapped his fingers on his knees.

The blood for cultivating the Blood Transformation Divine Blade naturally couldn't be ordinary blood.

"The blood in the sea of blood can also be considered one kind," Zhang Chen said, counting on his fingers.

"If I could get the blood of a congenital mosquito, that would also be one kind.

The blood of the old Flood Dragon of the Peaceful Border Prince's Mansion would also be one kind."

Counting like this, he had already collected three kinds.

"The blood of those cultivators who have mastered bloodline abilities should also be able to meet the refining power of the Blood Transformation Divine Blade.

After all, the Blood Transformation Divine Blade doesn't have high requirements for the quality of blood, but it has many requirements for the quantity of blood.

When the quantity of blood is large enough, it can form blood poison, and blood poison is the true embodiment of the Blood Transformation Divine Blade's lethality."

Thoughts flashed in Zhang Chen's mind, and after counting back and forth, he still didn't have the conditions to collect enough different kinds of blood.

"The cultivation of the Blood Transformation Divine Blade can only be put on hold for now," Zhang Chen thought with some regret, then got up and walked out of the cave, looked at the bright moon in the sky, and returned to Huangli Temple.

From afar, he saw the soldiers stationed at the foot of Huangli Temple Mountain.

Three thousand soldiers formed a military camp, and there was a vaguely inexplicable aura shrouding the entire camp.

Zhang Chen used the Light of the Righteous God and couldn't see anything unusual, only feeling that the entire camp seemed to be shrouded in a kind of inexplicable Qi mechanism.

However, when Zhang Chen opened his Devouring Eye, the world in front of him changed for a while, and a layer of mysterious Qi number power also shrouded the sky above the camp, as if it were a large formation, shrouding the entire camp.

If someone rashly broke in, they would probably be trapped by the large formation in an instant.

"Is this a Qimen Grand Formation? Or a military battle formation from a novel?" Zhang Chen pondered.

However, in his Devouring Eye, the large formation seemed to be a sieve, with various flaws everywhere.

Especially in the large formation, there were more than a dozen auras that were more fresh and delicious than ordinary auras, making Zhang Chen unable to resist rushing over and taking a bite.

In the eyes of the Devouring skill, those dozen auras were much more valuable than those ordinary soldiers.

"I'll use you to test the power of my Blood God Child first," Zhang Chen thought, and a blood-red figure appeared behind him.

Then, the blood-red figure transformed into a stream of light and rushed into the flaws of the military formation with lightning speed.

Before the guarding soldiers could react, the Blood God Child had already plunged into their bodies.

In an instant, the Blood God Child left their bodies and rushed towards other soldiers.

Those who were hit by the Blood God Child instantly withered after the Blood God Child left, turning into dried corpses and falling directly to the ground, their entire bodies' blood drained by the Blood God Child.

"Ah, monster!"

Some soldiers saw the red light and couldn't help but exclaim in horror, their eyes full of terror.

However, before this exclamation was finished, the red light had already rushed over.

The soldiers hacked and slashed with their long sabers, trying to kill the red monster. But who knew that ordinary sabers would be ineffective against the monster? The red monster passed right through the saber, plunged into the soldier's body, and then left again in the blink of an eye, leaving behind only a desiccated corpse.

"The power of the Blood God Child lies in its immunity to attacks from the material world. Unless extraordinary power descends, or it's a saber imbued with extraordinary power, even an army of thousands will become nourishment for the Blood God Child," Zhang Chen muttered, hiding in the shadows of a tree outside the formation, quietly observing with a cold eye.

"Monster! Monster!" Soldiers cried out in alarm, triggering even more screams. Facing an undying and indestructible monster, ordinary soldiers had no will to resist.

The cries startled the martial artists who cultivated Qi and blood within the main tent. At this moment, the warrior general shouted, "Don't panic! No running! Form ranks! Form ranks immediately! Use the power of the formation to suppress it!"

The army wasn't entirely helpless against the strange and bizarre. Five thousand elite soldiers could even slaughter a true dragon, let alone an ordinary monster.

Logically speaking, Zhang Chen's Blood God Child should have been defeated by the military formation formed by three thousand soldiers. But who knew that Zhang Chen, using the Devouring Eye, could directly see through the operational patterns of the military formation.

As the military formation began to operate, the general mobilized the power of the formation, using Qi to suppress Zhang Chen's Blood God Child. But who knew that Zhang Chen's Blood God Child was so bizarre that it moved back and forth within the flaws of the formation, as if it were back in its own home, always avoiding the strangulation of the mysterious Qi at the critical moment, and plunging into the bodies of soldiers to wreak havoc.

"We can't stop it! We can't stop this monster at all!"

A soldier, seeing the blood-colored monster moving through the formation as if it were in an uninhabited land, was terrified and cried out in alarm, his eyes filled with despair.

The crowd screamed around the blood-red monster, and even the martial artists who cultivated Qi and blood were chilled by the Blood God Child's killing.

"Die!" A martial artist who cultivated Qi and blood roared, slashing at the Blood God Child, but the Blood God Child quickly dodged, instantly creating distance.

The Blood God Child was only wary of martial artists who cultivated Qi and blood. It was hard to say who would win or lose in a fight, but fighting with martial artists would delay the Blood God Child's slaughter too much, so the Blood God Child directly abandoned the martial artists and rushed towards ordinary soldiers.

The martial artists wanted to fight the Blood God Child, but the Blood God Child didn't give them a chance at all, simply moving around quickly. The martial artists couldn't keep up with the Blood God Child's speed and could only watch helplessly as the Blood God Child slaughtered ordinary soldiers.

"Someone, quickly go to Yellow Dawn Temple and invite the Taoist priests in the temple to subdue the strange creature!" the general shouted in a shrill voice.

A soldier quickly broke away from the formation and ran towards the mountains, but he had only taken a few steps before being pounced on by the Blood God Child and falling directly to the ground.

How could a mortal's running speed compare to that of the Blood God Child?

"Send ten more men," the general said through gritted teeth, instructing his personal guards.

Ten personal guards immediately fled, running towards the mountain gate. Unfortunately, the Blood God Child was too fast. In just ten breaths, all ten men had turned into desiccated corpses and fallen to the ground.

"I'll go!"

A martial artist who cultivated Qi and blood, his expression changing drastically, leaped out of the formation and quickly ran towards the Taoist temple gate.

Faced with the martial artist who cultivated Qi and blood, a hint of fear appeared in the Blood God Child's eyes. It ignored the martial artist running to call for reinforcements and instead turned around and rushed into the formation to slaughter ordinary soldiers and wreak havoc.

Meanwhile, Zhang Chen stood in the shade of the trees, watching the martial artist running towards the Taoist temple in the distance, a thoughtful look in his eyes. He didn't stop the other party's actions, but instead allowed him to call for reinforcements, so he could take the opportunity to see what abilities and methods Yellow Dawn Temple had, so he could be prepared in advance in the future.

The Blood God Child was immortal and indestructible, so he didn't have to worry about the Blood God Child's life or death.

On the contrary, after devouring hundreds of people, the Blood God Child's body gradually solidified a bit, and under the irrigation of massive amounts of blood, its strength actually began to grow again.

The slaughter continued. Zhang Chen secretly retreated at this time, moving ten miles away to avoid being discovered by the strongmen of Yellow Dawn Temple after they descended.

Killing one person every breath, by the time the martial artist invited the Taoist from Yellow Dawn Temple down from the mountain, one thousand three hundred of the three thousand soldiers had already been slaughtered.

At this time, nearly half of the three thousand men had been slaughtered, and the formation could no longer be maintained and directly collapsed. The remaining soldiers no longer heeded the general's orders and ran wildly through the mountains.

Without the restraint of the formation, Zhang Chen's Blood God Child slaughtered even faster.

"Evil creature, stop at once!"

At this moment, a roar came from the distance, and then a divine light flew through the air, revealing its presence in the field. It was a Taoist that Zhang Chen had never seen before.

The Taoist was draped in golden light, exuding a sacred aura in the dark night, appearing very dignified.

The Taoist looked at the Blood God Child, his eyes full of anger: "You evil creature, daring to be presumptuous at the foot of my Yellow Dawn Temple, you really don't know the immensity of heaven and earth. Today, I will definitely end you."

A golden shimmering treasure sword behind the Taoist was unsheathed, instantly transforming into dozens of sword Qi, slashing through the void and strangling the Blood God Child.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Chen's expression changed: "Sword Control Technique? No, that's a secret treasure that has been blessed with incense divine power after being refined using the power of incense. That treasure sword is at least a fourth-order existence, something the Blood God Child can't deal with."

"That is the power of the Divine Dao, possessing some of the attributes of true divine light, so it can break the power of the Blood God Child," Zhang Chen suddenly realized, but then became puzzled:

"Why can the other party's incense divine power control the flying sword, but my true divine light cannot?"

"No wonder Yellow Dawn Temple directly abandoned the martial arts secret methods. It turns out it's because they have a more powerful force. What this fellow has mastered can already be regarded as divine power, but compared to my true divine light, it lacks something, as if it's missing a kind of divine might," Zhang Chen thought to himself.

Of course, the Blood God Child was unwilling to sit still and wait for death. At this time, it kept rushing back and forth in the crowd, dodging the encirclement and killing of the treasure sword, but the sword light of the treasure sword was three points faster than the Blood God Child. In just a dozen breaths, the Blood God Child had already been beheaded, turning into a pool of purulent blood, scattered on the ground and disappearing into thin air.

At this moment, the treasure sword let out a wail, stained with a layer of blood, and directly fell to the ground, constantly buzzing.

"My treasure sword!" At this moment, the Taoist cried out in alarm and hurriedly stepped forward to pick up the treasure sword.

The treasure sword's divine light was dim, and the Qi of incense was polluted by blood Qi. At this time, the treasure sword fell to the ground and could no longer continue to fly. It looked rusty and miserable.