LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 339: Void Summoning (II)
Chapter 339: Void Summoning (II)
Soon, under Akunus's lead, the group arrived underground.
It was a vast subterranean space. In the center was a massive pit filled with the carcasses of mutated beasts from the ocean, their blood flooding the pit and emitting a strong stench.
Since this blood came from mutated creatures, it retained its energy for a long time, casting a red glow that illuminated the entire cave and made it look like a hellish bloodscape. The runes etched on the ground and surrounding walls, resembling grasping claws of malevolent spirits, added to the eerie and sinister atmosphere.
"Everyone, stand at your designated nodes."
"Yes."
At Akunus's command, his fanatical followers dispersed around the blood pool, standing at the nodes of the rune formation beneath their feet.
"I never thought I would use these things again. After decades, this blood river should be ready."
As he spoke, a cold light flashed in Akunus's eyes, and a terrifying aura exploded from him, turning into the giant shadow of a nine-headed blood python.
"I am not a fool like Kaotoros, who made no preparations."
Roar! Roar! Roar!
With the blood python roaring behind him, an evil will erupted, and under this force, the eyes of all the Blood Cultists turned red. Their faces showed extreme fervor as they shouted, "For our God!"
With a sharp sound, dozens of people simultaneously slashed their wrists, their hot blood spraying onto the runes beneath them.
"I am Akunus, the Supreme Blood God. With my true name, I now call upon you, the blood river of the past, to return and merge with me once more..."
As Akunus chanted ominously, the runes throughout the cave absorbed the cultists' blood and began to glow one by one.
Buzz!
The runes shone, and a grim demonic face formed from the blood in the pool, smiling eerily at Akunus and opening its mouth.
Boom!
The entire pool roiled, and the blood boiled as countless mutated beast carcasses began to dissolve, surging into the demonic face’s mouth like a living thing.
The face, formed from the essence and even souls of the sacrificed Blood Cultists, seemed to connect to an unknown void. The blood flowed in to form a continuously extending red path, as a power began to stir.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The void trembled, and the blood path roared. Suddenly, a vast blood river emerged from the depths of the void, filled with countless wailing and struggling shadows.
A smile appeared on Akunus's face.
Boom!
The larger blood river roared as it surged out toward Akunus, the endless mass of struggling shadows merging into his body. A stack of wavy red lines formed on his forehead.
Decades ago, Akunus created the Secret Scripture of the Blood Sea. He spread Blood Seeds across the land, refining the blood of millions in a short time to reach the peak of the Ninth Heavenly Realm and touch upon the laws of blood.
In the process, countless cultivators died at his hands, including many of his Blood Emissaries. The incomplete souls of those with strength at the Fourth Heavenly Realm and above were collected, their energy gathered to create an endless blood river.
This was meant to be a domain-type artifact, intended to carry his laws of blood. However, he was interrupted halfway through its creation when other human experts attacked, and he was forced to flee the Blue Planet for the mythical world.
There, he found new opportunities. He slayed a peak level 9 three-headed golden dragon, and consumed its essence and flesh to fuse with the laws of blood. Through that, he broke through to the king level and combined the laws of both the dragon and blood to condense the laws of the Nine-Headed Blood Dragon.
Given this power, the blood river, which had fallen into the void on the Blue Planet, was naturally forgotten. When he returned to the Blue Planet, he didn’t expect to find that the domain-like artifact he had been refining years ago still had a chance to be recreated.
Over the decades, it had continued to develop, but... as he sensed the blood river domain merging into his body, Akunus's brows furrowed.
Since the first ritual had been stopped before it could complete the domain, Akunus had been unable to bind the souls and wills of the sacrifices above the Sixth Heavenly Realm. Those souls had long since dispersed into the depths of the void, resulting in the domain’s power being greatly diminished.
It was no longer capable of suppressing and obliterating Ninth Heavenly Realm experts. Its spatial strength couldn't even suppress an Eighth Realm cultivator. If someone with strength at least at the middle-stage of the Eighth Realm unleashed their power, they could tear through the domain.
"Middle-stage Eighth is sufficient," Akunus said calmly.
The two human geniuses guarding Yan Ruoyi were strong, but their realm was only at the Sixth. It was impossible for them to possess strength matching the middle stage of the Eighth Realm; no heavenly king-level powerhouse had ever exhibited that kind of power when they had been in the Sixth Realm.
People trapped within the Blood River Domain were also cut off from transcendent energy, leaving them with no way to replenish their true power. On top of that, the river contained countless demons formed from the resurrected souls and wills of high-level cultivators.
These monsters drew power from blood. They were utterly invincible within the domain, and many among them had Sixth Heavenly Realm strength.
As long as the domain remained unbroken, even a beginning-stage Eighth Heavenly Realm expert would eventually exhaust themselves and die. Human strength always had its limits.
While Akunus was summoning the blood river, over four thousand kilometers away from Gunado, in the deep mountains and forests, a swift and agile woman was running across mountains and ridges.
She quickly traversed the forest and crossed over a dozen peaks to reach a valley lush with greenery. A hundred-meter-tall waterfall cascaded down, creating a blanket of mist, and a lean, bearded young man sat in a meditative posture nearby.
Seeing the young man, the woman smiled and approached within a few dozen meters, calling out, "K—"
Before she could even begin her sentence, the young man abruptly opened his eyes, his gaze piercing like lightning. He clenched his right fist and struck out.
Boom!
In an instant, an overwhelming will filled the heavens and earth. The woman's words were cut off as she exploded under the terrifying pressure.
The young man only gave the scattered remains a glance, then slowly closed his eyes and resumed his cultivation.
Two hours later, another young man with a Fourth Heavenly Realm aura appeared, shouting from a distance, "Kleide, hold your hand, I have a deal for—"
Boom!
As soon as he stepped within fifty meters of the young man, he was blasted apart by another domineering punch of will.
Looking at the two pools of blood in the distance, the young man’s eyes turned cold, and his raspy voice said, "My mother told me, if I encounter someone with malicious intent in the mountains, kill them with one punch."
After speaking, the young man slowly closed his eyes and resumed his cultivation.
Two more hours later, another woman appeared at the valley entrance, this time standing further away and shouting, "Kleide, I can save your mother!"
The young man instantly opened his eyes and disappeared at terrifying speed. A sonic boom erupted through the valley.
Its echo had just started when the bearded young man grabbed the woman's neck, his voice low and filled with killing intent. "What did you just say?"
The woman's face reddened, but her gaze remained calm as she spoke with difficulty. "I said, I can save your mother. But before I do that, you need to challenge someone and defeat him."