Spirit Realm Chapter 540-541

Chapter 540: Blood Puppet

“This is…”

Qin Lie’s group stared at the Blood Progenitor’s body in shock. They watched as the body emitted bloody light, the Bloodthirsty Dragon transformed into its armguard, and the first half of the Blood Codex emerged from Qin Lie’s spatial ring as if summoned.

At this moment, it seemed as if the Blood Progenitor, although utterly soulless, was about to awaken.

No one understood what kind of breathtaking turn of events could have occurred.

Everyone simply looked to Qin Lie subconsciously, hoping that he’d be able to provide an explanation and tell them what kind of magic had taken place within the Blood Progenitor’s body.

All because his third eye had devoured the Blood Progenitor’s body and the Bloodthirsty Dragon, and had now spit them back out.

They thought that Qin Lie could explain everything..

However, Qin Lie seemed just as shocked and confused as they were.

“Prakprakprak!”

Bloody lines writhed across the Blood Progenitor’s body like bolts of lightning. Upon closer inspection, it seemed as if someone were holding a brush and painting something on the body.

Qin Lie’s eyes trembled as he suddenly cried out, surprise and realization covering his face.

He now understood what in Spirit Realm those bloody lines on the Blood Progenitor’s body were!

They were forming a spirit diagram, one of the most ancient, complicated kinds. It was a miraculous spirit diagram that Elder Mo Hai had referred to as an “ancient diagram.”

Complicated spirit diagrams covered the Blood Progenitor’s translucent skin like a densely packed, tightly woven spider web. They stretched across his neck, arms, hands, legs, chest, and abdomen…

Unfathomable spirit diagrams were engraved into every inch of the Blood Progenitor’s flesh.

The bloody lines formed the network of the spirit diagram. There were millions of them, seemingly as numerous as the starry rivers of the galaxy, and just as mysterious and vast.

Qin Lie paid close attention to the spirit diagrams, and he noticed there were dozens of the four basic spirit diagrams: Spirit Storage, Spirit Gathering, Amplification, and Strengthening.

Each of the four basic spirit diagrams were actually incredibly complex and required several thousands of spirit threads to be drawn and portrayed.

Yet now there were actually dozens of these spirit diagrams inscribed into the Blood Progenitor’s body, each having been shrunk to several times smaller than their usual size.

Aside from the four basic spirit diagrams, there were also dozens of other, larger spirit diagrams on his body. They were wondrous spirit diagrams that were at least ten times more complicated than the basic ones.

These spirit diagrams had far exceeded Qin Lie’s comprehension and were way more complex and miraculous than any spirit diagram he had ever seen before. To him, every single one of them resembled a vast, boundless world that contained indescribable wonders and secrets.

Both basic spirit diagrams and extremely complex ancient diagrams had been inlaid to form numerous densely packed compound spirit diagrams. These compound spirit diagrams were branded into the Blood Progenitor’s body like bloody tattoos that contained shocking amounts of wondrous power. They resembled dense spider webs that covered every part of the progenitor’s body.

“Heavens!” Du Xiangyang exclaimed in disbelief. “How did so many spirit diagrams appear on it in such a short time?”

This question was on everyone else’s minds as well.

There hadn’t been a single line of blood on the Blood Progenitor’s body when it and the Bloodthirsty Dragon were absorbed into Qin Lie’s third eye.

How long had it been since then?

The Blood Progenitor’s body had probably only been inside of it for about fifteen minutes.

How could the body change so much in so little time?

What in Spirit Realm did Qin Lie, or rather, his third eye, do?

“I…” A bitter, frustrated look on his face, Qin Lie scratched his head and tried to sort out the thoughts in his mind.

All of a sudden, a brilliant bloody light radiated from the countless bloody lines on the Blood Progenitor’s left arm. It seemed as if many of the miraculous spirit diagrams on it had been activated.

Surprisingly, the Blood Progenitor mirrored Qin Lie’s movements, scratching its head with its eyes closed.

It literally did the same thing as Qin Lie.

This sight stunned everyone.

Unable to control herself, Song Tingyu was the first to react.

“Qin Lie! Try moving in a different way!” she immediately cried out, her eyes overflowing with a shocking intensity.

“Moving in a different way…” Qin Lie frowned and casually shook his head.

The ancient diagram on the blood progenitor’s neck activated at the same time, glowing with dazzling bloody light. The Blood Progenitor’s body followed Qin Lie’s movements and shook its head as well.

It completely mirrored his movements.

At this moment, it was as if the two of them shared one mind. The Blood Progenitor’s body would move as Qin Lie did.

Not even the slightest discrepancy could be seen.

“Try it again!” Du Xiangyang exclaimed excitedly. “Try out a different movement!”

Qin Lie’s eyes lit up.

Under the watchful eye of the rest of the group, he suddenly began moving, waving his arms and swinging his legs forcefully.

The Blood Progenitor’s body moved in perfect sync with him, copying every one of his movements without a single mistake. Furthermore, it even kicked an enormous icy stone the size of a house as it swung its legs, reducing it to smithereens.

“Qin Lie! Try channeling the Blood Spirit Art!” Xue Moyan took a deep breath, her supple breasts jiggling noticeably.

“Quick! Hurry up and try it!” Du Xiangyang urged.

“Alright!” Qin Lie said and began channeling the Blood Spirit Art.

“Boom!”

All of the spirit diagrams on the Blood Progenitor’s body began to glow like the stars in the sky, glittering with dazzling bloody light.

The Blood Progenitor’s body unleashed a dense, fiendish aura of blood, making Du Xiangyang and the others feel as if their blood were surging within them. Their faces flushed completely red, and they were terrified that their blood would cause them to explode at any moment.

The last time they felt this way… was when the Bloodthirsty Dragon had charged at them earlier.

“Try executing spirit skills!” Xue Moyan’s eyes glittered with anticipation.

“W-wait a minute! Give us time to move away first!” Du Xiangyang cried loudly.

Qin Lie looked dumbfounded.

“This blood energy is too strong for us,” Song Tingyu said as she moved away, a shocked expression on her face. “You two can endure it because you cultivate the Blood Spirit Art. We don’t, so we feel like every drop of blood inside of our bodies is being triggered. We might explode at any moment.”

Du Xiangyang and the others repeatedly nodded in agreement, quickly departing before Qin Lie and Xue Moyan’s eyes.

“Try it!” Xue Moyan exclaimed.

Qin Lie attempted to channel the Blood Spirit Art and form a Blood Weeping Ghost Claw, a sinister, ghastly claw of blood slowly materializing in front of his left hand.

The Blood Progenitor’s body stood to Qin Lie’s right, whereas Xue Moyan stood in front of him. This was why, before he could see what changes occurred to the Blood Progenitor’s body, he first saw Xue Moyan cover her mouth in complete shock.

Off in the distance, Du Xiangyang yelled, “Holy crap!”

Only then did Qin Lie look to his right.

A sinister claw of blood quietly floated before the Blood Progenitor’s body. It was as large as a mountain, looked as if it belonged to an enormous bloodthirsty demon, and contained a seemingly endless amount of violent, fiendish energy. The terrible power the claw emanated made it feel as if it could envelop the sky and bathe the world in blood.

The Blood Progenitor had mimicked Qin Lie’s movements and unleashed a Blood Weeping Ghost Claw of its own.

This ghastly claw was nearly a thousand times larger than Qin Lie’s, and the destructive aura it radiated was also a thousand times stronger!

This… was the real Blood Weeping Ghost Claw!

“C-can you put it away now!?” Pan Qianqian cried, her lips trembling non-stop.

In the face of that enormous Blood Weeping Ghost Claw, the thumping of her heart resembled an earthquake. Her heart beat so fast that she felt like she would collapse from the pressure.

Even though she was currently sitting on the ground and focusing her thoughts, trying to calm down the her chaotic heart, she couldn’t stop the abnormal flow of her blood.

The pressure of the Blood Weeping Ghost Claw left her on the verge of breaking down.

Luo Chen, Du Xiangyang, Song Tingyu, and Xie Jingxuan’s faces looked flushed as well. All of them struggled to resist the pressure and looked like they might fall over at any moment.

Like Pan Qianqian, they also couldn’t endure the terrifying power of the giant blood claw.

So Qin Lie hurriedly withdrew his strength.

When his Blood Weeping Ghost Claw turned into a ray of bloody light and returned to his body, the gigantic ghastly claw unleashing an endless fiendish aura of blood also vanished into the Blood Progenitor’s body.

“Phew…”

The rest of the group let out a long sigh and instantly collapsed to the ground. The ghastly claw had nearly pushed them to their breaking points.

Now all of them understood what had happened.

Qin Lie’s third eye had clearly executed some sort of extraordinary, secret puppet art on the Blood Progenitor’s body. The myriad bloody lines that formed the miraculous spirit diagrams served as the ropes that bound it.

The binding spirit diagrams had clearly transformed the Blood Progenitor’s body into a puppet that Qin Lie could control.

It had been turned into an amazing killing tool that could channel the Blood Spirit Art and even use the Bloodthirsty Dragon to wreak widespread havoc.

What in Spirit Realm was Qin Lie’s third eye? How did it cause such a terrifying change in the Blood Progenitor’s body in just fifteen minutes?

Everyone looked at Qin Lie once more, their gazes falling right on the space between his eyebrows. They looked like they were itching to dig into his head and find out.

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Chapter 541: The First Voodoo Creature!

“Whoosh…!”

Within the Land of Buried Gods, the heads that belonged to the eight god corpses suddenly floated into the air, hovering around the Demon Sealing Tombstone like dazzling balls of light.

The godly chains that spread from the surface of the tombstone grew even more formidable and shockingly powerful.

“Prakprakprak!”

The godly chains resembled meteoric whips as they struck the body of the Merfolk woman, causing the streams of light that she summoned to burst into motes of spirit energy.

Images of the sun, the moon, and stars could be seen deep within the pupils of the eight god heads.

Their eyes instantly locked on to the Merfolk woman possessed by the water spirit. The splendor of sunlight, luster of moonlight, and scattered starlight shone down on the woman at the same time.

This long beam of light looked like a waterfall pouring directly onto the Merfolk woman’s body, causing this ancient elite to tremble uncontrollably.

Qin Lie, who clearly didn’t have time to try and make sense of the Blood Progenitor’s secrets, had no choice but to turn his attention to the bottom of the frozen lake once more.

He took in the latest turn of events.

“Bang!”

The godly chains of lights unleashed by the Demon Sealing Tombstone transformed into the magnificent shape of a pagoda, suddenly landing atop the Merfolk woman’s head.

Numerous prismatic lights spread from the bottom of the pagoda and seeped into her head.

“Oooo!”

The water spirit whined incessantly, the sound of which emanated from the head of the Merfolk woman.

Then, as if striking a vein of clear spring water, the Demon Sealing Tombstone forcefully extracted a flowing soul from woman’s body.

The soul resembled a graceful water snake that had instantly fallen into the Demon Sealing Tombstone’s clutches.

The Demon Sealing Tombstone extracted the soul of the water spirit, sealing it!

Without the water spirit controlling it, along with the fact that it used up a large amount of energy, the Merfolk woman’s body dissolved into water and merged with streams nearby.

Her aura had completely vanished.

When the eight god heads floated into the air and assisted the Demon Sealing Tombstone in opposing the three spirits, they were like stars adding to the brilliance of the sun and the moon.

The first of the three spirits to collapse under the combined pressure of the god heads and the Demon Sealing Tombstone… was the water spirit.

The water spirit had been sealed. The divine lights inside of the Demon Sealing Tombstone grew even brighter, the eyes of the eight god heads also glowing with binding power capable of enveloping the world.

The tombstone and the heads changed directions, turning their attention to the earth and metal spirits that possessed the ancient giant and ape. They began a brand new round of attacks, intent on sealing the spirits.

Meanwhile, the demonified Jiang Tianxing, which had been waltzing all over the desolate plain from one body of an ancient elite to another, had been devoured by a frigid tornado. The power of absolute frost gradually seeped into both its bones and its soul, instantly transforming it into a translucent, fiendish sculpture made of bloody ice.

The blood demon, which held Jiang Tianxing inside of it, seemed to have been frozen, temporarily rendered incapable of plundering the remains of the ancient elites.

The ice spirit, the strongest and smartest of all seven spirits, had finally taken action. After sealing the blood demon in ice, it turned to face the threat of the Demon Sealing Tombstone.

The ice spirit did not seek out and possess the body of an ancient elite that cultivated the power of frost. It simply hid inside of Jia Yue’s body, seemingly observing something from within the violent tornado of frigid air.

Everyone’s gazes were fixed to the freezing tornado, paying close attention to its movements.

Suddenly, Yu Men cried out in surprise.

“The Voodoo Progenitor!”

He, Feng Yiyou, Qin Lie’s Group, and the eastern barbarians saw the streams of frosty air that had sealed the blood demon start floating toward the Voodoo Progenitor’s body.

This drew everyone’s attention to that single place.

“Crack! Cr-crack!”

A faint sound of something breaking resonated from the Voodoo Progenitor’s body. It seemed though some creature were hiding in it and eating something.

The Eight-winged Centipede Queen and the Black Crystal Sky Scorpion released shrill, panicked whistles from inside of the Voodoo Progenitor’s body. They seemed to be struggling madly, trying to escape.

Both struggled enough to emerge from the body, but their efforts stopped there. The number of wings that the Eight-winged Centipede Queen possessed slowly decreased, and chunk after chunk of the Black Crystal Sky Scorpion’s tail vanished.

“Something’s eating the voodoo insects!” Song Tingyu exclaimed, realization dawning on her face.

“The Eight-winged Centipede Queen and the Black Crystal Sky Scorpion are extremely terrifying voodoo insects that Black Voodoo Cult raised,” Xue Moyan said nervously, her pretty face marred with confusion. “The fact that they’re unable to resist being eaten means that whatever’s doing the eating must be even more powerful than both of them.”

“The Voodoo Progenitor’s eyes opened!” Du Xiangyang went pale with fright.

Gaps suddenly appeared where the Voodoo Progenitor’s tightly shut eyes were. A toad could vaguely be seen wriggling in the depths of his dark green pupils, happily feasting.

Xue Moyan’s eyes widened in shock.

“The Viridian Blood Toad! Th-that’s the Voodoo Progenitor’s lifeblood creature! According to the records of Black Voodoo Cult, the Viridian Blood Toad is known as the very first voodoo creature! It was the very first voodoo creature that the Voodoo Progenitor tamed and refined!”

“The Voodoo Progenitor perished long ago, but this Viridian Blood Toad doesn’t seem like it’s completely dead yet,” Du Xiangyang said. “It must have been surviving inside of the Voodoo Progenitor’s body all this time… and now it’s drawn the Eight-winged Centipede Queen and the Black Crystal Sky Scorpion to it so it could eat them. The Voodoo Progenitor didn’t summon the voodoo insects… it did!”

“The Viridian Blood Toad is even more tenacious than the Voodoo Progenitor!” Luo Chen’s eyes became unfathomably serious.

The Viridian Blood Toad was known to Black Voodoo Cult as the first voodoo creature. It was the first creature that the Voodoo Progenitor attempted to refine after figuring out the secrets of voodoo arts.

This voodoo creature was connected to the Voodoo Progenitor, having been raised on his flesh and tamed with his soul.

The records of Black Voodoo Cult hailed this voodoo creature as a special existence second only to the Voodoo Progenitor.

To this day, many Black Voodoo Cult martial practitioners still prayed before its image upon refining a voodoo creature with their own body. They would pray for success in merging with their voodoo creatures.

“Illusory Demon Sect and Black Voodoo Cult have battled each other for many years. I once heard my master say that Black Voodoo Cult cultists often hold sacrificial ceremonies for this voodoo creature. This means that there’s someone out there capable of detecting the existence of this voodoo creature… and that it has always been alive,” Xue Moyan said in astonishment. “So it’s all real… the first voodoo creature really is still alive!”

“I can’t believe that this voodoo creature stayed alive within the Voodoo Progenitor’s body even though his soul perished,” Du Xiangyang said gravely. “However… it must be extremely weak right now. That would explain why it had to eat the Eight-winged Centipede Queen and the Black Crystal Sky Scorpion to recover its strength.”

“Why in Spirit Realm did the ice spirit seek it out?” Qin Lie frowned.

Qin Lie’s group suddenly fell silent.

Without averting their eyes, they could only watch the Eight-winged Centipede Queen and the Black Crystal Heavenly Scorpion being slowly eaten inside the voodoo progenitor’s body, until they completely disappeared.

Although the eyes of the Voodoo Progenitor were initially just closed slits, they had slowly opened until they were wide open, completely exposing his lifeless pupils. The image of the Viridian Blood Toad inside of them grew clearer and clearer.

Everyone could see that this Viridian Blood Toad, which was referred to as the first voodoo creature, had taken full control of the Voodoo Progenitor’s body after countless years.

Two dense beams of pitch black light continuously writhed in and out of the Voodoo Progenitor’s pupils. They resembled two ebon snakes that constantly wriggled and squirmed, making the Voodoo Progenitor look unbelievably strange and terrifying.

All of a sudden, the Progenitor sat up and looked at the Demon Sealing Tombstone floating above him. Its face twisted in extraordinary hatred.

“Zzng zzng zzng!”

A shrill ear-splitting whistle echoed from the Voodoo Progenitor’s body and spread in every direction.

The resulting sound wave struck all of the observers standing at the edge of the frozen lake regardless of whether they were from the Land of Chaos or the territories east of it.

Numerous people bled from every orifice in their heads. Although they tried to stop the bleeding with their hands, the sanguine liquid still flowed through the gaps between their fingers.

Qin Lie suddenly started trembling uncontrollably, a dense bloody light erupting from his body. The light surrounded him, constantly fluctuating as it fended off the sharp impact of the sound.

Qin Lie let out a dull snort, tenaciously standing firm.

However, a line of blood still flowed down the corner of his mouth.

“Pwack!”

Blood burst from the mouth of Luo Chen who was still seated on the ground. His mind swiftly weakened as a result of the attack.

Du Xiangyang, Song Tingyu, and Xie Jingxuan bled from their eyes, nose, ears, and mouths. They collapsed one after another, continuously bleeding from every orifice in their heads.

The sound wave directly knocked Pan Qianqian out. Blood streamed from her face, and she collapsed to the floor, unmoving.

Xue Moyan gritted her teeth as blood flowed out of her ears and the corner of her mouth. Like Qin Lie, she also managed to stay standing.

Terrible screams rang out from the side of the frozen lake that the eastern barbarians were watching from. The shrill whistle of the first voodoo creature instantly killed three of them.

The rest of the barbarians looked to be in even worse shape than Du Xiangyang and Xie Jingxuan. All of them wailed miserably and looked impossibly ugly as they attempted to stem the blood flowing from their eyes, noses, and mouths.

Sen Ye and Yan Min were the only ones who managed to endure the attack. Although they were bleeding as well, they did not look much worse for the wear.

Three of Feng Yiyou’s spatial rings exploded, but he succeeded in surviving yet another deadly attack. The only price he paid was the destruction of his spirit artifacts.

Blood dripped from Yu Men’s nose and mouth as he panted heavily. The attack had obviously taken a huge toll on him as well.

Everyone knew that the Viridian Blood Toad controlling the body of the Voodoo Progenitor wasn’t actually targeting at them.

The people currently collapsing left and right, bleeding out of the seven orifices in their heads beside the frozen lake, were just unfortunate bystanders.

—They were just collateral damage caused by the attack.

The Viridian Blood Toad’s target was the Demon Sealing Tombstone!

Hatred gushed from the Voodoo Progenitor’s eyes. It seemed as if the Demon Sealing Tombstone were the reason for the first voodoo creature’s current miserable state.

Long ago, when it was helpless and weak, it hid within the Voodoo Progenitor’s body. It hadn’t been able to move that body for countless years.

As the spirit responsible for watching over and guarding the Land of Buried Gods, the ice spirit had always been aware of the Viridian Blood Toad’s existence. The ice spirit even knew about its profound hatred for the Demon Sealing Tombstone, which was why it never did anything to the voodoo creature.

Of course, the ice spirit never helped it either.

The ice spirit knew that once it helped the first voodoo creature start recovering, it would return to peak condition by feeding on the remains of ancient elites, possibly even exceeding peak condition by doing so.

That was not something the ice spirit wished to see.

However, it also didn’t want the voodoo creature to die. That was why, until this moment, the ice spirit only watched the voodoo creature and preserved it. It had been waiting for an opportunity to arrive… like the one that came today.

The ice spirit had suddenly disappeared earlier so that it could make a deal with this hidden voodoo creature.

With the help of the ice spirit, the Viridian Blood Toad had been able to recover a sliver of its power and attract the Eight-winged Centipede Queen and the Black Crystal Sky Scorpion. That’s the only reason it was able to feed on both insects and quickly recover.

Now that this first voodoo creature had recovered some of its strength by devouring the voodoo insects, it was naturally time for it to fulfill its side of the bargain.

It would destroy the Demon Sealing Tombstone!

“Qin Lie!” Du Xiangyang suddenly screamed. “Hurry and use the Blood Progenitor to attack it! We won’t hold out against its constant whistling attack for long!”

“Qianqian… Qianqian is going to die!” Xue Moyan burned with anxiety. “Qin Lie! Do something!”

“Alright!” Qin Lie said.