Spirit Realm Chapter 542-544

Chapter 542: Colossal Collapse

The Viridian Blood Toad released an earthshaking whistle, commanding the Voodoo Progenitor’s body to fly at the Demon Sealing Tombstone!

“Zzng zzng zzng!”

Amidst the constant whistling, all of the people at the edge of the frozen lake puked blood or immediately perished upon being struck by the sound wave.

Even people as strong as Luo Chen and Yu Men nearly lost their True Souls during the first sound wave caused by the Viridian Blood Toad’s earsplitting whistle.

Someone like Pan Qianqian possessed a weaker realm and even more limited endurance. At this point, she was already lying in a pool of blood, waiting to be killed by the next sound wave.

The body of the Voodoo Progenitor flew at the Demon Sealing Tombstone, the image of the Viridian Blood Toad clearly visible in both its pupils. It continued its hatred-filled whistle, which was capable of shattering one’s soul and breaking one’s heart.

Just as Qin Lie was about to rush down into the Land of Buried Gods, he came to a sudden stop.

He saw that the Demon Sealing Tombstone, which was clashing against the ape and the ancient giant, suddenly started emitting an impressive, godly light as dazzling as a blazing flame. The eight god heads spun around the Demon Sealing Tombstone, mysterious ancient runes flowing from their eyes.

These mysterious runes shone with fiery light as they shot down from the eyes of each god head.

A terrifying power that seemed capable of sealing the world, freezing time, and intimidating the universe descended from the sky.

It instantly enveloped the entire Land of Buried Gods.

The Demon Sealing Tombstone’s display of godly might seemed to frighten the Viridian Blood Toad inside of the Voodoo Progenitor.

It was so scared that it actually stopped whistling.

The first voodoo creature appeared to be terrified of the Demon Sealing Tombstone, and it noticed that things were not going as it had expected. Just when it looked like it was going to jump into the sky, it suddenly descended—.

—and landed beside the ice spirit.

The ice spirit hidden within Jia Yue’s body used the freezing tornado to hide itself. The moment it saw that the Demon Sealing Tombstone grew even stronger after sealing the water spirit, it seemed to cower a bit as well.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”

Without warning, the ice spirit actually flew away from the Land of Buried Gods and escaped toward the many snow-covered mountains and frosty glaciers outside of the frozen lake.

“Swoosh swoosh swoosh!”

Countless flowing lights emerged from the Demon Sealing Tombstone’s surface and shot toward the icy masses in every direction.

“Boom boom boom!”

There were many mountains and glaciers around the Land of Buried Gods. Deep, booming rumbles came from one mountain after another, countless enormous boulders hurtling down from them. Every time a boulder struck something, the force of the impact would shake the world.

Fissures resembling meandering rivers constantly appeared throughout the desolate plain inside the Land of Buried Gods.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”

Potent energies of metal, wood, water, fire, ice, and thunder flooded from the fissures in the ground. The gray sky of the Graveyard of Gods seemed like it was tearing apart as an immense aura of spirit energy surged into existence.

“What rich, refined spirit energies!” Xie Jingxuan gasped, her eyes glittering despite her wretched condition.

From the moment they first entered the Graveyard of Gods and traversed the forbidden lands, none of them had detected any worldly spirit energies.

Whenever they did encounter any spirit energy, it was always energy that corresponded with the forbidden land they were in. For martial practitioners who cultivated certain spirit arts, spirit energy with just one attribute could not be absorbed in any way.

However, after the Demon Sealing Tombstone and the eight god heads caused such a colossal change and made the Graveyard of Gods seem as if it would collapse, the streams of spirit energy that surged out of the ground were intoxicating.

“Bang bang!”

The eight god heads hurtled toward the giant ape like enormous boulders. They resembled dazzling suns, all eight crashing into either side of the ape in two groups of four.

At the same time, numerous mysterious runes streamed from the Demon Sealing Tombstone, soaking up the worldly spirit energy that had suddenly appeared. The seven different types of energy swiftly consolidated within them, gathering into one.

Soon enough, the giant runes swelled up and radiated impressive rays of light, having absorbed a considerable amount of energy.

Suddenly, they shot toward the ape and the ancient giant as if they were being controlled by the Demon Sealing Tombstone.

The ape and the ancient giant giant panted heavily, fear appearing in their eyes.

When the enormous runes made of light landed on the bodies of the ancient Giant Spirit Race elites, which had been possessed by the metal and earth spirits, they looked as if they had immediately been sealed once more.

The movements of both the ape and the giant slowed sharply as their hundred-meter-tall bodies came to a forceful stop, bound by the runes. They could no longer move.

Seizing the opportunity, seven godly chains extended from the Demon Sealing Tombstone and wrapped around the bodies of both Giant Spirit Race clansmen.

At the same time, the eight god heads turned to stare at the ape and the giant, wordlessly threatening them with sinister, intimidating expressions.

Seconds later, the earth and metal spirits finally realized they couldn’t escape. Pure, earthy soul light and a ray of metallic, golden soul power emerged from the bodies of the ape and the giant of their own accord.

No one even had the chance to get a clear look at the two spirits before the Demon Sealing Tombstone wrapped its godly chains around them and pulled them into itself, absorbing them.

Shortly after sealing the water spirit, the Demon Sealing Tombstone sealed the metal spirit and the earth spirit after the water spirit.

As of that moment, out of the seven spirits, the only one that still evaded being sealed… was the ice spirit!

“Thump! Thump!”

Di Fei, who was still alive, and Ka Deng, who had died long ago, fell from the bodies of the ape and the giant.

The Demon Sealing Tombstone hovered high above the Land of Buried Gods, and the eight god heads floated around it. They overwhelmed the entire Graveyard of Gods with their infinite power.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh…!”

A bright silver five-meter-long snake shot from the Forbidden Land of Water to the Land of Buried Gods as if attracted by some sort of energy.

This was the water spirit’s true body. After the water spirit’s soul was sealed away, its body naturally couldn’t escape imprisonment. It flew into the Demon Sealing Tombstone and vanished.

Before long, a dirt-brown anteater brimming with potent earth spirit energy came from the Forbidden Land of Earth, drawn by the Demon Sealing Tombstone’s power as well.

As the earth spirit’s true body, it was also devoured by the Demon Sealing Tombstone.

A while later, a shiny, metallic spirit beast in the shape of a porcupine flew over to the Land of Buried Gods from the Forbidden Land of Metal. It was ultimately sealed as well.

At this point in time, the souls and bodies of the water spirit, earth spirit, and metal spirit had all been sealed by the Demon Sealing Tombstone, and were no longer able to cause trouble.

“Boom boom boom!”

All of a sudden, a series of intense rumblings resounded from the Forbidden Lands of Water, Earth, and Metal. The commotion was so loud that it could be heard throughout all of the Graveyard of Gods.

The numerous icy mountains in the Forbidden Land of Ice began to collapse, the earth and the sky surged with rich spirit energy, and everyone present felt terrified.

They had a horrible feeling that the Graveyard of Gods was about to explode!

“What’s going on!?” Du Xiangyang exclaimed.

“I don’t know,” Xue Moyan replied in a daze. “With the sealing of the water, earth, and metal spirits, as well as the disappearance of and trouble caused by the ice spirit, it seems like a certain ancient barrier around the Graveyard of Gods has fallen apart.”

“Are… are you saying that the Graveyard of Gods is done for?” Qin Lie asked in shock. “Aside from the Forbidden Land of Ice, are the six other forbidden lands collapsing as well?”

“That may be the case.” Xue Moyan couldn’t give a sure answer.

As everyone muttered amongst each other, they didn’t realize that the aura of frost that surrounded the blood demon was swiftly fading.

A tiny bloody light continuously floated around the blood demon’s body, growing stronger and stronger.

If one were able to look deep inside of the blood demon, they would see Jiang Tianxing properly seated within its head, his bloody eyes staring closely at a bone fragment that glittered with bloody light.

“Swoosh!”

The Blood Progenitor’s body flew from Qin Lie’s side, uncontrollably shooting toward the blood demon.

It seemed as if the body had detected a familiar presence.

“Boom!”

A shocking, fiendish aura of blood exploded from the blood demon’s body once more, and the blood demon instantly regained its freedom.

Jiang Tianxing’s supposedly crazed, bloodthirsty eyes actually held a trace of awareness. He seemed to have actually regained his rationality in a short time.

Holding the bone fragment before him, he roared in a deep voice.

“With blood as the trigger and god as the path, let the blood bridge come into being!”

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”

The blood demon howled at the sky, a hole abruptly appearing in the middle of its bloody abdomen.

Everyone could feel a terrifying sensation, one where that enormous hole fractured time and threw space into chaos.

Countless dazzling lights that resembled rivers of stars or sparks caused by clashing energies streamed from the gaping hole.

As the chaotic energy inside of it began the stabilize, the hole swelled to become larger and larger.

“Why did you only connect the blood bridge now?” a deep, grim voice resounded from the hole in the blood demon. “How worthless!”

A bloody light flashed, and a handsome middle-aged man draped in a scarlet cape appeared below the blood demon. His bloody eyes glowed with demonic light.

He had traversed the blood bridge and appeared in the Land of Buried Gods.

“Jiang Zhuzhe!” Xue Moyan yelled in unfathomable hatred. She bit her lips hard enough to draw blood.

“Many unforeseen events occurred up to this point, father.” Jiang Tianxing’s voice echoed from within the blood demon’s head. “I nearly failed to construct the blood bridge, but thank the heavens… I succeeded at following your instructions in the end.

“You useless fool!” Jiang Zhuzhe berated his son. “You made me wait outside for an entire seven months and nine days!”

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Chapter 543: Jiang Zhuzhe

With the blood bridge successfully formed, Jiang Zhuzhe emerged from the blood demon and appeared in the Land of Buried Gods.

Jiang Tianxing, who had sunken deep within the blood demon, finally sighed in relief the moment his father arrived. He emerged from the blood demon’s head, descending to the ground to stand beside Jiang Zhuzhe.

Since six of the seven spirits that maintained the restrictive barrier that surrounded the Graveyard of Gods had been sealed by the Demon Sealing Tombstone, that barrier had been mercilessly destroyed.

As a result, the restriction on the Graveyard of Gods was no more.

That was the reason why Jiang Tianxing was able to build the blood bridge and help his father to enter the Graveyard of Gods.

Jiang Zhuzhe stood there looking calm and collected. He was a handsome man, and although he appeared middle aged, he still seemed dignified and reserved like a scholar.

Surprisingly enough, even though Jiang Tianxing was significantly younger, he was far inferior to his father. Whether it was a question of presence or poise, it seemed as if he had not inherited any of Jiang Zhuzhe’s genes.

Everyone could see that, based on appearance alone, this junior brother of Xue Li was truly extraordinary.

Xue Li’s demeanor, in comparison, was much poorer. Even his presence seemed a bit worse than Jiang Zhuzhe’s.

In Qin Lie’s opinion, out of all the higher realm martial practitioners he knew of, Li Mu was probably the only person that could compare to Jiang Zhuzhe.

Profound Heaven Alliance’s Song Yu, Xie Yaoyang, and Song Ni, and also Eight Extreme Temple’s Holy Master, weren’t even in the same league as this Jiang Zhuzhe.

“Swoosh!”

The Blood Progenitor’s body flew down from the edge of the frozen lake and shot toward Jiang Tianxing.

The Bloodthirsty Dragon, in its armguard form attached to the Blood Progenitor’s left arm, stared closely at the bloody bone fragment in Jiang Tianxing’s hands.

“The Blood Codex!” Qin Lie and Xue Moyan cried at the same time.

The bloody bone fragment that Jiang Tianxing held literally looked the same as the one that Qin Lie originally possessed.

The Blood Codex was divided into two parts: the first half and the second half. For the longest time, Blood Fiend Sect only possessed the first half of the Blood Codex. This half alone enabled Blood Fiend Sect to prosper and dominate the Land of Chaos for a period of time.

Yet despite Blood Fiend Sect’s ceaseless efforts to search for the other half of the Blood Codex, they never found it.

No one could have imagined that the second half of the Blood Codex was actually in the hands of Jiang Zhuzhe and his son!

The Blood Progenitor had broken free of Qin Lie’s control and charged at Jiang Tianxing because it had obviously detected the second half of the Blood Codex.

The Blood Codex was forged using a fragment of the Blood Progenitor’s bone and refined using his blood. It shared a miraculous connection with the Blood Progenitor and a wondrous resonance with Bloodthirsty Dragon.

“Oh? The body of the Blood Progenitor and the Bloodthirsty Dragon, the ultimate treasure of the sect? How wonderful!”

A look of joy appeared on Jiang Zhuzhe’s face when he saw the Blood Progenitor flying toward him like a ray of bloody light. He raised a hand, turning to grab the Blood Codex from Jiang Tianxing.

The moment the second half of the codex fell into Jiang Zhuzhe’s hands, a sudden surge of seemingly endless blood energy erupted from it.

“Eh!?” Jiang Zhuzhe exclaimed softly, a trace of surprise appearing in his intimidating, demonic eyes. “The first half of the Blood Codex is actually inside of the progenitor’s body!”

Using the second half of the Blood Codex, Jiang Zhuzhe immediately discovered that the other half lay within the Blood Progenitor’s body.

Jiang Zhuzhe had searched for the first half of the Blood Codex for many years after imprisoning Xue Li.

The Blood Progenitor’s remains, the Bloodthirsty Dragon, and the Blood Codex were all treasures of Blood Fiend Sect. They were the ultimate goal that Jiang Zhuzhe had been chasing for his entire life.

Now, in the that moment he entered the Land of Buried Gods, he discovered that all three of these treasures were in one place. How could this not fill him with delight?

“Phew…”

Jiang Zhuzhe suddenly flew into the air and dove into the blood demon.

“Grrrraaaaaaaaaugh!”

The blood demon unleashed a furious roar, unleashing an overflowing, fiendish blood aura. Numerous bloody tentacles reminiscent of an octopus’s limbs sprouted from its body, twisting and slipping into the remains of ancient elites like bloody pythons.

“Glug! Glug! Glug!”

The bloody pythons crazily devoured the blood that remained within those bodies.

—All of which flowed straight to the blood demon.

The fiendish blood aura emanating from the blood demon instantly became several times stronger than before.

“Boom!”

The Blood Progenitor’s body rushed to the blood demon, but the bloody pythons sticking out of the blood demon swatted it far to the side.

“Qin Lie!” Du Xiangyang exclaimed. “It seems like the Blood Progenitor’s body can’t channel the Blood Spirit Art and unleash its power without your control.”

The Demon Sealing Tombstone hovered high above the Land of Buried Gods, intimidating the Voodoo Progenitor, whereas the eight god heads simple rotated rotated where they hovered.

Then, all of a sudden, all eight flew toward icy mountains in the distance.

They seemed to be searching for the ice spirit’s whereabouts.

“Prakprakprak!”

Divine lights burst from the Demon Sealing Tombstone once more, streaking toward the Voodoo Progenitor and the blood demon that Jiang Zhuzhe merged with.

It was at this moment that Xue Moyan charged down the side frozen lake with gritted teeth, her eyes glittering with harsh light.

She leaped through the air, flying straight toward Jiang Tianxing and Jiang Zhuzhe, creating multiple graceful shadows.

Jiang Zhuzhe had hurt her entire family. Her father had been imprisoned for a thousand years, her mother suffered grievous wounds at his hands, and she herself was born with a short lifespan…

These were all consequences of the evils that Jiang Zhuzhe committed.

“You shouldn’t have entered the Graveyard of Gods, Niece Xue.”

Contrary to expectations, Jiang Zhuzhe sighed helplessly from within the blood demon as if he were regretting something.

A gentle bloody light shot from the blood demon’s chest, instantly wrapping around Xue Moyan’s petite body like a soft, bloody ribbon.

Bound in midair by that bloody ribbon of light, Xue Moyan swore and yelled. However, she couldn’t move at all.

“Senior Jiang!” Sen Ye cried out in surprise.

“You came here for the Arrow God’s body and the Sun Killing Bow. Have you obtained them?” Jiang Zhuzhe asked indifferently.

“We have!” Sen Ye exclaimed.

Jiang Zhuzhe laughed softly and said, “That’s good. Since you have achieved your goal, you no longer need to stay in this place. Leave using the directions I provided you as soon as possible.”

“B-but… there are still so many bodies of ancient elites here!” an eastern barbarian cried out greedily.

“You can take what you should take. You cannot touch what you should not take,” Jiang Zhuzhe said in a grave tone. “Leave!”

Sen Ye took a moment to gauge the situation, then he said, “Di Fei is hurt and Jia Yue has been possessed by the ice spirit. We…”

A blood light wrapped around Di Fei and tossed him over to where Sen Ye’s group at one edge of the frozen lake.

“Take him away,” Jiang Zhuzhe said impatiently. “But I am unable to separate the ice spirit from the white barbarian girl Jia Yue. Leave. Now!”

“What should we do, young master?” an eastern barbarian asked in a low voice.

The eyes of the remaining eastern barbarians were sparkling. They clearly still coveted after the remains of the ancient elites in the Land of Buried Gods.

Sen Ye hesitated for a moment before taking a deep breath and yelling, “Let’s go!”

Just like that, the eastern barbarians turned around and left.

“Jiang Zhuzhe!” Feng Yiyou yelled angrily. “You hid in Celestial Artifact Sect, earned our trust, requested our help to search for the Graveyard of Gods and fish all of the god corpses out of the sea to achieve your own goals, didn’t you?”

“I don’t need to explain anything to you.” Jiang Zhuzhe’s tone was cold and indifferent. “You must have gone through many hardships to survive up to this point. To give your father some face, I will remind you: don’t do something that you’ll regret. Question your father about the Land of Buried Gods once you get return. Don’t come to me for answers…”

Surprise covered Feng Yiyou’s face.

“Everything I’ve done is a part of an agreement between your father and I. He is well aware of my goals,” Jiang Zhuzhe said nonchalantly.

“H-how could he possibly know?” Feng Yiyou asked in confusion.

“Ask him yourself when you return.” Jiang Zhuzhe started growing more and more impatient.

Without warning, his figure emerged from the blood demon’s forehead, and he swept his gaze over the numerous remains strewn across the desolate plain below him. The moment his eyes fell upon Qin Lie, an odd light shone within them.

“Are you the one who obtained the acknowledgment of the Demon Sealing Tombstone, boy?”

Qin Lie frowned and nodded.

“Fluctuations of blood energy are coming from the Blood Progenitor’s body. Is it resonating with you?” Jiang Zhuzhe asked.

Qin Lie nodded again.

“The other half of the Blood Codex inside of the Blood Progenitor’s body… is it yours or Niece Xue’s?”

“It’s mine.”

“Oh.” Jiang Zhuzhe rubbed his chin and thought to himself for a moment, then suddenly said, “My senior brother said that a young man would help Blood Fiend Sect regain its former glory. You’re the young man he was referring to, aren’t you?”

This sudden change in topic startled Qin Lie.

“How is he doing? If I remember correctly, I should’ve only refined half of his soul back then? The other half of his soul should still be around, right?”

Shock filled Qin Lie’s face.

“So you actually knew…”

Chapter 544: Twisted Ideals

“How would I not know?” Jiang Zhuzhe asked.

He began laughing, then drew the second half of the Blood Codex into him. The moment the its aura disappeared, the Blood Progenitor’s body, which had been instinctively charging toward it over and over, suddenly lost its target.

It came to a halt, not moving a muscle.

At this moment, the bloody ribbon of light wrapped around Xue Moyan’s body, immobilizing her. She could only glare at Jiang Zhuzhe hatefully.

Sen Ye had already left with the remaining eastern barbarians. It seemed as if they no longer cared about the Land of Buried Gods or the remains of the ancient elites that lay within it.

Jiang Zhuzhe’s words had perplexed Feng Yiyou into silence.

Yu Men never had anything to say to begin with.

The eight god heads had flown away in search of the ice spirit. The Demon Sealing Tombstone hovered high in the air, suppressing the Voodoo Progenitor with its divine might and preventing the blood demon, which Jiang Zhuzhe was currently in, from damaging the remains of ancient elites however it wanted.

The situation had suddenly stabilized. Only the occasional rumble or crack resounded from icy mountains beside the frozen lake.

Seven types of rich, worldly spirit energy continued to gush from the fissures in the ground.

“The only difference between my senior brother and I… is our ideals. We share the same goal, really.” Jiang Zhuzhe sighed softly, his face full of regret as he continued, “We both want to revive Blood Fiend Sect and return it to its former glory. We both want it to be the dominant sect in the Land of Chaos. In this regard, I, my senior brother, my junior sister, and even our master… we all have the same goal.”

Jiang Zhuzhe shook his head. “Unfortunately, the others are… behind the times. They don’t adapt. They, who can’t accept cultivating by absorbing human blood, are the ones that have been preventing Blood Fiend Sect’s rise to power all along.”

“How do you even have the nerve to say that?” Xue Moyan yelled, harshness filling her petite face. “Someone who sucks the blood of their own kind to cultivate is no better than an animal!”

“If we can cultivate using the blood, bones, and cores of spirit beasts, absorbing the power within them to facilitate our own cultivation and temper powerful spirit artifacts, why can’t we cultivate using human blood?” Jiang Zhuzhe retorted with a calm smile. “Many ancient elites are buried here in the Land of Buried Gods. There are bodies of members of the Nether Realm’s evil races, members of the Giant Spirit race, and members of other highly intelligent races as well. Even humans! Look at all of the people who’ve come here. Tell me, what did they come here for? Aren’t they here to obtain the remains of these powerful beings and use them to forge spirit artifact? To increase their own strength?”

“All trial participants that have entered this land, heed me. Are your goals truly that noble? Are your actions more humane than using human blood to cultivate? Aren’t you just as despicable? Aren’t you ignoring all rules and conventions in the pursuit of higher realms and more strength?” Jiang Zhuzhe wore an expression of disbelief. “The people who ordered you to come here, the sect masters of the nine great Silver rank forces, were they not planning to use the remains of the dead as well?

“You… and the people behind you… won’t even leave the remains of your own kind in peace. How dare you self-righteously condemn my actions?”

Jiang Zhuzhe’s words made everyone subconsciously look at each other. They found themselves unable to say anything in response.

He wasn’t wrong.

Nearly everyone who entered the Land of Buried Gods sought to obtain the body of an ancient elite for their own use. The seniors that had sent them planned to do the same.

They were well aware of the fact that human ancestors had also been laid to rest here.

“After obtaining the remains of these ancient elites, bringing them out of the Graveyard of Gods and returning to your sects… what will you do with them?” Jiang Zhuzhe smiled again.

“Here’s what you would do. You would extract the remaining energy from them, use each body to forge spirit artifacts or refine a puppet body.” He paused for a moment, the continued, “I truly would like to know… how much of a difference is there between extracting the energy from a dead person’s body and me consuming the blood essence of a living person?”

“This…”

Jian Zhuzhe’s twisted logic stunned everyone. They had to admit that he did make some sense.

Not only was he eloquent and rational, he also had his own set of ideals that weren’t confined to the standards of society.

“See?” Jiang Zhuzhe asked, smiling. “You can’t think of anything to say in response, can you?”

“Senior brother, junior sister, and master couldn’t accept the idea of consuming human blood to cultivate. However, what they didn’t know was that this is actually the fastest way to strengthen Blood Fiend Sect and allow it to dominate the Land of Chaos.” Jiang Zhuzhe stopped speaking for a moment and sighed, an expression of helplessness on his face. “After I failed to persuade them over and over again, I had no choice but to commit murder. Everything I did… I did for the future of Blood Fiend Sect.”

“For the future of Blood Fiend Sect?” Xue Moyan gritted her teeth. “Blood Fiend Sect has already perished! Look at what has happened to me, my father, my mother, and my grandfather! Is this what your so-called future of Blood Fiend Sect looks like!?”

“A temporary setback will not shake my determination. Soon enough, Blood Fiend Sect will once again rise to power in the Land of Chaos and surpass all existing forces!” Eerie light glittered in Jiang Zhuzhe’s eyes as he thought to himself for a moment, then sighed. “If I truly did not care for bonds I shared with others, senior brother would not have survived our last encounter. You, Niece Xue, would not be alive right now.”

“Are you telling me to thank you?” Xue Moyan’s bright eyes looked as if they could shoot fire.

“Hehe… I know you still hate me. I can understand that,” Jiang Zhuzhe said calmly. “For the future of Blood Fiend Sect, and for the ideals I hold within my heart, I will continue walking this path no matter what happens… because I believe that the path I walk is the right one!”

“This guy’s insane!” Du Xiangyang exclaimed with a frown. “His deranged obsession has driven him insane!”

“He isn’t truly evil,” Song Tingyu said. She wore a strange expression. “But he’s a hundred times more dangerous than evil fanatics!”

The look on Qin Lie’s face was just as strange.

Before meeting Jiang Zhuzhe, Xue Li’s description of the man and the rumors of the Land of Chaos convinced him that Jiang Zhuzhe was just like You Hongzhi and Blood Shadow—an evil, demonic person that thirsted for blood and enslaved his own kind.

However, upon meeting him in person, Qin Lie saw Jiang Zhuzhe’s demeanor toward Xue Moyan, the eastern barbarians, and Feng Yiyou. He realized that this man was different than he originally thought.

With his strength, Jiang Zhuzhe could have easily killed Xue Moyan, Feng Yiyou, and all of the eastern barbarians if he wanted to.

Instead, he simply restrained Xue Moyan and kept his promise with the eastern barbarians, allowing Sen Ye to lead his tribesman out of the Graveyard of Gods. He had even helped Di Fei and gave Feng Yiyou cryptic warnings.

With his absolute strength, he could have just killed everyone who opposed him.

This was the Graveyard of Gods.

Who could stop him?

If he did kill everyone, who would know about it?

Yet… he didn’t.

Instead, he went as far as explaining to Qin Lie and Xue Moyan that the only difference between him, Xue Li, and their master, Mo Yunwu… was their ideals.

To Jiang Zhuzhe, everything he had done wasn’t for himself, but for Blood Fiend Sect.

He did it all for the Blood Fiend Sect in his heart.

He believed that sucking human blood to cultivate was the right choice.

Since he believed that his ideals and means were right, Jiang Zhuzhe ultimately walked a path separate from Mo Yunwu and Xue Li.

He would use his own methods to strengthen Blood Fiend Sect and prove himself.

“My senior brother and my master no longer acknowledge me, and every force in the Land of Chaos treats me as an evildoer that strayed from the correct path,” Jiang Zhuzhe said calmly, shaking his head. “However, this supposed evildoer will one day become stronger than any force in existence! When Blood Fiend Sect has grown so strong that not even the combined strength of the nine great Silver rank forces can stop it, I’d very much like to see what everyone thinks about my methods!”

“The forces of the Land of Chaos hunted me down for so many years. My disciples became the objects of everyone’s hated and are now afraid of showing their faces anywhere. I have to take revenge for this and make them pay their debt!” Jiang Zhuzhe took a deep breath and smiled. “They won’t allow me to consume the blood of a living person? Fine! I’ll just use a dead person’s blood to cultivate then! I’ll take all of the blood that remains in the bodies of these ancient elites and use it to facilitate my disciples’ cultivation of the Blood Spirit Art. It won’t take long for my Blood Fiend Sect to become a bloody tornado that envelops all of the Land of Chaos!”

The moment he finally made his true intentions known, a glint of bloody insanity shone in Jiang Zhuzhe’s eyes.

“That won’t be necessary.” Qin Lie interrupted Jiang Zhuzhe’s frenzied moment. “I’m going to take the Blood Progenitor’s body away from here and give it to Senior Xue Li so he can merge with it. With the Blood Codex and the Bloodthirsty Dragon, he’ll definitely become more powerful than ever before. In addition to that, Blood Fiend Sect already has a group of people that has received its inheritance. They will be the ones to ensure that Blood Fiend Sect rises in the Heavenly Calamity Continent once again.”

“Senior brother’s perspective is too rigid and his soul is greatly damaged. Even if he did obtain the progenitor’s body, he wouldn’t be able to dominate this world.” Jiang Zhuzhe snorted. “He couldn’t break free from his imprisonment for a thousand years and his realm hasn’t made any breakthroughs. Instead of improving, his strength has declined! He will no longer be able to catch up to this new era. His ideals will not forge a real future for Blood Fiend Sect.”

“I am the only hope for Blood Fiend Sect’s future! I am the only one who can lead Blood Fiend Sect to heights beyond its former glory!” Jiang Zhuzhe snorted, reaching out to grab hold of the Blood Progenitor’s body, which had lost its target and was now in a daze, unmoving.

“You are not worthy!”

Qin Lie finally chose to act.