Spirit Realm Chapter 679-682

Chapter 679: Getting Rich!

Qin Lie’s entire body was completely submerged in bloodwater.

“Blub, blub!”

Blood-colored bubbles continuously emerged from the surface of the blood pool as turbulent waves of heat began to emanate outwards from within the blood pool, dramatically increasing the temperature of the cultivation room at a shocking speed.

The skin on the upper half of Qin Lie’s body was a fiery crimson red and was currently emanating an astonishing amount of heat.

As Lang Xie closely observed Qin Lie, his expression slightly changed as the glow in his eyes became brighter and brighter.

Qin Lie, with his eyes closed, took a deep breath and began to circulate the Blood Refinement Art, using the spirit energy contained within the bloodwater to cleanse and temper his flesh, while using his own blood to condense lifeblood essence at the same time.

“Boom!”

Qin Lie felt his mind tremble as countless divine characters of “blaze” emerged from within his muscles, flesh, and bones after a short pause.

During this instant, Qin Lie felt as if a blazing volcano which was uncontrollably spewing lava had been created within him. It was incredibly terrifying.

It was his bloodline power being awakened!

“Pop, pop, pop!”

With Qin Lie at its center, the blood pool began to emit startling explosive sounds as bloodwater was being quickly vaporized due to the astonishingly high temperature.

Within the cultivation room, the temperature continued to climb as if the blood pool was filled with lava. The fierce, violent heat scorched Qin Lie’s surroundings and caused space to continuously explode.

Lang Xie’s face suddenly changed color.

“Swish, swish, swish!”

Streaks of fiery light containing the mysterious and unpredictable divine characters that meant “blaze” and carrying the scent of sulphuric lava suddenly burst outwards in all directions.

“Bang!”

Under the bombardment of the streaks of fiery light, the cultivation room crashed down with a loud explosion.

Lang Xie got buried by the limestone.

Atop the island, numerous Blood Spear martial practitioners heard the dreadful noise and smelled the scent of sulfuric lava, resulting in them all gathering near the cultivation room.

All they saw was the now collapsed cultivation room.

“There is nothing for you to see here. All of you, leave!” Lang Xie’s cold voice resonated out from the depths of the limestone pile. Suddenly, the rocks began to explode, gradually revealing Lang Xie’s body.

Crawling out from within the rocks, Lang Xie glared at the Blood Spear practitioners and said in annoyance, “Scram!”

Intimidated by Lang Xie’s fierceness, the Blood Spear members quickly dispersed.

“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!”

The sound of flames burning came out from within the now ruined cultivation room as the blocks of limestone became a scorched crimson color similar to that of smelted iron. It seemed as if liquid lava was in the process of seeping out from within the cultivation room.

A while later, the limestone blocks became unable to bear the dreadfully high temperatures and melted into liquid lava.

A thick, pungent stench of blood permeated the surroundings. Suddenly, Qin Lie shouted as he rushed out from within the crimson bloodwater to beside Lang Xie.

After a moment of silence, Qin Lie stuck out his left hand, revealing the single droplet of condensed lifeblood essence in his palm.

The drop of blood was reminiscent of a fire crystal.

Similar to fire jade, the lifeblood essence was clear and constantly emitting an astonishingly high temperature, as if an inextinguishable fire was fiercely burning within. However, if one looked closely enough, they would be able to see countless starlike divine characters that contained an indescribably miraculous beauty.

This drop of lifeblood essence was fundamentally different from the ones he had condensed before.

After all, this was the first drop of blood essence which he had condensed following the awakening of his bloodline power. Compared to the ones he had created before, this drop contained the divine characters of “blaze”, causing it to enclose an incredibly high temperature of nearly a thousand degrees, the temperature of lava.

Furthermore, the amount of energy contained in this drop of lifeblood essence was also unparalleled, causing even Qin Lie to be surprised.

“The blood in your veins is different from ours, so the lifeblood essence you have condensed is different from ours as well.” Lang Xie looked at the drop of blood essence with a sense of awe as he could sense the fantastical characteristics contained within. He then continued, “When Ling Yushi and Ling Xuanxuan hid within the poisonous bog and cultivated in my domain in the past, I discovered that their bloodlines were also very strange…”

Lang Xie paused for a moment, then said, “Your blood is similar to theirs. You have the bloodline of a powerful ancient race.”

Taking a deep breath, Qin Lie absorbed the drop of lifeblood essence back into his body and slowly calmed himself down. Looking at Lang Xie, he said, “About this, please help me keep it a secret.”

Lang Xie nodded.

He still remembered when the Ling Family had discovered their bloodline powers in the past. Ling Yushi had undergone an astonishing change as due to the stimulation of her bloodline, her soul energy had been increasing dramatically every day.

As for the other members of the Ling Family, they all also experienced similarly drastic changes, resulting in their abilities and power soaring after their bloodline powers had been awakened.

Thus, Lang Xie began to try and discover the secrets of bloodlines by himself.

He took a long period of time to study the books of Armament Sect as well as some ancient books which he personally found. To his dismay, however, he discovered that with his knowledge and the records of the Scarlet Tide Continent which he was able to study, he was unable to unearth any of the mysteries of bloodline powers.

Nonetheless, because he cultivated the Blood Spirit Art and had a deep comprehension towards blood, he was able to create a method to sense the presence of a foreign bloodline after a period of time.

But he was still clueless as to why the bloodlines of the ancient races were able to miraculously meld into the blood pool and increase the purity of bloodwater.

“Lord Lang Xie, just how much do you understand about bloodline power?” Qin Lie focusedly asked.

Lang Xie shook his head and sighed. “The Scarlet Tide Continent’s history is just too short, and I am unable to find any books or scriptures which discuss bloodlines. Although I have been studying bloodlines for a while now, my efforts have all been in vain. I believed that through the Blood Refinement Art, I would perhaps be able to make use of an ancient race’s bloodline, but…”

Looking at the ruined cultivation room, collapsed of blood pool, and evaporated bloodwater, Lang Xie continued, “It has yet to work.”

His understanding of bloodline power was just too shallow, preventing him from discovering any of the secrets of bloodlines. For him to want to try to utilize bloodlines to cultivate Blood Spirit Art was simply impossible.

“Your bloodline power is too tyrannical. It’s simply impossible for it to merge with the bloodwater within the blood pool. It seems like when you tried to do so, the bloodwater incited your bloodline to surge out of control, resulting in the destruction you see around us.” Lang Xie pondered for a moment, then commented, “It seems like you still haven’t found a proper method to use your bloodline power.”

Qin Lie bitterly smiled and then nodded.

“I somehow awakened my bloodline power when I was still on the Scarlet Tide Continent, right before I broke through to the Fulfillment Realm…” Qin Lie explained his circumstances. He continued, “Afterwards, I tried to utilize my bloodline’s power several times, but I was never able to figure out how to trigger it. In fact, even though I managed to stimulate my bloodline power just now, it is still a complete anomaly to me. Moreover, I cannot control it, and thus I am afraid that I might harm others, or even myself.”

“Compared to the Scarlet Tide Continent, there are many more ancient forces and sects who might have a deeper understanding of bloodlines in the Land of Chaos,” Lang Xie reminded, “Perhaps you can ask the people from Blood Fiend Sect about it.”

Qin Lie’s eyes brightened.

“That’s right. Lord Lang Xie, based on my interpretation of Hong Bowen’s words, as long as you officially joined Blood Fiend Sect, you would definitely become the sect master in the future. Why did you give up such an opportunity?” This question had been on Qin Lie’s mind for quite some time, and one he desperately wanted to know the answer to.

“I don’t like to take the easy path,” Lang Xie murmured.

“So it was like this.” Qin Lie chuckled, then turned his attention towards the newly constructed base of Blood Spear and said, “In that case, this island now belongs to you and Blood Spear.”

“Mn.”

Riding the crystalline war chariot, Qin Lie left the island and made his way to the island where Blood Fiend Sect was.

A couple minutes later, he arrived at the island where Blood Fiend Sect presided. Under the guidance of the Blood Fiend Sect’s martial practitioners, he arrived at the hall where Mo Lingye and the Blood Fiend Ten Elders were conversing.

“I’d like to thank seniors for the kindness you have showed me.” Upon entering, Qin Lie bowed and earnestly thanked them.

After all, Blood Fiend Sect had given him the Flaming Sun Island and two others to serve as his base while also helping him build some smaller scale pavilions, cultivation rooms, forging rooms, scripture towers, and spirit material storage rooms. They had even provided the basic supplies necessary for his daily life for him so that he could easily begin living there.

On top of that, Blood Fiend Sect had also provided many types of spirit materials. Qin Lie was unable to find any flaw in these conditions and the other benefits they provided.

He was extremely satisfied with Blood Fiend Sect’s sincerity.

“It was all well-deserved. You don’t need to thank any of us. Moreover, we do not deserve any of it.” Mo Lingye lightly laughed. “The help you provided Blood Fiend Sect with and the care you gave my family, your contributions are so great that we do not know how to repay you. In the future, we hope that all of us living together at the Setting Sun Islands can build strong friendship and alliance between us as we continue to help each other out.”

Qin Lie nodded without hesitation.

He then conversed about matters pertaining to Blood Fiend Sect and Gold Sun Island with Mo Lingye and the Blood Fiend Ten Elders for a while.

Finally, right before he left, Qin Lie asked his true question, “Senior Mo and other esteemed seniors, how much do you all know about the bloodlines of the ancient races? Do you know anything about awakening it and stimulating it or perhaps how to unearth any of its secrets or mysteries?

“Why are you asking about this?” Shadows suddenly appeared in Mo Lingye’s eyes.

“Just curious.” Qin Lie appeared to be nonchalant.

The Blood Fiend Ten Elders appeared to be in deep thought as they all remained silent and lowered their heads.

“Pertaining to the bloodlines of the ancient races, we of Blood Fiend Sect don’t know too much either. In fact, all the human forces within the Land of Chaos don’t have any deep understandings of foreign bloodlines,” Mo Lingye answered.

“Then who knows the most?” Qin Lie asked again.

After a moment of thought, Mo Lingye smiled and replied, “You should probably go visit Terminator Sect then. There are always people of the Asura Race residing there year round. If you are able to encounter any of the more powerful martial practitioners of the Asura Race there and directly ask them your question face to face, I believe you will find the answer you want.”

“Questions about the bloodlines of the ancient races can only be answered by the foreign races themselves.”

“As for us?” Mo Lingye shook her head and apologized, “We truly cannot help you because we are humans just like you. We are completely unfamiliar with them. Thus, our understanding is very shallow.”

“Ah, so it is like this. In that case, thanks.” Qin Lie stopped speaking, nodded his head, and then left.

After he left, Meng Feng asked in surprise, “Why does this kid care so much about the bloodlines of ancient races?”

“I’ve heard that his soulmate, a girl named Ling Yushi, has a foreign bloodline running through her body,” Mo Lingye explained. “I think he might be asking about their mysteries for that girl.”

As she spoke, a strange light flickered through Mo Lingye’s bright eyes.

“Could it be that the rumors about the Graveyard of Gods… are actually true? That the Graveyard of Gods is a cultivation land that the Heaven Fighting Race prepared for its descendants?” As Mo Lingye quietly thought to herself, the strange light in her eyes become brighter and brighter as more and more thoughts gradually crossed her mind. “This kid, just how many secrets are hidden on him?”

“Qin Lie! Guess how much spirit materials is stored on Flaming Sun Island and Gray Island?”

As soon as Qin Lie appeared above Flaming Sun Island in his chariot, Song Tingyu suddenly emerged, her beautiful face exuding a stunning brightness and her eyes bright as she shouted excitedly up at Qin Lie.

“How much?” Getting off the crystalline war chariot, Qin Lie’s face appeared to be surprised.

“A total of one hundred and twenty-six kinds of spirit materials, weighing a total of more than fifteen thousand kilograms. There are also thirty-seven bottles each of various spirit pills, and sixty Profound Grade and seven Earth Grade spirit artifacts. Moreover, there are also ten high-grade spatial rings which each containing five hundred thousand Earth Grade spirit stones!”

“As for Blood Spear’s side, there aren’t too many spirit materials, but there are three huge flying spirit artifacts, thirty or so crystalline war chariots, and seven large sea vessels!”

Song Tingyu was clearly extremely excited. Her face was quite red, yet still exuding charm and grace, and her jade-like hands were waving energetically.

Qin Lie couldn’t help but also exclaim in surprise.

From Hong Bowen’s words, he had guessed that Blood Fiend Sect had been very generous this time. But he had never imagined that such a shocking number of spirit materials and spirit artifacts had been transferred over onto these three islands.

“The total amount of spirit materials and items possessed by Flaming Sun Island, Gray Island, and Blood Island is already greater than the amount that Armament Sect had in the past, and is not too far away from the amount possessed by my Profound Heaven Alliance.” Song Tingyu’s beautiful eyes shined brightly. As she spoke, she proudly glanced in Song Yu’s direction.

Song Yu and Xie Yaoyang were both deeply shocked.

Chapter 680: Building a Sect!

It had taken Profound Heaven Alliance around two hundred years of development and accumulation to possess their current wealth.

But Qin Lie had used only a dozen or so years to grow from a nobody to a public figure.

This was already ridiculously quick.

No one even considered that Qin Lie could amass such a tremendous amount of wealth and all sorts of spirit materials in just two years time.

To Song Yu and Xie Yaoyang, Qin Lie was like an upstart who obtained a wealth of spirit materials they took hundreds of years to accumulate.

They were extremely stunned by this.

They expected that Qin Lie had risen in status and become wealthy before they came to the Setting Sun Islands.

However, not only had Qin Lie attained an astonishing level of status, he even possessed a terrifying amount of wealth and resources right now. This was something they could have never imagined.

This meant that Qin Lie could swiftly transform Flaming Sun Island into a Copper rank force like Profound Heaven Alliance as long as he could recruit a few Fulfillment Realm and Fragmentation Realm experts into his fold.

“This is too quick. This is so quick it’s unbelievable. The speed of his growth has far exceeded our expectations,” Song Yu exclaimed inwardly.

Xie Yaoyang looked just as shocked.

“Blood Fiend Sect sure is generous.” Xie Jingxuan’s eyes were filled with surprise too.

“Qin Lie, you promised to take my father and Uncle Xie to Gray Island and pick ancient elite remains,” Song Tingyu smiled cheerfully.

She chose to bring up the matter while Qin Lie was full of cheer.

As she expected, Qin Lie cheerfully agreed, “Let’s go to the Gray Island!”

Song Tingyu’s eyes lit up, and Xie Jingxuan also looked pleased. Meanwhile, Song Yu and Xie Yaoyang had instantly grown excited upon hearing this.

The three crystalline war chariots rumbled and arrived at Gray Island a dozen or so seconds later.

“Go choose one on your own while I head down there to take a look. Tell me after you’ve come to a decision.” Qin Lie charged towards Gray Island after he said this. He arrived at the limestone tower Mo Hai and Tang Siqi were at.

Mo Hai was currently arranging lodgings for the newly arrived Armament Sect disciples. They were busy tidying the many spirit materials inside the warehouses and storage rooms. Some of them were busy happily managing every minute change occurring inside their furnaces.

He could see that they were extremely satisfied with Gray Island’s environment and felt a true sense of belonging towards this place.

“Blood Fiend Sect is really generous.” Yi Yuan suddenly appeared out of nowhere and said to Qin Lie lazily, “If they hadn’t given you Flaming Sun Island, Gray Island, and Blood Island, we would not have felt a sense of belonging and treated this place as home.”

Qin Lie nodded lightly.

It was true that he hadn’t felt anything special when he first arrived at the Setting Sun Islands. He simply thought of it as a place to stay.

In the future, if he had found a better place and a better environment, he would have even considered taking his people away from his place.

But now it was different.

When Flaming Sun Island, Gray Island and Blood Island had officially become his, when he was called “Island Master Qin” and saw the many limestone towers that had been constructed at these islands, and when he saw Blood Spear and Armament Sect had put down roots at this place, he realized that before he knew it, his perspective on this place had changed.

He now thought of it as another home.

“Gray Island’s spirit material warehouses are a lot richer than the old Armament Sect’s.” Yi Yuan sighed. “Gray Island also has a lot of artifact forging furnaces. I’m not sure where Blood Fiend Sect found them, but they are all of exceptional quality. Even the great elder wouldn’t stop praising them.

“The world’s spirit energy at Gray Island is a bit stronger than even on Flame Volcano back then.”

“What’s even more surprising is the fact that the island’s scripture tower contains a lot of books on artifact forging. Although these books are all copies, the knowledge they contained is extremely valuable. They were probably something Blood Fiend Sect had collected in the past, copied recently and put into the tower.”

“These scriptures of artifact forging scored many sighs of admiration from the great elder. He said that it had opened up a whole new world to him.”

Qin Lie was secretly moved.

Blood Fiend Sect was a veteran Silver rank force that had lived on for several thousand years. They had eliminated many smaller forces and collected all sorts of scriptures through countless bloody wars.

Some of these scriptures contained knowledge about the cultivation of spirit arts, and some contained knowledge about artifact forging and medicinal creation.

All the scriptures regarding artifact forging had been rewritten and put inside Gray Island’s scripture tower so that the artificers inside could study them. It was yet another massive stroke of expenditure by Blood Fiend Sect.

Artificers like Great Elder Mo Hai, Tang Siqi and Lian Rou were swiftly falling in love with Blood Fiend Sect after seeing these artifact forging scriptures.

Qin Lie was truly impressed by Blood Fiend Sect’s methods in winning the people’s hearts.

“If they had spent this much on Gray Island, then I can only imagine how filled with benevolence the Blood Island where Lord Lang Xie is at will be.” Yi Yuan smiled. “This way, not only would everyone look at this place as their new home, they would even do their best to protect this place. This greatly solidifies our alliance with Blood Fiend Sect.”

While the duo was talking with each other, Mo Hai and Tang Siqi came out of the scripture tower after getting news of Qin Lie’s arrival. They were both smiling with great satisfaction.

“How is this place?” Qin Lie asked smilingly.

“It’s good, it’s very good, it’s very, very good!” The normally stoic Mo Hai nodded repeatedly and smiled like a child. “I cannot find any flaws at all! Even I had never imagined that after Armament Sect’s demise we would one day possess a cultivation environment that’s far better than former Armament Sect’s!”

“The only thing it lacks is a Flame Volcano and an endless supply of earthfire, but it is superior to the former Armament Sect in every other way!” Tang Siqi said excitedly.

“That’s great.” Qin Lie relaxed.

“Qin Lie! We’re done choosing!” Song Tingyu’s shout rang from afar.

“I’ll come back right away.”

It didn’t take long before he appeared at Song Yu and Xie Yaoyang’s location. They were staring with shiny eyes at a dead five hundred meter long python’s carcass.

“I would like to have this beast’s remains!” Song Yu said.

“Alright!”

“I would like that ancient beast’s body.” Xie Yaoyang pointed towards a different direction.

He pointed at Gray Wing Race clansman’s remains that were entangled inside gray currents of air. Its skin was crumpled into wrinkly patches.

“Alright!”

Without asking any questions or showing any hesitation at all, Qin Lie took out the Demon Sealing Tombstone and unsealed both remains. Then, he left the area and went back to Mo Hai.

Qin Lie nodded inwardly when he saw the Armament Sect disciples settling into their new homes and being assigned to different areas.

He suddenly realized that he had fulfilled Ying Xingran’s dream through a different method. He had helped rebuild Armament Sect in a whole new light and planted its roots in the Land of Chaos.

Mo Hai, Tang Siqi, Lian Rou, Yi Yuan and Lang Xie were all former Armament Sect disciples.

Back at the Scarlet Tide Continent, when he killed Ying Xingran and the three great reverends, he had nearly indirectly destroyed Armament Sect and cut off all of their hopes for a rebirth.

However, he had created a new environment for Mo Hai and the others and granted them a pure land.

As of that day, the Gray Island and Blood Island had possessed a wealth of spirit materials and combat power that surpassed the former Armament Sect.

In the future, Gray Island and Blood Island would leave the former Armament Sect in the dust while making themselves famous in this vast world called the Land of Chaos.

“I’ve unintentionally realized your dying wish,” he said quietly in his mind.

He hadn’t left Flaming Sun Island in a hurry.

During the next couple of days on Flaming Sun Island, he focused on refining lifeblood essences and stabilizing his realm. He also analysed the gigantic spider web in the third space of the Soul Suppressing Orb and mastered three new middle grade spirit diagrams.

These three middle grade spirit diagrams were called Materialization, Illusory Form and Realization. He gradually mastered these three new spirit diagrams through countless spirit board inscriptions.

Materialization, Illusory Form and Realization were meant to be used with Soul Sealing. After a soul had been sealed into a spirit artifact, Materialization could cause the artifact’s soul to manifest itself, while Illusory Form could cause it to transform into many different forms. Meanwhile, Realization enabled an artifact’s soul to come out of the artifact and manifest physically into existence.

These three spirit diagrams were to be used with an artifact soul. He hadn’t peered deep into its exact uses yet.

However, when he was inscribing the three new types of spirit diagrams onto the spirit boards he discovered, much to his pleasant surprise, that his True Soul’s power was growing at a pleasing rate.

When he was inscribing these three spirit diagrams, he slowly gained an indescribable understanding of the minute details of a soul.

His own True Soul felt as if it was being washed clean through some mysterious method.

He swiftly stabilized his early stage Fulfillment Realm cultivation, and he discovered that he had achieved an incredibly obvious breakthrough in both spirit energy and mind.

The only thing that still eluded him was the way to activate the power of his bloodline. He had grown massively in all other aspects.

“Flaming Sun Island now possesses a tremendous wealth of spirit materials and resources. Do you have any thoughts on how to distribute them in the future?”

Inside Qin Lie’s pavilion, Song Tingyu was lying on top of Qin Lie as she drew playful circles on his chest with her fingers. She asked softly with a lazy expression and a seductive blush on her beautiful face.

Qin Lie thought for a moment as he unconsciously caressed her firm butt with his hands. Then, he said with a headache, “I’m not good at these things.”

“Flaming Sun Island, Gray Island, and Blood Island may accumulate more spirit materials and spirit stones in the future. They will be welcoming more recruits as well.” Song Tingyu turned serious. “Whether those spirit materials and spirit stones should be invested into Blood Island to enhance Blood Spear’s strength, or into Gray Island to support Master Mo and his artificers’ research of artifact forging is a difficult question. How should we split the ratio of our investment is also a difficult question. The management of these things needs the hand of a professional or it’ll cause many troubles.”

Qin Lie frowned.

“Also… would Gray Island and Blood Island listen to your commands? Would they really submit to your control?” Song Tingyu asked again.

Qin Lie frowned worriedly, “I’ve never thought about such things.”

“You may not have thought about them, but that doesn’t mean these problems do not exist. Flaming Sun Island could be considered a new force now, and there is a need to arrange the distribution of resources and manpower properly. This is the only way we can prevent unnecessary troubles from occuring,” Song Tingyu said gently as she bit her lips. “It’s fine if you don’t understand, but you should at least pass these matters to someone you trust. Only then can you do other things without worry.”

Qin Lie gradually understood what she meant.

“I’ve talked with my father. From now on, I’m… no longer a member of Profound Heaven Alliance. I won’t be returning to the Scarlet Tide Continent all that often either.” Song Tingyu’s eyes were bright. “I’ll be staying at Flaming Sun Island for a long time.”

“I’m not sure how to communicate this with Elder Mo and Lord Lang Xie,” Qin Lie sighed.

How could he not understand Song Tingyu’s meaning after she had laid it so plainly for him to understand? However, he was still nominally the island master, and he possessed real authority in Flaming Sun Island, Gray Island, and Blood Island. Blood Fiend Sect and Gold Sun Island would acknowledge him only, but he wasn’t yet prepared to seriously treat Flaming Sun Island as a separate faction.

He was always respectful towards Mo Hai and Lang Xie. He found it very difficult to see them as subordinates.

Moreover, he wasn’t sure if Mo Hai and Lang Xie were willing to submit to others; to him. He wasn’t sure if they would truly think of him as this so-called “Island Master Qin”.

If everyone were to maintain the way they were, if everyone were to share an equal status like they used to, and if he were to pass down all authoritative power of Flaming Sun Island, Gray Island, and Blood Island’s spirit materials and resources to Song Tingyu, he had no doubt that he would draw the ire of Mo Hai and Lang Xie’s men.

This was something he didn’t wish to see.

“Actually, Elder Mo Hai and Lang Xie have come to communicate with me about this while you were focused on training this past month,” Song Tingyu smiled.

Qin Lie looked surprised.

“Be it Elder Mo or Lord Lang Xie, they both understand that Flaming Sun Island had become an actual force. Since it is a faction of its own, it must have a leader, orderly rules and regulations, and clear division of labor. It needs a cohering force and a specialist to split all the resources.”

Song Tingyu smiled at him and said, “They accept you, Island Master Qin, from the bottom of their hearts. This is because everything Blood Spear and Armament Sect had gained, every piece of land they now stand on, and every respect and acknowledgment they received from Blood Fiend Sect were won by you.”

Qin Lie was stunned by her declaration. It was a while later that he asked again, “What about the distribution of resources then?”

“They think that I’m the most suitable candidate.” Song Tingyu blushed and said charmingly. “They’re not idiots, of course they knew about our relationship. Plus, they knew that I used to handle such tasks back at Profound Heaven Alliance, and I’m sure I’ve done a pretty fantastic job, don’t you think?”

Song Tingyu was full of confidence and brimming with ambition. It made her look more and more fascinating.

Qin Lie was truly surprised by this revelation. He stared deeply at her and pondered for a moment. Then, he said, “You haven’t been idle for the past month, have you? You went to Elder Mo and Lord Lang Xie and figured out their thoughts, wishes, and bottom line. With that as the basis, you decided to integrate all three islands’ resources and make a push for the evolution of Flaming Sun Island into a real force. Did you really do all these things on your own?”

“You can say that.” Song Tingyu smiled softly.

“If even Lang Xie and Mo Hai have no qualms with you distributing the resources of Flaming Sun Island, then how could I possibly say otherwise?” Qin Lie hugged her tightly and sighed. “I guess I don’t need to worry about anything with you around. I only need to focus on my own things.”

“A man like you needs a woman like me to take care of your trifles behind your back.” Song Tingyu’s smile was sweet. “I am very glad that… I’m the one who showed up first, and not anyone else.”

Chapter 681: Ruined Lands

A a streak of watery blue light travelled slowly through the sea of clouds.

Qin Lie was seated quietly inside the crystalline war chariot with narrowed eyes as he absorbed the rich blood fiend aura inside the Demon Sealing Tombstone. He was improving his blood power this way and using it to refine even more lifeblood essences.

He was tens of thousands of kilometers away from Flaming Sun Island right now.

Through Blood Fiend Sect and Gold Sun Island, he learned that the Land of Chaos had been relatively peaceful as of late. It was true that the Copper rank forces were, as always, embroiled in endless wars and committed all kinds of atrocities and slaughter against each other, but the Silver rank forces who lorded over them hadn’t done anything big for the past years.

Black Voodoo Cult and the three great families hadn’t organized a new wave of offense immediately after their failed invasion on Setting Sun Islands.

Jiang Zhuzhe and his subordinates had vanished once more and were nowhere to be found.

Blood Fiend Sect and Gold Sun Island were gradually getting on the right track and putting down their roots on Setting Sun Islands. All kinds of cities and special defensive barriers and formations were being constructed with their current stock of spirit materials.

Song Tingyu had obtained the acknowledgement of both Lang Xie and Mo Hai on the two islands subordinate Flaming Sun Island, and she was now shouldering the heavy responsibility of distributing the resources.

Lang Xie concentrated on training the Blood Spear martial practitioners, while Mo Hai and Tang Siqi were using the spirit materials they obtained to deepen their understanding of artifact forging. They also taught the new disciples how to cultivate.

Flaming Sun Island continued to develop in an orderly fashion.

There was nothing that Qin Lie needed to worry about.

Therefore, after notifying Song Tingyu, Mo Hai, and Lang Xie about his departure, he quietly left and went on a journey to the Heavenly Silence Continent alone.

Heavenly Silence Continent was situated at the northeastern side of the Setting Sun Islands. In reality, the fastest way to reach the Heavenly Silence Continent was to go to Illusory Demon Sect first and utilize their large-scale teleportation formation. It would teleport him directly to the Terminator Sect at the Heavenly Silence Continent, allowing him to meet Forefather Terminator quickly.

If he did this, he would only need six to seven days to be able to reach Illusory Demon Sect and at most a total of eight days to stand in front of Forefather Terminator.

However, he had given up on the shortest route and trod the longer route instead. He wanted to truly experience the Land of Chaos while everything was still peaceful.

He chose to pass through the vast sea region between two continents.

It would take three months or so for the blue-colored high rank crystalline war chariot he sat atop of to pass through this sea region and bring him past Terminator Sect’s boundaries with its speed.

And this was assuming he wasn’t delayed in the process.

If he ran into trouble midway and paused for a moment to cultivate, then this travel time might increase exponentially.

After he had stepped into the Fulfillment Realm, Qin Lie’s lifespan had been extended once more. As long as he wasn’t killed, he could easily live for a total of five hundred years. In that case, spending a year or two on expanding his knowledge and improving his mind by adventuring seemed like a pretty good choice.

He could also refine lifeblood essences, accumulate spirit energy and learn the secrets of the spirit diagrams during this journey, so one couldn’t really say he was wasting his time.

“Whoosh…”

He put away the Demon Sealing Tombstone standing inside the war chariot and kept his eyes tightly closed. A turbulent wave of blood energy surged from within his mind.

A thought flashed through his mind.

Specks of bloody light flew out of his body and floated beside him like fireflies.

Slowly, these bloody lights dots stopped flying and looked like they had become completely static.

All thirty eight translucent light dots were his lifeblood essences.

Every one of his lifeblood essences was only as big as a peanut, and the interior burned like there were turbulent flames trapped inside it. Inside, he could see many divine characters spelling “blaze.”

Under the sun, these lifeblood essences looked like burning flames or pure blood crystals. They were beautiful and wondrous, and they contained a mysterious energy.

These crystals were the products of his efforts as of late.

“Withdraw!”

The thirty eight lifeblood essences transformed into bloody beams and vanished into his body once more.

“I’ve reached the first bottleneck,” Qin Lie muttered to himself.

After he had refined thirty eight lifeblood essences, he discovered that he could no longer refine more despite replenishing his bloody spirit energy with the Demon Sealing Tombstone.

It was as if his current realm and physical body could only endure thirty eight lifeblood essences.

He couldn’t handle even one more.

There seemed to be an unfathomable limit in the unseen world of spirits that was restricting his realm, soul and physical body, preventing him from unleashing himself in full.

“I should try and use the lifeblood essences in battle when there’s a chance. It’ll let me check out how much power they can produce when used with the Blood Spirit Art,” Qin Lie thought to himself.

While thinking, he put the matter of the lifeblood essences to the back of his mind and submerged his soul consciousness into the Soul Suppressing Orb. Then, he continued to study the miraculous spirit diagrams inside the third space.

A while later, he detected activity from the six Spirits of Void and Chaos. Soon after, he saw them flying out from depths of the Soul Suppressing Orb.

He smiled freely and withdrew his soul consciousness, opening his eyes.

“Yiya, yiya…”

The six little fellows patted their own stomachs and cried out to him. It was obvious that they were hungry again.

“Your appetite is growing bigger and bigger,” Qin Lie smiled and took out the spatial ring containing spirit materials of six attributes. A pile of spirit materials suddenly appeared on the crystalline war chariot.

The six little fellows cheered and immediately burrowed themselves into the spirit materials. They picked them up, stuffed them into their mouths, chewed and swallowed them.

There were animal bones, crystals, and chunks of wood of all colors among these colorful spirit materials. They emanated different kinds of spirit energies.

The six little fellows were only interested in the spirit materials of their respective attributes. They were completely uninterested in everything else. They quickly devoured the piles of spirit materials.

After playing with Qin Lie for a while and getting tired as a result, they yawned and returned back to the Soul Suppressing Orb.

Qin Lie inspected the remaining spirit materials inside the spatial ring and couldn’t stop a tiny frown from appearing on his face.

Before he set off on his journey, he had asked Song Tingyu to prepare a large amount of spirit materials of the six attributes. They completely filled up three spatial rings with materials of several tons in weight.

He thought that these six little fellows wouldn’t be able to finish these spirit materials even if they had a year to do so.

But now he realized that he had underestimated their appetite.

He realized that these six little fellows seemed to be growing in strength and in appetite at the same time. As of late, he discovered that their appetite had grown at least twice as big!

As a result, the spirit materials he stored inside his spatial ring were growing insufficient. They might not even last until the Heavenly Silence Continent.

“No wonder Hei Shite of the Asura Race said that there’s no way I can raise the Spirits of Void and Chaos myself. He really wasn’t exaggerating in the slightest,” Qin Lie muttered to himself.

With Blood Fiend Sect’s generous gifts and authority over the Flaming Sun Island, he had accumulated such a large stock of spirit materials that he thought that raising the six Spirits of Void and Chaos would be easy peasy.

His thoughts on the subject changed now.

“Their appetites are already this big even though they’re just babies.” The more Qin Lie thought, the more odd his expression became. His eyes gradually turned serious as he rubbed his chin in thought. “If these six little fellows could evolve safely and reach their ultimate forms, they may actually be able to devour space and all spirit energy in auxiliary worlds. Scary!”

“I guess I need to find an Asura Race member once I reach Terminator Sect and get a better understanding of the Spirits of Void and Chaos.”

Qin Lie had yet to truly understand what the Spirit of Void and Chaos even were, but through observation of these minor details, he could already tell these little creatures were truly terrifying.

If these six little fellows didn’t trust him so unconditionally and made him feel very at ease, he would’ve been afraid of them himself.

Another month passed by.

Qin Lie had gone far, far away from the Heavenly Slaughter Continent, passed through the sea region and arrived at three free lands that were completely unmanaged by either the Heavenly Slaughter Continent or the Heavenly Silence Continent.

It was a domain that not even Terminator Sect, Black Voodoo Cult, or Illusory Demon Sect had reached.

It so happened that the spirit materials he prepared for the six Spirits of Void and Chaos were about to be depleted .

“It’s time to buy some random spirit materials with spirit stones.”

Qin Lie controlled the crystalline war chariot and slowly descended towards the sea. He looked at the many empty and desolate islands in the distance and released his soul consciousness, attempting to seek out a gathering place of martial practitioners.

He had already learned from Xing Yuyuan about the distribution of forces between the Heavenly Slaughter Continent and the Heavenly Silence Continent before he came over. He also learned that this place was a special domain that belonged to neither Black Voodoo Cult nor Terminator Sect nor Illusory Demon Sect.

This place was called the Ruined Lands.

The Ruined Lands were a collective of almost a hundred desolate islands. Without a powerful force to lay down order, the Ruined Lands was in a constant state of lawlessness and disorder. There were plenty people who were being chased after by Terminator Sect, Black Voodoo Cult, or Illusory Demon Sect who came here.

Plenty of forbidden trades were done here as well.

The bodies of all races, cruel and evil arts, secret arts and spell altars that were forbidden by all forces, human sacrifices, and bloodied weapons would often be transported to this place and sold with the help of various concealment methods.

The Ruined Lands contained far too many things that weren’t publicly acknowledged.

It was rumored that even the important figures of Terminator Sect, Black Voodoo Cult and Illusory Demon Sect would often show up here under a false name in search for some special spirit materials.

For example, there was the Yin Born Infant and Dark Moon Placenta.

The Yin Born Infant was born at a place of absolute yin. It was a baby who was born with a heavenly yin constitution whose cries of birth were said to sound like a wraith’s cry. This cry had the power to penetrate one’s soul.

These type of babies was the equivalent of great tonics to cultivators who practiced evil arts.

However, a spirit material like this absolutely was forbidden from appearing in the reputable markets or trading centers on all five continents of the Land of Chaos.

The Dark Moon Placenta was more or less the same.

Such evil, dark, and bizarre items were only of extreme attraction to those martial practitioners who were devoid of humanity and cultivated the forbidden or evil arts in secret. Since it was very difficult to buy such forbidden items through other channels, these people could only come to the the Ruined Lands to have the chance to buy them at a hefty price.

The Ruined Lands was in fact rumored to be the old den of many evil spirits many years ago. After this place was attacked by all forces and turned into ruins, it slowly transformed into a special trading zone of forbidden items instead.

Since this place was overly unique, no force wanted to take control of or have anything to do with it..

No one wanted to have an irremovable stain of sin on them after all.

This was exactly why the Ruined Lands were a place that thought highly of individual strength. No one’s status worked normally on the Ruined lands, so all martial practitioners who set foot here had to be strong enough to establish themselves.

In reality, there were plenty of reputable people who would disguise themselves as another person so that they wouldn’t be recognized after coming to the Ruined Lands.

“This is an interesting place,” Qin Lie identified a particular direction and flew towards the Ruined Lands.

Chapter 682: Blazing Flames!

The Ruined Lands consisted of almost a hundred of large and small desolate islands, and some of them were shrouded in thick eerie aura. This was because the former hiding spots of those evil spirits still contained many fearsome creatures that weren’t taken out during the sweep back then.

Evil spirit was actually a title given to all cultivators who cultivated the evil spirit art or to some cruel foreign races.

The Blood Fiend Sect martial practitioners who consumed human blood for cultivation were also called evil spirits once and disapproved by the mainstream forces.

The Asura Race clansmen who invaded the Land of Chaos and committed brutal slaughters on every continent were also called evil spirits and were attacked by everyone.

The martial practitioners who used corpses to cultivate by gathering corpse energy were also called evil spirits.

Any forces that weren’t acknowledged by the nine great Silver rank forces, be it foreigners or humans, were unanimously called evil spirits and forbidden from operating openly in the Land of Chaos.

After Blood Fiend Sect was hailed as evil spirits, they had no choice but to hide themselves and operate in secret.

Otherwise, every force in the Land of Chaos could work together to attack and slaughter their people as much as they liked. There was absolutely no mercy to be spoken of here.

This time, it was only thanks to the combined acknowledgement of Terminator Sect, Illusory Demon Sect, and Heavenly Sword Mountain, as well as the silence of Ten Thousand Beast Mountain and Celestial Artifact Sect that the ominous title was wiped off from Blood Fiend Sect’s name. That was why they dared to head to the Setting Sun Islands publicly and stand against Black Voodoo Cult and the three great families.

Although those people who cultivated the evil or deviant secret arts that largely deviated from normal evil arts weren’t acknowledged by the nine great Silver rank forces, there were some tenacious people who continued to cultivate them in secret.

There were even many reputable people in the nine great forces who cultivated such arts in secret too.

However, those people would never appear publicly. Even they could only hide themselves and cultivate in secret.

Every time they executed those evil arts in a battle, they would absolutely kill all witnesses to prevent their identities from being exposed. This was so that they wouldn’t draw trouble unto themselves and be expelled from their sect.

Evil spirits normally wouldn’t operate openly on the five great continents. Even if they were to appear somewhere else, they would still very cautiously conceal themselves in fear of being exposed, chased and ultimately killed.

There were only a few places in the Land of Chaos where evil spirits dared to operate openly without disguise or any fear whatsoever.

The Ruined Lands were one of them.

“Whoosh!”

Qin Lie used the fox skin mask he got from Song Tingyu to change his appearance and summoned Yao Tian’s face once again. At the same time, he steered the crystalline war chariot streaking across the sky of the Ruined Lands.

The blue crystalline war chariot appeared at a red-and-black island containing a pile of dried bones and many rivers.

The rivers were either as black as ink or as red as blood. They gave off a disgusting stench and filled the entire island with a dark and oppressive atmosphere.

Qin Lie looked down curiously at the sceneries below. He subconsciously slowed the crystalline war chariot’s speed.

The crystalline war chariot flew slowly across the nameless island as Qin Lie released his soul consciousness and probed around for activity.

A pond that stank to the high heavens suddenly entered Qin Lie’s eyes. When he concentrated on the pond, his soul consciousness also went inside.

Suddenly, a brutal soul vibration erupted from the bottom of the pond.

The gray pond water rippled in a bizarre fashion before it actually transformed into a ghost’s face.

This face was eerie, ugly, and scary. It seemed to be looking at Qin Lie riding on his crystalline war chariot in the sky.

The ghost face suddenly gave him an eerie smile.

Qin Lie felt a chill from the bottom of his heart.

Dozens of tentacles suddenly shot out of the pond’s surface and swung wildly at high speed. The air seemed to crack and pop as the tentacles flew towards him.

The tentacles were greenish purple in color and about as wide as a baby’s arm. They looked as soft as cotton, and if one looked closely enough, one would even notice that these tentacles were embedded with many pearl-like objects. The pearl even seemed to be rolling on their own.

Upon closer inspection, Qin Lie discovered that these “pearls” were in fact human eyeballs. They glowed with a kind of dim blue light that made them look like wraiths of the inner depths of hell. They gave off an extreme chilliness.

At the same time, many strands of icy and evil consciousnesses that looked like eerie snakes let out ghastly howls and surged suddenly towards his mind.

Dozens of greenish purple tentacles touched the crystalline war chariot and actually held it in place like they were suckers.

The tentacles abruptly exerted strength.

The crystalline war chariot shook intensely, and despite all of his efforts Qin Lie wasn’t able to stop it from plummeting to the pond.

“Whoosh!”

The evil mind energy coming from the eyeballs was also howling in ghastly fashion inside his mind in an attempt to break his mind.

Qin Lie’s pupils shrank.

A bit of electricity erupted from deep within his pupils, and a roar of lightning later all of the evil thoughts that had invaded his mind were completely destroyed.

“Bang!”

Just as he was about to cut those tentacles into pieces, a terrifying force twisted and crushed the crystalline war chariot into pieces.

Qin Lie fell towards the horrible smelling pond.

On the pond surface, the terrifying ghost face was chuckling excitedly as if it was waiting for the moment Qin Lie entered the pond.

The gray colored pond had taken on a scary greenish purple color before he knew it, and he could vaguely see many broken limbs and rotting corpses at the edge of the pond.

A single glance of this scene could cause a cowardly martial practitioner to suffer at least half a month of nightmares.

It was obvious that a cultivator who cultivated a certain evil art was hiding beneath the pond.

“Krak!”

Thick, cold mist abruptly burst out of Qin Lie’s body as he fell down towards the pond. Layers of ice enveloped him and sealed him at the center.

“Boom!”

The ice crystal that enveloped Qin Lie landed heavily on the pond and sank to the inner depths of the pond in an instant.

Inside the ice, Qin Lie frowned as he surveyed his surroundings with a frigid look on his face.

Broken limbs, floating corpses, rotting heads and many, many more eerie white skeletons could be found inside the pond.

There was a deep and dark cave at the bottom of the pond, and it was devouring the objects around it like a devil’s mouth.

The broken limbs, corpses, bones and heads floating around the water all surged towards the dark cave. The terrifying sound of something being chewed actually resounded the second those things entered the cave.

After Qin Lie had fallen into the pond, his ice-encased body was also sucked towards the dark cave.

“Zzt zzt zzt!”

Dozens of greenish purple tentacles stretched out of that dark cave once more as they attempted to trap him like several hundred meter long water snakes.

“Blood Art: Explode!”

Eight lifeblood essences that looked like translucent bloody jades suddenly flew out of the icy crystal and flew agilely into the cave like eight bloody beams.

The bloody lights ignored the pond’s bizarre power and entered the cave in the blink of an eye.

“Pwack! Pwack! Pwack!”

All eight lifeblood essences exploded at the same time as a terrifying energy that could detonate all living beings’ blood and body shot out from deep inside the cave!

At the same time, the ‘blaze’ divine characters instantly unleashed a terrifying amount of heat and burned with a temperature that could melt even stones.

“Crackle!”

Inside the dark cave, crackling explosions and turbulent flames appeared.

The moment the flames appeared, the whole greenish purple pond began to burn at a shocking rate like an ignited fryer. There was also the sound of explosions and the sound of flesh and blood being blasted into bits.

The pond water was being evaporated at a shocking rate as though it had been turned into lava, looking like it could burn everything to dust.

An uncontrollable scream of pain suddenly resounded from inside that dark cave. The scream was filled with infinite hatred as this unknown cultivator swore and howled at Qin Lie using an unknown language.

Qin Lie’s face was indifferent. As the flames inside the pond burned stronger and stronger, he took out a new crystalline war chariot and escaped the scene.

He flew back into the sky and looked down at the burning pond from above. He touched his chin and pondered.

After the eight lifeblood essences had exploded, the ripple of energy and blood that appeared in an instant could cause many martial practitioners to lose control of their blood or simply detonate a lower realm martial practitioner like a bomb.

But this wasn’t their most scary trait.

What was scary was that the ‘blaze’ divine characters inside his lifeblood essences would also burn and transform everything into terrifying flames that seemed capable of burning anything to dust.

Even now, the flames were still burning the pond water that had been transformed by the cultivator’s evil art, causing it to evaporate it swiftly.

He stared calmly at the scene from the sky above without moving, but he could feel that the divine characters inside his eight lifeblood essences weren’t fully unleashed yet and were still burning.

A short while later, the entire pond had been entirely evaporated, leaving behind only a scorched pitch black hole.

It was only eight lifeblood essences, but the ‘blaze’ divine characters inside them had successfully evaporated a pond that was hundreds of meters wide. Even now he could see some tiny sparks burning tenaciously inside the black hole.

The tentacles that had stretched out of the dark cave and attempted to trap him had long since been burned to dust. In fact, not even its dust could be seen now.

The vague howls and swearings of the unknown cultivator deep inside the cave gradually subsided.

Qin Lie pondered and watched as he waited for the cultivator to show up.

A while later, when the eight lifeblood essences had used up all their energies, when the giant cave no longer burned with flames, a violent but weak howl resounded from the black cave.

“Swish!”

A pitch black light flew out of the cave. It was a Gray Wing Race old man with gray wings. A large majority of his wings were scorched black, and it cut a sorry figure when it appeared.

Beneath the giant hole, the dark colored remains of a foreign beast that was almost a hundred meters long slowly grew clearer to Qin Lie’s eyes.

Judging from its frame, Qin Lie thought that this huge “pet” the Gray Wing Race old man was raising looked a little like the Soul Devouring Beast he had once killed.

However, since this foreign beast was burned to death by Qin Lie’s flames, the only thing that was left was its skeleton. He wasn’t really able to identify it just from its pitch black skeleton alone.

“Uuah, uuah…”

The Gray Wing Race clansman wore extremely hateful eyes as he flapped his wings and swore angrily at Qin Lie using a foreign language.

“You wanted so much to charge into your death that even I wasn’t able to stop you. I had no choice,” Qin Lie said calmly.

“Uuah! Uuah!” The Gray Wing Race old man was still howling angrily.

Just as Qin Lie grew impatient and was about to speak, his expression suddenly took a change.

Echoing howls began to rang from the other parts of this supposedly desolate island. Very soon, many eerie auras crawled up from deep underground, heading in his direction.