Spirit Realm Chapter 683-686

Chapter 683: Setting Off Landmines Everywhere

Pitch black beams soared to the sky from every corner of the island like beacons before homing on Qin Lie’s direction.

For a time, the whole island sounded like hundreds of wailing ghosts.

After Qin Lie concentrated on his surroundings from inside the crystalline war chariot, he quickly discovered that a dozen or so old Gray Wing Race clansmen and a lot more black-cloaked martial practitioners riding on spirit birds were flying toward him.

“Uah…”

The old Gray Wing man who had summoned reinforcements yelled loudly while pointing at Qin Lie, asking the island’s inhabitants to kill him.

Seeing that the situation had gone awry, Qin Lie didn’t dare show off his abilities and hurriedly activated all of the energy of the spirit stones plugged into the chariot before the reinforcements managed to encircle him.

He himself was also pouring all of his spirit energy into the crystalline war chariot.

Since the chariot was of pretty high quality, it quickly transformed into a prismatic beam that streaked towards the inner depths of the Ruined Lands.

Behind him, the Gray Wing clansmen and the black-robed martial practitioners were hooting loudly and chasing him with all they had.

“You won’t escape, brat!” A hooded black-robed martial practitioner spoke with a dark voice that sounded as shrill as a needle.

“What a terrible luck.” Qin Lie swore inwardly and ignored the black-robed martial practitioner’s threats, charging forward.

“Whoosh!”

After escaping the desolate island and passing over the sea, the crystalline war chariot appeared on another island..

“Do not enter my domain, you gray-feathered birdmen!” An incredibly shrill voice rang from the island beneath Qin Lie. It was so sharp that Qin Lie felt like his eardrums were going to bleed.

Qin Lie trembled as a humming sound buzzed in his head. He couldn’t help but look down beneath him.

This particular island had many bald mountains, and among them there were a couple of gigantic caves with several dragon heads poking out of them. This foreign race consisted of large beings with humanoid bodies and oily green skin. There seemed to be some sort of sticky liquid constantly secreting out of their pores.

The dragonman that had yelled in the human language had scaly armor all over his large arms, and he was apparently holding two leg bones that were completely drenched in blood. He was yelling and swinging the blood drenched bones at the same time, and Qin Lie could see that his two sharp rows of teeth were covered in blood too.

It was obvious that this dragonman was eating, and the food in his hands… seemed to be a human’s legs.

He was eating them raw, too.

The Gray Wing pursuers and the black-robed martial practitioners immediately looked hesitant when they heard the dragonman’s roar.

After a moment’s consideration, they stopped chasing and stared hatefully at Qin Lie from afar.

“Foolish human!” The black-robed martial practitioner sneered.

Just as Qin Lie was puzzling over the guy’s words, a sense of danger suddenly sprung to his mind. His expression abruptly changed as he saw what was going on beneath him.

“More fresh meat has shown up at our doorsteps, everyone!” The dragonman yelled.

A dozen or so dragonmen let out strange laughs before they suddenly tossed the fleshy bones they were chewing on at Qin Lie. They crackled in midair, obviously carrying a tremendous amount of power behind them.

“Ptoo!”

The crystalline war chariot Qin Lie was riding on was struck by three bones and instantly rendered useless as if it was cut by three sharp blades.

And so, the second crystalline war chariot started falling towards the ground.

The dragonmen were all moving their heads about and licking their lips unconsciously. Their eyes were filled with terrible hunger.

The biggest dragonman among the group was probably going to enter the Fragmentation Realm soon. The aura flowing out of his body caused even Qin Lie to feel fearful on the inside.

“You can’t even get a break in this bloody place!”

Qin Lie swore loudly and took out another crystalline war chariot from his spatial ring before he crashed into the ground.

After he had jumped onto the new crystalline war chariot, he looked deeply at the strange dragonmen before flying at full speed towards another island.

“Chase him!”

The leader of the dragonmen howled angrily and pushed his feet off the ground and soared into the sky like a cannonball.

A terrible and violent aura locked onto Qin Lie and caused the air in front of him to turn solid, creating many wind walls along his escape route.

“Break!”

Qin Lie conjured two ice blades in his hands and swung them repeatedly. Simultaneously unleashing many ice beams, he furiously slashed at the walls.

The wind walls didn’t get a chance to completely solidify before they shattered under his full-powered attacks.

This furious onslaught allowed his crystalline war chariot to pass through unhindered.

A dozen or so seconds later, Qin Lie’s chariot finally escaped the island where the dragonmen were at and flew even deeper into the Ruined Lands.

“Chase him!” The onlooking Gray Wing Race and black-robed men cried out again after they saw him flying away from the dragonmen’s island.

Qin Lie swore loudly on the inside.

Behind him, the Gray Wing Race, black-robed men, and dragonmen were chasing after him together like mad dogs.

Because he was a newcomer and knew nothing of this place’s rules, he was being pursued by three different forces even before stepping into the depths of the Ruined Lands.

Even Xing Yuyuan knew little about the secrets of the Ruined Lands. He didn’t know that these islands were in fact inhabited by many evil spirits.

At the Ruined Lands, weak cultivators should do their best to avoid the islands inhabited by powerful evil spirits and avoid provoking their ire as well as they possibly could.

Qin Lie had driven his crystalline war chariot across the Gray Wing Race, black-robed men and dragonmen’s territories. His actions had hit their bottom line, which was why they had acted immediately to hunt him down with all their might.

The bloody battles between evil spirits at the Ruined Lands almost never needed a reason.

Sometimes, powerful evil spirits would go on a rampage and slaughter anyone they caught when they were feeling unhappy.

When they lacked spirit materials, they would go on a rampage. When they lacked food or simply felt like consuming some flesh and blood, they would also go on a rampage

This place was a gathering of madmen after all.

If Qin Lie was powerful enough, if Qin Lie’s cultivation was at the late stage of the Nirvana Realm, he only needed to unleash his tremendous aura and be able to do whatever he wanted on those three forces’ islands. Not only would they not slip a fart, they would hide themselves as quickly as they could in fear that they would draw Qin Lie’s ire.

Those who possessed sufficient power would be able to do whatever they want and move about unhindered in the Ruined Lands.

Unfortunately, Qin Lie was just an insignificant early stage Fulfillment Realm martial practitioner. The fact that he was flying on a crystalline war chariot proved that he couldn’t fly on his own.

Death was the only price they would accept from a weakling who dared to taunt them and fly over their islands!

Not long after Qin Lie had entered the Ruined Lands, he had already lost two crystalline war chariots and was being pursued by three different forces. He didn’t even have a chance to learn the customs of this place.

He had finally learned a little about the Ruined Lands from his past mistakes, and he no longer flew above the other islands even though he was still charging towards the Ruined Lands.

He entered a reef area.

“Splash!”

Many translucent water pillars shot out of the water and slammed fiercely into Qin Lie’s crystalline war chariot.

“Boom!”

His third crystalline war chariot exploded just like that.

A dozen or so foreign people with human heads and fish bodies looked up to the sky coldly from the reef area. They wielded spirit blades and forks, and they exposed half of their bodies from the water.

Qin Lie fell down again from the sky.

He took out a fourth crystalline war chariot.

When he looked back behind him, he finally realized why the Gray Wing Race, black-robed men and other pursuers had adjusted their flight direction slightly when he had ventured into this reef area. He finally realized why they were willing to take a longer route and surround him from another direction.

It was obvious that he had stepped on another landmine.

“Kill him!” The person with a human head but a fish’s body ordered coldly.

When Qin Lie sent out his soul consciousness and discovered that this foreign man was actually no weaker than a middle stage Fragmentation Realm martial practitioner, he had no choice but to escape with his tail between his legs yet again.

And just like that, a newcomer flew blindly across the Ruined Lands while dragging a long tail of provoked evil spirits behind him.

Thankfully, none of those evil spirits had the power to kill him instantly or prevent him from making an escape. That was why he was still able to swear and venture even deeper into the Ruined Lands.

“Hm?”

Suddenly, he felt a twinge in his mind as he sensed a familiar ripple of energy that he hadn’t felt for a long time from the wooden sculpture inside his spatial ring.

He eyes immediately lit up.

By now, seven different races of evil spirits had been ordered by their leaders to hunt him down with all their might.

They seemed to be intent on chasing him to the ends of the world.

He gradually made his way into the depths of the Ruined Lands and saw even more islands on the horizon. He also understood that the evil spirits he would encounter in the future would only be scarier than the ones chasing behind him.

The evil spirits and foreign races deep inside the Ruined Lands were the true bosses of these lands. Compared to them, the pursuers behind him were small fries at best.

That was why the evil spirits behind him had grown more and more cautious as they attempted to catch him. They had even stopped shouting.

These pursuers had also noticed that they were venturing deeper and deeper into the Ruined Lands and getting really close to truly terrible powers. Even they were getting scared.

Occasionally, an evil spirit from the inner depths of the Ruined Lands would go crazy for a moment and slaughter their way through a particular direction.

They often got dragged into a mess like this.

Another island appeared before Qin Lie’s eyes. This island was hundreds of meters wide and completely enveloped in strange-looking trees. The inner depths of the island were crawling with a terrifying and eerie aura.

Qin Lie’s expression changed yet again after he probed the island for a moment. “That’s… nether demonic energy!”

He pondered for a moment and took out the wooden sculpture his grandfather had left behind from the spatial ring. Then, he adjusted the direction of his sixth crystalline war chariot and quickly flew towards this island.

Behind him, all the evil spirits who were chasing him suddenly paled at the sight of Qin Lie charging head first into this tree-covered island.

Every single one of them came to an abrupt halt and didn’t dare to step within a hundred meters of this island. They simply looked at the island from afar as if they were waiting to hear the news of Qin Lie’s death.

“Whoosh, whoosh!”

The crystalline war chariot flew slower as Qin Lie focused all of his attention on his surroundings. With an expression of utmost seriousness, he carefully approached the island.

He grasped the wooden sculpture tightly with one hand.

As of this moment, the wooden sculpture was emitting dark green halos as a strange, unknown energy radiated and spread towards the surroundings.

The islands’ trees were a dozen or so meters tall and had leaves thick enough to block the sky itself. Therefore, he couldn’t see what was beneath them.

Hiding his hesitation, Qin Lie carefully controlled the crystalline war chariot to gradually descend onto the island.

He passed through a slightly big gap amid the leaves plunged through the trees, and landed on the island.

All kinds of carcasses could be found on the forest’s gray brown soil. Most of the remains belonged to ancient beasts or foreign races, and there were only very few that belonged to humans. They were all gray white in color without a trace of spirit energy left in them.

Qin Lie’s eyes turned chilly as he grew more and more wary towards his surroundings.

“Who are you?” A cold voice suddenly rang from inside the forest. He spoke the Nether Realm’s language.

Chapter 684: Ghost Eye Race

“Who are you?” the person behind the trees spoke using the Nether Realm’s language.

Qin Lie hadn’t answered him immediately. He thought seriously for a moment before raising the wooden sculpture in his hand and asked with the same language, “Do you recognize this?”

The person inside the forest fell silent for a moment.

He seemed to be a little surprised that Qin Lie was able to speak the Nether Realm’s language so fluently even though he was obviously a human.

“What is your relation to the Venerable One?” the person asked again.

The moment he said this, Qin Lie immediately confirmed that this evil spirit was probably a denizen of the Nether Realm. This made him relax a little as he answered, “My name is Qin Lie. Qin Shan… is my grandfather.”

A shocking aura abruptly burst from the forest. “You are the Venerable One’s grandson? His blood related grandson?!”

“Mn!”

“Why have the Gray Wing clansmen and dragonmen chased you to this place?”

“I drove my crystalline war chariot through their territories, and so they decided to chase me down like madmen.”

“Ah, so you don’t know the rules of the Ruined Lands.” The person hiding behind the trees nodded. “Go inside while I deal with those people. I’ll come back right away.”

Once these words have been said, a dark shadow shrouded by thick aura of nether demonic energy flew out of the forest like a hidden owl. He unleashed a dark and eerie aura only a Nether Realm denizen could possess and departed swiftly.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh…”

The forest covered the entire island and constantly emitted thick nether demonic energy. There were plenty of plants unique to the Nether Realm growing lushly at that place, and together they constituted a tremendous evil life force.

“Uuuu! Let’s go! The seven-eyed old demon has come out to kill us!”

“Run quickly!”

“Ahh!”

Outside the island, the Gray Wing clansmen, dragonmen, and the evil spirits with human heads and fish bodies that had been chasing relentlessly after Qin Lie immediately let out frightened screams and retreated the second they saw the dark shadow emerging from the island.

Those who were slow quickly let out shrill cries as though they were being torn to shreds.

A second of confusion later, Qin Lie actually returned to his crystalline war chariot and flew above the lush leaves instead of going deeper into the forest. He sat above the island once more.

He stared at the intense battle from afar.

The slim and small shadow who was wrapped in nether demonic energy charged into the evil spirits like a lion who had entered a flock of sheeps. He swung the Nine Hell Nether God Claw recorded in the Nine Hell Evil Scripture, killing many evil spirits with ease.

The Nine Hell Nether God Claw was as sharp as the sharp blades of evil gods or the claw and teeth of ancient beasts. The claws tore through flesh and blood as though they were tofu.

Flesh and blood was being splattered all over the sky as decapitated corpses and bodily fluids fell from the sky, creating a rain of flesh and blood.

The entire scene looked incredibly bloody and ruthless.

The slaughter only lasted for a few dozens of seconds.

Those foreign evil spirits who failed to react in time and didn’t manage to escape at first notice had all been turned to shredded corpse parts. Once they were thoroughly crushed, they all landed on the island or fell into the seawater.

Those who reacted in time vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye.

The small dark shadow circled around the island once letting out shrill demonic howls enhanced with its exceptional energy, seemingly trying to intimidate certain people far away from his island.

It had only taken him a few dozens of seconds to deal with Qin Lie’s pursuers, but he spent a lot more time unleashing those demonic roars across the sea surface.

He circled around the island continuously and waited for a moment. When he saw that no one had come to him, he finally confirmed that none of these pursuers were exceptionally important, and that their deaths hadn’t triggered the anger of these races’ leaders.

And so the dark shadow transformed into a dark beam and returned to the center of the dense forest once more.

Qin Lie obediently withdrew his crystalline war chariot too and floated back down to the ground while still gripping the wooden sculpture.

This dark shadow’s bloody methods, violence and ruthlessness were even scarier than the methods Xue Li used when he had slaughtered the invading five forces back at Armament Sect.

Although he couldn’t determine this shadow’s true realm, Qin Lie dared not let his guard down based on his cruel killing methods alone.

“Come in,” the dark shadow beckoned him from the forest.

Step after step, Qin Lie ultimately entered the forest.

“Crack!”

He accidentally crushed a piece of white bone beneath his foot, and a white smoke slowly rose to the air as a result. It slipped into his nose and mouth as if it had a mind of its own.

After inhaling this smoky air, Qin Lie actually felt an ache in his chest that was similar to choking. His entire body felt weak all of a sudden.

He frowned and circulated the frost spirit art in silence. The absolute frost concept appeared and washed through his body again and again like waves of cold stream.

The weakness and discomfort instantly vanished. His eyes had also regained their original clarity.

“Every white bone in this place has already been refined by me, so they’re all more or less been tainted with toxins. My name is La Pu. I am a member of the Ghost Eye Race.” Amidst the forest, the dark shadow gave away his identity.

Qin Lie adjusted himself a little while La Pu was speaking and finally entered the depths of the forest.

What he found there were a dozen or so ancient trees tens of meters tall. They had leaves as wide as banana tree’s, and they completely covered up the sky , not letting a wisp of sunlight reach the ground.

Rich and pure nether demonic energy in the air was respired by many scary-looking Nether Realm plants, and they filled up every inch of the area.

Beneath the ancient trees, there were a couple of wooden buildings that took up very little space. Strange vines unique to Nether Realm were crawling on their walls, looking like slithering black snakes.

There were also six black and sticky looking ponds in front of these buildings. The ponds had pitch black water that emanated a disgusting, foreign stench.

Besides that, the whole forest was filled with bones as far as the eyes could see. Some of these bones were sparkling, some were translucent, an obvious indicator that their spirit energy hadn’t been completely used up yet.

The dark shadow no longer hid its appearance behind a thick wall of nether demonic energy after he returned to the forest. He revealed his true appearance to Qin Lie.

He was a man less than one and a half meters tall. His skin was dark greenish in color, and his body looked wizened. His appearance was similar to that of a human except that he had seven eyes instead of two.

On his wizened face, this Ghost Eye clansman had three eyes. Another four could be seen just above his two knees and elbows.

The two eyes at his knees could look up from below, whereas the eyes above his elbows could look behind him.

All seven eyes were dark green in color. They glowed with a frightening eerie light.

“The Ghost Eye Race…” Qin Lie thought to himself.

Similar to the Horned Demon Race who categorized their strength by the number of horns they possessed, the Ghost Eye Race categorized their strength by the number of their eyes.

As a member of the three strongest races in the Nether Realm, the more eyes a Ghost Eye Race clansman possessed, the stronger they were.

This tiny old man had a total of seven eyes on his body. This meant that he possessed the strength of a Nirvana Realm human martial practitioner.

Qin Lie also noticed that the old man was clad in a soft animal skin, and there were holes in the skin where his eyes had grown.

The old man’s belly button was also exposed. Judging from its odd shape, it might very well grow into a new eye in the future.

He had lived with the Horned Demon Race’s Ku Luo for a time, so he knew a bit about the Ghost Eye Race. He knew that the eighth eye of the Ghost Eye Race appeared at their belly button.

A Ghost Eye clansmen with eight eyes were true experts. Their strength rivaled an Imperishable Realm martial practitioner, and they were incredibly terrifying.

The reason why this Ghost Eye clansman named La Pu had hidden himself in the Ruined Lands and worked hard on his cultivation seemed to be to grow his eighth eye.

While Qin Lie was examining La Pu, the old man was also examining Qin Lie with his seven eyes.

The Ghost Eye Race had a natural born advantage when it came to seeing through others. Their new eyes weren’t just there for show.

La Pu stared at Qin Lie with his seven eyes.

Qin Lie suddenly had the terrifying feeling that he had been undressed, put on a sacrificial altar, had his stomach and heart cut open and had his muscles, flesh, blood and bones researched in detail.

And this was just because La Pu was staring at him.

“According to the strength categorization of most races, you are at the early stage of the Fulfillment Realm. You possess three types of spirit energies inside your dantian’s spirit sea, and they are thunder, frost and earth spirit energies. You also possess Blood Fiend Sect’s blood spirit energy. Your physical body has evolved multiple times through some exceptionally unique method, and if we were to judge purely on the basis of physique you are stronger than most human martial practitioners of your rank. At the same rank, you are also capable of fighting against races of powerful physique such as the Asura Race. However… your physique is still a little inferior to theirs.”

La Pu voiced all of the observations he garnered from his seven eyes as he observed Qin Lie.

His observation hadn’t ended yet.

“Eh?” He suddenly exclaimed.

As he cried out, a weak green light appeared from his belly button. The green light seemed to possess even stranger powers as it penetrated deep into Qin Lie’s blood upon reaching his body.

La Pu suddenly shuddered, and his small body began to shake strongly.

It was as if using the eighth eye he hadn’t really grown yet was an extremely risky move and too much for his body to handle.

However, albeit weak, the green light continued to shine from his belly button.

La Pu sweated heavily.

Qin Lie stood unmoving and didn’t circulate his spirit energy, but he could feel his blood boiling and burning of its own accord. The “blaze” divine character that had been engraved into every part of his body began to stir.

“Rrrmb!”

An extremely powerful heat wave mixed with the terrifying temperature of lava abruptly erupted from Qin Lie’s blood vessels. The mysterious characters inside his blood sparkled.

La Pu’s shaking body actually retreated backwards as if he was struck by an invisible energy.

Every time he retreated, he stomped heavily on the ground and caused the entire island to shake. The surrounding ancient trees shook strongly in response.

La Pu retreated nine steps in total!

Nine steps later, he finally stopped himself as all seven eyes on his body, including the eighth that hadn’t completely emerged yet, actually closed on its own.

With all of his eyes closed, La Pu slowly adjusted himself as a rich amount of nether demonic energy surged wildly into his body. He greedily absorbed all of it like a sponge.

Qin Lie himself had turned completely red in color as a shockingly high temperature emanated from his blood vessels. He felt as if boiling lava was flowing through his body, threatening to burn the world.

No matter how he tried to circulate the frost power, he couldn’t dispel the high temperature inside his body.

A certain violent and destructive power hidden deep inside his bloodline seemed to have been awakened by La Pu’s inspection, and it seemed to be urging him to burn the person who taunted him to dust.

Qin Lie had no choice but to inhale deeply and cool down his mind again and again so that his bloodline power wouldn’t erupt at this time.

A long time later, he gradually calmed down and felt the flames inside his blood subside.

“What a terrifying bloodline power!” La Pu suddenly exclaimed.

When he looked at Qin Lie again, a hint of fear actually appeared in his eyes. Unfortunately, you haven’t truly understood your own bloodline power and figured a way to use it yet. Otherwise, my body and my soul would’ve been burned to dust already by the violent flames inside your blood.”

Chapter 685: Survivor

“Do you know about the power of bloodlines?” Qin Lie looked moved.

Visiting the Heavenly Silence Continent to fulfill his promise to Chu Li and meet Forefather Terminator was just one of his objectives.

Meeting the Asura Race to ask about the Spirits of Void and Chaos and the power of bloodlines was the other objective of his trip.

Qin Lie valued the latter objective more, and it was also the true reason he was willing to travel thousands of kilometers to Terminator Sect.

Ever since he awakened his bloodline, he had been troubled by his lack of knowledge on how to activate it.

Lang Xie, Mo Lingye, and the others couldn’t help him because they were all humans. Humans hadn’t researched the power of bloodlines too deeply, so they couldn’t aid him in the discovery of his powers.

According to Mo Lingye’s explanation, the only way he could really learn about the power of bloodlines was to seek help from ancient races that possessed a terribly powerful bloodline just like him.

This La Pu was a foreign race and a Ghost Eye clansman. He sounded like he had some understanding of bloodline powers. This discovery was a sudden glimmer of hope to Qin Lie.

“I understand a little about it.” La Pu’s expression gradually turned calm.

Qin Lie noticed that the evil aura around La Pu was retracting bit by bit after he had regained his cool.

Five of La Pu’s eyes were actually closed in this condition. The eyes between his brow, at his knees, and his elbows were all closed.

Right now, disregarding his unusual skin color and short stature, La Pu didn’t look all that different from humans..

“Are you truly the Venerable One’s grandson?” La Pu asked again.

Qin Lie nodded. “I am.”

“Show me your keepsake.” La Pu extended a hand and stared at the wooden sculpture.

Qin Lie passed the wooden sculpture to La Pu after a moment’s hesitation and explained, “This is the wooden sculpture my grandfather had left behind for me before he left. I’ve never been able to figure out its secrets.”

He could see that La Pu did know a little something about the power of bloodlines. However, since he couldn’t be sure sure Qin Lie was who he had claimed to be, he was acting very cautious and refused to say anything until the confirmation.

“I’ve been to Nether Realm and saw the Horned Demon Race clansmen. I know Ku Luo, Duo Luo, Ka Meng…” While La Pu was inspecting the wooden sculpture, Qin Lie spoke softly about his experiences in Nether Realm. He hoped to reinforce La Pu’s confidence by reciting these names.

Unfortunately, La Pu seemed to not know any of the Nether Realm people he mentioned. His expression showed no change whatsoever.

La Pu took out a smaller wooden sculpture that looked similar to Ku Luo’s and touched it with Qin Lie’s bigger wooden sculpture.

Halos rippled out from where the wooden sculptures had made contact.

A mysterious energy that Qin Lie didn’t recognize rippled along with the halos and created a strange magnetic field.

La Pu concentrated his senses for a moment and nodded, “There’s no mistake. This is the Venerable One’s keepsake.”

While saying this, he returned the wooden sculpture to Qin Lie with a much gentler look on his face. “Please, tell me what you want to know, and what you want me to do.”

Qin Lie was surprised for a moment.

Judging the way La Pu spoke, the wooden sculpture in his possession seemed like a token that could command La Pu, a Ghost Eye clansman to do anything he wanted to.

He never thought that a mere wooden sculpture would be so binding.

“I can ask you to do anything I want as long as this wooden sculpture is in my possession?” Qin Lie requested for a confirmation.

“Yes, anything you want!” La Pu’s expression turned serious, “As long as it isn’t something that requires me to betray or doom my race, I can do anything you want me to do! You may even order me to kill myself immediately, and I shall obey your command!”

The second he said this, the wooden sculpture immediately turned heavy in Qin Lie’s hands. The weight it represented made Qin Lie feel like letting go.

“Three thousand years ago, the Ghost Eye Race, the Dark Shadow Race and the Horned Demon Race were at their peak in Nether Realm, and the five Evil Gods had also experienced a massive growth in strength. With the Nether Continent as the center, we began spreading our power to our surroundings and expanded without restraint by planting Nether Realm plants that could convert spirit energy into nether demonic energy. In the end, our actions drew the retaliation of Sky Mender Palace.” La Pu’s pupils were dark as he reiterated that shameful past. “In the end, the five Evil Gods were killed, the three clan chiefs were either injured or killed, and the Ghost Eye Race, the Dark Shadow Race and the Horned Demon Race all suffered massive damage. At the time, Sky Mender Palace had gathered many powerful forces in an attempt to invade the Nether Realm en masse and slaughter every race to the last.”

“It was the Venerable One who begged for mercy on our behalf and saved us from genocide. Therefore, no matter how illogical or inhuman the Venerable One’s request might be, we will still obey him without question!”

“This is our promise to the Venerable One!”

La Pu’s expression was serious as he said strongly, “We are not like the human race. Forget a thousand years, even if ten thousand years have passed, we will not forget that promise!”

Respect rose from the bottom of Qin Lie’s heart.

After pondering for a moment, Qin Lie finally asked, “Alright, I’d like to ask you a few things.”

“Anything!”

“Why are you here? Why do you have the wooden sculpture?”

“Three thousand years ago, the Ghost Eye Race also suffered massive casualties. In compliance with our promise to Sky Mender Palace, every member of my race had returned the Nether Realm and did not dare not take a step into Spirit Realm again. All of the passages that connected Nether Realm to Spirit Realm had been destroyed under Sky Mender Palace’s supervision. Even the Nether Realm itself had been put under restriction. I happened to be away from the Nether Continent when the three races waged and horribly lost the war. Because I was still exploring Spirit Realm at the time, I had been found and chased by Sky Mender Palace. I was exploring an ancient heritage, and was trapped inside it for more than seven hundred years.”

“It was only seven hundred years later that I learned of the shocking change in the Nether Realm after making my escape and going back.”

“Back then, I had entered Spirit Realm through one of the passages that connected Nether Realm to Spirit Realm. After the passages were destroyed and Nether the Continent itself was sealed away, I couldn’t even find a way back to the Nether Realm. Therefore, I had no choice but to hide myself at a place where Sky Mender Palace couldn’t reach me. I had to make sure that no one knows that a small fry like me still hadn’t returned to the Nether Realm in accordance to the promise.”

“The Land of Chaos was a long distance away from Sky Mender Palace and constantly embroiled in all sorts of war. It was never truly united under one banner, and it was massive and more tolerant of other races. There were all kinds of foreign races to be found at this place. That was why I’ve relocated myself to this place and settled down in the Ruined Lands.”

La Pu explained his reasons thoroughly to Qin Lie.

“What about the wooden sculpture in your possession?” Qin Lie asked again with narrowed eyes.

“This was given to me by Ta Te,” La Pu answered.

“Ta Te? Who’s that?” Qin Lie frowned.

“He is a Horned Demon with eight curved horns. Three thousand years ago, he was one of the three great generals of the Horned Demon Race’s army.” La Pu didn’t try to conceal anything. “At first, I thought Ta Te had been long dead after that bloody battle from three thousand years ago. I never imagined that he would still be alive, and that he would somehow find me at the Land of Chaos a thousand years later. He gave me this wooden sculpture, told me everything about that bloody battle and our race’s relationship with the Venerable One.”

“What secrets is that wooden sculpture hiding?” Qin Lie was surprised.

“It contains a unique imprint that belongs to the Ghost Eye Race. The imprint contains a promise between the Ghost Eye Race’s clan chief and the Venerable One, and records of some of our race’s secret knowledge. Through the wooden sculpture, I learned many wondrous things about the Ghost Eye Race that I never knew and the great favor our race owed the Venerable One,” La Pu said seriously.

“Did Ta Te ask anything of you?”

“No. Ta Te only told me that the Venerable One could locate me through this wooden sculpture. He told me that the Venerable One would send me an order if he requires my services. He told me that I only need to do as the Venerable One says in compliance with our promise.”

“Did he send you any orders then?” Qin Lie grew anxious.

“He did!”

“When was that?”

“It was also more than a thousand years ago, not long after Ta Te had passed me the wooden sculpture. Actually, I should say that it was exactly 1,237 years ago!”

“Why do you remember it so clearly?”

“That’s because at the same time, Blood Fiend Sect at its peak strength was being attacked by all major Land of Chaos’ forces. Blood Cloud Mountain succumbed to the attack, and Blood Fiend Sect was eliminated as a result. This news shook the entire Land of Chaos, and it was after I’d learned of this news that the Venerable One had given me my first order. It was also the only order I’ve ever received.”

“What did he ask you to do?”

“His order was very strange,” La Pu suddenly frowned deeply. His eyes were filled with puzzlement. ” He only told me to keep researching what I’m interested in and ignore all outside disturbances. He told me to put all my concentration on the analysis of every race’s physical structure.”

Qin Lie also looked confused.

“Our Ghost Eye Race grow new eyes as our strength increases. Our eyes give us a lot of advantages, such as understanding the physical characteristics of different races. We are able to analyse and understand the minute details of a person’s distribution of nerves, organs and flesh; the flow of a person’s energy and the strength of a person’s soul. We know very well what the strengths and weaknesses of a race is.”

La Pu’s interest was piqued, and he pointed at the white bones that were everywhere and the black ponds nearby. “I’ve always been rather interested in this subject. The reason I was trapped for seven hundred years exploring an ancient heritage back then was also to obtain a god race’s remain. I am rather knowledgeable in this field, and I’ve been deepening my understanding of this subject ever since I came to the Land of Chaos and hid myself in the Ruined Lands.”

“The Venerable One’s order happened to match my desires perfectly. His orders allowed me to put even more effort into researching different races without any emotional baggages.” La Pu grew more and more excited as he said this. His dark green eyes shone with a rather frightening light of passion.

Current La Pu caused Qin Lie to feel a chill go down his spine.

Every zealous person was a great danger to the people around them. If a person’s faith was dark and evil, then the amount of danger they represented would grow by leaps and bounds.

La Pu was without a doubt one such terrifying and dangerous fellow.

Thankfully, the only wooden sculpture his grandfather had left behind for him seemed to hold great power over La Pu. Otherwise, he wouldn’t want to stay even a second longer on this island.

“The power of bloodlines is also one of the things I’m researching. I’ve accumulated over three thousand years of knowledge, and I suppose my knowledge of bloodlines is passable. Of course, the power of bloodline and a person’s soul are two of the most complicated and mysterious things in the world. There were countless high level intelligent races who researched them both across generations for hundreds of thousands of years, but still couldn’t completely decipher their secrets. Naturally, my knowledge cannot possibly run deeper than theirs.”

“I can only say that I know a little bit about the power of bloodlines,” La Pu said seriously.

Chapter 686: Found it!

“Please teach me what you can about bloodline powers!” Qin Lie said seriously.

“Of course.” La Pu nodded. “You hold the Venerable One’s keepsake. It is only natural for me to do my best to fulfill your wishes.”

While saying this, he gave the matter a serious moment of thought before passing a porcelain bottle to Qin Lie suddenly. The bottle was filled with a light green medicine that smelled like fresh grass and wood.

“Drink this medicine first. It will cause your emotions to fluctuate.” La Pu said.

Qin Lie accepted the bottle, but felt a trace of hesitation passing through his mind. He couldn’t claim that the medicine was absolutely harmless, and he was also afraid that La Pu was scheming to harm him.

He was no longer that simple youth he was before. He had become less trustful of people after experiencing the evils of a human’s heart.

La Pu noticed his worry and chuckled twice before saying with a low and raspy voice, “Caution is a good habit.”

He withdrew the porcelain bottle and poured one third of the medicine into a copper wine bowl. Then, he drank it all in one gulp.

Qin Lie watched him closely and made sure not to miss him swallowing the liquid. Then, he waited for fifteen minutes to see if there was any reaction. Finally, he gave La Pu an apologetic smile and drank the remaining liquid inside the bowl.

“There are three aspects you need to familiarize yourself with and master in order to grasp the power of bloodline. First, you need to be able to activate it, sense it, and express its hidden ancient power,” La Pu explained, “Then, you need to circulate this energy and use your god given talents in battle. Finally, you need to find a way to improve the power of your bloodline and strengthen your talent. This is so that it may grow continuously.”

Qin Lie listened carefully as his eyes glittered with high concentration.

The knowledge of bloodline La Pu was teaching him was the element he was missing and desired the most right now.

In this regard, neither Xue Li, Lang Xie, Mo Lingye, nor Li Mu could help him.

Only a foreign race clansman like La Pu who had researched this subject for thousands of years could answer the questions in his mind and teach him the true wonders of the bloodlines.

“The soul and the bloodline are two of the most mysterious things in the world. For billions of years, countless living beings had sought for the ultimate truth behind these two things, but to this day there are still none who would dare claim that they had figured out all of the secrets of the soul and the bloodline. These two things are the forbidden zones of all living beings in this infinite world. It feels as if we can use up all our knowledge and still fail to analyze these two things in full.”

“However, after numerous efforts, these people had discovered an extremely subtle relation between the soul and the bloodline.”

“For example, it is discovered that the activation of bloodline power requires the coordination of the soul in most cases. More specifically, it requires the coordination of one’s emotions. There are a lot of actual cases that proved that the majority of living beings who awakened their power of bloodline were emotionally completely out of control. They were experiencing either extreme irritation, extreme depression, extreme despair, extreme excitement, or extreme hate and so on…”

“The extreme fluctuation of emotions could normally trigger a change in one’s blood. It enabled the martial practitioner to express the secrets hidden inside their bloodline.”

“Therefore, the easiest way to activate your power of bloodline was to throw your emotions into turmoil. By allowing your emotions to go out of control, you’ll be able to identify the emotion that corresponds to your bloodline.”

“This medicine could make your normally controlled emotions go out of control. It will make you recall the past and make you feel crazy, irritated, or absolute despair.”

“Right now, what you need to do is to wait for the medicine to be slowly digested by your body so that it may take effect.”

La Pu’s expression turned calm as he observed Qin Lie quietly while talking. His eyes were dim as if he was pondering the next step.

At first, Qin Lie didn’t feel much feeling or discomfort after consuming the medicine.

But a while later, he suddenly felt as if his mind had become incredibly active. It became very easy for him to recall the past and remember those unforgettable memories.

“That’s right, that’s the state you should be in. Recall your most unforgettable past and deepest memories. These things can easily trigger strong emotional responses and make you lose control of your emotions!” La Pu guided patiently and systematically.

And so Qin Lie began to recall his past.

He recalled the time he was at Herb Mountain. He was muddle-headed at the time, and he spent all his time cultivating Heavenly Thunder Eradication in the state of Thoughtless Tranquility.

He had no friends at the time, and his grandfather Qin Shan would vanish occasionally.

At the time he felt incredibly lonely and empty, so lonely that he felt like he was the only person alive in the entire world.

The feeling of depression and gloominess was enlarged little by little, and his hung head looked incredibly lonely.

Later on, his grandfather left behind a letter and a wooden sculpture and left before he knew it. He had not seen him since.

The longer he lived, the more he felt that life was dull and boring. He couldn’t recall a single thing that warmed his heart or made him happy.

His emotions remained downcast.

La Pu observed him closely and saw no reaction from his bloodline whatsoever. It was obvious that depression and loneliness weren’t emotions that could activate his bloodline.

Qin Lie continued to recall the past.

A silent figure had appeared in his lonely gray world. Ling Yushi was like a ray of sunlight who had suddenly invaded his gray dark world.

Every time he came back from Herb Mountain after his cultivation, he would return to his stone house and find Ling Yushi talking or complaining about all sorts of things.

It was only then that he discovered that a ray of warmth had entered his life. He began looking forward to seeing Ling Yushi everyday after he returned, hoping to listen to her long-winded prattle everyday.

His depression receded silently as his heart turned lighter. It was as if his gray world had been painted with a layer of bright colors.

The sunlight in his life made him feel optimistic as he began to experience and understand the various wonders of life.

La Pu had opened his seven eyes once more and paid close attention to Qin Lie. He hadn’t opened his eighth eye and shot that scanning beam, however.

He examined Qin Lie closely, and discovered that the emotion of happiness still wasn’t the trigger that would activate his power of bloodline.

Qin Lie continued to recall the past.

His happy emotions were destroyed by Du Jianglan and Du Fei. The Du Family mother and son entrapped and ridiculed Ling Yushi. They humiliated her and made her suffer terribly.

When Ling Yushi was bullied, anger slowly burned in his heart. He began to grow irritated even as suppressed what felt like a turbulent flame.

Later on, the Du Family’s recurring taunts, numerous covert or overt attacks and display of all kinds of treacherous and murderous methods added fuel to fire and caused the anger in his heart to grow stronger and stronger.

“Found it!” La Pu suddenly exclaimed excitedly. He sucked in a deep breath before exclaiming, “Irritation and fury is the key to activating your bloodline!”

“Boom!” A tremor suddenly jolted Qin Lie’s mind.

In the next moment, he discovered that his blood vessels were unleashing a shockingly high amount of temperature that felt like burning lava. It caused the surrounding temperature to climb incessantly.

One could vaguely see many tiny divine characters within his boiling blood. It was as if these divine characters of “blaze” in his entire body had been triggered and discharged, looking like bubbles evaporating from his blood vessels.

An unstoppable power seemed to have connected with his spirit energy instantly and discharged boiling heat out of every one of his pores as a result.

The lifeblood essences he had refined using the Blood Refinement Art grew especially violent and intense. They were like blazing fireballs that continuously urged his bloodline power to burn brighter and stronger than ever.

“Crackle!”

He circulated Heavenly Thunder Eradication and caused blue lightning the size of a baby’s arm to fly out of his palm.

This bolt of lightning actually contained many rays of dazzling flames. They looked like a tail of a flaming falling meteor and carried the sulfuric scent of lava.

When the lightning erupted, countless beams of flames and light flew towards every direction as the imperishable blaze inside the divine characters spun like tiny stars and burned everything, regardless of whether it could be burned or not. They instantly ignited La Pu’s entire forest.

“That’s the way! The power of bloodline can be fused with almost all spirit arts. Once the power of bloodline has been activated, you can execute the energy bursting inside your bloodline through a spirit art and use it to your heart’s content!” La Pu yelled.

However, Qin Lie could no longer hear La Pu’s voice.

The irritation in his heart had been ignited fiercely, and he continuously circulated his spirit arts and executed all kinds of techniques such as the Blood Dragon’s Roar and the Blood Weeping Ghost Claw. He also used the power of the earth and created many bolts of lightning, icicles, and ice shields.

He unleashed all the offensive techniques he was familiar with while his bloodline power was still surging.

The blood dragon created from Blood Dragon’s Roar had blazing flames and countless tiny divine characters flowing inside it. As a result, its power had skyrocketed by leaps and bounds.

The Blood Weeping Ghost Claw was the same.

The earth wall he created with his earth spirit energy also contained many fiery dots of flames. At closer inspection, these fiery dots were in fact burning “blaze” divine characters, and they made the wall look completely red and bright with color.

Unconsciously, he began to circulate the only spirit art he remembered from his past memories, the Spirit Arts Fusion.

The “blaze” divine characters in his bloodline easily fused with the Blood Spirit Art, Heavenly Thunder Eradication and the Records of Geocentric Magnetism. However, the fire instantly evaporated the icicles and ice shields he created when it was fused with the frost spirit art.

The only spirit art the divine character that carried the meaning “blaze” and the bloodline energy inside his body couldn’t fuse with was the frost spirit art.

Fire and water were naturally incompatible with each other.

Qin Lie roared under La Pu’s astonished gaze as he fused all kinds of spirit arts and unrestrainedly unleashed the power of his bloodline.

La Pu was absolutely speechless.

He knew that it was very easy for the power of bloodline to fuse with a martial practitioner’s spirit art. But Qin Lie had just learned how to activate the power of his bloodline. For whatever reason, he was able to fuse the power of his bloodline with his spirit arts perfectly as if he had mastered this technique many years ago.

This was almost impossible.

Even an exceptionally talented inheritor of an ancient bloodline would need a lot of time to get used to fusing the two elements when they had just grasped the way to circulate and execute their bloodline’s power.

For a powerful foreign race with a long lifespan, this period might be as short as three to five years or as long as tens of years. This wasn’t a strange occurrence at all.

But Qin Lie was able to fuse the power of his bloodline and his spirit arts without any pause or flaws. He didn’t look inexperienced at all. This shocked La Pu greatly.

Moreover, what caused him even greater shock was that Qin Lie’s spirit arts couldn’t fuse with just the power of his bloodline, but also with themselves!