Chapter 531: The Rampaging Bloodthirsty Dragon!

As a Heaven Grade spirit artifact, the Bloodthirsty Dragon required an enormous amount of blood energy to release its terrifying power.

When Xue Moyan used it earlier, she killed ten or so late stage Netherpassage Realm scarlet barbarians with ease, displaying the incredible killing power of the Bloodthirsty Dragon while making Jiang Tianxing and Di Fei flee like the wind.

Since no one else in the group had a plan to deal with the incredibly massive spears of ice that were currently flying toward them, they could only put their hopes on Qin Lie and the Bloodthirsty Dragon.

“Let me try,” Qin Lie said.

Suddenly materializing above Xue Moyan’s snow-white arm, the Bloodthirsty Dragon’s enormous ancient bones floated in front of everyone and roared.

“Qin Lie, drip some of your blood on it so that it can familiarize itself with your blood energy!” Xue Moyan said.

“Okay!” Qin Lie took a deep breath.

A drop of scarlet blood emerged from the tip of one of his fingers like a scarlet pearl and flew over to the great mystical spirit artifact.

“Fwoooosh!”

The instant the drop of blood landed on the Bloodthirsty Dragon’s sanguine skull, the entirety of the dragon skeleton erupted in brilliant bloody flames.

“Plip… plip… plip…!”

Blood continued to emerge from Qin Lie’s finger and fly toward the bloody bone dragon, drop after drop. The intensity of the fierce bloody flames grew with each drop that splashed against the spirit artifact.

Like a sponge soaking up water, the bloody bone dragon absorbed every drop of blood, gradually releasing apocalyptic waves of fiendish blood energy.

“Circulate the Blood Spirit Art and try to connect with all of the blood within the Bloodthirsty Dragon,” Xue Moyan said. “Try to feel the energy of the spirit artifact and control it with your own blood energy!”

Qin Lie trembled.

Prior to Xue Moyan’s instructions, Qin Lie already felt the horror lurking within this Heaven Grade spirit artifact. He could sense the potent energy disappear from his blood as soon as it touched the Bloodthirsty Dragon’s sanguine skeleton!

Then, at this very instant, a mixture of emotions overwhelmed his senses. Violence, madness, bloodlust, and the desire to destroy appeared within him, threatening to drown him.

Then, Qin Lie’s eyes became a shocking scarlet.

He seemed to have changed into a bloodthirsty beast that, after being imprisoned for hundreds of millions of years, had finally regained its freedom.

Fiendish blood energy erupted from Qin Lie and the Bloodthirsty Dragon at the same time, shooting toward the heavens and gathering into one mass that resembled a thick river of blood.

A deafening roar resounded from the Bloodthirsty Dragon’s maw, booming forth without end. Seemingly boundless amounts of blood energy formed a sanguine stream of blood and shot forward.

A demented will, one that sought to end the world and extinguish all life, existed within that blood energy!

“Boom!”

The river of blood rushed into the cluster of ice spears in the air. The resulting explosions created a fantastical sight.

The dozens of ice spears that had been flying toward Qin Lie’s group, each of which resembled ice dragons that were several hundred meters long, originally looked extremely majestic.

Their majesty had been otherworldly!

However, the moment the river of blood shot into the midst of the ice spears, all of them exploded.

The dozens of ice spears simultaneously burst apart.

Tens of thousands of smaller ice spears hurtled down through the freezing sky like rain.

It was as if swords of ice were stabbing into the earth.

“Aaoooooo!”

The Bloodthirsty Dragon soared into the sky with a roar, a terrifying aura of destruction and slaughter radiating from its enormous body.

Under the entire group’s gaze, the bloody bone dragon flew out like a bloody bolt of wild lightning, piercing through the sky and tearing its way to the frozen lake in an instant..

“Th-this…”

The jaws of Luo Chen, Song Tingyu, Du Xiangyang, and Pan Qianqian dropped as they watched the scene above the frozen lake unfold.

Qin Lie and Xue Moyan were also stunned.

At this moment, the bloody bone dragon hovered over the frozen lake alongside the Demon Sealing Tombstone. As the Demon Sealing Tombstone continued to release its seven godly lights and bombard the lake’s thick, frozen surface, it released another bloody streak of light that contained an intense, fiendish bloody energy. This bloody light shot toward the bone dragon’s sanguine skull.

The Demon Sealing Tombstone started transferring fiendish blood energy to the Bloodthirsty Dragon!

This infusion of intense, fiendish bloody light made the bloody bone dragon’s body expand as if it were being filled with air.

In mere seconds, the Bloodthirsty Dragon actually doubled in size. The sanguine bones that made up its body began to glitter with brilliant bloody light.

It looked extremely radiant.

“Aaaaaaaaaooo!”

The bloody bone dragon unleashed another heaven-shaking roar, exuding an incomparably terrifying aura as it charged headfirst into the surface of the frozen lake.

“Krik krik kra-krak!”

The surface of the lake, which resembled a huge mirror, fractured. Cracks quickly spread across the ice, sometimes stuttering in places but continuous in others.

The ice continued to fracture under everyone’s shocked gazes, fissures spreading across the frozen lake until, several seconds later, a section of it collapsed inward.

The Demon Sealing Tombstone followed the bloody bone dragon closely, the bloody fiendish light it released resembling a long sanguine rope that tethered them to each other.

This rope continuously fed potent energy to the Bloodthirsty Dragon.

Breaking through the layer of ice, the bloody bone dragon roared once more and charged into the empty cavern below.

Immediately after the dragon skeleton entered the empty depths of the frozen lake, the Demon Sealing Tombstone remained suspended in the sky, the bloody light linking the two together.

In the next moment, the constant barrage of ice spears and continuous shaking of the mountains and glaciers in the area… all came to a stop at the same time.

With the destruction of the frozen lake’s surface and the bloody bone dragon having entered its depths, a strange calm came over the originally violent, chaotic Forbidden Land of Ice.

This sudden turn of events was a godsend to the screaming eastern barbarians. Since the ice spirit had stopped attacking them, the tragic barbarians lucky enough to survive finally got some room to breathe.

Just like the surviving barbarians, Qin Lie’s group fell into state of confusion and lethargy.

“This…”

No one had expected that such a heaven-defying change would occur when Blood Fiend Sect’s terrifying tool of slaughter was given to Qin Lie..

Upon receiving Qin Lie’s blood, the Bloodthirsty Dragon destroyed dozens of ice spears using the stream of blood energy that came from its body. It hadn’t even needed to move…

Qin Lie’s group thought that their deadly crisis had been resolved a bit too easily.

Without waiting for anyone to recover their wits, the Bloodthirsty Dragon roared, charged out, and formed a mysterious link with the Demon Sealing Tombstone. Then, borrowing the tombstone’s fiendish blood energy, it destroyed the thick layer of ice that made up the frozen lake’s surface and forcefully charged into its empty depths.

The ice spirit’s control over the Forbidden Land of Ice had been broken in an instant!

“How could it be like this?” Pan Qianqian quietly asked, closing her gaping mouth. The look on her face expressed her amazement well enough without it. “B-Big Brother Qin, your control over the power of the Bloodthirsty Dragon is actually so much better than Sister Xue’s! That was incredible!”

Everyone else silently thought the same thing.

From their point of view, it seemed as if… Qin Lie were the true owner of the Bloodthirsty Dragon. Only after coming into Qin Lie’s possession did this terrifying killing tool of Blood Fiend Sect truly demonstrate its incredible power.

Xue Moyan, in comparison, seemed as if she had just been holding on to the spirit artifact. She had never been able to put on such a violent display.

“It seems like it… takes to you quite well…” Xue Moyan sputtered, her face bitter.

Qin Lie remained silent.

He had been in a state of total shock this entire time.

He believed that Blood Fiend Sect’s terrifying killing tool could only display such frightening might under his control because he was the owner of the Demon Sealing Tombstone.

After all, ever since he got his blood on the tombstone, he had been able to use his blood to connect with the Demon Sealing Tombstone and the fiendish blood energy inside of it.

Qin Lie had similarly gotten his blood on the Bloodthirsty Dragon. Upon doing so, an unexpected yet miraculous change occurred between him, the Demon Sealing Tombstone, and the Bloodthirsty Dragon.

The Bloodthirsty Dragon and Demon Sealing Tombstone had mysteriously resonated with each other through his blood!

He never expected such a development to occur.

The Bloodthirsty Dragon required an enormous amount of blood energy to show its might, one which Qin Lie could not afford to give. This meant that it was impossible for him to fuel the Bloodthirsty Dragon and allow it to display the terrifying power of a Heaven Grade spirit artifact.

The most power he could unleash by himself was probably around the same amount that Xue Moyan could.

Neither he nor Xue Moyan could fully display the Bloodthirsty Dragon’s power.

But the Demon Sealing Tombstone could.

After all, the Demon Sealing Tombstone contained an endless amount of fiendish blood energy!

This fiendish blood energy seemed to miraculously connect with the Bloodthirsty Dragon. The Bloodthirsty Dragon had somehow reached a tacit understanding with the Demon Sealing Tombstone through Qin Lie’s blood. It then received the tombstone’s blood energy, enough to finally display its incredible power!

“I think I finally understand who the fiendish blood energy within the Demon Sealing Tombstone came from,” Xue Moyan said all of a sudden.

Everyone looked at her simultaneously.

“Who?” Qin Lie asked.

“The Blood Progenitor!” Xue Moyan took a deep breath, an incredibly serious expression on her face. “The Bloodthirsty Dragon felt the aura of the progenitor’s energy within the Demon Sealing Tombstone, and by absorbing some of that energy, it could display its true might!”

This revelation shocked Qin Lie.

After a bit of thought, he nodded in agreement, saying, “You’re probably right! The master of the Graveyard of Gods must have extracted the Blood Progenitor’s fiendish blood energy from his remains and sealed it into the Demon Sealing Tombstone as its first kind of energy! The blood energy I absorbed and converted into my own blood energy must have been the Blood Progenitor’s!”

Only the fiendish blood energy of the Bloodthirsty Dragon’s creator could truly rouse it.

A blood energy which currently existed in Qin Lie’s body.

A portion Qin Lie’s blood energy and the power within his blood came from the Blood Progenitor. Therefore, after Qin Lie received it and gave it his blood, the Bloodthirsty Dragon displayed miraculous power, much more than when Xue Moyan had been controlling it.

“Crack crack crack!”

A gargantuan fissure appeared in the remaining ice of the frozen lake’s surface. Streaks of bloody light burst through that fissure from within the vast space that made up the frozen lake, releasing terrifying waves of energy.

Since the frozen lake had fractured and collapsed, the ice spirit’s control over the Forbidden Land of Ice had accordingly reached its lowest point.

“The Bloodthirsty Dragon is causing wanton destruction throughout the depths of the frozen lake and destroying the ice spirit’s icy barrier. Based on the current situation, the barrier that makes up the surface of the lake should completely break soon enough,” Du Xiangyang exclaimed, excitement growing on his face. “The Land of Buried Gods should lie directly below this frozen lake. Once the barrier has been broken, it should appear immediately.”

His words caused everyone to become excited as well, their eyes bright.

“We should rush to the frozen lake since our crisis has been temporarily resolved!” Luo Chen shouted, eyes aglow.

“Go!” everyone cried in unison.

Qin Lie and the others were currently in high spirits because the eastern barbarians had suffered heavy losses and Qin Lie had managed to rouse the Bloodthirsty Dragon and cause terrifying amounts of destruction.

They no longer considered the eastern barbarians a threat.

Chapter 532: The Remains of the Blood Progenitor

“Is it finally over?”

Down in the valley between two mountains, the eastern barbarians finally stopped panicking. Shocked expressions covered their faces as they realized how peaceful the world had become.

They had lost more than a hundred people in a short time.

Over half of their original force of over two hundred eastern barbarians had died to the ice storm of the Forbidden Land of Ice. The survivors surveyed the area, corpses of their fallen comrades littering the ground around them.

“What happened?” someone asked.

“Ice came from the frozen lake in the distance, smashed into an icy mountain, and caused an avalanche of boulders… we got caught in it.”

“Blood Fiend Sect’s ultimate treasure, the Bloodthirsty Dragon, charged into the frozen lake. The Demon Sealing Tombstone is floating above it right now!” Jiang Tianxing’s eyes flashed with excitement. “The lake is about to shatter, and the Land of Buried Gods will appear very soon! Get ready to move, everyone! Try to get inside of the frozen lake!”

He didn’t care about the lives of the eastern barbarians at all.

“Let’s go!” Jia Yue shouted. “To the frozen lake!”

She could feel a voice coming from the depths of the frozen lake, urging her to move as quickly as possible.

A strangely enchanting voice seemed to be communicating with her through her True Soul.

“Now is not the time to argue!” Sen Ye ordered in response. “The Land of Buried Gods has always been our true goal in the Graveyard of Gods! No matter how heavy our losses are, we must complete our mission!”

“Go!”

The eastern barbarians ignored the corpses of their tribesmen and moved forward.

“Look! Above the frozen lake! What is that?”

“The Demon Sealing Tombstone! That’s the Demon Sealing Tombstone!”

After a difficult journey, Ye Yihao, Huang Zhuli, Su Yan, Yu Men, and Feng Yiyou finally reached the top of another mountain.

They had arrived at a good time.

At this point in time, the ice spirit had just finished its frenzy and the Forbidden Land of Ice had finally become calm.

The five of them stared down at the frozen lake from the top of the mountain. Seeing the Demon Sealing Tombstone hovering high above the lake, they were all but certain about the location of the Land of Buried Gods and the ice spirit.

“This is it!” Ye Yihao became excited. “We’re finally headed in the right direction!”

“The frozen lake looks like it’s about to shatter.” Feng Yiyou’s gaze grew intense. “The Land of Buried Gods is probably going to be exposed soon!”

“Let’s get to the Land of Buried Gods at the fastest speed possible!” Yu Men shouted.

All five of them were in agreement. Keeping their shields of light up, they swallowed medicinal pills first so that they could get back into fighting condition.

At almost the same time, Qin Lie and the others charged down the peak toward the frozen lake, hoping to be the first to see the Land of Buried Gods.

“Crack crack crack!”

The thick layer of ice that made up the surface of the vast frozen lake continued to fracture and break apart.

Underneath the frozen lake, bloody lights attacked the ice from below, charging about like countless swords made of blood..

The Demon Sealing Tombstone floated high in the sky and continued to use its seven prismatic lights to assault the surface of the lake that protected the ice spirit.

It was trying to seal the ice spirit as fast as possible!

The ice spirit was hiding in the depths of the frozen lake. It was strong, intelligent, and already aware of the situation. It controlled the Forbidden Land of Ice and fought back desperately.

“Aaouuuuu!”

A grief laden howl echoed from deep within the frozen lake. The bloody bone dragon flew out from the gap in the surface of the lake and shot into the sky alongside bloody lights.

Having grown to nearly two times its original massive size, the bloody bone dragon writhed in the air, howling unhappily.

The small figure of a person seemed to be sitting atop its head.

Although the more specific features of that person’s appearance were indistinct, their body looked as if it were made of bloody jade. It shone with blinding bloody light like a sanguine jewel shaped like a person.

They didn’t give off any soul fluctuations, but their body emanated a dense aura of blood.

“The remains of the Blood Progenitor! The Bloodthirsty Dragon charged into the frozen lake to retrieve him!” Jiang Tianxing was the first to shout. “The Land of Buried Gods is definitely at the bottom of the frozen lake! There’s no doubt about it!””

“The remains of the Blood Progenitor!” Xue Moyan also shouted in shock. “Those are definitely his remains!”

Everyone could feel the bloody bone dragon’s intense sorrow. This Heaven Grade spirit artifact seemed to possess simple intelligence. Upon finding out that its creator, its first owner, had died long ago… it couldn’t help but grieve and howl angrily.

“Look!” Ye Yihao shouted. “That’s Blood Fiend Sect’s ultimate treasure! The Heaven Grade artifact, the Bloodthirsty Dragon!”

“Aaouuuuu!” The Bloodthirsty Dragon howled toward the horizon.

The bloody lights that surrounded it formed ancient glyphs that resembled dragons. Hundreds of thousands of those glyphs hurtled down toward the frozen lake.

“Boom boom boom!”

Earth-shaking explosions rang out from the ice below. The assault of the dragon-shaped glyphs completely shattered the thick layer of ice making up the frozen lake’s surface.

The moment the frozen lake shattered, the seven divine lights of the Demon Sealing Tombstone reached down like the hand of a giant.

The gazes of everyone remotely nearby focused on the frozen lake.

“Bang!”

The frozen lake shattered, and ice accompanied by streaming lights shot outward, carried toward the eastern barbarians like an astonishingly frigid wind.

The eastern barbarians cursed, wailing like ghouls as they scattered in every direction.

However, before many of them had the chance to flee, their blood stopped flowing. Under the influence of the extreme cold, they froze to death.

Eastern barbarians of all three tribes fled in three directions.

Thousands of icy lights headed directly for Jia Yue. The dozen of white barbarians by her side couldn’t do a thing before they were frozen into statues.

Even Gao Yu was no exception.