Chapter 133 - 110: Blood of the Royal Family

Chapter 133: Chapter 110: Blood of the Royal Family

BOOM!

It was a giant, eyeless worm that lunged suddenly from the fog. Lu Changyuan reacted in a flash, stabbing at the worm’s abdomen with Broken Thought. The worm was incredibly fast. The gash from Broken Thought instantly widened, and a foul-smelling, corrosive green slime dripped out. A drop or two landed on the back of Lu Changyuan’s hand.

TSSSSS.

The acidic slime corroded his flesh, but Lu Changyuan shook it off without a change in expression as a sharp Sword Qi rose from him once more.

But to Lu Changyuan’s confusion, both the blood cloud and the worm were now frozen in place, completely motionless.

’What’s going on?’

’Did it just stop halfway through the fight?’

[They are surprised that you haven’t disappeared yet.]

’Am I supposed to disappear?’

Lu Changyuan found it strange.

Because he had no idea what the Blood Demon was, Lu Changyuan was naturally unaware that it was the bane of the Royal Family’s Lifebound Spirits.

The Blood Demon, created from the combined power of the entire Blood Race, could sever the connection of a contract.

A Lifebound Spirit summoned by the Royal Family was, in essence, a new life transformed from the Royal’s own blood, naturally bound by a Blood Contract.

If the Blood Demon so much as touched a single drop of a Lifebound Spirit’s blood, it could instantly destroy this contract. Once the Blood Contract was broken, the Lifebound Spirit would vanish in a flash, and the member of the Royal Family would suffer a backlash. This was why Red Venerable and Blue Venerable sought out the Blood Demon to deal with the Nether Monarch.

Lu Changyuan hadn’t disappeared because he was not a new life created from the Nether Monarch’s blood. Instead, the Nether Monarch had used their connection to forcibly pull him here.

He was not a Spirit but a physical entity. The Nether Monarch had not placed a Blood Contract on him, merely using a symbol called "Yu" to strengthen their connection.

Naturally, the Blood Demon couldn’t affect him.

The blood worm quickly came to its senses and lunged at Lu Changyuan once again.

Pure Yang!

A sword strike as scorching as the sun descended majestically, wiping out the blood-men and the worm.

"What in the world is this?"

Lu Changyuan frowned, picking up a blood worm that had fallen to the ground. He activated the Five Desires and Six Dust Heart Transformation Technique, and the worm was instantly drained into a shriveled husk.

"My Spell is advancing?!"

Lu Changyuan’s recent action could be understood as him having "eaten" the worm—that is, a part of the Blood Demon.

And the result was that his Five Desires and Six Dust Heart Transformation Technique showed a small, yet tangible, improvement.

This Spell, born from the Supreme Pure Spirit Forget Immortal Technique and the Desire Demon Half-Body, was something that even its creator, Lu Changyuan, wasn’t sure how to advance.

He never expected that by stumbling upon and consuming a part of the Blood Demon, he would actually find a path forward.

Lu Changyuan narrowed his eyes.

’If I devour the entire Blood Demon, can I break through to the Fifth Realm?’

For now, he suppressed this dangerous thought.

Lu Changyuan heard a disdainful shout from the distance: "Netherworld, did you really think Blue and I would die so easily?"

The young woman stood in mid-air, her immortal bearing transcendent, and said coolly, "I don’t care. If you didn’t die, you’ll just come back to die again."

The Sun and Moon Gnomon reappeared.

Red Venerable and Blue Venerable charged forward.

Soon, the two Venerables were heard shouting furiously, "How is that possible?! Why are you unaffected?!"

Lu Changyuan folded his arms and watched the show from the World Tree.

The two Venerables had planned to use the Blood Demon to make the Nether Monarch suffer a backlash, then seize the opportunity to kill her.

But the Nether Monarch was unaffected, and now they had walked right into a trap.

"What are you... waiting for?" The young woman’s lips curved into a smile. "Are you waiting to die?"

While Blue Venerable and Red Venerable wore looks of utter disbelief, the Nether Monarch silently appeared behind them and crushed their heads.

BANG!

Blood and gore flew everywhere.

Red Venerable said in disbelief, "Why are you unaffected?"

The Nether Monarch leaned forward and kicked, stomping both of them down into the ground.

She seemed to enjoy this method of fighting—flesh-on-flesh combat, beating her enemies to death.

Red Venerable’s form was illusory as he roared, "Are you going to do something or not? You still haven’t killed her Lifebound Spirit? Don’t you want the Royal Blood anymore?"

The Nether Monarch and Lu Changyuan both turned to look at the black-robed Blood Demon that was coalescing in the shadows.

’Barely at the Sixth Realm?’

’You’re coming after the Nether Monarch at the Sixth Realm? Aren’t you afraid she’ll kick you around like a ball?’

The Blood Demon slowly writhed forward, its hoarse screech sounding like some kind of curse that filled one with disgust.

An inexplicable chill ran through the Nether Monarch’s heart.

The great fog dissipated.

A grand realm constructed of blood quickly filled the surroundings. A surging river of blood rushed forth, following the Blood Demon’s hoarse cry.

And from that river of blood, figures began to slowly rise, one after another.

The Nether Monarch’s pupils suddenly shrank to pinpricks.

Those figures were members of the Royal Family—the deceased Royal Family. They were her closest kin.

"Red! Blue! You actually allowed it to devour our kinsmen!?"

A sword materialized in the Nether Monarch’s hand and then fell abruptly. The gray-black Sword Qi seemed poised to slice Red Venerable and Blue Venerable in two at the waist.

But the sword light was intercepted in mid-air.

An extremely bad premonition arose in the Nether Monarch’s heart.

The Nether Monarch was unusually sensitive to death. At this moment, she sensed death, and it was her own.

The river of blood gradually spread, sweeping the Spirit Race below into its current. The ordinary members of the Spirit Race struggled and cried out before finally sinking into the bloody river to their deaths. ℯℯ𝑙.

BANG!

The Nether Monarch heard a sound.

She looked down.

Her body was breaking apart.

’Why?’

With no time to think, she flashed in front of Lu Changyuan. "Go!"

BANG!

Her body suddenly exploded in a brilliant curtain of blood. The Royal Blood was now turning against its own master.

Lu Changyuan reacted in a flash.

Activating the Five Desires and Six Dust Heart Transformation Technique, he placed a hand on the Nether Monarch’s shoulder.

"Don’t move. I’ll stabilize your injuries and calm your blood."

Blood trickled from the corner of the young woman’s mouth, running down her cheek.

She used all her strength to raise her sword, slashing through the Netherworld and space itself. The sword gleam, filled with the Nether Monarch’s Magic and surging like the Nether River breaking its banks, chopped the Blood Demon, Red Venerable, and Blue Venerable into pieces.

Even in her weakened state, the strike was terrifyingly powerful.

But this couldn’t kill the Blood Demon. The maggots that had been shattered by the sword light began to reconverge and writhe, soon about to form a new Blood Demon.

Lu Changyuan suddenly realized something.

’What if the Blood Demon’s ability is to control blood and destroy connections? And what if, having already devoured all the members of the Royal Family except for the Nether Monarch, it is now using their blood to curse her in reverse, causing her own Royal Blood to boil and even attack its master?’

Using the last of her strength, the young woman said, "Go to Long Mountain."

Red Venerable and Blue Venerable had never expected the Blood Demon to possess such an ability. They had only thought the Blood Demon was joking when it said it would kill the Nether Monarch.

Bearing the blood of the Royal Family, the Nether Monarch was the final piece of the puzzle for the Blood Demon’s technique to be complete. If it couldn’t devour her, then even if it gained the title of Venerable, the Blood Demon’s Dao would be incomplete.