Chapter 991 - 435: Ecological Expansion

"Is this what you call an ecosystem..."

Chu Xiu gazed at the dark red land, his eyes suddenly flashing.

He saw countless tiny tendrils, smaller than bean sprouts and as soft as seedlings, growing from the blood-drenched soil. These tendrils touched the shattered remains of the Blood Demon Servants and opened like petals, from which numerous fine threads emerged!

These threads adhered to the flesh, making the tendrils even brighter red as the Life Energy from the shattered corpses was rapidly absorbed into the ground!

"The core of a Blood Demon lies in its abundant Life Energy; its external form is rather unimportant."

"If this soil can recycle Life Energy from dead Blood Demon Servant corpses, it might be able to continuously generate new Blood Demons using this Life Energy..."

"If it can’t create brand-new Blood Demons, it can still provide a powerful Life Recovery buff to subsequent attacking forces."

Chu Xiu made a rapid judgment.

In previous Ancient Trials against the Blood Demon Army, the enemy directly summoned the Sea of Blood from afar to create an ecosystem.

Within the Sea of Blood, all soldiers of the Blood Demon Army received significant Power boosts, allowing them to break through the defenses set by the Titan Giant Mechanism and advance all the way to the camp gates.

Yet, this still can’t be considered an ecosystem!

"At that time, the Blood Demons opened hundreds of underground channels to summon the Sea of Blood. However, the Sea of Blood brought in through these methods was insufficient in the short term, not nearly enough to transform an ecosystem; it at most altered the environment."

"If a true ecosystem could be created to continuously recycle Life Energy, similar to a Sea of Blood..."

Chu Xiu’s brow furrowed slightly, much like the water cycle on Blue Star: no matter how water is used, whether consumed or flushed down the toilet, whether absorbed and broken down by the body or casually wasted, as long as there’s a stable core energy cycle structure, water resources remain unchanged.

The same principle applies to Life Energy. If it can be recycled without loss, then no matter how many Blood Demon Servants are killed, their Life Energy can reappear. Even tenfold Titan Giant Mechanism firepower wouldn’t suffice!

However...

"Is an ecosystem that easy to create?" Chu Xiu wondered.

Zhao Jie responded, "Of course, it isn’t that easy, which is why they’re sacrificing lives!"

Despite the Titan Giant Mechanism’s firepower, the Blood Demon Army’s attack not only didn’t halt but intensified, with countless Blood Demons charging across the mountains, seemingly aimless, their sole mission being penetrating the defenses as much as possible and spreading their blood everywhere!

"According to our collected intelligence, this is an ability possessed only by Blood Demons above Heroic Spirit level, known as ’Blood Sea Ecosystem.’"

"You should know that in the Corpse Demon World, there exists ’Blood Energy,’ which you have previously unlocked for your civilization and shared with us."

"The root of this ’Blood Energy’ comes from the Blood Pool. After the Blood Moon Ceremony, the ’Blood Energy’ in this world has greatly increased."

"The ’Blood Sea Ecosystem’ is an Ability that converts ’Blood Energy’ into ’Blood Demon Life Force.’ Once the ecosystem forms, it is not merely about recycling Life Energy from Blood Demon corpses; it can mobilize the entire area’s ’Blood Energy’ to support the Blood Demon Army." Zhao Jie explained.

This made Chu Xiu secretly amazed, realizing he had underestimated these creatures somewhat.

Blood Demons are not only high-tier individually; crucially, they originate from the Blood Pool, akin to this world’s energy source. Their Life perfectly adapts to this world’s environment, akin to great sharks in the ocean, representing a complete home-field battle situation.

This complicates matters; although Chu Xiu can easily kill large numbers of Blood Demons, he is powerless against this so-called ecosystem. He doesn’t even understand the principle behind its creation, how can he counter it? Is he supposed to upend the entire ground?

Moreover, most importantly, Chu Xiu cannot leave easily now.

Though the distant Blood Demon Army is overwhelming, all five powerful Demigod Blood Demons are keeping their presence hidden.

This is not for a stealth attack, because with Chu Xiu controlling the Civilization Domain, any stealth attempt is futile. Regardless of how powerful their Divine Techniques are, they can’t escape the Detection of the Civilization Domain unless they have Divine Level support.

These Blood Demons hide outside the Civilization Domain purely to constrain Chu Xiu’s strong forces, because if Chu Xiu moves, they can launch a direct assault from the opposite direction. Not to mention anything else, just delivering one long-range strike to the Titan Giant Mechanism from tens of kilometers away, with their at least Strong Demigod power, could cause significant damage.

Frowning, Chu Xiu turned to Zhao Jie: "Since the government has analyzed this Ability, I assume it has prepared the countermeasures as well?"

He suddenly thought that Zhao Jie not only understood the ecosystem thoroughly but also analyzed Blood Demons’ Divine Techniques clearly. Given the government’s modus operandi, it must have preemptively devised strategies accordingly.

He knew the government prepared thousands of plans for this decisive battle, simulating various potential scenarios. These plans concentrated humanity’s top-tier wisdom, which Chu Xiu had seen briefly before but didn’t spend time detailing.

Sure enough, Zhao Jie confidently smiled: "Just wait and see, the time hasn’t come yet."