Chapter 737 - 733: A Torrent of Blood

Chapter 737: Chapter 733: A Torrent of Blood

"Our Blood Demon Sect’s Soul Nurturing with Blood technique is derived from an ancient Secret Skill. Don’t put up a pointless struggle."

Seeing Lin Hao’s actions, the middle-aged man spoke with a grin.

He couldn’t contain his smile at the thought of soon obtaining a perfect blood skeleton.

Lin Hao activated the Blood Shifting Skill. The natural energy in the area frantically surged into his body, transforming into endless blood essence.

But this blood essence was a mere drop in the bucket compared to the devouring blood the two-winged blood skeleton had released into his body.

The blood essence inside Lin Hao was devoured the moment it was formed.

As time went on, the natural energy Lin Hao absorbed didn’t even have time to transform into blood essence before it was directly consumed by the devouring blood.

Lin Hao’s previously swollen body had already shrunk back to its original size.

By now, the rate at which his body was shrinking had slowed, but his face grew ever paler.

The devouring blood had consumed almost all of Lin Hao’s blood essence and was about to start on his internal organs and muscles.

Once his organs and muscles were consumed, Lin Hao’s body would begin to rot.

However, Lin Hao’s body was astonishingly tough. His organs and meridians had long reached a state where they could melt gold and smelt iron, and for a moment, the devouring blood was actually unable to consume them.

Still, the blood essence within his organs and muscles was being consumed.

Lin Hao’s body was no longer shrinking, but it began to shrivel.

The devouring blood consumed at an unimaginable rate, and Lin Hao’s body shriveled with frightening speed.

The grin on the middle-aged man’s face stretched ever wider.

Just then, two sprays of blood burst open behind him, one after the other.

Immediately after, the Divine Souls of Xu Zihao and Bai Yu shot through the air.

Their target was the middle-aged man.

Lin Hao’s body was almost completely enveloped by the two-winged blood skeleton, so they dared not attack it.

The middle-aged man did not move.

BOOM!

The sound of a terrifying collision echoed from behind him.

Xu Zihao and Bai Yu’s Divine Souls were completely unable to break through.

A bloody aura had been continuously seeping from the ground in this area. It had now grown so dense that it formed a barrier, blocking the attacks of Spirit Transformation Realm Martial Artists from the outside.

"You’re overestimating yourselves! Forget your current cultivation level—even if you reached the Spirit Transformation Realm Peak, you still couldn’t shake this barrier." The middle-aged man didn’t turn around, his face a mask of arrogance.

But in the next instant, his expression changed.

Whirling around, the middle-aged man saw a blood-red palm press against the barrier.

In a single instant, the barrier was pierced through.

Then, a divine ray of light shot inside.

The middle-aged man ducked to evade it.

PSH!

But in the next moment, his entire body was sent flying.

Xu Zihao and Bai Yu charged in, one after the other, and launched a merciless assault.

The middle-aged man couldn’t even dodge, a testament to their incredible speed.

With Lin Hao’s life on the line, they moved with speed they didn’t know they possessed.

Having seized the initiative, Xu Zihao and Bai Yu were relentless.

The two struck, the power of their martial domains locking down the space around them as they slammed their palms toward the middle-aged man.

The middle-aged man dodged sideways, but in the next instant, he was beheaded.

A flash of divine light cut through the air, severing his head from his neck.

But at that very moment, several rays of light shot from the eyes of the severed head and into the body of the two-winged blood skeleton.

The eerie glow in the severed head’s eyes faded, returning to normal.

One could see its eyes staring in Lin Hao’s direction, a smile spreading across its features.

Then, the head exploded.

The middle-aged man’s body likewise exploded, and all the endless blood was absorbed by the two-winged blood skeleton.

Xu Zihao and Bai Yu’s expressions changed drastically.

The man was dead, but his Divine Soul was not extinguished—a fact that was both eerie and terrifying.

Neither of them could understand why.

But the situation on the ground left them no time for contemplation.

They took a step forward, about to strike.

"Don’t!"

Lin Hao, his body already shriveled beyond human recognition, spat out a single word to stop them.

The two-winged blood skeleton’s body was now composed entirely of the devouring blood. If a Martial Artist so much as touched it, their blood, muscles, and everything else would be consumed.

Though Lin Hao had only uttered one word, Xu Zihao and Bai Yu understood him instantly.

Immediately, Xu Zihao and Bai Yu formed swords from their True Essence and slashed directly at the two-winged blood skeleton’s body.

The True Essence Swords met no resistance, yet the two-winged blood skeleton’s body was completely unharmed.

Their expressions changed.

Xu Zihao pulled a Divine Soldier from his storage ring. With a single swing, a startling gleam of light shot through the air, slashing toward the two-winged blood skeleton.

This time, the result was even more horrifying.

Before the beam of light even reached the two-winged blood skeleton, it vanished into nothing, and the Divine Soldier in Xu Zihao’s hand dissolved into thin air.

If Xu Zihao hadn’t let go quickly, he himself would have been harmed.

"I feel a devouring power! If we attack it head-on, our own vital energy will be consumed!"

Xu Zihao said, his voice filled with horror that quickly gave way to dejection.

He realized he could only watch, helpless, as Lin Hao’s body grew more and more shriveled.

"Fell the tree!"

Bai Yu shouted and lopped off a section of a towering tree.

The tree trunk, so thick it would take several people to encircle it, descended from the sky, aiming to smash the two-winged blood skeleton to a pulp.

But before the massive trunk even reached the two-winged blood skeleton, it silently disintegrated into dust!

"Move the mountain!"

Seeing Bai Yu’s move, Xu Zihao also yelled, and he cleaved off an entire mountain peak.

The majestic peak descended like a giant meteorite from the heavens, about to grind the two-winged blood skeleton into paste.

The result was the same.

The mountain peak also disintegrated into dust.

Lin Hao’s face was as white as a sheet, completely devoid of color.

His blood essence was about to be completely drained.

"There’s a way! There has to be a way!"

Xu Zihao was like a cat on a hot tin roof, yet he couldn’t think of a single solution.

Bai Yu was calmer, but his eyes betrayed his own bitter frustration.

Hearing Xu Zihao’s frantic words, Bai Yu said, "We can’t do it, but Big Brother must have a way of his own."

At this point, it was the only way he could comfort Xu Zihao.

A spark of hope lit up in Xu Zihao’s eyes, only to be extinguished a moment later.

’If Lin Hao still had his cultivation base, maybe, but it’s completely gone. How could he possibly have a way out of this?’

The last glimmer of hope in his eyes died when he saw Lin Hao close his own.

But Xu Zihao was wrong. Lin Hao had not resigned himself to his fate.

Lin Hao closed his eyes and activated the Blood Shifting Skill once more.

This time, however, Lin Hao was not absorbing natural energy.

Instead, he was guiding the devouring blood inside him to surge through his body at an accelerated pace.

The target of this surge was his Dantian.

That was the location of the Creation Jade Butterfly.

Until now, Lin Hao had been calm, certain that the devouring blood’s endless consumption of his blood essence would eventually awaken the Creation Jade Butterfly.

But the devouring blood seemed to have a life of its own. Aware of the terror that resided in Lin Hao’s Dantian, it had avoided going anywhere near it.

The Creation Jade Butterfly had not awakened.

What Lin Hao needed to do now was force it to awaken.

The blood surged with terrifying momentum.

Even Xu Zihao and Bai Yu could hear a terrifying roar emanating from within Lin Hao’s body.

It was like a flash flood erupting.

Lin Hao’s move was utterly insane. As he activated the Blood Shifting Skill, the devouring blood inside him became a raging torrent that he directed straight toward the Creation Jade Butterfly.

Inside Lin Hao’s body, the devouring blood completely submerged his Dantian.

But the Creation Jade Butterfly remained motionless.