C1801 It Was Blocked!
Adler, Grec, and Yu Yuan were familiar faces, as were Mitts and Munch, known figures among the extraterrestrial Star-Spawned Terrors. They gazed upon Yu Yuan, who approached drenched in his own blood, his flesh torn open to reveal bone, and their eyes brimmed with respect.
Reid, draped in a pitch-black cloak, his demonform a testament to his mastery, exclaimed with a face etched in horror, "Without you diverting some of her power, the skywall of the Primal Blood Continent would have likely been shattered by now."
Within the entire Blood Fiend Clan, only two remained lucid, their gazes not yet dulled. The formidable Demon God Grec and the ancient Munch looked upon Yu Yuan with a mix of emotions. They felt a reverence akin to facing their creator, coupled with a sense of kinship.
Most of the Blood Fiend Clan, whether in the cities of the Primal Blood Continent or the remote mountains and wilderness, were now in a state of confused stupor. This was due to the Bloody River underground, its spiritual wisdom sealed by the ice force and subsequently devoured by Yu Yuan's Solar Spirit. The majority of Blood Fiends were impacted, struggling to maintain clarity and often feeling as though they were dead, lost in a profound dream.
Grec and Munch, being a level above the rest, experienced some disorientation in Yu Yuan's presence, but for the most part, they remained clear-headed.
"I..." Yu Yuan began, but the mere act of speaking caused his lips to twitch painfully, as if pulling on the wounds across his face and body. Upon introspection, he realized that without swift recovery, his real body would lack the strength for further battle. Even the simple act of wielding his sword would prove difficult.
His meridians, bones, and organs had been ravaged by the Dark Phoenix's demon energy. Aside from his Mindscape, there was scarcely an inch of him left unscathed.
"Just a moment," he uttered. As he spoke, the land, once encased in ice force, began to emit a faint blood mist. The wisps of red fog coalesced, drawn to his grievously wounded form, and swiftly vanished into him.
Grec and Munch exchanged a glance, their astonishment beyond words, nearly exclaiming aloud. The blood mist contained the power of their creator! In times of dire injury, they too relied on the rich vital energy for recovery. A Demon God like Grec could even use the blood crystal to harness this overwhelming vital energy for resurrection.
Now, they were unable to contact their Ancestral Founder, yet somehow, vital energy was seeping from the frozen earth, converging into Yu Yuan's body and aiding his recovery with astonishing speed.
What had actually transpired?
Grec and Munch had witnessed Yu Yuan's Solar Spirit descend, aware that it plummeted to the earth's depths due to the sharpness and magic of the Dragon Slaying Stage.
Yet, blinded by their worship of the creator, they assumed Yu Yuan was another Ann Ziqing!
Yu Yuan had immersed his Solar Spirit in the Bloody River, a legacy of their ancestor, seeking a shortcut to rapidly ascend to the rank of Demon God within the Blood Fiend, to confront the Dark Phoenix.
The Solar Meridian was their bloodline's wellspring and their deity, believed to be omnipotent and boundlessly magical in their hearts.
They were convinced that the emergence of the red moon in the distant Star River was a calculated move by the Solar Meridian, a contingency against the Dark Phoenix, with Yu Yuan as its weapon and ally.
Rooted in the depths of their hearts and souls was a rigid adherence to the Solar Meridian's legacy, leaving them neither the will nor the courage to question further.
They observed Yu Yuan, his form blurred by blood, as the thick blood mist infused his body, fortifying his bones and mending his severed sinews, which grew more robust and swiftly reconnected.
His organs resettled, and blood coursed through his veins like crimson arc light, the scabbing blood eventually fading away.
"Is he... the one the Patriarch always spoke of?"
Aside from High Priest Reid, another Demon God who had arrived later gazed at Yu Yuan in astonishment, remarking, "Even with the infusion of vast vital energy, a human's corporeal body shouldn't heal this quickly! This fellow is truly an anomaly!"
"Flekke, do you believe this individual before you can still be considered normal in the Everlands?" Reid's face twisted oddly, one of the few privy to Yu Yuan's true origins. "A human? Can a human's Solar Spirit Body so effortlessly manipulate vital energy from the underground Bloody River?"
Flekke remained silent.
Adler of the Primal Demon, Mitts of the inner demon, and the other ninth-level Demon Gods brought by Reid and Flekke all regarded Yu Yuan with complex gazes.
As Yu Yuan's body swiftly mended, his attention gradually turned towards the wall.
Looking inward from the outside, the vista of the Star River was strikingly clear.
An immense purple phoenix stood regally in a palace amidst the Star River, surrounded by a throng of alien beasts and archdemons.
Among them were the Untamed, the Moonfang Tiger, Green Willow, and Yu Zhu, all in human form.
Ji Ningshuang's Divine Transcendence, brimming with ice energy, radiated a chilling and deadly presence. The Cosmic Order of the Way of Frost, like serpentine ribbons of ice crystal, entwined around her waist.
It seemed as though each of the most potent ice energy rules could, at any moment, unleash an extraordinary assault.
The grand phoenix had come to a halt, its elegant neck pulsing with increasingly dense purple demon energy.
This signified that the clone, which had been engaged in battle on the other side of the Star River, had now returned its demon energy.
Through the boundless view afforded by the Dragon Slaying Stage, Yu Yuan saw the supreme Dark Phoenix on the purple Divine Throne fade from solid to ethereal.
Thirty percent of the demon energy was dissipating.
Swoosh! Swoosh!
Suddenly, within the meridians of the Solar Spirit seated in the vast Bloody River, a wealth of memories and knowledge sparked to life like a constellation of stars.
They pertained to the wall of the Primal Blood Continent!
The details of how hundreds of blood traces would operate under external attack, how incoming energy would be redirected, how fractured blood traces would mend, and how the vital energy of beings could be harnessed...
The myriad rules governing the blood-colored wall and the manipulation of the arcane blood traces became luminously clear.
As the Solar Spirit gained insight, Yu Yuan's real body also came to know all the arcane secrets.
"I have an even better idea!"
In the astonished presence of Reid, Flekke, and the Sky Fiend, Yu Yuan grasped the Dragon Slaying Stage and soared skyward. Both he and the luminescent stage emerged amidst the crimson canopy of the Primal Blood Continent.
The outer layer of ice rock-like ice energy was incredibly forgiving and nurturing, offering no resistance.
This was because he had already earned the dual trust of Ji Ningshuang and the extreme cold.
Whoosh!
Standing against the backdrop of the scarlet wall, Yu Yuan felt as though he was in a different blood-colored Otherworld. Without needing to rely on sight, he could sense the distinct and concealed clusters of blood trace arrays within this sanguine realm.
The process of weakening vital energy, transferring impact, diverting external forces, and harnessing the arcane power of the Otherkin to fortify the formation...
These intricate and enigmatic blood patterns materialized one after another in his mind, coalescing into an immense, three-dimensional tapestry of Divine Blood Patterns that enshrouded the entire Primal Blood Continent!
It was as if the continent were dotted with lakes of blood, nestled within the celestial wall, hidden from view.
He had become the true master of it all.
"Perhaps, I could erect a similar celestial wall around the outer layer of Tyria. While it may not possess the varied complexities of the Everlands, its splendor is undeniable. Adding the Dragon Slaying Stage and inscribing the cosmic order devoid of vital energy and the Secrets of Life would make it perfect."
At that moment, Yu Yuan's thoughts were abuzz with plans to transfer the hidden marvels of the celestial wall that safeguarded the Primal Blood Continent to the future Tyria.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Suddenly, nearly a hundred robust totem-poles cascaded from the Dark Phoenix's outstretched wings.
These totem-poles, more numerous and sturdier than the previous thirty-six of the evilkind, harbored the arcane bloodline mysteries of not only the ancient evilkind from the Everlands but also the alien beasts and cosmic giant beasts from beyond the stars.
It was only after the return of thirty percent of her power to her other clone that she regained her complete form.
In her complete form, she was revered as the preeminent being in the cosmos following the departure of the Great Demon God Bertain.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Immense glaciers emerged from the crystalline wall, resembling the world-ending swords wielded by Ji Ningshuang, their internal cosmic order visible to the naked eye.
At that moment, any alien beast attuned to ice energy, any archdemon, or individuals like Lin Zhuyun, upon closely observing the icebergs and the sparkling crystals within, could awaken to one or several aspects of the frigid Heavenly Dao.
Many eighth-level archdemons and extraterrestrial alien beasts had become chilled to the bone from gazing too long at the glaciers. Their thoughts, infiltrated by the biting cold, grew sluggish and rigid, their blood ceasing to flow. Some archdemons and alien beasts, who had thrived on fire crystals from the extraterrestrial realm, found their eyes cracked from the cold, wailing as they retreated, their crystalline fur shattering into sparkling dust.
Ji Ningshuang, wielding her formidable ice force, shaped the cosmic order of frost with towering icebergs, affecting even those who merely observed. Yet, when nearly a hundred totem poles, as massive as towering columns, crashed down upon the icebergs, the resplendent ice within burst into fragments in an instant. Boom! The icebergs, like a child's block castle, were obliterated in moments by the relentless assault of the dire beasts.
The totem poles of the evilkind shone with a brilliance that compelled all to kneel, reminiscent of the pillars that propped up the heavens and earth from the primordial chaos. Intricate and lively demonic patterns seemed to instruct beings on harnessing their own powers. Accompanied by the whispers of deities, the bellows of ancient behemoths, and the cries of ethereal spirits, the totem poles thundered down.
The ice rocks on the outer layer of the wall began to burst on a grand scale as the totem poles descended. Chunks of ice, transformed into beams of sword light and ice energy, or even into stars housing divine consciousness, sought to strike the chest of the expansive phoenix in flight. Yet, with a gentle sweep of her other wing, she scattered them into a shower of radiant light.
Suddenly, clouds of blood-red mist coalesced from the ice rock, materializing where the totem poles had fallen and miraculously keeping them afloat. None could breach the outer ice and penetrate the protective wall of the Primal Blood Continent. The Dark Phoenix's mightiest blow was thwarted by Ji Ningshuang's chilling power and the blood-colored canopy summoned by Yu Yuan.
