svetikya Chapter 16: Living Body Alchemy!
Chapter 16: Living Body Alchemy!
In the scene, with a flash of light, Xue Beng, the fourth prince of the Heaven Dou Empire, appeared out of thin air in a magnificent room.
The room was decorated very elegantly.
The floor was covered with a soft carpet of monster fur, and jade lamps that emitted a soft glow hung on the surrounding walls.
A faint scent of incense lingered in the air.
The most striking feature is a huge white jade pool in the center of the room.
The pool was filled with a dark red liquid, and wisps of steam were rising from it.
The avalanche was momentarily stunned by its surroundings as soon as it hit the ground.
He looked around and found that he hadn't appeared in the desolate mountains like the others had, nor had he encountered any terrifying monsters.
It felt more like stepping into the private bath of a nobleman.
"Hahaha!"
After a brief moment of surprise, Avalanche couldn't help but burst into triumphant laughter.
"It seems my luck is indeed the best!"
He straightened his magnificent brocade robe, a symbol of royal status, his face radiating an air of unparalleled pride.
He had also seen the scene of Shi Nian being instantly killed by the Poisonous Dragon.
But he wasn't afraid at all. On the contrary, he felt that Shi Nian was just unlucky to have gone to that chaotic star sea.
He, Xue Beng, was a prince of the Heavenly Dou Empire, possessing royal destiny.
How could God allow him to suffer like that?
"It seems this must be the estate of some wealthy person in the human realm."
Avalanche walked to the white jade pool, smelled the faint fragrance of incense, and then nodded with great satisfaction.
"The water looks reddish; it's probably used for bathing with some precious medicinal herbs."
"People in the cultivation world certainly know how to enjoy life."
As Avalanche spoke, he reached out to test the temperature of the dark red liquid.
……
Meanwhile, outside the sky...
Inside the imperial palace of the Heaven Dou Empire.
When Emperor Xueye saw the location of the avalanche, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"It seems Avalanche was lucky; it teleported to a relatively safe place."
Gradually, a hint of anticipation flashed in Emperor Xueye's cloudy eyes.
As long as it's safe, that's fine.
As long as he survives in this world, as the prince of Avalanche, he can easily befriend a few local cultivators and perhaps obtain the secret technique for possession or the longevity pills he has been dreaming of.
Seeing this, the surrounding ministers also began to flatter him.
"His Highness the Fourth Prince is blessed with immense fortune; he will surely overcome all dangers in the cultivation world and bring back unparalleled opportunities for the empire!"
"Indeed, His Majesty will then surely achieve immortality!"
"Congratulations, Your Majesty! Congratulations!"
……
However, just when the emperor and his ministers of the Heavenly Dou Empire thought that Avalanche was incredibly lucky.
In the avalanche scene, the fingers also touched the dark red liquid.
In an instant, a bone-chilling coldness spread from his fingertips throughout his entire body!
"hiss!"
Xue Beng gasped and abruptly pulled his hand back.
Then, he looked down again.
This is definitely not some kind of bath medicine!
What's in this white jade pool is clearly incredibly viscous blood!
Moreover, as he stirred the water with his fingers, the blood in the pool seemed to churn.
The next second, a pale skull with messy hair floated up from the bottom of the blood, its empty eye sockets staring directly at Avalanche's face!
"what!"
The avalanche startled him so much that his legs went weak and he collapsed to the ground.
The pale skull bobbed up and down in the blood, its empty eye sockets seeming to watch the avalanche that had collapsed to the ground.
"What...what kind of place is this?!"
The sound of the avalanche was laced with sobs as they scrambled backward on all fours.
He had initially thought the dark red liquid was some kind of precious medicinal bath.
Only now can I see clearly that the thick consistency and the pungent smell are clearly a whole pool of human blood!
Moreover, judging from the size of that pool, one wonders how many people would have to be killed to fill it up.
Off-screen, the Heavenly Dou Empire's imperial palace.
The atmosphere inside the hall instantly plummeted to freezing point.
The ministers who had been flattering him all fell silent, their faces turning pale.
Emperor Xueye felt a surge of blood and qi in his chest, and almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
He was just fantasizing that Avalanche could make friends with a master in this manor and bring back an elixir of immortality.
But who would have thought that this was not some blessed land of immortals, but a den of demons that devours people without spitting out their bones!
"This...this is heretical cultivation!"
In a corner of the main hall, Poison Douluo Dugu Bo spoke with a frown.
He also uses drugs regularly, and his methods of killing are undeniably ruthless.
But seeing the pool full of blood and skeletons made him feel nauseous.
"Your Majesty, the Fourth Prince is likely in grave danger this time."
Dugu Bo sighed.
Emperor Xueye gripped the armrests of the dragon throne tightly with both hands, the veins on the back of his hands bulging.
He knew, of course, that the odds were against him.
But that was his own son, and he could only sit here, watching helplessly through a barrier of light.
……
The Spirit Hall, the Papal Palace.
Bibi Dong looked at the blood pool in the light screen, a hint of disgust flashing in her eyes.
"Use the blood of mortals to aid in cultivation."
"How are they any different from those people in the Killing City?"
Yue Guan pinched his chin, carefully examining the layout around the blood pool.
"Your Holiness the Pope, the difference is significant."
Yue Guan pointed to the faintly glowing red patterns at the edge of the blood pool.
"The people of the Killing City mostly drink human blood; their methods are extremely crude."
"But look at the people in the cultivation world."
"He specially built such a huge jade pool and also carved intricate formations around it."
What does this mean?
Yue Guan swallowed, his voice low and deep.
"This shows that the practice of cultivating with human blood had already formed a complete and mature system in that world."
"They have specialized techniques, specialized formations, and even specialized equipment for refining blood."
Upon hearing Yue Guan's analysis, the high-ranking officials in the main hall all felt a chill run down their spines.
Drinking human blood is not something that people in the Douluo Continent can easily accept.
However, in the world of cultivation, such cruel and inhumane methods seem to be just a common way to improve one's strength.
At this moment, the ghost also emerged from the shadows, its voice hoarse as it said:
"Yue Guan is right. They don't treat mortals as their own kind at all; they only see them as raw materials."
"The previous Elder Wu tricked people into possessing bodies, and this one is directly using blood to build a pool."
"This cultivation world is truly a dog-eat-dog world."
……
On the other side, Shrek Academy.
Tang San looked at the light screen, his brows furrowed into a knot.
In his previous life, he was in the Tang Clan and had hundreds of methods for killing people.
But this was the first time he had ever seen murder treated as a way of collecting materials, done so openly and systematically.
"Is this the dark side of the cultivation world?"
Tang San secretly made plans in his mind.
Elder Wu was using the guise of taking on disciples to actually possess someone's body.
And now, this place is simply using human lives to fill the blood pool.
"Fatty, do you still want to go to the cultivation world to seize opportunities?"
Dai Mubai turned his head and glanced at Ma Hongjun.
Ma Hongjun shook his head vigorously, like a rattle drum.
"I'm not going, I'm not going, I'd rather die than go."
"This place is too eerie. I'm afraid if I go there, even my fat will be boiled into oil and burned as a sky lantern."
Yu Xiaogang stood in front, without saying a word.
He discovered that his theory was completely untenable in the world of cultivation, so he simply chose to keep quiet.
……
In the footage from that time, the avalanche was still retreating on the ground.
Just then, a wall at the far end of the room suddenly split open from the middle.
A gust of cold wind blew by, and a young man dressed in a blood-red robe with a face as pale as paper emerged from the hidden door.
The young man was holding a black jade bottle in his hand, as if he had just finished refining something.
As soon as he stepped out, he saw the avalanche sitting on the ground.
The young man in the blood-red robe was taken aback for a moment, then frowned slightly.
"No spiritual energy fluctuations, just a mortal?"
The young man looked around at the walls with some confusion.
"This Blood Spirit Array was personally set up by the Ancestor. Even Foundation Establishment cultivators can't get in. How did you, a mere mortal, manage to break in?"
Hearing the young man's words, Xue Beng grasped at a straw as if it were a lifeline.
He quickly got up from the ground, dusted himself off, and forced himself to adopt the airs of a prince.
"I...I don't care where I am!"
"I am Xue Beng, the fourth prince of the Heaven Dou Empire!"
"If you dare to lay a finger on me, my father will raze this entire manor to the ground!"
The avalanche roared loudly, and at the same time, three spirit rings, two yellow and one purple, rose up from beneath its feet.
The phantom of a white swan appeared behind him.
The release of his level 35 Soul Master's soul power seemed to give him some confidence.
Upon seeing this scene, the ministers of the Heavenly Dou Empire couldn't help but cover their faces.
"idiot!"
Emperor Xueye was so angry that he slapped the armrest.
When faced with such a ruthless and evil cultivator, instead of begging for mercy or trying to escape, you actually dare to act like a prince?
And they even brought up the empire to threaten others?
As expected, the blood-robed youth looked at the spirit ring at Xue Beng's feet without showing any fear; on the contrary, he seemed somewhat interested.
"That's interesting."
"This energy is neither spiritual energy nor the internal strength of a martial artist."
"And the illusory flying creatures you summoned are actually attached directly to your soul?"
The young man in the blood-red robe stroked his chin, as if examining a rare item.
"Perfect."
"The Blood Spirit Pill that the Ancestor instructed me to refine is still missing one main ingredient."
"I was originally worried about where to find a few strong men who had practiced martial arts, but since you, a mere mortal, have delivered yourself to my door, and have this strange energy in your body."
"It should be even more effective if used in medicine."
After saying that, the blood-robed youth raised his right hand and grabbed at the avalanche in mid-air.
……
"Whoosh!"
In an instant, a blood-red claw shadow appeared out of thin air, instantly traversing a distance of more than ten meters, and directly gripped Xue Beng's neck.
The sound of the avalanche stopped abruptly.
He was as if he had been clamped in an iron clamp, his feet lifted off the ground and forcibly raised into the air.
No matter how he slapped at the blood-red claw shadow, or even attacked it with his third soul skill, it was all in vain.
That little bit of Soul Venerable-level attack power is nothing more than a tickle to the Foundation Establishment cultivator's condensed mana.
"Let...let me go..."
Avalanche's face was flushed red, and his legs were kicking wildly in the air.
However, the blood-robed youth didn't even glance at him, simply flicking his hand away.
"Thump!"
Avalanche was thrown directly into the white jade pool filled with blood and skulls.
In an instant, dark red blood covered his head.
The pungent smell of blood choked him, causing him to struggle and thrash violently in the bloody water.
The skulls floating in the water, their empty eye sockets facing his face, seemed to be mocking him.
"Help, gurgle gurgle..."
Just as Avalanche was about to cry for help, blood poured into his mouth.
The young man in the blood-red robe walked to the edge of the pool and began to rapidly form hand seals.
One after another, red magic spells were cast into the array surrounding the pool.
In an instant, the blood in the entire pool seemed to boil, violently churning and bubbling.
Soon, streams of pure blood energy were extracted from the pool water and gathered in mid-air into a fist-sized blood-red sphere.
Meanwhile, the avalanche in the center of the blood pool is experiencing unimaginable torment.
Through the sky, everyone in Douluo Continent could see it clearly.
The avalanche's skin began to fester extensively after coming into contact with the boiling blood.
His soul power not only failed to defend itself, but instead became nourishment for the blood pool.
Following those festering wounds, it was gradually drawn out of the body and gathered into the blood sphere in mid-air.
"No... Father... save me..."
The avalanche howled in agony in the pool of blood, its hands flailing wildly in mid-air.
His hair had completely fallen out, and most of the skin and flesh on his face had melted away, revealing his bare bones.
The Imperial Palace of the Heavenly Dou Empire.
Emperor Xueye could hardly bear to look at his son, whose face was unrecognizable and who was struggling painfully in the blood in the light screen.
Although he had considered sacrificing the avalanche before, that was on the premise that the avalanche could bring back the secret of immortality.
Now, his own son is being boiled alive in a pool of blood and refined into pills in front of the entire continent by an evil cultivator.
This dual impact, both visual and psychological, directly shattered Emperor Xueye's psychological defenses.
"Avalanche, my son..."
The Snow Night Emperor's lips trembled, and two lines of tears streamed down his face.
The officials below the main hall were also filled with sorrow.
A prince of the empire, a powerful figure who wields immense influence in the Douluo Continent.
Upon arriving in that cultivation world, they weren't even qualified to be cannon fodder; they were directly refined into medicinal herbs.
What a tragedy this is.
……
Meanwhile, at Shrek Academy.
Oscar covered his eyes, unable to look at the images on the screen any longer.
"That's terrible, they boiled a person alive into a medicinal pill..."
On the other hand, Tang San also disliked spoiled brats like Xue Beng, but this way of dying had already exceeded his understanding of cruelty.
In the footage, the avalanche's struggles become less and less intense.
His body had already melted away in the boiling blood, leaving only a broken skeleton twitching slightly.
The blood-robed youth stopped forming hand seals and reached out a hand.
The crimson sphere in mid-air instantly shrank, transforming into a crimson pill the size of a thumb, emitting a strange and exotic fragrance.
The young man put the pill into a black jade bottle and patted the bottle with satisfaction.
"Indeed, although the energy in this mortal's body is strange, his blood and qi are very vigorous. The quality of this Blood Spirit Pill is unexpectedly good."
As for the skeleton that had completely sunk into the blood pool, he didn't even glance at it.
[Level 35 Soul Master Xue Beng has died.]
[Cause of death: Accidentally entered the secret chamber of an evil cultivator from the Yu Ling Sect.]
[Used as a humanoid medicinal ingredient, she was thrown into the Blood Spirit Array for live alchemy.]
Survival time: 15 minutes.
The announcement from the sky screen sounded on time.
Inside the imperial palace of the Heavenly Dou Empire, Emperor Xue Ye, upon hearing this announcement, finally succumbed to the immense shock.
His eyes rolled back, and he fainted on the dragon throne.
"His Majesty!"
The main hall immediately descended into chaos.
However, the scene on the screen did not stop due to the chaos in the Heavenly Dou Empire; instead, the scene shifted again.
[Current live stream perspective: Beast Academy, Level 30 Quasi-Soul Master, Meng Yiran.]