"What is this!!?"
Suddenly, someone looked down at the ground.
The original fungal carpet on the ground was rapidly secreting a large amount of blood energy.
All the blood energy automatically gathered and condensed into massive lotus flowers, each the size of a large tub, forming blood-red lotuses.
These lotuses stood over a meter tall. Each of their surrounding petals was densely covered with blood-red eyeballs. Numerous roots served as legs, allowing them to move continuously.
They formed extremely quickly, and in the blink of an eye, hundreds or thousands of blood lotuses appeared.
At the base of every blood lotus, amidst their roots, there was a huge, blood-filled mouth.
Inside were spiraling, sharp jaws continually opening and closing, capable of shredding any flesh and bone.
Looking down from above, one could see the mesmerizing blood lotuses constantly moving and spinning.
But from the perspective of the people on the ground, it was an entirely horrifying sight.
The blood lotuses quickly dashed out of the Great Spirit Blood Carpet’s coverage range, each plunging into the black earth below, their roots rapidly digging into the dirt and magma.
Yes, they even feared no magma. The black roots resembled drills, rotating and cutting at high speed, and in an instant, burrowed underground, taking root to become vibrant blood-red lotuses as if they had grown from the beginning.
Soon, someone exclaimed in surprise that where these blood lotuses took root, the surrounding black soil swiftly sprouted numerous red fungal spots.
The fungal spots quickly turned into the same dark red blood carpet, connecting seamlessly with the blood carpet around the Celestial Curtain Pavilion.
The two merged into one, indistinguishable from each other.
Hundreds and thousands of blood lotuses continued to transform the black earth.
In just a mere ten minutes.
This entire expansive land, spanning tens of thousands of meters, was transformed into dark red blood color.
Moreover, this blood color continued to spread outward.
It’s just that this expansion speed was no longer as slow as before.
"What an impressive feat....!" Ophelia’s smile gradually faded.
To transform such a vast area of land at once, laying the foundation from the start.
Such a thing had only been done when Long built the Chana Tower before.
Although they could also transform such a large area of land, they would never do it so effortlessly, so quickly.
"The power of the King of Bloodline... is formidable!" a demon in the rear said in a low voice.
"Indeed, it is powerful.... It’s said that as long as he collects the flesh and blood of any individual, he can completely become that person, obtaining all abilities and talents. Terrifying." another demon said in a deep voice.
"It is a troublesome ability. But not without solution." Ophelia replied, looking at the ever-expanding blood carpet, "We should be going."
"I heard Ophelia, you are known as a representative of the most unbreakable existence. It’s rare to meet privately, why not stay a little longer?"
Suddenly, a voice abruptly sounded behind the three of them.
The two demons stiffened, quickly turning around to see Zhang Rongfang, dressed in a blood-red robe, with black hair down to his waist, somehow already behind them.
Ophelia slowly turned, her gaze fixed on him.
"What? Does the Blood King intend to forcibly keep us?"
"How could it be called forcible? This is a courteous invitation." Zhang Rongfang corrected, his expression solemn.
"If any of you wish to leave, although I would regret it, I will not stop you."
"The Blood King may not know, but since Lord Long sent me, there is indeed a reason for it." Ophelia smiled.
If she was unsure of the Blood King’s power at first, she now understood after witnessing that scene.
Even if the opponent couldn’t break through her Absolute Defense, he is undoubtedly on the same level of existence as them.
"It seems Senior Long truly misunderstands me." Zhang Rongfang realized her intent.
Ophelia, representative of the strongest material, came specifically to leave no trace of flesh and blood for him.
Clearly, Long had prepared for this in advance.
"Since the Blood King’s ceremony is complete, we shall take our leave." Ophelia said softly, offering a curtsey.
"Truly, not staying for me to properly entertain you for a while?" Zhang Rongfang’s blood flames flickered slightly in his eyes, hinting at some repressed feeling.
An invisible, heavy presence gradually pressed on the three of them.
The two demons noticeably struggled to breathe, instinctively trying to alleviate the pressure by breathing quickly, even though they didn’t need to breathe.
Ophelia’s expression remained unchanged, but she also noticed something was amiss.
"We three parties just signed an alliance, right... Blood King, have you forgotten?"
Zhang Rongfang’s expression was serene, without a reaction.
His fingers lightly moved, his gaze gradually focusing on the two demons behind Ophelia.
"And what about them? Were they sent by your Chana Tower as a gift for me to taste?"
Ophelia paused.
"My lord, they are my closest subordinates, not gifts!"
"Is that so? What a shame...." Zhang Rongfang showed regret, causing the two demons to tense.
"By the way, Blood King, those scattered blood flowers, what are they exactly?" Ophelia changed the topic.
"Those are blood lotuses. There is a canonical record in my Blood Immortal Dao, that when a great being delivers a sermon, if there truly is an opportunity to impart the great path, flower petals will fall from the sky, and blood lotuses will emerge from the earth.
This legendary blood lotus is what you see here." Zhang Rongfang explained.
"They can collect all underground minerals and nutrients, continuously transforming them into nutrition to create new blood-blanketed skies."
"Endlessly transforming??" Ophelia’s heart sank. Such conscious and organized entities far surpassed things like the Evil Spirit Vehicle....
"Since the ceremony is concluded, we shall take our leave." She sensed his gaze on her becoming increasingly unsettling.
Immediately, she decisively took her leave.
"Truly not staying a bit longer, to observe?" Zhang Rongfang once again urged.
"No, Lord Long is still awaiting my report." Ophelia politely made a bow, turned around, and strode towards the waiting Evil Spirit Army in the distance.
The two demons behind her followed closely, but unlike her, they were tense all over, ready at any moment to put up a full resistance.
Fortunately, until they returned to the Evil Spirit Army, the other party did not make a move. They simply stood there, watching them leave with a smile.
Soon, around the Celestial Curtain Pavilion, cheers like the tide began to arise.
Ophelia suddenly stopped, stood among the Evil Spirit Army, and looked back up.
"What is this!!?"
Her eyes suddenly narrowed.
Just now, the celestial curtain, which was only tens of thousands of meters in diameter, had now grown larger, expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The Great Spirit Blood Carpet on the ground evaporated into blood clouds, which condensed to form the black celestial curtain.
The celestial curtain shielded the Blood Lotus, searching everywhere for nutrient minerals, breeding colonies, and forming the Great Spirit Blood Carpet on the ground.
This forms a cycle.
Beams of heavenly light shone into this celestial curtain, but they were quickly blocked by the special fungus carpet on the outside of the curtain.
"One person creating an entire city...." In the distant Eternal Palace, La watched the scene transmitted back by Sandra and the others, momentarily dazed.
"No... that’s not right, it is indeed as he said, this is just the beginning...." La’s face grew solemn. She had already judged that Zhang Rongfang had not lied.
As long as there were enough nutrients, he could transform himself into the celestial curtain that covered everything!
And this black celestial curtain, even if it were the Spirit Eye Race from back in the day, would take many years and an enormous amount of resource ores to successfully create.
But now.....
Watching the still rapidly expanding celestial curtain and blood carpet in the images, La suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of unreality.
"If the White Pupil can maintain the current distance and not get closer, perhaps you could really build a world as you imagine....."
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In the Chana Tower.
Long’s massive body was coiled on a rectangular gray stone platform, also watching the images transmitted by Ophelia.
Gazing at the endlessly expanding, seemingly unstoppable black and red celestial curtain and blood carpet.
It clearly had no eyes, yet it seemed to be able to see all the images clearly.
"Interesting.... no artificial traces.... Bloodline.... I’m becoming more and more intrigued by you...."
A deep laughter echoed continuously within the tower, not stopping for a long time.
Thus, the Great Spirit established the first true gathering place city on the ground, named Yuan, Yuan City.
At the center of the blood cloud above Yuan City, columns of blood crystal linked to the earth and continued to grow crystalline branches that fell to the ground, forming rows of Blood Crystal Trees.
Within a certain range around these Blood Crystal Trees, all bloodlines would be significantly strengthened.
Whereas the Evil Spirit Body and all other living beings would be negatively suppressed.
Poisonous red smoke and parasitic fungus carpets would constantly erode any intruders.
After the establishment of Yuan City, a large number of bloodlines from the Great Spirit were no longer afraid of the harm from heavenly light and began to come to the ground.
They no longer needed to wear armor and quickly started constructing building houses.
At the same time, within Taoyuan.
On the expansive rock face of the ninth layer of the Sea of Oblivion.
Decrepit Divine Buddha Platforms were moved by invisible space, gathering together.
Numerous rocks, like building blocks, began to construct a brand new, black-gray arched building on the rock face over time.
This building was surrounded by the decayed black aura of the Sea of Oblivion, warding off any outsiders attempting to approach.
Inside the building, atop the black great hall.
La opened a single hand, and in her palm, a small virtual black building was pieced together, gradually becoming more complete with her fingertip manipulation.
And as La and Zhang Rongfang methodically executed their agreed plan.
The Chana Tower finally began to break the seal of the First Secret Lock, Falgara, having grasped certain clues.
After searching through years of information and intelligence, they had already gained significant insight into the First Secret Lock.
In mid-July, far away in Lingtuzhou, tens of thousands of miles away.
Within a ruin like a temple relic in the golden desert.
Broken stone pillars and faded murals were the only remaining scenery here.
Without a dome, a transparent ripple slowly emerged and unfolded in the great hall.
Within the ripple, Evil Spirit Vehicles, surrounded by black smoke, swiftly stepped out.
Not only that, but at dozens of other locations in Lingtuzhou, large-scale Evil Spirit transmissions, similar to the one here, began.
Space technology was not exclusive to La; the Chana Tower also possessed similar technology.
Even surpassing La in strength.
One Evil Spirit after another stepped out of the great hall, wandering aimlessly around.
Their evil energy pollution seemed ineffective on this land.
Instead, their black smoke was constantly neutralized and disappeared by mysterious forces.
Outside the great hall, on a distant golden sand dune, two mysterious merchants in black robes stood, watching the commotion here.
"The Chana Tower had located the First Secret Lock’s position sixty years ago, and now they finally make their move." A mysterious merchant said in a deep voice.
"Isn’t our purpose as Secret Keepers for this?" The other person said calmly. "To expel the invading, protect the Three Great Secret Locks, and allow no breaking."
A gentle breeze blew, lifting a corner of the black robes of the two, revealing a patch of gray-white stone-skinned arms.
"Now the Chana Tower, Eternal Palace, and Blood Alliance are united, attempting to open long-distance passages. Solely by our efforts, we can no longer stop them. Let’s see if Mubarakah found their bloodline hosts...." One of them said in a low tone.