Not Betraying Kunlun

Whether it was Xie Yue, Xuan Yuan, or Qing Li, they were all already at the pinnacle of the cultivation world.

"Ru Wuxin!" The moment Huang Wushen spoke this name, not only Xie Yue standing beside him, but even Xuan Yuan and Qing Li beside them, felt as if they were trapped in a boundless sea of blood. It wasn't just what they saw before their eyes, but even their primordial spirits and sea of consciousness seemed to be filled entirely with the bloody wind of the blood sea!

With just a name, there was more blood energy and demonic energy than the Nether Blood Pool before them!

This was because, for the righteous Dao sects of the world, this name represented only destruction and conquest. It was the ultimate taboo!

Not many cultivators in the world knew the name Ru Wuxin. The vast majority of cultivators only knew him by another name, and that name was... the Nether Blood Demon!

"Fearless, without apprehension... all methods arise from the heart... see hell, yet be free in heart, without worry or fear."

Xie Yue's eyes turned red, and a white lotus bloomed in his sea of consciousness. His gaze and his entire being turned cold, losing its previous ferocity. "The battle at Golden Summit to eliminate the demon four hundred years ago, was it all a deception?"

"That battle was not a fabrication... At that time, Ru Wuxin cultivated the Supreme Blood God Art and achieved the Blood Demon True Body. He annihilated twelve major sects, causing widespread devastation and immense demonic energy. He then gathered ten directions of Heavenly Demons, intending to invade Mount Emei. My master led my Kunlun sect, along with hundreds of righteous Dao experts from across the world, to fight Ru Wuxin at Golden Summit..."

"History records that the righteous path won a great victory in this battle, eliminating the demon. My Kunlun sect also rose to become the leader of the righteous path in the world because of this battle. However, the facts are not entirely as later generations have passed down..."

"On that day, Mount Emei unleashed the peerless divine weapons Ziying and Qingsuo. Emei's top expert, Zhuo Wuxiang, wielded the Haotian Treasure Mirror. Shu Mountain deployed the Myriad Swords Returning to Origin Demon Extermination Sword Array. Yellow Sect's Zhêrbang Monastery's Master Ciren unleashed the Great Wheel Three Manifestations Transformation Dharma. Qingcheng's Li Futu held the Tiandu Minghe. Ci Hang Jing Zhai formed the Heart Lamp Array. Our master wielded the Sanyang Yisha Sword and the Duanyu Hook. Uncle Feng Hanyue held the Liuding Liujia Golden Rings, manifesting six Golden Armored Heavenly Gods. Uncle Wu Yong wielded the Nine Heavens Ten Earths God Extermination Crossbow..."

The people Huang Wushen mentioned were all astonishingly talented individuals from the cultivation world over the past thousand years. As he spoke slowly, Xie Yue and the others, just by hearing their names, could feel how tragic that battle was.

"Later generations recorded that the righteous path achieved a great victory in this battle, and the ten directions of Heavenly Demons led by Ru Wuxin were all annihilated, body and soul. Ru Wuxin's Blood Demon True Body was destroyed... but in reality, the losses suffered by the righteous path in that battle were also devastating. Experts from Emei, Qingcheng, and Zhêrbang Monastery were almost all wiped out, and even figures like Zhuo Wuxiang and Li Futu perished in that battle. Emei's divine weapons Qingsuo and the Haotian Treasure Mirror also disappeared without a trace. Master Ciren and others from Zhêrbang Monastery were severely injured and were ambushed by demons on their way back to the monastery. Not only did they die, but many of Zhêrbang Monastery's cultivation techniques were also lost. Major sects like my Kunlun, which were on par at the time, were almost crippled and failed to recover their vitality for hundreds of years. Although my Kunlun rose to become the leader of the Dao sects in the world, the losses were also not insignificant. Uncle Wu Yong perished, Uncle Feng Hanyue died along with a Heavenly Demon from Beiju, and the Liuding Liujia Golden Rings also disappeared without a trace. My master's Sanyang Yisha Sword was destroyed by the Blood Demon True Body, and he was struck by the Nether Heart-Devouring Demonic Fire. He persisted for a hundred years before finally having his essence blood burned away and perishing."

"Ru Wuxin... the Nether Blood Demon. Thousands of cultivators perished at his hands, before and after. He was the great calamity that made every righteous Dao sect tremble. Now, my Kunlun and the righteous path of the world may be facing such a calamity again. This is a secret of my Kunlun, unknown to the outside world. Although his Blood Demon True Body was destroyed that day, only a few drops of his blood demon blood escaped. However, those few drops of blood demon blood were not all pursued and refined as the legends say. One drop actually escaped into my Kunlun's spiritual veins!"

"Escaped into my Kunlun's spiritual veins..." Xie Yue's eyes blazed with divine light. In that instant, he understood why there was such a Nether Blood Pool within Kunlun!

Ru Wuxin's mastery of the Blood God Art was unparalleled. He was also cunning and decisive. After achieving the Blood Demon True Body, as long as a single drop of blood demon blood escaped, he could slowly cultivate and be reborn. But he knew that no matter where he fled, he would be hunted down and refined. Therefore, when he saw he was losing the fierce battle, he secretly released a drop of blood demon blood and fled into my Kunlun's spiritual vein.

Huang Wushen faced the churning Nether Blood Pool before him, his expression unchanging, a faint hint of helplessness appearing on his face. "This spiritual vein is the foremost in the world, the foundation of my Kunlun. If this spiritual vein and that drop of blood demon blood are destroyed together, my Kunlun will lose its foundation. My master hesitated and concealed this matter, and along with all the senior uncles and aunts, they exhausted their efforts to find a way to destroy this drop of blood demon blood without destroying the spiritual vein. However, Ru Wuxin's profound and ever-changing Blood God Art exceeded the imagination of my master and the others. They exhausted their entire lives, and even Uncle Yao Zhuo sacrificed his physical body, using his primordial spirit to refine and enter the spiritual vein to try and kill Ru Wuxin's last trace of primordial spirit demonic blood, but was instead refined by Ru Wuxin's primordial spirit demonic blood within the spiritual vein."

"For four hundred years, Ru Wuxin's primordial spirit demonic blood has been lurking within my Kunlun's spiritual veins, absorbing the filth and malevolent energy of heaven and earth, recuperating, and growing stronger day by day. The filth and malevolent energy within my Kunlun's spiritual veins have all been used by him, making the spiritual energy even more pure and unparalleled. The cultivation speed of our disciples has thus been advancing by leaps and bounds, surpassing other sects by far. But no one knew that my Kunlun harbored such a great hidden danger!"

Seventy years ago, Ru Wuxin's primordial spirit began to show signs of breaking free from its cocoon. My master and all the senior uncles and aunts could only use their great divine powers to form the Great Luo Heavenly Array, sealing the spiritual veins and suppressing it here. Sixty years ago, when my master ascended, he did not pass the position of sect leader to you, precisely because your nature was too impetuous. If this secret were pressed upon your heart, you would definitely not be able to cultivate your Perfect Lotus Platform Dharma to the Great Perfection realm. Now, with the transformation of the world's destiny, wars are breaking out everywhere, with corpses littering the ground. The filth, Yin demons, and malevolent energy within the heaven and earth spiritual veins have increased, and Ru Wuxin has absorbed all of them, actually condensing into this Nether Blood Sea. Not only does he refine these Nether Blood God Children from time to time, but he also constantly transforms into Blood Demon avatars, trying to escape the seal. Junior Brother Xuan Yuan was severely injured that day when Yuan Tianyi attacked, and he was injured by a Blood Demon avatar when killing the avatar that Ru Wuxin had created by seizing the opportunity.

Hearing Huang Wushen's slow narration, Xie Yue sighed softly, looking at Huang Wushen. "Is this why you wanted to seize Luo Fu's cultivation techniques and treasures when Yuan Tianyi's magical power weakened, so that my Kunlun would have a few more chances of victory against this Blood Demon?"

"It is all my fault." Huang Wushen nodded silently. "Yuan Tianyi's Empty Life Extinguishing Sea Glazed Art has a flaw. When cultivating to the Glazed Undying Golden Body, there is a twelve-hour period of power depletion. He is too arrogant and absolutely refuses to be used by my Kunlun. I also cannot reveal the news of the unexterminated Blood Demon. I originally intended to have General Luo, Fairy Luo, and Wentian capture him within those twelve hours of his power depletion. But I did not expect Yuan Tianyi to have subtly taken the final step. He sensed that my Kunlun intended to deal with him and actively attacked us before his power reached depletion."

At this point, Huang Wushen slightly raised his head. Although his eyes were closed, it was as if he were looking at the void where Yuan Tianyi stood, as if gazing at Yuan Tianyi's peerless splendor that day. "Senior Brother Xie Yue, you had severed your six senses and did not see Yuan Tianyi that day. He was truly breathtakingly beautiful that day, commanding reverence. He came with the might of heaven and earth, raising his momentum to its peak, reaching that realm of nothingness. Even I, facing him alone, would not be his match. General Luo manifested his external avatar to fight him but was utterly defeated and trapped at the bottom of the sea. Wentian and Fairy Luo, even working together, were still no match for him. When I, with Senior Brother Jiu Ba emerging from seclusion, used the Three Corpses Annihilation Divine Arrow against him, I used my Colorless Great Hua Wheel to defeat him. Wentian's sword intent was thwarted, his innate sword essence power dropped by a level, Fairy Luo went into seclusion, General Luo's life or death is unknown, Senior Brother Jiu Ba was counterattacked by Yuan Tianyi, his Nascent Soul was scattered, and all his cultivation was lost. Furthermore, the Great Sumeru Inverse Nine Palaces Array was broken. My Kunlun suffered heavy losses this time. Moreover, all the demonic cultivators in the world are stirring, as if someone has sensed that the Blood Demon is trapped within my Kunlun. They will surely attack now, and my Kunlun is truly in a state of extreme danger."

"Senior Brother Xie Yue." Xuan Yuan, who had been standing beside Huang Wushen, sighed slightly. "The Sect Leader's actions were also because he felt he could no longer suppress the Nether Blood Demon, and it was a decision made after discussing with us. It's just that we never expected Yuan Tianyi's cultivation to have reached such a level. If we had known this, perhaps seeking his help would have offered some chance..."

Xie Yue suddenly gave a wry smile. Looking at Huang Wushen's perpetually closed eyes, he understood how much burden Huang Wushen carried. The suspicion and dissatisfaction he had harbored towards him for decades vanished in an instant. "If only we had known... if only we had known, we should have destroyed this spiritual vein along with the Blood Demon blood. But this Ru Wuxin is a peerless hero, who has already targeted people's hearts... If it were me four hundred years ago, I also would not have been able to bring myself to destroy this spiritual vein. Without this most spiritually abundant spiritual vein, Kunlun might not exist. Who can truly understand the karma of the world and see through the past and future?"

What made Xie Yue smile even more wryly was that Kunlun's prosperity and the emergence of many talented individuals over the past hundred years were also due to the extreme purity of the spiritual energy in Kunlun's spiritual veins, which led to rapid cultivation. Even his current cultivation could be said to have benefited from Ru Wuxin.

The karma of this world... who can truly explain it, and who can distinguish right from wrong?

"I need to be responsible for passing down the teachings. Although there are many exceptionally talented juniors in Kunlun, their cultivation is ultimately insufficient." Huang Wushen handed the crescent-moon-like Reincarnation Moon Radiance Wheel, which he held tightly, to Xie Yue. "Among our ten senior brothers, Junior Brother You Wuxiang has also cultivated the Supreme Forgetfulness Great Law, severing all worldly emotions and remaining detached from worldly affairs. The only one who can stand with Qing Li to guard this Nether Blood Pool and protect my Kunlun is you alone." Xie Yue took the Reincarnation Moon Radiance Wheel and walked directly through the thick blood mist towards Qing Li's side. "I will not fail the Sect Leader's trust, I will not fail Kunlun!" The cold voice that came from behind the tattered figure was as decisive and sharp as a blade!