The Bloodthirsty Compass had an extremely powerful ability to obscure the workings of heaven, provided that a large number of living beings were sacrificed, using their vital auras to stir the heavenly secrets and achieve concealment.
This was a method of ancient heretical cultivators. Later, as heretical cultivators were suppressed, this method was also abolished.
Strictly speaking, the Bloodthirsty Compass's evil aura was not that heavy. It was merely an auxiliary ritual artifact.
If one wanted to obscure the workings of heaven, who did not have to pay a price? And the vitality of cultivators or spirit beasts was relatively convenient to use.
Later, some people wanted to avoid the risks and switched to using only spirit beast essence blood.
But in the end, it was still banned, because if spirit beast essence blood could be used, human blood could still be used too.
Scheming against other cultivators was sometimes much more convenient than hunting spirit beasts.
In short, this was a secret treasure of the past, somewhat taboo, though to say it was stained all over with human blood was not necessarily true.
True Venerable Qianhuan raised a thumb. "As expected of the Art Venerable. Your knowledge is indeed vast."
Jin Ge answered disapprovingly, "I still preferred the unruly way you looked just now."
"Heh-heh," True Venerable Qianhuan gave a dry laugh.
Back in the Houde Realm, people all respectfully addressed him as "Immortal Venerable," and even True Venerables were courteous when they saw him. When had he ever been mocked like this?
However, as a professional fraudster, he understood when to read the room better than anyone.
He gave a soft cough. "This is a Mother-Child Compass. It's even a little better than the Bloody Compass. Only the mother compass needs to be supplied with spirit beast essence