Slaying the Blood Demon

Sea Emperor raced toward Miko's location. Along the way, he kept sending messages to the others on the team, but no one answered. Call after call went unanswered as well.

Meanwhile, Miko was completely unaware of the approaching danger. He was racing toward the area where a Blood Demon was located.

Blood Demons were peculiar Variant Lifeforms. They gained sentience from vast quantities of blood before condensing bodies and taking shape. As a result, their bodies possessed an eerie liquid form and were nearly completely immune to physical attacks. Since they were directly born from pure bloodline energy, they had no souls and were likewise immune to soul attacks.

Only a very small number of methods could harm them, such as various Martial Dao Intents and elemental mysteries. Among them, Miko's Barrier Power was also one of the rare energies in the world capable of harming them.

Blood Demons generally took on different forms depending on the kinds of blood that made them up. Those formed from human blood usually ended up resembling humans. Those formed from demonic beast blood similarly resembled demonic beasts. However, one thing never changed: after taking shape, every Blood Demon was blood-red from head to toe.

Miko's target was a Blood Demon with the form of a human woman.

The Blood Demon stood over two meters tall, her entire body covered by a blood-red gown. Even so, her seductive figure was clearly visible, no different from that of a human woman. Her head, however, differed greatly from a human's. Her entire head resembled a three-dimensional blood-red mask. There were no facial features where her face should have been—not even eyes. She had no human hair either. Instead, dozens of blood-red, antler-like branches, each around twenty centimeters long, grew from the top of her head and