(Day 5)
The man's complicated gaze made even the frozen space-time tremble slightly.
Within the entire Law Mighty Pass, the million dormant Law Phantoms of gods and demons, motionless because they faced no battle, began to quiver, as if the threat carried by that gaze could awaken them at any moment.
He closed his eyes. A faint radiance like moonlight formed Heaven-Deceiving Formation Patterns, temporarily concealing the traces of life that had begun to stir within him anew.
"Not yet..."
Fragments of shattered consciousness surfaced bit by bit, his memories returning to the depths of the Immortal Ascension Road, where ancient imprints engraved within the Law Phantoms emerged once more.
Within the hazy remnants of time, he saw scenes sufficient to overturn all understanding.
True Immortals, whose existence had been questioned throughout the ages by countless cultivators seeking eternal life, stood shoulder to shoulder by the dozens in those ancient visions.
The immortals worshipped a powerful being before the true body of the Law Mighty Pass.
Yet even True Immortals, exuding the aura of eternal life and immortality, were smashed apart like ants by droplets falling from the waves of the Boundary Sea.
There were also powerful beings revered by the immortals as Immortal Kings, radiating incomparable auras. Even they could only shatter a single wave after coughing up mouthful after mouthful of blood beneath the tide formed from worlds.
But even after shattering the wave's strike, they, the immortals, and the countless living beings within that towering Mighty Pass were reduced to ashes by a black beast claw extending from the waves of the Boundary Sea.
"Without the right time and the right place, if one wishes to cross that Boundary Sea and find the true Immortal Domain..."
The man shook his head. "Even for an Immortal King, it is likely no easier than for an ordinary person to cross a storm-ravaged ocean barehanded."
He opened his eyes slightly, his gaze sweeping past Fang Zheng, the Block Person in the Void. The scarlet rivers of blood that had materialized from nothing were reflected deep within his pupils.
(Unfathomable)
No matter how he observed them, those streams of blood that appeared from nowhere had truly come from nothing.
He stared at the remaining fragments of the Taiyin Moon Blade beneath his feet, as though he once more saw his Dao Proving Artifact shatter under immense force when he had fought bloodily in the Boundary Sea.
He closed his eyes, shook his head, and sighed. "Back then, I was ultimately a frog in a well—arrogant and overconfident. All I could leave behind was this drop of tainted blood and a remnant thought."
"Fortunately, the Human Emperor Seal remained in my homeland to protect the Taiyin Sect. Otherwise, it too would have shattered."
A trace of nostalgia flickered through his eyes. Looking up at the sky, he seemed to see the scenery of his homeland. "I wonder how the Taiyin Sect I left behind is doing now."
Then he looked at the Dao Patterns gradually gathering within the Taiyin Moon Blade fragments beneath him, as well as the Taiyin Moon Blade deity, which was reviving from nothing bit by bit just like him. He smiled faintly.
With a grasp of his hand, all the blood in the lake beneath his feet evaporated. The traces of divine power and vital blood essence that had remained after hundreds of thousands of years, not yet entirely drained away, were all gathered together.
The vast lake of blood faded of its scarlet color, becoming lifeless waste blood. All its essence condensed into a blood flower radiating faint moonlight and flew toward the sky.
Watching Fang Zheng collect it, then cause streams of moonlit blood to surge forth from nothing once again, his calm voice echoed out. "Yet disaster has also brought fortune, allowing me a glimpse of immortality..."
Fang Zheng watched the glowing white blood surge up from below, then took out an Iron Bucket to collect it. Afterward, he spent some time replacing all the previous blood blocks.
The instant the replacement began, the moonlit blood poured down like waters from the Milky Way.
Within the endless white radiance of moonlight floated phantoms of new moons, crescent moons, full moons, and countless other phases, forming a breathtaking sight.
"It actually looks pretty spectacular." Fang Zheng sighed softly. "Like a glowing red light pillar."
However, the blood, whose energy and pressure far surpassed that of before, did not continue falling and washing over the shattered moon blade fragments.
Instead, it seemed to develop a certain vitality. Following some mysterious trajectory, it transformed into a scarlet river that continuously condensed and compressed in midair.
The blood that emitted a faint glow spontaneously gathered in the air, forming a blood moon that shone softly.
As blood continued pouring in from above, the blood moon's radiance grew increasingly bright.
"Creak, creak..." A strange scraping sound suddenly rang out. Fang Zheng looked around in confusion. "What the hell is that sound?"
After listening carefully, he discovered that it was actually coming from within the blood moon. "Huh! It's this moon?"
Fang Zheng approached the blood moon and used his telescope to magnify its details. He saw innumerable tiny runes filling the blood moon.
Most of these runes were repeated, yet many were now constantly cracking apart.
Amid the strange cracking sounds, the incomplete scarlet crescent moon repeatedly cycled through waxing and waning phases as though time had accelerated.
From Fang Zheng's perspective as he flew above and below the blood moon to observe it, the moon phase remained the same from every angle, without changing according to his viewpoint.
It was as if it were not matter that existed in reality, but a projection from a higher-dimensional space.
Amid the shifting moon phases and cracking sounds, the repeated runes contained within the blood were continually altered, beginning to piece themselves together into fragments of chains.
These chain fragments continued combining, gradually gathering within the center of the blood moon, which had transformed from a crescent into a full moon, into a complete Law Chain that looped endlessly from head to tail within a single drop of blood.
A wisp of imperial pressure spread from it, only to be swiftly covered by the Heaven-Deceiving Formation Patterns emerging around it, lest its powerful aura provoke the Law Mighty Pass.
That drop of blood containing a complete Law Chain instantly fused with the other blood essence and law fragments within the scarlet full moon, growing slightly in volume.
The moonlit river continually surging down from the sky was also swallowed by it in great gulps.
As it devoured more and more, that tiny drop of blood rapidly grew larger, its light becoming increasingly brilliant as it bloomed with gentle, pure Taiyin Power.
Then, the blood sphere floating in the air slowly drifted before Fang Zheng.
Fang Zheng glanced below through his telescope and saw a tall, heroic man with handsome features and graying hair smiling faintly at him.
His heart surged with excitement. Is he finally going to come back to life? Will there finally be a normal human I can talk to?
He looked again at the blood sphere before him. This should be some kind of blood essence, right? If I get more of it, can he recover?
Filled with excitement, Fang Zheng collected the blood sphere with an Iron Bucket, then replaced the source of blood flowing from above once more.
Not long after a single drop of Blood Essence containing complete Supreme Dao Laws had barely been refined and transformed from a great amount of inactive dead blood, the man once again saw identical blood madly pour forth from nothingness.
Bathing in his old blood, he smiled. "It comes from nothing. I've watched it for so long, yet I still cannot understand it at all."
"But... thank you for your help. It is time for me to truly return!"
Endless Taiyin Power surged from the blood, along with that complete chain of Supreme Dao Laws, merging without obstruction into the remnant thought that had shed all its deathly aura and resentment, with its black qi entirely dispersed, leaving only a faint gleam of life.
"Thump! Thump! Thump!" Faint pulses, like heartbeats, quietly emerged from the deepest depths of the resentment condensed from past regret and unwillingness.
It was a wisp of fresh Primordial Spirit and Living Blood. Though incomparably weak, it was no different from what he possessed at his peak!
As this drop of blood and wisp of Primordial Spirit condensed, the Law Mighty Pass suddenly began to riot.
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