The moment Yuan Shun finished speaking, everyone in the council hall fell silent. None of them were unfamiliar with the Blood Sea.
Over the years, Mystic Pill Sect cultivators had continuously studied the Blood God Sect. To the Blood God Sect, the Blood Sea was as important as Mystic Pill Peak was to the Mystic Pill Sect.
Thus, every cultivator present had an extremely deep understanding of the Blood Sea—perhaps even more thorough than some members of the Blood God Sect themselves.
The Blood Sea originated in the far northwestern reaches of the Jade Balance Realm, bordering Northern Mang. It flowed through the Western Desert and Great Qin before reaching the Great Qian Immortal Kingdom.
Strictly speaking, the stretch of Blood Sea guarded by the Blood God Sect was merely its very end. At its source and along its middle reaches, other powers outside Great Qian were responsible for clearing and suppressing it.
Yet even at its very end, where the demonic creatures within the Blood Sea were fewest and weakest, it still posed immense danger and required a Golden Core sect to suppress it.
This Blood Sea was merely a branch of the true Blood Sea in the Nether River Immortal Realm.
In theory, if one followed the Blood Sea upstream all the way to the far northwestern edge of the Jade Balance Realm, then broke through a certain boundary, one could reach the Nether River Immortal Realm.
It was said that tens of thousands of years ago, a Divine Transformation great cultivator whose lifespan was nearing its end, yet who lacked the strength to ascend to the Immortal Realm, had done exactly that.
However, after that great cultivator shattered through the world barrier and stepped into the Nether River Immortal Realm, the soul tablet he had left behind