Blood Pool, Phenomenon Reappeared

The chill's invasion still lingered. Before Chu Mu had fully regained his senses, the smell of blood rushed into his nostrils.

The bloody scent was rich and thick, yet it lacked the nauseating stench of ordinary blood. Instead, it carried an inexplicable fragrance that made one's blood and qi boil.

Once his vision and senses recovered, what entered Chu Mu's sight was precisely that dense blood-red hue he had glimpsed from outside.

A Stone Hall towered high, devoid of any superfluous furnishings. Only a Blood Pool stretched through it, vast as an ocean. Looking across it, one could not even see where it ended.

Around the Blood Pool, torch-like Emerald Flames burned fiercely. Their emerald glow shone upon the surging bloodwater, and the reflected light was an almost bewitching crimson.

Taking in this sight, even Chu Mu could not help but feel somewhat stunned.

He had entertained countless guesses about what lay beyond the curtain wall.

But the scene before him...

This Blood Pool...

Chu Mu pondered for a moment, then swept his sleeve. A streak of spiritual light sank into the Blood Pool, drawing up a clump of bloodwater that floated in the air.

As his Divine Sense circulated and the bloodwater entered his perception, his initial astonishment transformed, in an instant, into near-unbelievable shock.

Chu Mu took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the horror in his heart. He leaped into the air as the bloodwater churned below. Under the pull of his magic power, streams of bloodwater rose into the sky, clearly revealed to his senses.

Without exception, every one of them was exactly the same as the first clump of bloodwater he had examined.

"How could this be..."

Chu Mu murmured to himself. When he looked again at the Blood Pool, the shock in his eyes