Unexpected Change

"Blood Pool, altar... ten thousand beasts..."

Chu Mu's gaze narrowed slightly, and a vague conjecture rose in his heart.

The effects of ten thousand beasts' essence blood...

Then refined through that barrier...

Then gathered by this altar into this Ten Thousand Beasts Cauldron...

Within this cauldron...

With a sweep of Chu Mu's sleeve, several Armored Warrior Puppets took up positions around the great cauldron in a Three Talents Formation. Immediately afterward, a surge of spiritual power swept out, shielding the restless Wangcai outside the cauldron within it as well.

Only then did Chu Mu step before the great cauldron.

The cauldron's lid was equally imposing. Compared to the lifelike carvings of the Ten Thousand Beasts Diagram upon the cauldron's body, however, the lid was much plainer.

It resembled an ordinary cauldron lid, save for a pagoda-shaped protrusion at its crown.

Bloody light flowed across the cauldron's body. When it passed through the pagoda atop the lid, it resembled a bright lamp, flickering at times and falling into silent extinction at others. Faint bloody radiance surged; at a glance, it was as though the entire cauldron had come alive and was breathing.

Chu Mu raised a finger and lightly touched it. The cauldron's body was not cold like metal. Instead, a warmth that almost soothed the heart seeped from his fingertip into his chest.

After probing it briefly with his Divine Sense, Chu Mu seemed somewhat surprised.

This great cauldron had been placed here so openly, yet there was not a single defensive array restriction around it.

He pondered briefly, then gave an order. Several Armored Warrior Puppets stepped forward at his command, their metal hands landing one after another atop the cauldron lid.

Chu Mu retreated several steps. With a sweep of his sleeve, that glimmer of golden light shielded