As her words fell, the old woman flicked her wide sleeve. At once, a mottled crimson Blood Pool spun through the air and swelled with the wind, soon growing several zhang in length and width.
Bathed in the hazy blood mist, they looked closely and saw countless writhing skulls on the pool walls, their black, gaping mouths like the open jaws of mamba snakes.
One glance made their scalps tingle, while a faint force of attraction stirred the blood energy throughout their bodies.
"The Blood Pool appears, living beings become sacrifices. This is bad—they are people of the Blood Raven Clan."
"This Blood Pool is an evil artifact, an evil artifact!~"
The camp immediately fell into turmoil. Since the group had entered the Western Regions, quite a few Western Region cultivators had joined them, and all were utterly terrified at the sight.
"The Blood Raven Clan has been the most rapidly rising force around Black Wind Mountain for nearly three hundred years. It already bears the prestige of a Sacred Land."
"That old woman is Elder Yun Shu of the Blood Raven Clan!"
Fear spread little by little. The Blood Raven Clan cultivated the Blood Wheel Method, which required vast amounts of fresh blood to drive their cultivation forward.
Any enemy of the Blood Raven Clan, once defeated, would have all their blood drained and be turned into a dried corpse.
When they had no enemies, the Blood Raven Clan created them, even traveling to other regions to gather blood.
Over the past several hundred years, the wilderness had spread across tens of thousands of li around Black Wind Mountain, and living creatures had withered away. It was hard to say this had nothing to do with them.
"Fellow Daoist, we have never had any grievances with your clan. Why