Crossroads Corner.
The Bloodworld Pearl remained beneath the shadow of the low wall, giving off a faint glow in utter silence.
Then, in a certain instant, a pale crimson ripple spread out.
Along with this anomaly, within the Ghost Buddha Realm, something seemed to awaken inside the humanoid "Spell Seed" that had fused with Yue Gongli's body and was covered in roots. It trembled ever so slightly.
"Xu Xiaoshou..."
The low call drifted through the street, there and gone.
Greed God became extremely alert. With a hiss, all its fur stood on end, and it sprang behind the hair clone's shoulder, only daring to poke out half its head.
It was frightened.
Xu Xiaoshou was startled as well.
After confirming it, he found that it was neither an auditory hallucination nor something coming from Bei Huai, but from the Bloodworld Pearl. After a brief hesitation, he set aside the interrogation and walked over with the cat.
It was only a hair clone.
The thought he sent out to contact the Bloodworld Pearl was likewise only one that could be severed at any moment.
"Bzz..."
The instant his fingertip touched the Bloodworld Pearl.
Though his true body was far away in Dragon Cave, Xu Xiaoshou still felt slightly dizzy, as though his mind had been sucked into another world.
Soon, the surroundings changed, and he entered a blood-hazed scene.
"Xu Xiaoshou..."
The call grew louder.
Looking toward its source, he could see a blurry Blood Realm landscape in the distance: an endless mountain of corpses and sea of blood, as well as seven Blood Trees joined together, their branches dangling countless human and beast remains.
Within that scene, which seemed both illusory and real, there was one image of incomparable reality.
It was a skeletal divine throne, dark as night and