Blood Food

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血食儿
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Original Name:血食儿Gender:NeutralScope:Novel-specificStatus:ActiveSource:AIOccurrences:1087Chapters:282
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Feature Details
Name Blood Food (血食儿)
Alias(es) Taisui; the immense flesh mass from which it is harvested is called Lord Tai Sui in villages.
Species/Race Flesh and blood of Taisui, an entity described as having entered the human world from beyond the heavens 832
Status Extant; harvested from flesh mountains and Blood Food mines 12 376
First Appearance Chapter 12: “Lord Tai Sui”

Nature and Terminology

Blood Food is the city term for Taisui, a vast, living-seeming mass of flesh that emerges from the earth. One such manifestation appears as a bloody, swollen mass pressing out from a rift in the ground; villagers call it Lord Tai Sui, while city dwellers call its harvestable flesh Blood Food 12.

Its origin and properties remain poorly understood even by experienced traders and miners. Hu Ma notes that Taisui remains living year after year despite being cut apart and consumed, while its different flesh varieties can strengthen bodies, heal injuries, or nourish the soul 363.

Much later, Hu Ma identifies Blood Food as Taisui’s body forced into the human world, treating it as food before Taisui’s consciousness can fully descend 832.

Appearance

Lord Tai Sui resembles an enormous, bloated mass of bloody flesh emerging from a fissure in the earth 12. Harvested Blood Food may be eaten raw, cooked, cured, or refined into pills 103 521.

  • Black Taisui is dark-colored and saturated with harmful influence 13.
  • White Taisui is pale and grows on the sun-facing side of a flesh mountain 13.
  • Green Taisui and Blood Ganoderma are more valuable edible portions 13.
  • Blood Food whose essence has been drained becomes pale, wood-like residue that can resemble White Ganoderma 413.
  • Some rare flesh displays golden patterns or a golden aura 103 301 372.

Varieties

Variety Characteristics Known Effects / Value
Black Taisui Dark flesh, generally avoided despite being harvestable 13 Can turn consumers into Evil Spirits, cause madness, illness, death, or other afflictions 13
White Taisui Pale, sun-facing flesh 13 Safe to eat; strengthens the body and is more nourishing than grain 13
Green Taisui / Green Ganoderma A superior, relatively common harvestable type 13 Cures illness and prolongs life; a small daily portion can sustain an injured person for a day 13 120
Blood Ganoderma Rarer than Green Ganoderma; takes three years to regrow after harvest 13 Extremely valuable and scarce; refined pills may sell for thirty taels of silver during shortages 13 121
Golden Silk Taisui Flesh containing fine golden threads 301 Used to treat soul damage 301
Golden Jade Paste Golden-patterned Blood Food discovered in rare ore veins 372 A rare material with uses distinct from ordinary Blood Taisui 103 372
Purple Taisui Associated with an unusually active Blood Food mine beneath the Imperial Capital 816 Purple-tainted Blood Food Pills can restore dao cultivation, though a small amount of purple energy showed no clear benefit to Hu Ma’s Natal Spirit Temple 645

Properties and Uses

Use Details
Food and emergency sustenance White Taisui is nourishing food, while Green Taisui can sustain people facing hunger, injury, or exhaustion 13 120
Medicine Green Taisui can cure illnesses and extend life; rare Blood Food types may possess more specialized medicinal effects 13 301 363
Cultivation resource Night Watchers require Blood Food to keep their furnace burning strongly and empower their skills against Evil Spirits and demonic spells 57
Pill refinement Refining Blood Food into pills makes it easier to conceal and carry, though ten catties of raw Blood Food yields only eight and a half catties of pills 103
Evil Spirit nourishment Taisui aura can grant cultivation to spirits, while Blood Food itself is a powerful temptation to nearby Evil Spirits 55 205
Trade and tribute Blood Food is a core resource of the Blood Food Gangs, used for wealth, sect operations, offerings, and political leverage 13 514 547

Harvesting and Handling

Blood Food does not regenerate immediately after cutting. White and Green Taisui can be harvested from particular areas of a flesh mountain, while Blood Ganoderma requires three years to regrow after a harvest 13.

  • Blood Food mines are guarded and managed by Blood Food Gangs; production, accounts, and rare harvests are closely contested 370 376.
  • Blood Food attracts Evil Spirits, making warehouses and transport convoys vulnerable to attacks 55.
  • Large quantities cannot reliably be moved through ordinary magical transportation methods; gangs instead use guarded carts and escorts 77 516.
  • Ghost Envoys normally become crazed around Blood Food and may consume what they carry, making Xiao Hong Tang’s ability to deliver Green Food unusual 120.
  • The Red Lantern Society stores Blood Food in sealed vats protected by blood talismans and guarded personnel 116.
  • The Altar Cult uses human-skin bags to preserve Blood Food without leaking its scent for up to a year 116.
  • Blood Food can be drained by powerful entities. After the Yin General emerged from the mine, Blood Ganoderma, Green Ganoderma, and other varieties lost their essence and withered 413.

Major Incidents

Chapter(s) Event
13 Hu Ma learns that the Old Woman had been feeding him Blood Ganoderma daily to treat his illness.
77 103 116 A stolen batch of Blood Food is recovered from the Altar Cult, divided among Hu Ma, Erguotou, and Miss White Wine, then partly refined into pills and concealed.
121 127 A jar of scarce Blood Ganoderma sparks a confrontation with the Green Robe Gang before Hu Ma and Yang Gong bring it safely into a Red Lantern Society manor.
376 413 Hu Ma takes control of eight jars containing roughly seventy to eighty jin of high-quality Blood Food from a mine, only for the Yin General to drain much of the stock’s essence.
514 516 521 The Truth Cult pressures the Red Lantern Society to “borrow” its Blood Food stores; Hu Ma later secures a large batch and consumes it to advance his cultivation.
816 832 The Blood Food mine beneath the Imperial Capital is identified as a living Purple Taisui mine. When Taisui flesh falls from the sky, it manifests as an immense supply of Blood Ganoderma sought by desperate survivors.

Trivia

  • Blood Food is valuable enough that a single small piece of Blood Ganoderma once exchanged for a gold biscuit 13.
  • Blood Ganoderma becomes especially costly during poor harvest years, when even wealthy buyers compete for refined pills 121.
  • Although it is commonly treated as food and merchandise, Hu Ma considers Taisui flesh and blood the most bizarre thing in the world 363.