Chapter 740

As drops of blood fell one after another from Xun Er's wrist into the blood pool, the scarlet water, which had been boiling and churning, seemed as though someone had pressed a slow-motion button. The restless ripples visibly began to settle.

An empty patch of water roughly half a zhang across abruptly separated from the blood pool. The surrounding water seemed barred away by an invisible wall, leaving only the blood Xun Er had shed suspended within.

Rather than dispersing into the pool, the blood seemed drawn by some force, continuously gathering and swirling at the center of the empty water. In the end, it condensed into a blood sphere about half the size of a fist. Scarlet radiance slowly flowed across its surface, carrying a faint, weighty aura of the Gu Clan's origin.

"Senior Xiao Xuan, this is already the vast majority of the Bloodline Power I can draw out." Once the final drop of blood merged with the sphere, Xun Er swiftly covered her fair wrist with her jade-like palm. Wherever her fingertips passed, the bloodstains immediately stopped bleeding.

She raised her slightly pale face. Her breath was shallower than before, but her voice remained clear.

"If I forcibly draw out more, it will damage the grade of my own bloodline. Should the clan discover this, they will surely follow the trail to Brother Xiao Ling, and that would only bring him much unnecessary trouble."

"It is enough. The Xiao Clan will remember this kindness." Xiao Xuan solemnly clasped his fists toward Xun Er once more, his withered fingers curling slightly with emotion.

Having once been the Xiao Clan's patriarch, he understood better than anyone the weight of this gift. The Gu Clan's bloodline was incomparably precious, and this was the most valuable Divine Bloodline at that. For