Hell Race Blood Pool

"My name is Kuishen. You are the third genius to successfully pass through the Stone Stairs. The Years is the supreme soul secret manual of the Origin Law of Time, and I now bestow it upon you. I hope that you will become a pillar of strength for the Human Race in the future."

Jiang Yao opened his eyes completely after receiving the last message.

Kuishen?

Could it be the supreme ruler of the Luoxiao Race, the Universe Overlord, Kuishen Venerable?

"Jiang Yao."

Above the 45 steps lies the main hall platform, Jiang Yao was the only trial participant who ultimately stood on it.

Dragon Eagle King looked down at Jiang Yao, his voice still filled with barely suppressed shock. "You are the third genius in countless years to pass through the Stone Stairs. The first human genius to pass through the Stone Stairs was the great Venerable Shihuo."

"The Venerable Shihuo?"

Jiang Yao was shocked. That was a peerless genius comparable to Kedi, a father of unparalleled virtue. He had also been to the Nine Star Sea?

Dragon Eagle King smiled gently, "Most of the geniuses from the five major powers take on the Nine Star Sea mission for the Sacred Altar, which opens only once every 8,000 years. But actually, the Nine Star Sea has three treasures: the Sacred Altar, the Divine Stele, and the Stone Stairs. In fact, the Stone Stairs Steps are no less important than the Sacred Altar. You should have already gained a lot."

Jiang Yao nodded. "It seems that with each step climbed, one's will and consciousness undergo a subtle transformation."

In fact, his eventual creation of the ultimate Fusion Law "Supernova" was closely related to these 45 transformations of his will and consciousness.

Looking at Jiang Yao, Dragon Eagle King couldn't help but feel extremely envious. Almost all the top geniuses in the Giant Axe Coliseum had passed through the Stone Stairs, so they were more aware of the Stone Stairs' function.

There's a saying circulating in the Core Layer of the Giant Axe Coliseum: anyone who can undergo more than 20 transformations of will and consciousness on the Stone Stairs, as long as they don't perish along the way, will definitely become King-level Immortal.

He climbed from the 19th floor to the 39th floor, undergoing a total of 21 transformations of his will. Although each transformation was small, the cumulative effect led to a significant qualitative change.

Twenty transformations of will can lead to King-level Immortal.

To what extent would Jiang Yao's unprecedented 45 transformations of will reach?

Dragon Eagle King shook his head, his gaze sweeping over the more than 1,700 geniuses from the five major powers and the Luoxiao Royal below the main hall. His expression turned cold. "Your performance in this Stone Stair Trial was not good. Apart from Jiang Yao, the best result was only reaching the 31st step. The top 100 trial participants can enter the main hall and wait to receive the Sacred Altar Baptism. The rest will be eliminated."

In the vast and boundless Giant Axe Secret Realm, the Nine Star Sea is like a jewel adorning the edge of the Giant Axe Secret Realm, but this jewel is the most precious treasure in the Giant Axe Secret Realm.

Above the Nine Star Sea, a majestic mountain peak floats in the vast void; this is Kuishen Mountain, the guardian of this gem.

Kuishen Mountain is dotted with palace complexes, which are mostly the cultivation sites of the Immortal Expert of the Luoxiao Race.

At the summit of the mountain stands a flat, enormous object that resembles some kind of mechanical creation, looking from a distance like an irregularly shaped spaceship.

Inside the spaceship, a large screen stands in the center.

The throne and the many Immortal Expert surrounding it all watched the images displayed on the large screen.

Seated on the throne was an old man draped in a wide black robe, with two black ram horns that spiraled backward on his head. He was none other than the supreme ruler of the Luoxiao Race, the Kuishen Venerable was revered as the God Emperor.

When Jiang Yao passed the 45th step, the high-ranking members of the Luoxiao Race were in an uproar.

"Unexpectedly, after 500,000 epochs, someone has once again made it across the Stone Stairs."

"Sigh, first there was Venerable Shihuo, and now there's Jiang Yao from the Virtual Universe Company. Human geniuses are truly amazing."

"Hmph, didn't our clan's genius Dai Yuan from 500,000 epochs ago also manage to pass through the Stone Stairs? It's just that his treasures and resources were inferior to those of top human geniuses like Venerable Shihuo and Jiang Yao, otherwise he wouldn't have been enslaved by the Zerg Mother Emperor."

"Alright, stop arguing. The Stone Stairs are engraved with His Majesty's twelve supreme inheritances. He obtained one of them, so he can be considered His Majesty's half-disciple. Everyone says that Jiang Yao is a super genius comparable to Kedi and Venerable Shihuo, a talent that appears only once every tens of millions of epochs. But no one expected that he could cultivate the Path of the Beast God to such a level. Now, you should all agree that he is a genius who has surpassed Kedi and Venerable Shihuo, right? From another perspective, his coming to the Nine Star Sea and passing through the Stone Stairs is also a good thing for our clan. Venerable Shihuo is very close to our Luoxiao Race."

The Kuishen Venerable on the throne nodded and smiled, "Huoyue is right. Jiang Yao has become a disciple of the Chaos City Lord. With the Chaos City Lord's protection, he might become another Universe Overlord tens of thousands of epochs later."

Kuishen Venerable sighed inwardly. The Luoxiao Race was once a subordinate race of the Monster Race, but later betrayed them and joined the Human Race. In addition, due to their special origins, they have not been completely integrated into the Human Race even after so many years.

He didn't really care whether it was a human genius or Luoxiao Race genius who made it through the Stone Stairs; as a subordinate race, they naturally had their own way of surviving.

The reason why Kuishen Venerable opened the Nine Star Sea to the five major powers as a trial world for their Core Layer geniuses was for this moment. Whether they passed through the Stone Stairs and obtained his secret technique inheritance or received the Sacred Altar Baptism, these human geniuses who gained benefits and favors would naturally become the pillars of the Human Race and become natural allies of Kuishen Venerable and the Luoxiao Race Clan.

From the moment Jiang Yao arrived at the Nine Star Sea, he had been observing him. He hadn't stopped the Heavenly Star Holy Temple Master from sending the Holy Temple Commander to prevent Jiang Yao from entering the Sacred Altar Forbidden Domain to undergo trials and baptism, because he wanted to see Jiang Yao's strength, including the extent to which he had comprehended the Space-Time Law and Fusion Law.

The result was somewhat unexpected, but it also strengthened his resolve.

"Your Majesty is right. But the Sacred Altar Baptism is one thing, but the Ancestral God Stele is far more precious than the Beast God's inheritance that the Seven Sword King obtained in the Ancestral God Sect's treasure Treasure Land. Although for countless years, no one has been able to gain the Ancestral God Stele's recognition, Jiang Yao, this monstrous talent..."

"That's right. Moreover, Jiang Yao has already cultivated two Path of the Beast God. If he were to obtain the Ancestral God Stele as well, it would be a waste."

"Your Majesty, the Ancestral God Stele is the inheritance of the Thunder Beast God Path, which is perfect for my Luoxiao Race. Otherwise, let's cancel the part about viewing the Ancestral God Stele."

Kuishen Venerable smiled and gently shook his head, "This is the rule every time the Sacred Altar opens. Since it's a rule, it must be followed. There's no need to change it easily. Besides... how could the Ancestral God Stele be easily recognized? There's no need to worry too much."

He certainly hoped that a genius from the Luoxiao Race would inherit the Ancestral God Stele, but no one understood better than him how difficult it was to gain the Ancestral God Stele's recognition, and he did not believe that Jiang Yao was qualified to be recognized by the Ancestral God Stele.

Jiang Yao bid farewell to the eliminated Daiqin, and followed the two hosts who opened the Sacred Altar Dragon Eagle King and Blood Axe King, along with 78 core geniuses from the five major forces, including Naluo, and 21 geniuses from the Luoxiao Royal, out of the back door of the main hall.

Behind the main hall is a valley, within which lies a lake of blood, shaped by the terrain into a figure-eight shape, resembling a gourd.

On the lakeside, ten thousand Luoxiao Race Star Realm geniuses who had already passed the Slaughter Trial were gathered.

This included Chiling clone.

Jiang Yao's consciousness was connected to that of Chiling clone, so he also knew what the so-called Slaughter Trial was all about.

It was also a trial of illusions, except that the illusion where Chiling clone was located seemed to be a world enslaved by Monster Race.

Each time a trial participant kills a Monster Race, they gain a small increase in power, up to a maximum of the ninth level of the Realm Lord.

The longer one persists in the illusionary world, the better their performance will be; once killed by the Monster Race, it's equivalent to being eliminated.

This posed no difficulty whatsoever for Chiling clone, and it was only the result of his efforts to conceal his true strength. Otherwise, for Chiling clone, who could unleash the Lightning-Time Fusion Law, even if he was only at the Stellar level, only a World Lord could pose a threat to him.

"It seems the Luoxiao Race and the Monster Race have some deep-seated hatred between them," Jiang Yao muttered to himself. "Even their clan's genius Slaughter Trial are designed to cultivate hatred towards the Monster Race."

The Immortal Expert Blood Axe King of the Luoxiao Race said indifferently, "This lake in front of you is the Sacred Altar, also known as the Blood Pool or the Prison Pool."

"Blood Pool are treasures born in a perilous place, originally possessed by the 'Prison Race,' one of the Six Great Peak Races. The Prison Race controls many such Blood Pool."

"The Prison Race? This Sacred Altar was originally a treasure of the Prison Race?"

Ignoring the gasps of the crowd, Blood Axe King continued, "The appearance, features, and even the life essence of the Prison Race vary greatly. Some are Rock Lifeform, while others are flesh-and-blood life forms. The Blood Pool is a treasure that enhances the bodies of flesh-and-blood Prison Race, causing them to undergo transformation. Of course, the Blood Pool is not only useful for flesh-and-blood Prison Race, but also for flesh-and-blood life forms that are not Prison Race."

Blood Axe King's eyes revealed a look of reverence. "His God Emperor once obtained a Blood Pool from a powerful member of the Prison Race. This is the only Blood Pool that the Human Race possesses. The ancestors of my Luoxiao Race were conceived by His Majesty the God Emperor through this Blood Pool."

Not only were the geniuses from the five major powers, including Jiang Yao, somewhat astonished, but the geniuses of the Luoxiao Race were even more shocked. Their gazes toward the Altar Blood Pool then became extremely respectful and reverent.

"The Luoxiao Race was actually born from the Blood Pool." Jiang Yao mused, "No wonder many records say that the Luoxiao Race is a rather special race, somewhere between humans, Monster Race, and the Prison Race."

Before choosing the Nine Star Sea mission, he consulted a lot of information about the Luoxiao Race before deciding to have Chiling Split Soul and possess Luoxiao Race's body.

Blood Axe King's gaze first fell on the ten thousand Luoxiao Race Star Realm geniuses. "The Altar Blood Pool Baptism can help you differentiate into high-level bloodlines, Elite Bloodline, Royal Bloodline, and even Imperial Bloodline like mine— Special Lifeform closest to His God Emperor!"

Chiling clone could sense that the breathing of the Star Realm geniuses around him was becoming somewhat labored.

"His God Emperor is an extremely special and unique life form in the universe. My Luoxiao Race was born from His God Emperor through the Blood Pool, and it is also possible that through the baptism of the Altar Blood Pool, we can transform into a form close to His God Emperor and become Special Lifeform."

Looking at the tens of thousands of Luoxiao Race geniuses who were breathing heavily, Blood Axe King snorted coldly, "The probability of transforming into the Imperial Bloodline is extremely small. Often, it takes a hundred openings of the Sacred Altar to give birth to a truly Special Lifeform. The most important thing among them is willpower."

"However, judging from your performance in the Slaughter Trial, not one of you has yet reached the will to transform into the Imperial Bloodline! Being able to differentiate into the Royal Bloodline is already the limit."

"As for you," Blood Axe King turned his gaze to Jiang Yao and the other universe-level geniuses, lingering especially on Jiang Yao for a moment, "the Altar Blood Pool can strengthen your bodies and may even raise your Gene Level. What kind of gains you will get depends on your individual will; the stronger your will, the greater the gains."