Hell Furnace, The Challenge Begins

Master of Wine had once said that the Blood Demon Sea was an experiment created by the Beast God of Gold, but even Master of Wine could not explain the specifics.

Yet Wu Sheng had discovered that, at the very least, these Blood Nether Apes were highly unusual. If they were called wild beasts, their intelligence was exceedingly low, seemingly limited to instinct alone.

They could not even use Body Possession or Soul Slavery, and their behavior was so bizarre. Strip away the guise of flesh-and-blood life, and they instead resembled intelligent lifeforms installed with rudimentary programming.

With a few lingering doubts, Wu Sheng and the others carried their identity tokens into a pitch-black cave entrance.

"My lord, the Blood Pool lies beneath this small island. There are a total of 10,081 such entrances. Normally, two or three powerful Realm Lords guard each entrance, and this place is only opened to the outside world when the Blood Sacrifice Ritual begins," Zifeng explained to Wu Sheng as they walked.

Because they had two slots, the five Zifeng siblings chose Zifeng and Ziyun, who had already reached the fourth level of the Domain Lord realm, to undergo the baleful aura baptism.

Not only were the two of them the strongest among the five, but they had each fused with a Blood Luo Crystal, allowing them to absorb the greatest amount of baleful aura.

"Understood."

Wu Sheng merely nodded. Over the past few days, through conversations with the five siblings, he had managed to draw out quite a bit of useful information.

Normally, even without those Realm Lords standing guard, as long as the power of space-time within the cave entrances did not dissipate, even an Immortal who entered would be effortlessly annihilated into nothingness.

Thus, the Immortal Temple had no need to