Cloud Dream Palace.
The Blood Shadow Demon Venerable cultivated the Blood Scripture, a method that harvested the blood essence and souls of intelligent beings for one's own use. It was the most widely circulated cultivation art of the demonic path.
The Blood Shadow Demon Venerable's primary cultivation was the Blood Shadow Divine Light, which transformed both his fleshly body and Yang Spirit into blood-red phantoms that seemed both real and illusory.
The most exquisite aspect of this art was its ability to ward off all kinds of spells and Divine Artifacts, rendering him almost immortal. Through transformations of blood shadow, he could easily seize the bodies of other intelligent beings and forcibly take their souls. Its changes were eerie and unfathomable.
Only a very few divine abilities and spells that commanded the void posed a tangible threat to him.
Its drawback was that it was ill-suited for head-on confrontation. Fighting cultivators of the same rank, it was difficult for him to gain any advantage.
The Blood Shadow Demon Venerable did not care about this. Every few centuries, he would switch to a fresh body, greatly slowing the rate at which his soul aged.
With a fresh body, he could indulge himself to the fullest and experience every kind of delight and pleasure. After all, it was only the body's vitality that was being expended.
Once a body grew old and decayed, the blood shadow would simply take another one. Sometimes, when the mood struck him, he would even become a woman and experience a different kind of life.
Fresh flesh allowed him to remain vigorous at all times. His long cultivation life thus became interesting.
At the same time, fresh bodies inevitably made him sink into lowly desires, such as carnal lust.
There was nothing inherently wrong with that, and