Take the female Sacred Seed Lu Ye had joined hands with Jian Guhong and the others to kill, for example. The amount of Sacred Blood she possessed was several times greater than what Lu Ye had obtained.
This probably was not merely the result of her searching deep within the underground Blood River. It was very likely that she had killed other Sacred Seeds—and more than one!
Now all of it had fallen right into Lu Ye's lap. That felt wonderfully satisfying.
They traveled onward, as always, searching for suitable Grotto Heavens in which to place Heaven's Mystery Pillars while refining the Sacred Blood he had taken into his body.
As the Sacred Blood was refined, the suppression Lu Ye could exert over ordinary Blood Race grew greater and greater. The Divine Sea Realm Heavenly Venerables of those Grotto Heavens had no power to resist this suppression at all, and could only obediently have the Soul Taming Divine Pattern planted in them, becoming Soul Slaves.
Several days later, the Sacred Blood was fully refined. Lu Ye silently sensed himself. His understanding of the Blood Arts had indeed climbed another level. In addition, his own strength had improved quite a bit, and together with the invisible enhancement of his bloodline, there did not seem to be any other especially particular benefits.
Looking at it this way, refining more Sacred Blood probably did not mean much for raising a Sacred Seed's strength. They were all powerful figures standing at the peak of the Divine Sea Realm, already unable to become any stronger.
But the pursuit of raising one's own bloodline was probably an instinctive longing for Sacred Seeds.
Two months after parting from Jian Guhong and the others, the Heaven's Mystery Pillars in Lu Ye's hands had more or less all been