Nether Path Forbidden Art, Blood Fetus Ghost Infant

Once such a scene was laid bare, even though Zheng Yi had strong nerves and had prepared himself mentally, he was still jolted.

He held the Soul Devouring Banner in his hand, letting dense black mist shroud his body before he dared to carefully walk inside.

Crunching sounds came from beneath his soles as he carelessly snapped one or two dried bones.

There were simply too many bones here. Who knew how many people had died? Their flesh had all vanished without a trace, leaving behind only scattered dry bones. There was nowhere to set foot. Even after so long, the formless, icy Sha Qi still gathered here, even forming Deathly Evil.

Fortunately, Zheng Yi was a cultivator, with a robust physique and spiritual power protecting his body. Otherwise, if an ordinary person came here, Deathly Evil would have already invaded their body—it would be no different from poisoning.

Zheng Yi advanced all the way through the heaps of bones until he finally reached the altar. Then his eyes widened as he witnessed the cruelest, most brutal sight of his life.

At the very center of that enormous Skeleton Altar, fifteen thick bronze chains bound a massive Bronze Coffin.

Strange rune arrays had been laid upon the chains, connecting them firmly to the entire altar and forming an exceedingly sinister array. Spiritual Qi was continuously drawn over and poured entirely into the Bronze Coffin.

Nine Yin Gathering Evil Vein Termination Array!

Inside that massive Bronze Coffin was an amber-colored liquid resembling wine. It exuded dense Flesh Essence, intoxicating the mind of anyone who smelled it.

Zheng Yi looked around at the snow-white bones piled like small mountains and finally understood where the flesh of those people had gone.

The Flesh and Blood Demon Pool—even among the demonic path, it was an array that invited tremendous backlash from Karmic Force.

Only an exceptionally formidable Old Devil, or some madman who did not value his life and did not fear falling forever into the Animal Path, would dare act with such reckless abandon.

Moreover, constructing a Flesh and Blood Demon Pool like this required time, effort, and resources beyond what an ordinary cultivator could accomplish alone.

It required the support of a cultivation family or cultivation faction, often the efforts of one or two generations.

The resources consumed were countless.

And within that massive Bronze Coffin, amid the amber liquid condensed from endless Flesh Essence, lay a pregnant woman heavy with child, as though she were ten months along.

She was completely naked, without a stitch of clothing. Her delicate, lovely features could still vaguely be seen. She was astonishingly only an eighteen- or nineteen-year-old girl.

Yet she had long since lost all signs of life. Still, nourished by the Flesh Essence, her corpse remained lifelike. Even the elasticity of her skin seemed no different from that of a living person, but her eyes, long bereft of their light, seemed to speak of helpless agony.

Perhaps until the moment of her death, this girl had never imagined that one day she would endure such terrifying pain.

Had she known this world was so cruel, perhaps she would not even have wished to be born into it, and would not have suffered such dreadful torment.

Yet in the eyes of the Qi Family's generations, this girl had merely been material to be consumed.

Standing atop the Skeleton Altar, Zheng Yi let the demonic Qi of the Soul Devouring Banner protect his body. Carefully avoiding several critical nodes where spiritual power circulated, he slowly approached the Bronze Coffin. Looking down from there, he could clearly see that the strangest thing about the pregnant girl was her enormous belly.

Her belly could no longer be described as that of a woman ten months pregnant. It was absurdly huge, more than twice the size of an ordinary woman about to give birth.

Because it was so enormous, the skin of the girl's belly had been stretched extremely thin and had become nearly transparent. Within the faint red glow, he could see that in the reddish-brown amniotic fluid was a red Blood Egg, beating powerfully like a heart.

And within that blood-red egg curled a bizarre infant, crimson from head to toe, with a short section of tail growing from behind its backside.

"The Qi Family is truly insane..."

Even Zheng Yi's scalp went numb at the sight.

"After two generations of the Qi Family, after exhausting every scheme and effort to set up this Nine Yin Gathering Evil Vein Termination Array, they actually refined such a thing..."

"Blood Fetus Ghost Infant. This is actually the legendary Blood Fetus Ghost Infant..."

"An object of utmost ferocity and evil—it enters neither the Six Paths Reincarnation nor yin and yang, nor the five elements. Heaven and earth cannot tolerate it; the Heavenly Dao rejects it..."

"The Qi Family truly is bold. Are they not afraid of backlash from Karmic Force, of their entire clan being exterminated?"

Zheng Yi had originally forcefully suppressed the local tyrant, the Qi Family, in order to completely control the Ba Dong Town Mine region and maintain a firm grip on its mineral vein.

It was not until he accidentally exposed the Nine Yin Gathering Evil Vein Termination Array, and the Qi Family brazenly developed murderous intent, that Zheng Yi realized the matter was not so simple. Only then did he ride the momentum and use this favorable wind to wipe out the Qi Family's entire upper echelon in one stroke.

But now it seemed his actions had still been too lenient. The rest of the Qi Family Main Lineage was not clean either. They needed a thorough purge.

Even if the Qi Family had existed for a hundred years and had some connections and patrons within the sect, with the Skeleton Altar now in hand, the Qi Family was doomed.

His gaze gathered once more upon the pregnant woman's belly inside the Bronze Coffin. Within that red Blood Egg was a crimson infant. Its nostrils fluttered—the Blood Fetus Ghost Infant was clearly alive.

It appeared exceptionally eerie atop an altar covered in bones.

Nothing else needed to be said. This scene alone was enough to make anyone's scalp go numb and send a chill from their heels to the back of their head.

The Qi Family had truly put in the effort. Mobilizing the power of their entire clan and lurking for so long, they had actually sought to raise a Ghost Infant. Calling them ambitious tyrants would not be an exaggeration.

But their methods were simply too vicious and venomous, already crossing the bottom line of being human.

And the entire Qi Family had clearly gone mad. They actually did not fear backlash from Karmic Force?

No wonder Zheng Yi had felt that something was wrong with the aura around Qi Yuanzong and his two brothers when he first saw them.

Now it seemed that was Blood Sin wrapped around them, sunk deep into their very bones.

Though they had concealed their aura through a secret art, that stench still clung to the depths of their souls and bloodlines like maggots attached to bone.

So the entire Qi Family bore original sin!

The Blood Fetus Ghost Infant was a secret art of the Nether Path.

Several hundred years ago, the great demonic sect known as the Nether Path had fallen apart. No one knew where this bizarre secret art had spread from, but it had once caused a tremendous uproar.

However, the method of refining a Ghost Infant was extraordinarily perverse and exceptionally difficult, often requiring a hundred years. It also deeply violated the harmony of Heaven, and under the backlash of sinful force, even an Old Devil would likely be unable to endure it.

No one was willing to risk having their soul scattered and destroyed, or falling forever into the Animal Path, merely to make a wedding dress for someone else.

Furthermore, for certain reasons, the various sects had strictly forbidden it. This art was listed as a forbidden technique and gradually faded from view.

Who would have thought that the Qi Family, a mere Qi Refining family in the small Ba Dong Town Mine region, had actually preserved this secret legacy?

The so-called Blood Fetus Ghost Infant required the use of a Nether Path secret art to construct a Flesh and Blood Demon Pool, as well as finding a pregnant woman born in an extremely yin year—preferably a Nine Yin Woman.