After Blood Shadow Douluo was swallowed by the Blood Sea,
he plunged into its depths,
and gulped down several mouthfuls of blood.
Feeling the sticky blood all around him,
Blood Fiend felt an instant sense of kinship,
and was about to use his Martial Soul to devour the blood and restore his energy.
But just then,
one frenzied Sea Horse Soul Beast after another darted past him,
their huge tail fins lashing him with berserk force,
and tearing his body into a bloody mess.
Meanwhile, the incredibly fast Blood Sea Donut Monsters
slammed into him again and again.
His Martial Soul had yet to return,
so he couldn't release a single Soul Ring or Soul Skill.
He had no Martial Soul to protect him,
and the weightlessness from space tearing apart,
combined with the suffocating feeling of being in the Blood Sea,
left him utterly powerless to resist.
To his horror, he realized he had been swept into a bloody battlefield,
where countless Soul Beasts and monsters died every second,
and the collisions with those monsters and Soul Beasts
left his bones broken and his tendons torn.
In moments, he was covered in wounds,
most of his bones shattered,
and his mind began to grow hazy.
He was certain this Blood Sea was his chance to grow stronger.
If he could survive
and devour the power within this Blood Sea,
he would undoubtedly become far more powerful.
But now,
was he really going to die such a pathetic death?
"No!
I'm a Titled Douluo.
How could I..."
Blood Fiend let out one final, unwilling roar,
then a Sea Horse Soul Beast's hard exoskeleton crushed his heart.
This Evil Soul Master and Titled Douluo, who had roamed the continent for years,
didn't even know where he was
when he died so miserably amid the chaos of the Blood Sea World.
And only after he died
did his Martial Soul finally return,
giving off a faint hum
as it shielded its master's corpse
from being trampled in the battle.
His body seemed to have been sealed away in blood.
Lin Tian had undergone an evil transformation outside,
and passed out when his body couldn't take it.
Now his soul suddenly appeared in the Blood Sea again.
The moment he saw Blood Fiend's corpse,
he couldn't hold it together.
"The Blood Sea?
Blood Fiend?
Is this...
Douluo Continent?
But where on Douluo Continent is there a Blood Sea?
Could this be the Douluo Universe,
the place where Mother of Crimson lives?
That can't be right, either.
I've never heard that Mother of Crimson lives in a Blood Sea.
Wait—
my Martial Soul sucked him in!
I clearly saw my Martial Soul form a vortex
and pull Blood Fiend inside..."
A thought exploded in his mind,
making his heart tremble violently.
He instinctively looked down over the entire Blood Sea,
at the oddly shaped native monsters,
then thought of the blood Martial Soul he had awakened and everything that had just happened,
along with Blood Fiend's corpse.
No matter how impossible it seemed,
after ruling out every other possibility,
this was the only truth.
To make sure his guess was right,
he looked again at the native monsters in the Blood Sea:
the red Donut Monsters,
which were incredibly fast;
the huge, white, oval-shaped monsters,
with their powerful defenses;
the little blue, flat balls,
which were good at healing their companions;
and the horseshoe-shaped monsters,
which could fire rays.
In his previous life, he'd been a doctor.
Before, he hadn't been able to connect the dots at all,
but now that he thought about it,
weren't these the blood cells he'd studied in biology,
the ones found in blood vessels?
The Donut Monsters were red blood cells,
fast because they transported oxygen.
The white ones, with their strong defenses, were white blood cells.
The little blue disks had powerful healing abilities—
they were platelets.
And the fearsomely powerful horseshoe monsters were T lymphocytes.
Countless clues joined together in his mind,
leading to an absurd conclusion that was nevertheless the only truth:
This Blood Sea wasn't some strange alternate dimension at all.
It was my blood Martial Soul!
I'm actually inside my own Martial Soul!
And just now,
Blood Fiend had also been sucked into the Blood Sea by my Martial Soul.
Then those Sea Soul Beasts—
were the Sea Soul Beasts that suddenly appeared also sucked in by my Martial Soul when it awakened?
Had every Sea Soul Beast in the oceans of Douluo Continent been sucked inside
just because my Martial Soul awakened?
This was simply unbelievable.
What was this?
Had the heavens given him some overpowered cheat?
A tiny blood Martial Soul couldn't even fill a bucket with blood,
but if it spread out to the size of these blood cells,
this miniature world was a whole universe!
And now all those Sea Soul Beasts had been shrunk to the size of cells.
The human body contained more blood cells than he could count—
hundreds of millions, at the very least.
If his Blood Sea Martial Soul unfolded on the microscopic scale of cells,
it would probably be hundreds of times bigger than Earth.
This was an outrageously overpowered cheat, beyond anything words could describe!
Now he finally understood why he could never eat his fill.
For the past year,
the Sea Soul Beasts that had descended into the Blood Sea had fought the Cell Monsters in fierce battles to the death.
It was a struggle for survival between species,
so the fighting had been exceptionally intense,
and it had ended in a crushing defeat for the Blood Sea's native Cell Monsters.
But the Blood Sea Monsters' greatest advantage was that they kept coming without end.
No matter how many were killed, they never ran out.
Lin Tian had observed them before, too.
These Blood Sea Monsters seemed to appear out of nowhere,
suddenly coalescing from the riverbed on the seafloor.
So all along, they'd been formed by his own body!
All the energy he had devoured
had been used to generate blood cells.
The Sea Soul Beasts kept killing these blood cells,
and then his body had no choice but to keep producing more.
Because to his body,
the Sea Soul Beasts were like invading bacteria.
The blood cells had to mount a defense,
so they could only draw on the energy in his body.
That had created a vicious cycle.
The mystery was finally solved!
Lin Tian still felt a little dazed,
because the whole thing was simply too bizarre.
But he was a transmigrator, after all,
and he soon accepted this setup.
Transmigrators were quick to accept just about anything, after all.
He wasn't some wide-eyed rookie, either.
He'd read plenty of creation stories,
and had come across and learned about microscopic universes,
so he readily accepted the fact that his blood Martial Soul was actually a Blood Sea,
and had even pulled the Sea Soul Beasts of Douluo Continent inside.
Based on his observations over the past year,
at least several million Sea Soul Beasts had entered this Blood Sea.
And there were still even more left.
He couldn't possibly look at them all.
He guessed that even if Tang San had protected them as well as he could,
there would probably only be a few million,
so he suspected
that every single Sea Soul Beast in the entire Douluo Continent had come.
This move of his had practically drained Tang San's entire Sea God foundation dry.
This backstab was simply unbeatable!
But backstabbing Tang San was a small matter.
Now, he had an unbeatable cheat—
Microcosm Manifestation.
From Blood Fiend's result, it was clear
that his Blood Sea Martial Soul could alter reality.
After people from the real world entered the Blood Sea,
they would also shrink to microscopic size.
This was truly unbeatable!