The thought truly made his blood surge with excitement,
but Lin Tian only considered it for a moment
before immediately giving up on thinking about it any further.
Now wasn't the time for that.
Even though the Sea Soul Beasts and Blood Sea warriors were fighting fiercely,
Lin Tian couldn't summon the slightest interest in it,
because his physical body wasn't safe right now.
It was undergoing a corrupted transformation.
Who knew how it was going?
Besides, although Blood Fiend was dead,
this was still his lair.
He was a Titled Douluo,
and everywhere he looked, there were his Soul Douluo
and Soul Saint underlings,
all of them Blood Servants and Blood Slaves.
Although Blood Fiend had put him somewhere absolutely safe,
what if he was discovered?
He had to leave as soon as possible.
He'd have plenty of time in the future to study this Blood Sea Martial Soul of his.
It had been formed from his Martial Soul.
His Martial Soul was connected to his spiritual power,
so surely he could at least manage to leave, right?
So,
Lin Tian silently repeated "exit" frantically in his mind,
but after shouting it countless times,
nothing happened.
Just as Lin Tian was beginning to feel dejected,
he felt the blood-red space around him suddenly twist,
and a sensation of weightlessness washed over him.
Soon,
his consciousness was pushed out of the Blood Sea
and returned to his physical body.
The howling sea wind above Blood Island began to ring in his ears, too.
"Whoa,
I can actually come back!"
Then what had that year he spent trapped in the Blood Sea been?
Had it been a test of his patience?
But now wasn't the time to think about that.
As soon as he returned to his body,
Lin Tian felt a wave of terrifying pain strike him—
the corruption of his Martial Souls was still underway!
"Damn it!"
Lin Tian gritted his teeth and cursed furiously.
"Blood Fiend,
I'll dig up your corpse and whip it!"
After cursing him out,
Lin Tian had no way to deal with this except to tough it out.
He could only let the inky-black energy erode his Blood Sea Martial Soul and Starfish Martial Soul.
The evil aura surged in through his arm,
then tainted his Martial Souls.
He couldn't force the evil energy out of his body.
All he could do was grit his teeth and keep his spirit steady,
refusing to let himself pass out,
as these wicked forces rampaged inside him,
catalyzing,
spreading,
and multiplying to their fullest.
Time passed second by second amid the intense agony.
Finally, an hour later,
the raging Soul Power inside Lin Tian gradually settled,
and the soul-rending pain slowly eased.
With red-rimmed eyes,
Lin Tian dropped heavily from the air,
gasping for breath.
He struggled to raise his right arm
and suddenly saw a faint layer of black lines running from his fingertips across his entire arm.
They marked the places where his blood vessels intertwined—
his Blood Sea Martial Soul had still been corrupted in the end.
"So it really did turn out like this?"
Lin Tian gazed at the black vascular patterns on his right arm,
a complicated look flashing through his eyes.
The corruption had granted him greater power,
but it had also turned him into an Evil Soul Master.
And the corruption went far beyond that.
After the Blood Sea Martial Soul in his right hand had transformed into a Blood Martial Soul,
a wisp of black aura rose from his left hand as well.
His Starfish Martial Soul then released itself automatically—
Blood Fiend had corrupted both his Martial Souls!
The Blood Sea Martial Soul and Starfish Martial Soul had been corrupted at the same time.
Now, black markings covered his Starfish Martial Soul, too,
and black qi swirled around it.
At the same time, as soon as his Starfish Martial Soul possessed him,
a frenzied thirst for blood surged into his mind.
No matter how hard he tried to suppress it,
the desire kept growing without limit.
His eyes turned bloodred.
As the Corrupted Starfish Beast Martial Soul possessed him,
his teeth sprouted fangs under the influence of his Evil Martial Soul.
"Holy crap,
are Evil Martial Souls really this powerful?
Blood,
give me blood!
I want to drink blood!"
Lin Tian had lost his reason.
He raced around the secret chamber like a mad dog,
baring his fangs as he searched for blood in the enclosed room.
But there was nothing to be found—
it was an empty chamber.
That only made him more and more agitated.
The bloodlust rose within him,
and he completely lost his mind.
Then he fixed his gaze on his right hand,
bit down,
and began sucking furiously.
Meanwhile, in the Blood Sea,
two tiny fangs appeared out of nowhere, too small to be seen,
and began frantically sucking up the blood in the Blood Sea.
But even at full power,
they couldn't make the slightest difference to the sea of blood.
After all, how could fangs smaller than even the fingers of the Cell Monster possibly drink the Blood Sea dry?
In the outside world,
Lin Tian bit into his Blood Sea Martial Soul,
devouring blood in a frenzy
to nourish his Corrupted Starfish Martial Soul.
In his madness, Lin Tian fell into a strange balance:
his Corrupted Starfish Martial Soul possessed him and frantically drew blood from his Blood Sea Martial Soul.
Nourished by that ocean of blood,
the aura of Lin Tian's newly corrupted Starfish Martial Soul gradually stabilized.
The Soul Power in his body,
after being absorbed by the Starfish Martial Soul along with the blood he devoured,
was refined into the purest Soul Power energy
and fed back into his body.
His aura gradually grew more solid,
then his Soul Power surged.
After sucking for a full hour,
the bloodred eyes of Lin Tian finally began to clear.
He looked at the two bloodied holes in his hand, already healed,
and the shock in his eyes had not faded in the slightest.
"What on earth is going on?"
Although he had lost his reason just now,
he remembered everything that had happened.
After his Martial Souls were corrupted,
he had become crazily bloodthirsty.
It had taken a full hour of drinking blood for him to regain his senses.
If he'd been killing people instead,
how many would he have had to kill to get that much blood?
And yet, when he lost his mind just now,
he had actually bitten his own Blood Sea Martial Soul,
drawn blood from it,
and somehow succeeded!
He had sucked blood frantically for a whole hour,
but the blood in his own body hadn't been drained dry.
That meant that after his Blood Fangs pierced the Blood Sea Martial Soul,
they had grown to their normal size just like Blood Fiend's.
So the blood he'd been sucking hadn't come from an entire arm, but...
It had been an entire sea of blood.
That was why he hadn't been drained dry!
Lin Tian licked the blood that hadn't yet dried at the corner of his mouth.
His head was still spinning.
He sat in a chair,
his mind buzzing,
and sank into thought:
Doesn't this mean I've found a huge bug to exploit?
Things from the outside would return to their original size after entering his Blood Sea Martial Soul.
Then...
Lin Tian took a deep breath,
activated his Blood Sea Martial Soul in his right hand,
then fixed his gaze on the teapot on the table,
picked it up, and smashed it on the ground.
"Crack!"
A sharp snap rang out!
The teapot shattered into pieces.
Looking at the fragments,
Lin Tian picked up the sharpest one,
without the slightest hesitation,
and immediately slashed open a vein in his arm.
The instant it opened,
a thin stream of blood appeared,
and then blood began gushing wildly from the vein.
Watching the bright red blood,
Lin Tian couldn't help feeling uneasy.
After all, it was his own blood.
He was ready to stop the bleeding at any moment.
He only wanted to see just how powerful his Blood Sea Martial Soul was,
and what wonders it could do.