But as soon as a little blood started flowing,
Lin Tian felt that something was wrong--
He could feel the blood draining from his veins.
So he promptly tied off his arm,
binding it to stop the bleeding,
then circulated the Soul Power in his body,
gathering it at the wound.
In the span of a single breath,
the wound healed.
"This won't work.
The blood flowing out is my own blood,
so why did that just..."
Lin Tian immediately summoned his Corrupted Starfish Martial Soul.
The Starfish Martial Soul, which had originally been dark yellow, had now turned pink.
It was brimming with blood energy,
clearly because it had absorbed a massive amount of blood.
So he hadn't been dreaming just now.
He really had absorbed an enormous amount of blood to stabilize his body.
He could already be considered an Evil Soul Master.
After becoming an Evil Soul Master,
something extra appeared in his mind, something ordinary people didn't have:
a murderous urge that drove him mad.
If he didn't satisfy the needs of his Martial Soul,
he would descend into a frenzy, wanting to kill:
Evil Soul Masters with corpse-based Martial Souls had to collect corpses,
those whose Martial Souls were connected to souls had to collect souls,
and those whose Martial Souls were connected to blood had to absorb blood.
Only after satisfying their bodies' needs
could they return to normal.
He must have returned to normal only after absorbing that enormous amount of blood,
so he definitely hadn't been dreaming.
Since he had gotten the fangs by possessing someone through the Corrupted Starfish,
then bitten down on the Blood Sea Martial Soul
and drawn blood out of the Blood Sea,
that meant...
Lin Tian scanned the secret chamber
and saw nothing.
His gaze immediately fixed on the place where Blood Fiend had just disappeared--
Everything Blood Fiend had left behind was scattered on the ground:
a set of clothes,
a black robe,
and six pieces of Battle Armor.
Each piece radiated a terrifying aura
and contained an enormous amount of blood energy.
They were probably Three-Character Battle Armor.
It hadn't occurred to him that Blood Fiend's Battle Armor might be Four-Character Battle Armor.
For one thing, Blood Fiend's Soul Power cultivation was only so-so.
For another, Lin Tian didn't think Blood Fiend could get Heaven-Forged Metal from Zhen Hua.
He could ignore the Battle Armor for now.
Lin Tian immediately focused on the blood-red ring--
It was Blood Fiend's Storage Soul Tool Ring.
The owner was dead,
so the soul imprint should have disappeared!
And Blood Fiend's Martial Soul and body were now both inside Lin Tian's Blood Sea Martial Soul.
He had Blood Fiend's aura all over him.
He was practically a living grave for Blood Fiend.
That was seriously hard to wrap his head around...
Lin Tian immediately took hold of the ring,
then sent his mental power inside
and infused it with Soul Power.
The blood-red Soul Power, carrying Blood Fiend's aura, affected the Storage Soul Tool.
Finally, after a quarter of an hour,
the seal loosened,
and Lin Tian completely took control of the Storage Soul Tool.
Then,
with a thought,
he took out a syringe.
As a blood-drinking Evil Soul Master, Blood Fiend had to have a syringe on him.
Lin Tian had guessed as much,
and sure enough, there it was--
It was a round tube, pointed at one end and thicker at the other.
The sharp tip could pierce skin and veins,
allowing blood to flow out.
Since cutting his skin hadn't worked just now,
he would try his second theory.
Lin Tian took a deep breath,
then, without the slightest hesitation,
thrust the sharp metal Blood Extraction Needle into his skin and vein.
With a "rip,"
it pierced his skin and vein with ease.
Lin Tian winced in pain
and sucked in a breath, furrowing his brow as he intently watched his arm, the Blood Sea Martial Soul, and the Blood Extraction Needle.
Before long,
blood began appearing in the needle,
then gushed out,
flowing into the iron barrel Lin Tian had prepared beforehand.
Just as he was ready to pull out the needle at any moment and heal the wound,
a scene that shocked him unfolded:
He couldn't feel the blood draining from his arm at all.
No matter how much flowed out,
he felt nothing,
and his complexion hadn't changed either.
It was still normal,
not the slightest bit pale.
Aside from feeling a little hungry, his body showed no adverse effects.
"Holy crap,
it really works.
I've found a bug!"
Lin Tian could sense that the blood was water from the Blood Sea.
It had no blood cells,
and there were no Sea Soul Beasts in it--
just thick, sticky blood.
To put it in scientific terms,
it was all blood plasma--
Blood was made up of blood cells and plasma.
The blood cells were too large to be drawn out,
so the whole barrel of blood he had drawn was plasma.
Just ordinary plasma,
without any Soul Power.
Was it because he was still a Soul Scholar,
with no Soul Rings
and no enhancements to his Martial Soul?
If he upgraded his Martial Soul,
and the Blood Sea evolved,
would the plasma he drew out turn into a supernatural liquid?
Lin Tian rubbed his chin,
lost in thought.
The scene at that moment was extremely bizarre:
A young man,
with a Blood Extraction Needle stuck in his arm,
blood gushing through the tube into an iron barrel.
The huge barrel was already full,
and blood had spilled over,
surging across the floor!
Yet the young man didn't care in the slightest.
As if Lin Tian would give a damn!
Going by ordinary logic,
the section of the needle that had entered the Blood Sea World was still its normal size.
It hadn't been magnified countless times.
The ordinary needle entering the microscopic world had been reduced to its normal size there,
so the blood flowing out of it--
the blood from this entire Blood Sea--
would be enough to drown the entire Douluo Star, and he still wouldn't be able to draw it all.
Why would he feel bad about that?
So Lin Tian simply let the blood flow through the secret chamber,
doing nothing at all.
He only pondered what use this bug of his could possibly have.
What could he do with infinite blood?
It didn't seem good for much.
Could he eat it, maybe?
Get an unlimited supply of food?
Plasma was essentially protein.
Cooked, it could indeed fill his stomach.
But this blood was just ordinary blood,
no different from eating instant noodles.
It couldn't even make me feel full,
let alone provide my body with the energy to produce blood cells.
It was useless!
At that thought,
Lin Tian immediately lost interest.
And just then,
a painfully awkward thought suddenly flashed through his mind:
"Wait a second,
if that's how it works,
then isn't this a disaster?
What the hell good is an infinite-blood bug
if I'm stuck with it?"
What he wanted was to raise Soul Beasts in the Blood Sea,
raise Soul Beasts of his own,
raise those Blood Sea Monsters,
nurture them,
and evolve them into super Cthulhus;
to use all kinds of outside interference
to change the entire Blood Sea World,
and create all kinds of eras like a creator god.
But if everything from the outside world became its normal size
once it entered the Blood Sea World,
then he wouldn't be able to influence anything!
"Disaster.
I'm totally screwed!"
Lin Tian was now in a complete panic.
After all, in his vision,
interfering with the Blood Sea from the outside was the strongest feature of this cheat,
the key to making the most of it.
But now he was screwed...
Still,
didn't I always summon my Martial Soul to use it?
The Body Martial Soul was part of my body to begin with,
and the Blood Sea already existed inside me.
If I didn't summon my Martial Soul,
but just used my arm in its normal form,
could I still interfere with it?
As he thought it over,
Lin Tian immediately pulled out the Blood Extraction Needle,
healed the wound,
then withdrew the Blood Sea Martial Soul
and waved his bare right arm.
He was about to make the attempt that would decide his fate!