Chapter 676: Wei Yi, Unchanged for Six Thousand Years
Deep within the mountain range, countless grand and towering structures rose from the ground, each older than the last. Some palaces and pavilions had stood since the primordial era, remaining upright and undaunted.
The old clan chief of the Blood Moon Royal Clan, the Blood Moon Ancient King—a veteran Saint King comparable to the lord of the Shi Clan—was hosting a banquet for the clan's Ancestor Kings.
Within the most magnificent hall, a blood pool bubbled and boiled.
The Blood Moon Ancient King sat upon the throne above. His body was shriveled and thin as a stick, his hair sparse and withered yellow, his teeth nearly gone. He looked like an old lion in its twilight years.
Yet none of the Ancestor Kings exchanging cups below dared underestimate him.
This seemingly unremarkable old man was the strongest expert of the Blood Moon Royal Clan. He had entered the Saint King realm three thousand years ago, and his vicious reputation was well known among the Ancestor Kings of all clans.
The Blood Moon Ancient King propped his chin on one hand, his eyes like golden lamps. With his other aged hand, he toyed with a wine cup made from a gleaming skull. The wine within was mixed with blood, giving it an eerie color.
During the primordial era, a branch of the human race had attached itself to the Blood Moon Royal Clan, serving them as slaves and servants.
The then-clan chief of the Blood Moon Royal Clan, the grandfather of the Blood Moon Ancient King, had been an immensely powerful half-step Great Sage. In an effort to strengthen the trunk and weaken the branches, he had personally slain a female Human Saint King.
He beheaded her, drank deeply of her blood,