Jiang Ding studied the blood-path sword puppet before him.
It still wore the Blood River King's face and retained all his memories.
In its own mind, it was the Blood River King: a king-tier fugitive slave of the human race, fleeing and recuperating. Along the way, it had stumbled upon a fortuitous encounter and obtained a sword-path inheritance, greatly increasing its strength.
No one else had been involved. The ancient secret realm where it had obtained the inheritance truly existed.
If anyone grew suspicious and investigated, they would find the remnants of that ancient secret realm.
"One self-check..."
Jiang Ding's divine sense swept over it.
The Blood River King's flesh was steeped in the aura of the metal-element sword path. Fine threads of blood-gold formed a network throughout his bones and flesh, lending his body an indescribable quality.
The blood-gold aura was strongest in his spine.
At some point, his bones had become a sword—a bone sword wreathed in baleful blood qi and wound with golden threads!
"Self-check complete."
Jiang Ding murmured, and his figure gradually vanished.
No one knew how much time passed.
The Blood River King slowly woke.
At first, his gaze was slightly stiff and bewildered. The next moment, clarity returned, and wild joy spread across his face.
"I finally mastered the Void-Heaven Bloodbone Sword Scripture!"
The Blood River King threw back his head and laughed. "I may be one of the slave races, but I was born with great fortune! Fortuitous encounters keep coming my way. Mo Shan, you bastard, I'll kill you and wipe out the Rock Demon Clan!"
"Still, Mo Shan is only a first-rank servant."
"If I want to become a Great Emperor, I'll have to find a way through the Horned Demon Imperial Clan. This star-domain war of the imperial heirs