Absorption

The Blood God shook his head with a complicated expression.

"What power do you possess that could refine the 'power of the Abyss'?"

"As one of the Four Pillar God Clans of that era, the God-Defying Race was one of the world's inhabitants acknowledged by the Heavenly Dao. They wielded a portion of this world's origin power. Only by fusing that origin power into his bloodline could the God-Defying King forcibly refine the 'power of the Abyss'..."

"And in truth, although the God-Defying Race was indeed destroyed because of it, what they did back then was not a complete failure..."

Chen Fan nodded in realization.

Though he did not know what kind of power the world's origin power was, he could guess that it was anything but ordinary.

His eyes flickered. "That Mutated Blood Demon I took from the Blood Demon Secret Realm—was it an existence that successfully refined the 'power of the Abyss'?"

The Blood God's expression turned subtle.

"That fellow was a product of an extremely special set of circumstances within the Blood Demon Secret Realm, born of immense coincidence. While it did indeed successfully refine the 'power of the Abyss,' it could not wield that power on its own. Only in a special state could it erupt with the 'power of the Abyss'..."

"However, as an existence with certain traits of 'success'... it did become the benchmark for Zi Shang's later research, even helping Zi Shang ultimately complete the framework of the Blood-Melting Technique..."

As Chen Fan came to understand, his expression grew increasingly subtle. "Senior, you just said that you have already completed the liberation of the God-Defying Blood. Did you successfully refine the 'power of the Abyss'?"

The Blood God nodded with a complicated expression.

"I can be considered the greatest result of Zi Shang's