Blood Curse Art
Not long after Cheng Ruidá left the pass, some ordinary members of the Cheng Family contracted a strange disease, and nearly a thousand people died within a few hours.
Cheng Ruidá told his people that this was a highly contagious plague, and the bodies of those who died from the disease had to be taken to a place far from their Lineage, burned, and buried to prevent the plague from spreading further.
Although Cheng Ruidá's statement contained many unreasonable points, no one dared to question or refute it due to his authority within the clan.
Cheng Ruidá collected all the corpses of these clansmen using his storage ring.
No one knows how the body was disposed of.
But the strange illness stopped abruptly after the body was removed.
Six months later, just as the Cheng Lineage was recovering from their grief, tragedy struck again, with a large number of family members dying.
More than 3,000 people died this time, including dozens of Qi Refining Early Stage cultivators.
Panic immediately erupted throughout the Cheng Family.
Various rumors spread.
Some say the Lineage is Curse, others say enemies have come seeking revenge...
Many ordinary members of the Cheng Family want to move out of the Cheng Family and live elsewhere.
However, under the suppression led by Cheng Ruidá and a group of cultivators, this voice quickly disappeared.
In the following two or three years, there were no large-scale deaths in the Cheng Family, but the Cheng Family was still not at peace, with members frequently disappearing mysteriously.
About four years ago, Cheng Han, who had already advanced to the Qi Refinement Perfection but had been unable to Foundation Establishment due to the lack of Foundation Establishment, obtained a precious Foundation Establishment from Cheng Ruidá.
However, Cheng Ruidá had one condition for bestowing this Foundation Establishment upon Cheng Han.
Cheng Han must willingly open his Sea of Consciousness to allow Cheng Ruidá plant the Soul-Locking Curse; from then on, his life and death will be in Cheng Ruidá's control.
Although unwilling, Cheng Han chose to submit in order to Foundation Establishment, for greater power, and for a longer lifespan.
After Cheng Han successfully Foundation Establishment, Cheng Ruidá told him the truth about the deaths and disappearances of members of the Cheng Lineage.
It turns out that Cheng Ruidá obtained a secret technique called 'Blood Curse Technique' in an ancient ruin.
This is an extremely vicious Blood Dao Secret Method, generally used against enemies with whom one has Blood Sea.
When a caster uses Blood Curse Technique on an enemy, the cursed person will lose their mind, slaughter their own relatives, and devour their flesh and blood.
The more relatives a person under a curse consumes, the stronger they become.
There is one condition for casting Blood Curse Technique: the Essence Blood of an enemy's blood relative must be used as the medium for casting the spell.
As the patriarch of Lineage under the Beast Taming Sect, Cheng Ruidá had some knowledge of beast taming.
After obtaining the Blood Curse Technique, he thought of another use for it.
Use Blood Curse Technique to quickly train a powerful spirit beast.
So he captured a spirit monkey at the Qi Refining Ninth Layer and used the Essence Blood of his own people as a medium to cast Blood Curse Technique on the spirit monkey.
Cheng Ruidá performed the procedure three times in total.
The first time, he captured five ordinary people, killed them, drained their blood, and refined their Essence Blood.
As a result, the Essence Blood was insufficient, causing the Blood Curse Technique to fail.
Cheng Ruidá speculated that the difference between Demon Beast and humans might lead to a difference in the amount of Essence Blood required to cast Blood Curse Technique.
He then made a second attempt.
This time, he killed over a thousand ordinary people.
Just as he expected, with sufficient Essence Blood, the Blood Curse Technique was successful.
But the clever monkey died mysteriously not long after.
It was as if the Demon Beast's physical body and the Blood Curse Technique were incompatible, and the Blood Curse Technique forcibly destroyed the spirit monkey's physical body.
Somewhat unwilling to give up, Cheng Ruidá decided to make one last attempt.
He used the Blood Curse Technique for the third time, killing more than three thousand of his people.
This time, the spell was exceptionally successful.
Even the physical structure of the spirit monkey was completely altered by the Blood Curse Technique, transforming it into its current form as Blood Demon, a combination of a monkey and a bat.
The newly born Blood Demon was not considered powerful, only Qi Refining Ninth Layer of Qi Refining.
To prevent the Blood Demon from being hunted down by unsuspecting Cheng Family cultivators, Cheng Ruidá fed the Blood Demon for two years.
During this period, Cheng Ruidá would feed the Blood Demon Spirit Stone and pills, as well as members of the Cheng Lineage.
Two years later, the Blood Demon advanced to the Foundation Establishment Realm.
The Blood Demon began hunting on their own.
After that, the difficulties faced by the Cheng Lineage members intensified.
The Blood Demon slaughtered members of the Cheng Family Lineage, causing their numbers to dwindle rapidly.
When the Blood Demon advanced to the mid-Foundation Establishment Middle Stage and showed signs of entering maturity, Cheng Ruidá knew he could no longer ignore the Blood Demon.
He reported to the Beast Taming Sect that demons were causing trouble within the Cheng Lineage and requested the Beast Taming Sect to send Alchemist to assist in eliminating them.
Most of the existing cultivators in the Cheng Family knew about Cheng Ruidá's use of clansmen to raise Blood Demon; only the mortals of the Cheng Family were kept in the dark.
Moreover, during the period when the Blood Demon was rampaging, many ordinary members of the Cheng Family wanted to escape from the Cheng Family, but they were all poisoned and controlled by Cheng Ruidá.
Those poisoned must take the antidote every five days, otherwise they will suffer unbearable itching and scratch themselves to death.
Song Wen also learned something from Cheng Han's memory.
Cheng Ruidá had promised Cheng Han that once the Cheng Lineage had recovered and its population had grown, he would help Cheng Han breed a Blood Demon as well.
Cheng Han had also studied the 'Blood Curse Technique', and at the end of the Blood Curse Technique, it was clearly recorded that this technique originated from the Divine Blood Sect.
After consuming Cheng Han's Essence Blood, and soul, Song Wen stored his corpse in his storage ring.
At this moment, three Sacred Beetle Gu, leading three people, arrived; two were dead and one was alive.
Just now, these three people witnessed Song Wen killing Cheng Han.
The two who died were Cheng Five and Cheng Seven, who had been monitoring Song Wen.
Qiulu was captured alive.
"Senior Wu, please don't kill me," Qiulu said tremblingly.
Song Wen wore a cold smile.
"Miss Qiulu, the daughter of the dignified head of the Cheng Family, you've actually disguised yourself as a servant. It's truly an injustice to you."
Song Wen learned Qiulu's identity from Cheng Han's memories.
Qiulu has no Spirit Root and cannot cultivate, so her status in the Cheng Family should have been extremely low.
However, being born into Lineage of cultivators and being the daughter of the family head made her dissatisfied with the mundane life of an ordinary mortal; she yearned for great power and a higher status.
Since she cannot cultivate herself, she can only rely on powerful cultivators.
Therefore, Qiulu used her appearance as leverage to move among the Cheng Family cultivators. Coupled with her intelligence, she quickly gained a place in the Cheng Family.
She also successfully became another means for Cheng Ruidá to control the Cheng Family cultivators.
When Song Wen revealed her identity, Qiulu terrified.
"Senior Wu, I can be your servant, I..."
Song Wen was too lazy to listen to her nonsense, so he used his spiritual power to wrap her up and fly towards the underground cave.
Among the ancient sites that Cheng Ruidá visited, there were clues about the Divine Blood Sect.
Song Wen was determined to obtain Cheng Ruidá's memory of this.
On his way to the underground cave, Song Wen casually devoured the Essence Blood, and souls of Qiulu and the other two, and also collected their corpses.