Beside the Blood Pool stood twelve much smaller blood pools. The first pool on the left had already shattered and collapsed, while a figure sat cross-legged in each of the third, fourth, fifth, eleventh, and twelfth pools, absorbing the surrounding power of blood and vitality, spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and demonic energy.
The remaining blood pools were empty.
Bloodlight shrouded the five figures, concealing their true appearances, but their cultivation auras were extraordinary. All had reached the Taiyi level.
The figures in the third and fifth pools, in particular, had already reached late-tier Taiyi.
As they continued absorbing the power here, all five auras kept rising at tremendous speed. The two at late-tier Taiyi gradually approached peak-tier Taiyi, even showing faint signs of breaking through to the Heavenly Venerable Realm.
Nine Nether was also here, kneeling beside the enormous Blood Pool. He cast a somewhat envious glance at the two late-tier Taiyi cultivators as he rapidly gave his report. "...That is what happened, Lord Chi You. What should we do?"
No sooner had he finished speaking than dazzling bloodlight erupted from the ninth pool. With a resounding bang, it burst apart, destroyed as completely as the first.
Yet the figures in the five occupied pools seemed deaf to the explosion and continued cultivating in silence.
"This..." Nine Nether rose in shock.
"Even Monkey Venerable has died. It seems our attackers possess considerable strength." The black phantom also looked over, speaking gravely before raising a hand and beckoning.
Crimson light bloomed once more within the shattered pool, filled with countless blood-colored runes that instantly coalesced into a crimson magic formation.
At that very moment, inside the Mountains, Rivers, State and Society Diagram, Zhen Yuanzi had already offered Six-Eared Macaque's body in a blood sacrifice and imprisoned his divine soul