Boom!
The boundless Blood Sea suddenly boiled!
A terrifying Aura Pressure shattered the void!
That wisp of Chen Cuo's consciousness shattered in an instant!
In the Great Hua Secret Realm, on Soaring Peak.
Chen Cuo's true body gave a muffled grunt and opened his eyes. Bloodlight suddenly manifested around him, like ripples bursting outward, about to surge in every direction! But Chen Cuo caught it with one hand, gathered it all back, and suppressed it in his palm.
He lowered his head and looked into his hand. A blood-colored ghost face was faintly taking shape there, and he sank into thought.
Was there another secret behind the tale of The Painted Skin? No. This ghost face is very different from the one back then. Perhaps the secret lies not in The Painted Skin, but in the Painted Skin Evil Ghost! Yet too much is entangled in this. Whoever owns those eyes in the Blood Sea is no ordinary figure. I must not probe again lightly. At least I gained something at the last moment: I snatched a sliver of heavenly secrets from the unseen and learned that those scheming behind this include not only the Blood Sea, but the Buddhist School...
Merely recalling the scene in the Blood Sea brought blood-red light back around Chen Cuo. Deep in his mind, a trace of Bloodlight was flowing too, as though some consciousness were trying to burrow out of it!
He immediately slashed through the thought with his Wisdom Sword, severing the memory and all notions of it.
This isn't a question to ponder right now.
After that, his true body grew sleepy and weak.
"My true body has not fully coalesced, after all. It cannot endure for long." Sensing the change in his body, Chen Cuo was unsurprised. "I must make