The ancient Buddha's enormous body slowly closed its eyes again, leaving only an icy Great Dao Divine Decree echoing through the hall.
"Remember, the more blood essence you deliver, the faster I will recover."
"When the Immortal Seed truly descends, if I return to the peak of Hunyuan Limitless, I naturally will not deny you two martial brothers your rewards."
"If you dare to obey in public while defying in private and delay my great undertaking, then since I can bestow blood essence upon you, I can also take back every Dao Fruit within your bodies and refine you into dried corpses!"
Hearing those Great Dao words brimming with killing intent, Jie Yin and Zhun Ti shuddered and hurriedly fell to their knees.
"This junior obeys the Divine Decree!"
"Please rest at ease, Patriarch. We two juniors will certainly give our all to gather the blood essence of the Three Realms for you!"
The ancient Buddha said nothing further. The Buddhist light throughout the hall completely vanished, and the colossal stone doors rumbled heavily as they slowly closed inward again.
The entire underground space returned to its deathly darkness and chill.
Jie Yin and Zhun Ti slowly rose to their feet and exchanged a glance.
Their eyes met in the dim void, and each saw the undisguised ruthlessness and madness deep within the other's gaze.
Gather blood essence?
That was no difficult task for them.
With the Primordial Calamity at hand, the deaths and injuries of hundreds of millions of living beings were an inescapable fate. So long as it allowed them to secure their current cultivation, or even advance further, they did not care how many people had to die.
"Senior Brother, that old bastard has quite the appetite."
Zhun Ti moved closer to Jie Yin and transmitted his