Although more than half the Purple Qilin blood river had already been devoured, leaving little behind.
The brothers Jin Yunteng and Jin Yunxiao had no intention of considering the feelings of the young Pure-Blooded Creatures behind them. Filling their own bellies and drinking their fill mattered most. Who cared whether anyone else lived or died?
They drove the divine radiance in their blood to its utmost, let out a piercing cry like a great peng, and began gulping down the river's bounty.
The young Pure-Blooded Creatures behind them watched with aching longing, frantic with impatience. But they had no choice. They could only stare as the creatures ahead frantically refined the blood, unable to do a thing.
This was a rule the Primordial Divine Mountain had upheld since ancient times, an iron law. Once the positions for the blood pool baptism were settled, no one could resort to violence or interfere with others. Otherwise, everyone would join forces to slay the offender.
The blood river flowed on. After passing through the "dam" formed by Shi Yi and the Little Golden Spider, its flow diminished by more than half. After passing through the second "dam," Jin Yunteng and Jin Yunxiao, it diminished again...
And so, dwindling layer by layer, the blood river vanished completely, devoured down to the last drop.
At least half the creatures were still waiting eagerly farther back.
Seeing the blood river halt and disappear, the Pure-Blooded Creatures at the rear fell apart. If they could not partake of the Purple Qilin blood river's bounty, how could this even count as a blood pool baptism? They had simply come for nothing.
The True Hou youngling and the Pixiu brothers were especially anxious. They could have enjoyed the blood river's bounty, but Shi Yi had thrown them to the rear, where they could not even catch a glimpse of it. Watching the creatures ahead continually evolve and grow stronger, how could they not be frantic?
"This member of the human race is far too overbearing. He swallowed more than half the bounty all by himself and left us without even a mouthful of soup. How hateful," one creature complained.
"Damn it! This blood pool baptism was an opportunity meant for us creatures of the divine mountain, yet this human came charging in halfway through to pluck the ripe peaches."
The creatures at the rear had reached the height of their resentment toward Shi Yi, their gazes utterly cold as they stared at his back.
They truly wanted to strike, to swarm him together, bring down this humanoid Taotie, and seize back the bounty that should have been theirs.
But remembering the iron law here, as well as Shi Yi's terrifying strength, these restless creatures could only force down their unrealistic thoughts.
At that very moment, earth-shaking changes were taking place inside Shi Yi.
His cultivation climbed steadily higher, the divine radiance in his blood grew ever stronger, and his physical strength soared. Beyond that, the Supreme Bone in his chest emitted a hazy, brilliant glow, with countless symbols dancing within it. Dimly, there seemed to be a supreme being seated cross-legged inside, invincible throughout heaven and earth, chanting scriptures.
It was like the ravenous maw of a Taotie, gulping down Purple Qilin blood. Vast quantities of divine power and vital essence flowed into it, nourishing the bone and providing an endless supply of essence to help it reach perfection.
At the same time, Shi Yi's double pupils shone brilliantly, like the most radiant divine lamps in the darkness, seemingly able to illuminate the ages, past and present, and show the lost their path forward.
His double pupils developed further, greatly enhancing the abilities they already possessed. Deep within his left eye, the power of life and creation surged in streams, while destructive power gushed from the depths of his right eye, as though they were about to form primordial qi.
Everything was moving in a favorable direction. Shi Yi had fulfilled his wish and obtained the tremendous opportunity he had longed for.
Yet the more comfortable he felt, the more miserable the young Pure-Blooded Creatures behind him became.
Many creatures of the divine mountain could only watch helplessly, unable to consume even a single drop. Their plight was truly wretched.
Perhaps this baptism would become the greatest tragedy in the Primordial Divine Mountain's history, with nearly half the Pure-Blooded Younglings reduced to mere also-rans.
"Damn that human!"
Many Pure-Blooded Younglings cursed him in secret, paying their foul respects to all eighteen generations of Shi Yi's ancestors.
Beside Shi Yi, the Little Golden Spider shared in his rich feast, enjoying the blood pool baptism where the concentration of divine power was highest. The spider gulped it down, doing everything possible with near-greedy fervor, until even every strand of spider hair was filled to the brim.
Through this devouring, every aspect of the Little Golden Spider's constitution improved enormously. There were even signs of cocooning and molting all over the spider's body, as though an entirely new body were about to break free of the old shell. This was a thorough transformation and elevation from the inside out, encompassing the entire body, as different from an ordinary baptism as heaven was from earth.
All that could be said was that Demon Spirit Lake had reaped an enormous profit this time, winning beyond measure.
Shi Yi entered a state of self-forgetfulness. He linked and fused his attainments in runes and bone text with his rapidly growing cultivation and physical strength, driving them together toward a deeper elevation and transformation.
Time passed, second by second. Judging by past experience, the blood pool baptism had already passed its peak. From here on, the volume of Purple Qilin blood would gradually decline until it ran dry.
The Pure-Blooded Younglings who had yet to receive even a mouthful of soup were nearly at their breaking point, their hearts sinking to the ocean floor. By now, they had begun to question life itself and deeply doubted Shi Yi's supposed origins in the human race. They unanimously believed that he came from the Taotie race, not the human race.
At last, the transformation of the two great innate gifts within Shi Yi reached its conclusion.
The Supreme Bone no longer devoured essence. The symbols within it were complete, and the secret art it had been nurturing was about to emerge.
His double pupils had even produced yin-yang qi, terrifying in might and limitless in its wondrous uses, greatly bolstering Shi Yi's combat strength.
Shi Yi himself had charged right up to the blood moving realm threshold.
His raw physical strength had already grown to the point where a single swing of one arm carried one hundred and five thousand jin of force. He was only one step away from the extreme realm.
Shi Yi gathered his strength for the final assault.
As he frantically attacked the barrier, the shackles began to loosen. Empowered by the Purple Qilin blood, Shi Yi pressed on in one unbroken surge, striking again and again. At last, an intangible crack rang out. Shi Yi broke through the final obstacle, and the road ahead lay smooth and open.
His physical strength surged once more, soaring all the way to one hundred and eight thousand jin in a single arm.
It did not end there. Building on the blood moving extreme realm, Shi Yi brought his understanding of runes and bone text to its utmost. All the divine radiance in the blood throughout his body underwent an elevation, forming one tiny blood-colored cocoon after another. Layers of blood-colored feathers appeared over the surface of his body, as though he were about to sprout wings and ascend.
"Roar!"
Shi Yi roared as his entire being underwent its final elevation. All the blood feathers fell away. They were discarded, aged blood. To other creatures in the blood moving realm, they might have been incomparably powerful, but to him, they were superfluous impurities that needed to be expelled from his body.
Once all the impurities had been expelled, Shi Yi was reborn. His entire body was crystalline and translucent, radiating a brilliant, precious glow, as though he were the most perfect work of art.
At that moment, he felt incomparably powerful, standing at the very pinnacle of the blood moving realm.
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