Atop Myriad Souls Cave, the blood pool churned. Han Li stared at Wei Wuya's corpse on the ground. Though the demonic body covered in blood-colored scales had stiffened, the blood spirit crystal in its chest remained intact, even giving off a faint glow. Stranger still, the remnant nascent soul that should have dispersed from his Purple Mansion had vanished without a trace.
"Something's wrong." Han Li crouched and sent grand void spiritual power from his fingertips into the corpse. "These scales were formed by Blood Shadow Phantom Body. The real Blood Fiend Church Master isn't dead at all."
The system screen in his sea of consciousness suddenly flashed red:
[Warning! Blood shadow clone trait detected: the true body can transfer cultivation through a clone's death. The true body is currently at the core of the Earth-Lung Blood Pool in Myriad Souls Cave. Its cultivation has recovered to the peak of the nascent soul late stage, and it has devoured the clone's remaining demonic qi. Its demonic art is now stronger than ever!]
"What a wily old demon!" Han Li sprang to his feet, the Water-Magnetic Sword humming in his palm. Before his words faded, a sky-shaking demonic voice rang out from the depths of Myriad Souls Cave. From the towering pillar of blood at the center of the pool, a blood-colored figure three times larger than before slowly emerged-the true body of the Blood Fiend Church Master, Wei Wuya! His scales were thicker, and bloody markings crawled across them like living creatures. The sulfurous stench of earth-lung poison fire mingled with his nascent soul late stage pressure. His eyes were blood-red, and the Ten-Thousand-Soul Banner in his hand had been fully restored. A million vengeful souls howled together across its surface, their cries shaking rocks loose from the