Above the now-clear Blood Domain Pool.
The dark red sphere pulsed as though it were alive, like a beating heart.
The elderly true god gazed at it as though gazing at his own child. The sense of a blood connection even made him unwilling to pay any further attention to anything else.
Beside him, the horned burly man and the Bewitching Youth watched this scene without finding it strange.
As fellow Blood Domain Pool Masters, they had experienced this themselves.
Having a newborn Blood Domain Core acknowledge its master brought precisely this sense of a blood connection.
They had no designs against the elderly true god, and even owed him a favor.
According to the rules of the Blood Domain Mountains, the elderly true god was certain to receive the main core, and could receive only the main core.
Even without transforming, that main core was already at the very pinnacle of high grade. Next time, it would almost certainly transform to supreme grade.
The two of them were each other's true opponents, since they would be competing for the Sub-Cores apart from the Main Core.
"I wonder if there'll be a Middle-grade one." The Bewitching Youth glanced at the dark red sphere, then at the horned burly man beside him.
If a Middle-grade newborn Blood Domain Core appeared this time, he intended to use it himself.
His own Blood Domain Pool had originally been a low-grade "Sub-Core." After repeated transformations, it had reached high grade, but because of some mistakes made during its cultivation in the past, it could only be said to have a slim chance of reaching supreme grade.
The elderly true god's Blood Domain Core, however, had been Middle-grade from the beginning and had received better cultivation. It would more or less reach supreme grade within