The Dao Fruit Was Right There...

The enormous body of the Jade Jade Dragon King rapidly shrank in the Blood Sea, its scales peeling off inch by inch, turning into golden dust that scattered across the sky.

When the last drop of Essence Blood was drained, the entire Blood Sea suddenly fell into a deathly silence, and even the sound of the waves disappeared for a moment.

The Youquan stands silently in the void, its eyes tightly closed.

The Blood Sea surged, and countless tiny specks of light rose from the Blood Sea depths—the most refined part of the Jade Jade Dragon King's thousand-year cultivation: the true dragon bloodline.

The moment these points of light touched the Blood Sea, they spread rapidly, like ink entering water, changing the color of the entire Blood Sea from dark red to a deep golden red. A faint dragon-shaped phantom appeared on the surface of the sea, meandering and swimming.

[Automatic Law Technique updates complete. This is a minor version update; Law Technique effects have been adjusted as follows.]

[Blood God Son 3.0: Increases the overall power of Law Technique, Blood God Son's strength increases to one-tenth of the original body] The moment the words appeared in his Sea of Consciousness, Youquan suddenly opened his eyes, and a flash of golden-red light disappeared from his eyes.

"Ho Yi"

It wasn't just one roar, but seven thousand five hundred roars erupting simultaneously.

The seven thousand five hundred Blood God Son surrounding him roared to the sky in unison, each blood shadow expanding and solidifying violently.

The previously blurry humanoid outline quickly became clear, with bulging muscles, a ferocious face, and eyes that gleamed with a golden-red light identical to that of the Youquan.

Their aura surged wildly, breaking through from their original Qi Refining level all the way to the Foundation Establishment barrier.

"Boom!"

The sound of the ramparts shattering echoed through the sky.

Seven thousand five hundred Foundation Establishment level auras soared into the sky, stirring up the sea of clouds for a thousand miles around.

The entire Seven Stars Surrounding the Moon Sea was engulfed by towering waves hundreds of feet high. Countless aquatic creatures fled in terror, and some demonic Demon Beast that couldn't escape in time were directly crushed by this terrifying aura, turning into clouds of blood mist, which were then instinctively absorbed into the bodies of the Blood God Son.

Youquan sensed the changes in the Blood God Son, his eyes narrowing slightly. Although they were at the Foundation Establishment True Person stage, these Blood God Son were ultimately just Law Technique creations, lacking the mysteries of a true Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Even so, they still possess the purest and most savage power of Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Each Blood God Son possesses a vast and powerful Law Power capable of moving mountains and filling seas; though crude, it is incredibly violent.

If a true Foundation Establishment cultivator is like a meticulously crafted sword.

These Blood God Son are like 7,500 incredibly heavy warhammers, relying solely on brute force and disregarding any rules.

"Amitabha."

"Benefactor Youquan, you have committed a grave sin by devouring the Jade Jade Dragon King." The gaunt monk in his moon-white robes clasped his hands together. "This humble monk will today deliver you from your sea of suffering."

Youquan laughed, his laughter echoing through the Blood Sea: "Two Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Arhat dare to claim they can save me?"

Baoguang shook his head and remained silent, while Baoshan glared angrily. "You wicked creature! Today I will show you the methods of Buddhism!"

Before he could finish speaking, Baoshan made the first move.

The string of black Buddhist beads on his chest suddenly exploded, and the eighteen beads transformed into eighteen golden Arhat, each three zhang tall, holding Law Artifact such as vajras, demon-subduing rings, and karmic-slaying knives, forming a formation and rushing towards Youquan.

Each Arhat possesses the power of the Foundation Establishment Early Stage; when the eighteen Arhats join forces, their energy interconnected, they subtly possess the potential to trap and kill those in the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage.

The Youquan remained completely still.

He simply raised his right hand and waved it lightly.

A thousand Blood God Son moved.

They didn't cast any Law Technique, didn't form any formations, and didn't even spread out to encircle; they just stood there, straight...

It charged headlong into the eighteen golden Arhat.

"Boom!"

The first collision.

The three golden Arhat were struck head-on by the Blood God Son. Their golden bodies, which were strong enough to withstand the attack of a high-grade Law Artifact, shattered like glass under the impact of pure, savage power.

The Blood God Son himself was also shaken apart by the recoil.

But the next moment, the dissipated blood mist reformed and surged forward again.

Baoshan's expression changed, and he hurriedly Hand Seals. The remaining fifteen Arhat quickly changed formation, the Vajra Pestle unleashed thousands of golden lights, the Demon-Subduing Circle threw out countless rings, and the Karma-Slaying Blade cleaved with blood-red blade light.

These are all Buddhist Divine Ability, each strike containing the Power of Principle to dispel evil and vanquish demons.

However, the Blood God Son didn't care at all.

They withstood the attacks of Divine Ability, allowing golden light to pierce their bodies, rings to lock their limbs, and blades to sever their arms, only to be destroyed and reborn.

In the second wave, five more golden Arhat statues were smashed to pieces.

Baoshan broke out in a sweat; he realized he had made a fatal mistake.

These Blood God Son are not enemies in the conventional sense.

They feel no pain, no fear, are unafraid of injury, and don't even care about life or death.

They were like seven thousand five hundred tireless warhammers, rising and falling again and again, until everything in their path was reduced to dust.

"Senior brother, help me!" Baoshan roared.

Baoguang finally moved.

He sat cross-legged in the void, his hands forming the lotus mudra, chanting. "All conditioned phenomena are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows, dew, and lightning; thus should they be contemplated—"

With each word he recited, a circle of Buddhist light shone around him. After reciting all nine words, the nine circles of Buddhist light overlapped and merged, transforming into a golden domain spanning three hundred miles.

[Baoguang Domain Heaven - Lotus Flower Pure Land]

Within the realm, golden lotuses bloomed everywhere, sweet rain fell from the sky, and the sound of chanting resounded in every corner.

As soon as those ferocious Blood God Son entered this area, their movements slowed down by 30%, and the bloodthirsty aura on their bodies was continuously purified by the Buddhist light, making a sizzling sound.

Upon seeing this, Baoshan's spirits lifted, and he too sat cross-legged, pressing his hands to the ground. "May the Buddha, in his compassion, also roar like a lion, terrifying all demons and protecting the true Dharma!"

The earth trembled, and an illusory Mount Sumeru Mountain Shadow rose from beneath him. Eight Classes of Devas and Nagas coiled on the mountain, Vajra warriors patrolled, and countless Buddhist disciples chanted sutras and worshipped.

[Baoshan Domain Heaven - Vajra Sumeru]

The two Domain Heaven overlapped, causing a surge in power.

The Blood God Son were trapped in a quagmire, and every movement required several times their strength.

The Buddha's light scorched their bodies like flames, while the chanting struck their cores like heavy hammers.

In just ten breaths, more than three hundred Blood God Son completely dissipated and returned to the Blood Sea.

Youquan raised an eyebrow.

"That's interesting."

He raised his hands, Blood Sea surged behind him. All seven thousand two hundred Blood God Son looked up, their eyes burning with golden-red light.

Then, Youquan made a simple gesture: he pressed both hands down.

"Boom!"

It wasn't one, it wasn't a hundred, it was all the remaining Blood God Son erupting simultaneously.

They abandoned their attack, and even their defense.

Each Blood God Son began frantically drawing upon the Blood Sea's essence, compressing all its power to the extreme, and then self-destructing.

In the first wave, a thousand Blood God Son exploded.

The golden lotus in the Baoguang Domain Heaven withered by half in an instant, and the Buddha's light dimmed like a candle flickering in the wind.

Baoshan groaned, a trickle of golden blood spilling from the corner of his mouth. The Mount Sumeru Mountain Shadow beneath him shook violently, and countless cracks appeared on its surface.

"A madman! This guy is a madman!" Baoshan's face darkened.

What Foundation Establishment cultivator would fight like this?!

Youquan remained expressionless and pressed his hands down again.

In the second wave, two thousand Blood God Son exploded.

"Click-"

The Baoguang Domain Heaven shattered completely, and the countless golden lotuses vanished as specks of light.

Baoguang's monk robes were ripped apart, and his emaciated body was covered with fine bloodstains.

His eyes widened in disbelief—his Domain Heaven, painstakingly formed over three hundred years, had been shattered in such a barbaric and unreasonable way!

In the third wave, four thousand two hundred Blood God Son exploded simultaneously.

This time, there was no sound.

Because the power of the explosion exceeded the limits of sound propagation.

The space within a radius of a thousand miles was torn open with countless black cracks, and the water completely evaporated, revealing the dried-up riverbed.

The earth sank, mountains collapsed, and the clouds in the sky were swept away by the shockwave, revealing the dark and deep void behind them.

Baoshan's Vajra Sumeru Domain Heaven didn't even last a moment before it shattered like a bubble.

The two Arhat were sent flying backwards. Baoguang was covered in blood, his chest was caved in, and his ribs were obviously broken.

Baoshan was in an even worse state; both his arms were blown apart at the shoulders, and there was a transparent hole in his chest through which his heart could be seen beating slightly.

Youquan descended through the air, and the Blood Sea reformed behind him, though it was nearly half the size.

Of the original 7,500 Blood God Son, less than 100 remain, surrounding him with weak auras.

But he won.

"You—what exactly—" Baoguang struggled to say something, but kept coughing up blood and foam mixed with fragments of internal organs.

Youquan crouched down and looked at him. "My Blood God Son lacks the profound mysteries of Foundation Establishment, cannot cast exquisite Law Technique, and cannot communicate with the Principle heaven and earth."

"But they have one-tenth of my strength."

"Seven thousand five hundred tenths is seven hundred and fifty of me."

"And you—" Youquan reached out and pressed her hand against Baoguang's forehead, "There are only two of you."

A flash of blood.

Baoguang's body rapidly withered, and all his Essence Blood and cultivation flowed into Youquan's body.

Baoshan's eyes were bloodshot with rage, and he wanted to self-destruct his Dao Foundation to perish together with the enemy, but then he saw the last hundred Blood God Son rush up and hold him down tightly.

Ten breaths later, only Youquan remained alone above the Jade Jade Dragon Palace.

He felt the newly grown power within his body, and the Blood God Son beginning to gestate anew in the Blood Sea; this time, they would be even stronger.

On the western horizon, more rays of light from Buddha are faintly gathering.

Youquan turned his head and glanced at it, chuckled softly, and his figure transformed into a blood shadow, merging into the seawater that surged up beneath his feet and disappearing from sight.

A thousand miles of scorched earth, the setting sun like blood.

It will take this land a century to recover.

The aftershocks of this battle are only just beginning to spread.

The ocean trenches, thousands of meters below the surface, are a realm where even light abandons its reach.

Youquan sits cross-legged at the deepest part of the trench, beneath which lies cold sedimentary rock accumulated over hundreds of millions of years.

He didn't deliberately activate his Law Power, but the Blood Sea behind him still surged on its own, its size even larger than before the battle with the Arhat.

Nearly half.

The sea surface is no longer only filled with the phantom of the Blood God Son; occasionally, a dragon-shaped creature meanders by, which is the imprint left by the Jade Jade Dragon King; sometimes, golden lotuses appear and disappear, which is the Buddha-nature of the Baoguang Arhat being devoured; deeper in the sea, the phantom of mountains can be vaguely seen rising and falling, which is the Vajra Sumeru Domain Heaven fragment of the Baoshan Arhat.

Three distinct forces collided, tore apart, and merged in the Blood Sea.

Youquan held his hands loosely together in front of his chest, a posture he had maintained for seven days and seven nights.

Deep within the Blood Sea, a strange crimson light slowly rose.

This drop of blood light pierced through layers of blood waves and finally fell into Youquan's trembling palm.

A sound so faint it's almost nonexistent.

The blood-red light dissipated in his palm, dissolving naturally like a drop of water merging into the ocean.

At the same time, an unprecedented enlightenment welled up from Youquan's heart like a clear spring, quickly flowing through every meridian and acupoint of his body.

He slowly opened his eyes.

Two golden-red lights suddenly lit up in the trench.

"Pop-"

A glint of light flickered in Youquan's eyes, first in confusion, then in contemplation, and finally in complete understanding.

He looked down at his clasped hands, which were empty, but the presence of the seeds was incredibly clear.

"I see----"

"The Dao Fruit —it's actually right here in the Blood Sea."