Blood Sea

Biodata

Power Progression

Nature

• The source is distinct from a practitioner’s sea. The Blood Sea itself has accumulated filth and devouring instincts across countless ages. Youquan’s own cultivated blood sea connects to this greater source 387.
• It is not an intelligent person. Its source nevertheless possesses instincts of greed, devouring, possession, and refusal to release what it has swallowed 387.
• It gathers the consequences of bloodshed. Blood carries life imprints, emotions, and memories; blood baleful Qi also holds slaughter karma. The Blood God Scripture allows cultivators to draw upon and command this cycle 370.
• It cultivates the body as a world. Rather than beginning with the five elements or Yin and Yang, the Scripture tempers the source of Blood Qi and treats the fleshly body as containing a blood sea 370.

Appearance

• Blood and mist: Manifestations range from pale-red Blood Qi mist to viscous, dark-red or nearly black seas with towering waves 370 374.
• Phantoms: Twisted faces, severed limbs, struggling soul-shadows, and resentful spirits rise within the blood. These can form from accumulated hostility and foul Blood Qi 370.
• Atmosphere: Yin winds, a pungent or cloyingly sweet bloody smell, and oppressive crimson light accompany large manifestations 370 374.
• Effect on surroundings: During Qi Yun’s cultivation, vegetation withers, birds and insects disappear, and nearby Spiritual Qi becomes cold and viscous 370.
• After Heavenly Demon refinement: Youquan’s blood sea becomes blackish red with golden specks marking the assimilation of utmost Yang evil 404.

Abilities & Skills

Blood Dominion and Devouring

The Blood Sea strengthens itself by absorbing Essence Blood and other sources of vitality, using resonance with blood rather than simple physical consumption 370.

• Senses, attracts, and absorbs blood-related Qi, including battlefield remnants and traces left by wounded living beings 370.
• Refines victims’ Essence Blood, vital Qi, Law Power essence, and negative emotions into nourishment for its practitioner 375.
• At profound levels, can reverse an opponent’s Qi and Blood with a thought, causing the victim to explode 370.
• Can trace karma backward through lingering Blood Qi to locate enemies 370.

Defilement and Domain Control

Blood Sea power attacks both spiritual defenses and the foundations of cultivation 177 370.

• Befouls Law Power and Law Treasures, corrodes Divine Souls and Dao Foundations, and devours souls 177 370.
• Allows practitioners to establish a Realm Heaven in which the blood sea becomes their domain 177 375.
• Within Youquan’s Blood Sea Netherworld Realm, the Blood God Sons’ strength and regeneration accelerate 375.
• Can form protective blood walls, shields, crushing waves, and enormous hands 375 381 404.
• Remains subject to superior power: the North Sea Dragon Lord halts Youquan’s attack with a word and forces his thousand-li blood sea to shrink into a pool roughly a hundred zhang across 382.

Blood God Sons

Blood God Son is one of the Blood God Scripture’s two explicitly recorded offensive techniques, apart from its fundamental cultivation method 373.

• Condenses Innate slaughter Qi from the Blood Sea’s source together with the caster’s Essence Blood and divine sense into shifting blood shadows 373.
• Dissolves many forms of protective light, Gang Qi, armor, and spiritual equipment, then drains the victim’s Essence Blood and yang Qi 373.
• Returns absorbed nourishment to the practitioner through the Blood Sea’s invisible connections 373 375.
• Can re-form from dispersed blood mist, making the shadows difficult to eliminate permanently 373 378.
• Serves offensive, defensive, and formation-building roles. Youquan eventually prepares 9,999 Blood God Sons, each possessing the pure strength of the Foundation Establishment Early Stage 375 385.
• Foundation Establishment-level shadows remain technique-created beings: they possess raw power but lack the full profound qualities of genuine Foundation Establishment cultivators 378.

Persistent Marks

Cultivating the Blood God Scripture creates a mysterious connection between a practitioner’s Qi and Blood, Divine Soul, and the Blood Sea 371.

• The connection forms regardless of the practitioner’s cultivation level or eventual success 371.
• It permits access to the Blood Sea’s power but also provides a route for its source to erode the practitioner 371.
• Its marks can persist through reincarnation. Youquan uses them to identify and seek Deng Yin’s reincarnation 371.

Dao Fruit and Undying Existence

The Blood Sea contains a path to True Lord attainment through its Dao Fruit and Fruition Status 379 406.

• An embryonic Dao Fruit can potentially grant temporary access to part of a True Lord’s power before the practitioner completes the usual preparations 379.
• A High Antiquity method recorded in the Scripture combines the twin evils of Yin and Yang, opening chaos within the Blood Sea and reenacting the separation of Clarity and Turbidity 385.
• The Fruition Status carries the Blood Sea’s accumulated mysteries and the resentment of deceased Blood God Scripture cultivators 406.
• After attaining the Dao, Youquan demonstrates resurrection even after being forcibly erased 407.
• His Divine Court takes the form of a boundless Blood Sea built around his Dao Fruit 409.

Corruption and Limitations

Erosion of the Practitioner

The Blood Sea’s central danger is corruption at the level of the Great Dao, not ordinary Qi Deviation. Its source gradually erodes the practitioner’s Divine Soul, Dao Foundation, and true spirit; higher cultivation worsens the erosion 370.

• Prolonged immersion can produce a sinister, bloodthirsty, suspicious temperament and indifference toward life 370.
• Complete loss of self can turn a cultivator into a Blood Demon concerned only with devouring and expansion 370.
• Deng Yin’s countermeasures cannot resolve the backlash. To avoid becoming a Blood Demon, he must reincarnate and cultivate anew 370.
• Qi Yun concludes that a higher-order power must redefine the relationship between practitioner and Dao to address the root cause. He identifies True Lord protection as the apparent intended escape route, interpreting the Scripture as an overt scheme to create dependence 370.
• Youquan is an exception: Qi Yun’s Law Technique Panel confirms that the Dharma Body’s blood sea backlash mechanism has been removed 370.

Opposition to Buddhist Principles

• The Blood Sea gathers filth, slaughter, resentment, and karmic hindrance; the Buddhist path emphasizes purification, deliverance, and extinguishing karma. Their Great Daos fundamentally oppose and restrain one another 377.
• Buddhist power is not an automatic victory over it. Youquan’s regenerating Blood God Sons overwhelm the golden-bodied Arhats and help destroy Baoguang and Baoshan’s joined domains 378.

Background / History

Deng Yin reveals his blood sea while confronting Black Mountain True Person over the attack on Qi Yun’s breakthrough. His Boundless Blood Sea Realm contains soul-devouring Blood God Sons and corrosive blood Sha. Later, he uses a blood lotus and blood sea to drag hostile Dao Foundations into the Long River of Time, sacrificing himself to destroy them 176 177 200.

Qi Yun subsequently cultivates the Blood God Scripture at Green Mountain Daoist Temple. His thirty-year seclusion produces Youquan and exposes the Scripture’s hidden erosion mechanism. Youquan then travels overseas to find Deng Yin’s reincarnation, using hostile encounters and large-scale slaughter to increase his Blood Sea cultivation 370 371 372 373.

Seeking a stronger source of nourishment than ordinary beings can provide, Youquan enters the Heavenly Demon Well. Qi Yun redesigns his formation into a complete Natal Blood Refining Grand Formation and later helps him retrieve the submerged Supreme Sovereign Mystic Firmament Dao Foundation. The refined Heavenly Demon power, followed by Qi Yun’s direct transmission of Blood Sea insights, supports Youquan’s eventual attainment as Blood Sea True Lord 385 387 404 405 406.

Associated Items

• Blood God Scripture — The principal inheritance for cultivating and commanding the Great Dao of the Blood Sea 207 370.
• Twelfth-Grade Blood Lotus — Youquan’s lotus platform; its petals bear the condensed essence of his cultivation during Dao attainment 405.
• Avici — A pitch-black sword refined through the Blood Sea, bearing manifestations of Innate Killing Qi and the Blood Sea’s origin 404.
• Yuantu — A jade-white sword formed alongside Avici, embodying Innate Killing Qi and the origin of slaughter 404.
• Supreme Sovereign Mystic Firmament Dao Foundation — A Supreme Dao Foundation submerged within the source after a former bearer sank into the Blood Sea; retrieved with Qi Yun’s assistance 387.

Notable Quotes

“So long as the Blood Sea does not dry up, Youquan cannot die.”
— Saying circulated overseas 381

“Though Gods and Devils strike with venomous hands, the Blood Sea is undying and shall endure forever!”
— Youquan’s verse upon returning from erasure 407