Heavenly Book of the Blood Dao

As night deepened, the moon hung high and lonely in the eastern sky.

The ruins of the garden have been reduced to a vast flat area, with even the foundations turned into a mixture of sand and soil.

The only remaining pavilion stands out even more in this terrain.

The moment Prince Merit and Virtue Sage retreated, the experts scattered throughout the arena all turned their attention to what was happening here.

But they were still too far apart.

What truly alerted Merit and Virtue Sage was the dog boy who was also in the pavilion.

When the puppies sensed their master retreating, they all turned their heads and saw Chu Tianshu behind the prince.

No one had a chance to offer a word of advice.

However, Merit and Virtue Sage sensed something unusual in the eyes of the dog boy.

"This is terrible!!"

Merit and Virtue Sage roared inwardly, lowered his head, arched his back, and suddenly curled up into a ball.

His two arms somehow crawled under his crotch, fingertips pointing downwards, and slammed out behind him.

Chu Tianshu's palms collided directly with these two palms.

When the two men struck, their hands were fair and rosy, resembling the hands of normal young men.

But at the moment of impact, it seemed as if a loud, resounding explosion echoed throughout the surrounding world.

Merit and Virtue Sage's sleeves were completely torn, and his arms turned blood red Ruyu. Moreover, the color of his arms varied, some bright red to the point of shining, and some deep red like blood scabs.

The complex, bloody sheen was enough to send nightmares through the eyes of an ordinary person at a glance.

Chu Tianshu's palms remained pale yellow, his inner strength deeply concealed, not even revealing the emerald light. However, in that instant, the subtle lines and contours of his palms became extremely hard.

Bang!!

The sound finally exploded, sharp and harsh, spreading in all directions.

Prince Merit and Virtue Sage, who was originally about to do a forward roll, spun in the opposite direction after the clash and flew out of the pavilion into the air.

Chu Tianshu's eyes flashed, somewhat surprised.

His hands looked ordinary just now, but he actually used all his strength.

Surprisingly, Merit and Virtue Sage blocked this attack and did not explode and die on the spot.

One hundred and twenty years ago, Temujin launched three campaigns against the Western Xia, inflicting heavy losses on the Western Xia's elite forces and forcing the Western Xia emperor to submit to the Mongol Yuan dynasty. This can be considered an important symbol of the rise of the Mongol Yuan power.

It was a predatory war, which not only plundered a large number of cattle, sheep, horses, cloth, money, and rice, but also a large number of people and books. Rewards and punishments were clearly defined, and positions were determined by merit.

Temujin himself also studied the Western Xia classics, discarding the dross and retaining the essence, and his skills greatly improved. He then imparted his knowledge to his generals.

Later in his career, many of the top fighters in his army were actually from Western Xia.

Later Khans and emperors, though perhaps not as disciplined as Temujin, were still plundering, selecting the best from the books of various countries and having local people practice their martial arts without restraint or by any means, all in an attempt to uncover their secrets.

Blood stained the vast journey, and destiny brought forth this book!

This comprehensive work, which excerpts the essence of martial arts from various countries, is known as the "Heavenly Book of the Blood Dao".

Prince Merit and Virtue Sage possessed a strong bloodline of ancient mythical beasts from a young age. He also consumed Marrow Jade to further cultivate his skills. During his coming-of-age ceremony, he was chanted by five hundred Tibetan monks and successfully crossed the threshold of "Celestial Person Resonance".

When he could command the power of heaven and earth with just his own will, the benefits brought by the bloodline of the exotic beasts constantly corroborated each other, naturally leading to a deeper understanding.

However, this is still not the primary reason why he was able to survive Chu Tianshu's sudden attack.

The most crucial reason lies in the introductory features of the Heavenly Book of the Blood Dao.

This martial art allows practitioners to distort their own faint meridians from a young age, causing them to overlap with several real blood vessels.

As internal energy cultivation deepens, blood vessels and meridians merge into one, undergoing tempering and sublimation.

Every step here is extremely dangerous, and it must contain a great deal of wisdom from our predecessors.

Twisted meridians are a serious condition that will either kill or cripple someone. To maintain the twisted meridians from childhood, ensure the smooth flow of internal energy, and ultimately refine and elevate the meridians and blood vessels together is an incredibly difficult task.

But the rewards obtained in this way are also enormous.

Like Prince Merit and Virtue Sage, after cultivating to the truly Taboo realm, relying on the wonders of the "Heavenly Book of the Blood Dao," the stability of his internal energy meridians was almost no less than that of "Leakless Mystic Art."

Exchanging a blow with Chu Tianshu caused him to feel his blood vessels tremble violently, and he experienced excruciating, tearing pain all over his body.

But since several major meridians were not severed, he was still able to hold his breath, keep it steady, and maintain control.

Even if the enemy tries to pursue him, he can react immediately, use the momentum to fly again, and delay until the people around him make a move, or until the Meteor Gods and Devils return.

However, at this time...

Chu Tianshu's hands suddenly changed positions six or seven times in the air in front of him.

The afterimages of palms, fists, or claws lingered in the air before me, clear and profound.

Prince Merit and Virtue Sage was flying forward, but his body was spinning backward.

Some children play games by pressing a marble under their thumb and squeezing it out. Although the marble slides forward on the table, it is actually rolling backward.

Once the tendency to slide is overcome by the rolling friction, the marble will automatically roll back.

Prince Merit and Virtue Sage unintentionally found himself in this state as well.

Of course, given his physical inertia, strength, and ability to adjust quickly, it was impossible for him to automatically turn back.

Chu Tianshu, however, seized upon this factor in a flash and amplified it to the extreme.

The afterimages of those hands, the force exerted from a distance, caused Prince Merit and Virtue Sage to suddenly feel the air around him become dense, and complex gusts of wind to blow against his body.

"Come back here!"

If it is a harmful attack, the prince will surely be able to spontaneously generate power throughout his body and mind to resist.

But in this lightning-fast turn of events, Merit and Virtue Sage had not yet discerned which forces were beneficial to him and which were forces that he had to resist.

He was spinning rapidly as he crashed back into the pavilion.

It seems that moving anywhere else, in any posture, would require immense effort and overcome countless difficulties.

Only this spiral path was the easiest path left to him by heaven, as if divinely aided.

Howl!!!

It looked like Merit and Virtue Sage was about to smash the pavilion back down.

The dogs, sensing something was wrong, sprang up simultaneously and pounced on Chu Tianshu.

Chu Tianshu's hands were too busy to pay attention to them. Suddenly, his figure floated into the air, and his left foot touched the back of a puppy.

The dog-child who had just pounced on him froze as stiff as iron, its limbs braced against the ground.

Chu Tianshu's right foot launched a series of attacks in an instant.

Five children, positioned at different points, were all kicked in the waist and sent flying, losing their balance.

The last puppy's paw had already landed on Chu Tianshu's trouser leg.

Chu Tianshu twisted his leg in mid-air, and the dog-child, pulled by the sticky force, was as if caught in a whirlpool, and was thrown out involuntarily.

The Merit and Virtue Sage was beyond redemption; it flew back into the area of the pavilion.

"Don't even think about killing me!!"

A deadly threat loomed, and Merit and Virtue Sage roared in desperation, channeling all the blood in his body into his internal energy.

With a deafening roar, his entire body erupted with surging crimson flames, and he straightened his back with all his might.

The entire rotation abruptly stopped for a fleeting moment.

In that instant, he was lying on his back, barely able to see Chu Tianshu, with his hands behind him.

His palm, like a bursting floodgate, with its skin torn and flesh ripped open, suddenly unleashed hundreds of swift, invisible streaks of blood-red light.

Even Chu Tianshu seemed unable to dodge it.

These crimson lights were actually all flying claws the size of bird claws, each with a chain as thin as a hair attached to its end.

When the grappling hook lands on a person, it seems to automatically attract the blood in the body.

As soon as the protective Gang Qi touches the surface of the body, blood will rapidly accumulate at the various acupoints within the body, as if it is about to jump out.

In addition, many grappling hooks land at locations other than acupoints.

It was as if the enemy's limbs, chest, and back were tightly gripped, every subtle muscle line was manipulated, giving a feeling of grasping the tendons and bones, penetrating deep, and peeling away the skin thread by thread.

Both the grappling hook and the chain were formed from the unique power of the Heavenly Book of the Blood Dao.

No matter what kind of extraordinary skills or techniques the opponent practices, these blood-red grappling hooks can sense them in battle and strike the enemy with mysterious trajectories.

It's like selecting those stars that are about to dim from a sky full of stars.

"You dare to touch me with water?"

Chu Tianshu couldn't help but smile slightly, twisting his wrist and swinging his arms.

All the grappling hooks vibrated at an extremely high frequency for a moment, then abruptly dropped to an extremely low frequency.

Between this high and low point, the weakness of its waveform has been exploited.

Merit and Virtue Sage felt as if all his blood vessels, heart, liver, spleen, and lungs were being pulled back by the other party, and he immediately showed a look of fear and regret.

When he converted his blood into power, the conversion wasn't complete; some residue remained in his grappling hook, which, to a master, was clearly watery.

If one were to fight solely with the power of the Heavenly Book of the Blood Dao, devoid of any superfluous elements, one would be able to act at will, adapt to any situation, and would not be so easily subdued.

"Ah!!!"

Merit and Virtue Sage let out a scream that pierced through the top of the pavilion and soared into the sky, then his body exploded, scattering everywhere.

His flesh and clothing were blasted to shreds by the force transmitted back from the grappling hook chains, leaving only a bare white skeleton.

Clang, clang, clang—the bones, having lost their joint ties, fell one after another to the ground, slamming onto the hard floor tiles.

As the femur rolled outwards, it was surprisingly broken in two on the steps, revealing a dry, honeycomb-like cross-section.

It turns out that even the blood in his bones was extracted and released.

In the night sky three or four miles away.

With all his might, the Meteor Gods and Devils and Demon focused his gaze and faintly saw the target he had locked onto in the suburban forest ahead.

Sharp and elegant, smooth as a mirror—it's a sword!

That wasn't a person, it was a sword that could fly on its own?!

The Meteor Gods and Devils suddenly turned around, his face contorted in a hideous grimace, the bulging muscles on his face resembling those of an evil god.

Screams were coming.