Chapter 1805 - 1099: Act of Defiance

But along with it, there was also a savings card and a letter.

The savings card contained thirty thousand Bloodline Beads, which accounts for three million battle achievements.

Sui Yi was taken aback, so many.

Just how much effort and risk did Gu Sansi, along with Gong Jiu, endure during this period to accumulate such achievements?

It’s worth noting that they didn’t sweep through three Foreign Race nests like she did.

But upon careful consideration, Sui Yi understood that before, Gu Sansi launched a wave of ambush, killing many fugitive Foreign Race remnants. Although it wasn’t nearly three million achievements, Gu Sansi’s predictive abilities meant she never missed anything on the Outer Domain Battlefield. Therefore, chasing Foreign Race remnants and eliminating miscreant Humans naturally accumulated achievements at an abnormal speed. Besides, Li Luo and others had a synergy that’s hard to imagine.

However...

Sui Yi was deeply touched in the end, it’s easy to say but how much risk was involved?

And so many achievements, they just give them away as promised...

Sui Yi rested her chin, pondered for a while, then smiled.

Friendship calls for sincerity.

She was very fortunate.

She opened the letter.

After reading, she began to think.

There’s no invasion movement from the Foreign Race side, after all, they were greatly weakened, hiding from the relentless Humans was sheer luck. However, Meng Jia Emperor announced that it was Sui Yi who teamed up with three others to kill Poison Vein Emperor, though the identities of Gu Sansi’s three companions are unknown, at least Sui Yi was exposed, and as expected Night Demon Emperor is missing and hiding, while Jhiang Chenyu has disappeared. It’s anticipated Night Demon Emperor would join forces with Meng Jia Emperor and Blade Shadow Emperor to lie in wait... As for the Human side... The other Supremes seem to be wary of Sui Yi.

It’s human nature, or perhaps the inherent flaw of the Human Race, even the powerful Supremes are not exempt.

Thus, the Human Race is often beset internally and externally.

Previously, with the Supremes watching from the sidelines, entering the Human Race would actually be unsafe for Sui Yi, even if she is the High Priest.

"Precisely because I am the High Priest... entering the Human Race is more dangerous."

Sui Yi thought silently, on this point, none of them including Gu Sansi explicitly explained to Gong Jiu and others — after all, Gong Jiu and others are part of the Human Race, speaking too plainly might harm the relationship. Sui Yi has never been one to use racial hatred to create enemy relationships on a personal level.

Gong Jiu and the others are beyond comparison to those people.

However now, Sui Yi has been cultivating at the bottom of the Blood Refining Pool for half a year, her physique strengthened several times, yet the horrific power contained in the Fierce Blood of Evil cannot be absorbed. After all, it’s part of heavenly creation and she can hold the name of Heavenly Condemnation but cannot absorb it. But this extreme evil and the refinement of Heavenly Condemnation have brought Sui Yi immense benefits like Sun Wukong.

After having noodles, Sui Yi left the place. It is considered a gathering place for the Hidden Gate, inconvenient here, so she went to a massive mountain between the Outer Domain Battlefield and the Human Race territory to open a cave...

Inside the cave, Sui Yi deployed her Totem Array.

Originally, only the simplest upper third of the totem was activated.

Now it extended to two-thirds.

Six hundred and sixty-six totems.

This power isn’t as simple as one plus one equals two.

Sui Yi now realizes she possesses the capability to fight a Supreme alone, even Poison Vein Emperor alone isn’t daunting.

Yet, the greatest advantage perhaps is this.

Sui Yi extended her hand, conjuring a streak of extreme evil, Demon Que inverted, extreme evil flowed along the sword blade...

The sweep of the sword light...

The cave entrance of several dozen meters instantly bored through the entire mountain range.

"Force of Heavenly Condemnation, extreme evil destruction, this sword can even devastate a Supreme, if full power is exerted, it can kill... indeed an unexpected gain... perhaps the first and sole surviving Supreme Yun to leave the Blood Refining Pool mastered such power?"

Sui Yi grew increasingly intrigued by that Supreme Yun, yet presently the most pressing matter is...

Bloodline Beads!

The cave has been pierced entirely, Sui Yi had to change to another mountain, to ensure complete protection, naturally choosing the tallest and largest peak.

It’s a testament to Sui Yi’s high vision, she found this deep mountain well-suited, having just picked the largest peak, subconsciously summoned Magnetic Sensation to probe the progress of her soul. Releasing all Magnetic Sensation, the vast mountainscape was clearly visible.

"Enhanced five-fold? Truly a huge gain... hmm? There are actually three Heavenly Venerable Grade beasts in this mountain range? They indeed have some background."

Sui Yi wasn’t concerned with these three Heavenly Venerable Grade beasts, created a cave in the heart of the mountain, took out Li Yuling and sixty cocoons, spent ten days arranging a massive Spirit Attracting Formation, drawing the spirit vein within the mountain, stirring the natural vitality of various fierce beast spirit plants within the mountain, integrating into the grand formation.

The formation was essentially a massive spirit reservoir.

The formation’s sixty positions, with Li Yuling at its heart, surrounding it was the Big Dipper, with cocoons placed representing each star.

First Tian Shu, Second Tian Xuan, Third Tian Ji, Fourth Tian Quan, Fifth Yu Heng, Sixth Kai Yang, Seventh Yao Guang.

Meticulously ordered.

After the formation accumulated spirit, Sui Yi entered the formation. Li Yuling had died naturally, no manipulation required, but within the abdomen of Kai Yang and the other sixty was hidden Foreign Race embryos.

All life energy vitalized them.

What Sui Yi needed to do was reclaim that vital energy.

This naturally entails reverse actions, as Witch Spirit Court’s Heavenly Venerate and others have died, life energy usurped by the embryos, though sinister and malicious, dead is dead.

Heaven and earth wouldn’t permit Sui Yi to resurrect the deceased.

However, the Force of Heavenly Condemnation has already descended before, and now nothing is wrong; it just requires Sui Yi to operate independently, merely consuming mental power.

The egg was taken out to seize life force, restore the body, then infuse spiritual energy, while implanting the Bloodline Bead...

It utilizes the natural nurturing ability of spiritual energy and life force, as if raising these people anew.

This is a difficult and long process.

Only after a full three months.

Were the sixty cocoons finally handled completely by Sui Yi.

The corpses are placed into sixty-one coffins sculpted from millennia-old Jade Marrow.

Everything is processed, and the spiritual energy flows continuously, yet these bodies cannot be revived directly; the most difficult step lies in the future, something Sui Yi cannot achieve directly now.

One hundred thirty thousand Bloodline Beads were completely consumed.

She slowly glanced at these sixty-one Ice Marrow coffins, closed her eyes, her soul and body exhausted to the extreme, yet her lips held a faint smile.

What was lost, she will take back step by step.

The people, she will find them step by step too.

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With few stars in the sky and the Revolve Stars Shift, nine days later, Sui Yi relocated the coffins and the grand formation.

Why relocate?

Because she only takes nine days of spiritual energy from the mountain’s lifeforms, not damaging the root nor the foundation, just as donating blood is voluntary, taking some blood does not harm one’s health, but if taken in excess, a person becomes weak and might even die.

It’s the same for the lives in the mountain.

That’s why Sui Yi relocates.

Moving from the Outer Domain Battlefield into the Human Race’s inner territories, seeking one spirit vein location after another.

Thus....

Five years later, a river vein in the northwest direction of the Human Race, the largest river vein in the Human Race’s territory, also the most renowned location for human cultivators to train, because the Outer Domain Battlefield is no longer as perilous as before; most powerhouses can’t be so idle at home, cultivation has already become an instinct, so most cultivators have moved to various hazardous places to train, with the most popular being the Liubo River Vein.

Coincidentally, the Liubo River Vein is located between the Snake Marsh Ghost City and Celestial Lapis City,

resulting in even more frequent visits by cultivators.

Liubo is not some cold and damp place; here the sky is wide, waters pure, spiritual energy abundant, and where the land meets the sea, there’s the most beautiful Liubo Beach...

In any world, this would be considered an excellent vacation destination, but no one regards it as a vacation spot.

Because in the river dwell many powerful amphibious ferocious beasts like the Horned Wood Jiao, the Whirlwind Crab, the Mad Blood Poison Spider, the Water Moon Spirit Fox among others. The weakest, the Flower Spider, possesses Void-breaking Level cultivation, is the size of a calf, can dig, can enter water, ambush in sand, and can suddenly spring out to attack people; once the poison is released, even if you’re a rank higher, you’d succumb in its jaws..

Of course, the greatest danger of the beasts here is their — gregarious nature and expertise in poison.

Therefore, most cultivators coming here form teams for training.

There aren’t many perilous places in this world that could compel Cloud Ascendant powerhouses to team up, and Liubo is one of them; also the absence of the treacherous environment like Snake Marsh makes it naturally appealing, especially to female cultivators.

Right now, there’s a team of five on the riverbank battling seven or eight Mad Blood Poison Spiders.

The Mad Blood Poison Spider is a Cloud Ascendant Level beast, it can’t fly, but its explosive power is strong, its whole body crimson like blood, the larger its size, the redder its fur, the stronger its strength...

This group has an average strength at Cloud Ascendant, including a swordsman, a blade guest, a mage, and an archer with a pharmacist; if this were a game dungeon, this would be considered a standard small squad.

Quite cautious, they’ve magically lured two Mad Blood Poison Spiders out of the water, fiercely attacking them, then luring two more..

Not in a hurry, cooperating well, able to handle occasional unexpected changes.

Just as the last Mad Blood Poison Spider is about to be killed...

The man closest to the water suddenly feels a chill on his back, sensing something amiss...

Splash!

A red shadow suddenly darts out from the shallow muddy sands..

As big as a rhino, and not small at that, with dark red fur.

In an instant, its poison silk wraps around his neck, swiftly entangling, and the poison quickly invades this man’s body, collapsing him as blood flows from his seven orifices...

"Big guy!"

"Don’t go over, it’s the Mad Blood Poison Spider Leader!"

The Mad Blood Poison Spider Leader is Star Fall Level, not something this group can handle; once dead, rescuing is impossible.

The four were just about to run, but where could they escape to...

Seeing they were about to perish in the giant spider’s grasp, suddenly...

From the sky, a knife light descended, piercing straight into the Mad Blood Poison Spider Leader’s spider pouch...

Heavily injured, the Mad Blood Poison Spider Leader turns around, looking up at the person above, its blood-red eyes shining, emitting a red glow.. that person dodges, lands, then throws out knife light, entangling in battle with the Mad Blood Poison Spider Leader.

Only then can the four catch their breath, dragging their injured bodies to one side, but they didn’t flee..

However, the mage girl among them suddenly cautioned: "Someone is coming over"