Immortality and Cultivation: This old man seeks enlightenment through mere survival.

"So the blood in the lake was their doing!"

"With so much essence blood, just how many cultivators did they kill?!"

Elder Xiangyun stomped his cane hard, his face showing disgust.

Among this torrent of essence blood, there might be some from our own Flying Cloud Sect disciples.

Those jade bottles may not look big, but it took a full quarter of an hour to pour them out!

The blood in the lake was incredibly foul-smelling, turning a dark, almost blackish red!

It's like a blood-soaked hell descending upon the human world, making people want to vomit at the mere mention of it.

The next moment, the group of mysterious men in blood-red robes threw down the jade bottle, and their hands formed hand seals in unison, their movements perfectly synchronized!

As their bodies glowed with a blood-red light, more than a dozen beams of blood-red light shot out!

Blood-red light condensed above the blood lake, weaving countless bizarre and twisted array patterns.

If Lu Zaian were present and his array cultivation had reached the first-level high grade, he would have recognized that these were the Blood Burning Array Pattern and the Spirit Erosion Array Pattern.

These strange and twisted array patterns began to wriggle.

Like an earthworm breaking in two!

Divide into three!

It continues to spread.

In the blink of an eye, the sky above the blood lake was covered with strange blood-red array patterns.

"Bloodthirsty Demon Flower, heed my command! Burn blood and erode, activate your formation!"

A group of mysterious figures in blood-red robes shouted in unison, and a burst of blood-red light shone brightly on the lake, so bright that people couldn't open their eyes!

After the bloody light disappeared, a hideous phantom of a three-zhang-tall demonic plant appeared!

It looks like a giant man-eating flower with a gaping maw full of sharp teeth.

"It's actually the Bloodthirsty Demon Flower Formation?"

Vice President Luo, standing on the shore, frowned and murmured.

"what?"

Elder Xiangyun, who was standing to the side, had never seen this thing before and found the man-eating flower-like demonic plant extremely disgusting.

"A demonic plant cultivated with the essence and blood of cultivators. Once mature, the flowers are picked, and their juice is ground into a blood-like substance to be used to condense array patterns."

This Bloodthirsty Demon Flower Array is specifically designed to corrupt other arrays, using one array to break another—it's extremely vicious.

Sure enough, the enormous bloodthirsty demon flower opened its mouth wide!

In an instant, all the blood in the lake flowed backward and surged into its gaping maw.

Boom boom boom! ! !

The ground nearby shook violently, and everyone quickly gathered their strength to steady themselves.

Upon closer inspection, the vast lake had dried up, revealing its lakebed beneath.

A black hole vortex suddenly appeared!

The surface of the black hole vortex was covered by a layer of solid ice, blocking everyone's view.

However, one could still vaguely see the shadowy silhouette of a magnificent palace through the solid ice!

"It's a secret realm! A secret realm is about to emerge!!"

"Get ready quickly and seize the initiative!!"

The group of Qi Refining disciples by the lake were eager to make their move and were ready to go!

After devouring all the blood, the Bloodthirsty Demon Flower grew to a height of five zhang (approximately 10 meters).

Its mouth, resembling that of a man-eating flower, swelled up to three times its original size, making it look extremely ferocious!

The next moment, the bloody maw burst open like a powder keg exploding, and the transformed blood gushed out like hellfire!

Chi Chi Chi!

The solid ice barrier at the mouth of the vortex was being fiercely burned and eroded!

Click!

A moment later, the solid ice barrier finally succumbed to the burning power of the demonic blood flower, cracking and melting!

An extremely dense spiritual energy and a cold wave suddenly erupted from the vortex, sending a shiver down the spines of everyone on the shore.

"Charge! Kill!"

"The Core Formation Realm! Here I come!!"

"Hurry up! We can't let the Fire Refining Sect members get there first!"

The disciples from each faction employed their own methods.

The Fire Refining Sect member took something out of his mouth and stuffed it in, then leaped into the vortex through the cold wave!

The disciples of Lingyao Valley also swallowed Xuan Yan Pills one after another and jumped into the vortex without any fear of the cold wave!

As allies of Lingyao Valley, Feiyun Sect and Haitian Chamber of Commerce were also allocated Xuan Yan Pills. After swallowing them, the disciples resisted the cold wave and leaped into the vortex.

At this moment, a group of Qi Refining cultivators emerged from the jungle behind them, most of them appearing to be in the mid-to-late stages of Qi Refining.

"Brothers, charge! The Core Formation Realm is right in front of us!"

"Why should only Foundation Establishment level cultivators advance! We want to give it a shot too!"

"There might be Foundation Establishment spiritual treasures in the secret realm. I must seize them to succeed in Foundation Establishment!"

These Qi Refining cultivators, full of vigor and high spirits, each used their movement techniques in an attempt to jump into the vortex.

Bear!!!

Chi Zhan's eyes widened in fury, and his mouth bulged as he spewed out a mouthful of fiery red Foundation Establishment True Fire, which swept towards the Qi Refining cultivators!

"Ahhhh!!!"

"Ah, oh, I was wrong, sir! Please forgive me!"

"Aaaaaah, why! I was just one step away!"

A group of wild Qi Refining cultivators were either burned to ashes without a sound.

Or it might get tainted by a trace of true fire, emitting a mournful wail like a ghost, before turning into a charred corpse and falling into the vortex.

"Hmph! A bunch of nobodies dare to dream of fighting for the Core Formation Realm? Do they really think my Fire Refining Sect is running a charity rice shop?"

Elder Xiangyun and Vice President Luo, who were standing to the side, also shook their heads, their expressions indifferent and showing no concern for their deaths.

Without a doubt, these Qi Refining cultivators came from a small Qi Refining sect in the Black Soil Mountains.

Or perhaps he's just a Qi Refining rogue cultivator.

Their curiosity was piqued by the major moves made by the Foundation Establishment factions.

These Qi Refining cultivators secretly lurked behind, attempting to take advantage of the chaos.

Only when the Core Formation Realm appeared did they swarm in like moths to a flame.

Unfortunately, the reason they were allowed to hang behind them earlier was simply because these Foundation Establishment elders didn't care.

If someone truly wanted to snatch food from the tiger's mouth, not only would the Fire Refining Sect not agree, but the other three Foundation Establishment forces would also not allow it.

The world of cultivation is a brutal place where the strong prey on the weak.

In the Black Soil Mountains, only Foundation Establishment cultivators can make their voices heard!

"...Why get involved like a moth to a flame? You don't have the strength to back it up."

Elder Jin, being from the Spirit Medicine Valley, barely possessed a modicum of compassion and felt sorry for those Qi Refining cultivators.

"Hehe, Brother Jin, you've overlooked the allure of the Core Formation Secret Realm."

"If it weren't for the unbreakable spirit-sealing formation within the secret realm, we Foundation Establishment experts would probably have also crawled in and competed with the juniors for food."

"That's true..."

According to intelligence, the entrance to this Core Formation Secret Realm has a powerful spirit-sealing array at the third-tier level, which only allows cultivators in the Qi Refining stage to enter.

If the spirit-sealing array is forcibly destroyed, the entire entrance to the secret realm may be destroyed!

"Now it all depends on the disciples' fate. I hope they can gain something..."

Elder Xiangyun looked at the vortex, which blocked her divine senses, and she had no idea what would happen inside.

Chi Zhan, on the other hand, glanced coldly over here, a sneer running through his mind.

Before leaving, he specifically asked the sect leader what to do if the Spirit Medicine Valley and other forces came to compete for it.

The sect leader's answer was:

'Let them in. We were just worried about not having enough materials for the blood sacrifice. Let them all stay inside...'

Indeed, in terms of intelligence about the secret realm and execution plans, the Fire Refining Sect was undoubtedly better prepared than the other three sects!

'After more than a decade of planning, this is the moment. Hopefully, those guys from the Burning Blood Sect will be more reliable...'