The poorest member of the Imperial Guard, the Empress begged me to embezzle.

Upon entering the blood pool, an intensely pungent, almost suffocating stench of blood immediately enveloped Chu Xiu.

This fishy, ​​viscous feeling was a thousand times more unbearable than the ancient divine blood pool and the Yinglong true blood pool he had been in.

The thick blood in this pool is a mixture of the essence of countless demonic beasts and decaying corpses. Over time, combined with the surrounding environment, it has formed an irresistible blood poison!

Although the blood energy in this blood pool contains a more concentrated demonic power than the blood mist outside, it also contains blood poison. Once the blood poison enters the body, in mild cases the poison will penetrate the bone marrow and damage the foundation, and in severe cases, the person will die on the spot and be dissolved into the blood pool!

The blood mist from the outside world can penetrate Chu Xiu's imperial aura protection because it is harmless to Chu Xiu and even beneficial to him, so the imperial aura does not block it.

The blood in this blood pool was different; the imperial aura prevented it from getting close to Chu Xiu, which allowed Chu Xiu to penetrate the blood pool even while shrouded in blood poison!

Having dived into the blood pool for no more than a hundred feet, Chu Xiu faintly sensed a sense of danger, as if there was something beneath the blood pool whose mere presence could send chills down his spine!

Chu Xiu tried to extend his divine sense, but found that even with his perfected Qiankun Realm divine soul cultivation, he could not release even a fraction of his divine sense outside the protective imperial aura!

In this way, he would have no choice but to go and investigate with his own body!

Chu Xiu did not hesitate and continued to dive to the bottom of the pool.

One thousand zhang, two thousand zhang... five thousand zhang!

At a depth of five thousand feet below the pool, Chu Xiu could clearly see the changes in the environment within the Blood Pool.

Five thousand feet above is the place where the corpses of various unformed demonic beasts decay, and the blood pool is a foul-smelling dark red color;

Five thousand feet below, however, the blood pool was extremely bright red!

The blood from the upper and lower parts of the body is completely different and is separated by an invisible dividing line, preventing them from mixing.

As soon as Chu Xiu entered the five thousand feet below, he could clearly sense that the blood aura here was completely different from that above.

The blood energy here is stronger and purer, but the blood poison is also more terrifying!

Chu Xiu even felt a faint sense of familiarity with the blood energy here, as if he had once shared the same origin with it!

Looking around, the decaying corpses here were all demons who had already taken human form.

The faces of the humanoid beings they transformed into were all filled with utter terror!

It was as if they had encountered some terrifying being here and were left here forever by that being, becoming nourishment for the blood pool!

"senior!"

Chu Xiu was terrified and projected the scene he saw around him into the spiritual realm to inform Ying Wuyou.

Ying Wuyou and Tengyu were enjoying tea when they saw the projection. Both of them stood up abruptly, their faces showing disbelief.

"This is... the Blood Transformation of Ten Thousand Dragons!" Teng Yu exclaimed first.

Ying Wuyou's face was gloomy: "Someone actually used tens of thousands of dragon descendants and countless transformed demon races to condense essence blood here!"

"Ten Thousand Dragons Transforming into Blood? What is that?" Chu Xiu asked doubtfully.

Teng Yu glanced at Ying Wuyou, who was barely suppressing his rage, and explained, "Ten Thousand Dragons Transforming into Blood is one of the methods for refining the Blood Sea Demon Fruit that you asked about earlier."

"It is made by using ten thousand true dragon bloodlines at the Reincarnation Realm, supplemented by countless transformed demonic beasts and rare and precious materials that can enhance the strength of the bloodline, and with the remains of a true dragon as the main offering, to refine the Blood Sea Demon Fruit!"

"The user of this Blood Sea Demon Fruit must also be a descendant of the True Dragon. Once successfully refined, it will at least help their cultivation level soar to the Heaven and Earth Supreme level!"

Teng Yu frowned and said, "My and Wu You's peak cultivation is only at the Great Perfection of Heavenly Sovereign, approaching the Half-Step Heavenly Sovereign!"

Chu Xiu's eyes trembled as he looked down into the pool: "So that aura at the bottom... is the remains of the true dragon that served as the main offering for refining the Blood Sea Demon Fruit?"

Ying Wuyou took a deep breath, suppressing his anger: "It should be the remains of a true dragon, but I wonder which lineage's sage suffered such humiliation after his fall..."

"Keep reading. The one who consumes the Blood Sea Demon Fruit, refined from the blood of ten thousand dragons, must be from the same lineage as the chief sacrifice..."

Chu Xiu suddenly realized: "In other words, as long as we know which True Dragon Sage is the chief offering, we can know which lineage the instigator comes from!"

Without delay, Chu Xiu continued to dive down, taking a full hour before finally reaching the bottom of the blood pool.

This place is piled with the bones of countless dragon descendants, all broken and difficult to piece together into a whole.

These dragon descendants probably met their demise at the hands of the instigator before they were even born!

“Damn it…”

Teng Yu appeared beside Chu Xiu, his face cold.

Before leaving the spiritual realm, she had already cut off the projection to prevent Ying Wuyou from losing control of his emotions if he saw the scene here.

As the last inheritor of the Yinglong lineage, the most ruthless branch of the True Dragon, Ying Wuyou was most unwilling to see such a ruthless and inhumane scene of exterminating his clan.

Although Tengyu was born into the Tengshe lineage, he had no blood relation to the true dragon.

However, since the Tengshe and the True Dragon both belong to the same lineage of divine beasts, she can naturally empathize with Wuyou's emotions.

She felt she would find it unbearable if this situation occurred to someone from the Tengshe lineage.

"Have you found the remains of that true dragon?" Teng Yu asked Chu Xiu.

Chu Xiu shook his head: "My divine sense is restricted within my body, so I can only search with my naked eyes. It will take some more time!"

He came to a relatively well-preserved dragon head skeleton, but before he could even touch it, the skeleton vanished with the flow of blood, as if it had already decayed.

"You want to take these bones away?" Teng Yu sighed. "It's no use. These bones have long since decayed. The only reason they can maintain their original form is because this place was a stagnant pool that had remained for countless years before you infiltrated it."

Helpless, Chu Xiu had no choice but to abandon his idea of ​​finding a good place to bury these unjustly killed bones.

After spending a full half-day, he finally discovered a dragon head, mostly rotten, behind an ancient altar.

The dragon's head had a strange appearance, completely unlike any dragon-shaped creature Chu Xiu had ever seen. He could even sense the aura of his natal star on the dragon's head.

When Chu Xiu projected the image of the dragon's head into the spiritual realm, Teng Yu exclaimed in surprise:

"It's Zhulong! That old bastard Zhujiuyin has been searching for his precious son for tens of thousands of years, and he actually died here!"

Candle dragon?

Chu Xiu was taken aback upon hearing this.

Isn't Zhulong the god of Zhongshan? How could he be a real dragon?

Ying Wuyou sensed Chu Xiu's doubt and explained, "Zhulong is not the god of Zhongshan; his father, Zhujiuyin, is."

This Zhulong is the offspring of Zhongshan Shenzhu Jiuyin and an ancestor of my Yinglong lineage. Both his parents were supreme beings of heaven and earth, which enabled him to ascend to the ranks of true dragons and establish his own branch.

Chu Xiu frowned and said, "Since that place uses the Candle Dragon as the main offering, could it be that the instigator also comes from the Candle Dragon lineage?"

Ying Wuyou shook his head: "In the Zhulong lineage, he is the only true dragon."

"The instigator is someone else entirely..."

"I'm afraid... it comes from my Yinglong lineage!"