The Death Inheritance was one of the Eight Great Inheritances. Xuan He was one of the eight Chiefs of the Bloodthirsty's Cortege of Eight. He couldn't represent the entire force.
However, the inheritance from the Master of the Bloodthirsty Force wasn't a joke. It was the peak of the powers Upanishads in this world. It also meant that Shi Yan could be the leader of the Bloodthirsty Force and would rule the entire cosmos.
"How do you know that I've inherited the power of the Bloodthirsty Force's Master?" Shi Yan arched his brows.
Shang Ying Yue looked at the blood sword he was holding and said faintly, "I heard some rumors from my father about that... man. He has a bloody sword and a blood shield. They all have the blood mark." She pointed at the mark on the broadsword.
Shi Yan understood it immediately.
After pondering for a while, he asked, "How much you know about the Master of the Bloodthirsty Force?"
"Not much," Shang Ying Yue considered her words and said carefully, "He's the most mysterious man in the universe. No one knows where he's from or what race he is. I heard my father say that he was mighty from the moment he made his debut. He knows many kinds of strange powers Upanishads. At that time, experts of the four great races wanted to kill them. However, many powerful existences of the four great races started to follow him after they had chased after him for a while. They then became his loyal subordinates."
Shi Yan was frightened. "Many warriors of the four great races had followed him?"
He didn't know that.
"Yeah," Shang Ying Yue confirmed, "As far as I know, the key members of the Bloodthirsty Force were mostly from the four great races. After those people had followed the Bloodthirsty's Master, they had new powers Upanishads. Their realms and competences rocketed. Gradually, the Bloodthirsty Force grew fast. It became a brutal force of this universe. Eventually, the God Clan had joined hands with the other experts from the big star areas to wear out the Bloodthirsty Force. They had spent many years to destroy this force..."
"As soon as the Bloodthirsty's Master appeared, he was already formidable?" Shi Yan frowned and felt baffled.
No one could become strong without experiencing difficulties. According to Shang Ying Yue, the Bloodthirsty's Master was extremely strong right when he had come to this universe. Thus, he must have experienced something or was holding another identity.
Anyway, no one knew this.
"The powers Upanishads of the Bloodthirsty Force all came from the Master. Before he appeared, those powers Upanishad had never been found in this universe. When the experts of the four races had any one of them, they became so formidable. Those powers Upanishad had made them terrifying, infamous existences. This force really consisted of aliens. It was like a dark cloud shrouding the cosmos. No one could struggle out of their hands for so many years."
Shang Ying Yue explained to Shi Yan while the man was listening to her quietly.
Apparently, what Shang Ying Yue knew about the Bloodthirsty Force came from her father, Shang Chen. Although Shang Chen was the Fate Traveler, he didn't know the profile of the Bloodthirsty's Master. Thus, it would be a big secret...
The Ring Spirit must know this!
He tried to contact the Ring Spirit, but it was still silent. Shi Yan knew that it wasn't that the Ring Spirit didn't want to talk to him. It was in its last phase of combining parts of its memory.
The memories that came from Xuan Shan's bone had a large amount of information. It required time for the Ring Spirit to absorb all of them. Shi Yan understood it well.
Shi Yan looked at the Holy Mountain standing majestically in the cloud and the caves on its flanks. After turning to look at the bloody sword in his hand, Shi Yan pulled himself together. It wasn't the right time to figure it out. He decided to wait for the Ring Spirit to wake up and tell him the details.
"We should go to the cave."
Calling for Shang Ying Yue, Shi Yan jumped into the cave nearest to him. Nothing there prevented him from entering the cave directly.
Shang Ying Yue followed him closely.
The cave was dark and deep with many rocky turns connecting each other. The world inside the caves was cold and gloomy. It gave people a strange mind pressure.
Countless caves connected to countless passages and led to unknown areas. Shi Yan and Shang Ying Yue walked through the passages. Seeing more turns, they somehow felt lost.
Shi Yan paused and closed his eyes to sense instead of moving around aimlessly.
The center of the Holy Mountain sent out a surging life energy that vibrated his soul. It was like the sea of life that was immense and unimaginable. It was even more robust than the oldest immemorial living beings. It was like the life magnetic field of hundreds or thousands of Incipient God Realm warriors combining.
Shi Yan had a concussion. He seemed to see the unknown divine light shining on his Sea of Consciousness...
"Follow me."
His eyes radiated brilliant divine light. Thinking for a while, he grabbed Shang Ying Yue's small, soft hand.
He could clearly feel her shivering. Shang Ying Yue wiggled as she was shy. Eventually, she didn't resist anymore and let him clutch her hand and follow him.
In the deep and dark cave, so many complex passages connected to each other and lead to different areas. The gloomy pressure in this place made people insecure. They felt like they were taking steps to death.
Shi Yan couldn't see that Shang Ying Yue was uncomfortable. In this dim-lit cave, he couldn't see Shang Ying Yue blushing either. She was slightly shivering though.
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The Center of the Holy Mountain had a giant ancient tree that was firmly rooted filled each corner of this majestic mountain.
This big tree was like the spirit bell that connected the Underworld and the sea of stars. Its thick branches jutted into the rock passages. It looked like the imposing mountain was just a cover of this ancient tree that protected the tree. That was the meaning of its existence.
The ancient tree had transparent, fulgent branches like real jade. A five-colored light like a rainbow was moving through the branches, radiating magnificently.
If this ancient tree were resized billions of times, it would look like the Essence Qi Ancient Tree in the abdomen of any warrior. It seemed like the Essence Qi Ancient Tree, the source of energy in the warrior's body, had been created with this ancient tree as the model.
Haig, Mia, and Phelps were in a corner of the Holy Mountain where the branches had reached through the rock passages. Cang Yun was with Cecilia in another corner. Audrey, Jiao Shan, Jiao Hai, and the others walked together while Harson stayed alone in another area.
All of them were about to reach the center of the mountain.
As they were scattering in different directions, they didn't see each other as if they had a net blinding them. From the mountain foot, they had encountered and killed some warriors before they got into the caves. They moved around the rock passages. Eventually, they were about the reach the important area inside the mountain.
It was a vast, wonderland inside the mountain where a giant ancient tree grew.
They could see many Guiding Fruits hanging on the thick branches. Ten thousand years later, those Guiding Fruits would be the keys to bring the warriors into the ancient continent. Those fruits were currently ripening fast...
Inside a bush of branches and leaves covered by the rainbow halos and in between the Guiding Fruits, a special fruit was hanging. It was just as big as a human fist, but it looked like a small figure of an ancient continent. It had clouds hovering on the surface, seas, deserts, and forest, and lots of beams of pure energy.
With a close look, that fruit had everything an ancient continent had.
It was ripening.
As soon as Haig, Cang Yun, and Audrey had entered the passage, their co-souls continually sent them vibes and matched with the energy of that fruit. They had followed the trace of energy to head to that fruit.
The massive life magnetic field and the unimaginably tremendous vitality that Shi Yan had sensed came from this fruit. It was like the combination of the souls of thousands of Incipient God Realm experts to release such a marvelous life energy fluctuation.
However, it was just a fruit: a very special fruit.
Time flew fast.
When Shi Yan and Shang Ying Yue were heading to the wonderland inside the mountain, Cang Yun, Haig, and Audrey were scattered and waiting in different corners.
After an unknown time, Haig, Audrey, and Cang Yun had moved almost at the same time and quickly headed to that strange land inside the mountain.
Shadows started to emerge and gathered in the area of thick mist. The ancient tree in that wonderland was so big that its branches and leaves towered over everything else. Rainbow light circulated around the crystal-like branches. All together, they made people feel like they were in the best dreamy land.
When Haig, Audrey, and Cang Yun appeared in this area, they all looked at the same thing.
They were all looking at the fruit that looked like a whole planet.
They didn't care about the Guiding Fruits. Apparently, those fruits weren't their target.
"Genesis Fruit . ."
Cang Yun, Haig, and Audrey muttered. Their eyes became hot and their faces were resolute as if they had to get that thing at any cost.
Harson hid alone in the dark. He glumly watched them and said nothing like a ghost. No one knew what he had in his mind.
Shi Yan and Shang Ying Yue were still moving to this area.
The fruit they called the Genesis Fruit was taking the rainbow light inside the crystal branches to grow. Currently, it had many arches of rainbows above the surface. It looked like massive structures of this fruit were getting the last speck of material to be completed. And then, it would be time for the birth of a new continent.
"Oh?"
Haig and Audrey studied Cang Yun, their faces astounded.
Cang Yun smiled and said curtly, "You guys want the Genesis Fruit. I do too."
Audrey's face turned cold. "You are a member of the Heavenly Monster Tribe?"
Cang Yun smiled again. he nodded and bowed modestly, "I'm from the White Tiger branch."
Audrey was shocked. She became stern. When she looked at Cang Yun again, she became more cautious.
The Imperial Dark Tribe had fought the Heavenly Monster Tribe for so many years. Audrey knew the Heavenly Monster Tribe well. The White Tiger branch was the best fighter of the Heavenly Monster Tribe. They had made the Imperial Dark Tribe pay a bloody price that year. Audrey didn't dare to look down on this branch's strength.
"Still, someone hasn't come." Haig was calm and indifferent. "Where's the guy from the Immortal Demon Clan?"
Audrey and Cang Yun put on dark faces.