Chapter 964: Blood Demon

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A blood red skull, ten meters wide with spear-like canine teeth and demonic flame burning in the eye sockets.

If the owner was alive, how gigantic would the body be?

And what would it look like?

Zhang Ruochen did not chase after the skull. He knew it would require much strength and power to defeat the skull, let alone with the injuries he had.

Looking worried, the Saint Lady commented, “That skull probably belongs to the Blood Demon.”

“Blood Demon?”

The name did ring a bell. Other than the time when King Xianlan mentioned it, Zhang Ruochen had heard of the name some time before.

The blood red skull went further and further, to the point where Zhang Ruochen and the Saint Lady could only see a small dot of red light glowing in the dark.

The surroundings returned to their cold state.

It was then that Zhang Ruochen noticed the King’s body was already a dried up carcass. It was like all of his Blood Qi had been sucked dry.

The Saint Lady threw a glance at the desiccated corpse, and continued, “A thousand years ago, the Blood Demon was the leader of the Motian Tribe, one of the competing tribes for succession to the Throne of the Immortal Vampires. He was the main rival to the Blood Empress.”

It all came back to Zhang Ruochen after the Saint Lady mentioned the dynastic conflict of the Immortal Vampires.

Eight hundred years ago, he had heard from his father and Blood Emperor Qingtian about their encounter with the Blood Demon when the two Kings were much younger.

However, he was too young to remember the content in detail. Furthermore, he had never done any research and had very little knowledge about the Blood Demon.

He said, “Eight hundred years ago, the world was ruled by nine emperors and three empresses, the twelve most powerful beings at that time. The Blood Empress was ranked the third in terms of strength. Only the two eldest emperors, Emperor Tao and Emperor Wu could defeat her. The Sword Emperor, Xue Hongchen, is perhaps on par with her, now that he’s a grown man. How could the Blood Demon compete with the Blood Empress when she’s already so powerful?”

The Saint Lady shook her head, “Many of the ancient books recorded that the Blood Demon had always had the upper hand. If there wasn’t any accident, the Blood Demon should have been the Emperor of the Immortal Vampires.”

“How’s that possible?” Zhang Ruochen could not believe it.

When the Blood Empress was at the acme of her cultivation, she defeated both Emperor Ming and Emperor Qing jointly. It was quite unlikely even to the most powerful Emperor Tao.

“It is the fact.”

The Saint Lady further commented, “The Blood Demon was a prodigy in his day. At that time, many worried that he would be the second Lord Pluto. You should have heard of the “Heavenly Devil Stone Inscription?” One of the six Extraordinary Books in the Kunlun’s Field.”

Zhang Ruochen nodded, then said, “There are thirty-six engravings in the “Heavenly Devil Stone Inscription.” Legend has it that they belonged to a God in the ancient time and each engraving distills the secret teachings on demonic combat techniques. Acquiring one of them is sufficient to elevate an ordinary monk into becoming the Field’s top master.”

The Saint Lady added on, “And the Blood Demon had mastered nine of the engravings, even creating nine Saint Spells out of them.”

Zhang Ruochen inhaled sharply, struggling to believe it. “This is too shocking. It is extremely rare to find a monk who has mastered two engravings, let alone nine.”

The Young Master of Black Market Excellence Hall, Emperor One, was another prodigy like the Blood Demon. Yet he had only mastered one of the engravings.

Because mastering one engraving had helped him to achieve the Supreme Saint level.

“The young Blood Demon was far too intelligent for his age and soon people became afraid of him, including the Blood Empress,” said the Saint Lady.

“If he was that powerful, why did he have to die? Instead, the Blood Empress became the ruler of the Immortal Vampires. Why so?”

The Saint Lady sighed. “I am not sure what happened those days. But there are rumors saying that the Blood Empress had been plotting with the leader of the human race against the Blood Demon, which had stopped him from becoming a Supreme Saint. Otherwise, the Kunlun’s field would have been doomed.”

Zhang Ruochen was confused. He asked, “If the leader had ability to stop the Blood Demon, why didn’t he kill the Blood Empress before she got too powerful? This would have saved us a lot of trouble.”

“I don’t know. These are all rumors after all. No one knows if any of this is true.”

The Saint Lady then added, “The Blood Demon was presumed dead, but he had his skull left with King Xianlan, hadn’t he? It is possible that he’s not dead, not completely.”

Zhang Ruochen listened in silence, and his gaze fixed on the dead King Xianlan who had been sucked dry. Suddenly, a terrifying thought hit him.

Was it by choice that King Xianlan’s Saint Soul