**Chapter 504: How Did This Gorgeous Start Turn Into Such a Mess?**
bl**d Snake was secretly grinding her teeth, especially after that annoying Heavenly Sword Sect started selling special weapons in the Southern Region. The situation started rampaging in an unexpected direction. Even though she boosted the bl**d Snake Clan with several magic pools, signs of defeat loomed—her plan to crush them during the Southern Region Alliance gathering got interrupted by the Holy Land showing up at just the right time. Now, she had to rely on the bl**d Snake Clan to gather bl**d energy.
d*mn it! How did this fabulous start devolve into this?
She cursed Black Lotus in her mind countless times—if only Black Lotus had dealt with that Bai Feng guy earlier and avoided those weird weapons sold by the Heavenly Sword Sect, she’d be in a much better situation! And now, not only could she not wrap things up, but she had another thorny enemy to contend with.
“bl**d Snake, you’re finally willing to show up?” Holy Master Tai Chu and the other holy masters appeared before bl**d Snake. “I thought you’d run off like last time!”
“Heh, this time it should be you running!” bl**d Snake raised her right hand, a massive amount of bl**d energy surged toward her, shaking the ground. A door that looked like it was dyed in bl**d and bound by chains slowly appeared before everyone. “It’s not enough yet, but it should do for you guys!”
Standing before the crimson door, bl**d Snake felt a pang of irritation—this Immortal corpse was a bit special. To break the seal, she needed a ton of bl**d energy, and the more she had, the stronger the Immortal corpse would be once freed.
Many monsters had died in the Southern Region war, but it still wasn’t enough. With the support of the Heavenly Sword Sect, her hopes for the bl**d Snake Clan were dashed as they were trampled right to her doorstep.
bl**d Snake gazed at the thin bl**d energy above the door, her expression darkening. Although this amount could break the seal, don’t expect the Immortal corpse to be much use. In fact, she might not even be able to keep it safe from the Holy Land’s onslaught.
“Well then…”
bl**d Snake took a deep breath; she wasn’t going to give up now that she had come this far.
It was time for the Divine Monarch’s cultivators to offer themselves up for their plan.
She glanced at her own Divine Monarch cultivators and slowly raised her hand. “You too, become my power.”
Boom!
Boom boom!
A lot of cultivators exploded, their bl**d spraying into the swirling crimson mist.
“No! Lord bl**d Snake, don’t!”
“I’ve done deeds for the Divine Monarch!”
“Lord bl**d Snake, look at me, please let me become your strength!”
Chaos erupted once more, some trying to flee while others eagerly awaited becoming a part of bl**d Snake’s power.
But in the end, their fate was sealed; anyone she laid her eyes on instantly turned to bl**d mist and soared into the air.
The Holy Land attempted to intervene, but bl**d Snake forcibly ‘summoned’ the Merging Stage cultivators from her side, using their lives to stall the Holy Land’s assault. After they died, she siphoned off most of their bl**d energy to feed the door.
Below, Bai Feng couldn’t help but mutter, “How does the Divine Monarch’s style of treating cultivators as mere resources attract so many followers?”
“The Divine Monarch wasn’t this outrageous before; in fact, their treatment was better than other Demon Path factions. Plus, they had a network of inherited bloodlines everywhere,” Tian Yan explained. “That’s why the Divine Monarch’s numbers have always been high—even many cultivators see the Divine Monarch as a backup plan. After all, the Divine Monarch doesn’t care about backgrounds; anyone who joins gets protection, only needing to follow orders occasionally.”
“Got it.”
So it’s basically fattening pigs before slaughter.
After Bai Feng’s internal commentary, he continued to use his remaining array disks to influence the operation of the red mist. Unfortunately, time was tight, and since the red mist array was related to immortals, perhaps with a little more time he could crack it. For now, he could only affect the bl**d energy absorption efficiency.
bl**d Snake noticed his little antics, but with the Holy Land and the Heavenly Sword Sect pressing in, she had no time to deal with that irritating little brat and focused on sucking up bl**d energy as much as possible.
“Almost there.”
bl**d Snake pushed a barely breathing merging-stage cultivator forward. After a violent self-explosion, she quickly moved in front of the door and placed a hand on it. With a strong shove, the chains on the door shattered, and a torrent of bl**d energy began to ‘flow out’ from behind the door.
Her face didn’t show excitement, only a deep frown. In her vision, unleashing the Immortal corpse was supposed to wield the power of a Great Ascension stage, but now, she wasn’t even sure if she could escape the Holy Land with it.
As the door swung open, a massive wave of bl**d energy poured out, forming into the shape of a serpent.
At the serpent’s head, a vertically slitted eye stood out distinctly from its bl**d-formed body. Even without looking directly, one could feel a chilling gaze.
“This eye belongs to the Immortal corpse, doesn’t it?”
Bai Feng looked up at the serpent eye. Perhaps it was the result of absorbing a large amount of bl**d energy, but this eye was undeniably stronger than the Immortal corpses he had encountered before.
bl**d Snake stood above the serpent’s head, as if she had merged with it, an overwhelming power bursting forth from her.
“Did you enjoy the last fight?”
She slowly raised her arm, enveloped in a mass of bl**d energy, which dragged her downward. The serpent formed from bl**d suddenly became animated, its eyes fixated on everyone present before it slowly opened its mouth:
“This isn’t over; we… shall meet again!”
With that, it turned to flee.
“Oh no, don’t let her get away!”
The Holy Land quickly reacted and pursued her, a few people and one serpent entangled in a chaotic battle, wildly blasting the nearby forest and land into dust.
Bai Feng slightly curled his lip. He thought bl**d Snake was gearing up for a final showdown, but she just spun around and bolted.
At that moment, he saw something wriggling on the serpent’s body. He rubbed his eyes repeatedly and after several confirmations, he realized that something worm-like was indeed writhing on the serpent.
But wasn’t that supposed to be made of bl**d energy?
As Bai Feng pondered, the worm had already reached the serpent’s eye. bl**d Snake, engaged in a fierce battle with the Holy Land, sensed something amiss on her body as well. But before she had a chance to react, the wriggling ‘worm’ shot out a slender arm and grabbed for the serpent’s eye.
The serpent unleashed a massive surge of bl**d energy to block it, but it was too late—the slender arm effortlessly slipped into the serpent’s eye and yanked it out.
