Chapter 617
"Do you think the scar is the backlash of the skyfire?" Xuewu laughed wildly, "That is the blood seed that I planted three hundred years ago!"
Fu Shaoping suddenly stabbed the Azure Dragon Sword into his heart. The blood from his heart flowed along the four-symbol patterns on the sword, causing the entire island to begin to collapse.
"Are you crazy?!" The blood mist giant face twisted, "Sacrificing your soul to the sword will destroy both your body and soul!"
"The Four Symbols Sect's Prison Guardian lineage." Blood was oozing from the corners of Fu Shaoping's mouth, but he smiled in relief, "We guard prisoners with our lives."
Nangong Wan watched his body begin to become transparent, and suddenly grabbed the Qinglong Sword: "Let's die together!" She poured the essence of heavenly fire into the sword, and the golden flame rushed straight into the ground along the tree roots that were like blood vessels.
The blood tree screamed, and the hearts burst one after another. In the bloody rain, Nangong Wan saw Fu Shaoping's soul surrounded by the four phantoms, bidding her a final farewell.
Suddenly, a piece of Blood God Pearl fragment flew out from her sleeve and sucked Fu Shaoping's remaining soul into it!
When Nangong Wan woke up on the beach, the entire island had sunk to the bottom of the sea. She trembled as she held up the warm fragment of the Blood God Pearl, in which she could vaguely see a blue dragon swimming.
In the distance on the sea, a man in black robes stood on the bow of the bone boat, with a compass in his hand pointing to the farther south: "Blood Lord, they went to Guixu"
The voice in the void was playful: "Very good. When that girl uses the Heavenly Soul Fruit to reshape his body, I will be able to..."
Before he finished speaking, Nangong Wan suddenly crushed the jade slip of communication. The golden flame condensed into a line of words in the air:
"Old man, I know you are watching - next time we meet, I will use your head as a sacrifice to the sword!"
Nangong Wan stood in front of the gate of Guixu, and the sea water formed a huge whirlpool around her. The fragments of the Blood God Pearl were burning in her palm, and Fu Shaoping's soul was restless in it. She took a deep breath, condensed the sky fire on her fingertips, and carved a fire pattern on the huge bronze door.
The door opened.
What came to her face was not the darkness she had imagined, but a starlight. She stood in the void, with countless broken islands under her feet, suspended in the boundless deep blue. In the distance, a dragon-shaped palace floated quietly, and the stone steps in front of the palace were covered with dried blood.
“It’s finally here.”
The voice came from behind. Nangong Wan turned around suddenly and saw a white-haired old man sitting on a stone chair in the void. His eyes were pure black, without whites, and he was playing with a beating heart in his hand.
"Where is Blood Lord?" she asked directly.
The old man smiled, revealing his sharp teeth. "Are you in such a hurry to die?" He stood up, and his white robe turned into blood mist. "But before that, you have to get past me first."
Nangong Wan didn't waste any words, and the sky fire erupted instantly. But the flame solidified in the air as soon as it left her hand, and then turned around and rushed towards her. She dodged sideways and found that the old man's figure had disappeared.
"The rules of the game have changed." The old man's voice came from all directions, "Here, every move you make will rebound. Want to see Blood Lord? Kill yourself first."
Fu Shaoping's soul suddenly shook violently. Nangong Wan looked down and found cracks on the Blood God Pearl. She immediately understood that this space was devouring souls.
Without hesitation, she pressed the Blood God Pearl to her forehead. The intense pain made her kneel to the ground, but Fu Shaoping's soul successfully merged into her sea of consciousness.
"Smart." The old man's voice was full of praise, "But now you really share the same fate."
Nangong Wan wiped the blood from his nose and smiled: "That's exactly what I want."
She closed her eyes and found Fu Shaoping's consciousness in her sea of consciousness. The moment their souls touched, she saw fragments of his memory - the destruction of the Four Symbols Sect, the true identity of Blood Lord, and the secret deep in Guixu that could destroy the world.
When she opened her eyes again, her pupils had turned into the vertical pupils of a dragon.
"Found you." She threw a punch somewhere in the void.
The space shattered, and the old man fell out of the crack, his face full of shock: "How could you possibly-"
Nangong Wan didn't let him finish. She grabbed the old man's neck with one hand and reached directly into his chest with the other hand.
"A lackey of the Blood Lord should die the way a lackey should."
The old man's body began to swell, and something was wriggling under his skin. But Nangong Wan was prepared, and she detonated the skyfire seed buried in his body in advance.
In the aftermath of the explosion, the road leading to the Dragon Palace appeared.
She stepped forward and heard Fu Shaoping's voice in her sea of consciousness: "Be careful, this is just the beginning."
“I know,” she answered in her mind, “but we will win.”
The gate of the Dragon Palace slowly opened in front of her, revealing the endless darkness inside. In the darkness, a pair of blood-red eyes slowly opened.
Nangong Wan stepped into the Dragon Palace, and the blue bricks under her feet suddenly showed blood-red lines. She looked down and found that every brick was engraved with the Four Symbols Sect's spells, but these spells were distorted by some kind of power, and the runes that originally suppressed evil spirits now exuded a sinister evil aura.
"Is this the reversed Demon-Suppressing Array?" she asked Fu Shaoping in her sea of consciousness.
Deep in the sea of consciousness, Fu Shaoping's soul trembled violently: "No, this is a blood sacrifice formation! The entire Dragon Palace is an altar!"
Before he finished speaking, the sound of chains dragging on the ground came from the darkness. Nangong Wan looked up suddenly and saw twelve bronze pillars rising from all directions. Each pillar was wrapped with heavy iron chains. At the end of the chains -
"Master?!" Fu Shaoping's consciousness cried out in his sea of knowledge.
Twelve chains pierced through the limbs of a white-haired old man, suspending him in mid-air. The old man raised his head, and his cloudy eyes suddenly lit up with bloodshot light:
"Finally, I've waited for you guys."
Nangong Wan's hair stood on end instantly. This was not Fu Shaoping's master, but a body occupied by the Blood Lord!
"Be careful!" Fu Shaoping shouted in his sea of consciousness.
But it was too late. The old man suddenly jumped up, and the twelve chains came towards Nangong Wan like living things. She dodged hastily, but a chain still pierced her left shoulder.
In the severe pain, she was horrified to find that the chains were draining her vitality. Even more terrifying was that the drained vitality was continuously transferred to the "old man" through the chains.
"This is the Soul Devouring Lock!" Fu Shaoping's voice was filled with despair, "Quickly cut off the connection!"
Nangong Wan gritted her teeth and urged the Heavenly Fire, but found that her spiritual power was sluggish - the chains were suppressing her power!
At the critical moment, Fu Shaoping in the sea of consciousness suddenly turned into a green light, went upstream along the chain, and rushed directly into the old man's body.
“No!” Nangong Wan stretched out his hand to stop him, but caught nothing.
The old man's body twitched violently, and his facial expressions kept changing, sometimes ferocious and sometimes painful. The two souls fought fiercely in his body, and the whole Dragon Palace shook. "Awan, do it," the old man suddenly said in Fu Shaoping's voice, "Take advantage of this opportunity to destroy the altar."
Nangong Wan clenched her fists, digging her nails deep into her palms. She understood what Fu Shaoping meant - this was her only chance.
"Quick!" The old man's right eye suddenly regained clarity, "Qinglong. Bloodline. Can..."
There was no time to hesitate. Nangong Wan roared and poured all the heavenly fire into the formation under his feet. The flames spread along the brick and stone lines, and the entire Dragon Palace began to collapse.
At the last moment, she saw the old man's body split into two in the fire - half turned into blood mist and tried to escape, and the other half condensed into the shadow of Fu Shaoping, holding on to the blood mist tightly.
"Go on living." The shadow gave her one last smile, and then perished together with the blood mist.
When Nangong Wan crawled out of the ruins, he had a blood-stained jade pendant in his hand. There was still a faint temperature on the jade pendant, like someone's heartbeat.
A blood moon was rising above the sea in the distance. She wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and clutched the jade pendant tightly to her chest.
"It's not over yet." She whispered to the void, "I will find a way to bring you back to life."
Nangong Wan dragged her wounded body forward with difficulty under the bloody moonlight. With every step she took, the Azure Dragon Jade Pendant became slightly hot, as if guiding her direction. She looked down and found that the dragon pattern on the jade pendant was slowly flowing, and the dragon's eye was glowing with a faint green light.
"You are still here." She stroked the jade pendant and suddenly heard a faint dragon roar coming from a distance.
Following the sound, a path paved by moonlight appeared on the sea. Nangong Wan stepped onto the path without hesitation, and the sea water automatically parted under her feet. As she went deeper, the pressure around her became greater and greater, and the green light on the jade pendant became stronger and stronger.
When she reached the end of the path, the scene before her made her breath stagnate—
A crystal palace stood quietly on the seabed, and in the square in front of the palace, twelve blue dragon statues were arranged in a circle. A blood-colored crystal was embedded between the eyebrows of each statue, and an ancient bronze coffin was suspended in the center.
"Is this the sacred place of the dragon clan?" Nangong Wan muttered to himself.
Suddenly, all the Azure Dragon statues opened their eyes at the same time, and the blood-colored crystals burst into dazzling light. An old voice exploded in her mind:
"Those who trespass will die!"
Twelve dragon breaths attacked instantly. Nangong Wan was about to resist when the jade pendant in his hand suddenly flew out and turned into a mini green dragon in the air. The little dragon circled in a circle, and all the dragon breaths turned around and were injected into the bronze coffin instead.
“Is this... recognizing the master?” Nangong Wan was confused and uncertain.
The ancient coffin slowly opened, and a complete blue dragon skeleton floated out. What was even more amazing was that there was a beating blue dragon ball at the heart of the skeleton!
The little dragon danced happily around the dragon ball, looking back at Nangong Wan from time to time, his eyes full of anticipation.
"You want me to fuse the dragon balls?" She stretched out her hand tentatively.
The moment his fingertips touched the dragon ball, the entire sea suddenly boiled! Countless fragments of memory flooded into his mind——
She saw that in ancient times, Qinglong voluntarily gave up his arms to suppress the blood demon; she saw that the first leader of the Four Symbols Sect sealed Qinglong's remaining soul into a jade pendant; she saw that when Fu Shaoping was born, the jade pendant automatically recognized its master.
The last memory is particularly clear: Xue Zun and Qing Long were originally twin brothers, but they turned against each other for the fight for the Dragon Ball. Now that the Dragon Ball has reappeared, it means
“So that’s how it is.” Nangong Wan suddenly realized, “To completely destroy the Blood Lord, we must let Qinglong be reborn completely!”
She pressed the dragon ball into her heart without hesitation. In the severe pain, the blue dragon pattern spread from her heart to her whole body. Deep in the sea of consciousness, Fu Shaoping's residual soul was being pulled by the dragon ball and was being quickly replenished.
But at this moment, a sudden change occurred!
Suddenly, a deep abyss appeared on the seabed, and the wild laughter of the Blood Lord came from underground: "Thank you for finding the last piece of the puzzle for me!"
A bloody giant hand broke through the water and went straight to grab the dragon ball in Nangong Wan's heart. At the critical moment, Fu Shaoping, who had completed the fusion, suddenly woke up in her sea of consciousness:
"Awan, lend me your body!"
Nangong Wan relaxed her mind and let Fu Shaoping's dragon soul take the lead. Her body instantly turned into a dragon, and she smashed the bloody giant hand with one claw.
"Brother, it's time to end this." Her voice was mixed with Fu Shaoping's dragon roar.
In the crack on the seabed, the Blood Lord's true form finally appeared - a giant dragon with a body size similar to that of the Azure Dragon, but its entire body was blood red!
Two giant dragons fought in the deep sea, and every collision caused an undersea earthquake. Nangong Wan's consciousness cooperated perfectly with Fu Shaoping, and the power of the dragon ball continued to flow out.
When the blood dragon was forced into a desperate situation, it suddenly grinned: "Do you think this is the end? Look at the sea!"
Through the vision shared by the blood dragon, Nangong Wan discovered with horror that the people in the thirty-six coastal towns all had bloodshot eyes and were killing each other!
"Over the years, my blood has spread across the world." The blood dragon said proudly, "If you kill me, they will all be buried with me!"
Fu Shaoping's dragon soul began to waver. Nangong Wan suddenly laughed:
"You forgot one thing - the best thing about Skyfire is purification!"
She suddenly left her dragon state and formed seals with her hands. The dragon ball on her chest and the sky fire between her eyebrows burst out at the same time, turning into countless golden and green light points, piercing through the sea and flying towards various towns.
"No!" The blood dragon roared unwillingly, but in the moment of distraction, Fu Shaoping pierced his heart with a claw.
When the deep sea returned to calm, Nangong Wan collapsed to her knees on the bottom of the sea. Fu Shaoping's dragon soul gently wrapped her up: "We won."
"It's not over yet." She looked at her hands, "After the fusion of the Skyfire and the Dragon Ball, I seem to have gained new abilities."
Before she finished speaking, a ball of cyan-gold flame suddenly appeared in her palm. In the flame, countless tiny dragon shadows could be vaguely seen swimming.
Fu Shaoping's dragon soul was shocked and said, "This is the fire of creation?"
Nangong Wan looked at the rising sun over the sea and said softly, "It's time to fulfill our promise."
Behind her, twelve blue dragon statues bowed their heads at the same time, as if welcoming the newborn king. And farther away on the horizon, the purified people were waking up one after another, completely unaware that they had walked through the gates of hell.
Nangong Wan stood on the coast, the salty sea breeze brushing her cheeks. She lowered her head and stared at the dragon soul jade pendant in her hand, the blue-gold fire of creation flowing through her fingertips. The flame was warm but not scorching, and she could vaguely see the shadow of a dragon swimming in it.
"It's time to start," she said softly.
The fire of creation rose from her palm, turning into countless tiny points of light that sprinkled onto the sea. Each point of light contained the power of the Azure Dragon bloodline and the Heavenly Fire, jumping and flickering between the waves. Gradually, dots of golden light emerged from the sea, like stars falling into the mortal world.
Fu Shaoping's voice rang out in her sea of consciousness: "Are you sure you want to do this? The art of creation will consume your essence."
Nangong Wan did not answer, but pressed her palm against her heart. The dragon ball resonated in her body, and the green light was strong. She closed her eyes and felt the fusion of the two forces in her body. The sky fire and dragon soul flowed through her meridians and finally gathered at her fingertips.
"Congeal." (End of this chapter)