Chapter 271: The Secret of the Blood Tide: er 277

Su Xun asked, “Do you have a solution?”

“There is indeed a solution that isn’t really a solution.”

A thousand years…

Zhou Xiaofan had clearly not wasted his time.

Over the years, he had thoroughly studied the cultivation techniques of the Seven Clans and Thirteen Sects.

He had even dabbled in the cultivation techniques of the Demonic Path.

In particular, he had specifically asked Su Xun about the state of these viruses before they combined with spiritual energy… as well as methods to control them…

Clearly, for the past thousand years, he had been pondering how to completely eliminate the blood tide.

“The current blood tide is completely different from the cancer cells that Dao Ancestor mentioned before. If this thing existed since the beginning of the world, it means that it existed before humans were even born.”

Zhou Xiaofan said seriously, “Humans can evolve into cultivators through spiritual energy, so under the influence of spiritual energy, these viruses have been exposed to it for even longer than we have… They have already become another kind of creature!”

“Creature?!”

“Cancer cells are cells, and healthy cells are also cells… Healthy cells became humans, so why can’t cancer cells have life?”

Zhou Xiaofan smiled slightly, “But that’s not important. Whether it’s life or not, we will eventually destroy them. And I do have a solution that isn’t really a solution.”

He stood up and walked out of the main hall.

His gaze lingered on the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect for a long time…

A thousand years.

The area of the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect had already expanded more than a hundred times.

The number of cultivators had exceeded 100,000!

Under their deliberate efforts, the newly born children would be tested for their spiritual roots, and those with even a little talent would be taken up the mountain at the appropriate age to become cultivators.

All of this was to strengthen the power of the cultivators.

Thus, they could gather more wisdom and allow more people to participate in solving the problem of the blood tide.

“Over the years, my cultivation has improved a lot. I have also tried to secretly absorb a portion of the blood tide into my body through the array, to carefully sense the changes within me.”

Zhou Xiaofan said solemnly, “Rather than saying that this blood tide spiritual energy is infecting the spiritual energy in my body, it’s more like it’s splitting and self-replicating. Even just a wisp can split and replicate into many, many more. And the true essence or spiritual energy that is not of the same origin as them is the nourishment for their splitting and replication. They can devour the true essence in my body at will, just like they assimilate the surrounding spiritual energy. So over the years, I have been thinking about a question: the blood tide can devour our true essence and strengthen its own forces. So, can I turn the tables and make them become my nourishment?!”

Su Xun seemed thoughtful, “You mean…”

“If I purify my own cultivation to the extreme, leaving nothing but the purest true essence, what kind of change will happen if I enter the blood tide world? Will the blood tide devour me, or will I assimilate the blood tide?”

“But if you do that, you will definitely die!”

“My path forward has already been cut off.”

Zhou Xiaofan smiled bitterly, “Now there are only two paths in front of me… The first is to immediately release my cultivation and welcome the arrival of the Heavenly Tribulation. Maybe I will be completely destroyed by the Heavenly Tribulation, or maybe I will be reborn under the Heavenly Tribulation and go to another world.”

“The second is to completely understand the essence of the blood tide at the cost of your own sacrifice?”

“That’s right.”

Zhou Xiaofan said, “I’m already very old. If I could have ascended to another world five hundred years ago, I would have ascended without hesitation. But now… I’m tired. I’m the most senior person in the current cultivation world. The older I get, the less I want to show my face. If I can serve as a foundation and contribute to saving the world, allowing the younger generation to step on my shoulders and continue to move forward, then I will be satisfied.”

He laughed, “In order to survive, Master was disrespectful to Ancestor, burning his corpse and splitting his six spiritual roots. But when Ancestor reached the end of his life, he was able to tell me very calmly to burn his corpse so that it could benefit future generations… He was so afraid of death when he was young, but when he got old, he… I understand his thoughts a little now.”

“Go ahead.”

Su Xun said seriously, “The entire world is under my control. Your experience will be seen clearly by me. At that time… whether you succeed or fail, I will know everything. At the very least, I can discover some clues about the blood tide.”

“Thank you, Dao Ancestor. Only Dao Ancestor can make my sacrifice not in vain. Then let’s go now.”

“Aren’t you going to say goodbye to the old friends?”

“The old friends are all gone. Qin Hao died of old age five hundred years ago, and Ji Ning entered the blood tide three hundred years ago, intending to perish with the blood tide, and he has not been heard from since.”

Zhou Xiaofan smiled, “Now they are all juniors, and I have become a grand master and grand uncle… Fortunately, this life has not been in vain after all. I have fulfilled my promise to Master. Master told me that I must break through to the Nascent Soul stage. I am now already at the Great Vehicle stage. When I get to the underworld, I might even be able to give Master some pointers.”

“There is no need to worry about the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect. The next sect master will be inherited by my disciple Han Lin. Although he is young and his aptitude is extremely mediocre, he has a lot of tenacity. His cultivation has reached the Nascent Soul Realm. I believe that even if I am not here, he can do a good job. Besides, even if he is incompetent, isn’t there still Dao Ancestor?”

“Alright.”

The two of them walked out together.

One step out.

It was like a world away…

Ahead, was the seal of the Isolation Array.

Xu Lingjun stretched out his hand, and a gap was torn open in the array.

A thousand years…

Even if he only focused on bitter cultivation, with the improvement of his strength and the broadening of his horizons.

His control over the array had become even more clear.

The current Su Xun was no longer the nobody he was back then.

It could even be said that his strength was second only to Zhou Xiaofan.

The Ascension Realm, in the Main Plane, was the number one person in the cultivation world.

“Dao Ancestor, I’m going.”

Zhou Xiaofan smiled at Su Xun and slowly walked towards the blood tide world.

With each step he took, the cultivation in his body began to decrease and disappear…

Or rather, it was not disappearing, but being compressed and purified by him with extremely profound methods into the purest true essence.

Clearly, he wanted to forge himself into a completely unified source of spiritual energy, and then compete with this blood tide spiritual energy…

The endlessness of the blood tide spiritual energy lay in its frantic expansion, which would constantly absorb all other spiritual energy and true essence around it to replicate and split its own spiritual energy of the same origin.

It seemed like an infection, but it was not.

But if Zhou Xiaofan’s spiritual energy was difficult to shake, and then he absorbed the blood tide spiritual energy into his body, could he use this purest spiritual energy to change the properties of the blood tide spiritual energy?

He could act as a purifier within it.

It was just unknown how much he could purify…

But his goal was not to completely purify it, but to see if this path could work through himself.

A crack opened in the array.

The blood tide, which had been suppressed for a thousand years, instantly surged out, like a volcano that had accumulated for a thousand years, its eruption far surpassing any previous one.

But the boundless surging momentum was forcibly blocked by Zhou Xiaofan the moment it rushed out of the gap.

His body emitted a clear white spiritual light, blocking the entrance…

He was not directly infected, but instead forced the blood tide to retreat continuously.

It really worked!

A thought arose in both Su Xun and Zhou Xiaofan’s minds at the same time.

After Zhou Xiaofan went in…

Su Xun closed the array immediately.

But at this moment, his immortal sense could still clearly see the scene within the blood tide.

He could see that Zhou Xiaofan did not continue to go deeper…

Because within the array, the blood tide was everywhere, stretching out in all directions…

It was enough to just come in, there was no need to go deeper.

Zhou Xiaofan sat cross-legged in the void.

His entire body was quickly submerged by the blood tide… But no matter how turbulent the blood tide was, that point of true spirit white light never dissipated.

In fact, there was not even a hint of weakness.

A Great Vehicle Great Power, the highest realm of strength among cultivators.

After purifying all the cultivation in his body into the highest cultivation, even the blood tide could not digest it…

Or rather, they were being digested in reverse.

Entering Zhou Tong’s body, it was difficult to assimilate the deep-rooted cultivation in his body. Instead, Zhou Tong silently circulated his cultivation technique, absorbing the blood tide into his body, and the white light in his body became even stronger.

He was reverse assimilating the blood tide.

Although the efficiency was really too slow.

But… for the first time, the blood tide was completely digested.

Sure enough, this path was effective.

Su Xun thought so, but he did not feel any joy… because there was just too much blood tide, and based on Zhou Tong’s conversion speed, he would probably not be able to completely digest all of this blood tide without tens of thousands of years.

Or find hundreds of Great Vehicle cultivators to devour and expel the blood tide together?

That was too unrealistic.

Su Xun watched Zhou Tong devour the blood tide inside, from a wisp to gradually increasing the frequency.

The white light became more and more radiant.

It was like a pure and translucent lotus flower blooming in the sewage blood tide ocean.

The white lotus continued to expand outwards, from the beginning of its subtlety to later spreading and expanding.

And in the continuous melting of the blood tide, Su Xun carefully sensed the subtle attributes within the blood tide.

In the blink of an eye, three years had passed.

The white lotus was blooming wider and wider.

But gradually, its momentum was exhausted.

Behind Su Xun, a young man appeared. His face was not very handsome, but he had a firm and resolute look.

Su Xun recognized him.

It was Han Lin.

The fourth sect master of the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect.

He had obviously come to see his master off on his final journey…

Finally, the first lotus petal withered.

Then, it was the second petal, the third petal.

The lotus flower, which was untainted by the mud, withered and dissipated bit by bit, until the last bit of white light disappeared. Within the array, only the blood tide remained, surging with a momentum that was smaller than before.

But the overall trend had not weakened in the slightest.

Clearly, although Zhou Xiaofan’s cultivation was extremely high, and he could even use his own cultivation to assimilate and counter the blood tide.

But there was just too much blood tide. With his cultivation, the amount of blood tide he purified was not even one percent… It was a drop in the bucket. In this way, even without the suppression of this array, it could probably extend the vitality of this world for several years.

But that was all.

“But at least, it proves that this path is feasible, and the blood tide can be reversed and transformed.”

Su Xun murmured.

“After I return to the mountain, I will immediately cultivate seriously. If one master is not enough, then next time we will have a hundred… As long as we can have a hundred people cultivate to the Great Vehicle Realm.”

Han Lin’s eyes turned red.

Before he entered the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect, he had suffered a lot in order to pursue the immortal path… If it weren’t for a strange treasure in his hand, he would probably have died on the path of cultivation long ago.

But Zhou Xiaofan took him in and taught him carefully.

It could be said that the immortal path was cold, and Zhou Xiaofan was the only warmth that Han Lin had felt.

But now, Zhou Xiaofan was gone.

“This path is feasible. Hurry up and cultivate. Even if you want to sacrifice yourself, you have to be qualified to do so.”

Su Xun said, “I also have to go back into seclusion. We still have a lot of time.”

At the very least, there was still a thousand years.

If it didn’t work, Han Lin’s method might really be a solution.

Su Xun turned around and went back.

Calculating the time, in another twenty years, he would be able to return to the Main Plane again.

He always felt that Senior Sister Siqing’s face was gradually fading in his mind…

How about seeing them once every fifty years in the future, and spending more time with them then, maybe three months at a time.

Su Xun thought secretly in his heart.

He went back to cultivate…

Sharpening the knife does not delay the woodcutter.

He was trying to save his world, but he had never thought of sacrificing the happiness of the people around him in order to save the world… If he really lost himself on the long path of cultivation, then the only ones who would be hurt would be Senior Sister Siqing and the others.

In his mind, they were much more important than the world.

He still had to distinguish between what was important and what was not.

And at this time.

Within the Main Plane.

At the border between the Qian Territory and the Barbarian Territory, at the edge of the Isolation Array.

The Barbarian Territory had long been submerged under the boundless blood tide, and the Qian Dynasty was only separated by a layer of the Isolation Array.

And now, although the array had been reinforced.

The boundless torrent was constantly pounding on the other side of the array…

The blood tide was able to appear in the Barbarian Territory, as if it had gained space to move, and its surging momentum was getting stronger and stronger. In the end, it had almost reached the point where the waves were a hundred feet high.

But the Isolation Array was always as solid as a rock, without the slightest sign of wavering.

Especially with many array cultivators stationed at the edge of this Isolation Array all year round, specializing in maintaining the array, so that the array could last as long as possible.

But even the most meticulous array masters had not noticed…

Under their feet.

At the edge of the Isolation Array, the soil was gradually turning red.

This place was once a battlefield where the Qian Dynasty and the Barbarian Territory had fought for many years. The earth had long been stained red by the blood of the warriors of the two countries.

It was just that the red color formed by blood was the kind of red that was slightly black… because the blood had been exposed to the air for too long and had turned blackish-red.

But these array cultivators had no experience in the battles between armies, so how could they tell that the red color of the soil now was actually different from normal red in extremely subtle details?

At this time, the red color of the earth was not black at all? It was clearly that kind of captivating crimson, exuding an eerie and sinister feeling, like graffiti from hell.

This red color could not even be looked at closely, otherwise, it would make people’s hearts unable to help but feel a sense of fear.

The blood tide had broken through!

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