Chapter 1804: Severe Losses

Zhou Ran, a cultivator at the late Moon Yao stage, died inexplicably. With a distant grip from the Blood Ancestor's Precious Blood Avatar, he was reduced to dust without any resistance.

His essence and blood drifted, seemingly drawn in, and flowed into the Precious Blood Avatar's body.

Everyone present was terrified because no one saw how the Precious Blood Avatar acted. The moment she gently clenched her fist, no energy fluctuations emanated, yet Zhou Ran was crushed like an ant. This was clearly illogical.

If the Precious Blood Avatar had demonstrated the power of a strong Sunlit Realm cultivator by killing Zhou Ran from afar, everyone could have understood. However, what they had just witnessed did not seem to be the case.

Almost everyone was bewildered, but only Lu Ye vaguely understood the truth.

Zhou Ran was considered a first-generation Blood Clan member, and his sacred power originated from the Blood Ancestor's Precious Blood Avatar. Therefore, when the Precious Blood Avatar arrived, she had absolute control over Zhou Ran's life. She was merely reclaiming the power that rightfully belonged to her.

Not only Zhou Ran, but all of Lu Ye's Blood Attendants were likely in the same predicament, as each of them had acquired their own sacred power before Lu Ye's arrival.

As Lu Ye pondered this, the Precious Blood Avatar's gaze turned again, fixing on another Blood Attendant.

Seeing Zhou Ran's tragic end, that Blood Attendant was utterly terrified. He forcefully gathered his spiritual power and turned to flee, but it was too late. With another clench of the Blood Ancestor Avatar's fist, this Moon Yao mid-stage Blood Attendant met the same fate as Zhou Ran.

"Run!" Lu Ye, sensing the dire situation, immediately roared.

Against the Blood Ancestor's Precious Blood Avatar, the Blood Attendants were useless; in fact, they would only empower her. The only course of action now was to escape as quickly as possible, saving whoever could be saved.

Even he himself, as soon as he spoke, swiftly retreated backward.

In an instant, figures scattered in all directions. The surviving cultivators of the Scarlet Talisman Society, seeing this, dared not linger and dispersed like startled birds. The Precious Blood Avatar's display was simply too terrifying, leaving them no thought of resistance.

It wasn't that they lacked courage; their years of perseverance against a Sunlit Realm cultivator like Li Tian had already proven their bravery. However, Li Tian's abilities were incomparable to what the Precious Blood Avatar had demonstrated.

As they fled, Lu Ye clearly perceived his Blood Attendants dying one by one. In just a moment, only the sisters Xiang Yin and Xuan Yu remained. At this moment, the two sisters propelled themselves forward with all their might, like startled rabbits.

Their escape direction was consistent with Lu Ye's. When Lu Ye shouted, they instinctively moved closer to him, seemingly seeking a sense of security. However, they didn't realize that at this very moment, Lu Ye himself had no sense of security.

"Lord!" Xiang Yin's desolate gaze fixed on Lu Ye, full of entreaty. She had also sensed the deaths of the other Blood Attendants, knowing that it would soon be her and her sister's turn. She knew that in this situation, their lord might be helpless, but in this moment of life and death, she instinctively looked to Lu Ye.

Lu Ye's fleeing figure suddenly paused, then he swiftly moved in front of them. He raised a hand and pointed, urgently saying, "Quickly, get in!"

As he spoke, a strange portal suddenly appeared in the void. Xiang Yin and Xuan Yu did not hesitate at all, diving straight in, and their figures vanished.

Lu Ye quickly closed the portal, then stood firm, turning to look back at the area where the Blood Ancestor's Precious Blood Avatar was located.

There was no escape now. As he took the Xiang Yin sisters into his Minor Flower Realm, Lu Ye clearly felt the Precious Blood Avatar's gaze fall upon him.

She had undoubtedly sensed the potent sacred power contained within him.

Their eyes met across the distance. Lu Ye fully activated his spiritual power to protect himself. His soul power surged fiercely, and the Spirit Pattern Defense and Divine Pattern Defense were rapidly constructed simultaneously, layering upon layer.

He didn't know if he could withstand the Precious Blood Avatar's distant grip, but he refused to sit idly and wait for death.

As he watched intently, the Precious Blood Avatar raised a hand towards his location, then gently clenched her fist.

In that instant, Lu Ye's heart almost skipped a beat.

However, he quickly realized that he was unharmed!

He felt no abnormality, which meant the Precious Blood Avatar's absolute control over sacred power had no effect on him.

Lu Ye let out a long breath, feeling as if he had miraculously cheated death.

He had somewhat anticipated this situation.

Because when he refined the Blood Clan's sacred blood, his Talent Tree had incinerated all elements that were detrimental to him, leaving only what was beneficial.

In other words, the Blood Ancestor's imprints originally present in the sacred blood had all been refined by the Talent Tree. Thus, although Lu Ye would still be suppressed by stronger sacred power when activating his own, he would not be completely at the mercy of the Blood Ancestor like the other Blood Attendants.

This was the fundamental reason for his survival.

In the distance, the Blood Ancestor tilted her head slightly, an expression of confusion on her face. She clearly couldn't understand why Lu Ye hadn't died like the other cultivators but remained completely unharmed.

However, her nascent intelligence didn't grant her much capacity for thought. So, seeing that Lu Ye was still alive, she flashed and swept towards him with incredible speed.

Lu Ye, who had just been relieved to escape death, instantly sobered. He knew that this time, he was truly in grave danger.

He could ignore the Precious Blood Avatar's control over sacred power, but if she personally came to attack him, he would be helpless.

Even if this Precious Blood Avatar could only exert one-tenth of the Blood Ancestor's peak power, it was still beyond what a Moon Yao stage cultivator like him could withstand.

As the Precious Blood Avatar drew nearer, Lu Ye's peripheral vision suddenly caught a flash of light streaking from an unknown place. It arrived before him in the blink of an eye, then struck the space where he stood.

Ripples spread through the surrounding space, undulating in all directions. Simultaneously, an aged voice echoed in Lu Ye's ears: "Stay still!"

Lu Ye immediately recognized it as Old Man Fang's voice. He instantly froze in place, even retracting all his spiritual power.

The space distorted, giving Lu Ye an extremely strange sensation, as if he was in this world and yet not...

The Precious Blood Avatar rushed to a spot not far in front of him. Her already confused expression deepened, and she constantly looked left and right, seemingly searching for Lu Ye.

Yet, Lu Ye was clearly standing not far in front of her.

Lu Ye held his breath, knowing that under Old Man Fang's intervention, the Precious Blood Avatar had lost track of his position.

After a brief thought, Lu Ye understood what was happening.

Old Man Fang was, after all, the primordial consciousness. As such, he naturally possessed a certain degree of control over the world's power, just as Xiao Jiu could control the power of the Nine Provinces.

Although suffering from the erosion of the Blood Ancestor's Precious Blood, Old Man Fang couldn't fully control this world like Xiao Jiu. However, at a critical moment, interfering with space and exiling him into its deeper layers to save his life was not a big problem.

It was fortunate that the Precious Blood Avatar's intelligence was not high. Otherwise, she could easily break Old Man Fang's technique with a casual move. After all, the Blood Ancestor's Precious Blood had been eroding this world for many years and had a certain degree of control over it. Such a spatial exile could be easily broken.

At the location of the world's origin, which had been concealed by a grand formation set up by the Scarlet Talisman Society cultivators, light began to radiate, and the clear aura of the origin flowed out.

The Precious Blood Avatar, her face full of confusion as she stood still searching for Lu Ye, immediately turned her head towards the origin's location. The next instant, she shot forward like lightning, rushing towards the origin like a shark scenting blood.

The act of saving Lu Ye had undoubtedly exposed the world's origin.

After countless years of struggle, the Precious Blood Avatar had finally descended upon this place, thanks to Li Tian's arrangements. Her sole purpose was to erode the world's origin, which was the Blood Ancestor's will left in her precious blood—the paramount task for the Precious Blood Avatar.

She couldn't enter this space before, and all her previous erosion of this world had been superficial. Today, after finally breaking through the blockade and arriving here with Li Tian's help, she naturally became impatient upon sensing the origin's aura.

In an instant, the Precious Blood Avatar was gone.

The power that had exiled Lu Ye also vanished at that moment. The instant the spatial abnormalities around him returned to normal, Lu Ye's figure reappeared.

He turned to look around; no one was there.

After this battle, Saint Blood Peak was completely wiped out, from top to bottom. The Scarlet Talisman Society also suffered heavy losses, with seemingly only a dozen people surviving in the end.

As for his own Blood Attendants... only the Xiang Yin sisters, whom he had taken into the Minor Flower Realm, survived. It wasn't that he hadn't thought of using the Minor Flower Realm from the start; it was just that the Blood Ancestor acted too quickly. Even if he had used it from the beginning, he couldn't have saved many Blood Attendants, and furthermore, the capacity of the Minor Flower Realm was limited.

In just these two days of fighting, over a hundred Moon Yao cultivators died or were injured, and one Sunlit Realm cultivator perished. This was absolutely the second most tragic battle Lu Ye had ever participated in.

The most tragic, in his opinion, was the battle against the insect and blood two clans' armies outside the Four Directions Star System back then, where several Sunlit Realm cultivators had died.

Lu Ye looked again towards the location of the world's origin, but he could see nothing. There was no light, no aura emanating, and he couldn't even sense the Precious Blood Avatar's presence.

He wanted to check the situation there but dared not rashly intrude. He could imagine that the primordial consciousness was currently clashing with the Precious Blood Avatar.

However, this wasn't a simple fight but a deeper, more fundamental struggle.

After a moment's thought, Lu Ye sent out a message.

After waiting for a moment, Yang Ling and Hu Dequan arrived with the surviving cultivators of the Scarlet Talisman Society, meeting up with him.

Seeing Lu Ye still alive, Yang Ling wore a relieved expression. He had also fled earlier, and when he looked back, he saw the Precious Blood Avatar pursuing Lu Ye from afar, thinking Lu Ye was surely dead. It was a stroke of incredible luck that he had survived.

"That woman... what exactly is she?" Hu Dequan was still somewhat shaken, mainly because Lu Ye's Blood Attendants had died so bizarrely.

Moreover, they had been in this world for many years and had never seen that woman. It was clearly illogical to suggest that Saint Blood Peak had such a powerful individual; if it did, how could the Scarlet Talisman Society have ever established a foothold here?