Chapter 3246: Ye Haitang's Scheme

Crossing the sea is very dangerous; the safety rate would significantly increase if accompanied by powerful companions.

Dong Yao's divine sense swept across the entire island, detecting no anomalies.

"Their divine sense is powerful; they must have discovered us early and probably already left. Never mind, let's cross the sea ourselves!"

Qiu Feng sighed and left the area with Dong Yao.

A day passed. The sea breeze blew, and a flock of green sea gulls flew slowly across the sky.

A green light illuminated the small valley, and Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan appeared. "The Profound Light Continent!" Wang Ruyan exclaimed. "It seems many cultivators are crossing the sea!"

Wang Changsheng was unconcerned. "Never mind them; we don't know them anyway, so let's ignore them." They didn't want to encounter other cultivators in the first place, and certainly wouldn't cross the sea with them. Moreover, they didn't even need to join forces with other cultivators to cross the sea.

Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan arrived at the shore. Wang Ruyan conjured a shark puppet beast. She struck it with a spell, and its belly opened, revealing a space over a hundred zhang wide. They stepped inside, and the opening closed.

The shark puppet beast submerged into the seabed, disappearing into the vast ocean.

Blood Cloud Realm, Blood Cloud Mountain Range.

In a colossal valley with paths leading in all directions, a massive blood vine grew, from which hung a flat, disc-shaped fruit.

It was precisely the Mysterious Sky Blood Vine!

Xue Lang stood respectfully to one side. A burly young man in blood-red robes and a curvaceous young woman in a red dress stared intently at the Mysterious Sky Blood Vine, their expressions solemn.

The young man in blood-red robes was Wu Guang, and the young woman in the red dress was Zhu Li. Both were from the Blood Shadow Tribe, and their true forms possessed cultivation at the early Integration Stage.

The Blood Shadow Tribe did not possess realm-breaking disks, so they could only send high-tier cultivators down to lower realms via soul-splitting. A total of ten cultivators had successfully split their souls to descend; it wasn't that the Blood Shadow Tribe didn't want to send more, but rather that other cultivators had failed their soul-splitting attempts.

The failure rate for soul-splitting descents was relatively high, with each casting requiring a realm-breaking stone. Sending ten individuals down simultaneously via soul-splitting was already impressive.

Even if an Integration Stage cultivator descended via soul-splitting, the power they could exert would only be at the Nascent Soul Stage. With a realm-breaking disk, however, they could send Nascent Soul cultivators carrying powerful treasures to the lower realms, which would grant them greater strength.

Since the Blood Shadow Tribe lacked realm-breaking disks, they could only send more of their clansmen down via soul-splitting.

Hao Guang was a spiritual plant cultivator, responsible for caring for the Blood Shadow Tribe's large spiritual medicine gardens. He frowned and explained, "The Mysterious Sky Blood Vine's growth is stunted. If we forcibly transplant it, it might not survive once it reaches the Profound Sun Realm." He added that Mysterious Sky Spiritual Woods were unlike other spiritual woods, prone to withering during transplantation, but having Creation Divine Water would make a significant difference.

"The Wang family in the East Lih Realm possesses Creation Divine Water," Xue Lang said with concern. "However, we sent thirty Nascent Soul cultivators to the East Lih Realm, and not a single one returned; they were likely killed. I'm now worried that Xue Hong was captured alive, and the human race knows about the Mysterious Sky Blood Vine's existence."

The Wang family wasn't terrifying; the human race was.

"I'll personally make a trip to the East Bamboo Realm and reclaim the Creation Divine Water from the Wang family!" Zhu Li proposed.

Just then, Xue Lang took out a blood-red shimmering magic disk. He struck it with a spell, and a panicked male voice echoed from it: "Elder Xue, this is terrible! A large group of human cultivators suddenly appeared and invaded the realm we control! According to our intelligence, the leaders are cultivators from the Zhenhai Palace!"

Xue Lang's face darkened. His worst fears had come true.

The Wang family had indeed captured Xue Hong alive, learned about the Mysterious Sky Blood Vine's existence, and sent word to Zhenhai Palace. Now, the Blood Shadow Tribe was in trouble, caught between invading human and demonic cultivators.

"Abandon other realms and concentrate all forces on defending the Blood Cloud Realm. Heighten vigilance!" Hao Guang commanded, explaining that a realm was vast, and it was clearly impossible to block all spatial nodes.

Xue Lang nodded, about to speak, when a loud alarm blared, and the ground trembled slightly.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

A flurry of shouts spread throughout the entire Blood Shadow Tribe, and large numbers of clansmen flew out of their dwellings.

A massive blood-colored light barrier instantly appeared, enveloping more than half of the Blood Cloud Mountain Range. The surface of the light barrier bore a blood-red lotus pattern.

Xue Lang and the other two turned pale. Had the enemies attacked so quickly? Were they humans or demons?

3228 Ye Haitang's Scheme

"I'll hold them off. You transplant the Mysterious Sky Blood Vine. Even if it withers, we can't let outsiders get their hands on it cheaply!" Zhu Li suggested.

Just then, a tremendous roar echoed, and a dazzling black lightning bolt engulfed the blood-colored light barrier, which shattered instantly, like thin paper.

A colossal black cloud floated high in the sky, with ten Nascent Soul Stage demons standing atop it. Leading them was a graceful young woman in a black dress—Ye Haitang's clone, Ye Qinglian, who had cultivated lightning-attribute techniques by refining various lightning-attribute materials.

Under the guise of searching for the Maha Bloodstone, Ye Haitang borrowed the Fiend Shuttle from the Heavenly Fiend Demon Lord to open a realm passage, allowing her clone, Ye Qinglian, to descend. A total of fifty late Nascent Soul Stage demons were dispatched.

Ye Haitang led nine demons towards the Blood Cloud Mountain Range. The other Nascent Soul cultivators, meanwhile, attacked the Blood Shadow Tribe's important strongholds, with orders to kill any Blood Shadow tribesmen without mercy.

Ostensibly, they were searching for the Maha Bloodstone and attacking the Blood Shadow Tribe's important strongholds, which was a reasonable pretext for their actions.

The ten late Nascent Soul cultivators, armed with six-tier talismans, easily captured the Blood Shadow Tribe's lair, instantly shattering its protective formation.

"Kill them all, leave no one alive," Ye Qinglian said coldly.

"Yes, Elder Ye," the nine demons responded in unison, then moved to attack the Blood Shadow Tribe cultivators.

Ye Qinglian flipped her right hand, and a black shimmering orb appeared in her palm. She infused it with magic power; this Demonic Luo Pearl could see through formations and restrictions, and its primary purpose was to locate the Mysterious Sky Blood Vine.

Hao Guang and the others had no time to transplant the Mysterious Sky Blood Vine; they could only focus on fighting the demons.

The demons possessed powerful physical bodies, capable of directly withstanding heaven-reaching spirit treasures without issue; the Blood Shadow Tribe was simply no match for them.

"Found it," Ye Haitang murmured, her eyes gleaming.

Using the Demonic Luo Pearl, she located the Mysterious Sky Blood Vine. However, she didn't immediately move to collect it, but instead attacked Wu Guang and the others.