676 Dragonfly-ing Into Danger (2/2)

Everything happened very quickly. Wang Baole's breathing came in quick huffs and pants, and there were still alarm bells ringing in his head. The danger he felt didn't disappear with his chanting of the sutra and the subsequent cowering of the green snakes. Instead, it seemed to have intensified. Wang Baole was about to make his escape when his eyes suddenly landed on the corpse's skin. He clenched his jaw.

It's a struggle trying to get down here. Since I'm already here… I should get some blood… the identity token alone might not be enough. He knew that what lay before him was a corpse and that the chances of it having any blood left in it were slim, but based on what he could assess from the color of the corpse's skin, Wang Baole was hopeful. Thoughts churned in his head as he raised both his hands.

With his left, he grabbed at the edge of the sea of blood, while his right formed a series of hand seals. An incomplete Flame Snatch Thearch Armor appeared and, along with it, the Divine Armament arm. The armor's meridians entwined with the arm as the latter unleashed the power of a Divine Armament, which charged towards and drilled into the corpse's skin!

Droplets from the Blood Sea the size of one's fist were caught inside Wang Baole's left hand then put away. Meanwhile, the Divine Armament arm on his right hand landed a blow on the corpse's skin.

Wang Baole might have had a Divine Armament and attained a breakthrough in his cultivation, but the corpse had clearly been extremely powerful in its past life. Its skin remained extremely hard after its death. Despite Wang Baole's efforts, he only managed to inflict minute cracks in the skin. There was no way he was getting blood from those cracks.

He would have to unleash his full cultivation repeatedly and spend some time on this to even have a chance of succeeding. But he didn't have the luxury of time. Ripples appeared in the sea of blood around the corpse. Something under the waters seemed to be approaching rapidly. The sense of danger that Wang Baole had been feeling grew more intense as the unknown entity approached.

Wang Baole began to panic. He looked around him, eyes sweeping across the landscape before he suddenly flashed. He shifted away and reappeared in another spot thousands of feet away. This was the corpse's chest. A huge, gaping wound, clearly fatal and extremely gruesome, appeared before Wang Baole.

He immediately knelt down and pressed his right palm over the wound. His eyes shone intensely, and his Nascent Soul had the same bright look in its eyes. With a series of hand seals, he unleashed the full power of his devouring seed, causing an overpowering suction force to erupt from his arm.

It surged out from Wang Baole's palm, went into the corpse through the wound, and spread throughout the corpse. It didn't take long before Wang Baole sensed tiny slivers of blood gathering into droplets of blood.

It was then that the corpse suddenly shuddered, and the green snakes began to stir again. At the same time, the ripples in the surrounding sea of blood grew into waves. The creature in the waters was angry.

The sea erupted in the next moment. Rising to the heavens were two enormous wings that resembled a cicada's. They sliced through the surface of the sea. Two halves of a pair of huge wings, which looked like sails, were peering out from the water. The patterns on the wings resembled runes as well as an imprisoned demon sealed within. Its face was contorted into a gruesome expression that looked nothing but evil. Two large bulging eyes floated to the surface of the sea, appearing right between the wings.

A sudden sense of danger, indescribable and overwhelming, exploded inside Wang Baole's head as soon as the creature appeared. A fierce light flashed across Wang Baole's eyes. The devouring seed continued churning in his right hand as he raised his left hand and pointed at the sea of blood.

\”All sentient beings must endure immeasurable calamities!\”

Boom!

The pressure weighing down from the heavens intensified. Wang Baole's repeated use of the sutra had taught him that the terrifying presence summoned by his sutra would appear more powerful as he continued his incantation. He never went beyond the first two lines since he was fearful of what would happen if he did. This was an emergency, though, which was why he had panicked and spoken the third line.

The suppressive force over them intensified. The creature that had emerged from the sea of blood trembled, as if pinned down by an enormous, invisible hand. It stopped its ascent momentarily.

It was then that the devouring seed was finally done with its work. A drop of dark red blood, encircled by trails of blood, appeared in the middle of Wang Baole's palm!

Its appearance was like a catalyst, and the creature in the water suddenly roared and charged out of the sea. The sea of blood erupted, and something huge appeared above the sea.

It looked like… a dragonfly, except many, many times bigger. It was blood-red all over and a terrifying sight!

Its eyes, filled with violence and madness, stared straight at Wang Baole!