Chapter 1163: The Eight Great Chiefs
Translator: Sigma_ Editor: SSins
In the twirling sand desert, sand and gravel gathered, creating a towering hand that had twisted. It smashed the light column of the Sky-breaking Shuttle and shot up into the sky. Consequently, the Sky-breaking Shuttle broke.
The sudden, brutal move of the desert had scared Cecilia and Shang Ying Yue. They paled and looked at the tornadoes touching the sky. They felt so small.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Sky-breaking Shuttle was smashed into pieces. As soon as its remains fell on the ground, they scattered like ash going with the wind.
A mournful shriek came from a walnut-sized cluster of gray smoke as it appeared in front of Shi Yan, sending screaming and screeching to Shi Yan's soul.
The turbulent energy in Shi Yan's body suddenly calmed down. No beam of energy rolled out anymore. He paled and looked at the Tool Spirit in front of him and the formation that only the Soul Consciousness could perceive. His eyes became colder.
The Sky-breaking Shuttle was broken!
Besides the formation that built up the Sky-breaking Shuttle and its Tool Spirit, everything else had turned into ashes as if a hand in the dark world had crushed it all.
——Because the Sky-breaking Shuttle had bravely challenged its arrangement, the shuttle was destroyed. It wasn't allowed to exist anymore.
"I can't help you anymore." The Tool Spirit sounded feeble just like a wisp of a departed soul. "It's so terrible here. I don't know what has happened. It seemed like I'd challenged the God's power. The Mighty Heaven had punished me..."
"Yeah, it's true that someone had punished you. But it's not the Mighty Heaven. It's this... planet." Shi Yan took a deep breath, his face resuming its calmness. "Don't worry. As long as your soul's still here with the core formation, it's not a big problem."
Shi Yan was also a blacksmith. He had his attainment and ideas when talking about tools and weapons.
The tools that had the Tool Spirit could become a new living being. The blacksmiths who could refine tools with the Tool Spirit had a power like the God who had created creatures. The Tool Spirit was like a human soul while the core formation was the veins and skeleton. The body of the tool was like the human body...
As the Sky-breaking Shuttle's Tool Spirit and the core formation hadn't been destroyed, it was now like the expert that had his flesh body torn apart and left only the soul and the skeleton. If he could gather or make a flesh body, he could be revived one more time.
It was much easier to create the tools, though.
"I know blacksmithing. I can use different heaven flames. We're in an ancient continent where so many strange and precious materials grow. As long as I find the suitable materials, I will build you another container and inlaid your core formation. You'll be revived that way. Is it okay?" Shi Yan sent his soul message.
The gray smoke quivered for a while. "If you can do what you've said, there is... no problem."
"Alright, I will pay attention. Can you tell me the materials needed to refine you?" asked Shi Yan.
The Tool Spirit was so excited. It immediately told Shi Yan the name of many peculiar materials. It asked Shi Yan to pay attention carefully to give him a new life later. "I've done all of these for you. I've challenged the God's power. You can't fool me, you know..." the Tool Spirit kept repeating.
Shi Yan remembered carefully. Right after that, he stashed the Tool Spirit and the core formation into his Blood Vein Ring...
The Tool Spirit entered the formation that only the Soul Consciousness could see. Then, it became a beam of energy and disappeared into the Blood Vein Ring. Standing in the borderless world inside the Blood Vein Ring, the Tool Spirit yelled happily. "It's not bad here. Oh wow... It has the spiritual Qi that can help me recover. Oh! It's wonderful!"
Different from any other Fantasy Sky Ring, the Blood Vein Ring could store creatures. It could create room for living beings in a soul form, which was really marvelous. As far as Shi Yan knows, only the Blood Vein Ring had this ability. He had never seen any ring with the same, miraculous function.
Anyway, the Blood Vein Ring was the treasure of the Master of the Bloodthirsty's Cortege of Eight.
"I failed."
After he had arranged the accommodation for the Tool Spirit, his face darkened, talking to Cecilia and Shang Ying Yue. " I don't have a solution to get out of this area."
As Shang Ying Yue and Cecilia had been watching him, seeing him take out the Sky-breaking Shuttle and sensing the energy fluctuate from him, they knew that he was trying to do something. When they saw that the light column of the Sky-breaking Shuttle was smashed and the shuttle itself was broken, they didn't need to ask to know what had just happened.
"Did it attack you?" Shang Ying Yue asked curtly.
Shi Yan stooped and looked at the holy mountain in the clouds far from them. "It seems like it doesn't want us to act rashly. I'm sure it has a plan and everything is scheduled. We just wait and see then."
Then, he sat down cross-legged right in this scorching desert. Contemplating for a while, he took out the gory bones. He placed nine pieces of bone right in front of him. Those bones looked like they were made of beautiful, transparent blood jade. They all looked shiny and vivid red and it seemed like real blood was running inside the bone. Those bloody bones came from Xuan Shan's skeleton.
Apparently, Xuan Shan was a member of the Demon Clan. His bones were big, long, and transparent. After being scrubbed and quenched with the mighty power Upanishad, they all had tremendously ruthless auras.
Shi Yan gently sensed a piece of them. Squinting his eyes, he released his Soul Consciousness and stepped into the evil formation inside the bone...
It was the evil formation made by the Charteris family. It was an evil contract that forced the ones who had the blood bones to follow Harson's orders and become his most loyal henchmen.
The evil formations carved on each bone were pretty similar. Still, they had something subtly different. Their energy wasn't consistent. The evil formation on each bone seemed to be a component of a horrendous contract. When all the evil formations of the blood bones connected, they formed a wicked formation that was called White Bone Blood Refining Ghost Grave."
A wisp of Shi Yan's refined Soul Consciousness moved around the wicked formation in the blood bone. His soul altar spun. The acupuncture points in his body gushed out negative energy and covered his entire body with death aura.
Cecilia and Shang Ying Yue discolored. They both sensed the magical changes on his body. They unconsciously moved away from him, pale and fearful.
Suddenly, they found Shi Yan's life energy disappear. He was now no different from a dead man. They couldn't recognize any signs of life on him that rose the hair on their nape. The bloody bones in front of Shi Yan suddenly emitted strange beams of blood-red light. Together, they looked like some strange and mysterious formation.
The two women exchanged looks. They became ashen when their soul altars felt puzzled.
"You guys stay away from me. Don't look at me. Otherwise, you will lose control of your souls." All of a sudden, Shi Yan who didn't have any life energy fluctuation turned to them and hissed.
Cecilia and Shang Ying Yue hustled away from him like birds that were afraid of perching on a curved branch. They moved ten steps away from him and didn't dare to look at him.
"Back off further!" Shi Yan let out a low shout.
Shang Ying Yue and Cecilia slightly changed their visages. They also felt the Blood Qi around him getting fiercer. Without much hesitance, they moved further until Shi Yan became a small, red dot in their beautiful eyes. When they found that they weren't affected anymore, so they stopped and finally calmed down.
"What's he doing?" Cecilia frowned. "He has the bloody bones, right? I guess he wants to urge their powers to attack the maze of this desert."
"Apparently not," Shang Ying Yue shook her head, her face strange. " Those blood bones came from Harson's soldiers. They should have some background stories. I can see some wicked, mysterious formations of the Charteris family on the bones. I think he wants to clear those formations and make the bones his new weapons."
"He understands Death power Upanishad. . ." said Cecilia.
Shang Ying Yue and Cecilia exchanged looks. They quieted down and said nothing. Fear arose in their eyes as if the warriors who used Death power Upanishad were the malicious flood or wild beasts.
"The Bloodthirsty Force and the Cortege of Eight are from an ancient legend. You and I have never witnessed the power of the Bloodthirsty Force, but I think you used to hear about them..." Cecilia took a deep breath. "The God Clan has destroyed them so they can be the overlords of this cosmos. And before that, the Bloodthirsty Force was the common enemy of the entire universe. They were much stronger than the current God Clan. Experts of all star areas had to join hands with God Clan to destroy this force. I've heard of this legend, but I don't know whether it's true or not..."
"It's true," Shang Ying Yue took a deep breath. Her face has never been shaving before. "If you know the structure of the Bloodthirsty Force, you won't doubt that legend or their intimidation..."
Pausing, Shang Ying Yue continued earnestly. "The core members of the Bloodthirsty Force, for example, the leaders of the Cortege of Eight, were all the top warriors from God Clan, Immortal Demon Clan, Heavenly Monster Tribe, and Imperial Dark Tribe!"
Cecilia discolored in fright and shot Shang Ying Yue a baffled look. "You meant that the Bloodthirsty Force had recruited members of the Great Four Creatures? They could live together in harmony and serve the same master?"
Shang Ying Yue nodded and gave more details. "To be exact, the core members of the Bloodthirsty Force were all outstanding experts of the Great Four Creatures."
"How could it be!" Cecilia screamed. "The Heavenly Monster Tribe and the Imperial Dark Tribe were always hostile to each other. The God Clan and the Immortal Demon Clan were mortal enemies. How could they form one team altogether?"
"I don't know," Shang Ying Yue looked odd. "My father told me this. He's traveled around many big star areas. He has a connection with the Bloodthirsty Force. Shi Yan comes here this time because my father stole my brother's Guiding Fruit and gave it to him. He came to Agate Star Area to pick up Shi Yan and brought him to this ancient continent. Apparently, this man comes from the Death Inheritance of the Bloodthirsty Force."
"Oh, that's how it is," Cecilia was surprised.
Although Cecilia had just heard rumors of the Bloodthirsty Force, she knew how strong this force was. She knew that this force was the common enemy of the entire cosmos. They used to be the tyrannical overlords. Later on, God Clan had joined hand with the other forces around the universe to attack them. Slowly, they were worn out and disappeared. However, they had almost brought a fatal disaster to the God Clan. Rumors said that in the last battle, they had struck Ancient God Star Area and give it to the God clan for severe loss.
The women thought that Shi Yan came from the Death Inheritance of the Bloodthirsty Force, but they didn't dare to think that Shi Yan's inheritance could come from... the Master of Bloodthirsty Force.