382: One hundred thousand soul thoughts

"You saw through it?" Blood Demon Venerable's lips curved slightly, revealing a pale smile.

Xiao Zhuo nodded: "Yes. But I don't know what connection Old Ancestor has with Blood Demon Venerable?"

"My Main Body was one of the hundred thousand Divine Souls separated from Blood Demon Venerable, and I happened to be born in the Xuanling Realm, which is now the Blood Demon Realm," Xue Tian's voice carried a hint of distantness. "One hundred thousand years ago, my Divine Soul memory Awakened, and I also learned about the incompleteness of the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds. From then on, I began to plan the Blood Demon Realm's advancement."

"If there were no accidents, even if my Main Body cultivated the Six Paths Blood God method, he would ultimately not escape the fate of being devoured by his Main Body. However, Heaven blessed me!" A bloody light flashed in his eyes. "A hundred years ago, the Main Body fought with a powerful being, and his Divine Soul was severely injured. He happened to escape near the Blood Demon Realm, intending to devour my Main Body to repair his Divine Soul. Unexpectedly, I took the opportunity to devour his residual soul! All of this led to what you see today."

Xiao Zhuo had already guessed this, but still had doubts: "Old Ancestor, what does this hundred thousand Divine Souls mean?"

"This is a Divine Ability of Blood Demon Venerable," Xue Tian explained. "He can transform one-tenth of his Divine Soul into a hundred thousand strands of Divine Souls, scatter them into the boundary realm, and be Reborn in myriad worlds. These Divine Souls Possess local infants and live a lifetime. Although most of them are ordinary, a few can Cultivate to Immortal Ascension and Awaken their memories. Our Divine Soul bodies are Blood Demon Venerable's backup bodies. If he encounters a great tribulation of life and death, he can seize our bodies for Rebirth, thereby severing Karma, changing his identity, and making it almost impossible for anyone in the world to detect!"

Xiao Zhuo felt a chill in his heart upon hearing this.

The foundations and methods of these ancient Initial Stage Quasi-Saints were indeed incredible.

However, what Xue Tian said must have been reserved.

Since Blood Demon Venerable could achieve Fusion with his Divine Soul body, he must have had complete assurance, and Xue Tian's ability to devour his Main Body's Divine Soul showed the depth of his methods and cunning.

However, this had little to do with Xiao Zhuo at the moment.

He saw clearly that Blood Demon Venerable (Xue Tian) had just burned at least 30% of his Blood Dao Origin, causing his strength to plummet.

Although his Realm had not fallen, his true combat power was probably less than one-tenth of his Peak, barely comparable to an Initial Stage Quasi-Saint.

In such a weakened state, Xue Tian insisted on bringing him along... Was he not afraid of Xiao Zhuo suddenly striking to kill him? Did he have other reliance, or was his presence essential for this trip?

As Xiao Zhuo's thoughts raced, Xue Tian spoke: "Xiao Zhuo! I brought you along because there is something I need your help with."

"Old Ancestor, please speak!" Xiao Zhuo's expression became serious.

Xue Tian's withered face showed a solemn expression: "Although the Blood Demon Realm has advanced, the Great Thousand World Origin has been excessively consumed to resist Emperor and Hao Tian. If the deficit cannot be made up within a hundred years, this Realm may be in danger of falling in status, and my efforts of over a hundred thousand years will be in vain." His gaze locked onto Xiao Zhuo. "Bringing you along is to borrow your strength to help me steal the Great Thousand World Origin!"

"Steal the Great Thousand World Origin?" Xiao Zhuo was startled, then self-deprecatingly said, "Old Ancestor, you flatter me too much! The Origin of a Great Thousand World must be guarded by top forces and Saint-level existences. I haven't even stepped into the threshold of a Quasi-Saint, how can I touch such a core?"

He changed the subject, his tone carrying a hint of mockery: "Besides, the reward Old Ancestor promised earlier has not yet been fulfilled!"

What he was referring to was the immense Luck that Xue Tian had promised when guarding the world sand, enough to support the advancement of the zizai world to a Middle Thousand World—

That was the key reason he agreed to help Xue Tian in the outside world.

For a Small Thousand World to advance to a Middle Thousand World, it not only requires a massive amount of Origin but also immense Luck to suppress it.

If Luck is insufficient, forcibly refining external Origin will only lead to the world's collapse.

Now that the Blood Demon Realm's Origin and Luck were both damaged, Xue Tian was clearly unable to pay the reward, yet he still wanted him to risk his life?

Given Xiao Zhuo's understanding of Xue Tian, the other party was by no means naive, so after speaking, he simply waited for what followed.

"An ordinary Great Thousand World would naturally be a dead end," Xue Tian's lips curved into a profound arc. "But what if... it's a Great Thousand World that has already perished?"

"Perished?" Xiao Zhuo immediately thought of the crimson demon Luolaha Cha, whom he had subdued during the great tribulation. "Old Ancestor, are you saying you know the ruins of a fallen Great Thousand World? But when a Great Thousand World falls, its Origin should have already been completely divided, how could there be any remnants?"

"Hehe! Since my Main Body has said this, I am confident!" Xue Tian's tone was firm. "At that time, the obtained Origin will be equally divided between you and me. Not only can it provide enough Origin for your zizai world to advance, but it can also make up for the Blood Demon Realm's deficit in one fell swoop, causing its Luck to surge. The reward I promised you will naturally not be a single bit less!"

This condition concerned Xiao Zhuo's Dao path.

If he could not elevate his zizai world to the Middle Thousand World level before advancing to a Quasi-Saint, his path of proving the Dao with strength would be absolutely impossible.

"In that case... I seem to have no reason to refuse." Xiao Zhuo smiled broadly, but his gaze involuntarily drifted towards the grain of world sand carrying a nascent Great Thousand World, his eyes sparkling with unusual brilliance.

Xue Tian naturally noticed his interest and said indifferently: "This is 'world sand,' an Innate Spirit Treasure. One grain, one world. Its ability is to carry a world, no matter its size, and can instantly absorb it. Of course, the premise is that the Heavenly Dao of that world... does not resist."

"It truly is a good treasure!" Xiao Zhuo praised sincerely. "Old Ancestor's wealth is truly abundant."

A hint of smugness flashed across Xue Tian's withered face, and he said no more.

He extended his almost transparent finger and gently tapped the hovering world sand—

"Buzz—!"

The grain of sand suddenly erupted with a blood-red light even richer and stickier than before, instantly engulfing Xiao Zhuo and his figure.

In the next instant, this grain of sand, carrying the entire Blood Demon Realm, transformed into an extremely condensed dark-red stream of light, tearing through the Void Realm, and rapidly sped towards an unknown place deep within the boundary realm.

Xiao Zhuo only felt a powerful spatial force enveloping his entire body, his vision stretched into countless distorted light bands, and in the blink of an eye, he was already on a nascent plain within the Blood Demon Realm.

His Divine Sense quietly extended out of the world sand, and the sight he beheld slightly shook his mind.

Outside, it was a dead silence and strangeness, unlike a normal boundary realm.

Thick, inky darkness seemed to have solidified for billions of years, filling his vision.

Occasionally, world fragments of different sizes slowly drifted by. They had long lost their luster, leaving only jagged skeletons and Shattered Realm (Cultivation Class) walls, colliding and rotating in absolute silence, like a boneyard of giant beasts.

Space itself exhibited pathological distortion and cracking, with viscous, asphalt-like black fluid seeping out, emitting a decaying and ominous aura, like a greedy living thing, wriggling and devouring all energy and material fragments in its path.

Further away, shattered Dao Laws condensed into dangerous crystal cluster storms, silently cutting through the Void Realm, flashing with deadly light.

The dark-red stream of light rapidly traversed this boundary realm graveyard, filled with death, decay, and spatial traps, skillfully avoiding one dangerous area after another, like a blood-red snake precisely navigating a deadly swamp.

"This is the dark side of the boundary realm, the tomb of myriad worlds," Xue Tian's voice directly sounded in Xiao Zhuo's ear. His Main Body had clearly returned to the depths of the Blood Demon Realm's Origin, and only a wisp of Divine Thought was communicating at this moment.

After an unknown period, perhaps just an instant, or seemingly after a long passage of time.

The rapidly moving dark-red stream of light suddenly shook, and its speed drastically decreased.

Ahead, in the depths of the impenetrable darkness, a vast and blurry yet shocking outline, almost occupying the entire perceived boundary of his Divine Sense, slowly emerged!

It was a huge boundary realm remnant, its Main Body submerged in darkness, but various parts within it stubbornly flickered with faint, strange, or violent light!

Even at an immeasurable distance, its sheer scale was still suffocating.

"Almost there..." Xue Tian's weak yet barely concealed fanatical voice echoed like a dream in Xiao Zhuo's Divine Soul. "This is it... Remember, once you enter, absolutely do not expand the world within your own body!"