234: Chapter 235 Blood Pool Devours People! Golden Body Roars! I Won't Die Here!

The entire hall was silent to the extreme.

The bronze door slammed shut behind him, cutting off all sounds and aura from the outside world.

The Blood Pool in front of him occupied most of the hall. Thick, golden liquid churned within the pool; its density was so high it did not look like a liquid, but more like molten metal. With every churn, a wave of scorching hot energy rushed toward his face.

Lin Qi squatted down, extended his right index finger, and touched a tiny drop that had splashed onto the edge of the pool.

Sizzle.

The skin on his fingertip turned red instantly. Dark golden treasure light surged automatically from deep within his finger bones, only then barely keeping the burning sensation at bay.

He pulled his hand back to look at his fingertip; the epidermis had already swelled up.

"Good fellow."

"Just one drop has this much kick."

"The entire Blood Sacrifice Altar outside combined probably does not even compare to a mouthful from this pool."

When he stood up, violent vibrations traveled from deep within his bones.

Dark golden patterns pulsed wildly in his bone marrow.

It was not pain. It was hunger.

A thirst that went down to the bones.

Skin Refining Perfection. Flesh Refining Perfection. Tendon Refining Perfection. Bone Refining Perfection.

All four Realms had reached the peak; the foundation of his golden body was as solid as it could possibly be. But it had also reached its limit.

To go any further and step into the Organ Refining Realm, relying solely on the true dragon relic blood diluted by the System was simply not enough.

Only the contents of this pool before him were qualified.

"Time to gamble."

Lin Qi tore off his jacket, which had already been shredded into rags, and threw it on the ground.

He looked back at the sealed bronze door.

"There is no turning back."

"Once I go in, I have to endure it."

"If I cannot endure it..."

He paused. The corner of his mouth twitched.

"There is no option of not being able to endure it."

He operated the Blood Moving Technique at full speed. The Turtle Breathing Technique suppressed his breathing rhythm. Dark golden treasure light flowed ceaselessly over his entire body, protecting every inch of his skin and flesh.

He took a step forward.

His whole person stepped directly into the Blood Pool.

The golden liquid submerged his ankles, knees, waist, and abdomen, finally reaching his chest.

The moment the liquid surface touched his chest, all his senses were ignited simultaneously.

"Hmph!"

A muffled grunt was squeezed out from between his teeth.

His entire body's skin felt like it was being pierced by tens of thousands of needles at once. No, that was not right; it was not piercing—those energies were drilling into his pores, pouring into his body with brute violence.

The dark golden patterns on his bones all lit up.

Golden light shone from inside his bones, passing through his muscles and skin; his entire body emitted a dazzling glow within the golden liquid surface.

Lin Qi gritted his teeth, and the veins on his neck bulged one by one.

Pain.

Pain that seeped into the crevices of his bones.

But his mind was clear to the extreme.

In his past life, in the martial arts era, he had experienced Cultivate sessions even more life-threatening than this. Being besieged by millions of players on the entire server—he had endured that kind of situation.

A mere Blood Pool wanted to kill him?

"Is this it?"

He smiled while gritting his teeth.

"Come again."

Cloud Top Palace, Monitoring Center.

Elder Mo sprang up from his chair, almost kicking it over.

On the monitoring screen in front of him, the energy readings from the core area of the Dragon Tomb had gone completely insane.

The values shot upward, hitting the end of the scale, and then a line of red text popped out.

"Exceeded detection limit."

"Whoa! Whoa, whoa!"

Elder Mo's eyes were about to pop out; he shouted three times in a row.

Instructor Su Qing walked quickly to the screen.

"What is the situation?"

"He entered the Blood Pool!"

Elder Mo's voice cracked.

"Primitive True Dragons Bloodline! Ancient high-dimensional energy that has not been diluted at all! That kid did not take any precautions and just jumped right in!"

Instructor Su Qing stared at the wildly jumping curve on the screen.

"Can his Physical Body withstand it?"

"Theoretically? No."

Elder Mo wiped the sweat from his forehead, speaking at a rapid pace.

"In the entire history of the Federation, there is no record in any document showing that anyone can use their Physical Body to directly confront undiluted ancient creation energy! Even those old monsters who were at the Fourth or Fifth Rank did not dare to play like this! This is not Cultivate; this is gambling with his life!"

Instructor Su Qing did not reply immediately.

A few seconds of silence followed.

"When has that kid ever done things according to common sense?"

Elder Mo was stunned.

"Severing the Law of Causality dagger, theoretically impossible."

"Killing all the dead soldiers of the Li family alone, theoretically impossible."

"Pushing open a hundred-zhang Seal with bare hands, theoretically impossible."

Instructor Su Qing's voice was very calm.

"Which one of these did he not accomplish?"

With those three questions thrown at him, Elder Mo opened his mouth, but could not utter a single word.

Finally, he sighed.

"Fine. I am most afraid of hearing the words 'theoretically' right now."

The two of them stared at the screen together.

The curve was still oscillating violently, jumping up and down like an ECG.

As long as it was still jumping, it meant the person inside was still alive.

Tianhai City, Huichun Hall underground vault.

Zhang Wei squatted in a corner by himself, his hands clutching the communication terminal tightly.

The energy readings of the Dragon Tomb core on the screen had already soared to a number he could not understand at all.

"Brother Qi, oh Brother Qi."

His fat face was covered in sweat.

"You said you could just fleece the wool and run away, why did you have to drill into the scariest place?"

"Those IOUs have not been cashed in yet. Over 600 billion is still lying in the vault untouched."

"If something really happens to you... who is going to spend that money!"

By the time he said the last sentence, his voice was choked in his throat.

The fatty sniffed hard, raised the communication terminal to his forehead, and pressed his palms together.

"Heaven bless me. Bodhisattva bless me. God of Wealth bless me."

"Bless my Brother Qi to come out safely. Once he comes out, we can continue making money."

Dragon Tomb core Blood Pool.

Lin Qi did not know how long he had been soaking.

It could have been a few minutes, or it could have been a few hours. Time had no meaning in this ghost place.

There were only wave after wave of energy impacts, and tears more violent than the last.

After the Primitive True Dragons Bloodline poured into his body, the first layer attacked his skin and flesh. His golden body protected him, blocking it.

The second layer rushed at his tendons and bones. The foundation of dark gold entering the marrow withstood it.

The third layer slammed directly into his internal organs.

This layer was the true life-and-death barrier.

Heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys—every organ was enduring energy bombardment far exceeding its limit. The Blood Moving Technique was operating at full speed, desperately guiding the incoming energy into his bones and Meridians.

But the speed of the guidance was about to fail to keep up with the speed of the influx.

"Damn it..."

Lin Qi squeezed two words out from between his teeth.

But his brain was clearer than ever.

He knew where the limits of every part of his body were.

Which muscle was about to snap, he would fine-tune the allocation of Qi and blood to reinforce it.

Which Meridian was about to burst, he would use True Qi to wrap a buffer layer around it in advance.

Which organ was taking the hardest hit, he would deflect the traction direction of the Blood Moving Technique to divert some of the pressure.

Martial Saint-level control over the Physical Body.

Dancing on the tip of a knife.

One wrong step meant death.

But every step was taken firmly.

Just at this moment, the Blood Pool suddenly churned violently.

Something at the bottom of the pool had been activated. A wave of energy several times more violent than before erupted from below, slamming directly into Lin Qi's chest and abdomen.

"Hmph!"

A mist of blood sprayed from the corner of his mouth, landing on the golden liquid surface, and was swallowed up completely.

The bones in his chest cavity were creaking.

His internal organs were simultaneously enduring the most violent impact. The pressure was forced to a crazy critical value.

If he broke through, it would be the Organ Refining Realm.

If he did not, he would become nourishment in this pool.

Two paths.

Exactly the same as the question he had posed to Xiao Kuangyun and his group before.

Lin Qi grinned, his teeth covered in blood.

"Come."

A single word was squeezed out from his throat.

"You cannot kill me."

As soon as he finished speaking, he closed his eyes.

He voluntarily sank to the bottom of the pool.

The golden liquid surface churned and closed up.

In the hall, only the sound of the Blood Pool bubbling remained.

On the monitoring center screen, that energy curve jumped wildly without warning.

Then, it returned to zero.