The Northern Land is vast, and searching for a caravan is no easy task. In the dead of night, when everyone is deeply asleep, Zhang Chen transforms into a vampire bat and soars into the sky, gliding through the night to begin his search for nearby large human gatherings.
The whole Northern Land is shrouded in darkness, with few campfires flickering; after all, now that the Northern Land is teeming with demon beasts, anyone daring enough to light a campfire isn’t ordinary.
Zhang Chen emits ultrasonic waves, watching them spread through the mountains. After surveying several hundred miles, he finally finds a large gathering of people.
The sizeable group numbers several thousand, shrouded entirely in darkness. Though there are campfires burning, they are surrounded by tents, enveloping the firelight so it doesn’t leak out. If not for Zhang Chen’s mastery of ultrasonic waves, finding their tracks would have been quite challenging.
"This place is approximately two hundred miles from my current group. If we speed up tomorrow, we might catch up," Zhang Chen thought to himself. "If all else fails, I’ll have to call Gong Bai for help." Zhang Chen sighed quietly, feeling vexed by the pesky onlookers who were nothing more than annoying flies along the way.
Wishing not to linger outside lest his younger brothers and sisters encounter misfortune, Zhang Chen swiftly returns, finding Chengyu sitting at the front of the wagon, gazing at the stars in a daze.
"Why aren’t you sleeping?" Zhang Chen emerges from the dark and asks.
Upon hearing this, Chengyu replies, "I noticed you disappeared, so I decided to stay up and keep watch, lest we suffer a sneak attack from a demon beast."
"Go to sleep; even if a Great Demon King from the demon race arrived, we wouldn’t fear them with me here," Zhang Chen says with a smiling air.
"Constantly missing sleep, can you handle it?" Chengyu looks at Zhang Chen with a face full of doubt.
"Even if I don’t sleep, it’s no issue," Zhang Chen says as he pats Chengyu’s little head. Chengyu curls up like a cat, falling fast asleep on the wagon.
Watching the sleeping family, Zhang Chen dims the fire a bit as he sits before it, unfearing of demon beasts but worried they’d disturb his family.
"My Blood Control Technique is lacking a bit; I can only generate one Blood God Child. If the Blood Control Technique could upgrade, I’d be able to create several Blood God Children to help me slaughter nearby demon beasts and scheming individuals," Zhang Chen thinks as he looks at the Blood Control Technique:
[3 Skills (Sixth Tier): Blood Influence (0/200000000000)]
"Two trillion experience points are a tremendous amount; let’s forget it for now," Zhang Chen mutters to himself.
With two trillion experience points, there are so many things I could do. Many skills could be elevated to the ninth tier, providing me enough leverage to defend myself. However, there’s no denying the Blood Control Technique is indeed heaven-defying; once it reaches the seventh tier, unbelievable skills will certainly emerge, making it well worth the while.
Still, the sheer amount of experience needed for Blood Control Technique doesn’t mean Zhang Chen refrains from action.
Zhang Chen retrieves jade from the carriage pack and uses a small knife to engrave onto a jade plate continuously, letting jade dust fly. Before long, several Chapters are etched into it.
"I must disseminate the Blood Dao within the Northern Land; as more cultivators practice Blood Dao, and slaughter more living beings, the Blood Dao will strengthen, gradually benefiting me by accumulating experience points," Zhang Chen thinks to himself.
He passes down the Blood God Scripture and engraves various Blood Dao techniques on the jade stones. Throughout the night, Zhang Chen engraves hundreds of jade stones and calls upon Fox Fairy Nannan, giving her the jade plates to have the Blood God Scripture circulated among the cultivators remaining in the Northern Land.
With Zhang Chen’s summon, Fox Fairy Nannan yawns and appears before Zhang Chen: "Why did you call me?"
Fox Fairy Nannan has been living lavishly lately, constantly beside Little Prince Zhang Xiaohua, and being treated as an ancestor, provided with various Heavenly and Earthly Treasures to reconstruct her physical body, her strength essentially restored.
Of course, if annoying Zhang Chen would just drop dead, relieving her of constraints, it’d be simply splendid.
"How is Zhang Xiaohua?" Zhang Chen asks.
"Zhang Xiaohua has already become a Star God, his Life Soul entered the Beidou Star, reaching the ninth tier. He only needs to ignite the Beidou Life Lamp and fully occupy the Beidou Star Position to complete the final metamorphosis, thereby advancing to the tenth tier," Fox Fairy Nannan says without daring to deceive Zhang Chen.
Zhang Chen’s expression changes upon hearing this: "Yellow Heaven Dao’s skillful execution! Such swift progression."
"Are there any flaws?" Zhang Chen asks.
Fox Fairy Nannan hesitates briefly before responding: "I inadvertently heard Zhang Xiaohua mention that the Star Gods enshrined by Yellow Heaven Dao each possess a Life Lamp, usually hidden away; this Life Lamp is crucial to their status as Star Gods. Once broken, or its flame extinguished, it’s their fate to perish, their souls scattered."
"Investigate the whereabouts of the Life Lamps secretly," Zhang Chen instructs Fox Fairy Nannan.
After Fox Fairy Nannan agreed with an ’okay’, Zhang Chen handed her the prepared jade plate: "Go distribute this jade plate everywhere, make sure each cultivator in the Northern Land gets one. Of course, if you can also teach Zhang Xiaohua to cultivate this technique, that would be even better. I, the ancestor, will definitely reward you handsomely."
Hearing Zhang Chen’s words, Fox Fairy Nannan rolled her eyes, not believing Zhang Chen’s words at all.
"Is there a requirement for the target of distribution? Are powerful demon race members acceptable?" Fox Fairy Nannan asked while holding the jade plate.
"Of course." Zhang Chen said.
"If there’s nothing else, I’ll be on my way." Fox Fairy Nannan’s soul, holding the jade plate, was about to leave.
"I must warn you, don’t play any tricks. Everything you think, say, and do can’t escape my methods." Zhang Chen coldly looked at Fox Fairy Nannan, constantly warning her: "Even your Fox Race ancestor Bai Cang fell into my hands, my methods are beyond your imagination."
Hearing Zhang Chen’s words, Fox Fairy Nannan’s pupils shrank, and her voice changed: "You killed the ancestor?"
"I only cut off all his tails, forcing him into reincarnation." Zhang Chen replied coldly.
Fox Fairy Nannan gave Zhang Chen a deep look upon hearing this, then turned and disappeared into the darkness.
Zhang Chen watched the retreating figure of Fox Fairy Nannan, took a deep breath, and then lowered his eyes to begin his arduous cultivation, traversing the endless sea in the Spiritual World.
Fox Fairy Nannan was a pawn he had secretly arranged. If Zhang Xiaohua truly ascended to a high position in the Yellow Heaven Dao in the future, her role would be significant.
As for the Blood Dao, whether it’s passed to the demon race or the human race, the main thing is to get it moving.
The key is the Blood Sea Array. Once it’s activated, it can summon the Sea of Blood to descend upon the world, forming Blood Lakes, which can connect to the Sea of Blood in the void, allowing the power of the Sea of Blood to reflect into reality, interfering with the operation of the Heaven and Earth Dao, absorbing the blood of the real world to gather in the Sea of Blood and strengthen the power of Blood Dao.
The human race is strong, and without the Blood Sea Array, the demon race might find it hard to resist the methods of the human race.
But no matter which side wins, it brings no disadvantage to him.
The more creatures die or are wounded in the world, the stronger the Blood Sea Array becomes, and this is the foundation of Zhang Chen’s strength.
In the second tier of the sea in the Spiritual World, the water was boundless. But with Zhang Chen’s constant efforts day and night, he finally saw hope. Once he gathers a bit more Divine Power, his Buzhou Seal’s strength will increase.
As soon as the night quickly passed and the purple Qi mechanism rose in the sky, Mrs. Zhang woke up and started roasting meat and cooking, while Zhang Chen got up to check the luggage. The three little ones were practicing martial arts and meditating nearby.
Zhang Chen looked at the beehive, his eyes showing a complex expression: "This beehive is too big, taking it along is too conspicuous. If it can be transformed into something mysterious, it might be possible to shrink it. Then even the donkey cart could be abandoned, making it less conspicuous."
Zhang Chen looked at the beehive. Though he didn’t know how to refine a magical treasure, if he could transform it into something mysterious, the size problem might be solved.
Recall what he had read in books, Zhang Chen was inspired by the vast sea of knowledge in the Five Villages Temple.
"Everything under Heaven, as long as it can absorb the Sun and Moon Essence and awaken intelligence, can become a demon beast. Even plants can develop intelligence. If a beehive awakens intelligence, it seems normal, doesn’t it?" Zhang Chen mused while standing before the beehive, contemplating ways to awaken its intelligence: "Should I gather Sun and Moon Essence to nurture it, or directly use Emperor’s Liquid to nourish it? Everything under Heaven blessed with Emperor’s Liquid can awaken intelligence. Sun Liquid can only enhance cultivation, not awaken intelligence, but having found a way to collect Moonlight, following the condensation methods of Emperor’s Liquid, can I perhaps reverse Yin and Yang to synthesize Moon Liquid?"
Zhang Chen pondered. Simply put, both Sun Liquid and Moon Liquid are advanced Sun and Moon Essence. Compared to ordinary Moonlight, they contain a trace of the origin rules of the Sun and Moon.
He might not know how to synthesize Moon Liquid, but he had the Inverted Yin and Yang Great Divine Techniques. Although he only understood a trace of it, it still had incredible effects.
"This seems promising!" Zhang Chen thought of the Great Freedom Celestial Demon, wondering if he knew how to synthesize Moonstream Light, and immediately asked him directly in his heart.
The Great Freedom Celestial Demon rolled his eyes hearing this: "Kid, if you want the beehive to gain fortune and awaken intelligence, why go out of your way to synthesize Moon Liquid? You have something better than Moon Liquid on you. Just a hint of its aura can give the beehive fortune, transforming it into a demon beast."
"I have such an item? How come I don’t know?" Zhang Chen’s eyes were full of astonishment.
Hearing this, the Great Freedom Celestial Demon laughed and said: "Have you forgotten the Old Osmanthus you obtained? Just a wisp of its aura can bring an incredible transformation to the beehive."