Above the Great Dao

"Could it be that the king of Heavenly Pond Country also visited the Despair Slope?" Chen Shi thought.

According to Yang Bi's account, the True King, after visiting the Despair Slope, voluntarily reduced the two realms of Tribulation Crossing and Ascension, adding the four realms of Divine Shrine, Divine Embryo, Divine Descent, and Refining Void, transforming the cultivation techniques brought from the Huaxia Divine Continent into the current cultivation system.

This change resulted in cultivators having the same lifespan as ordinary people, no longer than a hundred years.

Moreover, no one could pass Tribulation Crossing and Ascension to become a carefree immortal.

If Heavenly Pond Country also abolished the literacy of the Ghost God clans after visiting the Despair Slope, then how terrifying must the Despair Slope be, to compel the True King and prehistoric civilizations to submit successively?

Chen Shi had encountered Zhuang Wujiu before and did not find him particularly strong.

But now, looking at the bodies hanging on the Infinite Cliff, Chen Shi felt that the Despair Slope might be even more powerful than imagined.

"I wonder if the Blood Lake Scripture can absorb the blood exuded by these gods?" Peng Yan'er looked up at the divine beings hanging on the cliff wall and suddenly asked.

Chen Shi praised, "Yan'er, you are nothing like your brother. Instead, you are more like me."

He also wanted to know if the Blood Lake Scripture could refine this divine blood. However, the bodies of the divine beings hanging on the cliff wall still held strong and unparalleled auras, whether they were alive or dead was unknown, and recklessly harvesting their blood might provoke even a single strand of their aura, which could very well crush him to death.

Chen Shi leapt down from the locust tree to the base of the cliff.

Peng Yan'er hurriedly followed him; Chen Shi instructed, "Later, don't activate the Blood Lake Scripture yet. I'll test it first to see if there's any danger."

Peng Yan'er agreed, unable to conceal her excitement.

At the base of the cliff was a blood-colored stream, the divine blood within it amber-like, crystal clear.

Colorful rosy clouds permeated above the stream, very splendid.

Chen Shi found a human skull, cautiously approaching the stream, attempting to scoop a bit of divine blood. Unexpectedly, as soon as the skull touched the divine blood, it shattered with a snap.

He tried several more times, but no container could touch the divine blood without being crushed.

This divine blood had a strong dissolving ability, and anything that fell into it would disappear quickly.

Chen Shi moved slightly away from the blood stream, attempting to activate the Blood Lake Scripture, drawing a wisp of rosy clouds lingering above the blood stream.

Carefully, he tried to refine this wisp of rosy cloud into the blood pool behind his head, and at the moment the rosy cloud touched his body, an overwhelmingly intense surge of blood energy rushed in, and Chen Shi seemed to see an unstoppable tidal wave of blood sweeping toward him, threatening to crush him!

He immediately retreated, but the tidal wave surged relentlessly, not diminishing as he withdrew!

"The divine beings hanging on the cliff wall must have far exceeded the Mahayana realm before their deaths! This blood energy far surpasses the Mahayana!"

Chen Shi gritted his teeth, running the Blood Lake Scripture to its limit. He had encountered many in the Mahayana realm whose auras were indeed immensely powerful, but compared to the power contained in this divine blood, it was a notch lower!

On his small skeletal body, unique patterns belonging to the Ghost Shepherd emerged!

"Crack, crack!"

These patterns shattered under the divine might, and his bones emitted fine cracking sounds, as the bony form once refined by the Blood Lake Scripture was instantly covered with cracks, ready to disintegrate at any moment!

The bloodline mark he obtained by slaying the Ghost Shepherd and refining its blood energy shattered completely!

Not only that, the primordial spirit possessed within the skeleton also sensed an impending cataclysm!

A flash of inspiration crossed Chen Shi's mind, and he immediately activated the First New Talisman!

Divine language thundered in his mind!

"The essence of Yang shines bright, the Yin ghost weakens! The divine vermilion glimmers, radiant dew upon the celestial microcosm!"

"Seven energies form a battle, three energies form a platform! All evils obliterated, myriad ghosts subdued and crushed!"

On the surface of his skeleton, masses of thunder light exploded, with lightning flowing across his bones, Chen Shi stood on the Thunder Platform, like a skeleton deity bathed in thunder.

The tidal wave of blood energy crashed in, and Chen Shi, activating the First New Talisman, stood immovable like a pillar against the current, withstanding this wave of impact alive!

"Phew—"

Behind his head, the blood pool whirled, expanding larger and larger, quickly transforming into a vast blood pool!

The blood pool equated to his mana, boundless and vast.

Furthermore, the blood pool also achieved a qualitative ascension, its operation faster, and its refining speed quicker!

The divine blood energy hidden within the rosy clouds flowed through his limbs and bones; in just a moment, Chen Shi's skeletal form, as if forged of beautiful jade, became incredibly solid, and the previous cracks disappeared without a trace!

Chen Shi was both surprised and delighted; he immediately turned to Peng Yan'er, saying, "Absorbing divine blood is extremely dangerous. Stand by me first, and I will use the breath of the divine blood to help forge your body!"

Peng Yan'er stood beside him; Chen Shi once again activated the Blood Lake Scripture, cautiously drawing a strand of rosy clouds; as the clouds surged towards him, transforming into a torrent of blood energy merging into the blood pool behind his head, he immediately diverted a wisp of blood energy into Peng Yan'er's body, shouting, "Yan'er, activate the Blood Lake Scripture!"

Peng Yan'er immediately operated the Blood Lake Scripture; the blood pool behind her head rapidly expanded with the infusion of the divine blood energy, the operation speed of the Blood Lake Scripture gradually accelerating!

Even more wondrous, the Blood Lake Scripture nourished her physical body, extracting the essence from the divine blood to forge her form!

Her wingtips, in mere moments, turned golden and resplendent, incredibly magnificent, and other feathers were also refined, the impurities utterly purified!

Moreover, her divine soul received a substantial enhancement, while the divine blood energy also refined her bloodline power, making her bloodline even purer!