Chapter 272 Fusion Blood Sea
"What?!"
Su Han's words had changed everyone's expressions. Although the attack just now had felt terrifying, they had only assumed it was within the Fourth Grade range.
"If every interdimensional rift has Fifth-Order monsters, then..."
Tian Jiaxuan immediately realized the dire implications. South City had a total of five interdimensional rifts, one in the north district, two in the east district, and two in the south district.
If one day the Fifth-Order beings from all five interdimensional rifts truly descended, then even with Su Han, South City would definitely be unable to prevent its inevitable destruction.
Su Han continued to devour the surrounding Spiritual Energy. His physical state had recovered somewhat, and he said, "Let's go back to the research facility and discuss."
The turbulence of the Spiritual Energy Blood Sea had temporarily calmed down, and even the chaotic Spiritual Energy became much more stable after the shadow disappeared.
It was as if the battle had also consumed a significant amount of energy within this interdimensional space.
Su Han's gaze was deep as he glanced at the Spiritual Energy Blood Sea, then led everyone away from the number 2 interdimensional space in the east district.
"Old Zhu, seal off the number 2 interdimensional space in the east district, and issue the same orders immediately for the other rifts, prohibiting all actions that could stir the Spiritual Energy Blood Sea."
Zhu Xiong's expression turned serious at once, and he asked in a low voice, "Is there a situation?"
"There's a big guy in the blood sea, hard to deal with."
Su Han offered a brief explanation, and Zhu Xiong's gaze sharpened. If even someone as powerful as Su Han said it was hard to deal with, one could imagine how tricky the entity was.
"I understand. A large search team will be stationed here."
Su Han summoned the Blood-Erosion Alligator Dragon. Although the Blood-Erosion Alligator Dragon's Spiritual Energy had recovered a lot, the gashes in its body had not fully healed.
Having a Spiritual Energy Entity allows one to unleash more formidable power and provide stronger defense, offsetting much of the damage.
But when the damage reached a threshold, it would still reflect on the real body.
The Blood-Erosion Alligator Dragon withstood a strike from the kilometer-level blood hand, which had reached Fifth-Order power, taking the hit with Su Han and two Angel Envoys' cooperation. Its body was immediately covered in gashes.
Now, its wriggling blood was rapidly repairing the wounds, which made the injuries seem less terrifying than they were.
All the researchers followed Su Han onto the Blood-Erosion Alligator Dragon and immediately returned to the research facility.
After entering the research facility, everyone had no other thoughts and gathered in the conference room together, taking their seats with solemn expressions.
"Let's talk about what happened just now."
Su Han looked at the crowd. Everyone was aware of the importance of the interdimensional space. It wasn't just the only channel available for understanding the other world and why the apocalypse had appeared, but also a source of high-Energy Level Spiritual Energy and Spiritual Energy ore.
Spiritual Energy bullets, Spiritual Energy bombs, crystal energy generators, and so on, all largely relied on Spiritual Energy ore. Of course, the crystal energy generator could also use Lamp Tree Crystals, but that was just one way of converting Spiritual Energy.
"Professor Bai, can you give everyone a direction?"
Finally, the focus landed on Bai Qiuwen. Su Han's voice reached him, and without refusing, Bai Qiuwen nodded slowly, then spoke in a hoarse voice:
"Everyone has made observations just now. The time was short, the process harrowing, and the recorded information is very fragmented—even what everyone has noticed is not the same. Let me throw out a leading idea here. We need to understand roughly two problems: what might the Blood Sea Demon be? And the second problem is, what's the regularity of its reaction mechanism?
These two issues, I think, relate to the safety of all interdimensional spaces."
Bai Qiuwen sharply pointed out two critical issues related to the safety of interdimensional spaces.
Li Bowen glanced at the people around him, then said, "Professor Tian, I have an idea. Is it possible that the Blood Sea Demon has always been dormant within the interdimensional space? The monster doesn't have a fixed form, is it possible that the Spiritual Energy Blood Sea is the monster's actual body or related to it?"
Li Bowen was Tian Jiaxuan's student and was also the person who had assisted Tian Jiaxuan in creating the hand-cranked crystal energy generator.
At such a meeting, he wasn't timid and dared to offer ideas for consideration.
"That's possible."
Bai Qiuwen furrowed his brows and wrote down this possibility in his notes. However, Tian Jiaxuan at his side shook his head: "There are contradictions. If the Spiritual Energy Blood Sea is the Blood Sea Demon's actual body, then why would endless Blood Sea Monsters, like Corpse Ghosts and lesser demons, be born? What is the purpose of their killing?"
Bai Shan spoke up, "I don't know the reason for their birth, but the killings by Corpse Ghosts and lesser demons, driven by their innate violence and fury, is one reason—but another reason could be the Energy gathered from chaos and slaughter, these negative Emotions.
It's been verified that the massive killing forming these Emotions, almost akin to Spiritual Energy, or even becoming one of the sources of Spiritual Energy, causes the interdimensional rifts to expand. It can be speculated that their slaughter could nourish the interdimensional space."
"I agree with Bai Shan's point,"
Tian Jiaxuan nodded, but then he pivoted, "But that's exactly the contradiction. If the monsters are one with the blood sea, creating lesser demons and Corpse Ghosts would certainly consume its Energy. Using such consumption to nourish Energy seems a little bit like robbing Peter to pay Paul, especially since they all seem like independent entities."
At this point, Bai Shan also frowned: "If the Spiritual Energy Blood Sea is not the actual body of the Blood Sea Demon, what if the real Blood Sea Demon is sleeping beneath the blood sea, and the Spiritual Energy Blood Sea is related to it somehow? Like drawing Energy to sustain itself?"