CHAPTER 293: ANOMALY

Chanting echoed across the ice plains as Carlos kept a serious expression, not daring to slack off even slightly.

Suddenly, accompanied by a mysterious thunderous sound in the depths of his soul, the familiar inverted double-horned chalice phantom dropped down once more.

Various strange desires, anger, and arrogance kept stirring Carlos’s heart, nearly overwhelming him.

Luckily, Carlos had plenty of experience dealing with this. He emptied his mind, guarded his spiritual essence, and stayed unmoved.

"&##soul#&&..."

"Bang!"

Carlos entered soul vision as countless light points flew across the empty ice plains above, breathtakingly beautiful.

He suppressed his soul’s restlessness and directed his ’gaze’ toward the ritual’s core.

In his vision,

Blood Silver obediently followed his commands, opening its soul barriers. Clearly, it was completely without guard.

"Blood Silver, you’re doing great. Hold steady, don’t fight the coming power!"

Carlos’s ’voice’ reached Blood Silver’s soul depths, and it responded happily.

"Moo!"

Despite feeling waves of unease, Blood Silver still followed mommy’s requirements, keeping its soul barriers open.

Carlos continued the prayer ritual:

"Great , ##*&&&"

"Boom!"

An extremely terrible devouring force erupted. The Silver Sword Orchid Black Knight and the uneasy Blood Silver got immediately swallowed by the mysterious vessel phantom.

That mysterious being swallowed the No. 1 Silver Sword Orchid Black Knight and the non-resisting Blood Silver...

Moments later, crackling sounds arose, indicating successful fusion. Carlos’s nerves relaxed slightly.

"Moo moo!"

Within the inverted double-horned chalice phantom, Blood Silver kept crying out for mommy. It felt its entire body was breaking apart as an irresistible force penetrated its soul core—extremely uncomfortable.

Hearing the cries, Carlos was running the ritual and couldn’t offer comfort. He could only speak faster to make the ritual run quicker, ending Blood Silver’s suffering sooner.

But halfway through, the entire retainer ritual circle suddenly shook, flickering bright and dim, showing signs of instability.

"Hmm?"

This scene had happened once in the previous retainer fusion ritual. Though it had gone through several weird moments, the final result was good.

Carlos barely managed to collect himself. Once started, regardless of outcome, all he could do now was keep the mutating ritual going.

Moments later,

The inverted double-horned chalice phantom started rotating on its own, spreading strange fluctuations as it began searching again...

Through the first dark mist layer, reaching the Material Realm, Spirit Realm, Mirror Realm... until the endless blood pool in an unknown dimension.

The chalice phantom shook, blazing with light as magnificent, strange power transcended dimensions and vanished...

"Where did it go?"

Carlos sensed the retainer fusion ritual still running normally.

Based on the previous example, he boldly formed a theory.

Blood Silver was deeply connected to the blood moon and Blood Mother. Could it capture them as materials?

Carlos couldn’t help feeling anticipation...

...

In one of the mysterious ultra-high dimensions, the endless blood pool—sourced from countless creatures’ death blood—roared and churned like ocean waves, filled with the resentment, fear, and anger of dying beings...

This death blood containing mental poison could drive any normal creature’s soul nuts with just a single drop.

But within the blood pool was a region calm as a mirror’s surface, not stirring a single ripple.

At the region’s center floated a strange ’island’ wrapped in countless bizarre blood chains. The exposed portions revealed dark red plasma slowly flowing within.

Suddenly, a strange vessel phantom slowly emerged from the blood surface—two horns opening, shaped like an inverted double-horned chalice.

The moment the phantom appeared, inexplicable fluctuations arose. This calm blood pool gradually filled with blood mist, growing thicker until everything was shrouded.

Vaguely, the strange ’island’ changed appearance—the exterior became a throne while the internal blood rose and condensed into a tall woman’s voluptuous form. Her face was blurred, wrapped in strange chains with bizarre blood vessels extending from her back into the blood pool, radiating sin and punishment...

The Blood Mother gazed at the phantom with confusion.

Boom!

Red mist boiled as chains symbolizing sin and punishment rose, but passed straight through the phantom as if nothing was there.

"Who are you?"

The Blood Mother was wary. Chains with terrifying auras filled the entire region as it instinctively sensed intense threat.

Though wary, it was only slightly so. This was its absolute domain—it didn’t believe defeat was possible.

Suddenly,

The inverted double-horned chalice phantom blazed as indescribable chanting rang out:

"##@@-&##@@"

The next second, terrible devouring force suddenly erupted, covering the entire region. Red mist got devoured at visible speed.

"You bastard!"

The Blood Mother’s fury blazed. This was the first time any creature dared battle it in the blood pool.

Sin and punishment authority activated fully, sealing space. Then countless chains followed the devouring force to strangle it!

But they still passed through. Though it could clearly sense the devouring force, why was it still untouchable?

"What kind of technique is this!"

The Blood Mother realized it was temporarily helpless against this thing.

But this was one of the few essence locations in the endless blood pool. It had searched countless ages to find it, spending enormous time settling here.

Just as it was about to merge with its sin-punishment domain.

So unless absolutely necessary, it definitely couldn’t run away like a coward and abandon everything.

What to do?

But with such an unknown entity overhead, the Blood Mother couldn’t ignore it.

Who knew what weird shit might happen next?

The Blood Mother observed patiently.

Though the devouring force was strong, it couldn’t shake this blood domain—only devouring scattered blood mist.

And blood mist derivatives were virtually endless.

The Blood Mother’s eyes flickered:

"Absorb away, absorb away. Let’s see how much blood mist you can handle!"

Blood pool mist was commonplace for creatures like the Blood Mother, but for other beings, it was deadly poison.

While the Blood Mother pondered how to deal with the phantom,

The inverted double-horned chalice phantom suddenly flickered rapidly as devouring intensity dramatically increased.

"Oh shit!!!"

The Blood Mother was shocked. The sudden devouring force exceeded its calculations. It felt like a small boat in a storm, seemingly about to get completely devoured.

"Damn!!!"

The sin-punishment domain desperately resisted while blood vessels behind it frantically drew power from the blood pool. The Blood Mother swayed precariously but managed to hold out momentarily.

Suddenly, the inverted double-horned chalice phantom flickered again, devouring power becoming extremely terrible. Under the Blood Mother’s despairing gaze, it actually uprooted both it and the entire blood domain.

"No!!!"

The Blood Mother let out a despairing cry, then abruptly stopped, swallowed into the phantom.

Then the phantom that had completed material capture slowly disappeared, leaving only a giant whirlpool slowly rotating—unknown when it would restore its original form...