"Moreover, it doesn't feel like a simple Heaven and Earth's Will; it's more like a fusion of Heaven and Earth's Will with another entity," Number Nine's voice continued.

"Like you?"

"Something similar, yet different."

"Then what exactly?"

"I don't know, and it's gone now. I'm not sure where it went, but most likely it went to where you are. Be careful."

Lu Ye never expected that Number Nine could be so unreliable, but he also understood that it wasn't Number Nine's fault. Although it's a fusion of the Nine Provinces' Heaven and Earth's Will and the Artifact Spirit, it can do anything within the Nine Provinces World, but invading another realm is a first for this era of the Nine Provinces and for Number Nine.

Anything done for the first time is inevitably unfamiliar. Number Nine has already provided the Nine Provinces cultivators with the most assistance possible. Without it, the cultivators couldn't resist the Heavenly Punishment of this realm, and wouldn't be able to summon the Divine Weapons to bloom everywhere in the Blood Refinement World, making the Blood Race flee without hiding places.

So far, the success of this battle owes mainly to Number Nine's contributions, then followed by Lu Ye's efforts.

Thus, too many demands couldn't be made. Number Nine always gave Lu Ye a feeling of well-planned strategies, making one feel he could do anything.

But in truth, this is merely an illusion; Number Nine isn't truly omnipotent. It also has its shortcomings, and the Nine Provinces' potential and foundation need growth, just as Number Nine does.

Lu Ye knew it was right. No matter what kind of entity the Heaven and Earth's Will of the Blood Refinement World is, having separated from the battlefield with Number Nine, it would most likely come here, as this battle determines the ultimate fate of the Blood Refinement World. If it intends to resist, it won't miss this war.

As the thought just surfaced, Lu Ye was suddenly startled, for he sensed an immensely powerful force erupting from the blood pool beside him, accompanied by an awe-inspiring momentum.

At this moment, his Blood Sea was spread above the blood pool, as a means to intercept the Blood Race Sacred Seed from escaping into the underground Blood River. Therefore, when the mysterious powerful force erupted, his Blood Sea was the first to bear the brunt.

That wasn't a force humans could resist. Lu Ye swiftly made a decision, retracting his Blood Sea and darting outward.

The several Sacred Seeds bound within his Blood Sea didn't know what happened. They had been struggling to break free from the Blood Sea's constraints but were powerless. Once Lu Ye retracted the Blood Sea, they regained their freedom immediately, thrilled by the sudden change, and dashed toward the blood pool's entrance.

However, they had barely reached above the blood pool when a massive roar erupted, causing the entire Jade Pillar Peak to shake and tremble. Suddenly, blood flew in all directions, and the mountain body collapsed.

Lu Ye stood in mid-air, turned around and looked back, eyes narrowing.

He saw gushes of blood water bursting from the blood pool, transforming into a continuous Blood River. The Blood Race Sacred Seeds, just freed and preparing to dive in, were engulfed by the Blood River in an instant, disappearing without a trace.

The Blood River, flowing endlessly from the blood pool, seemed spirited as though it were a dragon, swaying and twisting towards the nearest battlefield.

There, two silhouettes were entangled, a top human race strongman confronting a Blood Race Sacred Seed.

As the blood-colored dragon surged forward, the human race strongman realized the danger and quickly dodged. The Blood Race Sacred Seed tried to evade as well, but the blood-colored dragon targeted him directly, and he couldn't escape its fate, becoming wrapped by the Blood River and vanished like the other Sacred Seeds.

Lu Ye watched the scene, astounded, as countless thoughts surged in his mind, struggling to comprehend what occurred.

This day's battle was a trap set by the Nine Provinces cultivators against the Blood Race Sacred Seed. Everything proceeded as planned. With sufficient time, the Sacred Seeds arriving here would be exterminated, allowing the Blood Refinement World to be completely pacified.

However, this trap wasn't set by the Nine Provinces cultivators but leveraged by the momentum, borrowing the force of the Blood Refinement World's Heaven and Earth's Will.

If Number Nine's judgment is correct and this realm's Heaven and Earth's Will has spiritual intelligence, it shouldn't have guided those Sacred Seeds here, giving the human race a chance to catch them all.

Yet it did.

And what happened now was even more perplexing.

As Lu Ye pondered, suddenly a sense of connection arose in his mind. He carefully perceived it and was shocked.

For if he followed this sense, he should willingly go forward and merge with the blood-colored dragon emerging from the blood pool, empowering the blood-colored dragon.

Lu Ye quickly understood this sense was a summons of saintliness, meaning all beings with saintliness could perceive this summons, and it's an irresistible summons.

The only reason Lu Ye could resist was because while refining Sacred Blood, the Talent Tree burned away detrimental things, allowing him to maintain his human form.

But the Blood Race Sacred Seeds lacked this ability.

Lu Ye looked around and saw those Blood Race Sacred Seeds, who were fighting bravely against human strongmen, now recklessly charging toward the direction of the blood-colored dragon, disregarding whatever harm their opponents might inflict on them. Even losing limbs didn't deter them.

In an instant, streaks of blood light converged towards one direction.

Lu Ye felt something bad was happening and hastily sent a message to Second Senior Sister.

Second Senior Sister quickly replied with a result just as he expected.

Lann Qiyue, who had always been acting together with Second Senior Sister and the others, had indeed also received a summons. Just before Lu Ye sent the message, she suddenly flew off without warning, heading straight towards Jade Pillar Peak.

However, because Second Senior Sister and the others were far away, even with Lann Qiyue's speed, it would probably take several days to reach here.

Several days... Regardless of who wins or loses the battle here, it would have already ended, so there was nothing to worry about on Lann Qiyue's side.

The real concern was on his own side!

As each Sacred Seed left the battlefield and merged into the blood-colored dragon, Lu Ye distinctly felt an extremely powerful saintliness from within, and that saintliness was rapidly increasing.

Not only that, Lu Ye also saw little dots of golden light in the blood-colored dragon, which were clearly unrefined Sacred Blood, being washed out as the Blood Water surged.

The Blood Water in the Blood Pool had never ceased to pour out, almost as if it intended to drain all the Blood Water from the underground Blood River. As the Blood Water infused and the Sacred Seeds merged, the mass of the blood-colored dragon was expanding ferociously.

Many strong human warriors employed various means to attack it but to no avail.

Mong Jie flashed to Lu Ye's side and asked, "What's going on here?"

Regarding the Blood Race, no one present knew more than Lu Ye. After all, strictly speaking, he was a Sacred Seed too, which is why Mong Jie came over to ask him.

Lu Ye had no idea, so he could only shake his head.

The outpouring of Blood Water from the Blood Pool finally ceased. At this moment, atop Jade Pillar Peak, a huge blood-colored dragon coiled, surrounded by over a hundred strong warriors of the human race, each using various means to bombard the blood-colored dragon. Though they didn't know what was happening, first attacking it was the priority; whether it was effective, no one knew.

In the chaotic turmoil of spirit force, the blood-colored dragon showed no signs of counterattack, but the more it remained so, the more unsettling it felt.

Until a certain moment, it suddenly contracted inward, abruptly transforming into a peculiar shape.

It was actually a large egg-shaped object, seemingly like a giant egg, far beyond normal in size.

"What's going on now?" Wu Deshao, fighting furiously, asked, frustrated. He feared no Sacred Seed and even quite enjoyed the life-and-death struggle against those with comparable strength, but this bizarre situation made him feel like a dog biting a hedgehog, with no point of attack.

"Blood Embryo!" Lu Ye gritted his teeth and whispered.

The egg-shaped object in view was clearly a Blood Embryo.

Under normal circumstances, the Blood Race is nurtured from Blood Embryos, but they are usually not very large as most are born from human women and naturally cannot be very large.

However, this Blood Embryo was absurdly large, and Lu Ye had an ominous feeling that something extraordinary might be nurtured inside it.

This was, after all, a monstrous entity formed by the amalgamation of vast Blood Water from the Blood Pool and more than twenty Sacred Seeds.

The Blood Embryo seemed to breathe, expanding and contracting rhythmically, as it did so, the surface bore numerous intricate and complex patterns constantly flashing with blood light.

Over a hundred strong warriors of the human race attacked it from all directions, using various techniques to bombard the abnormal Blood Embryo, but the intricate patterns on the surface seemed to possess extremely strong Protective Power, rendering all attacks ineffective.

"Focus on one point!" Jian Guhong shouted fiercely, as beams of Sword Qi burst forth, aiming at a specific spot on the Blood Embryo. Others saw this and immediately followed suit.

Lu Ye's attack was mixed among them.

Everyone knew that whatever was inside the Blood Embryo could not be allowed to hatch.

Combining the united attack of over a hundred of the human race's top warriors, there was nothing in the world that could withstand it. The targeted spot on the Blood Embryo finally developed a small dent, from which dense blood Qi escaped, turning into blood mist, but quickly dispersed by the next wave of attacks.

The dent gradually expanded, eventually turning into a crack, spreading outward.

In no time, the surface of the Blood Embryo resembled a fragmented mirror, covered in cracks like a spider web.

Finally, at a certain moment, with a crashing sound, the Blood Embryo shattered.

At that exact moment, a dread-inspiring aura erupted from within the Blood Embryo, even causing someone as strong as Jian Guhong and the others to change their expressions involuntarily.

Lu Ye felt an extremely ominous foreboding.