The blood clan experts withdrew, and the battlefield fell silent. The strong figures from Dan Valley, the Ancient Clan, and the Xuan Beast clan all looked somewhat grim, their eyes filled with jealousy.
The Blood Clan experts temporarily retreated; no one knew when they would strike back. If they came back in two days, wouldn't that mean the agreed time had passed? Then the Dragonblood Legion would have easily completed their mission.
Not only could he receive the rewards promised by the Divine Clan, but all the ancient essence blood collected on the battlefield would belong to Long Chen. Long Chen was incredibly lucky.
But no one dared to say a word. At this moment, Long Chen was no longer the small figure they once had at their fingertips. He had grown into a figure admired worldwide, and angering them now would bring no good results.
Previously, Xia Chen had triggered the attack with the siege chariots, causing them heavy losses, but they could only pretend to be mute and dared not make a sound.
The Dragonblood Legion warriors took advantage of this precious time to fully restore their strength, and with the help of the Spirit Gathering Array, they quickly restored their spiritual essence.
In the previous battle, Long Chen required them to use only spiritual essence, forbidding the use of primordial spirit and soul power, because the latter cannot be restored in a short time.
But spiritual essence, on one hand, recovered quickly, and partly because they had spare spiritual energy in their armor, so they didn't have to worry about consumption.
Even if the blood clan army didn't retreat, they would still have time to recover their strength. However, once they did, they could conserve their strength and absorb what they had just gained.
In the previous fierce battle, they were not allowed to use their primordial spirit or soul powers, truly teetering on the edge of death.
Dragonblood warriors have always possessed extraordinary self-control. They perform self-hypnosis, making them temporarily forget their soul and primordial spirit powers, putting themselves in a state of absolute mortal crisis.
Only in this way can they truly and clearly smell the scent of death, see its essence, comprehend the true meaning of life, and seek the only hope of life amid endless death.
With such insight, and then verifying the life-and-death realm evolved by Liu Ruyan's Yin-Yang Dao, it would make it easier for them to comprehend life and death.
The Dragonblood warriors sat quietly in meditation, while Xia Chen and Guo Ran busied themselves in the shadows. The two entered beneath the grand formation.
There is a huge blood pool here. When the grand formation operates, it draws all the essence blood from the earth and gathers it here.
Within a hundred miles, the blood pool, a hundred zhang deep, had already been half infused. This essence blood radiated ancient, powerful fluctuations, and its violent aura was very uncomfortable.
This essence blood had not yet been purified and unusable. Guo Ran took out a jade bottle and carefully stored the essence blood.
However, based on the ratio of one hundred thousand drops of essence blood needed to refine one drop of Ancient Essence Blood, the amount refined probably won't be much, since the Dragonblood Legion has too many members.
Each person needs at least ten drops of Ancient Blood Essence to achieve the strongest effect. For a warrior with over ten thousand Dragon Blood, that's over a hundred thousand drops—a terrifying number.
It must be known that ancient essence blood is extremely precious; even the four great immortal families have very few, and the accumulated wealth over tens of thousands of years would never exceed a hundred drops. This shows just how rare ancient essence blood is.
This is also why the major powers are so envious. According to Xia Chen's estimate, even half a pool of essence blood can only be refined into at most three thousand drops of Ancient Essence Blood.
Because essence blood must first remove impurities, and in this primitive essence blood, impurities account for ninety percent. Only after these impurities are removed can the refined essence blood begin. Three thousand drops is already an optimistic number, and perhaps it is impossible to refine that much.
It is said that the amount of essence and blood impurities is related to the strength of the race. The lower the blood clan, the more impurity it has; the higher the bloodline, the purer the essence blood.
Moreover, this blood essence was mixed with quite a bit of the blood of the Blood-Infuriating Bull Monster. After all, the formation extracted the blood essence from the entire battlefield, making it impossible to distinguish between the Blood Clan and the Bloodthirsty Bull Monster.
Three thousand drops of Ancient Essence Blood is just a drop in the bucket for the Dragonblood Legion, but for any faction, it's a staggering fortune.
Time passed bit by bit. For an entire day, there was no movement, but the atmosphere grew extremely oppressive, like the calm before a storm.
During this time, Guo Ran tried to venture deeper into the Yin-Yang Realm to gather information, but Long Chen refused. The Yin-Yang Realm was no longer what it once was. If the entrance was too far and Guo Ran encountered a fourth-step Tongming Realm expert, Guo Ran would surely die. The risk was too great and not worth it.
Now that the residual might of the Imperial Seal had become Long Chen's greatest reliance, all they needed to do was firmly hold the entrance. Holding out for three days would count as completing the mission.
"Boss, do you think they'll hold meetings for ten days or half a month at a time, so we can easily get through the test?" Guo Ran said.
"Stop dreaming. I've never been this lucky in my life." Long Chen shook his head. Maybe this could happen to someone else, but he never dared to hope for it.
As soon as Long Chen finished speaking, the distant ground began to tremble, and all the powerful figures turned their gaze toward the depths of the Yin-Yang Realm.
As the ground trembled, countless blood clan experts slowly surged forward. Ahead, they were still low-level blood clan members, but behind them was a well-organized army.
"Oh my god, Blue Ring Blood Clan, Shiyan Blood Clan, Golden Horn Blood Clan—these are all high-level blood clan experts, yet so many have appeared all at once." Li Jing cried out in shock, her face full of disbelief.
These races only appear in history books; they are notorious for their ferocity, and on the Tianwu Continent, they have committed endless slaughter.
Their intelligence was comparable to that of humans. As a superior race, they possessed terrifying divine powers. If calculated by the level of human powerhouses, they were all powerful Yantian practitioners, true main forces of the blood clan.
"I told you, my luck isn't that great." Long Chen shrugged helplessly.
It wasn't that he was jinxed, but that he was always very confident in his bad luck. He was used to it—no matter what he did, it was always full of twists and turns, and there was never a smooth one.
"These soldiers are acting strange. Ruyan, go test them out." Long Chen suddenly said.
Those low-level blood clan experts charged at the front, but their steps were strange, as if something was carrying something on their backs.
"Ss s..."
Liu Ruyan was the first to charge out, summoning her true form. Before the blood clan experts could approach, she took the initiative to attack.
"Boom boom boom...
Liu Ruyan had just charged out, and those low-level blood clan experts were all shattered, their backs carrying terrifying *.
The immense force shattered a large section of Liu Ruyan's tough willow branch, startling everyone.
You have to know, Liu Ruyan's willow branches were so flexible and unbearable that even divine weapons could barely break them—they were blown apart in large patches.
"Looks like the blood clan has powerful artifact forging experts. The power of this explosion is completely different from siege tank shells." Guo Ran said in surprise.
"Boom boom boom... Those
low-level blood clan experts actually launched a suicide attack on Liu Ruyan, overwhelming her with a slaughter.
Liu Ruyan snorted coldly and stopped fighting head-on. Her massive body trembled, and countless willow leaves formed willow leaf flying knives that tore through the void, charging straight at the low-level blood clan experts.
Liu Ye killed those low-level blood clan experts, letting them self-destruct before dying. It only shattered some of the leaves, but couldn't harm Liu Ruyan's true body.
Liu Ruyan's willow leaves were her most basic attack method—as many as she wanted, and the weakest source power was consumed.
Willow Rushan's branches trembled, and above the towering willow, the leaves surged like a sea of backwards, forming waves that rushed toward the low-level Blood Clan experts.
No matter how wildly they self-destructed, they couldn't reach Liu Ruyan. Her attack range was terrifying, leaving even the strong spectators outside stunned.
Willow leaves endlessly washed over the world, the scene vast and unstoppable.
"But in terms of attack range, I'm afraid no one on the entire Tianwu Continent can match him." Beitang Rushuang couldn't help but sigh.
The old patriarch of the Beitang family also nodded. Liu Ruyan's attack range was terrifying; no one had ever seen such a powerful being.
Although they all knew that Liu Ruyan was not a human at all, and there were wood-type magical beasts on the Tianwu Continent, none had ever been as terrifying as her.
Liu Ruyan is a very troublesome presence, possessing unlimited regenerative abilities. Whether fighting solo or in group battles, she is a super powerful presence. Anyone who encounters her will have a headache.
That blood clan expert had a clever idea—a suicide-style attack to break through the grand formation Xia Chen had set up.
If they really charged through, even if they couldn't break through the formation, it would cause tremendous damage. Then, when they launched a powerful assault, the formation would be in danger.
"Boom!"
Suddenly, in the endless sea of willow leaves, a figure surged upstream. Blue patterns flashed on his body, and he held a giant sword in his hand, which was much longer than himself.
Liu Ruyan's terrifying willow leaf torrent couldn't withstand his figure, like a streak of light rushing toward her, slashing down with a single sword.
Liu Ruyan formed hand seals with her jade-like hand, and on the willow tree behind her, countless willow branches converged into a ten-thousand-mile whip, lashing toward the powerful figure.
With a loud explosion, the blood clan expert glowing with a blue halo was pushed back by Liu Ruyan's whip but was unharmed. This startled Liu Ruyan; his strength was now almost on par with a Tongming Realm expert awakened by human spirit blood.
The bloodline expert, glowing with a blue halo, let out a furious roar. Blue aura swirled throughout his body, blood energy surged skyward, and the divine light in his sword surged as he charged at Liu Ruyan once again.
This was a formidable opponent. Liu Ruyan no longer cared about releasing her willow leaves. The willow branches condensed into massive willow branch whips, lashing toward the blood clan expert glowing with a blue halo.
"Boom boom boom... The
bloodline warrior glowing with a blue aura was repeatedly struck by Liu Ruyan's long whip. By the sixth lash, he finally couldn't hold on and spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Buzz"—
The void suddenly darkened. Liu Ruyan's eighteen long whips suddenly lashed out from all directions, aiming to annihilate this powerful figure in one strike.
"Pfft!"
But just as Liu Ruyan moved, a massive longsword tore through the laws of the Great Dao, slicing through all eighteen of her divine whips.