He was cramping because of the pain. His eyes seemed to have turned into two rockets that were about to burst out of his eye sockets. Magma flooded out from his internal organs to his limbs.
Such violent spiritual energy was not something that his soul could control at all, much less direct the spiritual energy to his heart!
"Hu! Hu! "
Li Yao breathed heavily, only to discover that his breath was mixed with weird colors!
"I've really done it this time!"
Li Yao had swallowed a lot of Flowing Brightness Crystals in order to make a breakthrough by force on Boneyard.
However, the Flowing Brightness Crystals were almost the most stable and peaceful Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures in the world of Cultivators. It was not a big deal to swallow them directly.
The cores of the apocalyptic beasts, on the other hand, contained a lot of impurities. Even the components of the impurities were unclear.
The cores with the least impurities had been swallowed by Li Yao a long time ago, which helped him break through from the 77th level of the Refinement Stage to above the 80th level.
The cores with more impurities had been refined into super bombs and crystal bombs.
But the cores with the most impurities were extremely unstable. They were not even suitable to be made into bombs because there was no telling when they would explode.
Although he had a tough body that had been thoroughly tempered and was digested by 'Whale Swallowing', a secret technique of the Hundred Smelting Clan from forty thousand years ago, he still could not hold on any longer.
Very soon, his abdomen was bulging. Clusters of strength were raging inside, as if monsters were about to break out of his body!
At the critical moment, Sha Yulan cast spells in silence and made gestures with her hands. Her spiritual energy was condensed into more than ten long needles that were almost transparent and pierced into Li Yao's abdomen softly.
When the long needles pierced into his body, the volcano inside Li Yao's internal organs seemed to have been tossed a lot of ice cubes. The agitated spiritual energy was immediately pacified.
Cold sweat was running down Sha Yulan's forehead. It was obvious that she had activated her soul to the maximum, too. She was changing the gestures of her hands nonstop. The long needles of spiritual energy were shivering and spurting flames of spiritual energy into Li Yao's internal organs.
Li Yao felt that a pair of warm hands were rubbing his chest and abdomen slowly. Very patiently, he turned his spirit energy into spirit threads and spread them out.
However, the violent spiritual energy was too enormous. If he were to dissolve it bit by bit, how long would it take for him to dissolve it?
Li Yao was in so much pain that he rolled his eyes and shouted in his heart, "Great Clan Leader Xiong, stall for time, stall for as much time as you can! He chatted casually with this old monster and asked him about his purpose. Let's discuss his mental journey on this path of no return … "
The two best warriors of the six tribes of Iron Plateau confronted each other for a long time. Xiong Wuji said solemnly, "Master Yan, I still don't understand. With your personality and your passion for Iron Plateau, how did you become a lackey of the Temple of Immortals? What benefits can the Palace of Immortality give you that you are willing to betray your own people and home? "
"Hooray!" Li Yao's eyes were brimming with tears. He almost wanted to give Xiong Wuji a big hug.
Yan Xibei sniffed. The crisscrossing blood traces on his face calmed down slightly. He said indifferently, "Little Bear. Other people may not know what kind of person Yan Xibei is, but do you not? What is the Temple of Immortals? Is it qualified for me to be their lackey?
"Alright. If I don't make myself clear today, it seems that none of you will stand on my side. Then, I will tell you everything as it is!
"Look at me right now. You must think that I am neither a human nor a ghost. You must be confused as to why I can manipulate the eggs of apocalypse. I can even transform myself into a 'calamity-level apocalyptic beast', right?
"Then, do you know what the nature of the apocalypse is?
"I'm afraid that none of you can figure it out!"
Xiong Wuji said coldly, "The apocalypse on Iron Plateau was probably a 'possession' of a civilization on another civilization. The Titan Warriors were trying to reincarnate in the bodies of human beings!" Yan Xibei was stunned for a moment.
This time, Yan Xibei was truly dazed. He eyed Xiong Wuji up and down for a long time and nodded quickly. "Good. Good. Little Xiong, I didn't know that I had underestimated you in the past. I didn't realize it until I had the legacy of the Blood Stripe Technique. But you have guessed it based on the clues of the battle of the apocalypse.
"Possession, reincarnation in someone else's body. These two words are used very accurately. There's nothing more appropriate!"
"Now that you know the truth, I can cut the crap."
Xiong Wuji clenched his fists and raised his voice. "Master Yan, I'm even more confused. If you know the truth of the apocalypse and that it is a war between another civilization and the civilization of mankind, why are you still doing this? Why do you still want to do this? Why do you want us humans to kill each other?
Other than Li Yao and Sha Yulan, everybody was baffled. They had no idea what the two of them were talking about.
Yan Xibei smiled casually and did not answer. He simply said, "You are wrong about one thing. It is not the Titan Warriors who have 'possessed' us, but the 'Blood Stripe Virus'. The so-called Titan Warriors are merely their puppets."
Xiong Wuji's eyes bulged. "Blood Stripe Virus? What's that? "
Yan Xibei pointed at the stripes on his body that were twisting and changing like veins. He said, "In the Titan Illusionary Land, every Titan Warrior has such ever-changing blood stripes.
"Many wildlings in the Dark Continent have blood moss on their bodies, too. After thousands of years of evolution, the moss will turn into clearer blood stripes, too.
"When we studied the Titan Warriors before, we thought that the blood stripes were just one of their organs, a unique organ that could absorb spiritual energy and communicate with each other!
"You couldn't have been more wrong!
"The blood stripes, blood spots, and blood moss are a life in itself. They are parasites that are highly developed and intelligent, but they do not have a real body and can only live on other lives!
"The Titan Warriors are just their puppets. They are the real masterminds behind the Heavenly Tribulation this time!"
"I named the parasites' Blood Stripe Virus'. However, 'Blood Spirit' or 'Blood Devil' are more appropriate names, too."
These few words were like rolling thunderclaps that struck everyone dumb.
Even Li Yao and Xiong Wuji had never heard of the 'Blood Stripe Virus' before. They looked at each other and swallowed hard. The dense blood stripes on Yan Xibei's body looked even weirder and eviler.
Touching the blood stripes on his chest that were protruding like vines, Yan Xibei mumbled, "In the battle of the apocalypse thirty years ago, although I managed to save the day, I was heavily wounded, too, and my Cultivation plummeted.
"I tried countless methods, but the recovery of my Cultivation was very slow. Therefore, I made up my mind and went to the Dark Continent alone, hoping to break my limits in the most dangerous environment. I would either die in the battle or make a breakthrough!
"I traveled in the Dark Continent for a year, slaying countless demon beasts and fighting the wildlings in the Dark Continent. My Cultivation gradually recovered.
"However, after one battle, I was targeted by a weird-looking ferocious beast with blood spots all over its body.
"The ferocious beast was strong, smart, and cunning. I had never seen anything like it before.
"It was the most dangerous battle of my life. After fighting for a whole night, I finally killed it!
"However, the moment the ferocious beast was killed, the weird blood spots on its body seemed to be alive. They flew to my legs and dyed the lower half of my body red!
"I sensed that a very weird force was contained in the blood spots. Not only was it swallowing my body, it was also invading my soul!
"Having no other choice, I could only grit my teeth and cut off the lower half of my body. Then, I burned the lower half of my body, which had turned into a pool of pus and blood, into ash with the fuel that I carried with me.
"The blood spots screamed miserably for more than an hour in the fire before they were completely gone!"
Low exclamations were echoing nonstop in the camp of qi-trainers.
Many qi-trainers only knew that Yan Xibei had gone to the Dark Continent for years of training and that he had been heavily wounded and almost killed when he returned. After he recovered, his Cultivation had hit rock bottom, making him almost a cripple.
But they did not know that he had gone through such a soul-stirring experience!
Yan Xibei's face was calm, as if he were telling a story that had nothing to do with him. He continued, "After I lost my legs and my Cultivation plummeted, I lost all hope after I returned to the Burning Sun Tribe. I gave up the idea of recovering my Cultivation and only wanted to teach my people and pass on my martial arts.
"However, I didn't expect that my slash didn't manage to get rid of all of the foreign blood. There was still a drop of foreign blood that entered my upper body before I cut off my legs, and concealed itself in my body."
"It lurked in the darkness and waited for an opportunity. Finally, two years later, it launched an attack on my brain, trying to corrupt me and turn me into its puppet!
"Thankfully, most of the foreign blood was attached to my legs and was cut apart by me. The remaining strength was less than one percent.
"After I discovered it, of course I used all of my soul to fight it!"
"There's no need to elaborate on the dangers involved. All in all, I struggled on the bed for three days and three nights before I finally tamed the foreign blood, or rather, the 'Blood Stripe Virus'!
"Hehe. It intended to invade my brain and turn me into its puppet. But in the end, it was swallowed by me, and I received the essence of its life, which was the heritage of the Blood Stripe Virus!
"The Blood Stripe Virus is a very ancient life form from a faraway foreign land billions of years ago!
"As a parasitic life form, their true form is mucus that looks like drops of blood.
"They hide inside the meteoroids and drift in the sea of stars. Through the collisions of the meteoroids, they spread out and searched for suitable hosts.
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