From the Abyss Invasion to the Blasting Star.

The demon blood floating above the altar, drawn by the altar's power, split into countless streams that flowed into the altar's runes.

As the blood-red light from the altar grew stronger, the volume of the demon god's blood began to shrink rapidly.

In just over ten minutes, the volume of the Demon God's Blood had shrunk by one-third.

The bloodline wizard, who was serving as the high priest, stared solemnly at the blood of the demon god, and began to sense that something was wrong.

Because the Grand Wizard was suddenly killed yesterday, today's ceremony is officiated by a bloodline wizard who is temporarily appointed and lacks both experience and ability.

So he didn't realize there was something wrong with the ritual at first.

Even though they sensed something was amiss, they dared not abruptly interrupt the ceremony.

Moreover, the recruiting forces continued their assault on the altar, with constant explosions all around.

Although the conscripted party failed to breach the altar, it still affected the high priest's mind, making it difficult for him to concentrate on the unusual changes in the ritual.

……

at the same time.

On the battlefield outside the altar, Prince Moznis and Lu Heng had fought for over a hundred rounds without a clear victor.

After the Aurora Blade's [Dragon's Fury] effect ended, Lu Heng decisively adjusted his battle strategy, switching from a head-on confrontation to swift hit-and-run tactics.

Moznis's combat power is close to that of a demigod. His physical strength is extremely high, with all attributes exceeding 240 points, and some even reaching 250 points.

Lu Heng is only slightly better than Moznis in agility; he is inferior in all other attributes.

In a head-on confrontation, they are at a disadvantage.

Therefore, Lu Heng chose to fight with speed, avoiding solid contact with each collision. He would use the force of the weapon strikes to propel himself out at lightning speed, circling around Moznis.

Moreover, with the power of the [Astral Sword Saint], any sword strike can unleash the power of the Rift Slash.

Even though his strength attribute was suppressed by Moznis, the power of his sword strike was enough to suppress Moznis and force him to defend.

Moznis grew increasingly enraged as the fight progressed. He realized that although the human in front of him was of a lower level, the destructive power of his sword strikes was terrifying.

The sword light was incredibly destructive; every strike was one he had to defend against.

This forces him to constantly switch between offense and defense. Just when he finds an opportunity to attack and hasn't gained an advantage, he has to defend against the incredibly sharp sword light the next second.

The two fought like this for two hundred rounds, and Mozinis could not see any chance of winning, which made him very irritable.

Today is his ceremony to ascend to demigod status, and the longer it is delayed, the more disadvantageous it will be for him.

Lu Heng, however, showed no sense of urgency. He moved around Lu Heng like a dragon, swiftly changing direction with each move, colliding and then passing by.

From a distance, Lu Heng looked like a gust of wind or a bolt of lightning, circling around Moznis.

Every time Moznis seized an opportunity to unleash a deadly attack, Lu Heng would immediately unleash the Wind Dragon Slash, the raging Rift Wind Dragon annihilating all of his offensive power.

……

Because the battle between Lu Heng and Moznis was so intense, a deafening roar would erupt from time to time, shaking the entire underground cavern.

The battle was so fierce that it attracted the attention of many recruits.

These recruits had all been hunted down by Moznis and had developed psychological trauma. Although they had agreed to participate in the final battle, their only thought was to launch a feint attack on the edge of the battlefield and flee as soon as things went wrong.

Seeing Lu Heng's combat prowess, these recruits were deeply shocked.

They never imagined that a human could fight Moznis head-on and hold their own.

This gave them confidence, and they began to believe that they could win, so their attacks on the altar became even more intense.

……

After three hundred rounds of fighting, Moznis began to consider retreating.

He looked back and saw that his Bloodline Guards had surrounded the altar. With the sheer number of human recruits, it wouldn't be easy to break through the Bloodline Guards' defenses.

Therefore, he began to consider disengaging from the battle, returning to the altar, completing the ascension ceremony, and then killing all the humans who were hindering his ascension.

Just as he had this idea, he suddenly received a magical message from the high priest of the ritual, informing him that the ascension ceremony had encountered an anomaly and that half of the demon god's blood had been absorbed by the altar.

Moznis was startled when he heard this.

Under normal circumstances, the altar cannot absorb the blood of the demon god; only he can absorb the blood of the demon god.

The altar has absorbed half of the demon god's blood, so something must have gone wrong.

Moznis roared, knocking Lu Heng back, and then turned and charged toward the altar.

He flapped his blood wings and flew back above the altar, where he indeed found that the blood of the demon god had shrunk, but the altar was still running.

Theoretically, the fact that the altar is still functioning indicates that the ritual has not been interrupted.

Without a second thought, he roared to the sky, summoning all the bloodline demons from the pillar of earth flames to block the human recruits.

He then flew above the altar, opened his arms, and continued the ritual, receiving the power of the demon god's blood.

As his power began to absorb the blood of the demon god, the millions of streams of blood began to converge towards him, merging into his body and strengthening his physical form.

He sensed the power emanating from the demon god's blood, and at the same time, he turned his head to look towards the battlefield.

He worried that the strongest human recruit would stop his ascension ceremony, but he was overthinking it.

Lu Heng hovered in the distance, arms crossed, watching the ceremony calmly.

If Lu Heng had charged into the altar to continue his attack, Moznis wouldn't have found it strange. But the fact that Lu Heng was watching so calmly made Moznis feel uneasy.

But what could be wrong?

The traces of demonic blood that flowed into his body contained boundless power, and he clearly felt his physical body being strengthened.

There was nothing wrong with the promotion ceremony...

Just as he was thinking this, the altar runes below suddenly burst into intense light.

The crimson light seemed to transform into a blood-red black hole, beginning to devour all surrounding power.

The demon blood that had originally flowed into his body was gradually drawn out and absorbed into the altar runes.

Moznis was startled by what he saw, but this was just the beginning.

After the demon blood was extracted, the altar's devouring power not only did not decrease, but continued to increase, drawing out the prince's blood from his body and absorbing it into the altar.

At that moment, he finally realized that something had gone wrong with the ceremony.

"what!"

Moznis roared, unleashing the power of the Blood Prince in an attempt to resist the altar's devouring power, but to no avail.

His blood transformed into streams, converging into the runes at the center of the altar. Moznis turned and looked around, only to find that Lawrence Phoenix, who was in charge of building the altar, was nowhere to be seen.

At that moment, he guessed what had happened.

The ascension ceremony could not have succeeded, and the altar beneath their feet had been tampered with.

He roared in anger, unleashing his full power, and slammed his fist into the altar.

Bang!
A terrifying force shattered the ground, the hundred-meter-wide altar broke into pieces, the earth shook, and boulders flew everywhere.

After the ground shattered, a space beneath the altar was revealed.

Lawrence Phoenix flew out from underground, opened his arms, and released the power of the Demon God's blood, controlling the twelve altar runes to fly up and surround his body, continuing to devour the Demon God's blood.

Moznis was furious and roared, "It really was you! How dare you ruin my advancement ceremony!"

Lawrence Phoenix calmly replied, "I have no other choice. Besides, I obtained the Demon God's blood in the first place. I haven't received the reward I deserve for giving it to you."

"Die!"

Moznis roared and threw a punch.

Lawrence Phoenix raised his hand and released the power of the Demon God's blood, controlling an altar rune to block his fist.

"It's too late. I've already absorbed half of the Demon God's blood. You can't do anything to me now. I have to thank you for stopping the Summoner and creating an opportunity for me."

"Despicable humans!"

Moznis bombarded the blood-red runes with punches, causing them to shatter and reform repeatedly.

However, such indiscriminate bombardment could not break through Lawrence Phoenix's rune defenses.

Moznis was furious, but the more he felt this way, the calmer he became.

His gaze hardened as he stared at Lawrence Phoenix, reminding him, "You're too weak to withstand the blood of the demon god. It's not too late to give up now. If you continue absorbing it, your flesh and blood will collapse."

The blood of the demon god contains boundless power, but ordinary creatures simply cannot withstand its power.

Only those of the Bloodline race can bear this power, but not just any Bloodline demon can withstand it.

Otherwise, the High Banshee Tiens wouldn't have kept the Demon God's blood for so long without using it.

Even Tiens couldn't use the Demon God's blood, so naturally Lawrence Phoenix, a bloodline human who wasn't even a bloodline prince, couldn't withstand it either.

Lawrence Phoenix certainly knew this, but he had no other choice; this was his only chance to turn things around.

He sighed and said, "Whether we can withstand it or not, we'll only know after trying. If we can't withstand all the blood of the demon god, then we'll take half for now."

His expression suddenly changed as soon as he finished speaking.

He felt his blood surging, as if something terrifying was about to burst out of his veins.

He pressed his hand to his chest, trying to suppress the surging blood within him.

However, the outward surging force was too terrifying. He pressed his chest, and the surging blood immediately rushed to his back and then burst out from there.

He immediately turned around to look behind him, but instead of seeing spurting blood, he saw a bulging mass of flesh, a huge mass of flesh, larger than his back.

Immediately afterwards, his right arm began to slam, and a mass of flesh swelled up, like a fibroid the size of a basketball.

Next, his entire body began to swell outwards, and within a few breaths he transformed into a fleshy monster.

Seeing this, Moznis said in a deep voice, "Aren't you going to stop? I told you you can't withstand the power of the Demon God's blood."

Lawrence Phoenix was somewhat horrified when he saw the flesh and blood swelling up from his body, but he quickly accepted the fact.

A sinister smile spread across his face: "If that's all there is to it, it's not unacceptable."

His mindset changed from the moment he was transformed into a bloodline.

He used to value his human identity, but after being transformed into a bloodline, he no longer cares so much about it.

Since they can become blood-descended demons, what difference does it make if their bodies transform into flesh and blood monsters?
As long as I have the power, there might be a chance to recover in the future.

Therefore, after seeing the changes in his body, he not only did not stop devouring the blood of the demon god, but accelerated the devouring process.

As he devoured more and more demon blood, the flesh and blood that swelled from his body became increasingly terrifying, soon expanding into a fleshy monster ten meters wide.

When Mozinis saw this, he knew that Lawrence Phoenix was close to madness.

If this continues, once Lawrence Phoenix has consumed all the Demon God's blood, he will have no chance of turning the tables.

He turned to look at the remaining half of the Demon God's Blood, a fierce glint in his eyes. He turned and pounced, grabbing the half-ball of Demon God's Blood, stuffing it into his mouth, and swallowing it whole.

The blood of the demon god cannot be swallowed directly; it must be absorbed little by little through an altar.

What would happen if you swallowed it directly is completely unpredictable.

Moznis was well aware of this, but he had no other choice. To turn the tide, he had to swallow the blood of the demon god.

After swallowing the demon god's blood, his body began to swell, his muscles bulged, and he became a muscular monster.

Mozinis's enlarged body differed from Lawrence Phoenix's.

Lawrence Phoenix's body swelled into a mass of flesh and blood, making it impossible to distinguish limbs and torso; it was simply a giant tumor.

Even after Moznis swells, he can still maintain his original shape, only his muscles expand, making him even more muscular, like a muscle monster.

After his body swelled up, Mozinis' eyes turned bloodshot. He roared and charged forward to tear at Lawrence Phoenix's flesh and blood.

The two monsters tearing at each other veered the ascension ceremony in a bizarre direction.

The surrounding bloodline demons were utterly shocked by what they saw.

Lawrence Phoenix's body had completely turned into a lump of flesh, and he could no longer control his body's movements, so he could only passively take the beating.

Moznis frantically tore at his flesh, stuffing the pieces into his mouth and swallowing them.

Lawrence Phoenix tried to resist, but had already lost control of his body.

He could only try his best to tear his flesh apart and hold onto Moznis, then turned to look at Lu Heng in the distance and shouted, "Help me kill him! I am your servant now, help me kill him!"

Upon hearing this, Moznis tried to break free from the entanglement of Lawrence Phoenix's flesh and blood, but having consumed too much of Lawrence Phoenix's flesh and blood, he felt as if he were bound by chains within his body.

He struggled desperately, trying to shake off the flesh and blood surrounding his body, but as soon as he shook off one ring of that horrific flesh, even more would swarm around him.

Lu Heng flew to the top of the broken altar and watched the two fleshy monsters fighting below, but did not rush to make a move.

"Quick! Kill him, I can't hold on much longer!" Lawrence Phoenix shouted.

Seeing that the situation was about right, Lu Heng slowly drew his Aurora Blade and activated [Divine Judgment]. (End of Chapter)