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The blood pool churned, and ferocious blood demons crawled out of the viscous blood plasma, roaring as they pounced.

Yunluo's longsword erupted with dazzling golden light, sweeping across like a blazing sun, severing the three-headed blood demon in half. But the severed limbs fell into the blood pool, instantly reforming themselves.

She immediately made a hand seal, and nine ice crystal chains shot out, impaling the onrushing blood demon and pinning it to the ground. The blood demon struggled and roared, but the chains suddenly shattered, sending ice shards mixed with blood raining down everywhere.

"Humph!"

Yunluo suddenly groaned as three deep, bone-revealing gashes were torn open on her left arm by the Blood Demon's claws. She flung out twelve crimson talismans from her sleeve, which ignited a towering curtain of fire in the air.

The Blood Demon crashed into the fire with a shrill howl, turning into charred remains as it fell to the ground. But a muffled rumble came from the depths of the blood pool, and more Blood Demons surged out, stepping over the corpses of their companions, their crimson pupils pressing down like a tidal wave.

Rean could casually cleave his battle axe, turning large numbers of blood demons to ashes, but they would soon be reborn from the blood pool and return with renewed force.

"Attack their brows!" Yunlu shouted, her sword flashing with dazzling lightning. She clasped her hands together, drawing upon the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and countless ice spikes poured down like a torrential rain.

Lightning and ice intertwined, blasting the blood demon horde to pieces. Finally, some blood demons let out a shriek unlike any they had before—the eerie blood-red patterns that had appeared between their brows were cracking.

Seizing a fleeting opening, Yunluo transformed her sword into a dragon, striking directly at the core. A golden arc pierced through the brows of more than ten blood demons. The blood pool suddenly boiled violently, as if emitting a painful groan.

Even so, these blood demons continued to swarm out in droves, and even though Rean and Yunluo had unleashed extremely terrifying attacks, they were still unable to completely destroy them.

“Go and pick the Ninth-Grade Demon Lotus. The intelligence of these Blood Demons comes from the Demon Lotus itself!” Yunluo suddenly said. She had already guessed this outcome, but she just didn’t want Li En to pick the Ninth-Grade Demon Lotus ahead of time.

Of course, Rean knew that the Ninth Grade Demon Lotus was the core of these Blood Demons, and in addition, the Netherworld Blood Lotuses around them were also continuously providing power to these Blood Demons.

The only way to completely eradicate the birth of the Blood Demon is to remove the Ninth-Grade Demon Lotus. If only the Netherworld Blood Lotuses remain, they will not be of much use.

Rean attempted to teleport there, but this world was under strong suppression. Even if he wanted to use the fundamental laws of space, the difficulty was much higher. Only Dou Zun level experts could teleport. It would be very difficult for Rean to do so.

His current understanding of the fundamental laws of space is very close to that of a cosmic sage, but there is still some gap. So if he forcibly uses teleportation, although he can do it, there is no guarantee that there will be deviations.

If teleportation is not an option, then the only recourse is to fight through the Blood Demon army, cross the Blood Pool, reach the other side, and pluck the Ninth-Grade Demon Lotus.

However, it is clear that achieving this will not be easy. These thousands upon thousands of Blood Demons are equivalent to thousands upon thousands of Battle Kings. Unless Rean uses the power of the Gold-Eating Vine, it will be difficult for him to directly break through the Blood Demon army.

"Heavenly Cloud Slash!" Yunluo suddenly shouted, releasing a terrifying aura from her body. She instantly unleashed a terrifying power intertwined with coldness and lightning, instantly wiping out the blood demon in front of Rean.

Without Yunluo's prompting, Li En instantly passed through the passage that Yunluo had broken through and arrived directly in front of the Ninth-Grade Demon Lotus.

He used his battle qi to envelop the ninth-grade demon lotus and instantly absorbed it into his inner world.

After the Ninth-Grade Demon Lotus was taken away, the Blood Demons in the Blood Pool began to rapidly collapse and disintegrate, quickly disappearing in large numbers, leaving only a small portion remaining, but their strength was only at the initial Dou Wang level. "Hoo!" Yun Luo looked somewhat weak. She glared at Li En and said, "You owe me a big favor this time. Remember to pay me back next time."

"I'll definitely do it next time." Li En smiled, making no mention of giving half of the ninth-grade demon lotus to Yun Luo.

"You dog of a man!" Yunluo thought bitterly, but there was nothing she could do. She didn't want to fall out with Li En right now, especially since Li En had shown a strength that made her wary. Besides, Li En had a detailed map of the temple in his mind.

After passing through the Blood Demon Palace, Rean and Yunluo entered a deep passage. At the end of the passage was an altar burning with flames.

Crimson flames dyed the altar dark red, and twelve broken stone pillars pierced the sky like the fangs of a giant beast. The central circular altar was covered with cracks, and dried blood clung to the deep brown grooves, like countless dried blood vessels.

Seven fresh corpses were scattered on the dark blue stone steps. The youngest one was still in a climbing posture, his finger bones digging deep into the cracks in the stone, as if he still wanted to touch the three-eyed serpent statue at the top of the altar before he died.

The vertical pupils of the serpent god statue were inlaid with the eyeballs of living people, and at this moment they were oozing turbid pus.

On the west side of the altar, hundreds of skeletons were piled up. The older ones had grown into a bluish-gray coral reef with moss, while the newer ones still had rotting flesh hanging from them, and maggots were falling out of their empty eye sockets.

When the night wind swept by, the pile of bones emitted a mournful sound like an ocarina, and the bronze arrowheads embedded in the ribs jingled.

On the third step, there was a noticeable dent from repeated rubbing, with traces of fingernail scratches solidified in the dark red patina.

Nine bronze nails were driven into the edge of the altar, each nail head engraved with a distorted human face, and the hair wrapped around the nail was still seeping blood.

As the last ray of light disappeared, the skeletons at the bottom of the altar suddenly turned to the center, their empty eye sockets all pointing at the trembling third eye of the serpent god statue.

"It's a different kind of fire!" Yunluo exclaimed softly. She already knew a lot about the information in the Douluo Temple. She knew that the most precious things in the temple, besides the medicinal herbs, were the Heaven-rank fighting techniques and different kinds of fire. However, she didn't even know which kind of different kind of fire it was.

"Could it be the Crimson Lotus Karmic Flame, ranked eighth on the Strange Flame Ranking?" Both Li En and Yun Luo had the same guess, because the strange flame in front of them was deep red, which was very similar to the legendary Crimson Lotus Karmic Flame.

Just as Rean and Yunluo were making their own guesses, the strange fire on the altar in front of them had already unleashed an extremely terrifying aura.

Flames raged across the sky, and the Red Lotus Karmic Fire transformed into a hundred-foot-long fiery python coiled in the heavens.

Yunluo's Azure Sky Sword unleashed a three-foot-long cold light, and ice crystals condensed into streaks of frost where the sword's edge passed. These streaks collided with the crimson flames spewed by the fire python, causing a white mist to rise up and blot out the sky.

Yunluo stepped through the Nine Palaces formation, her delicate hands forming hand seals to draw upon the power of the stars. Seven jade talismans floated in the air, forming an array, their starlight like chains binding the fire python's vital point. The karmic fire raged and surged, splashing fire rain from where the scales peeled away, melting the ground into honeycomb-like craters.

Suddenly, Rean leaped onto the python's head, and terrifying power surged wildly into the karmic fire. The roaring karmic fire shattered the clouds, and the python's tail swept him away thirty feet.

Taking advantage of the moment, Yunluo bit her fingertip, the blood forming a demon-burning incantation on the jade talisman. The starlight chains tightened abruptly, causing the fire python's body to crack open with lava-like fissures. The karmic fire went berserk, lotus patterns blooming all over its body, transforming the area within a hundred feet into a boiling sea of ​​fire. (End of Chapter)