Many children, many blessings: Stealing the offspring of powerful figures to cultivate immortality.

The chain binding Jiang Yining's right wrist suddenly tightened, and the second chain wrapped around her left hand. The withered roots at the bottom of the pool opened up cracks, and two deep marks were dragged out of the tomb bricks under her feet.

Fan Chenxin drew his sword and struck the nearest chain. The dark golden Buddhist light had barely touched the silver fire when the lotus seal on Jiang Yining's collarbone was torn open, and Buddhist energy flowed into the blood pool along the chain.

She cut off the leaking Buddhist energy with a backhand and shouted, "Sheathe your sword! The formation is using your Buddhist blood to replenish the fire path. If you strike again, the lotus seal will be stripped away."

Lou Xiaotian shattered the stone bricks along the edge of the pool, and the Overlord Spear stirred up the roots of the green wood. The Blood Pact of Life Protection was drawn in, and the transparent life bridge stretched from his chest to Jiang Yining's waist.

As soon as the green vines crossed the edge of the pool, Lou Xiaotian's old chest wound reopened. Jiang Yining used the magic vines to strike the gun barrel: "Seal the blood pact. The three green wooden pillars on the west side are yours. You are not allowed to go into the pool without permission."

"You've already been dragged to the heart of the battle, and you're leaving me stranded on the shore?"

Lou Xiaotian moved his gun-wielding hand forward half an inch.

"After you go into the pool, both of you will be refined into ancestral seeds."

Jiang Yining stared at him: "If you dismantle the wrong array pillar, I will seal the life-protecting blood pact and take away the rest of your Green Wood essence as well."

Lou Xiaotian pressed the purple vine back to his chest: "I'll stay on the shore. If you can't hold on, raise your left hand and call me."

Jiang Yining turned to Fan Chenxin: "I'll leave the four Buddha Blood Repulsion Chains on the east side to you. Only cut the outer ring to supply energy, and don't let the blade light touch my lotus seal."

Fan Chenxin pressed the blade against the ground: "I will count with the hilt of the knife. One strike represents the east side, and after that, I will add two more strikes to indicate that the outer ring has been broken."

"Chu Ling Shuang dismantles the central crimson-black array pillar, and Si Yue stays behind the hammer. No one is allowed to let her near the pool."

As soon as Jiang Yining finished speaking, the dark silver chains dragged her into the bloody water.

A transparent screen rose from around the blood pool, and the gap before it closed allowed only a burst of light to pass through, completely blocking out all sounds inside and outside the pool.

Pei Yunji's ancestral mark on the back of his hand was still embedded in the array groove. He cut open the skin and flesh connected to the stone groove, used the rebound to jump over the edge of the pool, and supported Jiang Yining's back.

The Soul-Stripping Liquid climbed up his outer robe, and the Nirvana Ancestral Fire unfolded from behind his shoulders, shielding Jiang Yining from the corrosive blood waves surging from the bottom of the pool.

Jiang Yining gripped his wrist and asked, following his lips, "The Young Master's Seal is the missing key to the formation. You still dare to come in?"

Pei Yunji pointed to the blood-tracing mark on her waist, then to his own ancestral mark, and then wrote in her palm: "The bloodline of the same origin can slow down the refining process. I will stay on the shore, and Pei Henian will use the Young Master's Seal to control the entire pool."

Jiang Yining used the Demon Vine to pierce the edge of the Ancestral Mark. Hundreds of control lines surged into her sea of ​​consciousness along the same vein. Three lines passed through the true marrow, twelve lines connected to the top of the tomb, and the deepest blood token main line led directly to the Ancestral Hall.

Pei Henian's projection condensed on the surface of the pool, half of his face obscured by the ancestral fire: "I spared your life before, but you ended up biting the Pei family several times. Today, your flesh and blood, your Qi Sea, and the divine tree will all be refined into an ancestral seed."

Jiang Yining absorbed the roots of the divine tree into her dantian and replied, "The Pei family has coveted something for three thousand years, and even now they rely on stolen formations to seize it. Do you think your ancestral blood is worthy of claiming a master?"

"Once the sacred tree enters the ancestral hall, whether you can still speak will be out of your hands."

Pei Henian raised his palm and pressed down on the screen, the chain digging into Jiang Yining's wrist bone, blood flowing down to her shoulders and neck.

The screen closed completely, and Jiang Yining could no longer hear any noise from the shore. She raised two fingers to remind Fan Chenxin to break the second chain on the east side first, and then tapped the withered root three times with her left hand, urging Lou Xiaotian to find the third pillar on the west side.

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The ancestral fire behind Pei Yunji began to turn gray, the spirit-peeling liquid burned through the flesh and blood of his shoulders and back, and the third ancestral root lost the support of the ancestral breath, with cracks extending from the root end to the sea of ​​qi.

Jiang Yining pressed down on his shoulder and wrote on her palm with her fingertips: "How much of the young master's ancestral essence can still be separated?"

Pei Yunji pointed to his throat, then traced the blood, indicating that the ancestral breath would be intercepted by the spirit-peeling liquid as soon as it left the body.

Jiang Yining responded by writing: "Condensing a single ancestral breath, taking the shortest closed route, is only enough to continue the third ancestral root; not even half a bit more is allowed."

Pei Yunji gathered the ancestral fire, pressed the young master's ancestral breath under his tongue, and kept his hands supporting her shoulders and back to prevent the wound from touching the chains.

Jiang Yining grabbed his collar, leaned close to him, and took the ancestral breath. The wood energy sealed the gap between them. After the ancestral breath entered the silver leaf, she stepped back. The whole process only took two breaths.

Pei Yunji didn't pursue her. He raised his hand to protect the back of her head, deflecting the chains that crashed down from underwater, and then wrote in her hand: "Is that enough?"

"That's enough. Take back the remaining ancestral blood."

Jiang Yining sent the young master's ancestral breath into the third ancestral root, and the split root hairs closed up again.

The silver screen outside the blood pool reflected the scene inside. Fan Chenxin pressed the hilt of the knife, and the wound on the Buddha bone in his palm split open, with drops of blood falling onto the black knife.

The Buddhist chain on the east side seized the opportunity to entangle the blade. Fan Chenxin closed his eyes and suppressed his Buddhist energy back into his dantian: "She is saving her life. If I disrupt the formation because of personal feelings, I will only hand Pei Henian a knife."

After he opened his eyes, the blade turned to the outer ring. The first cut severed the connection between the Buddha chain and the top of the tomb, and the second cut pierced the bottom of the stone pillar. Dark gold lines burst out from the crack.

Lou Xiaotian saw through the screen that Pei Yunji was holding Jiang Yining, the gun barrel cracked in his palm. He did not approach the Bridge of Life, but instead nailed the Green Wood Seal back to his chest.

"I won't go into the pool; I'll only dismantle the western pillar."

Lou Xiaotian inserted the Overlord Spear into the base of the first stone pillar: "When she comes out, she can punish me however she wants."

The azure spear energy burst forth from within the pillar, breaking the first western array pillar in two. The life-protecting blood pact lost its array power and the life bridge retracted into the chest.

Chu Ling Shuang shielded Jiang Si Yue behind the heavy hammer: "We can't get close to the gap in the formation. Can you use the big red chicken to send your fox breath in?"

Jiang Siyue cradled the Fire Spirit Falcon's head and wrapped her fox breath around its tail feathers: "Big Red Chicken, fly only in front of the hammer and don't touch the water."

The Fire Spirit Falcon flew two zhang close to the ground, its tail feathers sweeping across the battle line that Fan Chenxin had cut open. The nine-tailed fox breath entered the silver screen along the crack and landed between Jiang Yining's eyebrows.

"Mommy, don't sleep. April is behind the hammer; she's not running around."

The blood ties between mother and daughter transcended the power of the formation, sending the child's words deep into the sacred tree.

Four dormant young leaves trembled gently. Jiang Yining's scattered consciousness gathered. She pressed on the ancestral mark on Pei Yunji's chest and checked it again along the main line of the blood token.

Every seven breaths, the blood of Pei Henian's elder ancestors is poured from the ancestral hall into the blood pool. Only after the return flow is complete will the three drops of true essence initiate the next round of stripping.

Jiang Yining raised seven fingers and then used the magic vine to draw the direction of the return flow on the surface of the pool. Pei Yunji understood the arrangement, released the outer layer of the Young Master's Seal, and prepared to carry the false shell of the divine wood.

Chu Ling Shuang swung her hammer at the central pillar, splitting it in half and revealing the red and black patterns of the anti-reverse flow restriction hidden inside.

She made a chain-cutting gesture towards Fan Chenxin, who then sliced ​​open the two chains atop the pillar with her sword. Lou Xiaotian followed up with a shot from the west, causing the crimson-black array patterns to collapse inward.

Pei Henian realized that the main plot was being spied on. He grasped the blood token in his palm, stopped the three drops of true essence from peeling away, and poured the dark red ancestral fire into the pool along the chains.

"You dare to investigate this elder's backflow array?"

Pei Henian's projection pressed onto the pool surface: "Non-destructive stripping is no longer useful."

Jiang Yining hid the seven demonic vines in the withered roots, extended seven fingers to Pei Yunji, and then touched the True Essence, Fire Pivot, and Ancestral Mark in turn.

Pei Yunji opened the outermost layer of the young master's seal, lowered his head and read the last instruction from her lips: "Seventh breath, send him back to the ancestral hall."

The three drops of blood essence turned dark red, and the ancestral fire pressed down on Jiang Yining's head. Pei Henian's projection raised his hand to seal the blood token's return path: "Seven breaths later, you and Shenmu will both become ancestral ashes of the Pei family."