Honghuang Taihuang

Chapter 44 Blood Sacrifice, Golden Bridge

Taiwei looked at the empty Tian'e Lake, his expression turned cold, and his violent aura erupted completely in that instant. Huge waves exploded across the entire Tian'e Lake, and countless water dragons surged on the surface of the lake. The spiritual energy of Tian'e Lake was completely disrupted by Taiwei's sudden burst of energy in that instant.

Just then, Taiwei finally caught sight of that complex and strange aura again. His eyes narrowed, and the Seven Star Dragon Source at Taiwei's waist slashed out instantly. The dazzling sword light tore a huge gash in the bottom of Tian'e Lake.

Dark red lava surged forth accompanied by scorching spiritual energy from heaven and earth, and the aura that Taiwei had been unable to detect before now appeared clearly in Taiwei's perception.

"It's much more complex than I had previously perceived."

Surrounded by wisps of sword light, Taiwei entered the massive rift. As soon as he entered, he felt an extremely heavy and immense pressure coming towards him.

Looking at the dark yellow reef covered with scale-like patterns emerging from the dark red lava sea, Taiwei narrowed his eyes slightly.

"So there's a main dragon vein beneath this Tian'e Lake? It's hidden so well; I never even noticed it before."

On this island reef, which represents the main dragon vein, a magnificent golden bridge covered with azure patterns is shining with dazzling brilliance.

Life and death cycle, body and soul merge, and a mixed yet grand aura emanates from this golden bridge, manifesting all sorts of indescribable and mysterious spiritual mechanisms. Numerous strange phenomena constantly appear on this golden bridge, and the wisps of sword light surrounding Taiwei tremble slightly, seemingly influenced by the aura of the golden bridge.

Looking at the golden bridge, Taiwei slowly floated towards the Dragon Vein Reef. He slashed his sword finger down, and a dragon that had just emerged from the lava was cut in two by Taiwei's sword finger.

Looking down at the hundreds of crimson-scaled dragons emerging from the lava below, Taiwei tossed the White Tiger Heavenly Soul Pill in his hand.

A majestic tiger roar resounded, and the massive white tiger used its claw to block a crimson-scaled dragon that was spewing molten lava and flames. Countless Geng and Xin metal energies circulated all over its body, helping Taiwei to block all the crimson-scaled dragons that were attacking.

Taiwei ignored the battle between the white tiger and the red-scaled dragon behind him and stepped onto the huge golden bridge.

As Taiwei examined the golden bridge, a look of surprise appeared on his face. With his limited knowledge, he was unable to discern the bridge's level.

It appears to be just an ordinary magic weapon, but its power and energy far surpass those of a magic weapon, even exceeding the level of a spiritual treasure.

Looking at the golden bridge before him, Taiwei didn't even know how to proceed with the refining process.

Taiwei tried all the methods of refining treasures he knew, but he couldn't get the golden bridge to react. Even when Taiwei's own divine sense merged into the golden bridge, he sensed the existence of countless spiritual treasure cores. This was the first time Taiwei had encountered such a situation.

"Interesting. This method of crafting artifacts seems to be the method that the Five Royal Clans have been researching for crafting large-scale war artifacts, using a large number of low-level magical treasures to create higher-level magical treasures."

"Although this method consumes more spiritual materials and divine metals than ordinary refining methods, it allows many low-level cultivators to refine high-quality magic weapons."

Taiwei was strolling casually on the golden bridge, not in a hurry to refine it, but examining its structure inch by inch.

Although it resembles the method of forging war artifacts that the five royal families are researching, the core of this golden bridge is different from the war artifacts researched by the five royal families.

The war artifacts of the five royal families are ultimately magical treasures, but the golden bridge in front of us is a different kind of life.

As Taiwei walked on the golden bridge, he could clearly feel the extremely vibrant life force emanating from it, and a vague will was surrounding him.

The method of forging this golden bridge is very unique, incorporating various different forging techniques and integrating many profound principles of the Great Dao.

The core is the Great Dao of Life and Death, but it later drew upon the dragon veins of heaven and earth to evolve countless spiritual treasures that form the core of this golden bridge. The Great Dao of Soul and the Great Dao of Creation shaped the original wisdom of this golden bridge.

The Yin-Yang Dao and the Five Elements Dao endowed this golden bridge with the ability to continuously devour heavenly and earthly divine gold treasures with Yin-Yang and Five Elements attributes to enhance its own power. However, the uses of the final Spacetime Dao and other Destiny and Heavenly Secret Dao are too minor to be fully understood.

This golden bridge itself has reached its limit, bearing so much of the Great Dao. This method of refining artifacts was ultimately not perfect, or rather, the refining of this golden bridge was not yet complete.

Therefore, although the subsequent Great Dao of Time and Space, the Great Dao of Heavenly Secrets, and many other Great Daos were integrated into this golden bridge, they did not unleash their due power. Taiwei could not understand this, but he had already figured out how to refine this golden bridge.

"I can't believe I only just thought of such a simple method as blood sacrifice. It seems I'm getting more and more confused as I get older."

Taiwei smiled and placed his right hand on one of the arched pillars of the golden bridge in front of him. Bright red blood gushed from Taiwei's palm, turning into countless strands of blood light that spread to various parts of the golden bridge.

As the blood seeped into the golden bridge, the tiny wisps of soul power within it gradually merged with the bridge.

Blood sacrifice can refine all sentient beings in the world, which is the origin of all treasure refining techniques. However, the blood sacrifice treasure refining process takes a long time, so Taiwei could only wait for his own blood to spread and continue to study the golden bridge.

"Unlike the war artifacts of the five royal families, and even unlike all mainstream magical treasures, the purpose of this golden bridge seems not to be aimed at living beings, but at a much grander existence: mountains and rivers? The vast world? Or this primordial universe?"

As Taiwei sensed the information about the Golden Bridge constantly emerging in his mind, a thoughtful expression appeared on his face. Although he still didn't understand why the Golden Bridge was forged, there was one thing Taiwei understood.

That is, the quality of this golden bridge is extremely high. It is a perfect fusion of many great principles of heaven and earth. In addition, with the power of the dragon vein of heaven and earth and an extremely pure innate life and death Dao Qi as its core, the essence of this golden bridge has reached the level of an acquired treasure.

What's even more amazing is that this kind of magical artifact, which was created later, possesses innate spiritual light that evolved from the innate Dao Qi of life and death. Furthermore, through various wondrous means, it has acquired its own wisdom and spirituality.

Therefore, this golden bridge can be regarded as a true holy embryo that is being conceived. Its essence is absolutely no weaker than the crystal giant egg of the Tongbi Ape that Taiwei obtained before. It can become the holy embryo of heaven and earth that carries Taiwei's own Dao fruit.

(End of this chapter)