Starting as a Grandmaster, all of my cultivation techniques are at max level.

"It's done! Hahaha! I finally got the reward!"

"Next, I, the King, will surely attain sainthood!!"

As Xia Jin heard the familiar system notification in her mind, the corners of her mouth couldn't help but turn up in a smile.

Within the sea of ​​consciousness, under the suppression of the Eastern Emperor Bell, the glass-like 'corpse fetus heart' quieted down, showing no further signs of struggle.

He slowly turned around, his gaze falling on the furious, three-zhang-tall corpse, a hint of mockery on his face.

"This time, I should thank you all! If it weren't for you, I probably wouldn't have been able to obtain that 'Corpse Embryo Heart' for who knows how long!!"

"Alright, I have to take my leave now. I'll let you go today for the sake of this heart."

After saying that, he even gave Hei Hong a mocking look before turning to leave.

"How could this be? The heart of the progenitor has fallen into the hands of these damned humans?"

Hei Hong watched helplessly as Xia Jin took away the 'corpse fetus heart', and at that moment, the blood in his body went cold.

He stood there, his bloodshot eyes fixed on Xia Jin.

Anger? Despair? Or both?

he does not know.

All he knew was that his head was buzzing.

The heart of a cadaveric fetus...

That's the heart of the progenitor!

Gone.

Everything is gone.

Soon, Hei Hong seemed to realize something, and his whole body suddenly trembled. What surged in his mind was no longer anger or resentment, but a more terrifying fact.

The summoning of the progenitor's corpse was such a grand event that it's impossible for people from other main and branch branches not to know about it.

Although they weren't there in person, those people would surely be heading this way. Once they learn that the Corpse Embryo's heart was in their hands, taken by humans right before their eyes...

At that time, not only himself, but the entire lineage of vengeful spirits will likely be plunged into an abyss of no return.

Hei Hong seemed to have already pictured the scene in his mind: all the members of the Wraith lineage were being dragged into the boundless source of darkness, wailing, while he himself was also grabbed by a pair of cold hands and dragged into that source of darkness that even their alien race feared.

"No, no!!! This can't happen to me, or to the entire lineage of vengeful spirits!!"

He murmured softly, his eyes growing increasingly red.

The next second, a fierce glint flashed in his eyes.

"You despicable human, you forced me to this!"

"Since that's the case, then none of us should have an easy time!!"

Hei Hong gritted his teeth, reached into his pocket with his right hand, and instantly, six palm-sized, crystal-clear blood vials appeared in front of him.

The blood vial contained six different colors of blood. Although their origin was unknown, it was clear that each one was extremely precious.

"This is a treasure I prepared and collected over five hundred years in order to break through, and today it's going to be wasted on a mere human like you!!" Hei Hong's heart was bleeding.

But at this moment, he couldn't care less about anything else.

Blood can be collected, but if Xia Jin is allowed to escape with the 'Corpse Embryo Heart', then he and the entire lineage of vengeful spirits will truly be plunged into an abyss of no return!

"broken!!"

He squeezed hard forward, and the six blood vials shattered simultaneously. The blood inside seemed to possess a spirit, transforming into six beams of light of different colors that rushed straight toward the corpse of the progenitor of the Corpse Clan.

"Huh!? Does this guy have some hidden trump card?!" Xia Jin, who was just about to leave, suddenly saw Hei Hong's actions and curiously withdrew her left foot that had just stepped out.

At this point, he had lost all fear.

After all, he has already completed the system task and received the system rewards. Even if a Saint Realm being descends, he can hide inside the Eastern Emperor Bell, quickly receive the system rewards, and then break through to the Saint Realm.

Once he breaks through to the Saint Realm, he will fear no one among his peers!

Xia Jin watched with curiosity.

The six types of blood, upon contact with the corpse, rapidly seeped into the withered flesh.

The previously lifeless corpse seemed to show a glimmer of life at this moment.

In its pair of grayish-white, empty eyes, a faint, living luster appeared.

Immediately afterwards, an aura a hundred times more terrifying than before erupted violently from inside the corpse, like an active volcano that had been suppressed for thousands of years finally tearing apart the earth's crust!

"Please, Ancestor, intervene!! Reclaim the 'Corpse Embryo Heart'!"

Hei Hong knelt on the ground, his face filled with excitement, and roared at the top of his lungs, his forehead slamming heavily into the air.

The three-zhang-long corpse opened its cracked lips and made a strange sound.

Boom!!

The starry sky changed after that sound.

In the void, an unimaginably enormous phantom was coalescing.

It was a bone dragon.

That head alone was as large as a star spanning thousands of miles!

It crawled out from the void rift, looking down at this void like a death god who rules over everything.

"roar!!"

The bone dragon phantom opened its massive maw and roared. Then, it lowered its head, its eerie green eyes locking onto Xia Jin.

"Damn it, have we gone too far?! This thing actually has the aura of a Saint Realm expert!?" Xia Jin frowned, a hint of seriousness flashing in her eyes.

But the bone dragon phantom didn't give Xia Jin any time to react. It suddenly opened its mouth, and a huge suction force swept over her.

Xia Jin, along with the void itself, was swallowed whole.

dark.

Xia Jin's vision blurred, and when she opened her eyes again, she found herself in a strange space.

Beneath their feet lay a hazy, gray ground composed of countless tiny bone fragments. Above them, a dark, eerie green mist swirled and billowed.

"Hiss, hiss!"

He looked down and saw tiny bubbles rising from the ground beneath his feet. As the bubbles burst, they turned into wisps of green smoke that clung to his boots.

The edges of the boots were visibly beginning to corrode and melt away.

"Refine it!!"

Outside, the corpse of the progenitor of the Corpse Clan seemed to have developed emotions, grinning and revealing an extremely ferocious smugness on its withered face.

It spread its arms, and the huge bone dragon phantom behind it also lit up with a ghostly green light, especially the abdomen, where the light grew brighter and brighter.

"Hmph! You really want to refine me?"

Xia Jin felt waves of green energy, carrying a strong corrosive aura, surging towards her from all directions, and immediately sneered inwardly.

"If I had been swallowed into this hellish place before, I'm afraid I would have really been in trouble."

"But now, I can only say that you are indulging in wishful thinking!!"