There is a saying that goes, "One who is too anxious cannot eat hot tofu," and this saying is now proving true for Ye Zhen.
The more Ye Zhen tried to contact that mysterious predecessor quickly, the less the Ten Thousand Stars Plate responded. The messages sent by Ye Zhen disappeared as if into the sea, with no reply for a long time.
It wasn’t that Ye Zhen couldn’t keep his cool, but rather, the power of the Thunder Secret Technique of Fright was truly too terrifying.
Not to mention the lightning attribute damage of the Thunder Light of Fright, the power of the Heavenly Thunder of Fright really gave Ye Zhen both a shock and a delight. With this Heavenly Thunder of Fright, even if Ye Zhen were to face a Vein Forging Realm expert head-on, he wouldn’t cower.
On the contrary, even a Vein Forging Realm expert could suffer a great loss if they were careless enough to fall into Ye Zhen’s trap.
From Ye Zhen’s understanding, the Heavenly Thunder of Fright could already be compared to Divine Power Martial Skills, and not just any ordinary Divine Power Martial Skills at that.
And the Heavenly Thunder of Fright was merely the Second Level of the Thunder Secret Technique of Fright. If the second level was already so horrifying, then how terrifying would the Third Stage of the Divine Thunder of Fright be?
Even if the power were to increase only fivefold, it might allow Ye Zhen to traverse the Black Dragon Domain unchallenged.
According to what that mysterious predecessor said, as long as Ye Zhen killed the remnant Blood Spirit of the Blood God Sect and obtained its Blood God Pearl within a year, he would pass on the Third Stage of the Thunder Secret Technique of Fright to Ye Zhen. How could Ye Zhen not look forward to it?
Now, only a little over eight months of that year have passed, and Ye Zhen had kept his promise. All that was left was to contact that mysterious predecessor and receive the Third Stage of the Thunder Secret Technique of Fright.
Perhaps fate was not on his side, but after waiting for two days and one night, Ye Zhen still did not receive any message from that mysterious predecessor.
The wait of two days and one night gradually cooled Ye Zhen’s anxious heart, and he began to practice normally again, only keeping the Ten Thousand Stars Plate in his bosom to receive messages at any time.
Finally, on the third day after Ye Zhen sent out the message, the Ten Thousand Stars Plate in his chest vibrated slightly.
"You’ve dealt with the Blood Demon remnant Blood Spirit so quickly, truly beyond my expectation. Did you manage to obtain the Blood God Pearl?"
In a far-off place in the Outer Domain, an elderly man with white brows and black hair held onto the Ten Thousand Stars Plate, his face filled with shock.
The promise he made to pass on the Third Stage of the Thunder Secret Technique of Fright to Ye Zhen within a year, should he kill the Blood Spirit, was a spur-of-the-moment commitment.
Upon further thought, he felt concerned that his promise was a bit rash.
A Guardian Level Blood Demon can condense a Blood River and carry it with them. The containers for the Blood River could be pearls, boxes, or bottles, but once a Blood River is formed, that Blood Demon’s strength would surge, almost granting them an immortal body.
There’s a reason why the Blood God Sect had been able to wreak havoc across the world for so many years, enduring despite everyone’s desire to destroy it, and it was not without cause.
Even though Ye Zhen had mastered the Second Stage of the Thunder Secret Technique of Fright, he might be able to heavily injure the Blood Spirit, but killing it seemed almost impossible. One careless move, and he might lose his life.
Afterward, he wanted to warn Ye Zhen, but after thinking it over, he decided against it. He still wanted to see how far this young man, blessed with the Black Dragon Fortune, could go.
He had not expected that after more than half a year, Ye Zhen would have succeeded!
The first thing that came to Ning Shiyi’s mind upon seeing the message was doubt.
Because it was completely counterintuitive!
It was mainly because Ye Zhen’s Cultivation was too low. If it were a powerful expert at the peak of the Fifth Stage of the Soul Sea Realm, who had cultivated his Heavenly Thunder of Fright, perhaps there might have been a slight chance of eliminating the Blood Spirit.
But Ye Zhen, whose Cultivation was only at the Second Stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm...
But then again, who else but Ye Zhen could possess the Black Dragon Fortune?
"Tell me how you managed to kill the Blood Spirit. And how big is the Blood God Pearl of the Blood Spirit, and did it show any strange phenomena?" the white-browed, black-haired Ning Shiyi asked after receiving Ye Zhen’s affirmative reply.
Ye Zhen naturally gave a truthful reply to this mysterious predecessor’s question.
Of course, Ye Zhen was not foolish; he truthfully replied to everything, except he hid the fact that he used the Mirage Dragon Pearl to absorb the Blood River, claiming instead that he used the power of Wanji Peak to obliterate the Blood Spirit.
The Lip Dragon Pearl was of too great significance, an absolute treasure among treasures, and it absolutely could not be exposed!
"To the predecessor, the Blood God Pearl of the Blood Spirit is about the size of a fingernail, with radiance flowing around it, shining like a gemstone. However, the strangest thing is that there is a crack on it..."
"What, the size of a fingernail? It’s that big already, too close for comfort! With a few more years of hard work, that Blood Spirit might have broken through its current realm and become a Blood God Elder of the Blood God Sect, a horrifying figure! Then, the Black Dragon Domain might be undefeatable, perhaps turning into the very lair of the Blood God old monsters, and that would be a great disaster for the entire True Profound Continent!"
"By the way, what’s this crack you mentioned?" Ning Shiyi suddenly sent a message asking.
Upon this, Ye Zhen accurately described the crack on the Blood God Pearl. What puzzled him was that after sending the message, he did not receive a reply for a long time.
Ye Zhen did not dare to urge but simply waited quietly.
"Ah... Ye, you may not have completely succeeded in eradicating the Blood Spirit this time," came a long sigh after a while in the message.
This made Ye Zhen’s expression change drastically.
"Senior, what do you mean by not fully accomplishing the task? Could the Blood Spirit have escaped? This... the Blood Demons seek vengeance for every grievance; how can this be good? Senior, do you have a method to track it?" Ye Zhen became anxious.
If the Blood Spirit really had escaped, it would be an enormous disaster.
A few breaths later, Ning Shiqi sent Ye Zhen a long string of messages, explaining the ins and outs of the situation.
That Ye Zhen had not killed the Blood Spirit completely was not really something for which Ye Zhen could be blamed; the main reason was that the Blood Spirit was too cunning, perhaps due to having experienced a catastrophe centuries ago, and was thus exceedingly cautious.
In the Blood God Sect, protectors or those above the level of protector had a life-saving secret technique called Avatar Life Extension Technique.
This Avatar Life Extension Technique allowed the blood body of a protector-level or higher Blood Demon to split off a thread in conjunction with the Blood God Pearl to form a Blood Demon Seed in a semi-sealed state.
In most cases, Blood Demons would seal this Blood Demon Seed within the body of a martial artist, cultivating it with the essence blood of the martial artist; the martial artist would not be aware and it wouldn’t affect them much.
Should the Blood Demon’s main body be killed, the seal on the Blood Demon Seed would break immediately, and since the Blood Demon Seed contained a thread of the Blood God Pearl, it would possess all the memories of the slain Blood Demon, akin to a sort of rebirth.
Then, the unsealed Blood Demon would rapidly devour the essence blood within the martial artist’s body in which it was sealed, quickly transforming into the lowest-level Blood Demon Child, not even a Blood Demon Envoy.
Normally, in order not to draw attention, they would choose to seal the Blood Demon Seed inside the body of martial artists with low Cultivation, and there are even cases of sealing it inside ordinary people, all to extend life to the greatest extent possible.
Centuries ago when they besieged the headquarters of the Blood God Sect, several of the elder protectors had used this secret technique to escape and lie dormant, slowly growing and causing havoc once again.
If the Blood Spirit had managed to escape using this Avatar Life Extension Technique centuries ago, it would be no different this time.
However, information from Ning Shiyi in the message had also reassured Ye Zhen quite a bit.
Blood Demons are inherently treacherous and vicious, but they are even more cowardly and fear death!
Almost all Blood Demons are martial artists who developed this way through serendipity driven by their fear of death.
What’s more, after a Blood Demon has used the Avatar Life Extension Technique to escape and save its life, it is extremely weak. Under normal circumstances, it would not be able to recover without a hundred years.
Moreover, most Blood Demons who have survived death by using the Avatar Life Extension Technique would flee far from the land of the incident.
The reason being, if a martial artist in a region could kill it once, then they could kill it twice, three times, or even more, so they would hide as far away as possible.
Most importantly, Blood Demons have a tendency to gravitate to power.
In times of weakness, they would unconsciously seek protection from stronger Blood Demons so that their vulnerable selves could survive and thrive.
Given that the Blood Spirit is likely the strongest Blood Demon within the Black Dragon Domain, now that it has escaped using the Avatar Life Extension Technique, there’s an eighty to ninety percent chance that it will leave the Black Dragon Domain and seek refuge with stronger Blood Demons in the Outer Domain.
At the end of this long message, it also provided Ye Zhen a direction for investigation; to take care of the Blood Demon Seed nearby, most Blood Demons would harm the martial artist who carries the seed in the vicinity during migration, or else whenever they arrive somewhere new, they would look for a new martial artist or an ordinary person to reseal the Blood Demon Seed into the target’s body.
In general, Blood Demons would seal the Blood Demon Seed within a few hundred miles of their own location, and some would even seal it much closer by.
This piece of news made Ye Zhen abruptly stand up, ready to search, but then the second message that followed made him freeze.
It was not because he received the cultivation techniques for the Third Stage of the Thunder Secret Technique of Fright, but because this mysterious senior had gone back on his word.
"The Third Stage of the Thunder Secret Technique of Fright that I promised you, I’m afraid I’ll have to disappoint you!"
This message was like a bucket of cold water poured over Ye Zhen’s head, making him instantly filled with disappointment.
"Are you very disappointed? However, it’s for your own good that I don’t teach you the Third Stage of the Thunder Secret Technique of Fright! How difficult did you find it to cultivate the Second Stage? Answer me truthfully!"
"It was quite difficult! Even with the Lightning-avoiding Pill and Lightning-avoiding Ointment that senior mentioned, I was seriously injured the first time I cultivated it. If I wasn’t careful, I feared for my life!"
"That’s right! It’s not that I have gone back on my word, but the cultivation of the Third Stage of the Thunder Secret Technique of Fright is a hundred times more dangerous than the Second Stage! It can be said that without me by your side, cultivating the Third Stage of the Thunder Secret Technique of Fright... let’s not even talk about a nine-in-ten chance of death, it would simply be certain death!"
"Although I won’t teach you the Third Stage of the Thunder Secret Technique of Fright, I can promise you that if one day you can meet me, I will personally help you to cultivate the Divine Thunder of Fright of the Third Stage!"
"Remember, my name is Ning Shiyi, and I often travel in the Mystic Light Realm. If you come to the Mystic Light Realm, you can contact me with the Ten Thousand Stars Plate!" After receiving this message, the Ten Thousand Stars Plate went silent.
"Mystic Light Realm, Ning Shiyi...." Murmuring softly, Ye Zhen committed the name to memory.
Having had the experience of cultivating the Heavenly Thunder of Fright, Ye Zhen knew that what Ning Shiyi said was true and it was indeed for his own good, so his disappointment was greatly alleviated.
Collecting his emotions, he prepared to go out, but just at that moment, there was a knock at the door.
"Senior Brother Ye, hurry, our master urgently summons you!" Entering the room, Bai Xin said hastily.(To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly tickets at Qidian (qidian.com). Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)

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