Cultivation Begins with Skill Points-Chapter 228 Blood Demon Technique

The corpse inside the coffin hadn’t started decaying due to the short passage of time, but there was still an extremely unpleasant odor emanating from it.

Approaching to take a closer look, the body of Gu Ning lay quietly in the coffin. Zhong Lin’s pupils contracted, and he abruptly turned his head to Gu Chen beside him and asked coldly, "Is this the case with every corpse?"

"Yes."

Gu Chen nodded heavily, the hatred in his eyes growing more intense.

The corpse of Gu Ning in the coffin looked extremely tragic, with a twisted, pained expression. He must have endured tremendous torture before death. His body was shriveled and emaciated, leaving only skin and bones. His once-tall frame was curled up into a ball, resembling a lump of flesh.

This clearly indicated that someone had used an evil technique to drain his entire body’s essence and blood, resulting in such a state.

"Blood Demon Technique, it’s actually Blood Demon Technique."

Chen Jia’s voice suddenly came through, carrying a trace of fear.

"Master, do you know?"

"Open the other coffins and take a look, quickly," Chen Jia urged anxiously.

Without hesitation, Zhong Lin stepped forward, causing five more graves to explode open, revealing the black coffins inside. With a wave of his right hand, all the coffin lids were opened.

Each coffin contained a body similar to Gu Ning’s, all drained of essence and blood, appearing as mummified corpses with pained expressions.

"Master, what exactly is going on? What do you know?" Zhong Lin inquired.

Chen Jia remained silent for a moment before speaking, "A thousand years ago, before I entered the Luoxing Islands via Transmission Array, there was a madman practicing evil techniques on the Xuan Gui Continent. This person practiced a cultivation technique called ’Blood Demon Technique,’ which allowed him to absorb Martial Artists’ essence and blood for cultivation. Those killed by him resembled the Gu family members in these coffins, their entire qi-blood drained and turned into dried corpses.

This practitioner of evil techniques slaughtered Martial Artists on the Xuan Gui Continent crazily, extracting their essence and blood for his training. In just a year, he broke through from the Qi Blood Realm to an Innate Martial Artist."

"How is that possible?"

Zhong Lin was startled upon hearing this, breaking through from a Middle Third Grade Martial Artist to the Innate Realm in just a year was something even he, with his Golden Finger, couldn’t achieve.

"Nothing is impossible, or I wouldn’t have called it evil. It’s all about plundering others’ essence and blood to nourish oneself. All the painstakingly cultivated power became his wedding gown," Chen Jia replied coldly.

"What happened after?"

Zhong Lin couldn’t believe that the Martial Artists back then would remain indifferent in the face of such a bandit-like evil master.

"After that? Such banditry naturally aroused the ire of all Martial Artists on the Xuan Gui Continent, and he became a rat that everyone shouted to beat, eventually being besieged and killed by dozens of Innate Martial Artists."

Zhong Lin was stunned upon hearing this. Such a formidable character just logged off like that? Curiosity piqued, he asked again.

"Master, there must be other stories behind this, right? Like the ’Blood Demon Technique.’"

Zhong Lin didn’t believe that such a powerful secret martial arts manual, capable of turning Middle Third Grade Martial Artists directly into Innate ones within a year, would disappear so easily.

This time, Chen Jia was silent for a longer time and sighed, "Indeed as you said, although the ’Blood Demon Technique’ is an evil technique, how can it resist the greed of the human heart? Killing is nothing; which Martial Artist didn’t fight their way up? Moreover, killing now could enhance cultivation. In just a short decade, new evil madmen appeared, more than one, even more brutal than before, leaving no ordinary person untouched."

"Were they those Innate Martial Artists?" Zhong Lin asked.

"Indeed, after besieging that wicked figure, the ’Blood Demon Technique’ fell into their hands. Not only was this demonic technique not destroyed, they secretly studied it, and when successful, caused another catastrophe, their aim being to break through to the Spiritual Origin Realm."

Zhong Lin sighed inwardly too. The Heaven and Earth Essence Qi on the Xuan Gui Continent was thin, and breaking through only by hard cultivation was impossible. This group probably saw a glimmer of hope in the Blood Demon Technique.

In truth, Zhong Lin could understand their actions. Like himself with the Golden Finger, if he was trapped on the Xuan Gui Continent, unable to progress in cultivation, he might eventually go mad too.

Breaking through to the Innate Martial Artist realm on the Xuan Gui Continent with its thin Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, anyone who achieved this was a talent of rare caliber. Yet, due to environmental constraints, they couldn’t break through further and could only watch themselves age bit by bit. Who wouldn’t feel filled with resentment and unwillingness?

However, understanding doesn’t equate to acceptance.

"Master, how did this catastrophe finally end?" Zhong Lin asked.

"Mutually killing themselves."

"Huh?"

"You should know how difficult it is to break through to the Spiritual Origin Realm. Given the conditions of the Xuan Gui Continent, it was simply impossible. These people massacred nearly a third of the entire continent’s population, causing a break in Martial Arts but still couldn’t break through. Lastly, they started killing each other, just to seize each other’s essence and blood. That’s when the remaining Martial Artists counterattacked, eventually wiping out this disaster. By then, everyone knew that this technique could rapidly enhance strength at most but couldn’t break through to the Spiritual Origin Realm, so keeping it was only a harm. The surviving Martial Artists destroyed the Blood Demon Technique directly," Chen Jia explained.

"Really destroyed?"

Zhong Lin pointed to the graves before them, if it really was destroyed, why did the Blood Demon Technique reappear after a thousand years?

"It was destroyed. I was one of the survivors of that great battle back then, and the Blood Demon Technique was destroyed by us personally," Chen Jia said confidently.

Zhong Lin raised a brow, the evidence was right before his eyes, yet he rebutted?

"The current Blood Demon Technique should have resurfaced from the Blood Caves."

"Blood Caves?"

"A martial art technique so powerful can’t just appear out of nowhere, it must have a source, and the Blood Caves are the source of the Blood Demon Technique."

Zhong Lin’s heart trembled, "There’s such a mysterious place on the Xuan Gui Continent?"

"You really thought the Xuan Gui Continent was just an ordinary continent?" Chen Jia retorted with sarcasm.

Zhong Lin was speechless. He had just momentarily forgotten, habitually treating this place as a remote and barren island, thinking that the strongest here were merely Innate Martial Artists, even less than the distant Luoxing Islands far from the Eastern Desolate.

But upon careful thought, whether it be the descendants of Sin Blood or the Transmission Array, all suggested the Xuan Gui Continent harbored great secrets.

"Master, what’s the situation with the Blood Caves?" Zhong Lin quickly asked.

"Back then, after destroying the Blood Demon Technique, we even traced its origins and eventually found the Blood Caves deep in the Black Wind Forest."

Speaking of this, Chen Jia’s voice trembled with horror, "It’s a terrifying place. We hadn’t even approached, and our essence and blood wanted to burst out from within us, causing us to explode. We had no choice but to flee. Later, I entered the Luoxing Islands through the Transmission Array and came back once after cultivating Xuandan, but the result was the same."