Chapter 44

At some point, the voices of the blood beasts in the Demon Forest all disappeared, along with other solitary monsters, and even the man-eating trees that emitted toxic mists became quiet.

There was no wind, only the sound of blood dripping from the leaves on the bloody path behind Meixue.

The melody echoing in Meixue's ears gradually became distant.

In this deep Demon Forest, at the place where the king fell, Meixue's body slowly relaxed, and he even closed his eyes.

In Meixue's world, the entire world was once again left with only him.

From his fingertips, white mist began to spread, a unique and tender melody that belonged to him, a world woven in his mind that was gradually growing.

This world was not yet complete, but Meixue was trying to depict it in his own way.

It was a melody more moving than any beautiful language, colors that had never appeared in the seas and mountains.

Warm breezes, dazzling stars, endless life—these were the pages of the ancient book recording the primordial chaos, the origin of the *Classic of Mountains and Seas*.

This was a long, long time ago, before the heavens were shattered and the Heavenly Dao had fallen, the original colors of this world.

"Thump!" In the Demon Forest, a strong and powerful heartbeat echoed.

At the moment this heartbeat sounded, all the monsters in the Demon Forest bowed their heads, not daring to breathe.

The master of the Demon Forest had awakened.

"Thump!" When the second heartbeat sounded, all the blood beasts rushed like a tide to the deepest nest in the Demon Forest.

Because they heard the call, the call of their ancestor, the origin.

This was the ancestor of all the blood beasts in the Demon Forest, the most terrifying disaster of the Demon Forest, awakening.

"Thump!" When the third heartbeat sounded, Meixue opened his eyes and saw a blood light shooting up to the sky at the end of the Demon Forest.

In that blood light, a huge figure was faintly visible, recklessly releasing its demonic aura.

"Tap! Tap! Tap!" Urgent raindrops sounded continuously, this time not the sound in Meixue's heart, but a real downpour.

Countless blood mists rose from the Demon Forest, forming countless blood-colored clouds in the sky, and then a torrent of blood rain poured down.

All the monsters in the Demon Forest began to flee for their lives, except for the blood beasts that were joyfully advancing to the deepest part, while other creatures were fleeing in the opposite direction.

"Boom!" Wrapped in blood light, the huge figure left its nest and began to advance toward the place where the king fell, where Meixue was.

With each step it took, a large number of blood beasts gathered around it, then fearlessly disintegrated their bodies, pouring their lifeblood, which they valued as life, onto the huge figure.

One, two, three... except for those killed by Meixue, all the other blood beasts sacrificed their lives, returning to the origin.

No, perhaps it could not be called a sacrifice, because these monsters with vast vital energy were originally part of "it."

"Rumble!" Thunder roared in the sky, and blood-colored lightning struck the huge figure one after another, enveloping it in a storm of blood lightning.

"Hisss!" After stepping out of the blood light, the huge monster let out its first sound, a pleasant, powerful breath.

"Whoosh!" When the monster exhaled, it was a hurricane that swept through a large area of the forest, uprooting one ancient tree after another.

With every movement, the heavens and earth changed, showing that the power of this great demon had reached a level that could shake the world, surpassing the ten-thousand-year-old black fox, the masters of the seas and mountains, and the lords, a power that could even kill the Azure Dragon king.

It was the master of the deepest layer of Qingxu, the ruler of the Demon Forest.

It was the origin and ancestor of all life in the nine layers of Qingxu, the ultimate power born from this secret realm.

It was what Meixue was looking for.

In Meixue's mind, the pages of the *Classic of Mountains and Seas* began to flip rapidly, and then a page that was incomplete suddenly became complete.

It was the page recording the origin of this demon, a creature reborn from the fragments of the primordial chaos, an ancient demon god comparable to the fully formed golden-furred, jade-faced nine-tailed fox.

"Nine heads, snake body, self-encircling, feeding on nine lands. Where it breathes and rests, it becomes a source of marsh, bitter and inedible, where no beasts can live, its blood cannot be used to plant grains, a servant of the water god."

In Meixue's eyes, the figure and origin of the demon were gradually becoming clearer.

Nine identical faces, a blood-colored giant snake body, a giant snake with the noblest bloodline in the world, a true descendant of divine blood.

What Meixue had come to this Qingxu to find was precisely it, the nine-headed demon god with the power of the primordial chaos fragments.

"You, die." For the human who had entered its territory, the nine-headed giant snake, inheriting the power of the ancient demon god, would show no courtesy, just as it had devoured the human with the Azure Dragon bloodline.

To the nine-headed giant snake, Meixue was also "food."

To Meixue, this descendant of the ancient demon god, the nine-headed snake, was the "power" he was looking for.

"Roar!" The nine-headed giant snake let out a long howl to the sky, and countless blood rains fell, forming a huge flood.

It was a disaster that swept through all things, a toxic blood that covered the seas and mountains. As a servant of the water god, the nine-headed giant snake possessed the power to control floods and create disasters, a duty bestowed upon it by the water god.

Meixue raised the silver crystal sword in his hand, entering a defensive stance for the first time since entering Qingxu.

Countless floods swept past him, submerging the thousand-year-old Azure Long spear, the place where the king fell, and the Demon Forest.

The entire world was swallowed by this flood, returning to the initial state of the deepest layer of Qingxu—blood sea.

The nine-headed giant snake, inheriting the power of the ancient demon god, was born from this blood sea.

The Azure Dragon king was also buried in this boundless blood sea.

This blood sea was all the blood of the nine-headed giant snake, the toxic blood flowing from its body. In this world, it was the sole ruler, and the violent power of the blood sea was enough to overturn mountains and seas.

This was not a divine art realm like that of Xuanming of Qingqiu, but the great power of the nine-headed giant snake itself—the Endless Blood Sea.

Even a powerful figure like the Azure Dragon king ultimately met his end in this endless blood sea. In the blood sea, the nine-headed giant snake was almost invincible, and the endless toxic blood could continuously erode the opponent's body, eventually melting it to nothing.

With the Endless Blood Sea, the nine-headed giant snake, whether facing one hundred, one thousand, or ten thousand enemies, made no difference. The endless toxic blood could easily swallow all opponents.

In just a blink, Meixue's body was pressed deep into the blood sea.

How deep was it? One thousand meters, ten thousand meters? This blood sea seemed to cover the entire world, enveloping everything.

However, this was good.

Only such a vast life force could satisfy... could achieve the goal...

The second stage of the *Senluo Transformation* began.

Meixue, whose body was covered by the blood sea, began to emit a crystalline silver glow.

A clear, transparent silver flower slowly bloomed behind him, gradually turning blood red.

This was the ultimate form of the 999th dragon jade, a flower that elevated the "Senluo" life flower to a divine flower—the *Divine Flower Technique*.

At this moment, the flower blooming behind Meixue was the only one of its kind in the world, a divine flower blooming in the endless blood sea of the nine-headed giant snake.

After this flower bloomed, the surrounding Endless Blood Sea began to be疯狂地被这朵花吞噬。如果说九头巨蛇召唤来的无尽血海是能覆盖天地的灾难，那这朵花就是它唯一的克星，无尽血海的天敌。

无尽血海可以吞噬天下所有生命，而这朵仙灵之花可以吸收掉无尽血海的毒血，将那无穷无尽的诅咒之力全部吞噬掉。

“什么东西？”察觉到自己的血海正在不断缩小的九头巨蛇大吃一惊，九个一模一样的面孔上开始浮现出不同的表情。

下一瞬间，一朵花在无尽血海中开放了，那是一朵晶莹剔透的血色仙灵之花，是吞噬了无尽血海绝大部分力量所诞生的绝世之宝。

“是时候了。”肌肤显得更加晶莹透明的梅雪抓住了这朵花，然后一口气吃了下去。

和当初吃掉的那朵代表九幽种森罗生命本源之力的妖荷不一样，这朵花的口感是软软的，甜甜的，并且带着让身体不断变热的力量。

那是这片无尽血海中所蕴含的生命力量，梅雪所渴望的东西，正是因为需要这些生命之力，他才来到这青墟的最深层。

不过，不够，远远的不够。为了让梅雪“真正的变强”，还需要更多，更多的生命之力，并且不能用低品质的凑数，至少也是得和九幽种“森罗”等级接近的生命之力才行。

一切，都是为了梅雪唯一的愿望。

梅雪缓缓地抬起头来，看着九头巨蛇的眼神开始变得异常专注。

似乎，那就是他的食物一般。

“岂有此理！你在小看我们吗！”九头巨蛇的九张面孔开始浮现出不同的愤怒表情，然后巨大的蛇尾上无数的血光浮现，那正是另一种妖神之力的大神通发动的征兆。

梅雪深深地吸了一口气，然后亮出了手中的银色水晶剑。

补充了大量的生命力后，这把剑开始变长，半透明的水晶剑刃上开始浮现出更多的符文。

名为“森罗”的魔剑，开始真正展现出自己原本的狰狞姿态。