Everlasting

Chapter 969 Blood Mustering Bead Advances

Translator: podao001

“It needs a little bit more power of blood,” Chen Feng said, the Longevity Wings on his back unfurling before flapping slightly. Next, an Ascendant Immortal from the Blood Plane blew up, reduced to a mist of blood. Pulled by some unknown force, the mist of blood instantly disappeared.

Immediately after that, Chen Feng appeared before another Ascendant Immortal from the Blood Plane. However, the lance in his hand failed to stab forward. Someone had caught it.

Mid-level Ascendant Immortal! Seeing the cultivator stopping him, Chen Feng burst into a smile.

“Does your Blood Plane wish for annihilation?”

“Ha ha ha ha!”

Hearing Chen Feng’s words, the Ascendant Immortal from the Blood Plane broke into a fit of laughter.

“Our Blood Plane has devoured countless worlds like yours. In the future, we will even devour the Demon Plane, Nether Plane and Ghost Plane. One day, we will surpass the Immortal Plane and become the peerless overlord of this universe!”

Chen Feng aside, even the other cultivators ended up revealing derisive grins at those words. The Blood Plane’s level was indeed higher than Eternal World, but when compared to the Demon Plane, the two of them were more or less equal. As for the Blood Plane surpassing the Immortal Plane, that was horseshit.

As the Ascendant Immortal was laughing maniacally, a mote of sword light suddenly appeared on his chest. After that, it began spreading out. The sound of laughter came to a halt and the mid-level Ascendant Immortal’s body was instantly torn apart. All of his essence flowed into the Blood Mustering Bead.

“This is enough!”

Holding the Blood Mustering Bead, Chen Feng then leapt into the sky, flying straight up into the cloudy firmaments. Only after reaching an altitude of over 500 kilometres – where strong winds blew – did he stop. The Blood Mustering Bead was shaking and Heavenly Tribulation descended once again. By successfully overcoming this tribulation, the Blood Mustering Bead would become an Immortal artifact.

This time, Chen Feng did not act carelessly. At any rate, the Longevity Tower was not there beside him. Additionally, the Blood Mustering Bead had been levelling up too quickly. More, Chen Feng was also in the midst of suppressing his own cultivation base. A single mistake would cause his own Heavenly Tribulation to descend. Due to that, Chen Feng sent the Blood Mustering Bead flying forward with a wave of his hand. The Blood Mustering Bead continued flying, putting a distance of 10,000 zhang between itself and Chen Feng before stopping.

Rumble!

A blood-coloured lightning struck the Blood Mustering Bead. From afar, it seemed like bloody waters splashing about all over the place, giving it a demonic atmosphere.

Chen Feng was aware that this was a type of blood lightning from the Lightning Tribulation. This was the most common type of Heavenly Tribulation for the cultivators from the Blood Plane. Due to the fact that the cultivation techniques of the blood cultivators were more Heaven defying, they had to face this Lightning Tribulation that was far stronger compared to those of other cultivators.

Chen Feng’s mind was connected with the Blood Mustering Bead. Thus, he was able to sense everything that was happening to the Blood Mustering Bead. The moment the first clump of bloody lightning descended, Chen Feng’s face had become grim.

This could not be stressed enough. The Blood Mustering Bead was levelling up too quickly. It had yet to even stabilize its strength after reaching the top-grade Dao tier. That said, Chen Feng had this unique sensation of confidence that the Blood Mustering Bead will be able to succeed. Even if it could not, he would figure some way for it to succeed.

The Blood Mustering Bead had to face four waves of Lightning Tribulation. All four were blood lightning. For the Blood Mustering Bead, by overcoming these waves of Lightning Tribulation, it would be able to improve greatly.

The first wave. Easily passed.

The second wave, the Blood Mustering Bead began shaking and the world inside it tumbled. Even the Bloody Nethertree growing there ended up becoming uprooted. Additionally, due to the violent shaking, a high number of the Bloody Netherfruits growing out from it fell off.

Kacha! Kacha! Kacha!

By the time the second wave ended, countless cracks had spread out across the surface of the Blood Mustering Bead. Chen Feng’s face sank. He knew. If he were to do nothing about this, the Blood Mustering Bead would definitely fail its tribulation.

“Bloody Nethertree!”

A wave of formidable power surged into the Bloody Nethertree, which was in the midst of shaking violently. Next, it swiftly descended to root itself upon the ground within the Blood Mustering Bead once more. Power channelled forward ceaselessly from Chen Feng’s body. He had chosen to take action in the end.

As expected, as he did so, he sensed a form of power from the depths of space turning its attention towards him. This power was so overwhelmingly formidable, it gave off the feeling that it was unstoppable. Chen Feng knew, this was the Heavenly dao’s power.

“Heavenstealing Technique!”

Chen Feng promptly channelled the Heavenstealing Technique. It was a secret technique recorded within the Longevity Scripture. This was the right time to use this technique. Instantly, Chen Feng sensed the power of the Heavenly dao becoming blurry. Although it did not completely disappear, it was no longer capable of threatening Chen Feng.

Bang!

The Lofty Mountain Seal, a mid-grade Dao artifact, exploded and a stream of torrential power poured into the Blood Mustering Bead. Speaking of which, this was Chen Feng’s first time using his own power to help his magic treasure level up to the Immortal tier.

The third wave of Heavenly Tribulation began. The blood lightning attacks for this wave were even stronger than the previous ones. They were also more ferocious. Chen Feng himself decided to go the extra mile, channelling all his power into the Blood Mustering Bead, hoping that it would help stop the blood lightning attacks.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

The frequency at which the blood lightning attacks was descending rose. When they struck the Blood Mustering Bead, Chen Feng instantly felt his vision going dark before turning blood-red. His sea of wisdom roiled and it felt as though it would blow up.

“Soul Subduing Mantra!”

Chen Feng shouted and a mote of starlight appeared from his sea of wisdom before transforming into a talisman. The talisman rapidly grew in size to envelop the entire sea of wisdom, causing the chaotic sea of wisdom to gradually stabilize.

Kacha! Kacha!

Cracks continued appearing on the Blood Mustering Bead, but Chen Feng knew that the Blood Mustering Bead would be able to deal with it.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Chen Feng’s heart kept pumping and a formidable force swept across his whole body. It felt as though there was a beating drum inside.

As the Blood Mustering Bead was undergoing its tribulation, Bi Qing and the others were fighting against the blood cultivators. In the beginning, Bi Qing had been killing off the enemy Ascendant Immortals again and again. Quickly, however, five mid-level Ascendant Immortals from the Blood Plane besieged him. On the other hand, there was an even greater pressure on Heavenly Premier Everwind and the others. The number of Ascendant Immortals there had reached 20.

In addition to the Ascendant Immortals, there were also the blood cultivators who came through the passageway. There were already 10 million of them there. All of them occupied the Sky Pillars Mountain Range. From afar, the Sky Pillars Mountain Range appeared completely blood-red in colour. It seemed like a sea of blood had engulfed it.

After emerging, the blood cultivators did not spread out. Instead, they rapidly gathered up to form battle formations. They then began gathering their strength.

Seeing that, Heavenly Premier Everwind and the others felt a bitter taste in their mouths. Even leaving would be a problem now.

“The passageway should be closing up now, right?” Bi Qing mumbled under his breath.

Unfortunately for Bi Qing, as he was focused on fighting the blood cultivators, he failed to notice a mighty-looking cultivator appear within the spatial passageway leading to the Blood Plane. The mighty cultivator stood upright and he held the passageway open with both hands as his hair fluttered about. He gave off an extreme atmosphere of power. Surprisingly, he was a True Immortal.

The spatial passageway should have closed up long ago. However, due to the actions of this True Immortal, forcibly supporting the passageway, even more blood cultivators were able to enter Eternal World.

That said, his actions also angered the will of Eternal World. Next, a formidable power emerged from the most central part of Eternal World. Like a divine dragon, it then assailed the altar.

As a result, the barrier of bloody light burst apart and the altar shattered. Even the body of the True Immortal who was inside the passageway shook violently. Blood sprayed out from his mouth, but he forced himself to endure. Streams of bloody light converged to form a torrential current before surging past the True Immortal.

An even stronger power emerged from the depths of Eternal World. This collision succeeded in breaking the spatial passageway. Even the mighty body of the True Immortal from the Blood Plane blew up as a result, but the power he unleashed from his actions allowed the passageway to endure for another breath’s worth of time. Finally, the spatial passageway disappeared and no more blood cultivators emerged.

The passageway has closed. Although the Blood Plane managed to send quite a high number of cultivators over, it should not be able to pose too big of a threat towards Eternal World. The only issue here, however, is that the Blood Plane might not be the only one to send its cultivators over, Bi Qing thought.

By the time the passageway closed up, the Blood Mustering Bead had already overcome its third wave of blood lightning attacks. Thanks to the longevity-type primary energy, it was able to rapidly recover. Only, the Heavenly Tribulation did not bother waiting for the Blood Mustering Bead to fully recover before sending forth the fourth wave of blood lightning attacks.

Bang! Bang!

The Shadowless Goldshine Blade and Meridian Sealing Needle blew up at the same time. This time, Chen Feng could not stop himself from coughing out blood, again and again. Those were all the magic treasures that he had spent many years refining. Even though transforming them into power by blowing them up allowed his insight acupoints to grow bigger, this action had still damaged Chen Feng’s fleshly body.

The blood lightning attacks completely inundated the Blood Mustering Bead. Chen Feng’s vision was filled with exploding sparks of fire and he began bleeding from his seven orifices. He would not be able to stop the Blood Mustering Bead from breaking.

Helpless, Chen Feng finally made use of the power of the other Immortal artifacts. Just by drawing a strand of power from the Lightning Bead, the Blood Mustering Bead was able to instantly shine with bloody light. Shockingly, it devoured the blood lightning attacks that befell it in one gulp.

Due to his actions, the Heavenly dao’s power once again turned its attention towards Chen Feng. Tribulation clouds surged and Chen Feng’s Heavenly Tribulation began brewing. Not even the Heavenstealing Technique could do anything about it.

How troublesome! This is not the time to be undergoing tribulation. Chen Feng swiftly linked up to the Longevity Tower. Following that, the semi-transparent silhouette of the Longevity Tower encased Chen Feng to block the Heavenly dao’s ability to lock down Chen Feng’s position. And so, Chen Feng hid himself, not daring to emerge until the tribulation clouds disappeared.

Chen Feng had gone all out for this. He simply made use of the Longevity Tower to change the flow of time, stretching one joss stick’s worth of time to one whole year.

When Chen Feng re-appeared before the others, the Blood Mustering Bead in his hand had already stabilized its Immortal-tier power.

Heh! When it comes to dealing with cultivators from the Blood Plane, the Blood Mustering Bead is more effective. Chen Feng’s actions of utilizing the Blood Mustering Bead instantly caused the blood streams of all the Ascendant Immortals from the Blood Plane to buoy. The power within them became unstable. Due to that, the pressure on Bi Qing and the others lessened greatly. Bi Qing, in fact, made use of the opportunity to kill off one of the Ascendant Immortals. Naturally, the power of blood from the killed Ascendant Immortal was devoured by the Blood Mustering Bead.

If the Blood Mustering Bead were to fall into the hands of a blood cultivator, the power it could unleash would certainly be greater than what Chen Feng was currently displaying. At the same time, this type of magic treasure was destined to restrain blood cultivators.

The reason was simple. All the attacks that blood cultivators unleashed contained the power of blood. And the Blood Mustering Bead specialized in devouring the power of blood.

Weng!

Waves of bloody light kept charging forward to pave open a path. Bi Qing and the others then gathered up before retreating to Chen Feng’s side.

“There are already over 10 million cultivators from the Blood Plane. They have up to 30 Ascendant Immortals. This can already be considered as a pinnacle-level force in Eternal World. However, if it wants to go up against the entire Eternal World, it will only end up facing obliteration,” Bi Qing said with a chuckle.

“I understand. Only, these fellows are like great supplements for me. A pity! I hope they reject my attempt to talk.” After saying that, Chen Feng strode forward, the Blood Mustering Bead in his hand and an ambiguous smile on his face as he smiled at the enemy cultivators.

“Please wait. I want to discuss something with you fellows,” Chen Feng said with a smile.

“There is nothing to discuss. Today, all of you will die! You will all become our food!” one of the opposing Ascendant Immortals said coldly, bloody light flashing non-stop from his eyes.

1 li = 0.5 km

1 zhang = 3.333 m