Above the Great Dao

Tong Qianshou was about to throw out the Qiankun Bag when Sang Xixi hadn't yet left, and the two stared dumbfoundedly at the scene.

Sang Xixi had already prepared to go back to report the death of the old Sect Leader Tong Qianshou, announce herself as the next Sect Leader, and even envisioned a drama in her mind of her senior brothers and sisters fighting for the position, with the uncles and senior uncles stirring up trouble, and her sending them to heaven with gunpowder tears in her eyes.

However, before she could leave, the battle was already over.

Is the top scorer so formidable?

They didn't care at all who the top scorer was; the winners throughout history were all children of noble families, so what did it matter to them who it was?

They were also totally unconcerned about the affairs of the court.

The only task of the Medicine King Sect was to gather medicinal materials everywhere, refine spiritual elixirs, and pass down the things of the ancestors.

But this year's Champion Chen seemed to be a bit wild.

Not only was he wild, but his strength was extremely high. Bei Chi was a high-level bloodline among Ghost Monsters, with astonishing strength, yet he was slain by Chen Shi in a brief moment!

Any actions they had prepared earlier, including sacrificing themselves with 200 jin of gunpowder to perish with Bei Chi, were entirely unnecessary!

Moreover, what shocked them even more was that the spells Chen, the top scorer, used to kill those Ghost Gods were absolutely unlike mortal spells, not in the least orthodox, but rather like the legendary Demon Path Skill!

Because the corpses of those Ghost Gods who died at his hands were shriveled, like mummies, as if all their vitality had been drained away!

This Magic Skill was absolutely not of the righteous path!

Chen Shi, the top scorer, didn't look like a good person at all!

However, Chen Shi used it to save people, which seemed justifiable.

"Did he really awaken the Primordial Spirit of the Medicine King?" Tong Qianshou wondered in his heart.

For more than a year now, whenever the disciples of the Medicine King Sect offered sacrifices to the Medicine King, they could always feel a mysterious force resonating with them, yet when they sought its source, they couldn't find it. The Medicine King is the ancestor of their line; if Chen Shi truly awakened the ancestor's Primordial Spirit, no gratitude would be too much.

This was also why Tong Qianshou had initially planned to help at the cost of his life.

Even if Chen Shi was cultivating a Demon Technique, he didn't care.

Chen Shi stood motionless in place.

Previously, his killing of Bei Chi seemed reckless, but it was actually the result of meticulous calculation and arrangement, first slaying those Ghost Gods around Bei Chi at the fastest speed, absorbing their Qi-Blood to enlarge the Sword Qi. When the Sword Qi expanded to the extreme, he used a drop of Divine Blood, channeled its power into the Sword Qi, thus breaking Bei Chi's Ghost God True Body and achieving success in one stroke!

However, once Bei Chi was killed, the power within the Sword Qi would return to himself.

This is a feature of the Blood Lake Scripture.

The Blood Lake Scripture plunders and absorbs others' Qi-Blood, essence, and soul, to augment the cultivator's own cultivation power and strength, and to expand the Blood Lake Hell, so the Qi-Blood acquired after killing will be reciprocally fed back to the cultivator. The souls of those killed will also be plundered and imprisoned in the Blood Lake Hell for transformation!

The power contained in that drop was so strong that now it was returning with Bei Chi's Qi-Blood, to completely empower him and the Blood Pool!

Fortunately, Chen Shi killed Bei Chi, seized his Divine Soul, transforming the Blood Pool into a Blood Lake, activating the Blood Lake Hell, which swallowed the excess power like a whale sucking a rainbow.

At the same time, the Blood Lake Scripture was incredibly fast in repairing his skeletal cracks!

Yet the remaining power was still tremendously terrifying; just as Chen Shi's bones had recovered, there was a crackling sound, with cracks reappearing all over his bones!

Immediately, the Blood Lake Hell activated, and Chen Shi's bones would heal again, but in the next instant, there was another burst of explosive cracking, even sending bone fragments flying in all directions!

Curiously, as these bone fragments flew out, there was blood-qi connecting them, pulling them back to reassemble into a complete bone.

Suddenly, Chen Shi lifted his foot and walked towards the birdcage, and as he raised his left foot, his left leg exploded, scattering countless bone fragments, which flew back as his body leaned forward to reform the leg bone.

Chen Shi lifted his right foot, and his right leg also exploded with a pop, and as he landed the bone fragments flew back to reassemble a whole right leg.

He walked towards the birdcage, with various parts of his body continually exploding, reassembling, exploding again, and reassembling.

Every time his skeleton was reassembled, it became more solid than before, akin to being tempered a thousand times!

Additionally, there were faint strands of Divinity in the Divine Blood, which were also refined into the skeleton.

Not only that, his Primordial Spirit was continually developing cracks under the impact of this mighty force, but it also healed again!

Each time he got injured and healed, he could feel his Primordial Spirit becoming more solid than before, especially the soul, which continually grew stronger!

"Establishing the Blood Lake Hell and transforming these wicked Ghost Gods truly brings immense merit, aiding my cultivation to greatly increase!"

With a heart inclined towards goodness, Chen Shi approached the birdcage, gradually absorbing the power in the Divine Blood, and the Blood Lake behind his head had also grown larger, with a cultivation far more vigorous than before.

He opened the birdcage, and Peng Yan'er cried out, "Brother Chen Shi, they took Brother Peng Ju and forced him to hand over the Blood Lake Scripture!"

Upon careful inquiry, Chen Shi found all the Ghost Gods of Heavenly Pond Country were illiterate; though there were many ancestral cultivation techniques, everyone was clueless and unable to cultivate, only relying on bloodline awakening to enhance themselves. After Peng Ju returned to the Eastern Palace, the people at the Eastern Palace investigated the whereabouts of the ghost herders and Shen, traced back to him, discovered he knew the Blood Lake Scripture, and thus captured Peng Ju.

"Peng Ju is also illiterate; I taught him the Blood Lake Scripture. Peng Ju didn't betray me; otherwise, Bei Chi would've come to capture me back to the Eastern Palace," Chen Shi thought.