Chapter 67 Pool of Source Blood <TOC> Chapter 69 Siege
Translator: SumTLMan
For people whose souls are not inhabited by parasitic soul worms, source blood is the most potent poison.
Li Mu opened his eyes, and in the instant when water splashed up from the source blood pool, he triggered an acceleration of his nervous system through electrical stimulation.
He had tried this advanced application of electrostimulation many times in the Exile Realm. The biggest challenge was accurately determining the location of the nerves.
The current in the nerves was too weak, even with high-precision human nerve system high-resolution sliced maps, it was difficult to accurately determine their location.
The second difficulty was that the voltage the nerves could withstand was limited and required multiple careful attempts to determine the limits of his own nerve cells.
He was somewhat conservative and only increased the nerve transmission speed by 20%. He didn’t have the exaggerated feeling of time slowing down. Instead, it was more like a game with a 24-frame rate becoming 60 frames.
The world became smoother in his perception.
Previously, this change did not have a significant increase in Li Mu’s strength because his original nerve reflex speed was already fast enough to control his own power. It was like a player with only a silver level, even if they switched to a high-refresh gaming screen, they would still only have a silver level.
He didn’t use his nerve acceleration state when fighting with Chewba because it was just a burden on his body.
But after mastering energy, the situation was completely different. His speed and strength both improved dramatically, demanding higher nerve reflex speeds.
Using the White Steel Broken Stream, the black light was very weak, as if a layer of black gauze had covered his arms.
Li Mu went from extreme stillness to extreme motion in an instant. The heavy sword cut through the air and emitted a sharp whistle.
Because the sword was swung too fast, combined with the extremely high humidity in the cave, white condensation even formed on the blade.
The source blood poured down like a torrential rain, hitting an invisible wall and flying off as blood droplets. Even the fine blood mist was blown away by the sword energy.
“Chih!”
Li Mu inserted the slightly hot sword into the slate on the ground, alleviating the soreness caused by his excessive force. Shen Luoyan, who was hiding behind him, looked at his back and extinguished the flickering flame in her palm.
He focused all his attention on the source blood pool and didn’t notice Shen Luoyan behind him.
A person floated up from the blood pool.
He was wearing tattered black robes, his body severely corroded by the source blood, with torn skin revealing bones and muscles. Even his face was corroded, with one eyeball falling out of the socket and hanging on his face by the optic nerve.
“He implanted a soul worm in his own soul?!”
Li Mu immediately became alert and drew his greatsword from the ground, his body slightly bowed and his hands gripping the sword handle, the blade resting on his shoulder.
He was ready to thrust out a fierce blow at any moment.
Even the followers of the Lord of Souls, who believe in the faith, cannot directly touch the source blood as they will also be corrupted. The Blood Snake cultists can stay in the pool of blood source, the only possibility is that they implanted a soul worm in their own soul.
“You are really a crazy guy.”
The feeling of implanting a soul worm is definitely not pleasant. These greedy little creatures will burrow deep into the soul and gnaw on the source of the soul. This kind of pain originating from deep in the soul is enough to drive anyone insane.
There are records that some Blood Beasts even hear the whispers of the Lord of Souls before losing their sanity.
Listening to the voice of God is a very dangerous thing, and anyone who has heard the whispers becomes a terrifying monster. Even the Soul Cult cannot control them and they are sealed away after paying a huge price.
“I have never been so close to the Holy Lord.”
Goss, the Blood Snake cultist, whispered. His throat was severely corroded by the source blood and his voice was indistinct.
“The pleasure of this body and soul is beyond the imagination of mortals.”
After the Ghost Owl cultists left with the other titled cultists, he finally found the opportunity to come alone to the pool of source blood and implanted dozens of soul worms in his soul before stepping into the pool of source blood.
Only titled cultists have the authority to know that the core of the pool of source blood is the blood of the Lord of Souls.
Before the Great Cataclysm, the Lord of Souls could still come to Earth at will. In order to completely destroy human resistance, he gave his own blood to the Soul Cult.
The cultists of the Soul Cult developed the technology of the pool of source blood by relying on the blood of the Lord of Souls.
Therefore, Goss came up with a crazy idea, which was to enter the pool of source blood and steal his power through the blood of the Lord of Souls.
“We must deal with him quickly.”
Shen Luoyan’s face rarely became very serious. In fact, she had already started to mobilize her psychic power when Goss appeared.
The blazing light was woven into a tangible light band by her. Like a swimming snake, it flew towards Goss and exploded like fireworks before quickly converging, wrapping Goss round and round.
The blazing light roasted his flesh with a sizzling sound.
“Die!”
Shen Luoyan squeezed her five fingers, and the light band suddenly tightened, directly dismembering Goss and turning him into chunks of meat that fell into the pool of source blood.
She waved her hand again, and dozens of blazing light spears pierced into the pool of source blood. They released a destructive high temperature in an instant, evaporating a large amount of source blood and turning it into red mist.
“Is it taken care of?”
Li Mu had never seen Shen Luoyan use her full power before. The terrifying destructive power was chilling.
“Should be.”
Shen Luoyan hesitated. Just now, she felt a strong threat from Goss on his body. This was a kind of threat that she had never seen in a fourth-level awakened person.
Most awakened people highly value their intuition.
Mysterious souls can see many things that the five senses cannot perceive, but they cannot be translated into concepts that the self can understand. They can only be reminded by intuition.
Something very strange might have happened to Goss’s body.
The next moment, an arm made up of countless sticky tendrils exploded from the pool of source blood and grabbed towards Li Mu and Shen Luoyan.
Li Mu could even see the twisted howling faces on the palm and arm, each one Goss’s twisted face. They were dense and layered, like some kind of strange skin disease.
“Divine Light Energy Seal – Nineteen.”
Shen Luoyan squeezed her fist towards the grasping palm. Dozens of dazzling lights lit up on the giant palm, but were directly cut into disgusting flesh and blood by the sharp light along the arm, and fell to the ground.
“He might have merged with the source blood pool, and I don’t know how much of his own consciousness is left. He’s a total lunatic.”
Shen Luoyan said.
Li Mu noticed that the cut-up flesh and blood were melting back into the source blood. They wriggled like living creatures and flowed back into the source blood pool.
“Let’s retreat!”
He was not stubborn at all and chose to retreat directly. Goss’s actions were definitely not part of the Soul Cult’s plan. If so, why risk his life to deal with him for the Soul Cult?
It was better to leave him for the Soul Cult to handle, and let them deal with the headache.