"Haha, it's awakened! The Sacred Lotus Eye bloodline has awakened and successfully mutated into the Blood Lotus Eye I've always dreamed of."
In his past life, among the three players who consumed the mutated Blood Awakening Fruit, two awakened the Sacred Lotus Eye, which then mutated into the Blood Lotus Eye, while the third awakened the Hundred Wood Eyes, which mutated into the Hundred Blood Eyes.
Although the Hundred Blood Eyes, like the Hundred Wood Eyes, could evolve twice, ultimately becoming the Ten Thousand Blood Eyes, compared to the Blood Lotus Eye, the Ten Thousand Blood Eyes were insignificant.
The Blood Lotus Eye possessed two Pupil Techniques.
Pupil Technique One: Burning Lotus Blood Fire. This technique ignited the enemy's blood, using it as fuel to sustain the flames. As long as the enemy's blood remained, the fire would not extinguish. The Burning Lotus Blood Fire could be retrieved from a distance, and the retrieved flames would transform into Sacred Blood.
This technique often leveraged minimal Pupil Power to achieve devastating effects.
For Blood Cultists, this technique was their natural bane.
The downside was that this technique had limited effectiveness against Mechanical Pets, pure elemental creatures, and other beings without blood.
Pupil Technique Two: Blood Banquet Holy Meal. By consuming Sacred Blood, the quality of the Sacred Meal could be enhanced. Those who partook in the Blood Banquet Holy Meal would inevitably develop an admiration for Li Cunxu, even if Li Cunxu himself consumed it, the effect would still apply to him.
With enough Sacred Blood, the quality of the Blood Banquet Holy Meal could be pushed to unimaginable heights.
The player who possessed the Blood Lotus Eye talent used this ability to evolve his Pet Beast multiple times, earning the envy of all players.
As for the other player with the Blood Lotus Eye talent, he was the unfortunate soul who was the first to consume the mutated Blood Awakening Fruit and had his account ruined by the Curse Spirit. The latter two players also fell victim to the Curse Spirit, but they learned from the first player's misfortune and preemptively consumed the eyes of the Doom Bipolar Tiger, transferring the Curse Spirit away.
"Burning Lotus Blood Fire."
Li Cunxu muttered under his breath, and the Blood Lotus in his eyes bloomed. A wisp of Burning Lotus Blood Fire ignited out of thin air in the blood-filled Blood Infant Pool. The flames, as if encountering gasoline spilled on the ground, instantly turned the Blood Infant Pool into a sea of red fire. The blaze roared, darkening the sky, with flames swirling above like a dragon, creating a scene reminiscent of a fiery hell.
Setting this sinful place ablaze brought Li Cunxu a sense of relief.
After killing and burning, it was time to make his escape.
Li Cunxu tossed the Blood Cultist Thug, who had been pierced by the Silver Sword, into the inferno. He then scattered Time Concealing Powder to prevent time-based skills like Yesterday's Reflection from spying on him. Donning his Invisibility Cloak, he left the fourth basement level. Perhaps due to the high quality of the Concealment Array, the fire raged for a long time before the higher-ups of the Blood God Sect stationed there noticed the anomaly in the Blood Infant Pool.
After exiting the hospital, ten minutes later, Li Cunxu picked up a phone he had casually stolen and called the police in a hoarse voice.
As a five-star citizen of Pupil City, encountering the Blood God Sect warranted using the weapon of reporting to the authorities.
He tossed the stolen phone into the lost and found, not bothering with it further. The phone would eventually find its way back to its owner.
The police would undoubtedly investigate the mysterious caller, and the caller's information would be thoroughly checked. Eventually, they would locate the owner, inquire about the lost phone, and use the phone's anti-loss feature to track it, or perhaps use scent tracking to find it.
As for scent tracking him, Li Cunxu had already sprayed Aura Concealing Spray in a 360-degree, no-dead-zone manner, ensuring his own scent could not be leaked.
Li Cunxu was extremely cautious, considering every possible detail. He wore white gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints, a surgical cap to prevent hair from falling, and an Invisibility Cloak to ensure that even if "Yesterday's Reflection" were used, his traces would remain hidden. As for divination-based tracking, White Spider's innate ability, "Fate Unveiling," would block any attempts.
"I wonder if my fire is too weak, or if their Concealment Array is just that effective. Up until now, my Burning Lotus Blood Fire hasn't managed to burn through the hospital."
Li Cunxu stood on the rooftop of a skyscraper, gazing at the brightly lit hospital.
He had initially been worried that the Burning Lotus Blood Fire might burn through the hospital and harm innocent people, so he was prepared to retract the flames at any moment. But now, it seemed unnecessary.
The alarm he had placed on the third floor was still intact, indicating that the fire hadn't reached the third basement level.
Six minutes after Li Cunxu left the hospital, a partial failure of the Concealment Array caught the attention of Xue Wuqing, a high-ranking Blood Cultist.
Xue Wuqing quickly descended to the fourth basement level and was enraged to see the Blood Infant Pool engulfed in flames. He gnashed his teeth in fury.
"Who did this? I'll kill them!"
Xue Wuqing's first thought wasn't to flee from exposure but to extinguish the fire.
He summoned the Blood Beast Water-Spraying Elephant to douse the flames with water, but instead of extinguishing the fire, it grew larger, much like trying to put out an oil fire with water.
While attempting to extinguish the flames, Xue Wuqing noticed a stone slab nearby.
["The Blood Lotus will eventually bloom on the bones of the Blood God, and I shall achieve eternity. Tremble, followers of the Blood God Sect! Fear! — May Apostle, Lotus God"]
"May Apostle, I'll remember you. You dare disrupt the descent ceremony of the Blood Infant God Child? I will pull out every single one of your tendons and bones."
Xue Wuqing's eyes were as cold as icy stars, his gaze filled with a chilling murderous intent.
One minute after the alarm was raised.
The Beast Tamers from the police station, riding their Flying Pet Beasts, descended upon the hospital like meteors streaking across the sky. The Concealment Array on the fourth basement level had already been partially damaged by the Burning Lotus Blood Fire, and the Water-Spraying Elephant's attempts to extinguish the flames had caused further destruction—in fact, the elephant had done more damage.
Sensing the Spirit Energy fluctuations underground, the police Beast Tamers broke through the ground and directly entered the fourth basement level.
The Burning Lotus Blood Fire, faced with two silver-tier opponents—the police Beast Tamer and Xue Wuqing—seemed particularly weak. It couldn't even penetrate their Spirit Energy protective barriers, let alone use their blood as fuel.
After a fierce battle between the police Beast Tamer and Xue Wuqing, the latter eventually fled.
After the incident, the Second Women and Children's Hospital in Dusha District was investigated, and the entire hospital was shut down for rectification. The ensuing turmoil also swept through the Medusa Family.
The fact that the Blood God Sect could build such a large and well-hidden Blood Infant Pool in Dusha District suggested that someone within the Medusa Family must have supported it.
...
"Have we found the person who raised the alarm?"
"No, the individual was very cautious and left no clues."
The police chief's eyes flickered with a mix of malice and regret.
"Lure the police into inviting experts to use 'Yesterday's Reflection' to search for the alarm raiser. This person destroyed one of our important strongholds and must pay a heavy price.
Also, don't appear too eager to uncover the alarm raiser's information. Guide the investigation subtly, and be careful not to arouse suspicion from other officers."
"Understood."
The police chief added, "What do you think of the 'May Apostle' mentioned on the stone slab—'The Blood Lotus will eventually bloom on the bones of the Blood God...'?"
"Those who indulge in mystification, if he were truly that powerful, the fire he released wouldn't have merely dried up the blood in the Blood Infant Pool, but would have burned down the entire hospital."
Li Cunxu fabricated the story of the May Apostle, Lotus God, indeed engaging in mystification.
His aim was to disrupt the thoughts of the Blood God Sect and, in the process, create a false identity.
Meanwhile, with the destruction of the Blood Infant Pool, the endless Grievance Energy and hatred that lingered there lost their place of return and sought out the Blood Infant Spirit.
(End of Chapter)