Chapter 5: The Birth of the Blood Demon Palace

  "Hmm..."

  Just as Mu Ke's hand touched the root of the demon flower, a strange noise came, followed by Mu Ke's painful cry, and then he fell to the ground with a thud, his seven orifices overflowing with dark red blood.

  He suddenly stopped, unsure of what was happening. He carefully walked to Mu Ke's side, kicked him gently with his foot but got no reaction, then quickly squatted down and stretched out his hand to feel for his breath.

  "Dead?!"

  At the moment when he felt no breath from Mo Ke, he suddenly retreated several steps, his face instantly pale. For a young man living on Earth in the 21st century, this was his first time being so close to death, and he was so frightened that his legs went soft.

  "This is..."

  At this time, he inadvertently saw a red dot on Mu Ke's neck, and beside him was a thumb-sized, all-red - honey bee!

  "Blood-poisoned wasp!" Suddenly, Huo Ran remembered a sentence from the ancient book that recorded the Blood-tear Flower: "Wherever the Blood-tear Flower grows, there must be poisonous creatures - blood-poisoned wasps. If an unripe cultivator who has not fully opened the Mystic Mother's Gate is stung, they will undoubtedly die!"

  The two of them, excited by the sight of the blooming Blood Tears Flower, had forgotten about the records in the ancient book and neglected the existence of the Blood Poison Bee. Mo Ke was even more immersed in his excitement, rashly moving forward to pick it, but ended up being attacked by the Blood Poison Bee, suffering severe poisoning, and losing all signs of life in an instant.

  "Fortunately, Mu Ke appeared and rushed forward to pick it up, otherwise..."

  Looking at Mu Ke's body, Huo Ran felt a chill in his heart. If Mu Ke hadn't appeared, the one who would have died would have been himself! This was the second time on Mount Everest that he felt death was so close.

  "Thanks to the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother for your protection, I will definitely offer incense to you when I have time..." As soon as he thought of this, Huo Ran hurriedly joined his hands together and bowed towards the east. Then, he avoided the corpse of Mu Ke and pulled out the Blood Tears Flower with one hand, storing it in his dantian.

  Qihai is not only the source of Fa Li, but also a space that can store some things. Like the purple-clothed girl at the beginning, who was the eldest sister of the Mu family, Mu Qingling, she put her own purple sword into Qihai, and at that time, Huo Ran was very interested in it.

  Sensing the demon flower floating in the air, without a hint of decay, Huo Ran smiled in satisfaction. Then, suppressing his fear of death, he kicked Mu Ke's corpse several times and said lightly: "You wanted to snatch my spiritual medicine? Now you've tasted what it means to reap evil rewards! You deserved it!"

  Having said that, he kicked a few more feet before feeling relieved, and then began his journey down the mountain.

  When the two suns were about to set, Huo Ran finally returned to the Mu Mansion, only to find that everyone in the Mu Mansion was in a hurry, rushing towards the Taihe Hall.

  "What happened?"

  After waiting in the Mu mansion for a year, Huo Ran also understood how powerful the Mu family was. Not to mention this southern border of Jingzhou, even in the entire Jun Tian realm, the Mu family's influence could be ranked among the top ten! But such a top-notch force, at this time, the door people are all flustered and anxious, it must have happened something big. Huo Ran didn't think much, directly running towards the Taihe Hall.

  When he arrived at the Taihe Hall, he only managed to hear Muhe say "disperse" in front of the square, and then thousands of people dispersed, each with a look of excitement or regret.

  "Uncle River! Uncle River!"

  Seeing Muhe was about to leave, Huoran hastily called out.

  Muhe turned around, looked at Horan in surprise, and said: "You're back? Is there something going on?"

  "What's going on at the Marquis' residence? Why is everyone rushing around in a panic?" Huo Ran pointed at those who were hastily leaving, with a puzzled expression.

  "The Blood Demon Palace has emerged." As he led Huo Ran into the Taihe Hall, Mu He sighed, "I didn't expect the palace of the Blood God Emperor from tens of thousands of years ago to appear in the world. This will stir up a bloody storm!"

  "What?! The Blood God Emperor's palace has descended?!" Huo Ran exclaimed as he walked into the Taihe Hall, having read many ancient books, he naturally knew about this legendary figure who had been passed down for tens of thousands of years, and the stories about him could only be described as "countless", but the vast majority were negative.

  Muhe nodded and said, "Just now, news came from Zhongzhou that a blood-colored palace appeared in the Floating Corpse Blood Sea, one of the Five Great Forbidden Lands. After confirmation by some famous experts, it was confirmed to be the legendary Blood Demon Palace!"

  "Could it be that the Blood Demon Palace is hiding some secret?" Huo Ran was puzzled, but it was just a temporary palace of a great emperor, how could it be like the birth of an elixir of immortality, and even said it would bring about a bloody storm...

  "What's the secret?"

  Mo River smiled faintly and said, "Some people may not be interested in secrets, but the things in the Blood Demon Palace are of interest to everyone!"

  "In the past, the Blood God Emperor was nothing more than a low-born, even inferior to ordinary people, waste! However, he took this ordinary form, step by step towards the throne of the Great Emperor, towards invincibility, relying on his self-created Unparalleled Divine Art! It is also precisely because of that Unparalleled Divine Art that the Blood God Emperor became one of the most 'famous' Emperors in history."

  "Could it be that the Blood Emperor was also a useless piece of trash who couldn't cultivate?!"

  He was shocked and then in an instant, his heart ignited with infinite longing. With a serious expression, he said: "River Uncle, can you take me there?"

  Upon hearing Huo Ran's words, how could Mu He not know what he was thinking? In response, he shook his head and said: "Huo Ran, it's not that I don't want to help you, but this time the Mu family requires the person going to have a cultivation level above the Divine Bridge Realm. You've currently cultivated up to the Qi Sea Realm, but that's still five realms away from the Six Paths Realm..."

  For Huo Ran, Muhe still has a certain admiration. This year, if anyone can understand the hardships and pains of Huo Ran, it is only him. A person who originally had the qualifications to become a great emperor, but even cultivation was a problem, really playing with people's fate.

  It's clear that Huo Ran can't cultivate, but he still resolutely embarked on this path, enduring unimaginable suffering that ordinary people couldn't bear. In the end, he cultivated to the Qi Hai realm. However, cruelly, what Huo Ran achieved through his hardships could be easily reached by ordinary people in just a month or a few months... So, apart from admiration, Mu He only felt sympathy for him and would try to help him whenever possible, as if making up for heaven's shortcomings towards this poor man.

  It was just this once, and since it was an order personally given by the master of the Mu family, Mu Xiong, how could a small outer sect disciple like him dare to disobey?

  "Uncle He, I'm begging you!" With the hope of cultivation right in front of him, how could Hao Ran give up unless absolutely necessary?

  "Alas..." Muhe let out a deep sigh and said, "What's the point of this? Even if I were to take you with me, what could be done? Let's not even mention whether the Mu family can obtain the inheritance of the Blood God Emperor. Even if they did, how would they allow someone who isn't even a member of the Mu family to inherit such a great fortune? Taking a step back, even if they were to invest in you, what if your physical constitution is incompatible with that of the Blood God Emperor and you can't cultivate it at all? In the end, I'm afraid it's not just a problem of whether you can cultivate, but also whether you can even survive!"

  "I understand what you're saying..." As Muhe said, if the Mu family really obtained the inheritance of the Blood God Emperor and let him inherit it, but in the end he still couldn't cultivate it, then at that time, nine out of ten would be waiting for his own death. But no matter what, he wanted to try, even if it meant dying!

  In the year he spent in the Immortal Realm, although on the surface he didn't show anything, his heart's longing for home was growing deeper. He couldn't imagine how his missing parents would be, how his friends would be... and the premise to prevent all this from happening was that he could cultivate, and cultivate at a very fast speed, so that he could return to Earth in the shortest time possible, back to his parents' side!

  "Uncle He, I beg of you to give me a chance. Even if I don't get anything in the end, I will have no regrets for the rest of my life..."

  "Do you really want to go?"

  "I really want to!"

  He glanced at Huo Ran, then turned around and closed his eyes. His mind was in turmoil for a long time before he slowly opened his mouth: "If that's the case...then...alright!"

  "Thank you, Uncle He! Thank you, Uncle He!"

  Hearing Muhe's response, Huo Ran bowed deeply to him. He had always been very respectful of this refined middle-aged man, although the two didn't have any particular relationship, but Huo Ran regarded him as his elder and teacher, after all, it was he who taught him how to read and cultivate...