In the Demon Realm, at the very back of the Demon Lord's palace complex, there stands a grand hall exuding an eerie aura. The hall is constructed from polished black stone bricks and appears no different from an ordinary hall in shape. However, each eave is carved with a ghostly face, each face grotesque and particularly sinister from afar.
In addition to numerous demons guarding the outside of this grand hall, there were also squads of demons patrolling back and forth, making the security extremely tight.
The evil aura was already palpable outside the main hall, and inside it was filled with even more malevolent and malevolent energy.
Stepping inside through the two tightly closed, dark doors, one finds the hall to be extremely spacious, approximately 800 zhang long and 500 zhang wide. Unlike ordinary halls, this one is devoid of any tables, chairs, or other furnishings; instead, a pool occupies almost the entire space, with only a narrow path, about 1 zhang wide, on each of its four sides barely wide enough for a person to pass through.
The pool was about ten feet deep, filled with blood. It was unknown how many people would have been killed to collect that much blood. Bubbles rose and wisps of steam from the surface of the pool, indicating an extremely high temperature within.
Each pillar was deeply soaked in blood, together supporting the high dome.
When the Central Plains were protected by the Xuanyuan Barrier, preventing demons from entering, many people from the Central Plains mistakenly entered the demon realm. These demons then kept these people as livestock, solely for their blood. Later, the Xuanyuan Barrier disappeared, and the demons invaded the Central Plains on a large scale, capturing many civilians and keeping them alongside the original inhabitants.
The demons subjected these captives to extreme cruelty, extracting their essence and blood at their most enraged and nearly insane moments and mixing it into a blood pool. This was to fill the blood pool with dark emotions such as anger, resentment, hatred, malevolence, and violence, which were then used to nurture and refine weapons.
However, the demons dared not kill too many people for a blood pool. They would often leave a little blood essence for those people and then feed them like pigs and dogs. These many people who were alive but lived a life worse than death were called blood sources by the demons.
At this moment, numerous suits of armor and weapons were floating and sinking in the blood pool. Hundreds of white-haired old men sat on the paths around the pool. They sat around the pool, chanting incantations and forming hand seals. A huge amount of demonic energy emanated from their hands and flowed into the blood pool, accelerating the speed at which the armor and weapons absorbed the essence and evil energy from the blood.
Li Molin and Li Gan stood beside the blood pool, silently watching the armor and weapons bobbing up and down in the water. In reality, Li Gan's expression was indifferent, but Li Molin looked restless.
"Father," Li Molin asked again, his face filled with anxiety, "Are the weapons and armor in this pool not yet ready to be unearthed?"
Li Gan frowned and said in a deep voice, "Why are you so impatient? What's the rush?!"
"Liuli..." Because he was worried about Liuli, Li Molin blurted out the words almost without thinking, but he immediately realized what he was doing and fell silent.
Li Gan turned to look at him and said in a deep voice, "Liuli! It's Liuli again. I think you'll die at her hands sooner or later!"
Liuli insisted on resisting the deeply rooted Buddhist sect on her own in the Central Plains. Li Molin was really worried about her safety. Although he dared not speak anymore, he could not hide the unease on his face.
Li Gan snorted coldly and withdrew his gaze from his face.
Time passed silently, and finally, the hundreds of elders around the pool opened their eyes and stood up one after another. After everyone stood up, they looked at each other and made an agreement, then changed their hand seals and pointed them at the blood pool.
"rise!"
A clear and resounding voice rang out in the hall, accompanied by a sudden burst of bright demonic and blood-red light. The numerous suits of armor and weapons in the blood pool slowly rose from it.
"Splash..."
"Tick-tock" "Tick-tock"...
First, a large amount of blood fell from the armor and weapons into the pool, then dripped down in drops, making a crisp sound.
There were two thousand sets of armor and weapons floating in the air surrounded by black light. The armor was of the same style, and the weapons were all identical black spears.
These two thousand sets of armor and spears were forged from Xuan Iron mined from the Xuan Iron Mine, and then soaked in this blood pool for over twenty years. Furthermore, numerous elder demons took turns using demonic incantations to accelerate the absorption of blood essence by the weapons and armor. Therefore, in reality, these weapons and armor had been soaking in the blood pool for centuries, absorbing a massive amount of malevolent energy. From a distance, these two thousand sets of armor and weapons exuded an aura of malevolence.
Li Gan and Li Molin looked up at the numerous weapons and armors floating about ten feet above the blood pool. The spears and weapons were pitch black, with faint wisps of blood-red light flickering on them, like blood streaks.
Li Gan's face showed a hint of excitement. He looked up at the weapons and armor floating in the air and said, "Lin'er, these two thousand sets of armor and spears can form an army of two thousand men. Those two thousand men are all members of the Demon Heart Realm. I have been training them for nearly twenty years, and they are just waiting for the armor and spears to be produced!"
A smile appeared on Li Molin's face. Several days ago, Li Gan had summoned him back, telling him to wait for the armor and spear in the pool to emerge. He didn't know why Li Gan wanted him to wait, but if the armor and spear didn't appear, Li Gan wouldn't let him out. Now, he could finally go out and see Liuli. He smiled and said, "Congratulations, Father."
"You don't need to congratulate me," Li Gan said calmly. "This army of two thousand men was prepared for you. They will all be at your command!"
Li Molin was startled, then overjoyed, and said, "Really, Father?"
Li Gan nodded and said, "Tomorrow, after these two thousand men receive their armor and weapons, I will give you your general's seal at the training ground and make you the Demon General of this army. However, those two thousand men may not be convinced by you. If you want to secure your position and tame them, it will all depend on your abilities."
"Yes!" Li Molin laughed arrogantly, his arrogance shining through, as if the Li Molin of many years ago had returned. He said arrogantly, "If they don't submit to me, I will beat them until they do!"
"Good!" Li Gan turned around, patted Li Molin on the shoulder, and said with satisfaction, "This is my son, Li Gan's son!"
Li Molin felt full of strength and fighting spirit, as if the half of his lost energy had returned, and he was still the same arrogant young man he once was.
Li Gan walked past Li Molin towards the palace gate, saying in a cheerful voice as he went, "Lin'er, go and prepare yourself. Get plenty of rest for tomorrow's battle!"
Li Molin responded loudly, took one last look at the blood-stained armor and spear, and turned to leave.
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