Chapter 36 Blood Covenant Vine and the Straight Man's Fingertip Electric Shock 2
Jiang Xuelan froze, and the ice blade instantly disintegrated. His brow furrowed, and he stared at his impossibly clean fingertips, as if he wanted to squeeze blood from them. Asking him to use his nails... to cut his skin? Such a crude and barbaric method...
"Tsk! Ice Face is just being pretentious!" Li Jiuyou scoffed impatiently, but his movements were decisive and quick. He extended his right index finger, opened his mouth, revealing his sharp white teeth, and bit down hard on the tip of his finger!
"Hiss..." Man Gu took a deep breath in pain.
Blood, tinged with a hint of gold, instantly gushed from Li Jiuyou's fingertips, emitting a scorching aura and powerful demonic energy. Without even a glance, he thrust his bleeding finger towards the bronze key suspended between their palms, his face furious with a "get this done" attitude. "Hurry up! What are you dawdling for? My blood is precious!"
Watching the scorching drop of Demon King blood, suspected of "bird flu," fall, a tiny crack appeared on Jiang Xuelan's frozen face. He took a deep breath, as if making a profound resolution. He closed his eyes and, with his neatly trimmed but equally sharp nails, slashed the tip of his left index finger with force!
A slight stinging pain came.
A drop of icy blue blood, like the purest ice crystal, slowly seeped out. The drop of blood, carrying a biting chill and pure immortal spirit, formed a sharp contrast with Li Jiuyou's drop of scorching red-gold demon blood.
Two drops of blood, one icy blue, the other crimson gold, like two stars of diametrically opposed properties that should never intersect, slowly, slowly dripped towards the bronze key suspended between the two men's palms under Xuan Jia's intense gaze and as everyone waited with bated breath...
Just as the two drops of blood were about to touch the verdant vine pattern on the key's surface—
The bronze key suddenly erupted with a blinding green light! The entwined vine patterns seemed to come alive, instantly breaking away from the key's surface and transforming into two solid, verdant vine shadows, emitting a rich breath of life and the power of an ancient contract!
Two vine shadows emerged like spirit snakes from a cave, their speed reaching extreme speed! One vine precisely wrapped around Jiang Xuelan's bleeding finger, while the other wrapped around Li Jiuyou's still bleeding fingertip!
"What is that?!" Li Jiuyou was shocked and subconsciously wanted to use the demonic fire to burn the ghost vine.
But it's too late!
An irresistible suction force emanated from the shadowy vines! The wounds on their fingertips seemed to be stretched open by an invisible force. The icy blue and red gold blood no longer flowed in drops, but gushed out like a drawn stream, being absorbed frantically by the vines!
"Ugh!" Jiang Xuelan groaned. Not only did he feel the weakness of blood loss at his fingertips, but he also felt a domineering and scorching power, forcibly flowing into his body along the vines! That was the power of Li Jiuyou's demon blood! Like magma pouring into a glacier, it instantly aroused the violent resistance of the suppressed demon core heat deep in his dantian! The icy sea of consciousness also shook violently!
"Fuck!" Li Jiuyou roared in pain, his scarlet-gold eyes instantly bloodshot! A bone-chilling force, as if capable of freezing the soul, surged through the vines! It was Jiang Xuelan's immortal blood! It clashed fiercely with his own demonic fire, like ice water poured into boiling oil, exploding wildly through his meridians! The Soul Mist wound on his back was irritated by the combined impact of ice and fire, and the chilling pain instantly intensified!
How could this be called "blood test"? This was simply a torture method involving violent blood drawing and attribute clashes!
"Immortal Lord! King Li! Hold on! This is the contract fusing your powers!" Xuanjia shouted anxiously, his green eyes fixed on the key.
The bronze key hovered at the source of two shadowy vines, greedily absorbing the interwoven blood of icy blue and crimson gold. The rust on the key's surface faded as quickly as melting ice and snow, revealing the pristine and mysterious bronze beneath. And on the key's handle, the entwined vine patterns came alive! Lush green leaves unfurled, their veins clearly visible, emitting an increasingly intense aura of life and spatial fluctuations!
What was even more shocking was that while the shadowy vines were wrapping around their fingers, an invisible force, carrying the implication of a forced contract, followed the blood connection and violently broke into their sea of consciousness!
In Jiang Xuelan's sea of consciousness, the icy blue icefield trembled violently, countless fragments of memories stirred and surged by this force! The blazing flames of his childhood sect's destruction, the biting cold of struggling alone in the icy plains, the determination to fuse his demon core just to survive, and the pain of "stripping" that penetrated deep into his bones... all flashed through his mind like a revolving lantern! At the same time, a searing, overbearing, and unyielding alien will also barged in! Was that... Li Jiuyou?!
Li Jiuyou's sea of consciousness was similarly turned upside down! The world of crimson-gold flames was swept by an icy storm! The humiliation of being pinned to the mud by his own people as a child, mocked as a "mixed blood," the agony of struggling on the brink of life and death to awaken his demonic fire, the despair of countless bloodline backlashes and incinerations, and the ultimate thirst for power... were all mercilessly stirred out! And at the same time, a cold, lonely, icy world, as if frozen in time for all emotion... was also intruding! Jiang Xuelan?!
"Get out!" "How dare you!" They both roared almost simultaneously! The intense impact on their souls shook their bodies, and their faces turned pale instantly!
At this climax of pain where ice and fire collided, the soul was turbulent, and blood was being madly sucked—
The bronze key burst into an unprecedentedly brilliant light! The two green vine shadows suddenly retracted, forcibly pulling the two people's entangled fingers closer!
The tip of Jiang Xuelan's index finger, which was dripping with blood, and the tip of Li Jiuyou's index finger, which was also dripping with blood, were "forced together" by the vines. Without any buffer, they violently collided with each other!
The ice-blue and scarlet-gold blood blended together without any hindrance between the fingertips of the two people who were forced to press tightly together!
An unprecedented, violent shock, like an electric shock to the soul, instantly swept through the bodies of the two people along the place where their fingertips touched!
Jiang Xuelan felt as if struck by a nine-day tribulation thunderbolt! A searing, scorching torrent of unbridled vitality slammed into his meridians along his fingertips! The suppressed demonic heat within his dantian erupted as if summoned! Combined with this external, scorching force, it madly assaulted his icy immortal energy! But strangely, amidst this violent onslaught, the long-dormant injury in his lower back, stimulated by the coldness of the Yin Spring, actually gave way to a subtle... loosening sensation.
Li Jiuyou felt as if he'd been dropped into a ten-thousand-year-old mysterious ice cave! A bone-chilling, yet utterly pure, force surged through his fingertips, clashing fiercely with his own demonic fire, seemingly freezing his very blood and soul! His meridians felt as if pierced by countless icy needles, the pain so intense that his vision went black! However, under this extreme chill, the chilling, stinging pain in his back from the Soul-Sinking Mist was briefly suppressed! Even more horrifying was that the restless, uncontrollable Chaos True Fire deep within his origin, under this intense stimulation of ice and fire, actually showed the faintest sign of... taming?
Ice and fire, immortals and demons, two completely opposite forces that should have annihilated each other, at the point where their fingertips touched and their blood mixed, under the forced coordination of the ancient contract vines, they strangely and briefly reached a violent, precarious... **balance**!
Their bodies trembled violently, their pupils dilated, as they stared intently at each other's faces, so close to each other, as if truly "seeing" each other for the first time. An indescribable, complex feeling, a mixture of extreme pain, soul-shaking shock, and a hint of strange "resonance," washed over them like a tsunami.
“Ahhhh!” “Hmph!”
Two suppressed groans sounded at the same time.
And at this moment when ice and fire intertwined, blood blended, and fingertips touched—
The bronze key erupted with a turquoise beam of light that pierced heaven and earth! The vine motifs on the key's handle sprang to life, transforming into a vast, verdant archway of vines formed from pure spatial force! Beyond the archway lay no longer the silent tundra, but a swirling, bottomless, dark vortex! From its depths, a faint, ancient, majestic vitality emanated, along with a heart-pounding aura of chaos!
The Gate of the Abyss! Opened!
**(Edge of the Sea of Mist: Eye of Shadow)**
Just as the gate to the abyss opened, the energy wave swept across the tundra!
In the sea of soul-sinking fog that was still slowly swirling in the distance, the huge "eye" formed by the gray-black fog and full of resentment and greed suddenly burst out with a dazzling gray-black light!
“Hehehehe——!!!”
A scream that was far sharper, more urgent, and more greedy than before penetrated the barriers of space and pierced everyone's eardrums!
Then, under the gaze of the gravekeeper's suddenly raised, turbid gray pupils, and reflected in Xuanjia's terrified green eyes, the sea of soul-sinking fog surged and converged like boiling water thrown into a boulder! A massive, gray-black mist tail, composed of highly concentrated soul-sinking resentment, tore through the thick fog like a world-destroying giant python. With terrifying pressure that froze souls and a greedy desire to devour everything, it viciously bit towards the newly opened gate of the Abyss, towards the people in front of it, especially Jiang Li and Jiang Li, who were holding the key, their fingertips forced together!
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