Primordial Era: Starting as a junior disciple of the Chan Sect to attain the Primordial Chaos.

After dozens of ghostly figures disappeared into the night.

Jiang Chuan did not set off immediately.

He remained standing amidst the ruins of the tribe, waiting quietly.

The name Bloodstone Valley sounds like something out of an ordinary place.

Moreover, it is also related to demon soldiers and sword forging.

If one goes there rashly without verifying the facts, it is not prudent, but reckless.

Jiang Chuan wouldn't make that kind of mistake.

Even though he has now reached the peak of the Golden Immortal realm.

Even if one has several magical treasures to protect oneself.

But in the face of the Lich King's cataclysm, this level of foundation is still nothing.

Especially the matter of the Slaughtering Witch Sword.

That was an important tactic used by the demon race to deal with the witch race.

The causes and effects involved are too numerous to count.

If Jiang Chuan were to forcibly rescue people, or even disrupt the demon race's sword forging, it would be tantamount to personally interfering in the Lich-Demon Calamity.

By then, let alone saying he's only at the peak of the Golden Immortal realm.

Even a Taiyi Golden Immortal or a Daluo Golden Immortal might not be able to escape unscathed.

Therefore, Jiang Chuan was very clear about this.

You can go to Bloodstone Valley.

But the objective must be clear.

It's not about saving the humans who haven't yet been killed.

It's not about stopping the demon race from forging the Witch-Slaying Sword.

Instead, they gathered the human souls who had nowhere to go and took away the broken artifacts and scraps abandoned by the demon race.

As long as the ongoing sword-forging process is not touched.

This matter was still within the scope of his previous plans.

Time passes little by little.

Three days later.

The first batch of ghostly figures returned.

They burrowed into the Night Parade of Ten Thousand Ghosts painting and transmitted all their findings to Jiang Chuan.

Jiang Chuan closed his eyes and sensed for a moment.

Bloodstone Valley is about 300,000 miles away from this place.

That place was not a stronghold of the main demon race.

Instead, it was a largely abandoned outlying sword-forging site.

In the valley, demons once used human blood, souls, and resentment to forge sword embryos.

But most of the demon soldiers have now withdrawn.

Only some broken array patterns, abandoned blood pools, and lingering remnants of the dead remained there.

As for the living humans...

The ghost was not found.

Upon hearing this...

Jiang Chuan felt a little more at ease.

With no survivors, he doesn't have to face the choice of whether to save or not.

All that remains there are the souls of the dead.

His true purpose in coming here was to gather the souls of the dead.

Two more days passed.

The remaining ghostly figures returned one after another.

They confirmed that there was no trace of a Taiyi Golden Immortal near Bloodstone Valley.

There was also no large-scale presence of demons stationed there.

Only occasionally do demon soldiers patrol outside the valley.

However, the patrolmen did not linger; they merely checked whether the array patterns in the abandoned valley had been completely extinguished.

Even after learning all this, Jiang Chuan still did not take immediate action.

He waited another seven days.

Only after confirming that no new demon patrols had appeared within 30,000 li of Bloodstone Valley did they put away the Ten Thousand Ghosts Night Parade Map.

next moment.

Jiang Chuan's figure transformed into a faint, pure, jade-like light, and he silently fled in the northwest direction.

He didn't walk in a straight line.

Instead, it went around in several directions.

Along the way, they deliberately left behind several false auras, pointing in different directions.

In this way, even if someone were to deduce his true origin afterward, it would be difficult to determine his true origin.

Half a day later.

Jiang Chuan stopped on a black mountain peak.

Ahead of the mountain peak lies Bloodstone Valley.

Looking from afar.

The entire valley was tinged with a dark, blood-red hue.

The stone walls in the valley looked as if they had been soaked in countless streams of blood; even from thousands of miles away, one could feel a pungent, bloody aura.

In the void, the faint echoes of broken swords could still be heard.

The sword's cry was not clear or melodious.

Instead, it was filled with resentment, bitterness, and pain.

Clearly, this place was once used by the demon race to forge the prototype of the Witch-Slaying Sword.

Jiang Chuan stood atop the mountain, not in a hurry to enter the valley.

He first wrote the character "观" using Cangjie's script.

The serene light of human culture shines into my eyes.

next moment.

The energy within Bloodstone Valley gradually became clearer before his eyes.

There are three pools of blood in the valley.

Both have dried up.

There was also a body with dark red blood remaining.

The area around the blood pool was covered with broken demonic runes.

Although those demonic runes were no longer complete, they continued to exhale and exhale bloodthirsty energy.

In the center of the valley, dozens of broken sword blanks were stuck in the ground.

Most of these sword blanks have already been ruined.

Some of them are covered with cracks.

Some of the swords were twisted.

Some were only half left, yet they still exuded a sharp aura that the witch clan loathed.

Jiang Chuan's eyes narrowed slightly.

The Witch-Slaying Sword truly lives up to its reputation as a deadly weapon forged by the demon race specifically to counter the witch race.

Even a discarded sword blank contains a special killing intent.

However, these sword blanks were already damaged.

It cannot become a true witch-slaying sword.

It can only be used as scrap at best.

What truly concerned Jiang Chuan was not these sword embryos.

Rather, it is the soul that wanders between the blood pool and the sword embryo.

There are a large number of human souls there.

Some souls have become so fragmented that only a wisp of obsession remains.

Some were bound to the bloodstone by demonic runes and could not leave.

Some of the dead were forged into discarded sword embryos, where they were subjected to the constant cutting of sword energy, suffering unbearable pain.

Upon seeing this scene, a cold glint appeared deep in Jiang Chuan's eyes.

But he still didn't lose control.

In the midst of great tribulations, the most feared thing is to enter the game due to anger.

The demon race slaughtered the human race to forge the Witch-Slaying Sword; this was part of the grand scheme of things in the primordial world.

He cannot change it now, nor can he force it to change.

But he can collect the souls of those who have already died.

He can retrieve these abandoned and broken items.

That's enough.

Jiang Chuan then released dozens more ghostly figures to explore the area around Bloodstone Valley.

After confirming that there were no ambushes, he slowly descended into the valley.

The moment I stepped into Bloodstone Valley.

The broken demonic patterns in the valley then began to glow faintly.

As if sensing the presence of living beings, the bloodthirsty aura surged towards Jiang Chuan.

Jiang Chuan remained expressionless.

The Cangjie Book was hung above their heads.

A single character, "净" (jìng), flew out.

A faint, serene light descended, isolating the surrounding bloodthirsty aura from the outside.

He then wrote the character "隐" (hidden) to conceal the changes in the valley.

Although this place has been abandoned, it was once a place where the demon race forged swords.

If the commotion is too great, it will inevitably attract the attention of the patrolling soldiers.

What Jiang Chuan had to do was to silently collect the souls of the dead and the remnants.

Instead of engaging in direct conflict with the demon race here.

He first arrived at the first dried-up pool of blood.

The bottom of the blood pool was covered with dark red blood crystals.

Within these blood crystals, faint remnants of human souls are sealed.

They were trapped inside, their minds already clouded.

All that remained was instinctive pain and wailing.

Jiang Chuan raised his hand.

The pages of Cangjie's book were turned.

"amnesty."

An ancient character fell.

The blood crystals at the bottom of the blood pool immediately emitted a series of fine cracking sounds.

next moment.

One by one, remnant souls broke free from the blood crystal.

They were initially at a loss.

However, upon sensing the ancestral cultural artifact on Jiang Chuan's body, his previously chaotic soul gradually calmed down.

"King Munjo..."

"King Munjo..."

Faint sounds continued to emerge.

Jiang Chuan didn't say much, but simply presented the "Night Parade of Ten Thousand Ghosts" scroll.

The aura of the Yin-Yang Earth descended from the Great Virtue Mountain, transforming into a dark passage.

"Let's take a break in the picture."

"If you find a place to go in the future, I will send you there."

Those lingering souls seemed to understand those words.

They slowly knelt before Jiang Chuan, then followed the aura of the underworld into the Night Parade of Ten Thousand Ghosts.

With each batch of souls collected, the humanistic voice within the Night Parade of Ten Thousand Ghosts grows stronger.

The human souls that had been included in the map earlier seemed to sense the arrival of their kind.

They spontaneously gathered at the edge of the netherworld, using their faint thoughts to soothe the newly arrived souls.

This scene made Jiang Chuan's eyes flicker slightly.

The "Ten Thousand Ghosts Night Parade" painting was originally intended for attacking and destroying spiritual treasures.

However, as more and more human souls enter it, the aura of this treasure is quietly changing.

Its ferocity remains undiminished.

But it added a touch of order and tranquility.

This will not diminish the power of the Ten Thousand Ghosts Night Parade.

This actually makes its foundation more stable.

Because a purely malevolent weapon is ultimately prone to backlash.

However, if one has great virtue as the foundation and the light of humanity as the order, then one can transform fierce spirits and evil ghosts into truly controllable Netherworld battle spirits.

Jiang Chuan became increasingly certain.

I've chosen the right path.

He did not rush to fuse with the blood crystal.

Although these blood crystals contain the blood essence of humans and the malevolent energy of demons, they are extremely mixed and impure.

Direct fusion would do more harm than good.

Jiang Chuan simply put it into a jade box, intending to purify it slowly in the future, or use it as an auxiliary material for the Ten Thousand Ghosts Night Parade painting.

He then walked toward the second pool of blood.

The second pool of blood contained even more souls.

But the demonic markings are also more complete.

Clearly, this was once the true site of sword forging in Bloodstone Valley.

As soon as Jiang Chuan approached, a broken sword light shot up from the pool.

The sword light was dark red.

It was mixed with the resentment of the human race and the murderous intent of the demon race.

It has no intelligence.

Yet, their instinct was to kill anyone who approached.

Jiang Chuan's gaze remained unchanged.

Clouds and water bound it as it flew out.

The water-colored chains coiled around the blood-red sword light like serpents.

The sword light struggled violently.

But in the end, it was just a remnant of the ferocity left behind by the discarded sword blank.

Under the suppression of the Cloud Water Binding, it was quickly bound.

Jiang Chuan raised his hand and pointed.

A character "破" (pò, meaning "broken") flew out from the Cangjie Book.

boom!

The broken demonic runes at the edge of the blood pool shattered on the spot.

The sword light let out a mournful cry and transformed into half a blood-red sword embryo, which fell to the ground.

Jiang Chuan looked down.

A line of small text appeared.

[A damaged prototype of the Witch-Slaying Sword, failed to be forged, its blood and evil energy are mixed and cannot be fused, but it can be purified and used as a forging material.]