Starting with SSS-rank talent, I contracted the Forbidden Ferocity.

Within the blood-filled fetus, the faceless figure slowly opened its eyes on its chest.

That's not a bloodshot eye.

Instead, it was a gray-white peephole.

Deep within the pupil, there is no pupil.

There were only doors, one after another, opening and closing.

The Beast King Contract on Shen Ye's chest instantly became hot.

It was as if someone had reached out and grabbed his heart through his flesh and blood.

The system notification turned scarlet.

[The awakening of the Blood Gate Holy Embryo has been detected.]

[Current awakening level: 10%.]

[Target locked: Host's royal blood.]

[Warning: The Blood Gate Holy Embryo is synchronizing with the host's blood pact frequency.]

[Warning: After synchronization is complete, the host's royal blood will become the coordinates of the Blood Gate.]

Shen Ye's eyes turned cold.

"Dust of Calamity".

Jie Chen's Heavenly Punishment Eye on his forehead opened completely.

The gray-white lightning struck the opening in the chest of the blood fetus.

boom!

The lightning struck the blood fetus.

The surface of the blood fetus was covered with densely packed ancestral patterns of the vampire clan.

The ancestral markings blocked the heavenly tribulation lightning.

Xue Qianqiu chuckled softly.

"it's useless."

"The Blood Gate Holy Embryo is not simply something behind the gate."

"It is protected by the lifeblood of the vampire ancestor."

"You can't harm the ancestral bloodline by cutting off the gate."

"If you sever your ancestral bloodline, the Blood Gate will fully awaken."

Shen Ye looked at Xue Qianqiu.

"So this is why you brought me here?"

Xue Qianqiu bowed slightly.

"The Night King"

"You are the most suitable blood vessel."

"The Vampire Royal Court doesn't understand."

"They just want to use the Blood Gate to kill people."

"But I know that what the one behind the door truly desires is the royal blood that can bear the covenant of all beasts."

Xue Li shouted angrily outside the central pool gate:

"Blood Across a Thousand Autumns!"

"You don't work for the royal court!"

Xue Qianqiu smiled.

"The royal court is too small."

"Vampires are too small."

"The real great era begins after the Blood Gate."

The words fell.

The phantom image of the ancient battle monument appears.

[Judgment: The Guide actively interfered with the core of the Ancestral Pool.]

[Judgment: The guide has breached his contractual obligations.]

[Discipline: Strip the guide of their status.]

Xue Qianqiu looked up at the ancient battle monument.

There was not a trace of fear on his face.

"Only now are they being stripped of their rights?"

"It's too late."

His body suddenly split open.

It wasn't split open by punishment.

Instead, he activated his own Blood Soul.

Black lines crawled out of his body and coiled around the blood fetus in the center of the inner pool.

Xue Qianqiu, like a prepared offering, began to merge into the Blood Gate Holy Embryo.

Xue Li's face turned pale.

"He turned himself into a door opener!"

Shen Ye did not wait any longer.

He took a step forward.

A black gold short sword materialized.

It's not about unifying all beasts into one strike.

It was the simplest sword strike.

To kill someone.

Xue Qianqiu has not yet fully integrated into the blood embryo.

Then kill him first.

Xue Qianqiu seemed to have anticipated this, and raised his hand to point.

The inner pool ancestral king's heart and blood were shaken.

A layer of dark red blood curtain blocked his way.

Shen Ye slashed forward with his sword.

clang!

The sword's edge was deflected.

His tiger's mouth split open, and blood splattered out.

Xue Qianqiu smiled and said:

"The Night King"

"Within the inner pool, the ancestral blood forbids you from killing me."

Shen Ye looked up.

"Yeah?"

He pressed his left hand against his chest.

The Beast King's Contract lit up.

Night Feather Black Sun Netherfire entered his left arm.

The image of the Nine-Nine Netherworld King appears in the candlelight.

The blood-stained veins from the battle in Longyuan seeped into his bones.

Calamity, divine punishment, and tribulation lightning entered the sword's edge.

Xue Qianqiu's expression changed slightly.

"You still dare to use 'All Beasts Unite'?"

Shen Ye said:

"Who says it's about returning to oneness?"

He thrust out with his sword.

The powers of the four beasts did not merge.

Instead, it is divided into four sections.

The black sun and ghostly flames burned the blood-red curtain.

The Nine Netherworld Burial Shadow Locks the Door Pattern.

The blood-stained patterns of battle shake the ancestral blood.

Heavenly punishment lightning struck the doorway.

Four forces struck simultaneously.

A crack finally appeared in the blood curtain.

Shen Ye seized the moment and crashed into it.

Xue Qianqiu's eyes turned cold.

"madman."

Shen Ye moved close to him.

"You talk too much nonsense."

A flash of sword light swept across.

Xue Qianqiu's body was cut in half.

But he didn't bleed.

Inside the cracked body, there were black door patterns everywhere.

The door patterns, as if alive, suddenly lunged at Shen Ye.

Night Feather flapped its wings, and the Black Sun Netherfire protected Shen Ye's body.

Zhu Jiu emerged from the shadows, his vertical pupils, newly imbued with the blood of the Nine Nether King, lit up.

Cleanse your soul from the Nine Netherworlds!

A deep blue light shone on Xue Qianqiu.

For the first time, those black door patterns let out a scream.

Xue Qianqiu's smile finally disappeared.

"The Blood of the Nine Netherworld King..."

"It's ready to use so soon?"

Shen Ye did not answer.

The second sword fell.

This time, the blade was slashed between Xue Qianqiu's eyebrows.

Click!

Xue Qianqiu's brow split open.

A fragment of a black door charm was slashed out.

A system notification sounded.

[Fragment of the Blood Gate coordinates has been discovered.]

[Target: Blood Thousand Autumns Soul Core.]

Destroying the Soul Core will interrupt the awakening process of the Holy Embryo.

Shen Ye's eyes turned cold.

"Found it."

Xue Qianqiu's expression changed drastically, and he immediately retreated.

But Zhu Jiu's Nine Netherworld Burial Shadow had already locked his shadow.

Long Yuan stepped out of the Beast Taming Space and slammed his fist into the ground of the inner pool.

boom!

Xue Qianqiu's retreat route was severed by the shock.

The Heavenly Punishment of Calamity locked onto the fragment of the black talisman.

Shen Ye raised his sword.

Xue Qianqiu finally showed a hint of panic.

"Shen Ye!"

"Even if you kill me, the Holy Embryo will still awaken!"

Shen Ye said:

"Come awake and then execute."

The sword fell.

The black and gold sword light pierced through Xue Qianqiu's brow.

The fragment of the black talisman shattered on the spot.

Xue Qianqiu's body trembled violently.

He looked down at his blood soul disintegrating bit by bit, and suddenly smiled.

"The Night King..."

"You acted too late."

In the center of the inner pool, the portal on the chest of the Blood Gate Holy Embryo suddenly opened wide.

Xue Qianqiu's scattered blood soul did not disappear.

Instead, it transformed into the final black line and disappeared into the blood embryo.

Boom!

The fetal heart rate spiked dramatically.

The ancestral king's lifeblood also sank down.

Xue Li exclaimed:

"It wants to devour the ancestral blood!"

Shen Ye turned around.

The faceless figure inside the blood fetus slowly raised its head.

He stared intently at Shen Ye through his chest.

A tiny hand, through the amniotic sac, pressed against the inner wall of the amniotic sac.

The amniotic sac ruptured.

The voice from behind the door sounded again.

"The Night King"

"I need to borrow some blood."

Shen Ye's chest wound suddenly split open.

A drop of Black Gold King's blood was forcibly drawn out of his body.

Xue Li gritted her teeth and formed hand seals.

The ancestral pool mark between her brows, which Shen Ye had severed, lit up again.

"I can only suppress it for a moment!"

All blood in the middle and inner pools remained still at the same time.

The fetus paused in its movements.

Shen Ye did not hesitate.

"Jie Chen, take a look."

"Candle Nine, lock the fetus."

"Night Feather, Burn Ancestral Mark."

"Longyuan, hold the pool mouth."

The four beasts moved simultaneously.

Shen Ye took a step and stood in front of the blood fetus.

The system is beeping wildly.

[Awakening progress of the Blood Gate Holy Embryo: 20%]

[30%]

[40%.]

[Warning: Do not directly destroy the Ancestral King's lifeblood.]

[Note: Severing the connection between the Holy Embryo and the Ancestral King's lifeblood can temporarily seal the source of the Blood Gate.]

Shen Ye saw it.

Between the ancestral king's blood and the fetus, there is an extremely thin, dark red umbilical line.

What Xue Qianqiu really wanted to do was to let the Blood Embryo consume the ancestral blood and be born completely.

Shen Ye raised his sword.

The Beast King's Contract on his chest shone brightly.

This sword strike will not sever the blood fetus.

Cut the umbilical cord.

The opening at the chest of the blood fetus suddenly contracted.

For the first time, the faceless figure showed signs of anger.

"You dare?"

Shen Ye said coldly:

"I dare to do many things."

A sword fell.

Click.

The dark red umbilical line has broken.

The ancestral king's blood suddenly rose to the surface.

The blood fetus was dragged back deep into the amniotic sac by the Nine Netherworld Burial Shadow.

The slit emitted a piercing, high-pitched sound.

The inner pool oscillates.

Xue Li let out a muffled groan as the ancestral pool mark between her brows completely cracked open.

The Blood Gate Holy Embryo is not completely dormant.

But his awakening was abruptly interrupted.

A system notification sounded.

[The awakening of the Blood Gate Holy Embryo was interrupted.]

[The source of the Blood Gate's coordinates has been confirmed.]

Task 4 completed.

[Special intelligence obtained: The inner pool of the Vampire Ancestral Pool has been contaminated by the Blood Gate.]

[Obtained fragments of the Blood Gate Holy Embryo coordinates.]

Shen Ye was about to sheathe his sword.

Deep within the inner pool, a drop of the Ancestral King's heart's blood suddenly fell, casting a wisp of dark red light.

It was not an attack.

Instead, it wrapped around Shen Ye's wrist.

Xue Li's expression changed.

"The Mark of Ancestral Blood!"

Shen Ye lowered his head.

A dark red bloodstain appeared on his wrist.

A system notification then sounded.

[The blood imprint of the vampire ancestor has been detected.]

[Effect unknown.]

Not currently activated.

The blood fetus sank to the deepest part of the inner pool.

Just before the peephole closed, the voice from behind the door sounded again.

"The Night King"

"The seal has been laid."

"Next time you open the door, you won't be able to escape."

Shen Ye stared at the sinking blood fetus.

"I'll take the door down next time."

The Blood Gate Holy Embryo has completely disappeared.

The heartbeat in the inner pool stopped.

The scent of Xue Qianqiu had also dissipated completely.

Xue Li knelt on one knee at the edge of the central pool, her face deathly pale, and half of the ancestral pool mark between her brows was broken.

She looked at Shen Ye, her voice hoarse.

"You should go now."

"With the inner pool sealed off, the ancestral pool will immediately reject all outsiders."

Shen Ye sheathed his sword.

The shadow of the candle.

Ye Yu dropped his shoulders.

Jie Chen stared at the ancestral blood mark on Shen Ye's wrist, his Heavenly Punishment Eyes flickering slightly.

Longyuan transformed back into battle-blooded patterns.

Shen Ye turned around and stepped out of the inner pool.

Behind him, the drop of the ancestral king's blood sank back into the blood pool.

But this time, its heart stopped beating.

It's like waiting for the next time you wake up.

The blood-red road began to collapse.

Xue Li looked at the black box in Shen Ye's arms, then glanced at the sixty-three fragmented names behind him, and suddenly whispered:

"The Night King"

"Take me away."

Shen Ye stopped.

Xue Li raised her head.

"I know where the next Blood Gate Altar in the Vampire Royal Court is."

"I also know who worships the one behind the gate in the royal court."

The ancestral pool trembled violently.

The phantom image of the ancient battle monument appeared outside the blood gate.

[The ancestral pool bet is complete.]

[Night King Shen Ye is about to leave the pool.]

Xue Li looked at Shen Ye, and for the first time, there was no arrogance in her eyes.

Only coldness and decisiveness remained.

"I can be a witness."

"But you must keep me alive."