The Entire Sect is Full of Villains, Yet the Junior Sister Conquers All

Chapter 329 : Blood Pool

"It seems my reluctance to harm a child has given you the wrong impression, making you think I'm some kind of good person?" She suddenly smiled, her face filled with malevolence. "Moths to a flame, courting their own destruction. Didn't the Quan family teach you this principle?"

The previously calm lake water suddenly began to boil. The clear water abruptly transformed into a dark red, bubbling like lava about to erupt. Quan Yu instinctively stepped back to avoid the spreading pool water.

But as he looked down for a moment, he suddenly met the gaze of a swollen human face, enormous like a giant, its protruding eye sockets staring directly at him.

"Ah!"

The boy screamed in terror, falling backward onto the ground.

The entire lake of foul-smelling red water was covered with countless human faces, densely packed and horrifyingly distorted, creating an extremely terrifying scene!

Was this... blood?

A lake full of blood?!

And what was the meaning of these faces?!

Were these... all dead deities?!

Before the terrified boy could think further, a massive force from behind pushed him forward, violently throwing him into the pool.

The overwhelming blood nearly drowned him. Quan Yu thought he was going to die there, but then the force suddenly pulled him back, dropping him back on the shore. He lay on the ground coughing for a long time, then raised his wet eyes to look over. The black mist surrounding the blood lake had all entered the red-robed woman's body, completely absorbed by her!

"Now do you understand why I don't intervene?" She glanced at him. "I'm not a good person, nor can I be one. Fire needs fuel to last and grow stronger. My flames are born from burning the world's turbid and violent energies. The more violent energy those deities out there produce, the more my power grows... So, those evil spirits are not harmful to me. On the contrary, to a certain extent, they provide me with an endless supply of fuel."

So, what did it matter to her if the Upper Realm was destroyed or not? The more people died, the more evil spirits were produced, generating more resentful energy. And she could devour more of this resentful energy to enhance her own power.

So this was the secret of the Fire of Creation...

Quan Yu's heart trembled.

So... she didn't care how many people died at all.

"Now that you know my secret, if you're still not afraid of death and want to stay in this wretched place, I won't stop you. But don't disturb me, or I'll throw you into this lake to become my nourishment."

After saying this, she transformed back into a wisp of flame and returned to the fire lotus to rest and recuperate.

The pool water became clear again.

So clear that fish and stones were visible, without any impurities.

Everything that had just happened seemed like an illusion.

At night, the sky was covered by dark clouds, obscuring stars and moon. Although this area was protected by the energy of the Fire of Creation, keeping evil spirits at bay, the cold night wind howled like ghosts.

The boy wrapped his thin clothes tighter around himself. Perhaps due to the day's fright, he curled up next to the fire lotus and quickly fell asleep.

The Forest of Death Mist was perpetually shrouded in black fog, theoretically allowing no sunlight to penetrate, eternally cold and damp. Yet he was gently awakened by a warmth enveloping his body, as comforting as a campfire.

He opened his eyes and looked at the fire lotus beside him, which was brighter and softer than the night before.

Countless flame-like tendrils emerged from the fire lotus, covering the entire lake.

He tried to get up, but his body felt unusually heavy. Looking down, he found that a flame tendril had somehow fallen across his legs.

The boy held his breath, gently cradling the tendril with one hand as he carefully crawled out. He walked to the fire lotus but found that the figure inside the pearl had disappeared.

The red-robed woman only returned in the evening, her expression even colder.

Quan Yu hurriedly approached her and took hold of one of her hands. "Big sister, you're injured."

There were several scratch marks on her arm, but what flowed from them was not blood, but rather a lava-like flame.

"Just a small wound, it's nothing."

Although Quan Yu was not favored in the Quan family, he was still somewhat of a young master and had a few good items on him.

He flipped his palm, producing a small bundle of faintly golden threads, which he wound around the wound.

"Thousand-year ice silkworm thread. Did you refine this yourself?"

"Yes, it has excellent healing properties. I exchanged for more of it within the clan." He smiled sweetly, seemingly not wanting to continue discussing his own affairs. Changing the subject, he asked, "Big sister, where did you go? And how did you get hurt?"

"I had a fight with an ugly creature."

"Ugly creature?"

"Do you remember how you came to the Forest of Death Mist?"

"...As a sacrifice."

"Yes, it was that ugly creature you were meant to be sacrificed to."

"What?" Quan Yu noticed some remaining black energy around her wound, an aura typically associated with evil spirits. In disbelief, he said, "Father sacrificed me to a deity, saying that if I was offered to this deity, it would protect our family and break the curse."

"Heh, how foolish. What protecting deity? That's an abyssal evil, practically an evil god. I don't know where your stupid father heard such lies, to actually believe this." She laughed. "Usually, after deities are sacrificed, it does put on an act for a while, ceasing attacks on that area. But this is only temporary. Once it has fully consumed the sacrifice and gained more power, that area will suffer even more ferocious attacks."

"Evil god... Is it related to the evil spirits here?"

"Those evil spirits you saw before can be considered the offspring of the abyssal evil. It can transform human negative thoughts into evil spirits."

"You deities in the Upper Realm have always wanted to completely eradicate the evil spirits, right? Well, I don't mind letting you in on a secret. As long as this ugly creature lives, evil spirits will never be extinguished. If you want to completely eliminate evil spirits, you'd have to utterly destroy the abyssal evil."

Quan Yu saw her walking forward and followed. "But big sister, didn't you say you weren't planning to interfere in the Upper Realm's affairs? Why did you go to fight the abyssal evil?"

"I indeed had no intention of meddling in your Upper Realm, but this ugly creature was competing for my food. That's a different matter." She truly hadn't planned to help the deities, but she wasn't entirely indifferent to the evil spirits ravaging the Upper Realm either. She needed to maintain a balance between the forces of evil spirits and deities.

Their mutual slaughter benefited her the most.

"Big sister, you couldn't kill it?"

"It's just an evil god. My flames are lethal to it, but this creature is extremely cunning and good at escaping and hiding... It fled the forest, and I don't know where it went."

The woman was about to enter the fire lotus to recuperate when suddenly, a change occurred in the Forest of Death Mist.

"What's that?"