Chapter 146: Scheming
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“Could it be that they thought the elders and the sect master would lend a hand?”
Zhang Chen was also perplexed. He secretly activated the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Demon Technique to examine the other party’s emotions.
He saw a continuous release of gray smoke from the other person’s body, and gray symbolized fear.
Zhang Chen was somewhat surprised because this behavior was completely different from that of the disciples of the Blood God Sect.
The disciples of the Blood God Sect clearly had resolute expressions, as if they were willing to do anything for victory.
However, under the perception of the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Demon Technique, they emitted an emotion of fear.
Someone who uses death spells is actually afraid?
What can be scarier than death?
Zhang Chen even suspected that there might be an error in the perception of the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Demon Technique.
If there was no problem with the technique, then the problem lay with this disciple of the Blood God Sect.
It was highly likely that he was using the Blood Ignition Technique involuntarily!
Zhang Chen’s mind couldn’t help but start to speculate…
In the arena, the disciple of the Blood God Sect who used the Blood Ignition Technique experienced a tremendous increase in strength, rapidly advancing in cultivation.
In just a moment, his cultivation reached the fifth level of the Foundation Establishment stage.
Generally speaking, such a rapid surge in cultivation would lead to some discomfort and difficulties in controlling one’s power.
But this disciple of the Blood God Sect seemed to possess exceptional talent in battle. He was able to perfectly control his power, even more meticulously than most mid-Foundation Establishment disciples.
The situation immediately turned around!
The high-grade Daoist robe could ignore spells below the mid-Foundation Establishment stage but couldn’t resist mid-Foundation Establishment spells. At most, it could weaken their power.
The Blood Ignition Technique couldn’t be sustained for long, so the disciples of the Corpse Control Sect wanted to keep engaging in combat to delay time.
The disciples of the Blood God Sect, with their abundant combat experience, had long anticipated this and didn’t give them any chance.
Soon, the disciple of the Blood God Sect, relying on his cultivation at the fifth level of the Foundation Establishment stage and his extensive combat experience, defeated the disciple of the Corpse Control Sect.
But he wouldn’t last long before his blood burned out, leading to his death. Even if he won, what would be the point?
Everyone was also curious if the Blood God Sect Master would reward a dead person.
Under everyone’s gaze, the Blood God Sect Master stood up and announced, “The disciple of the Blood God Sect is victorious, earning the first place in the early Foundation Establishment stage and rewarded with a semi-magic treasure, the Blood Sea Source Cup!”
With that, he waved his hand, and the Blood Sea Source Cup, radiating dazzling blood light, flew towards the disciple of the Blood God Sect.
“Thank you for the Master’s reward,” the disciple of the Blood God Sect extended his hands and respectfully received the Blood Sea Source Cup.
Did he really reward a person who was about to die? Everyone was astonished.
Just at that moment, as if on cue, the blood inside the disciple of the Blood God Sect burned out. Before he could step down from the arena, his body was engulfed in a blaze of blood, turning him into ashes.
“Ding!”
The Blood Sea Source Cup fell to the ground, emitting a crisp sound.
This was expected, and the crowd wasn’t surprised. What they were concerned about now was if the first-place winner died, would the prize go to the second-place?
The recently defeated disciple of the Corpse Control Sect had a hopeful expression on his face as well.
“As disciples of the sect, items after death belong to the sect.”
The Blood God Sect Master’s dignified voice sounded as the Blood Sea Source Cup flew back into his hands.
On the high platform, the Elder of the Corpse Control Sect had a stern face and questioned, “Master Chen, what do you mean by this?”
The Blood God Sect Master countered, “My disciple won the competition and naturally deserves the reward. Is there a problem?”
The Elder of the Corpse Control Sect sneered, “Do you really think I can’t see through this?”
Sweeping a glance at the six Elders of the Blood God Sect, the Elder of the Corpse Control Sect continued, “I wonder which esteemed Elder of your sect was so interested in controlling disciples to participate in the competition.
If you’re unwilling to part with treasures, why did you invite us to join this competition? I see no point in continuing this competition, lest your sect loses two more disciples.”
Even though he was exposed, the Blood God Sect Master remained composed, “As long as your three sects agree to form an alliance and stand against the orthodox path, I will offer all three treasures from this competition, regardless of the outcome.’
The Blood God Sect Master knew that the three factions could see that the disciple was being controlled, and he didn’t hide it. Everything was part of his plan.
He first used the protection formation as a competition reward to attract the three sects, then deliberately transmitted the information of their arrival to the Silver Moon Sect.
This made the Silver Moon Sect wary and speculative, reluctant to act recklessly.
If the three sects didn’t form an alliance, he would naturally not let the treasures and the protection formation fall into someone else’s hands.
“Of course, if your disciples win the competition, I will still honor my promise and offer the formation,” the Blood God Sect Master added with a smile.
The Elders of the three sects knew that their disciples had no chance of winning.
This was a battle between a Golden Core stage disciple and Foundation Establishment stage disciples. Their combat experience and understanding of spells were simply not on the same level, not to mention being able to use Blood Ignition Technique without any scruples.
The competition continued, and next was the finals of the mid-Foundation Establishment stage.
Zhang Chen could not hear the conversation on the high platform, but he could guess that the Blood God Sect disciple was being controlled.
He could also tell that the Blood God Sect Master did not want the treasures to fall into the hands of the other three sects.
If he was no match for his opponent, the elder or sect master would undoubtedly control him in order to win the competition.
The side effect of the Blood Body was being controlled by higher-level techniques.
After being modified by the modifier, he would not be controlled. But if the Elders or the Sect Master attempted to control him, they would undoubtedly discover this.
Once discovered, he would have no way out, so he had to quickly defeat his opponent and prevent the Elders or the Sect Master from having thoughts of controlling him.
As soon as Zhang Chen entered the arena, he launched a fierce attack.
Blood God Sons, Blood Shadow Avatar, demon beasts, top-grade magical artifact, Sepsis Jug.
However, this was only to stall the opponent so that he could use the Blood Sacrifice Technique.
In order to avoid exposing his secret of being uncontrollable, Zhang Chen immediately used the Blood Sacrifice Technique.
The auras of the 10 Blood God Sons suddenly surged and broke through to the Foundation Establishment realm.
Everyone was shocked, especially the disciples of the Blood God Sect. They widened their eyes and stared at the Blood God Sons.
“What kind of secret technique is this? It can actually allow the Blood God Sons to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm!”
“Our Blood God Sect has such a secret skill? Why haven’t I seen it before?”
“If I had this secret skill and many Blood God Sons, who below the Golden Core realm would be my match?”
The Blood God Sect disciples recovered from their shock and their gazes became abnormally fiery.
The Blood God Sect Master and the other elders naturally recognized the Blood Sacrifice Technique because only the seven of them knew it in the entire Blood God Sect.
That was a secret skill that could only be learned 300 years ago before the Blood God Sect was destroyed.
The other elders looked at the Elder Blood River unhappily, blaming him for imparting the Blood Sacrifice Technique to his disciple.
Zhang Chen was a disciple of Elder Blood River, so this secret technique could only be imparted by Blood River.
The reason why the other elders were unhappy was because they did not want the other disciples to learn the Blood Sacrifice Technique from Zhang Chen.
The Blood Sacrifice Technique was used to sacrifice the Blood God Sons, and in a sense, the disciples’ Blood God Sons were nurtured for them.
After these disciples saw the power of the Blood Sacrifice Technique, they would definitely think of a way to obtain it from Zhang Chen.
Elder Blood River felt their gazes and said, “After the competition, I’ll instruct
Zhang Chen not to privately teach the Blood Sacrifice Technique.”
Although the elders were still unhappy, they still retracted their gazes.
As an elder, Elder Blood River knew the Blood God Sect Master’s plan from the beginning.
Zhang Chen was the most likely to form his core among his disciples. If he used the Blood Ignition Technique, it would be equivalent to losing a Golden Core Blood God. That would be a huge loss.
One of the goals of imparting the Blood Sacrifice Technique was to prevent Zhang Chen from being controlled to use the Blood Ignition Technique when he was not a match for his opponent..