Chapter 2058: Chapter 2056: Does My Disguise Look Unconvincing?
Inside the grand hall, Ma Shangsi was still driving a Blood Technique, sealing off inside and outside so that no other Blood Race would notice anything unusual.
Although there were Blood Race guards stationed outside who had sensed some abnormalities within the hall, without Ling Ze’s summons, none of them dared to enter rashly.
Amid the dense bloody radiance, Lu Ye sat cross-legged, unmoving.
Only after half a day passed did he slowly open his eyes, a faint fatigue lurking in his gaze.
The plan to pry into Ling Ze’s memories using a trace of telepathy had failed, but Ling Ze’s move to send his psyche out of his body and charge into Lu Ye’s Divine Sea for a life-or-death struggle had instead given him another opportunity.
Ling Ze’s psyche had shattered, and many of those fragments were devoured and absorbed by the seven-color Divine Lotus, allowing him to obtain some of Ling Ze’s memories.
Incomplete, very fragmented, but it should be enough.
Not only that, after devouring Ling Ze’s psyche fragments, Lu Ye found that the seven-color Divine Lotus’s nourishment of his own psyche had also become a bit stronger.
He could feel that within the seven-color Divine Lotus there was an additional vast Soul Power, which, under the lotus’s mysterious effect, was turning into nourishment to strengthen his own psyche.
Ling Ze was, after all, at Sun Blaze Late Stage, and his psyche was not weak. Using it as nourishment, Lu Ye naturally could gain no small benefit.
That was an unexpected surprise.
"Move aside!" A sharp, delicate shout suddenly came from outside the hall, aggressive and overbearing.
"Your Highness, by order of the Saintly Venerable, without his summons, no one may enter!" The guards stationed outside the hall were indeed dutiful and loyal.
"I said, move aside, if you don’t want to die." The earlier voice grew even colder.
Right after that came a few thudding sounds, accompanied by two miserable cries, and the tightly closed doors of the grand hall were kicked open by someone.
The blood color flooding the hall receded in an instant like the tide, all at once pouring into Ma Shangsi’s body.
A tall, lithe figure stepped in from outside, quickly striding into the hall. She lifted her eyes, and saw up above the hall a familiar figure seated upright, like a god high in the Nine Heavens, loftily overlooking all beings.
The newcomer, however, showed not the slightest fear and instead asked, "Father, has something happened here?"
On that Saintly Venerable’s throne, Lu Ye had already swiftly taken on Ling Ze’s appearance and simulated Ling Ze’s aura.
From his vantage above, he looked down at this Blood Race who had suddenly barged in, and broken fragments of memory surfaced in his mind.
Yoo Meng.
As one of Blood Jade World’s old Saintly Venerables, Ling Ze naturally had more than just Tian Yu as offspring. His offspring numbered in the thousands, tens of thousands, but most were useless. Only Tian Yu and this Yoo Meng were the ones he valued most.
Tian Yu had already received Sacred Blood and achieved the body of a Saintly Venerable.
In recent years, Ling Ze had been looking for a way to obtain a quota of Sacred Blood for Yoo Meng, but the time was not yet ripe, and he still had to wait.
From this it could be seen that Yoo Meng’s aptitude was also exceptionally outstanding, otherwise she could not have been so valued by Ling Ze.
Lu Ye had originally thought that Ling Ze and Yoo Meng had a very ordinary father-daughter relationship, but as more memories surfaced, his expression gradually grew a bit strange, and he even faintly felt nauseated.
Although the Blood Race did not have such strong ethical notions as the human race, Ling Ze’s various actions still exceeded Lu Ye’s understanding.
Not just Yoo Meng alone; there were more female descendants...
Ling Ze seemed to be deliberately purifying his own bloodline, seeking to have more gifted ones born among his descendants, so he used this method of breeding.
"Nothing." Lu Ye did not continue probing further into this aspect of Ling Ze’s memories and slowly spoke.
Yoo Meng nodded. "That’s good then, I thought something had happened here."
With Ma Shangsi driving a Blood Technique to isolate inside and outside, those outside indeed could not sense what was happening within, but the Blood Technique itself made movements. Yoo Meng must have sensed that, which was why she came to investigate.
As she spoke, she actually took a few steps to stand in front of Lu Ye, then tipped her body and sat down on Lu Ye’s thighs. Her full figure pressed close against Lu Ye’s body as she cooed, "Daddy, you haven’t come to see me for so long."
Lu Ye had not expected her to act like this; obviously this was how Ling Ze usually interacted with her, no wonder she had dared to be so presumptuous earlier.
His body stiffened slightly, then quickly relaxed. He said unhurriedly, "There’ve been some matters to deal with lately."
Yoo Meng understood. She also knew that envoys of the Insect Race had come recently, and as the third strongest in this world, Ling Ze surely had major affairs to handle.
She turned her head to look around and then asked, "Where’s Tian Yu? Didn’t you say he was coming too?"
She only saw Ma Shangsi and did not see Tian Yu at all, so she couldn’t help being a little puzzled.
Lu Ye casually said, "I sent him to handle something for me."
Yoo Meng did not doubt him. She leaned over and smacked a kiss on Lu Ye’s face, then hopped out of his arms. "Then Daddy, you go ahead and get busy. Your daughter will take her leave first."
Just as she turned to go, Lu Ye suddenly grabbed her wrist.
Yoo Meng turned back, looking at Lu Ye in puzzlement. "Daddy, is there something else?"
Lu Ye only stared at her deeply, his gaze like an abyss.
Yoo Meng’s body started trembling slightly, the forced calm she’d put on at the start was seen through, and she could no longer hold it together; her face grew gradually pale!
Lu Ye narrowed his eyes a little. "Do I not look the part? Where’s the flaw?"
He believed he hadn’t left any loopholes, even the tone of his speech was imitated from Ling Ze as much as possible, but Yoo Meng’s reaction just now clearly showed she had already noticed something.
Because at the instant this female Blood Race kissed him, she had hesitated a bit, but that hesitation was quickly replaced by resolve. That feeling obviously meant she had sensed something, yet could only pretend she didn’t know.
"What is Father talking about?" Yoo Meng tried her best to soften her voice, but the twitch at the corner of her face betrayed the tension in her heart.
Only now did Ma Shangsi belatedly react; he urged his Blood Technique, and the hall was once again flooded with blood-red light.
Lu Ye quietly stared at Yoo Meng, pondered a moment, then raised a hand and pointed; a drop of treasure blood seeped out at his fingertip and he sent it toward Yoo Meng’s lips. "Refine it!"
He had previously given Ma Shangsi nine quotas for converting Blood Servants, and Ma Shangsi had only brought six people. Lu Ye hadn’t insisted, but since this Yoo Meng had delivered herself right to his face, it was no trouble to casually convert her as well.
Her aptitude was actually pretty good.
Most importantly, this female Blood Race was definitely the one who understood Ling Ze the best. Maybe through her he could make up for some shortcomings in his disguise; that way, in the upcoming Horizon Pavilion council, he would be less likely to slip up.
Otherwise, if even Yoo Meng could see something was off, then when he faced those Sun Blaze Saintly Venerables later, who knew where he might expose himself.
Yoo Meng was a mess of panic inside, but when she saw the treasure blood and felt the saintliness within it, she couldn’t help exclaiming, "Sacred Blood!"
It was just that this Sacred Blood in front of her was somewhat different from what she knew.
"Refine it, or else..." Lu Ye hadn’t finished speaking before Yoo Meng grabbed his finger, shoved it into her mouth, and sucked hard.
He had ultimately underestimated how strongly Sacred Blood drew the Blood Race.
Especially for an ambitious, talented Blood Race like Yoo Meng—if there was no chance, that was that, but given even the slightest chance, she would absolutely never let it pass.
A soft, tender sensation came from his fingertip; Lu Ye quickly pulled it out and wiped it on Yoo Meng’s clothes, his face full of disgust.
Yoo Meng’s expression, however, began twisting with pain and strain; she sat down cross-legged right in front of Lu Ye, and stifled screams of agony gradually came from her.
The Blood Race standing guard outside heard the sounds and looked at each other, but none of them moved. For them, they’d been through this sort of thing far too many times.
Ling Ze’s way of proliferating his offspring was no secret in the Blood Jade World; he wasn’t even the only Blood Race doing this.
More than half a day later, Yoo Meng was drenched in sweat and lay prostrate before Lu Ye. She could feel that between herself and Lu Ye, there was now an extremely subtle yet tightly bound connection.
At this point, how could she not know that what she had refined was not Sacred Blood at all, but treasure blood.
As of now, she had become Lu Ye’s Blood Servant!
She was deeply shocked. By rights, a single drop of treasure blood shouldn’t have given her such a powerful saintliness, yet in truth, the intensity of her saintliness at this moment was in no way inferior to Tian Yu’s—and Tian Yu had refined a true drop of Sacred Blood.
"All right, talk. Where does my disguise have flaws?" Lu Ye asked.
Yoo Meng couldn’t make sense of Lu Ye’s origins, much less what kind of temper he had, but now that she had become his Blood Servant, she naturally had no room to resist, and she explained everything in full detail.
She really was the person in this world who understood Ling Ze the best; there were indeed quite a few shortcomings in Lu Ye’s disguise. This was naturally because Lu Ye had not managed to receive Ling Ze’s complete memories; what he had gotten was only scattered fragments.
In the time that followed, Lu Ye kept correcting his expressions, posture, and speaking tone under Yoo Meng’s guidance.
Until even Yoo Meng couldn’t spot any flaw.
She also finally learned what had happened to Ling Ze. As for Ling Ze being killed, she felt absolutely nothing; on the contrary, Tian Yu’s death made her a little sad, but only a little.
The Blood Race had always placed very little importance on bonds with their kin; many ordinary Blood Race didn’t even know who their own parents were...
The day of the Horizon Pavilion council finally arrived.
Within Ling Ze’s territory, Lu Ye rose on a streak of blood light and headed toward the direction of Horizon Pavilion, with Ma Shangsi and Yoo Meng at his sides.
Lu Ye had originally not planned to take them along, but for a Blood Race Saintly Venerable, going out with no attendants at all made no sense, so he could only bring them.
As he flew, he could clearly feel Sun Blaze auras emerging from all directions of the Blood Jade World. These were obviously the Blood Race Sun Blaze cultivators of this world.
There were more than ten Sun Blaze in the entire Blood Jade World; overall strength wasn’t weak. There were even two at Peak Sun Blaze—the very two ranked above Ling Ze.
But right now, Lu Ye could sense only eight Sun Blaze auras.
Because some of the Blood Race Sun Blaze were not currently in the Blood Jade World and couldn’t be contacted for the moment.
Horizon Pavilion wasn’t too far from Ling Ze’s territory; it took Lu Ye only one hour to reach the destination.
It was basically an island, and it was also the place where the Blood Race Sun Blaze gathered to discuss important matters in normal times. With the Insect Race envoy’s arrival, they were naturally being hosted here.
On normal days there were only a few Blood Race guarding this island, but today it seemed much livelier.
On the island stood an ancient-looking pavilion. It wasn’t very big, but it was the symbol of power for the entire Blood Jade World.
