As the sinister voice echoed through the hall, a thicker layer of blood-red darkness once again enveloped the entire blood-red hall!
Swish!
Then, two massive eyes appeared at the top of the underground hall, emitting a deep, malevolent light as they observed everyone within the hall.
It was as if an evil god was looking down on mere ants!
In that moment, Lachlan Willis, Lady Scarlett, Claudia Carter, Isa Austin, Lord Blackfire, the three Reincarnated Demons…
Everyone felt as though they were trapped by some kind of force!
This power seemed to directly bind their very souls.
The once fierce battle froze in place; everyone was immobilized, unable to move.
Glug glug glug…
At that moment, strange, bubbling sounds like liquid boiling began to echo throughout the hall.
Blood-red, gelatinous masses began to emerge from beneath the feet of everyone, including Lachlan Willis, and soon, they were all enveloped by the viscous substance.
“Hahaha, how does it feel to be wrapped in my **Transformation of Immortal-Demon Blood**?”
“My **Blood Fusion Technique** will turn you into part of me!”
“To help restore the power of the great Prince Zephyr, you should consider it an honor! Hahahaha…”
The excited and sinister voice rang out!
The massive eyes at the top of the hall were enough to send chills down anyone’s spine.
“Ah!”
“What is this power?”
“It hurts! I feel my flesh being corroded…”
“Ah… wuwuwu…”
As the strange, blood-like gelatinous masses wrapped around everyone, agonized cries of pain erupted.
The voices, however, seemed suppressed, as if trapped within the **Transformation of Immortal-Demon Blood**.
At this moment, Lachlan Willis could only feel waves of intense pain radiating from his skin and flesh, constantly torturing his nerves.
It felt as though millions of flesh-eating ants were gnawing at his body.
They were devouring him, strengthening themselves with his flesh!
Even his Sky Shaker body couldn’t withstand this bizarre power.
Lachlan Willis struggled with all his might, but he felt a pressure from the soul level, as though his consciousness had detached from his body.
At that moment, Fern Starfield, who had been on the brink of death, suddenly stood up from the ground.
A sinister and excited smile appeared on his face.
He looked at the fifteen Great Vehicle powerhouses trapped in the **Transformation of Immortal-Demon Blood** and laughed loudly.
His laugh was eerily similar to the one heard before.
“Father, you…”
Lady Scarlett, gazing through the **Transformation of Immortal-Demon Blood**, looked at Fern Starfield with a mixture of suspicion and dread.
At this point, she could feel her skin being corroded completely.
The strange, bright red gelatinous mass had already begun to eat away at her muscle tissue.
If this continued, she and the others would soon be reduced to nothing but pools of blood.
No…
Perhaps not just pools of blood, but merged into the **Transformation of Immortal-Demon Blood** itself.
“Father? Hahaha, that’s not bad!
To be precise, I am the father of everyone in the **Hidden Cultivation Realm**!
Because you are all my descendants!”
“I am the ancestor you have worshipped for millennia, Prince Zephyr!
Your father’s soul was long ago sacrificed to me. This body is merely a fragment of my soul controlling it.
Or rather, every generation of so-called **Stellar Path Mark** Fern Starfields has been like this!
Hahaha…”
Fern Starfield, or rather, the fragment of Prince Zephyr, laughed loudly.
“What’s going on? What is happening?
You are Prince Zephyr? Wasn’t the Purple Zephyr Ancestor supposed to have fallen a thousand years ago?”
Upon hearing this, Colossal Elephant let out a deep, furious growl, filled with confusion and anger.
“Fallen? Heh heh heh…
Indeed, creating the **Hidden Cultivation Realm** did drain much of my energy.
I had to give up my physical body and sacrifice most of my spiritual power to create this world.
But how could I have truly fallen?
Would I be so selfless, risking my life to create a haven for a bunch of ants?
No! I merely created this world to escape the battle between the two supreme factions of Earth a thousand years ago.
By the way, do you know where all the Great Vehicle powerhouses who appeared in this world have gone?”
At this point, Fern Starfield’s face twisted into a cruel, eerie smile as he said, “That’s right! I devoured them all! Hahaha…”
In that moment, Fern Starfield’s puppet body shamelessly revealed his long-hidden truth.
He had been holding these words inside for far too long!
A thousand years ago, as an outsider, he feared being targeted and hunted by the supreme beings on Earth. He also feared that the great battle between the two factions would affect him.
After all, that battle nearly consumed all the strong beings on Earth!
Thus, Prince Zephyr, who came from the stars, created the **Hidden Cultivation Realm** as a sanctuary.
The world’s barrier in this realm was so strong that even peak Tribulation Crossing experts couldn’t break through, providing him with absolute safety.
Of course, creating such a world came at a great cost: his physical body disintegrated, and his spiritual essence was heavily damaged.
Before his “fake death,” he had given his instructions to the people he had brought into the **Hidden Cultivation Realm**.
He entrusted the **Stellar Path Mark**, which helped him traverse the stars to Earth, to the strongest of his people.
That individual became the first guardian of the **Stellar Path Mark**.
Every thousand years, the **guardians** would summon all the Great Vehicle powerhouses in the **Hidden Cultivation Realm** to the **Ancestral Sacred Temple** for his “teaching.”
However, the guardians were already taken over by his soul fragments long before.