Chapter 1339: Chapter 349: All Things Furnace, Solitary Blood Sacrifice

Feeling the intense pain from the wound, Li Zheng gritted his teeth and resolutely continued the roasting action.

No matter how painful or tired, eating cannot be delayed.

During this time, he instinctively glanced at the horizon.

The hunting must continue, but he knows that that guy seems to accompany him through the rest of the trial.

What Li Zheng doesn’t know is that the departing Eternal has begun a new round of growth.

Everywhere it went, mountains and rivers were devoured entirely.

But after flying out of the territory once occupied by the Evil Gu Clan, Eternal changed its mode.

It no longer devoured resources but continuously sprinkled the Qi Blood Energy nurtured by the Blood Stone Rule onto the earth, condensing into Blood Stone and scattering them.

It hovered above the clouds, watching the Blood Stone rain seep into the land.

On the surface of each Blood Stone, a method of resource transformation was engraved.

Any creature, as long as they learned this method, would maximize the absorption efficiency of Qi Blood Resources.

This is the ultimate achievement of summing up every bone the clansmen have gnawed, every inch of muscle fibers analyzed, and every experimental data decomposed.

Continuing to fly and scatter, Eternal arrived over the clan land of a weak tribe.

The Blood Stone rain poured down like a torrential rain again.

The tribe on the ground was filled with terror, looking up at the sky at that god-like demon-like presence, believing the end had come.

The warriors in the tribe gripped their weapons tightly, trembling as they recited protective spells, while the mothers tightly embraced their children. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

However, when the Blood Stone touched the ground, a sudden change occurred.

One of the Blood Stones, after landing, turned into a wisp of extremely pure blood energy and was inadvertently inhaled by a nearby warrior.

The next second, the wound on his chest that had been torn by a Fierce Beast and could not heal for a long time began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Similar situations occurred in various areas of the clan land.

The absorbed Blood Stone energy traveled and circulated within them along specific paths, allowing the Life Strength of the tribe members to undergo Evolution.

This led the small tribe below to realize that this was not a disaster but a blessing.

Although they could not understand why.

But what they could be sure of was that if the figure above them came with malice, it could annihilate them at any time.

"Everyone, receive the Heavenly Stone, and begin cultivation immediately." The priest’s voice echoed through the clan land.

The entire tribe was in an uproar.

The warriors sat cross-legged, letting the Blood Stone merge into their bodies, and their consciousness followed the method brought by the Blood Stone, circulating Qi-Blood.

Then they were pleasantly surprised to find that this special cultivation method could perfectly fit their life structure, with no sensation of blockage during cultivation.

Even the elderly within the tribe, under the nourishment of blood energy, regained new vitality.

The Qi Blood Power of the whole clan land soared into the sky like a beacon fire, intertwining into splendid glow in the night sky.

Eternal silently watched all this.

Then it turned and disappeared over the horizon.

Continuing along the way, it sprinkled Blood Stone, continuously consuming the "Blood Stone Derived Energy" the clansmen accumulated.

Several days later.

Eternal landed atop the cloud-shrouded mountains, sat cross-legged by a cliff, overlooking the surging sea of clouds.

In its mind was the information left by tens of millions of clansmen.

It understood that its birth was only the first step of the Evil Gu Clan’s plan to become Gods.

And its continuous consumption of Blood Stone Rule-derived Energy, blessing various tribes, was the second step of the plan.

The clansmen had long known that the possibility of succeeding in a confrontation between the individual and the countless clan groups of the Monster World was too low.

And the development modes of this world mainly divided into two kinds.

One was a clan spreading like a sea of stars, where each individual was a star, maybe weak but able to release light together in cooperation, lighting up the whole night sky.

They shared resources, bore risks together, using the massive force of numbers to break through obstacles.

Even if millions were sacrificed, there would always be successors treading on the remains of their predecessors.

Just like the wise creatures of the past, connecting city-states into the veins of civilization, using the knowledge passed down generations to build high walls against outside enemies.

The other was the clan turning into the fertile ground nurturing towering trees.

Pouring all light and nutrients into those few main trunks at the top.

Abandoning the lushness of all surrounding hills, seeking only the solitary standing of one tree becoming a forest.

Allowing the finest individuals to bear the will of the whole clan, confronting the world’s storms with the strength of one.

This development mode essentially devours the strength of its kin, ultimately nurturing a few individuals to become towering trees, shielding the clan from wind and rain.

And the path it took was different from these two mainstream systems.

It was a path of individual struggle, the path of a lone strong.

This path was doomed to have few outlets.

This is also the development mode with the lowest tolerance for error, relying solely on oneself, without the provision of resources by the clan, nor logistical support, all problems must be solved independently.

The clansmen’s analysis concluded that the development of the lone strong mode would eventually be trapped in the limitations of "a single piece of wood being difficult to support."

Even if one becomes as powerful as a God in the future, capable of swallowing a river in one bite or tearing clouds apart with one claw, it would be difficult to face the tremendous challenges of this grand world alone after the clan’s decline.

The memories of the countless clansmen surged in Eternal’s mind.

The vast memory bank was all telling the same answer: the strength of the individual is the boat, the foundation of the clan is the water, the boat no matter how solid, without water is just decaying wood in a mud flat.

And now, it is the lone boat without a clan.

This problem, the clansmen had deeply discussed for hundreds of years before creating it, seeking how it could possess the development potential comparable to a large clan after its birth.

In exploration, the clansmen found it a brand new lone strong path: All Things Furnace.

In fact, the Blood Stone within its body could have long since advanced to the Rule-level.