The Little Calamity

After such a scene Rayne hesitated to leave her alone. He made sure to clean her wound and after making sure there wasn't anything else he went to hunt for some food in case anything happened to him. In the end he couldn't stop himself, he felt like he needed to go and see that place.

" Don't worry about me, you know I can defend myself. Even with an injured arm I should be able to hide in the house."

She put on a reassuring face, during those years she also did her fair share of killing, there was even a few times that she fought without Rayne knowing. No matter how kind she was she came to this place with the objective of tempering herself, if she wanted a stronger body she needed to kill people too.

Most sects never sent any of their disciples here and the rest of cultivators usually wouldn't share their secret even if they knew what this place meant, as for normal humans it was impossible for them to understand what they received. Arisa's sect on the other hand was lucky enough to have a single person that was crazy enough to come here so she knew.

All the other methods simply used ki to augment a person's strength while the blood power of this place directly upgraded a person's base strength although it sounded like a small difference in term of cultivation it was like day and night.

Normal methods would give strength based on the person's own strength which meant that the blood power basically acted as a multiplier for the rest of her life. Still, it usually still wasn't worth it for a famous person to come to a place like this, the effects were also pretty small overall even if it was better than what others though.

If it wasn't for Rayne she would have died on the first night, she knew that better than anyone, that's why geniuses never came here. While she was lost thinking about those things Rayne surprised her with a hug.

" If you can't fight you can always run. Surviving is the most important."

He gave her an advice that saved his life multiple time when he was a kid.

" Are you sure no one as strong as these old people will come? If 4 of those come I might lose."

She could only give a wry smile, it was already surprising that they sent a single emperor for her in this place, let alone 3. it would already be a feat to find 4 emperors that cooperate together in the first place.

" Don't worry, I have a way to see danger in advance if I focus, I was caught off guard earlier but I will make sure to use it the whole time you are away."

He nodded and went out, his first objective was to go and hide the three rings that he got from the three he just killed, this was like his own personal collection that was in a hidden corner of the city, it was under a broken road where he had to remove a piece of it then dig as far as his arm went, that's where he dropped them. After burying them he went back to the abandoned place.

Instead of entering the house he started to dig on the ground, each time he moved his hands large amount of earth flew in the air. It took him nearly an hour to finally arrive somewhere.

He looked down when his hole started to crumble, sending him toward boiling water. He barely caught the border of his hole to send himself flying toward the ceiling on this underground room. His finger pierced through the bricks, giving him a good grip.

He though it would be enough to not fall but they also quickly started to crumble, he just had the time to swing himself toward a platform in the middle.

When he landed he finally got some time to look at everything. This room was giant, it was a few hundred meter large in a square form and it was completely filled with blood, there was a single small bridge that led to this round platform.

Just in front of Rayne was a red magic circle. When he looked at it he felt like he immediately understood it, he felt like he could see through it's effect and flaws.

' There is around 1 meter of blood missing in this giant pool before the circle activate but if I do this..'

He stretched his arm into the pool and dipped his finger into it to alter the circle. It didn't even take him a minute to fix everything because he could see the energy flow in the circle, at first he simply fixed a few lines but in the end he added a few of his own which lowered the amount of blood it needed by half.

That's when everything started to tremble. Usually Rayne would run knowing full well that the ceiling could fall on his head but he felt like this was his destiny. He knew that nothing bad would happen to him.

The enormous amount of blood acc.u.mulated through 500 years started to flow toward the middle of the circle, they formed strange tentacle surrounded by lighting. During this time the entire city fell into chaos, the rumbling along with the fact that the seal on their power was removed made everyone scared.

There was a lot of people hiding in this place. It was common for people to kill someone's partner and gain their hatred but as long as they were in the seal it would be nearly impossible to find them. Now that everyone could use ki they could scan the entire city to find their enemies, turning the place into an even bigger bloodbath than usual.

Rayne was oblivious to all this as he looked at the circle working it's wonder. He already knew what would appear with a simple look.

' It's creating a sword.. that can be nurtured in the soul?'

He didn't know the technical term since he never heard of cultivation but the circle told him everything he needed to know. A blade slowly appeared, it looked transparent yet it was as black as a black hole.

It felt like it existed without existing, Rayne lost himself while looking at the blade.

' This is as beautiful as Arisa...'

His heart started to beat at full strength, even though the blade wasn't finished he went to grab it, ignoring the pain caused by the tentacle of blood and the shock of the lightning. His hand touched the weird blade and it instantly disappeared. The blood instantly started to enter his own body to finish the blade.

He acted as a sort of catalyst, purifying the blood before it was sent to the blade. This was a mix of millions of different powers so it was near impossible to mix it perfectly, still Rayne's powerful soul somehow made it possible.

The blade slowly grew in width and length, changing from a long sword to a great sword, the blade had the same color however white/golden lines started to spread over the sword, a sort of jewel that looked like an eye appeared on the hilt, it was completely black with a circle of light in the middle.

Rayne studied the entire process without knowing what his body was doing, he was mesmerized by the way the great sword was being forged.

While all of this happened a part of the cave crumbled after the constant rumbling. A small passage appeared.