Blood Clone

As he walked back to his tent Zhan Wei contemplated , his steps slow.

After a while he felt a flash of inspiration as he thought back to something.

Back then, when he was creating his divine ability he had seen the blood red avatar signifying the blood demon king before he proceeded to enter deeper and absorb the dao mark from the " Sacred Blood Demon Emperor".

As inheritors from the Sacred Blood Demon Emperor , apart from strength, powerful vitality and regeneration, one of the ability of the blood demon clan was blood manipulation.

In fact the rest of their abilities was simply derived from their ability to manipulate blood qi and the powerful blood qi they inherited.

Powerful blood qi lead to to strength and the rest.

The blood demon clan could also absorb the blood qi of others to replenish and increase their strength.

Using their innate understanding of the dao of blood they could perform all sorts of abilities.

He had only taken the most suitable for himself, the " Sacred Blood Demon transformation " as it was the most powerful and offered him insights into the dao of blood and increased his strength.

for every transformation he had a chance to obtain a divine ability, but some races had more than one innate ability too.

But there was still an issue, the blood demon king and his minions were still sealed and they couldn't absorb the blood energy from these bodies, except....

Except someone or something maybe a treasure of sorts could absorb it for them.

Zhan Wei didn't let go of this notion , all sorts of arts and treasure existed maybe one could do it , even if it couldn't absorb maybe a large storage ring that could store all those bodies and give to the blood king in one way or the other.

Zhan Wei sucked a cold breath, thinking back to the death of the Sect Master of the Dragon Tiger Sect " Qi Yaunkui" and the fact there could be spies amongst the Alliance , he just couldn't dismiss it.

Putting his face back to his usual demeanour lest someone notices, he planned to observe for a while before he told the Empress, maybe Xiao Funji could do something about it.

In fact Zhan Wei was right, someone was noticing him.

Chen Hong was among some of the talented young nobles left , actually the main talents or direct descendants of these noble clans had already been sent by their Clans to the Canglan continent.

As for why the rest were left , it was in case , in case the Eastern Alliance won , after all the roots of these Clan was here, it wasn't easy to leave it all and start afresh.

And also travelling across continents wasn't cheap , they could only afford to send a select few.

As the young master of the Chen Clan, one of the main noble clans of the Xia empire and the only Clan that didn't send any of their descendants away , these runts flattered him.

Most of their peers that could contend with him had left , in the present battlefield, he was probably the strongest among the younger generation.

Although he was all smiles with them , deep down he looked down on these fools , why did he need to leave.

Although to outside perspective he was the son of the clan head, it was all bullshit.

The Chen Clan was a Clan that served the demon king in the shadows.

As a blood clone of the demon king, the whole Chen Clan were his lackeys , even the Clan head had to bow to him in private.

As he walked, although he looked like he was taking a casual stroll, he had been monitoring the gathering of the bodies .

He happened to pass by and had seen Zhan Wei's reaction when he saw people gathering the bodies.

He had thought by using other pawns and not just the Chen Clan he could reduce unwanted attention but it seemed someone was still suspicious.

Chen Hong had a frown on his face, if not for the fact that things were deviating a bit from plan, he wouldn't have made things a bit obvious.

but with the demon king being injured everyday by those bastards, even if he broke free , his strength would be reduced.

They were even preparing a formation to inflict more injuries, despicable vermins.

As a blood clone created by the demon king he had to provide enough blood qi to replenish the strength of his main body.

If it wasn't for the situation, the plan was to do things subtly , now they could only rush things forward, he had clearly seen Zhan Wei's reaction when he saw people gathering the bodies but he had no choice.

he would observe for a few more days if Zhan Wei showed any sign of being suspicious.

If he did he would quickly look for a way to give the already prepared blood qi to the demon king , they had experts among their ranks some even at the Qingmeng Mountain, it would be easy to pass it.

As far killing Zhan Wei, sure he would still kill him, apart from the fact that he could be an obstacle to their plans ,apart from the fact that he pilled bodies they needed everyday, if the blood demon king didn't toy with Yunzi the last descendant of Xia Tianming how could he satisfy his hatred for him, as the so called fiance of Yunzi he had to die, how could he be betrothed to the demon king's thing.

As for killing Zhan Wei first , that was foolishness, they were in the midst of the alliance army what if something happened.

If after sending the blood essence they had,  something happened when he tried to kill Zhan Wei, it was still ok at least the demon king had received a bit to replenish himself.

As for not killing Zhan Wei, if they didn't and he raised an alarm after being suspicious, it would affect their plans , of course if killing him was successful and they could continue gathering blood qi that was best.

Either way nothing, absolutely nothing must stop his main body's plan.

He even regretted a bit, these demonic beast were clearly under their control , his main body could have ordered them all in mass to sacrifice themselves and absorb their blood qi.

But the issue was the seal , timing was important, if he had done it before he would still be sealed and he could be injured by those vermins before the seal collapsed.

It would be a waste so they could only do things like this

Chen Hong shook his head, at first he planned to observe but the seal wouldn't hold for long and if the demon king was weak when he got free, it would all be for naughty.

He had to deal with matters now, he would make someone deliver the blood qi and have Zhan Wei killed, there wasn't anytime to waste.

Putting a smile on his face, he faced the youths and cupped his fist.

" Pardon my manners, I have something urgent to attend to ".

The youths were clearly surprised by his abrupt request but they still cupped their fists and sent him off .

" No problem, Young Master Chen probably has an urgent matter to deal with ", one of them said.

After turning back , Chen Hong had a sneer on his face, " Trash! " , he mumbled, he really looked down on these bootlickers.

He walked towards his tent , as a noble clan and a large force , the Chen Clan had their group of tents for their forces , beside it was a few other tents belonging to others.

Although it looked random, these tents also belonged to forces under the demon king in the Eastern region.

After entering, Chen Hong switched to his original demeanour, talking to a servant beside him, " Summon the Chen Mo for me ".

Chen Mo was the Clan head of the Chen Clan, the servant obviously not surprised by his demand bowed and left leaving the tent empty

In the middle of the tent was a blood throne, as a blood clone of the blood demon king , Chen Hong had the same mannerism and thoughts as the demon king.

As befitting his status, he had a blood red throne erected in his tent.

Tapping at the armrest, he called out in the empty tent ," Xue Feng ".

A middle aged man appeared kneeling towards Chen Hong, " My lord !"

With sunken eyes, pale face and thin aura, he looked like an ordinary wind could blow him away yet the middle aged man was a fearsome figure, with his ability to move around like the wind he silenced his targets leaving blood wherever he left.

Although he worked as an assassin for anyone who could afford it, his main identity was a pawn of the Chen Hong , the technique that made him able to leave as he pleased and hide his blood aura and catch his enemies unaware was the blood escape art of the blood demon clan.

Even the Sect Master of the Dragon Tiger Sect was killed by him and he handled all their covert operations in the dark.

Looking at the kneeling Xue Feng, Chen Hong said, " Someone might have caught up to our plans , he's identity is a bit troublesome but still he has to die , We can't let anything affect the gathering of blood qi , I'd have Chen Mo send the one we gathered, your job is to kill Zhan Wei before we continue ".

" Yes my Lord " , Xue Feng said as he stood up, he was about to live when Chen Hong

said " No mistakes !".

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Zhan Wei put the whole issue at the back of his mind , he didn't go straight to his tent as he planned on picking a bit of spirit herbs to add some flavour to his broth.

The black earth mountain was in the barren wastelands, although they were no rare plants around he could find some relatively good ones.

Truth be told , he planned on going back to his original tent beside Yunzi soon .

He had chosen his present one separate from the Imperial family because it was more comfortable pulling a large sled filled with beast meat and cooking his vital soup in a bit secluded place.

But now he had large amount of his broth stored in his storage ring.

Actually the truth was that he was tired of eating it everytime .

Everyday pouring large quantities of soup down his throat, who wouldn't.

Walking back , he came across a large stall where a number of people were gathered and out of curiosity he walked towards it .

With all kinds of stuffs on display, it looked like a miniature version of the treasure pavilion, not surprising it was set up by them.

All sorts of people bargained to by resources, he even saw that there was a price discount on all goods.

Like usual people the staffs of the treasure pavilion were calm and collected, it was like the war had nothing to do with them.

And actually it didn't, Zhan Wei knew if the main war started, the treasure pavilion would quickly remove this large stall from here and leave, they had no ties to this place , it was just business.

Of course as a powerful force that didn't belong to the Eastern region, they had the strength to leave, they probably wanted to sell most of their goods before leaving hence the price slash.

Dragging his large sled he left, he had already set the rest of the day for cooking and Qi cultivation and he wouldn't compromise, maybe he could come check the stall tomorrow.

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