Chapter Thirty-One: Fusion, Blood Shadow Needle

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  But Hong Haier went to his own Xianfu's back mountain, the cold pool, to find the trail of the little thief because food in the mansion was stolen repeatedly.

  In the depths of the cold pond, there was a spring eye that led to another world. It connected to an underground river of blood, which flowed to a high platform where the Upper Clear Spirit Treasure Daoist and the Underworld River Teachings Ancestor were worshipped. By chance, this triggered the memory of Hong Haier's seal, causing two incomplete souls to merge completely.

  In this process, the incarnation of Menghe Laozu and Tongtian Jiao also appeared. Unbeknownst to Hong Haier, he had already walked back and forth in front of the Ghost Gate several times.

  At this moment, Hong Haier was about to split his head, completely losing consciousness outside, but he didn't know that the two portraits above had a thread of green light descending on himself.

  In the depths of Hong Haier's divine sea, two identical faces are confronting each other. One is a handsome young man in white clothes, while the other is wearing a red bellyband and looks like a thousand-year-old boy.

  "Who are you?" The little boy in red suddenly spoke up, his eyes timid.

  "I am Hong Haier." The white-clothed youth suddenly spoke up, carefully sizing up the person in front of him, who was clearly somewhat short of breath and disheveled.

  "Nonsense!" The red-clothed Red Boy's eyebrows were upside down, although the other party gave him an extremely familiar feeling, but he didn't know why he felt a little disgusted. He interrupted: "If you are the Red Boy, how can you not even recognize Little Red?"

  "Xiao Hong?" The white-clothed youth heard this and was perplexed, but then suddenly remembered the Blood Beast on the high platform outside.

  "Yes, Little Red." The young boy wearing a red apron said, his eyes softening as he spoke of the Blood Beast.

  It seems that memories have also been stirred up, and he said to himself: "Xiao Hong is the Blood Sea's Dark Beast, it was Mother's mount, and my best partner. Mother had it protect me, so it stayed in this Blood Lake..."

  "Xiao Hong wanted to teach Hong Haier the 'Blood God Scripture', but unfortunately, Hong Haier was too stupid and couldn't learn it no matter how hard he tried." As she spoke, the little boy wearing a red bellyband suddenly started wailing.

  "Hmm." The young man in white saw this, but was somewhat speechless. If an outsider were to see this scene, they would think that he was bullying a little kid. Fortunately, this was his own Divine Sea, and even a saint couldn't easily investigate it. He walked over and wrapped the wailing child in his arms.

  Although I inadvertently occupied the body of Hong Haier after crossing over, when facing him, there is always some inexplicable emotion, as if it's pity.

  "Alright, brother is here, nothing's wrong, don't cry." He had always known he was bad with words and couldn't coax people, but unexpectedly after rebirth, it was still the same. The white-clothed youth looked at the little zhengtai in his arms, yet had a somewhat complicated expression.

  "The little red boy is clumsy and can't learn, the little red boy got hurt, so he's going to die..." The little boy cried for a long time, suddenly spoke, his voice was getting weaker, as if he would disappear at any moment.

  "Hiss!"

  Upon hearing these words, the white-clothed youth was as if he had fallen into an ice cellar, his sweat dripping down. It is known that the two people's spirits were completely merged, indistinguishable from each other. Although Hong Haier's original main consciousness had long since perished, if this remaining bit of residual soul thought it had died, then it would likely also follow in death.

  "Don't cry, don't cry." As he said this, the young man in white clothes shook awake the little child in his arms and lifted up his small face saying: "Nonsense, isn't Red Boy all right? Take a look."

  As he spoke, he locked eyes with him and saw that the child's pupils gradually regained their luster, only then did he let out a sigh of relief and continued: "You forgot, you said you wanted to become strong, to protect your father and mother."

  "Father? Mother." The little boy muttered.

  "Look, I'm you, living a good life, do you still remember what mother said when she took care of me?"

  "Mother..." Hearing the white-clothed youth's words, the young child's eyes emitted an unusual glow as they stared at each other.

  "Yes, the bird's nest congee that Mother made for Little Red is his favorite." The little boy muttered to himself, and as his eyes grew brighter, they clearly reflected the shadow of a young man in white clothes.

  "Hong Haier is still alive, I'm still alive, it's great, Mother..." The little boy said with a "heh heh" smile towards the white-clothed youth, but then his head drooped and he fainted, his expression calm.

  A faint halo emerged from the little boy's body and transformed into sparkling spots, like fireflies, which entered the white-clad youth's body.

  "Ah!" Hong Haier saw this, but he let out a sigh of relief, knowing that everything was fine now, and his headache gradually subsided. It seemed like many memories were slowly surfacing in his mind.

  "Woof woof!" Seeing that Hong Haier had finally opened his eyes, Xiao Hong rushed up and jumped into Hong Haier's arms, stretching out her large and soft tongue to lick him vigorously.

  "Haha!" Feeling itchy, Hong Er smiled lightly and looked at the little beast in her arms, her eyes softening as she said: "Little Red."

  "Woof! Woof!" Xiaohong heard this and excitedly barked in response.

  "Hehe!" Reaching out to gently touch the blood beast's fur, it didn't feel as imagined, but rather had an indescribable softness and comfort.

  Turning around, he put down Xiaohong and walked to the front of the altar, reverently picked up a stick of incense that was placed on one side, snapped his hand and lit it, then inserted it into the incense burner.

  Then, he bowed three times in front of the two portraits and said softly: "Disciple Hong Hai Er, earlier I was trapped in danger, but thanks to the protection of Master and Ancestor, I escaped. This time, I have come to realize, it is to thank Master and Ancestor."

  Hong Haier said, but in his heart, he let out a soft sigh. Now that he knew about the memories of the past, Hong Haier realized that this altar was built by his own father and mother together. As for why they were worshiping Lingbao Daozun and Minghe Jiao Zu, it was simply a matter of habit.

  Moreover, neither the Bull Demon King nor Princess Iron Fan had ever told the Red Boy the true identity of the person in the painting, only telling him that it was a senior who needed to be worshipped and offered sacrifices to through incense burning.

  So when the Bull Demon King first told Honghai'er about the matter of cutting off his teachings in a secret room, he was completely unaware of Honghai'er's attitude and didn't mind at all. Because the Kui Niu tribe has always been secretive in their dealings since they migrated from the East Sea to the West Oxherding Continent.

  Even now, many immortals and demons in the three realms do not know that behind Pingtian Dasheng Niutou's back stands a Heavenly Dao Saint, and it is the shortest one.

  "Pffft!" A faint ripple, as if it had come from the two portraits, seemed to have let out a soft sigh.

  Hong Haier, however, was unaware that at that moment, the eyes of the portrait of Minghe Laozu had flashes of strange colors. By then, he had already been attracted by several other objects placed on the altar.

  On the altar, apart from the portraits of Upper Clarity's Heavenly Worthy and the Ancestral Patriarch of the Netherworld River, there were three other objects: a jade register, a palm-sized jade box, and a blank silk banner.

  Among them, the silk occasionally has countless mixed-color clouds and mist flashing, with a overall orange-yellow color. Although there is not a single word on it, for some reason, Hong Haier's intuition tells him that this is the most valuable thing among the three items.

  That jade book, the Red Boy knew, was indeed the "Blood God Scripture" mentioned in his memory. The jade book was entirely made of celadon jade, but it also had a faint red glow emanating from within, as if the celadon jade contained boundless blood seas, exuding an inexplicable eerie aura.

  The cover of the jade book is engraved with three ancient seals, "Blood God Scripture". Inside, there are over a dozen pages of golden chapters and jade pinnacles, which are described in the above ancient divine text.

  Fortunately, the Red Boy had been taught by his own mother before, and now he could understand seven or eight out of ten. However, in his heart, he was quite excited to know that the Blood God Scripture was a great divine art written by the Old Ancestor of the Underworld River, which also contained the Seven Killing Ways, summarizing the Old Ancestor's lifetime learning.

  Among them, there is a direct path to becoming a quasi-saint. In the dark and mysterious Blood Sea, the Asura god-king Baxian, the Heaven of Desire, the Great Brahma Heaven, Shiva, and the Heavenly Queen Wumo all achieved quasi-sainthood through this sutra. In later generations, the Blood God Zheng Yin relied on a simplified version of the "Blood God Sutra" to cultivate as a terrestrial immortal, causing chaos in Mount Shu, including the reincarnation of Wen Shi Zhenren's Longmei Old Ancestor and many ancient heavenly immortals, even the Golden Immortal Extreme Joy Old Ancestor. Just putting this book outside would make countless Mahayana golden immortals rush to seize it.

  It's no wonder that this place has set up layers of restrictions. If the Red Boy hadn't obtained approval, how could he have easily entered?

  However, Hong Haier's gaze stayed on "Blood God Scripture" for a few breaths before shifting to the palm-sized jade box on the table.

  That jade box looks like it's made of ordinary yellow jade, with countless blood sea and Shura patterns on top, looking crystal clear and delicate, yet exquisite and lovely.

  Through memory, Hong Haier knew that the object contained in the jade box was not ordinary, but rather the top-grade pre-heavenly spiritual treasure "Blood Shadow Needle"…