At the top of Jade Pillar Peak, when the Blood Embryo shattered, a curled-up blood-red figure slowly stretched out from within. Its immense size towered into the sky, making the powerful human race warriors standing around appear as insignificant as dust by comparison.

As far as the eye could see, the gigantic figure was purely formed from an extremely dense blood-red hue, like a skinless Blood Giant. The blood at its surface constantly flowed and surged, forming numerous vortices, large and small, with a terrifying momentum.

Judging from its form, it possessed many feminine features, like the flatness between its legs and the two protrusions on its chest.

This immediately reminded Lu Ye of his previous, horrifying suspicion.

If one looked down upon the entire Blood Refinement World from the sky, it resembled the torso of a female creature whose head and limbs had been severed, leaving only the trunk, leading him to suspect that the Blood Refinement World might be the remnants of some enormous female creature after death.

Now that a Blood Giant with some female characteristics had appeared before him, could there be some connection between them?

Furthermore, the position of Jade Pillar Peak was quite peculiar because if one truly regarded the Blood Refinement World as the torso of an unknown female creature, then Jade Pillar Peak would be at the heart.

For any creature, the location of the heart is crucial, and the congregation of Blood Race Sacred Seeds here might have deeper implications.

However, these thoughts were ultimately just his wild fantasies, without any means to verify them at this moment.

The human race's strong attacks had never ceased, but with little effect. When the Blood Giant hatched from the Blood Embryo, everyone knew that this was a significant problem.

Whatever kind of monster appeared before them was guaranteed to possess incomparable strength.

On the Blood Giant's surface, there were heads like fleshy tumors embedded in it. Upon closer inspection, these heads resembled the Sacred Seeds who had merged with the blood-red dragon, but at this moment, these Sacred Seeds clearly had lost their consciousness. Their eyes were murky and dull, and they seemed to be suffering the most brutal torment, faces full of pain, mouths agape in silent screams.

Looking at the Blood Giant, which almost filled his entire vision, Lu Ye suddenly gained clarity.

This was indeed a trap, but not the one the human race believed to be set by the Blood Refinement World's Heaven and Earth's Will against the Blood Race Sacred Seeds, but a trap targeting the numerous strong warriors of the human race.

No matter how bizarre the Heaven and Earth's Will of the Blood Refinement World might be, it had already been born with spirituality and possessed a trace of spiritual intelligence, which was a fact. In its struggle against Number Nine, it was at a complete disadvantage. If it did not make some changes, once the Sacred Seeds of the Blood Refinement World were eradicated, it would have no chance of turning the tables.

The eventual outcome would be complete suppression by Number Nine, with the Blood Refinement World's foundation swallowed by the Nine Provinces. By then, its existence would be erased, as its existence was intrinsically linked to the foundation of the Blood Refinement World. Once that foundation weakened to a certain extent, it wouldn't be able to sustain itself.

The confrontation between the Heaven and Earth's Wills follows such a process, without the intense fighting and life-or-death situations seen in sentient beings. So even though Number Nine had held the absolute upper hand, it couldn't eliminate the Heaven and Earth's Will of the Blood Refinement World because its existence was inherently tied to the entire domain.

Only when the foundation of the Blood Refinement World decayed to a certain point would it dissipate.

Therefore, it needed to break the stalemate, which was why it guided all the Sacred Seeds to gather here. Having been at a disadvantage in the Heaven and Earth's Will conflict, it personally stepped into the fray, effectively opening up another battlefield.

With so many strong warriors of the human race gathered here, if they were eliminated, the impact on the Nine Provinces' cultivation world would be immeasurable. Although a large number of Nine Provinces cultivators would remain, none would pose any threat to it.

At that point, whether annihilating the Nine Provinces cultivators or expelling them from the domain, it could preserve the Blood Refinement World's foundation and its own existence.

Faced with such a situation, could the strong warriors of the human race retreat?

Clearly, that was impossible!

Gathered here was the most elite group of the Nine Provinces cultivation world. If they couldn't resolve the Blood Giant, then no one else could.

It could be said that this was the only opportunity to deal with the Blood Giant! The top warriors of the Nine Provinces were duty-bound.

The brilliant offensive was like a ferocious storm, each strike formidable, causing the Blood Giant's blood to surge and creating one crater after another.

However, the flowing blood quickly filled the craters.

The hatching of the Blood Giant was undoubtedly influenced. Under normal circumstances, it would still need some time to hatch from the Blood Embryo, but due to the ferocious attack of the Nine Provinces cultivators, the Blood Embryo was shattered, hastening the hatching, which inevitably caused it some level of influence, and quite a significant one.

Because although the Blood Giant appeared menacing, it seemed somewhat bewildered. Since its birth, it stood there without moving, allowing the storm-like attacks to rain down, showing no intent to dodge, nor to counter.

Only after a long time did it seem to regain consciousness, suddenly moving, reaching out to grab in one direction. The movement seemed exceedingly slow, and in that direction, several strong warriors of the human race immediately maneuvered and dodged, easily avoiding it.

It made a few more grabs, but all were in vain.

This situation reassured the warriors on the side of the human race. If the Blood Giant's performance was merely like this, then there would be no suspense in this battle.

Its size was too immense, its movements too clumsy, having an overwhelming presence but unable to pose any significant threat to their side.

On the contrary, the ferocious attacks from the human race, though barely effective, were continually wearing down its mass. Over time, given enough of it, the Nine Provinces human race could gradually exhaust the Blood Giant.

But soon, everyone noticed something amiss, because the Blood Giant's movements were becoming more agile and swift, as if it could quickly grow during the fight.

This discovery made the Nine Provinces cultivators feel uneasy, and they became more cautious in their evasion. To be caught by such a colossal entity would certainly lead to a grim fate.

On the chaotic peak of Jade Pillar, a melee raged with the power of spirit treasures and magic and spells bursting forth, spirit force churning and chaotic, melting all the snow within a radius of miles. The vast battlefield was suffused with a fierce and intense atmosphere.

Lu Ye's expression was stern as he slashed out streaks of saber light, intently sensing the changes in the Blood Giant.

In places unnoticed by others, the Blood Giant was undergoing some changes.

Changes in saintliness!

Lu Ye clearly felt that as time passed, the Blood Giant's saintliness was steadily and swiftly increasing.

Its birth resulted from the fusion of over twenty Sacred Seeds and the Blood Water from the Blood Pool. Within the Sacred Seeds flowed Sacred Blood, and the Blood Water emerging from the Blood Pool also contained Sacred Blood, though it was unrefined and abundant in quantity.

When it was first born, its saintliness intensity was not as great as Lu Ye's, which is why it was constantly suppressed. This was probably the fundamental reason for its initial slowness.

However, as its saintliness continuously enhanced, its movements became more fluid, because the suppressive force of saintliness was weakening.

The reason for the continuous enhancement of saintliness was likely its fusion of the numerous Sacred Blood within it—a process that was supposed to be completed during incubation, but its incubation was prematurely interrupted.

Lu Ye knew something was amiss. If the Blood Giant's saintliness continued to enhance, it would eventually surpass his own, and at that moment, the Blood Giant would reveal its true strength!

Thus, to win this battle, suppressing the opponent's saintliness was key, just as when dealing with those Blood Race Sacred Seeds.

But even knowing this crucial point, Lu Ye didn't have an excellent way to counter it. The enhancement of saintliness isn't something that can be achieved at will.

This is definitely a more challenging existence to deal with than the Insect Matriarch of the Great Secret Realm. The Insect Matriarch's strength lies not in its body but in its ability to rapidly hatch numerous Insect Race bodyguards, which was why it was a tough battle even for the combined forces of the many Level 9 cultivators of Nine Provinces. In the end, it was Lu Ye who ventured into the insect hive, using the spread of the Blood River, the power of the Talent Tree, consuming the insect hive's life force to slowly wear it down.

But the Blood Giant had no bodyguards; all its power was concentrated in its individual body. Comparing it to the Insect Matriarch, its strength and weakness were clear at a glance.

Lu Ye couldn't apply the methods used against the Insect Matriarch to deal with the Blood Giant before him.

The Blood Giant's saintliness continued to increase, its movements becoming even more agile. Although it was massive, it didn't hinder its deployment of many techniques. For a time, many powerful warriors of the human race were jumping up and down, creating a lively scene.

The only good news at present was that the Blood Giant seemed not to possess much spiritual intelligence, its actions all relying on instinct.

Until a certain moment, Lu Ye clearly felt that the Blood Giant's saintliness had already surpassed his own!

He knew that his saintliness should almost not exist in this world at all. No Sacred Seed could reach his level of saintliness, because he had the Talent Tree, and refining Sacred Blood was a process that involved great risk, each refinement being like a journey through the Ghost Gate, a situation not changed by mere practice.

Yet the Blood Giant seemed to be able to break through the barriers the Sacred Seeds experienced when refining Sacred Blood. Like Lu Ye, it could safely and unhindered, refine Sacred Blood to continually enhance its saintliness.

The aggregation of Sacred Blood from over twenty Sacred Seeds within it, undoubtedly could not achieve this level, but the Sacred Blood within the Blood Giant not only came from those Sacred Seeds but also a large amount of unrefined Sacred Blood from the underground Blood River.

Thus came a certain moment when Lu Ye felt its saintliness had already surpassed his own.

At that very moment, its two fists punched out ferociously to the left and right, like two massive javelins. The gathered human warriors in those two directions each dodged.

However, in the next moment, a sudden burst of blood light appeared under its armpits, and two more arms suddenly grew out of nowhere, pounding out with the force of streams of blood light toward those two directions.