CHAPTER 368: CHAPTER 356: FEAR OF BLOOD!?

"So, are you saying that the reason for the massacre was because the people of that city were beyond saving?" Liang Yi didn’t bother with those two fools and continued to confirm with his junior sister.

"En, that should be the case. Otherwise, it wouldn’t explain why the Sect Leader of the Blood Control Sect came out unscathed." Su Youyi nodded, looking at the information available, it’s very likely so.

"So, what she said about the Blood Demon consciousness being sealed is also true?" Liang Yi glanced at the character panel that revealed itself when Liu Rouxin was sparring, and he didn’t find anything unusual.

Even though he had seen something called a Blood Demon’s body before, he never thought it would be related to the actual Blood Demon, assuming it was simply an Innate Constitution.

"That’s hard to tell." Su Youyi also looked towards Liu Rouxin on the ship deck along with her senior brother, and she couldn’t see anything unusual either. The Blood Demon described in the records was so crazy and chaotic, yet this one seems untroubled.

"So your Sect Master decided to take you as a disciple after seeing you, and that’s why she spared your life, right?" Liang Yi stepped forward, separating the person and the cat, and directly asked Liu Rouxin.

"You’re not wrong." Liu Rouxin folded her arms and was non-committal to Liang Yi’s guess.

"That city’s populace..." Su Youyi hesitated to ask.

Although she wasn’t a compassionate saint, the lives of several millions of people in a city still concerned her.

"You’re not really mistaking our Blood Control Sect for some reputable Righteous Path, are you?" Liu Rouxin flicked her hair, slightly lifting her head and looking at Su Youyi with sidelong eyes, full of mocking expression.

"Let me make it clear to you, although we no longer need to massacre to increase our cultivation, that doesn’t mean we have turned over a new leaf to become good gentlemen."

Su Youyi fell silent.

Liang Yi stroked his chin thoughtfully, sometimes certain rumors really aren’t groundless, for instance: normal people would never join the Blood Control Sect, and there would be no normal people within the Blood Control Sect.

The Cultivation Technique of the Blood Control Sect lays there, and even a sheep, once learned, would turn into a vicious bloodthirsty sheep.

"However, although those people were beyond saving, they were still millions. How many lives have the disciples in the sect taken in their whole lives? They don’t know the ins and outs, so naturally, they put the blame on me as I was the only survivor," said Liu Rouxin nonchalantly, withdrawing her gaze.

"The Blood Demon is born with Innate qualities, inherently possessing an indestructible trait. Sealing is certainly possible, but eradication is quite difficult, meow." Old Master Orange added from the side.

"Have you communicated with the Blood Demon inside you, meow?"

"She is just sealed. She can see everything that I see, but the only one who can talk to her is me." Liu Rouxin turned her face towards Liang Yi and Su Youyi, gesturing them to look into her eyes.

Old Master Orange quickly climbed up Liang Yi’s back to his shoulder, looking along.

Liu Rouxin’s eyes at first glance were a normal black color, but now Liang Yi really took a closer look and realized that Liu Rouxin’s eyes were also red. It’s just that the blood red was so thick that it looked black.

Dimly, Liang Yi and Su Youyi also saw a figure looking down and flipping through books.

The owner of the figure seemed to sense something, looked up at Liang Yi and Su Youyi, and waved to greet them.

"Is that the Blood Demon?" Liang Yi scratched his head.

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It looks more like a slender woman, quite different from the slime-like creature he had in mind. It’s impressive that Junior Sister could guess exactly what he was referring to from his bizarre description.

"Seems pretty easy to talk to..." Su Youyi was also a bit puzzled. How is this so different from what the books say?

"Don’t be deceived by appearances, meow. When the Blood Demon shows its true nature, you’ll all be crying, meow," Mr. Orange, though also feeling that something was off with this Blood Demon, remembered the Blood Demon from the First Epoch and concluded this was just an illusion.

"Absorbing blood to increase cultivation is their instinct, an instinct they can’t suppress, meow."

"No, it won’t happen!" Liu Rouxin assured fervently. "Sister Blood has a strange disease that can perfectly suppress her instincts."

"What disease, meow?" Ignoring Liu Rouxin’s odd way of referring to the Blood Demon, Mr. Orange was interested in the disease that could suppress instincts.

"Hemophobia."

"???"

Not only Mr. Orange, but Liang Yi and Su Youyi beside him were also completely baffled.

Liang Yi even glanced at his Junior Sister to see if he had misheard, but after seeing her just as confused as he was, he knew he hadn’t.

A Blood Demon with hemophobia!? What is this, some sort of Mortal World’s Most Confusing Behavior Award?

"Don’t look at me like that. I never lie." Liu Rouxin spread her hands. She and Sister Blood were just as shocked when they first discovered it.

Since infancy, she had been bound to Sister Blood and they began communicating as soon as she was old enough to understand. Since she could start cultivating, Sister Blood kept urging her to kill and absorb power, freely providing her with Cultivation Techniques and Daoist Skills that were extremely wicked.

And due to being the vessel for the Blood Demon, Liu Rouxin naturally had the same innate talents. If she wished, she could become a Mortal World Blood Demon that fed on the lives of others at any moment.

Only her master was very serious about this and endlessly lectured her from a young age. It was a miracle that she didn’t develop any rebellious thoughts from all his nagging.

However, when Liu Rouxin first went down the mountain for experience and tried to kill someone, she felt an extremely intense palpitation from the bottom of her heart. Nausea and dizziness made her vision darken and almost caused her to faint, even making her unable to hold onto her spear.

When she wanted to understand why, she found that Sister Blood, who was always nagging in her ear, had already passed out unconscious.

Similar incidents happened several times after that, always after the sight of blood.

After various trials, the Blood Demon became very reclusive when the truth was uncovered, even closing off her consciousness for a year and refusing to communicate with Liu Rouxin. When Liu Rouxin returned to her sect and told her master about it, he almost entered a mental breakdown from laughing during his meditation.

Only after Liu Rouxin speculated whether Sister Blood had taken her own life out of shame, did Sister Blood reappear.

After realizing that she might just be a burden outside, Sister Blood underwent a complete change in personality.

In a nutshell, Sister Blood became utterly indifferent and zen-like, from then on choosing to ignore worldly affairs and focusing solely on reading "saintly texts."