Blood Path

Blood path cultivation uses blood path Gu, blood beasts, and blood itself as a resource. In the right conditions a cultivator’s battle strength rises quickly, which is exactly why the path draws hunters as soon as it is shown. ^{ch. 591}

Blood Sea Ancestor

Blood Sea Ancestor is the rank seven demonic path figure the novel ties to blood path’s spread. ^{ch. 183 ch. 407} Before death he set hundreds of thousands of inheritance grounds from the Middle Continent to the Southern Border and other places. His last line states that the blood path is not alone and that the legacy will continue for all eternity. ^{ch. 183} Immortal Crane Sect talk later repeats that claim in shorter form and lists nine true inheritances attributed to him, calling him someone who achieved great success in blood path. ^{ch. 407}

Because of him, a blood path Gu Master is hunted persistently by the righteous path the moment they appear. Demonic Gu Masters also fear how quickly blood path battle strength can rise, so a revealed blood path cultivator often suffers sneak attacks from that side as well. ^{ch. 591} Blood path is very harmful, and everyone wants blood path cultivators exterminated. ^{ch. 1058}

Fang Yuan

In his previous life Fang Yuan was most skilled in blood path, benefited from a Blood Sea inheritance, and used that path to start his conquest. ^{ch. 380} In that life he also created many blood path Immortal Gu recipes, but his refinement path and wisdom path attainment levels were too low to continue those deductions, so they were very incomplete. ^{ch. 1058} He became a blood path Gu Immortal then. ^{ch. 546 ch. 628} After rebirth his vital Gu is not a blood path Gu, so that route is no longer automatic. ^{ch. 546} His Northern Plains strength path ascension is a second ascension after the prior blood path one. ^{ch. 628}

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