Han Li frowned slightly, his gaze quickly sweeping across the area.

He saw that on the vast expanse of crimson sea, waves were churning, and blood-colored surges were rising. Over a hundred enormous shadows were slowly ascending from the depths of the sea, at varying distances.

Accompanying them was a wave of nauseatingly bloody stench.

Han Li activated a secret technique to protect his sea of consciousness, his eyes gleaming with blue light as he stared intently at the sea surface, unconsciously tightening his grip on the sword.

However, the next moment, an unexpected scene unfolded.

The hundred or so shadows broke through the waves, one after another surfacing. These figures were all strangely shaped sea beasts. Among them were Sea Fin Horses resembling steeds but lacking hooves, instead possessing fins; Spiked Turtle-Tortoises carrying thick, thorny shells; and immense, gentle Sea Gazing Whales, nearly ten thousand feet in size…

Han Li had seen these beasts in various ancient texts. Their cultivation levels varied, with the most powerful reaching the True Immortal Realm. Yet now, without exception, they were all belly-up, with no aura emanating from them, dead beyond resurrection.

On their abdomens, each had a huge, circular hole, from which streams of fresh blood flowed, staining the seawater like vast, crimson veils.

Inspecting the wounds, Han Li realized that the flesh around the holes was turned outward, suggesting that they had not been caused by external attacks, but rather had burst open from within.

"Aow…"

A sound, almost like a bestial roar, echoed as the waters below suddenly splashed, creating waves thousands of feet high.

A blood-red hand, a hundred feet in size, suddenly parted the waves and shot out from the sea, grabbing at Han Li.

Han Li's eyes sharpened. He stomped abruptly in the void, his figure darting away, trying to evade the giant hand.

However, another identical blood-red hand emerged in his path, blocking his way, its five fingers spread wide as it reached for him.

Seeing this, Han Li’s escape light brightened, and he changed direction, escaping rapidly.

But at that moment, two more blood-red hands suddenly appeared in front of and behind him, coming together in a gesture of prayer.

The blood-red hands were astonishingly fast, so much so that Han Li didn't have time to react before he was squeezed between them.

Immediately afterward, the seawater churned violently, and a massive figure, a thousand feet tall, slowly rose from beneath the surface, revealing its true form.

Its entire body was blood-red, covered in clearly defined muscle lines, completely naked except for a dark cyan leather girdle around its waist.

Judging by its face, it looked as if it had just been skinned, the exposed muscles still covered in fresh blood. Although its features were twisted and terrifying, one could still discern a slight resemblance to Chong Luan.

In addition to the two arms on its shoulders, the blood-red giant also had two arms growing from its ribs. It was these lower arms that were now clutching Han Li.

Squeezed between the giant hands, Han Li felt as if he was being crushed by two mountains. The bones in his body cracked and popped like exploding beans.

He let out a furious roar, and golden scales appeared on his arms, which were pressed tightly against his sides. He braced himself, pushing the giant hands apart with all his might.

The seemingly mountain-heavy palms, under Han Li's fierce thrust, opened a crack, separating slightly.

Seeing this, the blood-red giant roared, doubling the force of its rib arms, pressing inward and crushing the crack Han Li had barely managed to create.

Han Li’s face flushed red, and he let out a suppressed growl.

The next moment, his muscles began to bulge, and he swelled rapidly, transforming into a golden-haired giant ape a thousand feet tall.

At the same time, white light shone around him, and seven blue star patterns appeared on his chest and abdomen, burning brightly, their starlight intermingling with the golden light on his body, causing him to grow even larger.

"Roar…"

The giant ape roared, its golden eyes glaring at the blood-red giant. It spread its arms suddenly, not only forcing the blood-red giant's hands apart but also grabbing all ten of its fingers.

Twisting its arms, it wrenched outward, and two sounds of cracking bones echoed in the air.

"Aow…"

The blood-red giant roared, and the two arms on its shoulders also reached out, gripping the giant ape's arms tightly.

Then, a series of buzzing sounds, like the peal of a great bell, emanated from its mouth. Listening closely, one could hear that it was chanting a spell.

As the chanting resounded, spiral-shaped, strange patterns suddenly lit up in the palms of its hands, from which two blood-red serpents slithered out, winding up the giant ape's arms.

Han Li immediately felt a burning pain on his arms. He released the blood-red giant's hands and retreated a dozen steps.

After distancing himself from the blood-red giant, Han Li looked down and saw spiral-shaped, blood-red marks circling his arms all the way to his shoulders, looking like burns from red-hot iron.

"Having been marked by my Bloodfiend Seal, you are already a dead man," the blood-red giant roared, its voice like the rumble of thunder, shaking the surrounding space.

After saying this, it continued to chant, and huge, blood-red runes began to light up around its body.

Han Li felt the burning pain on his arms intensify. He shuddered and plunged forward, immersing his arms in the seawater, trying to alleviate the burning sensation, but to no avail.

Worse, his essence blood was now surging wildly within him, like a runaway horse.

He could clearly feel the temperature of his essence blood rising rapidly, as if it were about to boil. It would soon rupture his meridians, causing him to explode.

If he weren't already a Mysterious Immortal, his physical body far surpassing ordinary True Immortals, and hadn't cultivated a secret technique like the Five Viscera Tempering Art, his internal organs would have succumbed to the impact of the essence blood and burst open first.

Han Li was shocked. The ominous power of the scarred-face man was truly bizarre. First, a fiendish aura affected his consciousness, and now, a bloodfiend force was controlling his essence blood, both targeting his vital points, making him extremely difficult to deal with.

He steadied his mind and tried to mobilize the immortal spiritual power in his body to stabilize his raging essence blood, only to find that the immortal spiritual power was unable to suppress it at all.

His bloodline was already fused with the essence blood of several powerful True Spirits, such as the Mountain Giant Ape, True Dragon, and Heavenly Phoenix, making it far more powerful than that of ordinary True Immortals. Once it became violent, immortal spiritual power alone could not suppress it.

A clear dragon's roar echoed from Han Li's body, and a vast golden light shone behind the giant ape. A huge, five-clawed golden dragon phantom emerged, its head raised to the sky, roaring.

After the golden dragon Dharma Idol appeared, the giant ape's face twisted, and it couldn't help but let out a painful roar.

"What! You actually have the bloodline of a True Spirit! Good, excellent! Heaven is helping me…" The blood-red giant, transformed from Chong Luan, spoke, its voice shaking the void.

Its four large hands clasped together in front of it, forming a strange hand seal. Crescent-shaped patterns appeared on the muscles of its body, glowing with magma-like reddish-yellow light.

Then, a clear phoenix cry rang out, and colorful light shone brightly behind the giant ape. A colorful phoenix phantom emerged, suspended opposite the golden dragon, radiant with light.

Having retreated ten thousand feet away, Black Crane also showed a hint of surprise in its eyes, like a human.

"To think that he has more than one kind of True Spirit bloodline... Hehe, if he possessed so many kinds of True Spirit blood in the past, it would naturally be a great help, but running into the master today, it's your bad luck. With two bloodlines different from your own essence blood erupting at the same time, let's see how long you can last." Black Crane spoke, chuckling.

As soon as it finished speaking, a large expanse of cyan light lit up behind the giant ape, and a cyanluan phantom emerged. Following closely behind, a silver electric light shone, and the thunder Roc's Dharma Idol phantom also emerged.

Adjacent to it, there was also a bright five-colored light, a five-colored peacock Dharma Idol phantom.

Below the many True Spirit Dharma Idols, another huge black tortoise phantom emerged, surrounded by black light, looking like a huge black boulder from afar.

"How is it possible... So... So many..." Black Crane's eyes widened, and it muttered to itself.

At that moment, it wished it could grow a pair of hands to rub its eyes, because it couldn't believe that someone could integrate so many powerful True Spirit bloodlines.

Moreover, this person was just a human, the weakest race by nature.

"Aow…"

The Mountain Giant Ape roared in pain. The True Spirit Dharma Idols floating behind it suddenly began to struggle violently. The cyanluan and colorful phoenix flew left and right, the golden dragon and black tortoise surged up and down, one wanting to soar into the sky, the other wanting to enter the sea, with the thunder Roc in the middle, creating chaos.

The blood-red marks on the giant ape's arms shone brightly, flickering with each breath, and the essence blood in its body was in chaos, crashing back and forth through its meridians.

The burning sensation emanating from the inside of its body was more painful than flaying or bone-crushing.

Han Li felt his essence blood gradually boiling, waiting for the moment when he could no longer bear it, and it would burst out of his body.

At that time, his fate would probably be no different from those sea beasts floating on the surface of the sea.