Chapter 104: Perfect Golden Core Stage!
Blood Ice Rose Trap Formation.
It’s a heretical technique that Xu Tao learned not by choice, but by necessity. It’s a trap formation that encloses the target(s) within an ice area, before being layered by petals to increase the cube’s toughness.
As soon as the rosebud is formed, the real threat of the formation begins.
From all the living entities within it, the Blood Ice Rose will absorb their life force slowly. This energy would then further enhance the walls by slowly painting them a deep red—like blood seeping through ice.
When the entire ice rose has turned blood red, that means the entities trapped inside have already lost their lives... But it wouldn’t be heretical if it ended with just that.
The formation wouldn’t just rob the target’s life—but also their souls.
All of it would then become available as energy, as Qi, for the caster to absorb.
It’s a technique that’s just as bad as Demonic Cultivation, which requires live sacrifices!
As for how Xu Tao learned it? Well, of course, it’s because once, he fought the creator of this technique and got hit with it. He literally almost died from it until he completely deciphered its weakness and escaped.
The technique’s creator was injured gravely from their exchange but managed to escape death—eluding Xu Tao’s pursuit until the present time.
’The digestion of the monsters inside it should take at least half an hour,’ Xu Tao thought as he continued with his standing meditation. ’I have to finish absorbing this pill first!’
Although it’s a heretical technique, it should be fine to use it now against monsters. A moral gray area regarding the technique’s target and usage... But Xu Tao can’t be picky. If it can help him increase his cultivation, then he wouldn’t hold back.