Chapter 969 - 596: Blood War Furnace, Land of Eternal Blood War
Uriel gazed at the surroundings, sensing the stirrings of long-buried memories.
The answer seemed so close, yet kept getting stuck at a certain point.
Suddenly, a massive flame fell from the dim sky.
Feeling the frenzied energy within the flame, Uriel abandoned the quest for answers and spread his wings to fly, carrying Fang Zhou.
"Boom!!!"
The fireball crashed into the ground, unleashing a thunderous roar.
Along with the sound came a scorching wave of heat and the dust and sand swept up by it.
Uriel watched the scene from a distance and knew he had the answer.
The answer that had been just out of reach now fully revealed itself in his mind.
Uriel’s voice was hoarse: "Blood War Furnace!
This is the battlefield of the eternal war between the undead and demons!
This is... the land of eternal blood war!!
...
In Bone Dragon Uriel’s memory, since the Abyssal Demon invasion of the Undead Realm, the battle between demons and undead had raged for eons.
Their conflict never truly ceased.
At almost every moment, demons were slain by undead, and undead were killed by demons.
Their battles largely took place in the Blood War Furnace.
This was one of the largest primary fragments of the shattered Undead Realm, immensely vast, with no one able to truly find its edges.
The original rulers here were the undead, natural enemies of the living.
But after the Abyssal Demon invasion, all original order was broken.
The most terrifying war machine from the Abyss, the Ten Thousand Profane Demon Nest, linked to the Blood War Furnace.
Within the Ten Thousand Profane Demon Nest, countless pits exist, each leading directly to an Abyss Lord’s territory.
Every moment, demons emerge from the depths of the Demon Nest, choosing to attack undead and join the blood war at the Blood Moon Fortress.
Besides the Ten Thousand Profane Demon Nest, other Abyss Territories would connect to the Blood War Furnace at certain times.
Sometimes, these Abyss Territories appear around the Demon Nest.
Other times, they might even appear in an unknown corner of the Blood War Furnace.
Countless demons, led by their lords, rush out of the Abyss and invade the Blood War Furnace.
Here, they face the staunch resistance of the undead until they are slain or driven back to the Abyss.
Most of the time, the undead win the defensive battles and succeed in forcing the demons to retreat.
Occasionally, under the leadership of some Undead Lords, the undead counterattack the Abyss and wipe out the demons within.
Finally, they merge this layer of Abyss Territory into the Undead Realm, becoming new territory for the Undead Lords.
Of course, the merging process is long and consumes enormous energy.
But for the Undead Lords, this is not a difficult task, and they eagerly expand their territories.
It can be said that nowhere in the world sees more deaths than the Blood War Furnace.
Every moment, tens of thousands of demons and undead might perish.
Reflecting on this information, Uriel’s voice grew hoarse, looking at Fang Zhou, he asked: "Lord, do you know the Blood War Furnace?"
Fang Zhou shook his head.
This is the inherited memory of high-level undead like Bone Dragon, something he truly knows nothing about.
Perhaps, the Longxia Federation’s intelligence database has related information, but the Undead Mage’s main body hasn’t paid attention to it.
Uriel sighed, his recollections only revealed a little information.
"Enough, Uriel, let’s go.
No matter the reason, we must press onward.
Tell me everything you know."
Fang Zhou gently urged Uriel forward, continuing to fly ahead.
...
Riding Uriel, Fang Zhou swiftly reached the place where the fireball had just fallen.
A large crater appeared again on the ground.
Surrounding the crater were flames still burning, with the highest temperature at the crater’s center.
At this moment, Fang Zhou realized why the land had so many craters and rubble.
Uriel said, "Due to the influence of the Ten Thousand Profane Demon Nest, the undead and other creatures in the Blood War Furnace could face a descending fireball daily.
The fireball’s power roughly equates to the impact of Flame Magic between Silver Tier and Golden Tier.
For undead creatures below Silver Tier, this is simply a calamity."
Fang Zhou nodded, looking at the road ahead, littered with countless craters.
One could imagine what the undead creatures here faced daily.
Yet Fang Zhou felt something was odd.
Typically, there should be countless undead within the Blood War Furnace.
But they had not been seen, which was abnormal.
Although their advance was not swift, they had traveled far, yet saw only wasteland.
Finally, after flying low for hours, Fang Zhou saw more than scorched earth in the Blood War Furnace.
A broad river, a river rolling with blood waves, hundreds of meters wide.