Thus, very quickly, a highly secretive figure silently emerged from the Immortal Court and headed straight for the Blood Spring.
The figure moved with incredible speed, to the extent that even ordinary True Immortals could not perceive its presence.
Hence, in just a moment's time, the figure that had emerged from the Immortal Court located that place of great terror known throughout the Land of the Four Pillars—the Blood Spring! Without uttering another word, the figure then tossed a bead into the Blood Spring.
It was a Blood Demon Bead.
It had been obtained by an ancient Heavenly Officer True Immortal who had infiltrated the Blood Spring and refined it from the spring's source over ten thousand years. In the years that followed, it was kept in the Immortal Court, never employed.
