The Peerless Emperor

"Run for your lives, the Family Head has gone mad!" a member of the Yun family suddenly burst out of the Clan Leader's mansion, shouting frantically as he did so.

But at that moment, a figure had already rushed out of the mansion and grabbed him.

The Yun family member slowly turned his head and saw the face before him was pale with a sickly green hue, with crimson pupils staring straight at him. Black blood oozed from the eyes, and fresh red blood traces adorned the mouth, which was twisted into a smile that stared at him, revealing bits of flesh caught between the teeth.

Having seen Yun Hu cannibalizing his own son, he knew exactly what the bits of flesh lodged between the teeth were.

A chill rose from the depths of this Yun family member's heart, and tears burst forth from his eyes as he watched Yun Hu open his mouth and bite towards him, his eyes filled with despair.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!!!" The piercing screams echoed through the sky above the entire Clan Leader's mansion.

Meanwhile, the battle within the Huaxia Empire continued unabated, as the Imperial Army and War Beast Army, attacking from all sides, proceeded with efficient coordination.

The soul cannons mounted on the boundary of the Territory and the Imperial Army and War Beast Army left behind worked together to ensure that not a single creature could escape from the Territory of the Yun family.

In the midst of the battle, perhaps due to the stimulation of bloodshed, many of those afflicted with the curse and infection erupted prematurely, transforming into zombies and starting to tear and bite at those nearby.

Pff! After one of the bloodied warriors split a person transformed into a zombie in half, the upper half of the body, still dragging its intestines, crawled towards him.

Faced with this terrifying scene, the bloodied warrior coldly stomped and exploded the head of the other party with one foot.

The Imperial Army and War Beast Army of the Huaxia Empire were no less ruthless in their slaughter of the half-alive, puppet-like beings; compared to the zombies, they were even more horrifying.

The events unfolding on the battlefield were seen clearly by Lin Qian and the others on board the Huaxia Imperial ship.

"Black blood, although they are from the Human Clan, why do they look like members of the Black Blood Clan?" Yun Fan, looking down from above at the land below, furrowed his brows tightly.

Hearing Yun Fan's words, Lin Qian's expression also turned very ugly as he stared at the situation on the battlefield below, "Actually, in my view, this black blood is quite unusual."

"What do you mean?" Curious, Yun Fan asked after hearing his grandson's words.

"In truth, over the years, I've had more than a few encounters with the Black Blood Clan," Lin Qian said slowly as he fixated on the scene below, "Once, one of my followers, named Lei Qian, had a brother who was turned into a Blood Nourishing Corpse by the Black Blood Clan. This happened in Coastal State."

"Coastal State, a member of the Black Blood Clan actually made it to Coastal State?" Lin Di and Yun Yunyan exclaimed in unison, having once eloped to Coastal State themselves.

They were well aware of how deep into the heartland of the Human Clan Territory Coastal State was, and were shocked that a member of the Black Blood Clan had managed to infiltrate that far.

Following that, Lin Qian went on to describe the various encounters and battles with the Black Blood Clan, including matters related to the Black Blood Royal Family, and the events that had unfolded previously in the underground world of Ancient Spirit State.

After hearing Lin Qian's description, they came back to their senses. During the ancient war, the Black Blood Clan had been at the forefront, with outstanding combat prowess, and their black blood abilities were simply terrifying.

The more people who died at that time, the more they would use them to refine and nurture Blood Nourishing Corpses, turning ordinary corpses into zombie-like entities.

Even at crucial moments of battle, they would always prioritize refining Blood Nourishing Corpses and zombie-like entities, even at the cost of their own lives.

"According to ancient records, the greatest weakness of the Black Blood Clan was treating the nurturing of Blood Nourishing Corpses and zombie-like entities as a kind of racial mission. No matter how good the offensive opportunity, they would always prioritize these two tasks," said Yun Yunyan, who was well-read, aloud.

Hearing his own mother's words, Lin Qian also began to recall, "Speaking of which, Sword Formation Emperor Zhang Juncheng once mentioned this in a casual conversation."

In the past, when chatting with Zhang Juncheng about the Black Blood Clan, the latter had mentioned this habit of the Black Blood Clan to Lin Qian.

"This habit caused them to miss many opportunities in battle, and as more and more corpses piled up, they became increasingly urgent to refine Blood Nourishing Corpses and zombie-like entities."

"But their actions became more and more insane, not to mention refining the corpses of the Human Clan, even the corpses of allied foreign clans were not spared."

"In the end, the Black Blood Clan brought about their own destruction, facing betrayal from some of the foreign clans. Otherwise, the victory would have been even bloodier," he reflected.

Recalling those distant years, Lin Qian still vividly remembered Zhang Juncheng's nostalgic and fearful expressions.

"Speaking of which, the Black Blood Clan was really strange. It seemed to have suddenly appeared on the Soul Martial Continent. At that time, the Human Clan was incredibly powerful, and they appeared at a border location. No one noticed at first, and it wasn't until they grew stronger that people realized that this clan had appeared out of nowhere."

"But at that time, they did not demonstrate the ability to refine Blood Nourishing Corpses and zombie-like entities, so they did not attract much attention. However, that was the problem, if people had discovered the oddity of this clan earlier and dealt with it, the disaster could have been averted."

"Although the Human Clan suffered heavy losses, the other foreign clans didn't have it easy either."

Thinking back on Zhang Juncheng's sentiments, Lin Qian felt a mix of emotions.

"Wait a moment!" Just then, Lin Qian suddenly came back to his senses, "Did Emperor Teacher Zhang Juncheng ever say that the Black Blood Clan appeared out of nowhere on the Soul Martial Continent?"

A lightning bolt seemed to strike through Lin Qian's heart as he suddenly looked off into the distance.

The Yun family, they too had appeared out of nowhere on the Soul Martial Continent, just like the Black Blood Clan initially did, these two cases were exactly the same.

Appearing out of nowhere on the Soul Martial Continent, the cases of the Yun family and the Black Blood Clan were identical, it couldn't possibly be a coincidence.

Moreover, the blood of those who had become zombies was now black, the connection with the Black Blood Clan was definitely not that simple!

"Behind this matter, there is likely a dark hand at play," Lin Qian's face instantly darkened as he looked towards his loved ones, "Sword Formation Emperor once mentioned that the Black Blood Clan had appeared out of nowhere on the Soul Martial Continent, Mother, you who have studied the ancient texts, have you ever seen this mentioned?"

"...No!" Yun Yunyan listened to her son's question, thought carefully, and then shook her head in haste.