I Contracted All Ancient Divine Artifacts

Chapter 448: Chapter 347: The True Corrupted One

”Discovery? Discover what?”

”Discover that it’s actually you who is the true polluted one?”

Han Zhan’s words were like a thunderclap, suddenly ringing in everyone’s ears, deafening!

Li Heng is the polluted one?

Upon hearing Han Zhan’s words, both Li Wu and Li Lingzhen distanced themselves from him.

Li Heng didn’t deny it.

He merely repeated the same question he had asked before: ”How did you find out?”

”I thought I was acting perfectly. Why did you suspect me?”

Indeed, from the moment they met, to now, Li Heng had always acted harmless as a dove.

Aside from losing his composure when Li Wu expressed the intention to leave, which was a completely normal reaction.

”It’s precisely because you’re so ordinary that I started to suspect you.”

Li Heng: ”???”

Is being ordinary a mistake?

”Of course it is. Don’t forget, this is the Blood Pool. According to the logic of the High Priest, only those who have made outstanding contributions to the Jiuli Race have the chance to enter here.”

”Li Lingzhen and I go without saying. Look at Li Wu; not only did he complete a task for the High Priest, but he also achieved the pinnacle in Body Tempering to earn his qualifications.”

And Li Heng?

From the time they met until now, Li Heng’s performance could definitely be described as utterly unremarkable.

Can an utterly unremarkable person truly enter the limited spots of the Blood Pool?

This was the fundamental reason for Han Zhan’s suspicion.

And once a seed of doubt was planted, looking at other things would seem different.

For instance:

Why did Kuafu appear, and what was his purpose?

Initially, Han Zhan thought Kuafu was just a manifestation of Blood Pool’s pollution, replaying old scenes, but such reasoning was a bit far-fetched.

Later, he figured it out.

Kuafu’s appearance was to mislead them into thinking the trait material was just above the Blood Sea, easily discoverable.

Because of this, it successfully delayed them a lot of time, causing each person to be polluted to varying degrees and attracting pure pollution monsters.

If it weren’t for Han Zhan’s intervention in the end, they would have been completely wiped out.

This was the first negative impact Kuafu brought upon them.

The second was the misleading return method.

After the previous battle, Han Zhan began to doubt the accuracy of the information Kuafu provided.

If Kuafu’s ”trait material is easily discovered” was false,

Then couldn’t Kuafu’s ”extract and crush the Blood Core” also be false?

That scene with Kuafu was a calculated deception by the polluted one!

Once he figured this out, the identity of the polluted one became obvious.

First, exclude Li Lingzhen.

Then exclude Li Wu.

The last one remaining had to be Li Heng, this seemingly unremarkable and unimpressive background character!

He deliberately downplayed his presence and later quarreled with Li Wu, aiming to make Li Wu insist on leaving and crush the Blood Core!

”If I’m not mistaken, if we crush the Blood Core, we’ll be trapped here forever, becoming polluted like you, right?”

In the face of Han Zhan’s rhetorical question, Li Heng coldly chuckled.

He didn’t answer.

Not answering already proved the answer.

Li Wu listened with lingering fear; if Han Zhan hadn’t noticed the clues and exposed the polluted one’s scheme, they might really have died here!

When the lie was exposed, the polluted one’s scheme became powerless.

”We just need to find the teleportation point to leave the Blood Pool. Your plot failed.”

As soon as Li Wu finished speaking, Li Heng suddenly burst into maniacal laughter.

”Teleportation point?”

”Do you really think I’d follow you all this way and do nothing?”

”To tell you the truth, from the beginning of Kuafu chasing the sun scene, I was fully prepared.”

”Misleading you to search for trait materials, stalling time, attracting pure pollution monsters to kill you, that’s one.”

”Giving you the wrong departure method, making you crush the Blood Core to self-destruct, that’s two.”

”If you are smart enough to discover my plan, like now, then I have one last resort, that’s three!”

Li Heng said, raising three fingers.

”Although I can’t remove the teleportation point from the Blood Pool, that’s the rule of the Blood Pool itself. However, I can hide it within the entire Blood Sea, making it hard for you to find it for a while!”

Unable to find the teleportation point, the longer you stay in the polluted Blood Pool, the more dangerous it becomes.

This was a blatant open conspiracy!

”Despicable!” Li Wu’s indignant voice sounded, as he swung his Beheading Great Saber, intending to cut the sneering guy in front of him in half.

But the next second, he missed.

Li Heng had already prepared himself; he suddenly leaned backward, with a splash, fell into the Blood Sea, and disappeared.

Immediately, the entire Blood Sea was shrouded in large areas of dense white mist once again.

”The teleportation point should be at the convergence of currents in the Blood Sea, this is what the High Priest told me. We need to head there quickly!” Li Wu said anxiously.

”It’s too late.” Han Zhan shook his head.

He watched the thickening mist, both amused and helpless.

”If Li Heng dared to speak so ruthlessly, he must have been fully prepared.”

”If we still follow the High Priest’s method and follow the currents’ guidance, we might be misled to another place again.”

”More likely, Li Heng also knows this method of finding the teleportation point and could be lying in wait there.”

Although a few pure pollution monsters were not Han Zhan’s match, there was no guarantee no other accidents would occur.

For instance, summoning the deceased Great Power of the Jiuli Race in the Blood Pool.

”What do we do now?”

”If we continue to hold here, we will soon get more seriously polluted!”

Gazing at the thick white mist, Li Wu worriedly remarked.

This too was why Han Zhan was both amused and helpless.

Li Heng seemed to have calculated everything, but he seemed to have missed one thing.

That is—

Han Zhan possesses a method to remove the pollution!

Supreme Treasure, Bodhi Treasure Tree!

If the Blood Pool is truly the place nurturing a Demon God, then the divine thought enlightenment and pollution within must also be of Divine Level.

For ordinary people, such pollution indeed was irreversible and unsolvable.

But for Han Zhan, it was a different story entirely.

Han Zhan possesses the Bodhi Treasure Tree, whose quality level must not be lower than the pollution and divine thought of the Blood Pool.

It could completely eliminate the pollution, allowing Han Zhan and his companions to return to normal.

This was also his confidence in seeking wealth amidst danger.

However, Han Zhan did not immediately explain this to Li Wu because Li Heng might be watching them from the shadows.

His gaze fell in a certain direction,

where the Izaki Young Snake Battle Spirit lost contact before.

”We’ll enter the Blood Pool Maze to shake him off.”