Inside the circle, were a group of 10 people. There was Hou, Penn, Hamar, Hafar, Armen and associated family members. Hafar had his two parents, Armen and Penn had their wife and children.
They were all in a combination blood-magic formation. The plan for this was to sacrifice Hou's time spirit and go back in time. It uses both blood formation and magic to bend the laws of the world letting it happen.
Hou had two experts with him which allowed him to do this. He had Yue, the blood expert, and Araxis who had both knowledge of magic and who knows the inner workings of the world.
Hou was still a beginner in Araxis' eyes and needed to use materials and ingredients to supplement the magic. Hou could use both mana and qi due to his special body created by Yue, along with some trickery by Araxis.
Hou looked at everyone for confirmation, and once he got it, he sat down. Sitting in cross legged position on the floor, Hou entered into astral projection and begun his movement.
Hou saturated his body with wills and begun multitasking. He started activating his blood formation and mobilising his spirit. Then at the same time, in the astral realm, he started using magic.
The blood formation started to glow and Hou started to float in the air. The whole mountain started to shake, dusty falling onto the ground. Hou continued with help from both Yue and Araxis, quickly using up his wills he saturated within himself.
Then everyone in the circle saw a flash out light. They lost consciousness for a second and when they woke up they were all in the cavern on the floor.
Hou was still afloat in the air when he started to morph. His body became smaller and his hair became white until it shifted back to red. It continually shifted and morphed into different forms.
Hou was battling his old body and soul, unlike everyone else he had another one of him here. Whichever soul won would absorb the other.
Saviour was standing on the tower in Sacrarium when suddenly he felt a pulsing headache. He flowered into the air by an unknown force and he started to morph. His form became unsteady.
He quickly gained some control, and activating his gateway. When he started shifting he saw a different area it seemed like some sort of cave. Saviour used a gateway to travel to the cave and find who attacked him.
In the cave, ask those who woke up saw a peculiar sight, there were two shifting forms, both turned into eachother and back. They were unstable until something clicked and they flew towards eachother.
They let out a bright flash, and once it was gone, ask those there saw Hou standing there but he was different. He has white tips on his hair and his overall silhouette shrunk, his robe was still black but it seemed uncomfortable, it was moving erratically.
"Quiet." Hou says a single word and the robe suddenly became still, forming to his body. The river was 'registered' to Hou's reconstituted body and now that it had changed it did not accept him.
That was until Hou used his blood path knowledge and it recognised him once more, he had won. He had absorbed Saviour, his past self. Ask the memories were fresh in his mind but his personality was his own new one.
But the most important thing, he had gained the blessing he had before, in addition to all his new abilities!
"It's worked, everyone we are in action, wait for me here"
With that, Hou activated a gateway, into the sunlight inner world, bypassing any protections. Hou then stepped into the light. He was now a physical thing in a non physical world.
Hou then absorbed the inner world into his own, instantly Hou felt the whole inner world be absorbed into his, the sunlight become blood qi and the whole world collapsed and go into him. Now Hou was floating in a void, he would be stuck here but now he could create gateways and he returned.
"We did it, I have become on par with that sun god cultivator!"
Everyone congratulated Hou on his achievements as he stuck out his hand. A gate opened in front of his hand, a large town with a massive void above them.
Initially it was a gateway to the sun inner world, letting sunlight all around Sacrarium. However, when Hou absorbed the inner world, the world collapsed leaving a void.
However Hou know had all the spirits the sun cultivator had, and all of their qi, converted to his. Hou used the same spirit he used in Hou sect and made the atmosphere clean and lively around Sacrarium.
He then gestured for Hamar and everyone else to step through. They followed him and moved across the gateway, their surrounding morphing instantly to a dark and miasma filled forest outside of Sacrarium.
"Do not be alarmed! It is me, Saviour!" The guards atop Sacrarium's walls were stunned. They had not seen anyone leave but they heard an unknown voice say it was their leader.
"Don't try to deceive us, you do not sound like Saviour! Who are you really, don't decieve us out we will attack!"
The guards then went to use their symbiotes to scare the unknown people into surrendering their identities. That was until they realised, they're symbiotes would not work, their sunlight was also being lost at an alarming rate!
"I am him, do not be alarmed, I didn't want you to attach us so I disabled your attacks! Bring Arm to me and he should be able to tell who I am!"
The guards were shook at their powers not working and sensing his feeling, quickly scrambled to get Arm.
Hou had released his inner world and surrounded Sacrarium easily. After absorbing the other inner world he could span a much larger area. Now that an the symbiotes and spirit wills inside were under his control nobody could use them without his permission and blood qi.
Over time the symbiotes would absorb blood qi but still could not work if Hou did not want them to.