Chapter 465: Green-Eyed Qingyan Huo Suan Ni, Great Escape and Advancement, Furious

Bang!

Fifteen kilometers deep into the Blood Miasma Plain, beneath a blood-colored mountain about four or five hundred meters high, a black figure suddenly swooped down from mid-air, using his body to smash an opening directly into the cliff face. After quickly escaping inside, he did not forget to swing his sword to shake down the accumulated snow on the mountain, thoroughly burying the entrance.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Inside the pitch-black cave, Xia Hong coughed over a dozen times in succession, spitting out five or six mouthfuls of blood before his aura gradually stabilized.

His face was deathly pale. He hurriedly took out a golden, round pill from his Yellow Mustard Bag and swallowed it, then quickly summoned the Enlightenment Lotus Platform, sat cross-legged alone, and rapidly closed his eyes to heal his wounds.

"What on earth was that thing!"

While healing, Xia Hong did not relax his vigilance in the slightest, his mind constantly focused on the outside of the cave. It was only after a full several dozen breaths, sensing no aura approaching from outside, that he relaxed slightly. His pupils held both lingering fear and intense fury.

"With the strength of a hundred jun, except for the Yin-Yang Mirror, its methods were impossible to replicate. The Star-Shattering Sword and all other martial arts were exactly the same as mine. Neither Fire-Condensing Oil nor Yellow Candles had any effect on it. That monster, how did it achieve this step..."

Xia Hong looked at the more than twenty wounds on his body, recalling the hour-long pursuit by the fake Xia Hong and the five people including Fan Qinghu, and still felt a lingering fear.

At that critical moment, he had no choice but to choose to escape deep into the south side of the Blood Miasma Plain, but he was not mindlessly rushing in.

Compared to the fake Xia Hong and the other five, the depths of the Blood Miasma Plain were obviously more dangerous. If he rushed in regardless, he feared he would die even more miserably in the end.

Therefore, Xia Hong only slightly shifted his direction to the south, trying his best to maneuver with the fake Xia Hong and the five others for a full hour while ensuring his safety.

The result of the maneuvering was that the five people caught up with him time and time again; the twenty-plus wounds on his body now came from that.

While maneuvering, he was also constantly adjusting his southward angle. As the time spent maneuvering with the five grew longer, he was inevitably forced deeper and deeper into the Blood Miasma Plain.

"Are they afraid to chase over now, or has their goal already been achieved?"

While Xia Hong closed his eyes to focus on regulating his breath, he never relaxed his perception of the outside of the cave. He pondered slightly, his expression remaining as solemn as ever.

As his injuries began to recover rapidly, his expression finally relaxed a little.

The Saint Pulse Pill is currently the most precious Tier 6 pill in Great Xia. Even if a Cold-Resisting Realm expert has all their meridians broken, one pill can restore them to their original state. Strictly speaking, its efficacy has far exceeded the scope of healing; it is a divine pill that can be used to save lives and help crippled people restore their cultivation.

Currently, the entire Great Xia does not produce many, and each one is extremely precious. Xia Hong only brought 10 pills on this trip. Last year, when he was injured by General Black Wind at the Bone-Eroding Path, he only used one.

And this time, he had already taken one during the pursuit, and another after entering the cave, totaling two.

The Enlightenment Lotus Platform's five-fold cultivation amplification effect made his healing efficiency far exceed that of ordinary people. Although less than a hundred breaths had passed since entering the cave, his injuries had already healed by seventy or eighty percent.

"I know nothing about the miasma zone; I cannot move around randomly anymore..."

Xia Hong opened his eyes. Even though everything outside the cave was calm under his perception, his expression remained extremely heavy.

It was not his first time exploring an unfamiliar area. Even though he had been in a precarious situation being chased by the five, he remembered the general direction and time.

"From entering the plain until now, it's been less than three hours. My current position should be 15 kilometers deep in the miasma zone, more than 50 kilometers southwest of Cai Qiu's District 21. Theoretically, I shouldn't be far from Chen Cang!"

In the miasma zone, one cannot see the sky when looking up, and everything in sight is blood-colored; there is no distinction between day and night. Xia Hong could only rely on his feelings to remember the passage of time. The process of being chased just now was too dangerous, and being able to remember so much was thanks to the exploration experience accumulated in his bones early on; otherwise, if it were anyone else, they would have long since lost their sense of direction.

"There is danger no matter where I go now. No rush, eh..."

Zzzzz...

After Xia Hong pondered for a moment, a slight sound suddenly came from within his body. His expression froze slightly, and a trace of excitement suddenly rose in his pupils.

"It's the three Blood Jade Beads I just swallowed..."

It was the flesh and blood under his skin, which was now rapidly disintegrating and reorganizing!

The effect of those three Blood Jade Beads was very intense. Xia Hong had already felt it when he took them before, but at that time, he didn't have time to calm down and practice, so he could only let it progress slowly on its own.

But at this moment, the effect, which was already very strong, had actually increased several times over.

No, it should be several dozen times!

Xia Hong looked down at the Enlightenment Lotus Platform he was sitting cross-legged on and realized it instantly. While joy rose on his face, there was also a trace of suspicion.

"No, no, the Enlightenment Lotus Platform only has a five-fold cultivation amplification. The effect amplification of the Blood Jade Beads is far more than five times; there must be other reasons..."

Xia Hong racked his brains for more than ten breaths. After failing to come up with a result, he simply threw this confusion to the back of his mind and then quickly urged the energy of the Blood Jade Beads to cooperate with the reorganization of his flesh and blood throughout his body.

He only used less than twenty breaths to absorb all the energy of the three Blood Jade Beads. After absorbing it, Xia Hong's expression froze suddenly, and then his face was full of shock.

"10 mane, increased by 0.1 jun of strength. I didn't feel wrong, did I?"

After the shock, Xia Hong clenched his fist and perceived it again, confirming that his strength had indeed increased by so much. His face was instantly full of ecstasy, and then, thinking of something, he quickly took out a blood-colored crystal from his Yellow Mustard Bag.

This was something that flew out of the shattered bones of an Iron-Bone Corpse Demon after he accidentally killed it near the Roman Flower Sea earlier.

The color of the Blood Jade Crystal was almost identical to the Blood Jade Bead, and the size was about the same as a fingernail. The only difference between the two was the form: one was crystalline, similar to quartz; the other was spherical, like a pill.

"They are of the same origin, so the usage method must be the same!"

Xia Hong observed for a moment and swallowed the Blood Jade Crystal directly into his abdomen.

Boom...

As the crystal entered his abdomen, a majestic energy burst forth, rapidly spreading through his body, flowing through his skin, flesh, meridians, and five internal organs, and finally slowly infiltrating toward his bones.

During this process, Xia Hong's face had long since turned red, because when the crystal energy flowed through various parts and organs of his body, a terrifying tearing sensation surged into his sea of consciousness, almost causing him to faint from the pain.

Xia Hong clenched his fists tightly. Although his whole body was trembling uncontrollably, he still did not let out a sound. Even at this moment, he still divided half of his mind to pay attention to the situation outside the cave.

His talent far exceeded that of ordinary people, so the pain he endured during the three processes of reshaping skin, regenerating flesh, and tempering bones was several or even ten times stronger than that of normal people. To this day, his nerves' ability to withstand pain was far beyond that of ordinary people.

As the crystal energy surged into his bones, his six-zhang-tall dark red bone image slowly appeared behind him. The blood-colored meridians on the periphery of the bone image were clearly visible, and it was obviously closer to being completely formed compared to when he had just broken through.

"Hoo... hoo..."

Xia Hong's Bone-Burning had grown many mysterious patterns like molten lava. As the crystal energy infiltrated the bone marrow, those lava patterns seemed to be injected with new energy and began to emit strong light.

The bursts of strong light obviously brought Xia Hong great pain, causing him to let out suppressed, low roars. However, during these continuous, uninterrupted roars, his dark red bones actually became more textured. To be precise, the original dark red was turning toward bright red.

"The Blood Jade Bead makes up for the defects in flesh and blood, and this Blood Jade Crystal targets the defects in the bone part. They are all for enhancing the foundation. This..."

In less than a hundred breaths, a Blood Jade Crystal was completely absorbed by Xia Hong. As the pain gradually dissipated, he came back to his senses. He first whispered with surprise, and after clenching his fist to perceive, his pupils suddenly contracted:

"It increased by almost 0.3 jun at once. I am now... 48 jun?"

Xia Hong was extremely sensitive to his own strength. Before entering the Blood Miasma Plain, his strength was 47.5 jun. So, 3 drops of Blood Jade Beads and 1 Blood Jade Crystal cumulatively allowed him to increase his strength by nearly half a jun?

"Killing Cold Beasts yields Blood Jade Beads, killing Iron-Bone Corpse Demons yields Blood Jade Crystals. Then, killing Copper-Bone Corpse Demons must yield even better things, right?"

The key is, since there are Copper-Bone, will there be Silver-Bone, Gold-Bone...

Xia Hong's expression froze suddenly, and he hurriedly suppressed his unrealistic thoughts.

He had seen those four Copper-Bone Corpse Demons in the Roman Flower Sea earlier; their strength was basically around 30 jun. The key was that those Corpse Demons had extremely outstanding defensive capabilities, liked to move in groups, and could cooperate with monsters; they were definitely not easy to deal with. If the Copper-Bone level was like this, even if there were Silver-Bone or even Gold-Bone Corpse Demons, they were not something he could deal with now.

But even so, Xia Hong's pupils were still full of heat at this moment.

"As long as there are large quantities of Blood Jade Beads and Blood Jade Crystals, quickly making up for the defects in flesh and bones, I can continue to enhance my foundation. All these foundations will be converted into my strength. In other words, without a breakthrough in cultivation, my strength will also usher in a round of..."

Buzz buzz buzz!

A low-frequency vibration came from the ground. The heat in Xia Hong's heart came to an abrupt end. He looked down suddenly, then realized something. A look of intense horror suddenly rose on his face. He stood up violently, put away the lotus platform, and his body rushed toward the cave entrance for his life.

Boom...

"Ah!"

A column of molten lava with extreme high temperature suddenly erupted from the ground, filling the cave in an instant. Violent cyan flames soared into the sky, incinerating the entire hilltop in an instant.

Xia Hong did not actively escape the cave entrance; the speed of the cyan lava was too fast. He had just reached the entrance when he was hit by the lava, and then his whole body caught fire instantly, smashing directly onto the snow-covered ground hundreds of meters away.

Bang...

When Xia Hong was hit by the fire column, he let out a violent scream. By the time he smashed into the snow, his scream barely stopped. When he got up again, his clothes were tattered, his whole body was emitting fire, his skin was less than one-tenth intact, and he was burned to a crisp.

He suppressed the pain of his skin and flesh being burned by the flames, quickly urged his bone energy to expel the flames from his body, and then turned his head to look at the cave he had just been in, his pupils full of horror.

"Gulp..."

Where was there any cave?

Xia Hong remembered very clearly that the cave was just under a snow-covered mountain more than four hundred meters high, but at this moment, in his field of vision, let alone the cave, even that four-hundred-meter-high snow-covered mountain was gone.

It wasn't gone; the snow-covered mountain was instantly evaporated, its height dropped by more than half, and the remaining small half was also shrouded in cyan flames, decreasing crazily at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It was feared that it would be completely razed to the ground in less than a hundred breaths.

And behind the high mountain, in the blood-colored miasma, a behemoth had appeared at some unknown time.

Its whole body was covered with a layer of cyan light mane, its shoulder height was a full hundred zhang, and its body length was at least over two hundred zhang. Standing still, it looked like a giant mountain, making people tremble with fear.

Behind its neck and on its spine, both parts were covered with long, red-cyan mane.

No, that was not a mane, but flowing blue-red flames. Those flames emitted a brilliant light, a radiance sufficient to pierce the miasma, circling its massive head like a terrifying, blazing sun rising amidst the blood-colored miasma.

Its four pitch-black claw blades, tightly gripped on the ground, were also constantly emitting cyan-red firelight. Let alone the accumulated snow, even the dust and stones on the ground were constantly being incinerated and evaporated, emitting violent thick smoke. It gave the feeling that its huge body was like riding the clouds and mist, suspended in mid-air.

The most chilling thing was its pair of cyan-gold vertical pupils, in which no trace of beastly madness could be found, only boundless indifference and insight, staring fixedly at Xia Hong, showing murderous intent while also containing a hint of playfulness.

"Fire Element, Five-Luminary Realm, Beast Emperor..."

Xia Hong instantly had these three terms pop up in his mind, then looked up at the behemoth in front of him. His first reaction was not fear, but rather, due to being too panicked, he felt an inexplicable dry mouth.

If he had to find a comparison among familiar things, the first thing Xia Hong thought of was the lion from his previous life, but the Five-Luminary Realm Beast Emperor in front of him, except for the general outline being somewhat similar, had no lion characteristics at all.

"Suanni, Green-Eyed Qingyan Huo Suan Ni, this name should be more appropriate!"

Xia Hong quickly found a name from his limited inventory that could describe the Five-Luminary Realm Beast Emperor in front of him.

The dragon has nine sons, and the one most like a lion is the Suanni.

Green-Eyed Qingyan Huo Suan Ni, this name is enough for it!

"Roar..."

Xia Hong's face was bitter at this moment; naming the Beast Emperor could be considered finding joy in suffering.

The Qingyan Huo Suan Ni suddenly roared, and a cyan lava column erupted from the position where Xia Hong was standing for no reason.

Having suffered once, it was naturally impossible to suffer a second time!

The moment the fire column erupted, Xia Hong did not hesitate at all, running for his life toward the west side, escaping directly.

Ptooey...

"If I get burned again, I'll really be naked!"

Xia Hong spat out a mouthful of blood foam, looked at his tattered clothes, and teased himself slightly. He bought these clothes in Cai Qiu, and thanks to the fact that they used a lot of silver thread, if he had changed into ordinary clothes, he would have been burned away by that hit just now.

Of course, the clothes were just self-deprecation!

He couldn't find a piece of good skin or flesh on his whole body at this moment. Not to mention the intensity of the flames exerted by this Suanni, the key was that the moment he was hit by the fire column, he clearly perceived that the strength was at least over eighty jun.

You know, this fire column was just a casual method exerted by that Qingyan Huo Suan Ni, and it might not even count as a powerful method. If this hit had a strength of over eighty jun, how strong must its true strength be?

"This Green-Eyed Qingyan Huo Suan Ni should be a single-fire-element Five-Luminary Realm Beast Emperor. A single strike of fire-element tribulation energy can destroy my entire skin and flesh. If it comes a few more times, I will definitely die. And this is just a tribulation energy method, its strength..."

Whoosh...

Xia Hong didn't need to speculate. The Green-Eyed Qingyan Huo Suan Ni didn't give him a chance to escape at all. That huge body actually caught up to his back in less than ten breaths. The pitch-black iron claws of its right forelimb suddenly pounced, and the blood miasma was instantly ignited by the three claw blades. The visual effect looked like three cracks had been clawed into space.

Clang...

No matter how panicked Xia Hong was, he could only raise the Star-Shattering Sword and turn around to resist. With a clang of the sword edge, he was directly slapped obliquely to the ground.

At the last moment of smashing toward the ground, Xia Hong took out his second weapon, the Coiled Dragon Staff, from his Yellow Mustard Bag, supported the ground obliquely, used the resilience of the Coiled Dragon Staff to bend and eject, suppressed the surging blood in his chest, and continued to run for his life crazily toward the west side.

"At least 30% stronger than me, minimum 130... no, 135 jun!"

So, the fake Xia Hong just now didn't give up on chasing, but felt there was no need to continue chasing.

This Green-Eyed Qingyan Huo Suan Ni was the killer move prepared by the other party!

Xia Hong's pupils trembled, and his expression became extremely gloomy after thinking through it. But at this moment, it was no longer his turn to think. Cyan lava fire columns from the ground came one after another, and the Qingyan Huo Suan Ni behind him was getting closer and closer. He could only continue to flee crazily toward the northwest.

Going south is the depth of the Blood Miasma Plain, and going east is back to Cai Qiu District 21. He can only flee toward the northwest to see if he can escape the miasma zone.

"There is another way..."

Xia Hong's strength was fully unleashed at this moment. His left eye flickered with light, constantly scanning the surrounding situation. Seeing that the lava fire columns he dodged had accidentally killed many high-level Cold Beasts, and even Beast Kings, a trace of ruthlessness flashed on his face.

"Let's see how long you can be fierce!"

He turned his head to look at the Qingyan Huo Suan Ni that was chasing him relentlessly, let out a cold laugh, and actually turned around and fled toward the ground. The target was exactly those killed Beast Kings and high-level Cold Beasts.

"Saved me the trouble!"

The diameter of the fire columns summoned by the Qingyan Huo Suan Ni was basically over five or six meters. Let alone those hidden high-level Blood Cold Beasts, even the Beast Kings were dissolved in an instant. Xia Hong didn't care about the Blood Jade Beads and Blood Jade Crystals all over the ground; he just grabbed them and stuffed them into his mouth without hiding them.

Whoosh...

But after doing this twice, it immediately aroused the fury of the Qingyan Huo Suan Ni behind. It obviously understood Xia Hong's behavior. Its hind limbs leaped into the air, aimed at the third area where Xia Hong was about to land, and turned into a giant cyan-red fireball, arriving in an instant.

However, Xia Hong didn't think he could succeed so easily for the third time. The Blood Jade Crystal he had just obtained had already been swallowed into his abdomen. Before glancing at the incoming sky-high flames, he had already raised the Star-Shattering Sword.

Ssh...

His body retreated to dodge, then turned and accumulated power in mid-air. The Star-Shattering Sword returned directly along the original path, bringing out a sharp sword edge hundreds of meters long.

The sword edge was densely covered with countless starlight, instantly slicing through the blood miasma, heading straight toward the pupils of the Green-Eyed Qingyan Huo Suan Ni.

Sky-Shattering Sword Art!

A martial art Xia Hong stole from Cai Qiuyang, the City Lord of Qinghua City, after coming to Cai Qiu. But unlike Cai Qiuyang, what he exerted at this moment was the most perfect version, combined with his long-fist power-exertion routine, the strength amplification could reach 50%.

48 jun of basic strength, 50% amplification from Saint Patterns and martial arts each, Xia Hong had already exerted his strongest strength at this moment, reaching a full 98 jun. Without considering the Battle Body Golden Body, in terms of strength alone, he was only 2 jun away from the weakest Tribulation Body Realm powerhouse.

"Roar..."

However, facing such a sword, not only was there no fear on the Green-Eyed Qingyan Huo Suan Ni's face, but Xia Hong's unexpected resistance seemed to have further aroused its fury.

It didn't dodge or evade, looked up and let out a roar. Along the path of Xia Hong's hundreds of sword edges, cyan lava fire columns suddenly erupted, attempting to unload all the power of Xia Hong's sword edge in mid-air, or block it directly.

Boom... ===== CHAPTER 466 =====