Chapter 141: Dragon Blood Divine Fruit

At the same time, Qin Ming also felt deeply that his choice back then had been extremely wise.

Back then, he had not taken the risk of entering the Beast Cry Mountain Range to hunt demonic beasts in order to obtain their essence blood.

Leaving other things aside, who could have expected that killing a single White-Armed Gray Ape would trigger such a massive calamity?

Wiping out three major Foundation Establishment families would cause a huge uproar even in the Lingxi Archipelago, let alone in the Yunze Xiancheng.

Unfortunately, no matter how cautious he was, he still got entangled in this affair.

Qin Ming couldn't help but sigh inwardly, "Sigh! I just hope that demonic ape finishes avenging its blood feud and leaves quickly."

He then turned his gaze toward Wu Jiang, who looked utterly dispirited.

"Fellow Daoist Wu, it is good that you returned safely."

"With a demonic ape running amok outside lately, it is best to stay on the island for now."

"Let's wait until the storm blows over," Qin Ming said, patting Wu Jiang on the shoulder.

Just now, he had also learned from Wu Jiang that, in order to gather intelligence, two members of the Wu clan had died outside and failed to return.

After nodding in agreement, Wu Jiang withdrew and left.

Inside his cave dwelling, Qin Ming pondered alone for a long while.

He then walked out toward that Dragon Blood Divine Tree; it seemed that the opportunity for another breakthrough in strength lay precisely in this spiritual plant.

In the days that followed,

Qin Ming first planted some low-grade spiritual herbs in the spiritual field outside; three months later, he harvested five 【Ripen】 tags.

He approached his life spirit plant, the Longevity Vine, and ripened all several dozen black demonic flowers on its vines.

Afterwards, he went to the edge of the Spiritual Water Pool beneath the main peak and ripened those three Jade Flower Spiritual Lotuses that possessed tags as well.

Within his sea of consciousness, six blue tag-leaves appeared: 【Slight Lifespan】 x5, 【Space-Time Leaf】 x5, 【Potent Purity】 x5, 【Qi and Blood Crystal】 x5, 【Space-Time Leaf】 x5, 【Potent Adaptation】 x5; Qin Ming immediately used up the 【Slight Lifespan】 and 【Qi and Blood Crystal】 tags.

In an instant,

a force of time descended upon Qin Ming; his lifespan suddenly increased by another fifty years, reaching a lengthy span of over four hundred and seventy years, already comparable to that of a Jin Dan old ancestor.

Possessing such a long lifespan even at the Foundation Establishment stage, he had ample time to pursue the Great Dao.

After using up those five 【Qi and Blood Crystal】 tags, Qin Ming's Qi and Blood True Gang also increased by one-third.

He was getting closer and closer to meeting the requirements for cultivating the second transformation of True Gang Manifestation.

Afterwards,

Qin Ming arrived at the entrance of his cave dwelling, gazed at that somewhat malnourished Dragon Blood Divine Tree, and with a thought, used one 【Potent Adaptation】 tag.

A streak of golden light fell upon the Dragon Blood Divine Tree, and a silent change began to occur within it.

Qin Ming closed his eyes and, using his powerful affinity with plants and trees, sensed the condition of this spiritual plant.

He saw that its roots had grown anew into numerous net-like systems, beginning to spread outward in all directions, drawing spiritual energy from the earth veins.

The leaves, originally listless, also began to gradually lift up, fluttering in the wind.

After this tag was used, the extremely delicate Dragon Blood Divine Tree immediately adapted to the environment here and began to brim with vitality.

However, this was not enough; Qin Ming consecutively used five 【Space-Time Leaf】 tags, ripening this Dragon Blood Divine Tree to five hundred years of age.

In Qin Ming's line of sight, the Dragon Blood Divine Tree, originally only two feet tall, began to grow wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A force of years knotted and lingered around it, lasting for a full half-month.

In the end, the entire spiritual plant grew to over twenty feet tall, lush with branches and leaves, and bloomed with blood-red flowers.

Qin Ming did not rush to ripen it further; instead, he had the Yin Yi Shuangfeng lead its swarm of spiritual bees to begin pollinating the Dragon Blood Divine Tree.

The Yin Yi Shuangfeng absorbed the essence from the blood-red flowers, and its aura surged once again, as if it had gained immense benefit.

The pollination continued for a full month before ending.

The Yin Yi Shuangfeng led the bee swarm back to the beehive within the Longevity Vine.

Afterwards, Qin Ming used another 【Space-Time Leaf】 tag to ripen the blood-red flowers on the tree.

This Dragon Blood Divine Tree only bore fruit once every hundred years, but here with Qin Ming, he had directly achieved freedom of Dragon Blood Divine Fruits.

Just as he was thinking this with great delight,

the original hundred-plus blood-red flowers one after another withered; these fallen petals transformed into streams of crimson energy that flowed into the flowers that had been preserved.

In the end, only eighteen blood-red spiritual flowers remained.

Immediately afterward, strange spiritual fruits, as if covered in dragon scales, continuously grew larger and matured; finally, more than ten fist-sized crimson spiritual fruits appeared before Qin Ming's eyes.

Even from a great distance, he could sense the astonishing Qi and blood contained within the spiritual fruits.

Furthermore, since this spiritual plant had grown from dragon serpent essence blood falling upon it, even the spiritual fruits contained a trace of dragon serpent bloodline energy.

After the spiritual fruits matured, they emitted a strong scent of blood.

"Truly worthy of being the legendary Dragon Blood Divine Fruit!"

With a casual grab, Qin Ming drew a Dragon Blood Divine Fruit radiating crimson spiritual glow; resembling a giant egg covered in red scales, it fell from the tree into his hand.

At this moment,

the Profound Water Crocodile and the Yin Yi Shuangfeng, seemingly having caught the scent, rushed to Qin Ming's side with the speed of wind and lightning.

The two beasts gazed at the fruits on the Dragon Blood Divine Tree, revealing extremely eager expressions.

That fellow Profound Water Crocodile, so hopeless, drooled all over the ground.

"I haven't even eaten one yet; what are you two rushing for?"

Looking at their appearance, Qin Ming frowned and scolded them.

However, he then thought that once these two spiritual beasts grew up in the future, they would also become part of his own strength.

So he immediately plucked two more Dragon Blood Divine Fruits from the tree and tossed one to each of them.

Having obtained the spiritual fruits, the Profound Water Crocodile and the Yin Yi Shuangfeng looked excited and each began to digest the qi and blood within them.

For them, such rare spirit fruits were surely greatly nourishing treasures.

Qin Ming then plucked a Dragon Blood Divine Fruit himself, enduring the intense bloody odor, and consumed it completely in several large bites.

Roar! The instant he finished eating this spirit fruit.

Within Qin Ming's body, the roar of a flood dragon unexpectedly rang out.

Qi and blood power, like mountains toppling and seas overturning, erupted wildly within him like a volcanic explosion.

Qin Ming's face flushed crimson; he hurriedly circulated the Foundation Establishment chapter of the "Hundred Treasures Glazed Sutra" and began cultivating.

The ceaseless flow of qi and blood power was transformed by him into even more condensed qi and blood true force.

Sitting cross-legged beneath the Dragon Blood Divine Tree, Qin Ming remained seated for a full three days before fully refining the qi and blood contained within a single Dragon Blood Divine Fruit.

He could clearly feel that his qi and blood true force had improved significantly once again.

Another month and more passed.

After Qin Ming consumed all dozen-plus Dragon Blood Divine fruits on the tree, he had accumulated the qi and blood true force throughout his body to a terrifying degree.

He had already reached the requirement for cultivating the second transformation of True Force Shapeshifting.

Qin Ming once again took out that beast-hide map, circulated his qi and blood true force, and injected it into the hide.

Once the qi and blood true force met the cultivation conditions, the Hundred Beasts Contemplation Diagram was activated again; new regions unlocked on the map, and subsequently, illusory light clusters of various demonic beasts emerged.

Qin Ming was pondering which demonic beast form to choose next.

A streak of purple bright light appeared before his eyes once again.

It was that feeling of fortune arriving as the heart desired.

Qin Ming hesitated no longer; he gently focused his intent upon that cluster of purple light.

(End of Chapter)