Chapter 125: Mysterious Blood! Deadly Attraction!

The ranks of psychics, from first to third tier, are called low-tier psychics.

Fourth to sixth tier are called mid-tier psychics!

The reason for this naming is that when a psychic advances from third to fourth tier, their power undergoes a qualitative breakthrough!

Under equal psychic levels,

a fourth-tier lower-grade psychic's strength is more than ten times greater than that of a third-tier peak psychic!

This holds true for ferocious beasts as well.

The Blue System's evaluation for acquiring psychic points also roughly follows this strength-based pattern.

Killing a third-tier peak ferocious beast yields 40 to 50 psychic points; killing a fourth-tier lower-grade ferocious beast yields around 200 to 220 psychic points.

The 213 psychic points gained from this Source Water Giant Crocodile are relatively substantial.

Of course,

the cost was immense—it consumed nearly one-third of Xu Jingming's psychic energy.

"The Source Water Giant Crocodile is dead. Let's go take a look."

This wasn't the first time he'd killed a fourth-tier ferocious beast.

So Xu Jingming's expression showed no change as he walked ahead toward the pond.

But Song Qiuyun was different.

Having witnessed such a scene for the first time, her worldview had been shattered!

Born into a Master Zongshi family, she had seen plenty of geniuses—even she herself was a genius who crushed all her peers in the province!

Yet she had never seen a genius as monstrous as Xu Jingming.

He had crossed two major tiers, killing a fourth-tier lower-grade ferocious beast with only second-tier upper-grade power!

And it was a one-hit kill!

No one would believe it if he told them...

"So this is your true strength..."

Song Qiuyun took a deep breath, her chest rising slightly beneath her tight combat suit.

Only after her emotions stabilized did she step toward the pond's edge.

As she approached, she saw Xu Jingming staring at the charred corpse with regret:

"The most valuable part of the Source Water Giant Crocodile is its scales and skin—but they're all destroyed."

The skin of a fourth-tier Source Water Giant Crocodile, if peeled intact, could sell for at least twenty to thirty million.

"Not just the skin—every part of a fourth-tier ferocious beast is valuable," Song Qiuyun said with a smile.

"True enough, but my space ring isn't big enough—if I stuffed this whole crocodile inside, I'd have almost no room left."

When his space ring held only one cubic meter, Xu Jingming thought a ten-cubic-meter ring was huge.

But as he entered the Wild Zone more often, he began to feel even a ten-cubic-meter ring wasn't enough...

"Keep it with me—I've got a big enough space ring. When we get back to the supply base, I'll return it to you."

"Fine, leave it with you for now," Xu Jingming nodded.

With his agreement, Song Qiuyun extended her slender hand and pressed it against the crocodile's corpse.

The space ring glowed faintly, and the entire crocodile vanished inside.

"How big is your space ring?" Xu Jingming asked curiously.

Since entering the Wild Zone yesterday, Song Qiuyun had collected plenty of ferocious beast materials.

Yet she had never mentioned her ring was too small.

"Not big—just thirty cubic meters," Song Qiuyun giggled.

"Thirty cubic meters is already huge!"

Xu Jingming marveled.

No wonder she was a rich girl from a Master Zongshi family—even thirty cubic meters counts as "not big."

The ferocious beasts around here probably all know how dangerous this water source is.

Few come to drink here anymore; staying here serves no purpose.

Let's go find a cave to rest."

Xu Jingming opened the map on his smart bracelet, preparing to check nearby caves.

But to his surprise, his top-right score had jumped by a full ten thousand points!

"A fourth-tier lower-grade ferocious beast is worth this much?"

Xu Jingming was startled.

He had expected at most five thousand points.

"Not everyone can kill a fourth-tier ferocious beast—higher scores are normal," Song Qiuyun chuckled lightly.

In truth, given the enormous power gap between fourth-tier and third-tier peak,

she even doubted whether the other S-rank third-tier psychic, Kieran,

could kill a fourth-tier ferocious beast at all...

Also, that other S-rank, tier-3 ability user Jilan—is he simply unable to kill a tier-4 fierce beast at all...?

Xu Jingming nodded slightly, then quickly spotted a location marked as "Ring Earth Gray Bear Den" on the map:

"Let's go there—Ring Earth Gray Bears usually use caves as dens."

"Uh, could we wait a bit before going there?"

Looking at the clear pond nearby, Song Qiuyun hesitated.

Looking at the clear pool of water not far away, Song Qiuyun hesitated and said.

"What? Is there a problem?" Xu Jingming asked, puzzled.

"No, no problem."

Song Qiuyun hurriedly waved her hand, her pretty face flushing slightly, and said softly:

"There's a pool of water here, I want to take a quick bath..."

If it were any other time, she would absolutely not be in such a hurry.

But the intensity of the battles over the past two days had really been too great, leaving her whole body feeling sticky.

Xu Jingming immediately understood upon hearing this.

In the wilderness zone, taking a bath is an extremely luxurious thing.

Because the vast majority of water sources are inhabited by large numbers of fierce beasts, making it impossible to approach.

Otherwise, one would have to use carried drinking water to wash.

For Song Qiuyun, who possessed a large-capacity spatial ring, she could perhaps do so.

But with such a ready-made pool of water available now, naturally one wouldn't be so extravagant as to use drinking water for a bath.

"Wait, let me first check if there are any other fierce beasts in the pool."

Xu Jingming nodded slightly, stepped to the edge of the pool, and observed carefully.

The area of this pool was not large, roughly the size of a circle with a diameter of over ten meters.

The depth was quite deep, about three or four meters, the spring water clear, the bottom visible at a glance.

But just to be safe, Xu Jingming still squatted down, plunged his right hand into the pool, and Doushen Shenlei erupted violently!

Crackle-crackle—

Blue-purple Lei Ting instantly filled the entire pool of water!

As the pool water churned, it only stirred up some weeds from the bottom.

And besides making the water slightly turbid, there seemed to be no major changes.

"There shouldn't be any other fierce beasts."

Xu Jingming's Lei Ting around his body receded.

But just then, in the center of the pool water that had been gradually calming down, a stream of bubbles suddenly emerged!

Immediately after, a streak of crimson color seeped up from the bottom of the pool.

In just a moment, it dyed the entire pool of water as if it were blood!

A bloody smell instantly filled the air!

But unlike an ordinary bloody smell, this bloody smell actually carried a faint, delicate fragrance!

At the same time, Xu Jingming also sensed a fatal attraction emanating from this blood-red pool water!

"This is...?"

Xu Jingming's face showed a look of horror; this attraction was as if it came from his body's instinctive craving!

Wanting to absorb all this blood water into his body!