Chapter 673: Arrival! The First Divine Blood!

"Crimson Flame Serpent is just an ordinary eighth-rank fierce beast, not hard to kill.

It's just that the sighting is rather far — over 400 kilometers from Moben."

Although Ling Shuang possessed spatial abilities,

in the danger-filled wilderness of Dayangzhou, she couldn't casually teleport over.

Otherwise one careless slip and she'd teleport straight into the territory of a ninth-rank peak fierce beast.

Under the aura suppression of a ninth-rank peak fierce beast, she might not even be able to use her abilities.

Even if she ultimately escaped with her life, the odds were she'd be heavily wounded and on the brink of death.

Therefore, she prepared to travel on foot to her destination within the wilderness.

At her rapid pace, reaching the vicinity of the destination would take roughly seven days or so.

The return trip was fast, though — she could just teleport straight back into Moben city.

"Arranging me to go somewhere so far away, looks like this Liu Shan really doesn't want to see me."

Without much hesitation, Ling Shuang directly chose to accept the mission.

She'd been staying in the office too long anyway; a trip to the wilderness to stretch her legs counted as a bit of relaxation.

"I wonder if Jingming's back yet. He likes going to the wilderness so much — I could ask him to come along."

A hint of anticipation rose on Ling Shuang's pretty face.

Her slender figure blurred, and in an instant she vanished from the office, teleporting to the villa.

But unfortunately, there was no trace of Xu Jingming's aura in the neighboring villa.

"Looks like he's not back yet."

Ling Shuang felt a touch of regret. "Fine, I'll prep tonight and head to the wilderness tomorrow."

Caution keeps you afloat for ten thousand years — even though she was a Master Zongshi of the Nengdeda Sect who possessed an S-rank spatial ability.

Before entering the wilderness, she still had to make every preparation...

Five days later, deep in the Dayangzhou wilderness.

The sky was a vast, cloudless blue, brilliant sunlight pouring down upon the earth.

In the dense jungle, the roars of fierce beasts rose one after another, brimming with wild ferocity and bloodlust.

Bone-white skeletons could be seen everywhere throughout the jungle.

Those were the only proof left that prey had ever existed, after the fierce beasts had feasted.

Whoosh—

Xu Jingming, his tall frame wreathed in golden flames,

moved through the forest like a phantom, constantly weaving past the towering trees in his path.

"Roar—"

Catching the scent of a human, a fierce beast let out a bellowing snarl.

But in the blink of an eye, Xu Jingming had already vanished from sight.

"Eva, how much longer until we reach the destination?" Xu Jingming asked.

Today was the fifth day since he'd entered the wilderness.

Over those five days, he rarely struck to kill fierce beasts, unless one actually latched onto him.

As a result, the ability points on his system panel had risen by less than 10,000 — just enough to scrape together 900,000 ability points.

Correspondingly, aside from resting, all he did was travel.

He was already very close to the destination where the Lei Ting Storm Dragon King had shed its essence blood.

"Almost there — only a little under five kilometers left." Eva's voice sounded in his mind.

"Good, take out the Divine Blood Indicator first and see if it can point the way."

Xu Jingming slowed his pace in the dense jungle and drew the Divine Blood Indicator out of his spatial ring.

Buzz—

He pressed the activation button on the device, but aside from a faint sound, nothing else happened.

Xu Jingming was instantly dumbfounded — could this thing be broken?

Along the way he'd already run into several seventh-rank Masters, and even one eighth-rank Master Zongshi!

It was foreseeable that all of them were after the divine blood!

Without the Divine Blood Indicator, he wouldn't have the advantage when it came to collecting the divine blood.

"Is the distance still too great?" Xu Jingming's brow furrowed.

On the surface, the Divine Blood Indicator looked like a piece of tech, but its innermost core was a tube of extremely special blood.

The entire device relied on that tube of blood to point the way.

If the blood showed no special reaction, even the intelligent life Eva was stumped.

But just then, the Thorn Sword Grass coiled around his armor

suddenly extended a single stem and leaf, pointing toward the right-front direction.

At the same time, the Thorn Sword Grass sent a faint wave of excitement.

"Is there some special exotic flower or herb in that direction?

But what I want isn't exotic flowers or herbs — it's divine blood."

Xu Jingming, sensing the Thorn Sword Grass's spiritual fluctuation, shook his head.

But suddenly, as if thinking of something, he turned the Divine Blood Indicator toward the direction the Thorn Sword Grass was pointing.

Buzz—

The once-dim Divine Blood Indicator unexpectedly lit up with a faint crimson glow!

"There's divine blood in that place!" Xu Jingming's eyes immediately lit up.

Divine blood — not only humans and fierce beasts can gain benefits after absorbing it.

Even plants can obtain growth, evolving from ordinary plants into rare flowers and exotic herbs!

In fact, many famous spirit fruits and exotic flowers and herbs came into being through transformation only after being stained with the blood of high-tier fierce beasts.

After sensing the Thorn Sword Grass's emotion, he instinctively tried the Divine Blood Indicator, and to his surprise, there really was divine blood in that direction!

"It seems this Divine Blood Indicator isn't broken — it's just that the distance was too far and the direction was off, which is why there was no reaction."

Xu Jingming held the Divine Blood Indicator in his left hand and the Molting Fiend Obsidian Spear in his right, sprinting swiftly toward the direction the Thorn Sword Grass had indicated.

As the distance grew closer, the glow on the Divine Blood Indicator in his left hand grew ever more dazzling.

When Xu Jingming reached his destination, the Divine Blood Indicator had already lit up with a faint, pale crimson orb of light.

And what met his eyes on the ground were three small pits.

In each small pit, there was a glob of crimson blood.

An ordinary person's blood would clot after four or five days.

But this blood was incomparably fresh, carrying a faint metallic scent, with what seemed to be a faint flicker of blue-purple lightning within it.

Beside the blood, most of the plants had already withered.

Yet a small portion of the plants had still survived, brimming with vitality.

Not every ability-user can absorb divine blood — for plants, the same holds true.

If left undisturbed, after another five or six years,

these plants that ultimately survived would finally grow into B-grade, or even A-grade, rare flowers and exotic herbs.

At the same time, Xu Jingming also felt this blood emanating a faint pull of attraction toward his own body.

But it wasn't all that strong — entirely negligible.

"It's the divine blood of a Thunderstorm Tyrant Dragon King, but the quantity is extremely small — probably not even 200 ml."

Xu Jingming shook his head.

Compared to a Thunderstorm Tyrant Dragon King that was like a small mountain, this 200 ml of blood was indeed pitifully little.

And judging from the battle in the video, the Thunderstorm Tyrant Dragon King lost at least several hundred liters of blood that day!

The only thing worth being grateful for was that this wasn't the blood of that other Flame Giant Eagle.

"Friend over there, could you let me have the divine blood here?"

Just as Xu Jingming took out a container and prepared to collect it, a voice suddenly rang out from behind him.