Chapter 285: Nine-Rank Blood Lotus, Blood-Thirsty Spirit Vine

Perhaps it was sensing Fang Longye's arrival, or perhaps the fierce creature gestating within this blood pool had truly reached the time to be born.

The blood in the pool was rapidly receding, or rather, diminishing, and that fierce, baleful Aura grew increasingly magnificent.

Fang Longye could even sense that the vitality within the blood pool, which was not weak to begin with, was rising exponentially and surging forth.

"This is becoming a bit troublesome!" Fang Longye thought to himself as he gazed at the blood pool before him.

Along the way, the Longbo giants and members of the Giant Ao Clan he had seen—judging solely by the Aura of their remains—were at the very least at the Taiyi Realm.

Some even exuded the Aura of the Daluo Realm.

As a result, so much essence blood and origin had all gathered into this blood pool.

Given this, it was truly hard to imagine what kind of fierce might the creature gestating within this blood pool would possess.

Of course, with the Profound Spirit Escape Armor, he was not worried about his own safety.

No matter how formidable the creature gestating in this blood pool was, it was impossible for it to reach the Daluo Realm the moment it was born.

Because the Daluo Realm was too profound; even among those Xiantian Shengsheng born alongside heaven and earth, few were at the Daluo Realm upon birth.

It was merely a fierce creature born from the mixed essence blood and origin of a Longbo giant and the Giant Ao Clan.

It was not even Xiantian, so it was impossible for it to be at the Daluo Realm upon birth.

As long as it was not Daluo, it could not pose a threat to his life, given that he was now fully equipped with Supreme Spiritual Treasures.

The key was that the essence blood and origin in this blood pool contained quite a lot from Daluo existences.

He was drooling with greed.

How could he let this fierce creature devour it wantonly? "Forget it! Even if I anger this soon-to-be-born fierce creature, I must snatch some Daluo essence blood and origin from its mouth."

Watching the viscous blood in the pool continuously recede, Fang Longye could not help but feel a pang of heartache.

This was all essence blood and origin left behind by Taiyi and even Daluo beings! And yet, it was all being squandered by this unborn beast in the blood pool! He immediately shook his body, transformed into a dragon-headed giant ten thousand miles tall, his entire body wreathed in brilliant bright flames, and arrived beside the blood pool in one step.

Law of Heaven and Earth, Creation Divine Fire!

If not for the consideration that this place was the battlefield of the Longbo Clan and the Giant Ao Clan, and the fear that releasing Sun True Fire and Zhurong Divine Fire would cause some kind of anomaly.

It would not just be the Creation Divine Fire accompanying him~ Sizzle—

Thanks to his exchanges and discussions with Yang Chan, the Creation Divine Fire on Fang Longye was countless times more refined than before.

Once released, it immediately annihilated the drifting baleful Qi.

For a moment, the unborn fierce creature even seemed less fierce and baleful.

He first pulled up the blood-thirsty spirit vine and put it away. Then, he reached out a claw, and an unimaginable devouring force headed toward the blood pool.

It was the Two Instruments Divine Gourd that had appeared in his palm.

The blood in the pool was continuously sucked out by him and fell into the Two Instruments Divine Gourd.

Fang Longye still felt it was not fast enough.

He released the Refining Immortal Pot and the Juntian Divine Gourd, competing with the unborn fierce creature below to snatch the various essence blood and origin in the blood pool.

……

Roar—

Not long after, a roar a thousand or ten thousand times louder than thunder suddenly erupted.

The blood surged a thousand miles high, and the splashing blood immediately corroded and annihilated a large expanse of the void.

A blood sphere, no more than a few miles in diameter, leaped up from the blood pool, carrying immense Great Strength, and crashed toward Fang Longye.

Damn it! Fang Longye cursed inwardly, not out of fear.

It was just that the surface of this blood sphere was covered in lumps and had protrusions resembling blood vessels, and it carried a foul, disgusting scent that was truly nauseating.

Get lost! Fang Longye kicked the blood sphere away.

"Bang—"

This blood sphere was kicked hundreds of thousands of miles away by Fang Longye, crushing dozens of ten-thousand-foot-tall mountains, and finally slammed into the ground, sinking halfway in.

"It's quite tough~"

Fang Longye chuckled coldly.

He saw it clearly.

This blood sphere, which looked like an ordinary tumor and seemed as if it would shatter at a touch, had not shattered under such a blow, save for a few fine cracks on its surface.

He immediately prepared to deal with the blood sphere's counterattack.

But he waited and waited, yet he did not see the blood sphere move even once.

"Could it be that the fierce creature inside has died just like that?"

Fang Longye stared at the blood sphere in the distance, muttering to himself.

He saw that the cracks on the blood sphere were densely spread across the entire surface like a spiderweb, a bit like an egg before a chick breaks out.

However, no egg fluid flowed out.

"That shouldn't be? It shouldn't be this fragile, right?"

Just as Fang Longye was preparing to go up and see clearly, he heard a crack, and a huge gap split open on the side of the blood sphere, and a bald, round, wrinkled thing, somewhat resembling a turtle's head, poked out.

It was precisely the head of that fierce creature.

"Crack, crack……"

The sound of the egg cocoon shattering rang out continuously.

In the end, a strange creature with an Ao head and human face, a snake neck and human body, covered in a Turtle Shell, with feet like human feet and a tail like a qilin, appeared in his eyes.

"Damn! What kind of freak is this?" Fang Longye could not help but burst out a curse; the appearance of this monster was truly too twisted.

It clearly crawled on four legs like a Giant Ao, yet it had human-like large feet, and its Ao head seemed to have a human face embedded in it; it felt as if it were pieced together randomly from the parts of the Longbo Clan and the Giant Ao Clan.

It was exceptionally discordant and twisted.

While complaining, Fang Longye remained fully armed, holding the Panlong Spear, and stared vigilantly at this monster that had just emerged from the blood sphere.

Perhaps because he had interfered, causing a suspicion of premature birth, this monster looked somewhat listless.

Of course, even listless, this monster possessed the strength of the Taiyi Realm, and its aura was very formidable. It was only thanks to the protection of the Profound Spirit Escaping Armor that Fang Longye had not been under immense pressure.

Moreover, as soon as it emerged from the blood sphere, this monster began to grow continuously, and by now it was hundreds of thousands of miles in size.

"Strike while it's down!"

Gazing at the monster with fierce light flashing in its eyes, Fang Longye did not hesitate much and directly threw out the Yu Huang Stele.

He smashed it fiercely toward the creature! Boom—

This Yu Huang Stele, when it came down to it, belonged to the Supreme Merit Spiritual Treasure; even though he had only refined a few layers of the Merit Divine Prohibition, its power was still immeasurable.

It fell with a crash, crushing even the space into powder, and landed heavily on the fierce beast, smashing the already listless creature half to death.

"Good fellow! You're quite tough~"

Fang Longye discovered that although this fierce beast did not seem very bright, as if it lacked intelligence, under the crisis of Life and Death, it instinctively utilized the body-refining techniques of the Giant Ao Clan.

One could see its turtle body heaving up and down, as if it were doing push-ups, and even the Yu Huang Stele on its back was being pushed up and down along with it.

It was actually following the 'Shentiao Tuoshan Shi' from the Giant Ao Clan's inherited cultivation method, the Shentiao Bati Jue, to strengthen its own physical body.

Shentiao Tuoshan was originally a body-refining Dharma method that the Giant Ao Clan had realized while carrying mountains; since Fang Longye had subdued the Divine Carrier, he naturally obtained the inheritance of the Giant Ao Clan and was well-versed in the secrets of this method.

Now that this fierce beast was carrying the Yu Huang Stele, a tool for suppression, on its back, practicing this 'Shentiao Tuoshan' was truly twice the result for half the effort.

Even though it had almost no intelligence and acted entirely on instinct, it still entered the state very easily.

Its already vast blood energy was put to use, and the strength of its entire body increased at an unscientific speed, inexplicably.

Even its physique began to grow rapidly; the Bloodline obtained from the Giant Ao Clan was being developed, and the Turtle Shell on its body became much thicker.

It hadn't died from one strike, and it actually had a posture of gradually growing stronger.

"Hmph!"

Fang Longye let out a cold snort, summoned the Zhanxian Gourd, and directly gave it several hits of the Slashing Immortal Flying Knife.

He then brandished the Panlong Spear, which grew to the size of a heavenly pillar, and stabbed several holes into it.

His Great Divine Abilities did not stop for a moment, and various offensive Great Divine Abilities fell like rain, all landing on the fierce beast.

Perhaps because of the premature birth, this fierce beast had almost no intelligence to speak of; even with the strength of the Taiyi Realm, it could not unleash it and was just an empty shell.

Therefore, facing Fang Longye's varied attacks, it naturally could not hold on for long, and soon it was completely motionless, with no signs of life.

"Phew—"

After sending this fierce beast to its end, Fang Longye breathed a sigh of relief, immediately collected the Corpse of the fierce beast, and headed toward the blood pool.

Just before this fierce beast had emerged from the blood sphere, he had sensed that there was still a strong fluctuation of spiritual energy within this blood pool.

He thought there must be another precious treasure gestating.

It was just that the fierce beast was about to emerge before, so he had no time to collect it.

With a leap, he arrived before the blood pool. After collecting the remaining viscous blood inside, he cast his gaze and saw a bright red lotus flower at the very bottom.

"One, two, three... six, seven, eight, nine, a Nine-Petal Blood Lotus? Could it be an Innate Spiritual Treasure?"

Fang Longye exclaimed.

He hurried to the side of this blood lotus, channeled his Dharma into it, and was immediately deeply disappointed.

"Damn! Thought too much!"

Although this blood lotus also presented a nine-petal posture, in reality, it was not even a Spirit Treasure, but a type of mutated spiritual medicine.

It was born from the blood essence origins of the Longbo and Giant Ao clans; consuming it could increase blood energy and refine the Bloodline.

"Not bad either!"

Fang Longye collected this enchanting blood lotus and comforted himself.

This Nine-Petal Blood Lotus still had miraculous effects even for the Taiyi Realm. Consuming it himself would not only allow his true body to advance several levels.

Moreover, as his essence, energy, and spirit increased, his Primordial One Qi would also grow stronger. Swallowing this Nine-Petal Blood Lotus would at least save him thirty years of effort in imprinting his mark.

For him at present, it was also a very useful rare treasure.

"And this one!"

Fang Longye shifted his thoughts and took out the blood-thirsty spiritual vine he had collected earlier.

He saw that this entirely crimson spiritual vine was shrunk in his hand, having lost its aggressive, claw-baring aura.

If not for the barbs covering the vine, looking at its roots and stems alone, it resembled a blood ginseng.

"This is also a rare treasure; compared to the Nine-Petal Blood Lotus, they each have their own merits."

Fang Longye laughed.

This spiritual vine was originally a type of spiritual plant called Changqing Teng and could not be considered a Spiritual Root; it was only because it had been soaked in endless blood essence origins in this battlefield that it underwent a mutation.

It could already be considered a Post-Heaven Spiritual Root.

In terms of efficacy, it was quite strange.

It lived by devouring the blood of various living beings and bore fruit every three thousand years; the fruit could be used to strengthen a cultivator's blood energy, had great benefits for a cultivator's physical body, and even had a probability of helping a cultivator awaken Bloodline divine abilities.

However, it was naturally far inferior to the effects of the Nine-Petal Blood Lotus; Fang Longye had previously tried tasting one fruit, and the effect on him was minimal.

He estimated that this fruit only had effects on those below the Golden Immortal realm.

But it had the advantage of being abundant and was a renewable resource, allowing for long-term use.

For the management of a faction, it could be said to have great benefits. It could be said that for a faction, it was much more precious than the Nine-Petal Blood Lotus~ even Fang Longye had this thought.

After all, he was not a lone wolf.

Besides, even without mentioning that these fruits could be used as rewards for subordinates.

Just selling the fruits in his own market, accumulating over time, the benefits it brought to his cultivation might not necessarily be worse than the Nine-Petal Blood Lotus.

It was even possible that it would greatly exceed it.

"Hmm, what name should I give you?"

Fang Longye stroked his chin and said.

"Let's call you Blood-Thirsty Vine!"

Upon hearing this, this Spiritual Root, which he had named Blood-Thirsty Vine, was actually somewhat jubilant, swaying its vines in a rather graceful and charming manner.

"Hmm~" Fang Longye smiled and continued: "The fruit it bears shall be called Red Blood Fruit~"

After resting for a while, he continued to advance inward.

Leaving the blood pool, at first it was still that stretch of dark green grassland. After flying for about half a cup of tea's time, he finally left that grassland behind him.

A flat wasteland appeared before him.

No, it shouldn't be called a flat wasteland.

To be precise, this was a scarred and battered wasteland.

At a glance, it was full of pits and craters, both large and small.

The large craters were even hundreds of thousands of miles in diameter, bottomless, like abysses.

The small ones were also tens of thousands of miles in size, equally deep and bottomless to the eye.

All were traces left by battles.

Fang Longye raised his eyes to look into the distance, and although he saw nothing, he still revealed a smile.

Because he sensed several terrifying auras ahead; there was no need to think about it, they were definitely of the Daluo level.

And among the Daluo, they were likely not weaklings.

After all, he had come from the outer perimeter, and the further in he went, the closer he got to the core area of this battlefield.

Previously, he had already seen some Daluo remains. Clearly, those ahead were naturally much stronger than what he had seen before.

So much so that even the fighting had been divided into two sides.

Bearing the Profound Spirit Escaping Armor and under the protection of the myriad golden lights of merit, Fang Longye strode forward and soon saw the source of these few terrifying auras.

A giant turtle whose true body remains numbered in the trillions, and two Longbo Giants that were also unimaginably massive.

At a glance, these two Longbo Giants were both kneeling on the ground.

One of them had his right arm severed at the root, his left hand gripping a great spear cast entirely of metal, supporting him so he would not collapse to the ground.

A pair of golden pupils were opened wide, glaring at the sky, filled with an expression of unwillingness.

"What a pity—"

Fang Longye came before this great spear and discovered that the great spear was not only broken but had lost all its spiritual essence, becoming rusted and not even as good as ordinary iron.

It had become impossible to reforge it.

However, he still put away this great spear.

Can't be wasteful! At worst, adding some Five Elements metal Qi to his Inner World would be good~

As for the other Longbo Giant, even his weapon was lost, and his entire body had been torn to pieces, twisted in a terrifying way.

At the tears, the blood had already dried up, turning a reddish-brown.

This was a Daluo master!

Even if they fell, the remains left behind should be immortal and indestructible.

It could only mean that their opponent was even more powerful.

Fang Longye could not help but cast his gaze upon the Corpse of the giant turtle, which was unimaginably massive.

"What a pity—"

Fang Longye secretly lamented, because he recognized this giant turtle. It was precisely the one who had bestowed its inheritance upon him when he first entered this Secret Realm.

I fear that by now, all the essence of this giant turtle had long since ceased to exist.

Sure enough—

As Fang Longye tentatively touched it, the remains of this giant turtle immediately vanished into thin air, turning into a pile of Calamity ash.

Shaking his head, Fang Longye put away the remains of the two Longbo Giants and continued to bear the Profound Spirit Escaping Armor, walking further inside.

As Fang Longye's footsteps took him deeper into the core of this battlefield, the surrounding scenery slowly became monotonous.

Desolate, empty, dead silent.

Looking around, the traces of fighting that could still be seen before were now completely invisible.

Moreover, the further in he walked, the more Fang Longye could feel a profound pressure.

It was a kind of oppressive force from the nether, and even while bearing the Profound Spirit Escaping Armor, he could still feel it.

Vague and elusive, it was like a sharp knife hanging over his heart, as if with every step he took, he was taking a step toward death.

He tried hard to extend his divine sense, operating investigation divine abilities like 'Separating Walls to See Through'. But once he reached here, even his own eyesight was suppressed.

He could actually only see the scenery a few miles away, barely better than a mortal.

"Boom—"

Just at this moment, a rumbling sound suddenly arose, like a great peal of thunder, and also like the surging of waves, continuous and rising one after another.

It was the same as what he had heard at the portal entrance before he had entered this Secret Realm.

Terrifying enough to make one's heart palpitate~

Fang Longye stopped his footsteps, his face as calm as water.

Should he continue forward? Or end it here?

(End of this chapter)