Chapter 118

Deep in the night, everything was silent.

In the Changyin Mountain, at a cliff wall.

A figure, eyes shining brightly, stepped out of the narrow cave entrance without a sound.

The Breath-Concealing Spiritual Spell had been fully activated, and Luo Chen was like a withered tree, surveying his surroundings.

Very good, this cave entrance had not been discovered by the demon beasts of Changyin Mountain.

Some time ago, through Zeng Wen's relationship, he had obtained a geography record regarding the million great mountains of the Eastern Wasteland.

It marked many specific place names unknown to rogue cultivators.

Among them, the markings for the Ancient Plain Mountain Range were the most detailed, as that was where the Mountain Breaking Gang cultivators and even the Great River Market rogue cultivators went most often.

In comparison, the Howling Moon Mountain Range was much simpler.

Like this tunnel he extended from Slanting Moon Valley, it led to Changyin Mountain.

This mountain was rich in resources, with numerous demon beasts, and was occupied all year round by Gray Leaf Wolves and Frost Wolves.

Or rather, the dozens of large mountains nearby were all dominated by these two demon wolf groups.

In addition, it was mixed with some rare natural enemies of the demon wolves and weak demon beasts.

Confirming that the surroundings were clear, Luo Chen cautiously stepped out of the cave entrance and explored the surroundings bit by bit.

After a while, his footsteps stopped.

His gaze concentrated, landing three hundred meters ahead.

Two lone demon wolves were fighting, the sound of wolf howls and panting endless to the ear.

The extremely form-fitting Daoist robe highlighted her graceful figure to the fullest.

"But that's fine, it's just convenient for me to act!"

Luo Chen's heart stirred, and he took out four formation flags from his storage bag.

Hidden Spirit Formation, obtained from Lu Huaiben.

He had always used it to cover the spiritual power fluctuations of the spiritual vein cave, and today it was just right for him to set up a battlefield.

After setting up the four formation flags in a specific orientation, Luo Chen waited quietly for the result of the battle ahead.

The fighting between low-grade demon beasts was very pure.

So pure that they didn't even cast companion demon arts, relying entirely on close-quarters combat.

This situation would only improve after the demon beasts advanced to the second order.

It is said that after demon beasts reach the third order, which is the same as human Core Formation, their intelligence will evolve significantly, and many third-order demon beasts can even refine the throat cross-bone, learn various languages, and no longer just simple roaring and howling.

The so-called "demon speaking human words" is generally after the third order.

These two demon wolves in front of him couldn't reach that level, their intelligence was quite low, relying entirely on instinct to fight.

Therefore, their battle ended very quickly.

The corpse of a Gray Leaf Wolf lay quietly there.

The corpse was full of hideous wounds, fur broken, internal organs exposed, and the bloody scent lingered for a long time.

It was the season of heavy snow sealing the mountains, with frost everywhere.

The Gray Leaf Wolf didn't have the advantage of time and place.

And the winner was definitely not having a good time either.

The fur, originally as white as ice and snow, was now rolled up, and there was a deep wound on its neck that reached the bone.

It wanted to lick the wound, but the position was very awkward, so it could only walk back wearily.

Suddenly, it stopped.

A low roar was emitted, all its fur stood up, and a huge danger enveloped its limited intelligence.

The Frost Wolf wanted to resist, and then a large tripod pressed down from above.

Four-colored light, like tassel ribbons, bound its limbs and even its head tightly.

"This Four-Image Tripod, although called 'four-unlike,' has many wonderful uses that are truly extraordinary."

Luo Chen looked at the large tripod floating above the Frost Wolf, a smile appearing on his face.

It is said that this tripod came from the casting master Huyan Zhuo of Tianfan City, originally intended to be refined into a low-grade magic treasure, but due to problems with the formation and casting technique, it finally achieved the status of a high-grade magic tool.

After Luo Chen got his hands on it, he often explored it, thereby learning many wonderful uses.

Alchemy, defense, offense, suppression.

The power of each wonderful use was not outstanding, only the power of an ordinary high-grade magic tool.

But there were many uses, so there were many occasions where it could be used.

For example, now, Luo Chen was exerting its suppression function to the fullest.

A first-order demon wolf was originally no match for Luo Chen.

Not to mention the other party was injured!

Caught off guard, the Four-Image Tripod easily suppressed and subdued it.

Looking at the demon wolf lying on the ground, its eyes filled with anger and fear, Luo Chen walked up to it kindly.

Lowering his body, Luo Chen took out a blood-red elixir pill with a smile.

"Little doggy, don't be afraid."

"Brother has good stuff here, eat it, it's good for your body!"

The demon wolf "obediently" ate the elixir pill; it almost got stuck in its throat, and Luo Chen had to use spiritual power to help it smooth it out and pat its back.

After feeding it the Blood Burning Pill, Luo Chen cautiously retreated step by step.

The Spiritual Eye Spell was no longer passively cast, but actively triggered, a pair of spiritual eyes staring fixedly at that demon wolf.

Soon, the demon wolf reacted!

As the medicinal power spread, the demon wolf let out a low howl, its eyes turning completely red.

Its back arched high, and the muscles all over its body began to tremble continuously, as if an earth dragon were rolling inside.

Not only that, the fishy, foul demon aura continued to spread.

That represented its demon power surging wildly.

Clang!

Luo Chen's eyelids jumped; he felt that the Four-Image Tripod under his control was a bit unstable.

The four-colored tassels that originally bound the Frost Demon Wolf were now pulled tight, as if they could snap at any moment.

Luo Chen increased his spiritual power, maintaining the suppression ability.

But that constantly surging power made the already ordinary suppression power difficult to sustain.

Crack!

A faint sound rang out.

The Frost Demon Wolf lying on the ground stood up; its huge body, which was already as tall as a person, now expanded by about a third, becoming even more huge.

It stood there, its size almost exceeding Luo Chen's.

And the muscular demon body appeared extremely massive; looking at it from a close distance, it was like an elephant.

The angry, red eyes stared fixedly at Luo Chen, and the originally weak aura now became a few points stronger than in its prime.

Fierce, stubborn, overbearing, bloodthirsty, and crazy.

Suddenly, it moved.

It directly broke free from the remaining suppression of the Four-Image Tripod and ran wildly toward Luo Chen.

Luo Chen had long been prepared; seeing this, he was unhurried and pulled back.

Not only that, he also summoned the Four-Image Tripod back, continuously casting four-colored light.

Either obstructing or suppressing.

As for defense, it wasn't necessary.

Luo Chen's speed was too fast; the Cloud-Stepping Boots were fully activated, plus the Carefree Travel and Wind-Control Spell.

It could be said that he was currently "walking the dog."

Luo Chen wasn't walking it aimlessly; the direction he ran was always circling.

The area he circled was exactly within the Hidden Spirit Formation he had laid out.

Precisely because of this, even though the spiritual power fluctuations erupted by the Frost Wolf were extremely massive, they didn't leak a single bit within the long-prepared Hidden Spirit Formation.

Luo Chen walked the dog while observing the state of the Frost Wolf, while calculating the time.

After about three or four minutes, the momentum of the Frost Wolf clearly began to show a downward trend.

At the same time, its sanity seemed to have recovered a bit.

It seemed to realize that the enemy was far above it and was just teasing it now, so it began to retreat subconsciously.

Seeing this, Luo Chen reached out and cast the Jade Blade.

Seven flying blades, either three or two, continuously blocked its retreat direction, without hurting it, just forcing it back.

Just like this, another two minutes passed.

The momentum of the demon wolf decayed to the extreme, even weaker than before.

"About time."

At this point, Luo Chen didn't hold back either.

The Four-Image Tripod was cast out, pressing down from above.

The poor Frost Demon Wolf was once again bound in place.

Luo Chen walked up and released his spiritual power, drilling into the interior of the demon wolf's body.

After a while, Luo Chen withdrew his spiritual power thoughtfully.

Taking a look at the pitiful Frost Wolf, Luo Chen used both hands to gently tear open the huge wound on its neck.

The demon wolf died there and then.

And on its body, there were no means left by Luo Chen, only the wounds caused by the previous Gray Leaf Wolf.

Several formation flags turned into light and entered the storage bag.

Putting away the Hidden Spirit Formation, Luo Chen didn't covet the corpses of the two demon beasts and quietly returned to the tunnel.

【Blood Burning Pill First Trial Report】

【Can stimulate the blood and energy of the muscles in the body, instantly generating a large amount of spiritual power, which has the same effect as refining essence into energy.】

【After stimulation, strength explodes by thirty percent, but the mind will be blurred, filled with violent tendencies, perhaps related to the main material, Explosive Ape Demon Blood.】

【But this effect is a forced stimulation, which hurts the origin and will leave sequelae such as meridian expansion leading to tearing, blood and energy weakness, etc.】

【Duration of elixir power, five minutes. If major means are cast, the time might be shortened further.】

【Conclusion: Not a cultivation elixir, nor an auxiliary elixir, leaning toward a combat elixir. However, the demonic traces are not heavy, so there should be no need to worry about sect prohibitions.】

Luo Chen stopped his hand and looked at the information recorded line by line in the small notebook.

He was very satisfied with being able to obtain so much information by using demon beasts to test the elixir.

However, there were some places that were not certain enough.

After all, the Blood Burning Pill was an elixir refined for human cultivators; if used on humans, the effect might be the exact opposite of that on demon beasts.

Unfortunately, the Mountain Breaking Gang didn't have test subjects like the Hundred Herbs Hall.

Otherwise, it could be used to give it a try.

Luo Chen thought about the four Blood Burning Pills remaining in his storage bag, thinking about how to determine the true effect of the Blood Burning Pill on cultivators.

Only after determining the effect could he decide how to handle this kind of elixir.

Use it himself? Refine a dozen or so, just in case.

Or sell it?

If selling it, what kind of sales strategy should be arranged.

Like the Jade Marrow Pill, large-scale distribution? Or like the initial Myriad Wonder Pill, setting up a stall for fixed-point sales? Or learn from the Spiritual Medicine Pavilion, treating it as a precious elixir and taking it to an auction for auction?

These problems could only be decided after determining the elixir's effect.

And once a decision was made, it would affect Luo Chen's subsequent refining plan.

"Cannot expose the Blood Burning Pill, so test subjects are hard to find."

"There is a lot of surveillance on me in the gang, I have to avoid it... perhaps I can let someone else find a test subject for me?"

Naturally, Luo Chen thought of his good big brother Wang Yuan.

Wang Yuan might be very interested in this kind of elixir that increases combat power and is also related to blood and energy.

After all, no matter what, the Blood Burning Pill was derived from the Blood Evil Pill.

Most importantly, Wang Yuan was far freer than him, controlling a hall alone outside!