Chapter 200: Harvest

"Boom—"

At the center of the valley, a half-section of a giant skeleton slowly floated upward. Although it was only a skull and lacked both feet and one arm, the broken body still gave people a feeling of oppressive terror.

"This third-rank Bone Human Demon avatar has finally entered. Although I had to discard most of the body and power, it was not a wasted effort after all." The incomplete Bone Human Demon, with only its remaining skull, swept a glance over the many Black Soul Sect disciples kowtowing on the ground, then emitted a buzzing, aged voice.

"It is the incompetence of your grand-disciples that we failed to push the power of the great formation to its limit, causing the Ancestor's avatar body to be damaged. We beg for the Ancestor's forgiveness." The middle-aged man who had originally been sprawled on the ground managed to crawl up, kowtowing repeatedly to the incomplete Bone Human Demon to plead for mercy.

"Hmph, as a true disciple of this sect, to fail even such a small task, you truly deserve punishment. Then, I shall take some of your essence blood to let this Bone avatar of mine restore its lower limbs." Upon hearing this, the giant Bone Human Demon snorted, then raised its only bone arm and pointed a finger at the middle-aged man.

"Puff."

A cyan beam of light shot out from the Bone Human Demon's finger. After a flash, it pierced through the middle-aged man's shoulder, instantly leaving a bloody, mangled hole.

"Many thanks for the Ancestor's mercy."

Even though his body trembled violently, the middle-aged man still endured the intense pain, kneeling on the ground without daring to show the slightest intention of resistance.

The Bone Human Demon simply grabbed the air with its single hand toward that side. Instantly, a stream of fresh blood sprayed out from the middle-aged man's wound, eventually forming a fist-sized blood sphere that landed in the bone palm.

"Go."

After the Bone Human Demon tossed the blood sphere in its hand in front of itself, it began to chant incantations.

"Bang."

The blood sphere directly exploded into a cloud of blood mist, vaguely forming a dense, blood-colored formation of patterns that flashed and submerged into the white, bone-like body.

The next moment, the nearby ground trembled slightly. Countless bones flew toward the Bone Human Demon in the air. Even the giant bone altar and the surrounding bone pillars collapsed and disintegrated, turning into countless bone fragments that shot toward the high sky, completely enveloping the incomplete Bone Human Demon.

In the blink of an eye, a giant bone sphere condensed in the air, its surface vaguely revealing dense, blood-colored spiritual patterns, and it began to squirm incessantly.

After the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, with a "Boom," the giant bone sphere exploded. Numerous bone fragments splashed and flew, and the violent airflow rolled toward all four directions.

A Bone Human Demon with a brand-new form appeared in the air.

This newly appeared Bone Human Demon not only had complete feet and legs, but even had an extra pair of bone arms on its back. At the same time, its four arms each grasped a giant bone weapon: a banner, a saber, a hammer, and a shield, respectively.

"Congratulations to the Ancestor for restoring the Dharma body."

Seeing this, the many Black Soul Sect disciples kowtowed again.

"Hehe, all of you rise. Although it is only a temporarily pieced-together Dharma body, it can still exert the strength of the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, enough to sweep across the entire Jialan Secret Realm. Now, set off. Kill every disciple of the Great Ming Four Sects you see, and snatch every resource in the secret realm."

The four-armed Bone Human Demon shook its body, then shook the bone weapons in its four arms, and emitted a wild, cackling laugh that made the entire valley buzz and ring.

"We obey the Ancestor's decree."

Nearly a hundred Black Soul Sect disciples said loudly, everyone showing excitement on their faces.

The black-robed middle-aged man also let out a long breath and hurriedly began to consume pills and apply various healing talismans.

Not long after, dense bone boats, surrounding the giant Bone Human Demon, rose into the air from the valley, flying toward the mountain range like locusts.

A bright, short blade flashed in Wang Yu's hand, leaving a small wound on his finger. He chanted incantations and dripped a small drop of essence blood into each of the dozen or so miniature bottles placed on the ground. He then immediately capped the bottles and pasted yellow talismans onto them one by one.

Then, his figure flickered, and he left the tree hole.

A quarter of an hour later, Wang Yu walked back to the tree hole carrying a crude, giant silk net, a smile on his face.

Inside the silk net were wrapped a dozen cyan birds, each about a foot long, but all appearing unconscious.

He fished some silk ribbons from his bosom and tied the small bottles on the ground firmly to these birds one by one. Only then did he fish a medicine bottle from his bosom and pour it onto the birds. Instantly, a pungent scent rushed toward his face.

The originally unconscious birds woke up one after another, scrambling to fly out of the tree hole, and disappeared into the sky in a moment.

Only then did Wang Yu flip his hand, and a positioning crystal ball appeared in his palm. After injecting a bit of magic power into it, a dozen red light spots appeared. Most were flying toward all directions, while only one larger blood-colored light spot remained motionless at the center of the crystal ball.

Seeing this situation, Wang Yu let out a long breath and finally relaxed.

He had studied for a long time previously. Although he had no way to remove the blood-Qi mark on his body, and hadn't even figured out what that blood-Qi mark was, he had inadvertently discovered that the blood-Qi mark could be split and weakened. A single drop of essence blood could split off another blood-Qi mark, and it could also make the original blood-Qi mark weaker.

He was naturally overjoyed.

He didn't necessarily need to completely remove the blood-Qi mark on his body now; as long as he could make the mark on himself not too conspicuous, that would suffice.

In this way, he made a dozen essence blood decoys in one go and placed them on these extremely fast cyan birds. Not only could this weaken the blood-Qi mark on himself, but it could also be used to confuse those true disciples of the demonic path.

Wang Yu looked at the blood-colored light spot representing his own position in the crystal ball, feeling greatly satisfied. He then fished a storage bag from his bosom and poured it out. Instantly, four containers of different sizes appeared on the ground: two wooden boxes, one iron box, and one jade casket.

These were his harvest from the spiritual herb garden earlier.

Wang Yu carefully opened the two wooden boxes first. Inside were a two-foot-long crimson ginseng and a section of a winding, green-snake-like bamboo, respectively.

The former was "Fire Spirit Ginseng," which could provide a miraculous effect of nearly ten percent assistance in Foundation Establishment for cultivators practicing fire-attribute arts.

The latter was the famous "Nine-Curved Bamboo." The spiritual liquid in this section near the root could provide a five percent assistance effect for Foundation Establishment.

Of course, both were thousand-year spiritual herbs; perhaps the effect of assisting Foundation Establishment would be even stronger, but how much stronger, no one could clearly say. It was estimated that it would vary from person to person.

These two types of Foundation Establishment spiritual herbs, plus the Tongming Spiritual Liquid he already had on him, basically completed the three types of Foundation Establishment spiritual items needed to assist in Foundation Establishment. All that remained was to plot to obtain a Foundation Establishment Pill.

As Wang Yu pondered this, he opened the iron box and the jade casket.

Inside the iron box lay a pitch-black tree leaf that looked like a short sword, and inside the jade casket lay a crystal-clear fruit emitting a red glow.

(Fellow Daoists, Wang Yu wishes everyone a Happy New Year, may everything go as you wish, and may your whole family be healthy ^^) ===== CHAPTER 201 =====