Chapter 66: Blood Moon

Chen Mo's pitch-black pupils were gradually dyed a crimson red by his Qi and Blood, and everything he observed with his eyes became incomparably detailed.

Moonlight scattered down, as if staining the entire world with a layer of fresh blood; Chen Mo raised his head to look upward, and the moon on the horizon was no longer a bright yellow.

A ring of blood-red halo enveloped the entire lunar disc, with only a small area in the center of the lunar disc still persisting in emitting bright yellow moonlight.

Chen Mo had looked at the moon before, yet no matter how he looked at it, it was always a golden-yellow lunar disc, until today when he inspected the sky with his Blood Qi Eye.

Only in his eyes did the moon completely change its appearance; the calm, bright yellow remained only as a small circle, and the majority of the lunar disc had already turned a bizarre, frenzied red.

Not only that, observing the sky with his Blood Qi Eye, Chen Mo could not see the existence of any stars; through this method, it was as if he had seen through the falsity of the world and reached a deeper layer of reality.

The original sky full of stars went completely silent at this moment, and the only light remaining in the entire world was the blood-colored light.

Chen Mo picked up the Gong and Drum in his hand and tapped it lightly; the blood color before his eyes rapidly receded, and the bright, silvery-white moonlight once again occupied this land.

However, this range was no more than a hundred zhang around him.

Beyond the hundred zhang around him, the world was still covered in a layer of blood color, and the Blood Moon in the sky had never changed.

The sound of the Gong and Drum seemed to draw a boundary around him, dispersing the power projected by the Blood Moon.

Yet in places further away, the sound of the Gong and Drum could no longer exert any effect, and as for influencing the Blood Moon in the sky, that was even more impossible.

Chen Mo looked around at his surroundings; the blood-colored moonlight dispersed by the sound of the Gong and Drum was making a comeback, slowly closing in on him.

The speed was not fast, yet it was incomparably steady.

Chen Mo understood that as long as the Blood Moon still existed, even if he beat the Gong and Drum until it smoked, it would not be of much use.

As long as he stopped, it would continue to erode the world he saw.

And how did the Blood Moon appear? And for what reason did it appear?

Was the appearance of the Blood Moon the reason for the bizarre phenomena in this world!

These matters were temporarily unknown to him; if there were an opportunity, he could consider exploring them.

As for how these problems should be solved, and whether they could be solved, that was even less of a problem for him to consider right now.

If the sky falls, there are taller people to hold it up; these matters were not yet his turn to consider.

Currently, his top priority was still to strive to improve his own strength as much as possible; with greater strength and entering higher levels, he would be able to understand more information.

Stepping away from this safe zone he had cleared with the sound of the Gong and Drum, Chen Mo walked to another piece of wasteland covered by the Blood Moon.

Near Zhu Niu Ji, there were no tall, dense trees, only many low-lying bushes; when the Wind blew, it produced bursts of rustling sounds.

If the place where the sound of the Gong and Drum had just resonated belonged to the order zone, then this place was clearly somewhat chaotic; any bizarre things or bizarre living beings could possibly occur.

However, up until now, Chen Mo had not yet encountered the Grey Mist; in fact, even now he did not know the specific factors that formed the Grey Mist, nor how one should enter the Grey Mist.

Observing the surroundings with his Blood Qi Eye, Chen Mo saw the human-skin lantern he had seen that day again, but he could be certain that the human-skin lantern he saw this time was different from the one he had seen in the military camp some time ago.

That human-skin lantern had its entire human face blown into a three-foot-square balloon, so its features appeared incomparably distorted, and its entire expression carried an extremely intense anger.

And the one he saw before his eyes now, although its features were still distorted, the expression on its face was not very angry, but rather confused and stunned.

After it discovered Chen Mo, just like the human-skin lantern he had seen initially, its two eyes, resembling flickering lamp flames, floated slowly toward Chen Mo.

Chen Mo did not retreat; his weapons and bow and arrows were already on his person, so he took the bow and arrows from his back and shot two arrows at the human-skin lantern first.

He did not know the strength of the human-skin lantern; although it looked extremely slow and did not seem to have any lethality, if possible, he still tried his best not to come into contact with it.

The feathered arrows passed through the human-skin lantern without any ripples; it did not even receive any influence.

Chen Mo was not surprised, having anticipated this long ago; he used an arrowhead to slice open his palm, and the scorching hot fresh blood instantly dyed the entire feathered arrow red.

Nocking the bow and shooting again, the feathered arrow stained with the Martial Artist's Qi and Blood struck into the human-skin lantern, as if pouring a cup of clear water into a pot of boiling oil, inciting countless turbulence.

The human-skin lantern became increasingly distorted, and that face looked bizarre no matter how one looked at it; its eyes suddenly lit up, and the expression on its face turned into incomparable resentment.

Its speed became much faster all of a sudden, like a flickering gust of Wind, arriving in front of Chen Mo in an instant.

He did not use his weapon this time; at least for now, it seemed that fighting and struggling with a bizarre creature like the human-skin lantern with ordinary weapons had absolutely no effect, as it had no physical body.

He could only try to see if he could use his own Qi and Blood to suppress it.

To deal with this kind of human-skin lantern, one actually did not need fist and foot techniques.

Regardless of whether it was weapons or fist and foot combat arts, the purpose for which they were created was essentially to deal with humans.

And this human-skin lantern did not possess the weaknesses that a human body has; if not for his hands being stained with the Martial Artist's Qi and Blood, his own fists and feet might not even be able to touch it.

"Whoosh!" In an instant, the human-skin lantern rushed in front of him.

Chen Mo quickly used his fingernails to slice open the palm of his other hand, blood erupted from both palms, and he grabbed toward the eyes of the human-skin lantern.

His Dantian Internal Qi was also fully mobilized by him, continuously surging into his palms along his own meridians.

Chen Mo only felt as if his hands had plunged into a pot of boiling oil, and the entire human-skin lantern instantly exploded.

His Qi and Blood and internal strength used his palms as a foundation to battle with the external power.

Sure enough, besides the Qi and Blood of an External Martial Artist, the Internal Qi of an internal martial artist could likewise contend against this extremely bizarre thing.

This bizarre power was incomparably sinister; Chen Mo felt obvious discomfort just by coming into contact with it.

That power seemed not to belong to this world; just by coming into contact with it, he felt as if he himself were being distorted, but his own strength was strong enough.

The sinister power within this human-skin lantern was also too weak, not enough to cause any changes in him.

It was just like adding two catties of salt to a freshwater lake; at most, it would make the water in a small area a little bit salty, but it was impossible to turn the entire lake into a saltwater lake.

Having been in contact with the human-skin lantern for only an instant, Chen Mo's Dantian Internal Qi dropped rapidly by more than sixty percent, while his Qi and Blood power still had plenty left.

There was no help for it; compared to his physical strength, his Internal Qi cultivation was truly not worth mentioning.

The Greedy Wolf Seven Kill Fist was, after all, an external martial art; this technique was not intended for people to cultivate Internal Qi when it was first created, otherwise it would not be the case that it didn't even have an Internal Qi circulation diagram.

"Sss!" A sound like a balloon leaking air came, and the human-skin lantern shrank rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, finally leaving only a piece of leather half a foot square, with the material and color exactly the same as the human-skin lantern.

The more Chen Mo touched the material of this skin, the more familiar he felt; upon careful recollection, that book of Great Dao Gong seemed to be of this material.

Could it be that that cultivation technique was written using such material!

Thinking about it carefully, this was not impossible.

This human-skin lantern was not considered difficult to kill; even a Martial Artist with weaker strength than himself could definitely deal with it easily.

The most important thing is that the quantity is not rare; not to say they are everywhere, but they can be seen often, so using this as a raw material is entirely possible.

Chen Mo put away the leather in his hand, placed it into his portable pack, and immediately struck the Gong and Drum to carve out a safe area for himself.

After bandaging the wound on his hand and retrieving the two feathered arrows that had failed to be of use, Chen Mo set off to walk back to the military camp.

As he approached the military camp, a faint Grey Mist began to gradually appear before his eyes.

(End of chapter)