Seeing the light clusters shooting off in all directions at incredible speed, Tie Wu, Su Mei, and the others in the sky all changed expressions.
We had worked for most of the day; we couldn't let them get away just like that.
"Move! Catch them!"
Golden Dou Qi spanning over a hundred meters transformed into a Sky-Supporting Giant Hand. Its owner, Tie Wu, controlled the hand as it swept toward several fleeing light clusters.
The hundred-meter giant hand left the nearby light clusters with nowhere to evade.
They could only be trapped. Although the light clusters struggled desperately within the giant hand, their efforts were futile against Tie Wu's dense and powerful Golden Dou Qi. They could only remain firmly imprisoned within it.
As they struggled, the white glow around the light clusters gradually dimmed.
Until it finally vanished, and Tie Wu successfully gathered them into his hand.
"Sixth Rank medicinal pill, Wind-Agility Pill, Profound Tier High Grade movement Dou Skill, Ghostly Shadow Steps, and a Sixth-Tier Magical Beast Core!" Tie Wu's face lit up as he looked at the items.
A Profound Tier High Grade Dou Skill was one thing, but even he did not possess many Sixth Rank medicinal pills or Sixth Tier Magic Cores.
Especially Sixth Tier Magic Cores. Sixth Tier Magical Beasts possessed intelligence no less than that of humans, and their tough hides and flesh made it extremely difficult for him to kill a Magical Beast of the same tier.
Thus, Magic Cores of this level were exceptionally precious.
He did not possess a Sixth-Tier Magical Beast Core at all.
He had never expected to obtain such fine treasures this time.
Even if these were the only things he got, the trip would not have been in vain.
Tie Wu was delighted.
The other experts standing in the sky also made their moves after Tie Wu acted, and each of them gained more or less something.
Some wore delighted expressions, while others looked grim. Clearly, not everything inside the light clusters was useful. →
Although there were many experts in the sky, there were over a hundred light clusters, and they shot away at tremendous speed.
Thus, some inevitably slipped through their grasp and flew in other directions.
If someone had observed carefully, they would have discovered that nearly three-fifths of the light clusters had not been caught.
Naturally, the experts in the sky would not give up on those light clusters.
As for the Dou Lings, Da Dou Shis, and even Dou Shis who had waited in the forest for so long, this was precisely the moment they had been waiting for.
They all rushed out to intercept and pursue the light clusters.
For a time, the mountaintop descended into chaos.
Dou Qi of every color crisscrossed through the air.
Xiao Ming, who had originally planned to slip away, crouched on a tree branch and looked at the light cluster shooting toward his direction, feeling somewhat hesitant.
This light cluster was practically tempting him.
Should he run away immediately, or should he snatch this light cluster?
Xiao Ming hesitated, but the people around him did not.
Especially the four people he had been following. They were hiding in a large tree not far ahead of Xiao Ming, and when they saw the treasure flying toward them, their faces filled with delight.
Hahaha, wasn't this coming right to them?
Bang!
With a forceful push from their feet, the tree shook violently from the recoil, and leaves drifted down like a torrential rain.
The four of them turned into dark shadows and lunged toward the light cluster in the air.
Their movements were decisive, and they had chosen the timing of their attack well.
Under normal circumstances, they should have been able to intercept that light cluster.
However, they were far from the only people lying in ambush nearby. Their fate had already been decided.
Rumble!
Several Dou Qi attacks carrying blazing light burst out from different parts of the Sea of Forest, all aimed at them.
"Ah! You dare?!"
Feeling the fluctuations rising from below, the four of them looked down and immediately became enraged.
"Of course they dare." Watching the four-man group get easily killed in midair, unable to find any foothold, Xiao Ming muttered to himself.
These people were still too young. Although they understood the way of lying low, they had not been calm enough. Blinded by the treasure, they had all rushed out together and made themselves into living targets.
Honestly, couldn't three of the four have stayed behind to keep watch while one went after the light cluster?
Well, now they were all dead.
No one knew Xiao Ming's thoughts. After the four-man group died, no one remained to stop the light cluster, and it continued flying along its original trajectory.
Those hiding in the dense forest who had attacked the four-man group naturally could not simply stand by.
One after another, they leaped out from the shadows and attacked the light cluster.
Everyone had the same target, so the competition was fierce. As they rushed toward the light cluster, they did not forget to attack the others in order to secure it for themselves.
The differently colored energy ripples even pressed down the surrounding Sea of Forest.
"Tsk, tsk. What a scene."
Looking at the several Dou Lings within the Battle Group before him, then at the Dou Wangs fighting over treasures in the distance.
Xiao Ming clicked his tongue.
There was no need to hesitate now. He simply could not snatch it.
He should leave.
Bang!
Just as Xiao Ming was about to leave again, a tremendous boom rang out from the sky, and the already dim heavens became even darker.
The black spatial passageway at the center of the Jade Stone Plaza rippled with waves of blood-red light.
A Blood Red Giant Hand extended from it and pressed against the Jade Stone Plaza, while a bloody, rotten stench spread in all directions.
Such a huge disturbance naturally drew many gazes. Even some of those still fighting could not help but turn their attention toward it.
"What the hell is that thing?"
A Dou Wang expert had just killed several Dou Lings who had dared to compete with him for treasure. After stuffing his prize into his Na Ring, he stared at the Blood Red Giant Hand, more than ten meters wide, and could not help asking aloud.
Was that the hand of some animal? It did not look like one. Instead, it resembled a human hand.
Moreover, the hand seemed to be composed entirely of Blood Qi Energy. Its energy fluctuations even surpassed his own. This was far too strange!
No one could answer the Dou Wang's question.
Tie Wu, Su Mei, and Yuan Yi, the three Dou Emperors, also stopped what they were doing and frowned at the hand. They did not know what it was either.
They only felt a sense of foreboding rising in their hearts.
The Blood Red Giant Hand's movements confirmed their unease.
After resting quietly on the plaza for a brief moment, the Blood Red Giant Hand suddenly stretched outward.
It seemed that the hand had an owner, and that owner wanted to emerge from the spatial passageway.
But it failed. This Secret Realm Passage was too narrow.
Its owner seemed to have realized the problem as well, and the red giant hand gradually shrank.
As it diminished in size, the giant hand retracted into the Secret Realm Passage until it finally disappeared.
Before anyone could recover from their shock, a Blood Red Figure about two meters tall stepped out of the dark passageway. Blood Qi surged around it, and an even stronger stench of blood swept through the surroundings.
It was here again!
The instant it appeared, the Beast Flame within Xiao Ming's body stirred.
However, perhaps because this was not the real culprit and the real one was inside the spatial passageway, there was no need to soothe it. The Beast Flame quickly calmed down.
Roar!
The Blood Red Figure that had just appeared on the plaza opened its blood-red maw and let out a skyward roar that shook everyone's ears.
Its strength had definitely reached the Dou Emperor realm, hadn't it?
What was it roaring about?!
Xiao Ming covered his ears in discomfort, his heart filled with shock at the Blood Red Monster's strength.
The next moment, something happened that stunned him.
Streams of blood-red energy shot out from the dense forest and flew into the gaping mouth of the Blood Red Humanoid. The source of that Blood Qi was the corpses in the forest that had died while fighting over the treasures.
"Fuck, it's devouring Blood Qi! Were those dried corpses from before its doing?"
A young man in the distance from Xiao Ming exclaimed in shock.
As vast amounts of Blood Qi entered its mouth, Blood Shadow's aura rapidly intensified. Its pressure enveloped the entire area, and undisguised malice spilled forth.
Under such circumstances, everyone's fighting abruptly came to a halt.
Some light clusters seized the opportunity to escape.
Yuan Yi, Su Mei, and the other experts stared in horror at the Blood Red Figure as its aura surged toward the Dou Huang Peak, crying out:
"Quick, stop it!"
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