Absorbing Blood Crystals and Soaring Blood Qi

Hua Qiang kept his head down and searched everywhere where the two had fought, but he still couldn't find the ring he had worn for several years, which puzzled him greatly.

Although his strength was suppressed to that of a mortal and his Spiritual Sense was no longer able to penetrate, he still couldn't find it despite searching so carefully. This was quite unreasonable!

Seeing Hua Qiang searching with his head down, Xing Ming followed suit and started searching as well.

Hua Qiang noticed the commotion and asked in confusion, "Old man, what are you doing? What are you looking for? Did you lose something too?"

"Damn it, who are you calling an old man? Do I, the Heavenly Emperor, look that old?"

"What did I lose? What did I lose? What's it to you what I'm doing?"

Hua Qiang looked at him, a smirk playing on his lips, and said, "Then tell me, how old are you this year?"

Xing Ming straightened up, puffed out his chest, and said arrogantly, "This Heavenly Emperor is only 4008 years old this year!"

Holy crap!

Hua Qiang was shocked and couldn't help but curse, "You're over 4,000 years old, and I'm only in my twenties. In front of me, you're an ancient monster. I'd be doing you a favor by calling you an old man!"

"What?"

Suppressing the shock of his three corpses raging, Xing Ming Mingqiang looked at Hua Qiang and asked incredulously, "You... what did you say? You're only in your early twenties?"

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

Even the most monstrous genius in our Immortal Realm could not possibly cultivate to the Immortal Emperor Seventh Heaven realm in his early twenties!

Are you trying to fool me like a child, or are you trying to scam me like a ghost?

"Tch, believe it or not!"

Hua Qiang replied impatiently, then looked down and continued searching.

I can't lose this ring! I don't know how long the future will be, and I'll be completely dependent on the supplies inside it to survive!

Xing Ming wanted to probe Hua Qiang's bone age, but his Spiritual Sense was suppressed and he couldn't.

At this moment, a massive storm was raging in his mind!

Logically speaking, the other party shouldn't be lying to me about this. If what he said is true, he's only in his early twenties. Damn it, how can he be a prodigy?

This is something no human could possibly do.

It took him over 1,000 years to cultivate to the Immortal Emperor. Then, he climbed up the ranks of Immortal Emperor, level by level, until he reached his current Immortal Emperor Peak Realm, which took him a full 3,000 years!

At that moment, he had an urge to find a block of tofu and smash his head against it to death. All those years of cultivation had been for nothing!

At this kid's cultivation speed, wouldn't he be able to keep up with me in two more years?

For some reason, Xing Ming felt increasingly fearful and terrified.

To possess such an astonishing cultivation speed, one must either be the reincarnation of some powerful being, a chosen one of Heavenly Path's Dao, or a chosen one of destiny.

Such a person should never be an enemy!

Either kill the opponent when they are weak, or stay as far away as possible and avoid conflict with them.

Who knows when they might kill me?

Thinking of this, beads of sweat rolled down his forehead. He shuddered and turned to leave quickly towards another direction.

I can't get entangled with him anymore. Both of us have had our strength suppressed. We even fought once before, and neither of us won.

If the other party gets angry and comes after him again, will he beat him to death?

Who knows what other tricks he has up his sleeve?

Hua Qiang had no idea about Xing Ming's mental storm or the choices he had made. He was still searching aimlessly, driven by a deep obsession to find the ring.

Whether he could survive, and how well he could survive, was still an open question. He didn't know which way things would go. But he had to make sure he was still alive.

No, in his Small World, there was his mother, wife, children, relatives, friends, and all the subordinates who followed him...

Hua Qiang became increasingly alarmed and fearful the more he thought about it.

However, he didn't consider whether the ring was lost during the fight or confiscated when he entered the Void Rift.

And so, Hua Qiang searched tirelessly, day and night, and three days passed quietly.

For the next three days, he stayed in this place all by himself, and he even forgot about Xing Ming's existence, and stopped thinking about why that annoying old man hadn't come to bother him.

Hua Qiang was hungry, tired, and thirsty. His eyes were almost closed, and he was swaying and staggering. Suddenly, he tripped over something and fell to the ground with a thud.

"Oh my god!"

He couldn't help but let out a wail; the fall really hurt!

He rolled over and got up, searching for the culprit. Looking behind him, he saw a small mound of earth protruding there.

As a result of the fall, the top of the small mound of earth cracked, and a faint red light shone through it.

Huh, what's in there? Could there be some treasure?

Hua Qiang immediately perked up, took two steps forward, squatted down, reached into the crack, and dug the soil to both sides.

After digging more than a foot deep, he felt his fingertip touch a hard object.

The object was cool and refreshing to the touch, and for some reason, when he touched it with his fingers, he felt a strange longing.

The craving was so strong, it seemed as if it were a delicious dish that he couldn't wait to devour.

Hua Qiang forcefully pulled the hard object out, and it turned out to be a fist-sized, dark red stone.

No, this isn't a stone, but it's as hard as one.

This thing is dark red in color, and it looks like something is flowing inside.

He used scraps of clothing to wipe the surface of the stone clean, and his eyes widened immediately.

Because inside, it looked like blood was flowing. Could this be Blood Crystal?

Why is my body so agitated, and I feel like I want to swallow this stone?

Hua Qiang didn't know why he had such a strong feeling. He tried to circulate the Blood Demon Scripture to see if he could absorb and refine this piece of Blood Crystal.

One minute... two minutes... three minutes, and there was still no response. What's going on?

Hua Qiang found a sharp-edged stone and smashed it hard against the Blood Crystal.

However, even though the stone in his hand shattered, the Blood Crystal remained completely intact.

What should we do?

Just when he was at his wit's end, he felt a stinging sensation in his hand.

When he smashed the Blood Crystal with a rock, the rock shattered, cutting his fingers in several ways.

He now discovered that blood was continuously flowing from his wound onto this Blood Crystal, and that his blood was being slowly swallowed by the Blood Crystal.

This...

Hua Qiang subconsciously accelerated the circulation of the Blood Demon Scripture, and a look of surprise immediately appeared on his face.

He discovered that the Blood Demon Scripture had actually extracted a large amount of crimson energy from this Blood Crystal, which then surged into his body.

His physical fatigue vanished, and powerful forces surged through his body, while his blood Blood Qi continuously replenished and increased.