"Forget it. I'd better look around somewhere else. Even if there really is an Immortal Vein beneath this Jianmu, I can't absorb the immortal energy in it."
Ning Wangshu withdrew his gaze and let out a soft sigh before finally turning to leave.
Next, he planned to visit that mysterious palace again and see whether he was now capable of dealing with that strange bloodstain.
If he could, perhaps he could try opening the bronze giant door and see what lay beyond it.
After all, he had that golden page with him, and his strength was far beyond what it had been before. He had also left behind a mark of the Substitute Technique in advance, so Ning Wangshu wasn't particularly worried.
As Ning Wangshu moved farther from the Jianmu, the terrifying pressure gradually weakened until it disappeared completely...
Just as he headed toward the mysterious palace, following the direction he remembered, a dark red patch of blood came faintly into view far ahead.
Ning Wangshu froze for a moment, then hurriedly focused his gaze.
He suddenly realized that the sky ahead was sharply divided into two distinct parts. The sky on his side looked fairly normal, but the other end was an extremely eerie shade of blood red.
Below it, too, what seemed to be endless blood mist was spreading...
Seeing this, Ning Wangshu felt uncertain and uneasy. The scene before him gave him a vague sense that something was wrong.
"What's going on? Why is there such strange blood mist over there... and why is the sky itself a murky, blood-red color?"
Ning Wangshu furrowed his brow.
After hesitating briefly, he decided to move closer and see what was going on.
Before long, as Ning Wangshu drew nearer, he tried using his immortal sense to investigate the spreading