Frenzied Hunt

After instructing Qila'angsi, Gulanxiu began cultivating on the spot. The location of the Immortal God's corpse was relatively secluded, and the Baleful Qi was heavy; under normal circumstances, no cultivators would come here, so Gulanxiu was safe cultivating here.

Gulanxiu once again cut his arm and began fusing Bloodfall Crystals into his body—one, two, three. In just a few hours, he absorbed all two thousand-plus Bloodfall Crystals obtained from that Immortal God. But what frustrated him was that the Green Bud still showed no change at all. Compared to the energy the Green Bud required, these two thousand-plus Bloodfall Crystals were merely a drop in the bucket.

Just then, Gulanxiu once again detected an uninvited guest through his Heavenly Eye. He looked up toward the canyon rim and saw a disheveled, wild-haired freak descending from above. Gulanxiu keenly noticed that this person's eyes were hollow, filled only with killing intent and madness, devoid of any trace of emotion!

"Blood Demon!" Gulanxiu thought to himself.

At that moment, the Blood Demon also spotted Gulanxiu at the bottom of the canyon. Brandishing a long spear, it charged at him. Gulanxiu casually swung his axe, cleaving the Blood Demon and its Core Nucleus apart in one blow!

"After being corroded by Baleful Qi, it doesn't even know what fear is! A Domain Lord Level 3 dares to attack me!" Gulanxiu picked up the Blood Demon's storage equipment and began inspecting it.

"So poor! Only one Bloodfall Crystal!" Gulanxiu said disdainfully. He was about to cut his arm open to cultivate when suddenly a flash of inspiration struck him, as if he had remembered something!

"These Blood Demons were all cultivators who came to adventure in the Ancient God Ruins. They came here to temper themselves in order to fuse Bloodfall Crystals. In the end, they couldn't withstand the corrosion of Baleful Qi, fell into madness, and were trapped here in the Ancient God Ruins!" Gulanxiu muttered to himself, his eyes growing brighter and brighter.

"In other words, every single one of them carries at least one Bloodfall Crystal. And the fact that they were corroded by Baleful Qi in the first place means their strength was lacking—so their average strength can't be too high. Moreover, after becoming Blood Demons, they instinctively head toward places dense with Baleful Qi, and because they're controlled by killing intent, they instinctively kill every living thing in sight!" Gulanxiu suddenly understood something, growing more excited as he spoke.

"In other words, I just need to head toward areas dense with Baleful Qi, and I'll run into these Blood Demons. And since places dense with Baleful Qi rarely have cultivators showing up, I have the Green Bud protecting me so I can ignore the Baleful Qi—those cultivators can't." Gulanxiu said with a smile.

He had fully figured it out and formulated a plan: hunting Blood Demons!

All along, Gulanxiu had been unwilling to go on a killing spree on the Bloodfall Continent. After all, in his view, the humans living on the Bloodfall Continent were no different from humans anywhere else in the universe. If he went on a massacre just to seize Bloodfall Crystals, how would he be any different from the people he despised most!

Gulanxiu could kill an opponent in the Giant Axe Battle to survive, but he could not slaughter the innocent for the sake of taking their belongings when there was no enmity between them.

So he had never had a good idea for how to obtain large quantities of Bloodfall Crystals. But after arriving at the Ancient God Ruins, this matter finally saw a glimmer of hope. Although these Blood Demons were still living beings, in a sense, the moment they were corroded by Baleful Qi and became Blood Demons, they were already dead. Hunting these Blood Demons carried no psychological burden for Gulanxiu.

Over the next hundred years, Gulanxiu roamed through various Baleful Qi Vortexes in the Ancient God Ruins, encountering hundreds of cultivators and thousands of Blood Demons during that time.

Because Gulanxiu deliberately revealed only his Cosmic Level 9 cultivation base to fish for trouble, most cultivators who discovered him would make a move.

Thanks to the advantage of his Heavenly Eye, Gulanxiu was never successfully ambushed. He could also avoid powerful Realm Lords in advance. As for those cultivators who dared to attack him, they were almost all slain by Gulanxiu.

There was no helping it—among the cultivators training in the Ancient God Ruins, the vast majority were at Cosmic Level or Domain Lord Level. Realm Lord Level cultivators were rare. And with Gulanxiu's deliberate screening and anti-ambush tactics, very few cultivators could withstand a single blow from his axe. In the end, they all became Gulanxiu's spoils of war.

As for the Blood Demons he encountered, most were also killed by Gulanxiu. After all, these Blood Demons varied wildly in strength, but the overwhelming majority were at Domain Lord Level or Cosmic Level, with only a very few at Realm Lord Level.

The frenzied battles brought Gulanxiu a rich harvest. In just these hundred years, he obtained over one hundred thousand Bloodfall Crystals. What surprised him was that the bulk of the Bloodfall Crystals didn't come from those cultivators and Blood Demons—instead, he picked them up at the centers of the Baleful Qi Vortexes.

Those cultivators who went mad and became Blood Demons would instinctively head toward places dense with Baleful Qi. Most of these Blood Demons, in terms of strength and realm, were at Domain Lord Level, with a lifespan of only a hundred eras. When two Blood Demons met, they would fight and kill each other. The surviving Blood Demon wouldn't bother picking up the spoils, and cultivators rarely could enter areas dense with Baleful Qi. Over time, the center of each Baleful Qi Vortex formed a modest treasure trove, which conveniently benefited Gulanxiu, who could freely enter and exit the Baleful Qi Vortexes.

Of the over one hundred thousand Bloodfall Crystals Gulanxiu obtained, ninety percent were picked up; less than ten percent came from actual combat.

What Gulanxiu didn't know was that the Immortal Temple would send powerful Immortal Gods to these Baleful Qi Vortexes every so often to collect these relics. However, the intervals between each collection were very long—measured in millions of years—which gave Gulanxiu the chance to pick up the leftovers.

Of course, this was normal. Generally speaking, even the willpower of a peak Realm Lord wouldn't dare to plunge into a Baleful Qi Vortex as casually as Gulanxiu did. Only the strong among Immortal Gods could possibly ignore this Baleful Qi and freely enter and exit the Vortexes. So the Immortal Temple naturally wasn't in a hurry—collecting once every few million years was enough.

But what frustrated Gulanxiu was that even after absorbing over one hundred thousand Bloodfall Crystals, the Green Bud still showed no change. This only made him more grateful for his decision to harvest Bloodfall Crystals.

If he had relied on the Chaos True Spirit in Chaos City to make this bud bloom, who knew how much Chaos True Spirit it would require! Not only would the Chaos City Lord definitely discover it, but he would also waste who knows how much of his cultivation time in Chaos City!

Of course, over these hundred years, Gulanxiu hadn't slacked off in his cultivation either. Constant battle and enlightenment, combined with his previous boost in comprehension, allowed him to fully comprehend the Second Axe of the Giant Axe Chaos Tablet. Since Gulanxiu practiced the path of merging three axes into one, he was now capable of passing the seventh level of the Sky Bridge.

Of course, Gulanxiu hadn't challenged the Sky Bridge yet, so aside from Barbarian Hammer King, no one knew Gulanxiu's true strength.