Tian Tian felt a little uneasy;
She wasn't a timid person, or Chu Yuan wouldn't have thought highly of her and entrusted her with the task of gathering materials.
That showed she had a fair amount of social and organizational ability;
Someone like her naturally wouldn't be timid, even if she looked meek and easy to bully.
It was just that... the "reputations" of Xiang Ning and Mao Rui had already reached her ears;
The former had a nasty personality, liked provoking people, and was always looking for trouble;
The latter was supposedly a lecherous fiend...
Xiang Ning was about to tease her again when he noticed someone pass by him;
An intangible, sharp aura seemed to prickle his skin...
It was Chu Yuan!?
"Sorry for the trouble." Chu Yuan reassured her. "Did you run into any problems?"
Tian Tian shook her head. "No. Aside from the area near the Blood Abyss, the Blood Beasts have disappeared from most places."
There were still other kinds of beasts in the Secret Realm, but most were no real threat and weren't dangerous.
"But I couldn't find a lot of the materials you asked for... I only found substitutes." Tian Tian handed over the several backpacks she was carrying;
"That's fine."
Chu Yuan had expected this. Secret Realm No. 7 was only a Secret Realm, after all. It might have more resources related to Blood-Qi, but it couldn't have everything.
Although the Blood Sea Soul-Locking Array changed the arrangement of the materials and the energy circulation route, it actually required the same materials as the Blood Sacrifice Array;
The system had converted it into an Immortal Path array, but it hadn't transformed the materials themselves.
It might seem unreasonable that the same materials could produce vastly different levels of power;
But anyone who