In a tranquil pool, bubbles occasionally rose to the surface. A Red-Eyed Giant Frog floated atop the water like an immovable boulder.
Its gaze was fixed on a spirit flower in the distance that gave off a fragrant spiritual aroma.
Its rolling eyes now glinted with an impatient, bloodthirsty hunger.
The spirit flower swayed gently in the breeze as a Five Poison Bee quietly approached it.
The next instant, the giant frog stirred in the water.
A massive tongue speared out with the speed of thunder, piercing through the Five Poison Bee in the blink of an eye and preparing to reel it back into its maw.
But at that moment, a flying sword shot forth, transforming into a streak of blood-red sword light that slashed down.
Boom!
The enormous tongue was severed. At the same time, the blood sword continued toward the Red-Eyed Giant Frog.
As the sword light raged on, a layer of blood began spreading across the pool.
Before long, the corpse of the giant frog floated to the surface.
The blood-red flying sword returned, and a short, stout cultivator clad in a Spirit-Isolating Robe appeared by the pool.
With practiced ease, he harvested a Blood Sun Flower beside the pool, placed it into a jade box, and carefully stored it away.
Next, he retrieved the blood frog's corpse and dug a fourth-rank demon beast inner core out from its skull.
"The Earth Immortal Realm truly is wondrous. Its spiritual energy is far richer than that of the Great Yu Realm. Even thousand-year fourth-rank Blood Sun Flowers are this commonplace!" The cultivator was naturally Ye Jingcheng in disguise, and the flying sword he had used was West King True Person's West King Blood Mother Sword.
As a top-grade fourth-rank magic treasure, wielded with Ye Jingcheng's current late