Immovable Stone Heart, Heart-Refining Stone (Seventh update-please subscribe; bonus update for four hundred first-chapter subscriptions)

"It is tricky."

Xiao Mingyue frowned as she walked. "That Blood Snake is at least third order. Even if we called Zhou Han and Iron Mountain over, we still wouldn't be a match for it."

Ji Zhixing nodded, feeling some regret, but an even stronger sense of clarity.

"That blood zhi is tempting, but our lives matter more."

He took a deep breath and suppressed his greed. "It's fine. If we can't get it, we'll give up. Let's find a way out first. That Blood Snake is right below us. It isn't safe to stay here."

"All right." Xiao Mingyue nodded.

The two searched the cavern thoroughly, but the result left them disappointed.

There was no passage leading upward. Only the Blood River connected it to other places.

"Looks like we'll have to go through the water." Xiao Mingyue sighed.

They returned to the bank of the Blood River, jumped in, and continued swimming upstream.

As he swam, Ji Zhixing wondered how long it would take them to find a way out this time.

Yet after only a few minutes, the passage ahead suddenly opened up.

They poked their heads out of the water and discovered that they had entered another fairly large cavern.

The moment they entered, they also noticed that quite a few Single-Horned Blood Crocodiles lived here.

"Are we back?" Xiao Mingyue's eyes lit up.

"No, this isn't where we first came in." Ji Zhixing shook his head, sweeping his gaze around.

Several Single-Horned Blood Crocodiles lay in the shallows, their blood-red eyes fixed on them.

"They've spotted us," Xiao Mingyue said quietly.

One of the larger Single-Horned Blood Crocodiles was already swimming toward them at high speed, with two or three more following behind.

"Get ashore!"

Xiao Mingyue pulled Ji Zhixing along, and they quickly scrambled