After walking about two miles deeper, the soil under my feet began to change color.
The originally dark brown soil gradually glowed with a layer of dark red, and when stepped on it was no longer the crisp sound of dead leaves, but a dull and sticky feeling. Qin Tiexin squatted down and used the tip of a knife to scrape away the top layer of loose soil. The soil under the soil layer was even darker red. He pinched it with his fingertips and rubbed it. The powder was extremely fine, with a rusty smell that could not be dissipated no matter what.
The blood of high-level Body Refining monk.
Ordinary Demon Beast's blood seeps into the soil and turns black after a while. Only the blood of Body Refining monks can dye the soil this dark red and maintain it for such a long time. With so much blood seeping into it, the Body Refining monks who died here were at least Meridian Opening Realm.
The spiritual power in the air became drier and the smell of blood was as thick as a massacre that had just occurred.
The surrounding trees were twisted especially strangely under the nourishment of the red soil. There were fist-sized blood-red tumors on the bark of several ancient locust trees. Under the thin film on the surface of the tumors, dark red liquid slowly squirmed like a living thing. After looking at it for a long time, my scalp felt numb.
Demon Beast has also changed.
Qin Tiexin had just walked around an ancient locust tree with blood tumors when the dead leaves piled up under his feet suddenly exploded. A Blood-Patterned Pit Viper suddenly bounced like a fully-stretched bowstring. The snake's mouth opened angrily, revealing two dark green fangs, hanging with sticky saliva, and went straight to his throat.
This snake is only three feet long, but its attack speed far exceeds any Foundation Establishment Realm snake demon encountered before. Even Qin Tiexin's Movement Method cannot completely dodge it. In the flash of lightning, he only had time to twist his waist and lift his arm. His right arm was tightly sealed between the viper and his throat. Fire of Life ignited in his body, and a layer of light red Qi Gang instantly covered his arm.
Almost at the same moment he finished this, the viper's fangs had bitten off hard.
Bang!
The expected feeling of piercing the flesh did not appear at all. Blood-Patterned Pit Viper only felt the snake's kiss shook violently, like a bite on Bailian Mysterious Iron, which made the roots of the fangs sore and numb.. Look carefully, you can see that the pair of sharp fangs are firmly pressed against the surface of the light red Qi Gang, and are firmly isolated from the outside by Qin Tiexin's protective body Gang Qi.
The viper's vertical pupils shrank, and it immediately changed its moves after failing to hit it. The triangular snake's head was raised slightly, its venom sac suddenly swelled, its fangs were raised slightly, and two thick dark green venom shot out like arrows, with a disgusting stench, directly hitting Qin Tiexin's face, chest and abdomen.
Qin Tiexin Pupils suddenly condensed, and he squatted down suddenly. At the same time, his whole body Qi Gang rushed to protect his vital points as much as possible.
Amidst the chissing sound, a large amount of venom passed over his shoulder and splashed on the ground behind him. White smoke suddenly rose, and all the vegetation affected by the venom turned black, withered, and rotted to the naked eye. Even the ground was corroded into a deep pit as big as the mouth of a bowl, and the sound of corrosion was heard endlessly.
Several drops of venom still splashed onto his robe, and violently collided with the protective body Qi Gang, making a heart-wrenching "chichi" sound. Although it failed to break through Qi Gang's defense, several charred holes were burnt on his robe, and there was still a faint green glow around the edges of the holes.
Seeing that the bite was ineffective and the venom was ineffective, a flash of panic finally flashed across Blood-Patterned Pit Viper's vertical pupils. It flicked its snake tail, trying to use its strength to break free and flee deep into the dead leaves.
But how could Qin Tiexin let it go like this?
His right arm flipped over, and his five fingers grasped the viper seven inches as accurately as an iron hook. No matter how the snake's body was twisted and torn crazily, it remained motionless. With a touch of his left hand, Edgeless turned into a cold light, tilted from bottom to top, and the tip of the knife silently cut into the center of the snake's belly, as smoothly as cutting paper.
The snake's body was immediately split in two, and the two stumps fell to the ground. They still twisted and twitched wildly for a while before they became completely stiff. The snake blood spurting out from the fracture was dark red and almost black in color, and a strong fishy stench hit the face, and even the surrounding air seemed to be a little thicker.
Qin Tiexin glanced at the scorch marks on the cuffs, without changing his expression, and carefully took the snake corpse into Storage Bag. Not only was the Demon Beast in this area much faster and more resistant to blows than the same level, the Qi and Blood energy contained in the flesh and blood was surprisingly abundant, and it was much more nutritious than ordinary Demon Beast meat.
After walking forward for a while, the trees in front of us suddenly became sparse, and our vision suddenly became clearer.
A dark red forest appeared at the bottom of the gravel slope, covering the entire valley densely. From a distance, it looked like a huge coral bush soaked in blood, quiet and strange.
It was not the original color of the tree, as if something seeped out from deep within the root system, dyeing the entire tree from the inside out. From the knotted roots to the snarling branches, sticky blood oozed out from every cracked line on the bark, wisps of which slowly trickled down the trunk, solidifying into a dark gelatinous substance before it hit the ground.
There is a circle of extremely fine blood-red veins on the edges of the leaves, and the veins are still pulsing weakly, as if there is something living inside the leaves.
The wind passed through the forest, and large tracts of blood-colored leaves rustled. The sound was wet, not like the friction of dry leaves, but like countless blood-stained palms slowly opening and closing at the same time.
Blood Forest.
Qin Tiexin The first time he saw this area, he had the idea to avoid it. No need to think too much, the evil nature of this place is written on almost every inch of the land. permeated the forest Blood Qi was so strong that it almost condensed into a visible mist, entwining itself between the tree trunks. Even the beating of Fire of Life in his body was a bit slower than usual, as if he was being weighed down by some invisible force.
He was just about to change direction, but his footsteps suddenly froze in place, and his gaze passed through the layers of blood mist and was locked firmly in the depths of Blood Forest.
Those are a few short trees growing crookedly out of the blood-scarred ground in the center of Blood Forest.
The tree is not tall, and its branches are twisted like hemp ropes twisted by an invisible hand. The bark is also dark red, but the fruits hanging on the branches are completely different. It is an extremely pure deep red, but it is faintly gleaming with light, like drops of solidified blood carefully hung between the leaves.
The surface of the fruit was covered with blood-colored veins as thin as hair. Those veins were beating slightly, and the whole fruit was pulsing gently, as if there was a beating heart sealed inside. Across the entire piece of Blood Forest, Qin Tiexin could feel the intense and almost violent Qi and Blood fluctuations, which were more than ten times stronger than the mutated snake meat he had collected before.
Blood Demon Fruit.
The name Qin Tiexin almost immediately popped into his mind. The origin of this thing was quite clear to him. Only in places where a large number of high-level Demon Beast corpses naturally decayed and were completely absorbed and digested by the soil could Blood Demon Fruit Tree grow.
It may not take a thousand years to grow a tree, and a mature tree may not bear fruit. The power of Qi and Blood contained in one Blood Demon Fruit is enough to be worth a third-level elixir, and its medicinal properties are purer and can be absorbed directly without tempering by elixir fire.
His hand holding the knife tightened unconsciously.
Since breaking through the Qi and Blood Realm, every time he stews Demon Beast meat, he has to squat by the pot for several hours, waiting for the essence of the flesh and blood to be slowly boiled out. From entering the secret realm to now, he has only stewed it three times, running around and fighting, and there is no time for him to sit down quietly and replenish Qi and Blood.
If you could pick off these Blood Demon Fruit and refine them on the spot, your physical strength would be greatly increased.
The thought of avoiding it was suppressed by him inch by inch.