The blood fog was getting thicker and thicker, not only wrapping the surroundings, but even the sky was covered.
How did the fog suddenly start?
Almost instantly, Zhang Ruochen and Hua Qingye held their breath at the same time, not daring to inhale the blood mist into their bodies.
“What’s going on? Could it be that we have intruded into a certain forbidden place?”
Hua Qingye’s brows furrowed as he retrieved the Soul Striking Bell and cupped it in the palm of his hand, ready to launch an attack at any time.
It was too bizarre!
Zhang Ruochen stared at Hua Qingye and laughed, “You’re a first-rate powerhouse of the Heavenly Demon Ridge, could it be that you’re still afraid of breaking into a forbidden place?”
Hearing this, Hua Qingye was no longer so nervous, after all, with his cultivation level, other than the deathly section of the Tonghai Ming River and the lairs of some fifth-ranked savage beasts in the depths of the Heavenly Demon Ridge, the other forbidden lands weren’t dangerous to him.
Hua Qing Ye glared at Zhang Ruochen and was in no hurry to clean him up, instead, he looked into the blood mist and said in a loud voice, “I am Hua Qing Ye, the General Master of the Poisonous Spider Chamber of Commerce, who is your Excellency and why don’t you come out to meet me?”
If it was in the past, as long as Hua Qing Ye reported his name, no matter if the other party was an expert of the righteous path or the evil path, he would definitely flee at the first opportunity.
Today, however, it was very strange, not only did the blood mist not dissipate, but it became thicker and thicker.
Within the blood mist, there was a strange sound of “whimpering”.
Not only Hua Qing Ye, even Zhang Ruochen became nervous and said in his heart, “In the Heavenly Demon Ridge, except for a few people, who dares to mess with the General Master of the Poison Spider Chamber of Commerce?”
Suddenly, in the midst of the blood mist, a woman’s strange cry came out.
“Wow!”
A blood-red shadow flew out from the blood mist, stretching out a pair of arms and pouncing towards Hua Qing Ye.
“Dare to sneak attack old me, looking for death.”
Hua Qing Ye’s eyes turned cold, and he immediately struck the Soul Striking Bell out, striking at the body of that one blood-red shadow, knocking her to the ground.
It was a woman, wearing bloody clothes, and on her body was a red blood vein pattern.
Just as Hua Qingye was about to charge up and subdue her, she suddenly leapt up from the ground and rushed into the blood mist once again, disappearing.
“So powerful.”
Hua Qingye’s eyes became unprecedentedly grave, even Zhang Ruochen hadn’t made him show such a look.
With his cultivation, to be able to take a hard hit from him without dying, the other party was at least at the Heavenly Extremity Realm’s Great Circle cultivation.
Most of all, the other party had been struck by the Soul Striking Bell on his body, but he was still able to escape, such strength of flesh was also too astonishing. Even if it was Zhang Ruochen, if he was struck in the body by the Soul Striking Bell, I was afraid that his flesh would be torn apart.
Zhang Ruochen’s fingers, resting on his chin, revealed a thoughtful expression, and suddenly, his pupils lit up, as if he had thought of something, saying, “Could it be a Blood Spirit?”
“Blood Spirit? How could the Heavenly Demon Ridge have such a damn thing? There’s simply no one who can refine it.”Hua Qingye said.
“That’s not necessarily true.”
Zhang Ruochen said, “If I’m not wrong, it should be her who has arrived!”
“Who?”Hua Qingye asked.
Right at this moment, a path parted in the blood mist, and a beautiful woman with long hair down to her waist walked out.
Zhang Ruochen and Hua Qingye’s gazes were drawn to her at the very first moment.
She looked to be in her mid-twenties, her body was permeated with an evil aura, and there was a point of light in the centre of her brow. If one were to look closely, one would realise that the grain of light was full of divinity, exuding a rather holy aura, in stark contrast to the evil aura on her body.
Behind her, followed by six people fully clothed in blood, four men and two women. The blood veins all over their bodies protruded out, forming a dense blood-coloured pattern.
The one woman who had been struck by the Soul Striking Bell earlier was one of the six people.
These six people, all of whom had blood-red eyes and fierce faces with long fangs, were staring at Zhang Ruochen and Hua Qingye, who were not far away, with bloodthirsty eyes.
“Surprisingly, they really are Blood Spirits.”
Hua Qing Ye looked at the six green-faced and fanged blood people and sucked in a breath of cold air, and in his heart, he was glad that he had only encountered six Mortal Grade Blood Spirits.
Mortal level blood spirits were only equivalent to the cultivation of the Heavenly Extremity Realm’s Great Circle. Of course, their bodies were very tough and could be called adamantine, an ordinary Heavenly Extremity Realm Great Perfection martial artist would only die when they encountered Mortal Grade Blood Spirits.
Only experts among Heavenly Extreme Realm Great Perfection martial artists could fight against Mortal Grade Blood Spirits.
With Hua Qing Ye’s cultivation, when he encountered a Mortal Grade Blood Spirit, although it was a bit difficult to deal with, he was still able to cope with it.
What truly made Hua Qing Ye fearful was the beautiful woman standing in front of those six Mortal Grade Blood Spirits, what exactly was her origin, looking at the situation, those six Blood Spirits seemed to be following her orders.
Characters who were able to refine blood spirits were definitely all quite powerful existences.
At the first moment, Zhang Ruochen recognised that one woman as none other than Lu Han.
Back then, in the Red Sky Mysterious Mansion, after Lu Han was killed by Zhang Ruochen, the corpse was taken over by the Half-Saint’s “Half-Saint’s Light” that was left behind by the Half-Saint of Golden Cloud, and turned into a bloodthirsty demon.
The Martial City Palace had dispatched a large number of experts to surround and kill her, but she still escaped.
Ever since she escaped from the Red Sky Secret Mansion, she had appeared in all the major counties of the Heavenly Demon Ridge, causing a lot of killings, specialising in sucking people’s blood to raise their cultivation levels, and even sucking an entire clan’s martial practitioners into dry corpses, and killing all the people in an entire city, turning it into a dead city.
Encountering her again, it was surprising that she had already become so powerful, and if she was allowed to continue killing, I’m afraid that she would soon be able to fully fuse with the Light of the Demi-Saint and turn into an evil, bloodthirsty Demi-Saint.
Compared to when she had just come out of the world, the way she looked now, she was already much more normal, the hostile aura on her body disappeared, and even that pair of eyes looked like they had a few more glimmers of wisdom in them.
Obviously, as her cultivation level pushed up, she had regained some of her memories and her ability to think, and no longer simply wanted to suck blood.
Lu Han seemed to recognise Zhang Ruochen, a pair of eyes that were both evil and beautiful, staring at Zhang Ruochen’s body, smiling evilly and saying, “I recognise you …… Zhang Ruochen ……”
Zhang Ruochen stood cross-legged with his sword, his eyes shrinking as he said, “Actually, you’ve recovered your memory?”
“Haha! Half of my memories came from Lu Han, and the other half came from the Golden Cloud Half-Saint, however, both of them have missing memories, and I can only recall some memory fragments, but it’s already enough because, I’m going to be a brand new me. In the future, you can call me the Blood Spirit King.”
She continued, “Back then, if I hadn’t been killed by you, I wouldn’t have had such a strange encounter. Zhang Ruochen, how do you think I should be grateful to you?”
Suddenly, an aura of morbid coldness emanated from the Blood Spirit King’s body.
The long hair on her head was windless. Each hair was like a fine sword, flying through the air with a swish-swish sound.
“Ow!”
The six Blood Spirits that stood behind her all roared in anger as well, revealing their sharp claws and razor-sharp teeth.
As long as the Blood Spirit King gave the order, they would immediately rush up and suck Zhang Ruochen into a dry corpse.
Hua Qing Ye bowed his hand to the Blood Spirit King and said, “Since Your Excellency is here to seek revenge on Zhang Ruochen, I will take my leave first and will not disturb the two of you!”
Although Hua Qing Ye was eager to ask Zhang Ruochen about the location of the ancient cave from his mouth, he did not need to risk his own life because of it, that one Blood Spirit King was obviously not someone to be messed with, and in his current state, he was afraid that he was not even a match for her.
“Want to go?”
The Blood Spirit King laughed coldly, stretching out a snow-white arm, five fingers pinched into the shape of a claw, mobilising the power of the Half-Saint’s Light and striking towards Hua Qingye.
Hua Qing Ye’s face changed, and he immediately executed his body technique, fleeing into the distance.
Suddenly, his body, uncontrolled by himself, flew up from the ground, hanging two metres above the ground, his entire body taut and unable to move.
“How could this happen? Who the hell are you?”
Hua Qing Ye’s heart was incomparably fearful, he had never encountered such a powerful character who could actually hold him in mid-air with ease.
The Blood Spirit King’s face was expressionless as a bizarre force coalesced in the palm of her hand, sucking Hua Qing Ye into her hand.
“Wow!”
Drops of blood overflowed from Hua Qing Ye’s pores, transforming into blood qi that surged into the centre of the Blood Spirit King’s palm and burrowed into the Blood Spirit King’s body.
“The blood of a martial artist of the Fish Dragon Realm is truly delicious. Absorbing your blood will definitely be able to make me stronger.”
A look of intoxication appeared on the Blood Spirit King’s face as he kept sucking the blood Qi away, and the speck of light on his brow became brighter and brighter, forming a ring of divine light.
On the contrary, it was Hua Qing Ye, who had been howling the entire time, that voice not to mention how miserable it was.
If he didn’t escape now, when would he wait?
“Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen’s legs bent, and with the force of the ejection, his body rushed out like a cannonball, and in the next moment, he had landed on top of a small hill hundreds of metres away.
Without any stops, Zhang Ruochen continued to execute the Wind-Resisting Flying Dragon Shadow and rushed into the dense forest.
“With the Blood Spirit King’s current strength, I’m afraid that even if I refine the Golden Cloud Demi-Saint’s holy blood, it would be very difficult to collect the Demi-Saint’s Light, so let’s first escape back to the Martial City School Palace.”
Zhang Ruochen was proficient in a secret method that could take away the Half-Saint’s Light as long as there was Half-Saint’s blood.
The Blood Spirit King had absorbed the Half-Saint’s Light of the Golden Cloud Half-Saint, and Zhang Ruochen had absorbed the Holy Blood of the Golden Cloud Half-Saint, so if he performed that one secret method, he would have a chance to take away the Half-Saint’s Light from the Blood Spirit King’s body.
Only, the Blood Spirit King was now so powerful and perverted that even Hua Qing Ye was defenseless in front of her, so even if Zhang Ruochen performed that kind of secret method, he would only have at most a 30% chance of taking away the Half-Saint’s Light.
The remaining seventy percent would be death by the Blood Spirit King draining his blood.
Without even half a chance, it was better to run away first.
Right at this moment, the remaining light of Zhang Ruochen’s eyes glanced behind him, and his heart was jolted.
Those six Blood Spirits had dared to follow closely behind him.
Zhang Ruochen’s Martial Soul was damaged and he was unable to borrow the Heaven and Earth Spirit Qi for his own use, so his stance became much slower and he was soon caught up by the six Blood Spirits.
“Worthy of being Blood Spirits, they are really fast.”
One of the Blood Spirits attacked towards Zhang Ruochen, with two claws, clawing at the top of Zhang Ruochen’s head.
Before that one Blood Spirit could rush in front of him, Zhang Ruochen could already smell a pungent smell of blood, and he wondered how many human blood it had already sucked?
“Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen struck out a Barbarian Elephant Chasing Ground, striking the chest of that one Blood Spirit and sending it flying.
Surprisingly, that one Blood Spirit was not injured in the slightest as it rolled over and jumped up, attacking Zhang Ruochen once again.
“What a perverted defence, no wonder it didn’t die even after taking a blow from Hua Qing Ye.”
With Hua Qing Ye’s cultivation of Fish Dragon First Transformation, if he really struck out, he would still be able to kill Mortal Grade Blood Spirits, it would just take some more effort.
If a martial artist of the Heavenly Extremity Realm Great Perfection encountered a Mortal Grade Blood Spirit, it would be better to immediately flee for their lives and never go into a hard fight.
Zhang Ruochen also wanted to escape, but unfortunately, he had encountered six Blood Spirits, so even if he wanted to escape, he couldn’t.
“If my cultivation crosses into the Heavenly Extremity Realm Post Extremity Position, my speed should be able to increase some more, even if the six Blood Spirits are chasing me, I still have a chance to escape.”
Zhang Ruochen sighed, he had only just broken through the middle stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, how easy would it be to break through to the late stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm?
Right now, one could only fight hard.
