Zhang Ruochen had already experienced the terror of the Evil Qi of Death a long time ago, once it invaded the body, even Half-Saints would find it hard to dissolve it. If the Death Qi was thick enough, it could even threaten the life of a Saint.
In the first moment, Zhang Ruochen mobilised the Holy Dragon Qi from the Dragon Pearl and surged into the Yang Massage Sacred Vein and Yin Massage Sacred Vein of his legs, transforming into hundreds of golden gnarled dragons that shook the blood worms wrapped around his legs, all of which flew out.
The bodies of the blood worms were very flexible, and they actually did not die from the shock.
Landing on the ground, they immediately made rustling sounds and burrowed into the ground, quickly disappearing without a trace.
The speed of the elephant swallowing rabbit was extremely fast, opening its mouth was a downward bite, actually biting the tail of a bloodworm, dragging it out of the mud.
The bloodworm, roughly a foot long, was in the form of a centipede, covered in fine scales, with a total of dozens of feet underneath its body, with barbs that appeared incomparably sharp.
“Giggle.”
The bloodworm gave a strange cry, its body was like a snake, snaking in a circle, opening its small mouth, revealing four sharp teeth, biting towards the eyes of the Elephant Swallowing Rabbit.
In a flash of lightning, Zhang Ruochen stretched out two fingers and clamped down on the bloodworm’s head.
Only a click could be heard as the bloodworm’s head shattered, and a bead of blood emerged.
The eyes of the Elephant Swallowing Rabbit glowed as it immediately rushed up and swallowed the bloodworm into its mouth, and even before Zhang Ruochen could stop it, the bloodworm had already entered its belly.
“Why are you eating everything?”
Zhang Ruochen glared at it.
“Dust …… Master Dust ……”
The Spitting Elephant Rabbit gave a strange cry, covered its stomach, and rolled on the ground.
When it climbed up again, a wailing sound came out of its mouth and it became very manic, with dense blood filaments emerging from its eyes, filled with killing, lust .Hope, and evil glints, and kept grinding its teeth.
Zhang Ruochen immediately slapped out a palm and struck the top of the Elephant Swallowing Rabbit’s head, dispersing the Death Evil Qi in its body and spitting it out of its mouth.
“It’s too scary, too scary, I have to be quiet for a while.”
The Elephant Swallowing Rabbit lay on the ground, panting heavily, and then, fished out a bowl-sized silver ginseng from its spatial bracelet and gnawed on it non-stop.
Only after finishing the silver ginseng did the Swallowing Elephant Rabbit exhale a long breath, completely recovering.
Zhang Ruochen reminded, saying, “Be careful, the bodies of those blood worms contain a deathly evil aura, once it enters the body, it’s very difficult to dissolve it with Saint Qi.”
“Huh!”
The Elephant Swallowing Rabbit suddenly widened its eyes, and on top of its head, its two ears stood up as it said, “Master Dust, I found that by using the Heaven Swallowing Skill, I can refine the blood worms, causing my cultivation to rise quite a bit as well. Should …… I eat another one to try?”
The Elephant Swallowing Rabbit revealed two snow-white teeth, its eyes staring straight at Zhang Ruochen, seeking his approval.
“Give it a try! If, by using the blood worm, it can really allow you to rapidly increase your cultivation, it would indeed be a good thing for you.”
He was not afraid of accidents as he was escorting him from the side.
The Elephant Swallowing Rabbit’s cultivation, reaching the Half-Saint realm, naturally had some formidable means, and soon grabbed a bloodworm from inside the soil.
It had teeth that were even sharper than the bloodworm.
He bit the bloodworm to death and swallowed it into his abdomen, and then, he revolved the Heaven Swallowing Skill.
The Heaven Swallowing Skill was the supreme technique of the Heaven Swallowing Demon Dragon clan, so it was naturally extraordinary, and it quickly refined the bloodworm completely. This time, the Elephant Swallowing Rabbit appeared to be much more careful, and while refining the bloodworm, it also spat out a strand of Death Evil Qi and was not affected.
Zhang Ruochen nodded and secretly said, “Although the Death Evil Qi is powerful, the Death Evil Qi in a bloodworm is still too thin, as long as one is careful, a Half Saint level existence is enough to dissolve it.”
For the next three days, Zhang Ruochen had been searching for the exit of the stone forest, while the Elephant Swallowing Rabbit was constantly searching for blood worms, having already eaten more than a hundred of them in a row, as if it could never get enough.
Zhang Ruochen was also secretly observing the changes in the Swallowing Elephant Rabbit, in just three days, the cultivation level of the Swallowing Elephant Rabbit had roughly doubled, almost equivalent to a human cultivator at the peak of the First Order Half Saint.
“It was a very wise decision for Little Black to pass on the Heaven Swallowing Skill to it.”Zhang Ruochen secretly said.
In the last three days, there were also some Half-Saint level humans, or Sixth Order Savage Beasts, that flew over the Stone Forest. Only, without exception, all of them were cleaved by a blood-red giant axe and turned into dead corpses.
The corpses fell to the ground and were immediately devoured cleanly by the blood worms.
It was precisely because of this that Zhang Ruochen didn’t dare to fly and could only collect his breath and move forward carefully.
Zhang Ruochen and the Elephant Swallowing Rabbit were also besieged by some Bloodworms, however, the combat strength of those Bloodworms, however, was not high, and they were quickly repelled.
The stone forest was full of densely packed stone pillars, so it was impossible to walk out. In the end, Zhang Ruochen even had some doubts that he had lost his way.
Until the fifth day, in the stone forest, Zhang Ruochen finally encountered another human cultivator.
This person, a Half Saint from the Immortal Blood Race camp, Zhang Ruochen had seen him behind Feng Han.
He was fighting a three-foot-long Blood Worm, his hair scattered, his entire body covered in more than twenty wounds, and he did not know how long he had been fighting, a tired look in his eyes.
At the edge of the battle, hundreds of blood worms were raising their heads, their mouths emitting giggling noises, only waiting for that Immortal Blood Race’s Half-Saint to die in battle, they would swarm up to him and partake of him.
It was the first time Zhang Ruochen had seen such huge bloodworms, so naturally, he felt quite surprised.
The Elephant Swallowing Rabbit, however, stared with wide eyes, drooling non-stop at the corners of its mouth, “So fat, so much meat, it must be delicious ……”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t have any favourable feelings towards the Immortal Blood Race, and thus, didn’t have any intention of helping out. Moreover, that Blood Worm, the aura it emitted, was quite terrifying, comparable to a Third Stage Half-Saint.
Plus, within its carapace, it emitted a powerful deathly evil aura and amazing speed, even Zhang Ruochen was unwilling to mess with it.
“Master Dust, look, what is that?”
The Elephant Swallowing Rabbit stretched out one of its claws and pointed over towards the location behind the bloodworm.
Zhang Ruochen stared over, only to see that the stone forest in that direction, slightly rose upwards, forming a small hill tens of metres high. At the top of the hill, there was a black withered tree growing, bare and without a single green leaf, except for a single black fruit that was borne on it, emitting a very strong and exotic fragrance.
“In the Ghost God Valley, there is actually a tree growing and bearing a fruit. Could it be that the huge bloodworm is guarding it?”
Taking advantage of the fact that the bloodworm was fighting that Half-Saint of the Immortal Blood Race, Zhang Ruochen exerted his fastest speed and transformed into a stream of light, dashing upwards towards the top of the hill.
At the same time, an extremely fast silhouette also rushed out from the other direction.
The two of them, almost simultaneously arrived at the top of the hill and simultaneously struck out, going forward to pick the black fruit, wanting to pocket it.
Zhang Ruochen was one step ahead and was about to pick the fruit.
The other party, however, struck out a seal, transforming into the shape of a precious bottle, striking at Zhang Ruochen’s abdomen.
Zhang Ruochen’s momentum did not decrease, probing his hand to grab the black fruit and pick it off. At the same time, the Sinking Abyss Ancient Sword automatically left its sheath and flew out, dragging out a long sword qi to fight a hard blow with the other party’s seal.
“Boom!”
Both of them fell backwards at the same time.
The black withered tree, letting out a clicking sound, in a split second, turned into a grain of wood powder and burned into ashes. Even the hill underneath the two men’s feet was torn apart and razed to the ground.
“This Divine Obstinacy Fruit, was discovered by me first, Your Excellency had better hand it back, lest you invite disaster for yourself.”
The man standing opposite Zhang Ruochen was wrapped in white cloth, even his head and face were wrapped, only revealing a pair of green eyes, as if he was a living mummy.
On the mummified man’s waist, there were three reddish-golden bells hanging, clashing against each other and making tinkling sounds.
The other party, who was able to block Zhang Ruochen’s all-out sword and fight to a standstill, was obviously a very powerful and strong person as well.
Without slowing down, Zhang Ruochen collected the black fruit and put it into his spatial ring, saying, ”Your Excellency, would it be too overbearing to say so? No one can say who actually saw this fruit first. However, it was I who picked it first, so its right to belong, naturally, belongs to me.”
The mummified man stared at the spatial ring on Zhang Ruochen’s finger, and a strange colour appeared in his green eyes as he let out a cold smile, “In that case, I’ll come and meet you for a while, and I’d like to see what ability you have to guard the Divine Obstinacy Fruit.”
Just then, in the distance, there was a rustling sound.
The bloodworm that was three zhang long had already devoured the Immortal Blood Race’s Half-Saint, and its body elongated by another half a zhang, reaching three and a half zhang.
The aura that erupted from its body also climbed violently, reaching the peak of the third-stage Half-Saint.
At this moment, the gigantic blood worm, with hundreds of tiny blood worms, carried a large swath of deathly evil aura as it rushed over in the direction of Zhang Ruochen and the mummified man.
Both Zhang Ruochen and the mummy man’s faces changed, and they did not continue to exchange blows, heading in two different directions and escaping immediately.
“Master Dust.”
The two claws of the Swallowing Elephant Rabbit, each grasping a bloodworm, ate it while desperately striding its two short legs, chasing wildly towards Zhang Ruochen.
The speed of the Swallowing Elephant Rabbit clan was indeed quite unbelievable, even if Zhang Ruochen was wearing the Meteor Stealth Clothes, he was only slightly faster than it.
“Follow me, I’ve already found the direction to escape from the stone forest.”Zhang Ruochen said.
Just now, on top of the hill, Zhang Ruochen used the Eye of Divine Seal to see through the thick, dense ghost fog and discover the boundary of the Stone Forest.
Only that huge bloodworm, which also possessed an extremely fast speed, chased after Zhang Ruochen and the Elephant Swallowing Rabbit, letting out a low roar.
With every roar, a swarm of blood worms would burrow out from the ground, surrounding them from all directions.
“Master Dust, what is that big guy chasing us for?”
The Elephant Swallowing Rabbit ran as fast as it could with its tail between its legs.
It must have something to do with that black fruit, it should be Zhang Ruochen who had picked its treasure.
