AWB Chapter 476: This place is strange!
Chapter 476: This place is strange!
Chapter 476: This place is strange!
Gu Heng followed the path up the mountain, nocked his bow and arrows, and searched for bushes and burrows where monsters might appear.
But after searching for more than an hour, they still couldn't find even a trace of a beast.
Just as the waiter said.
The demonic beasts that should have been in this place have all disappeared since those mysterious red-robed men arrived. What happened... no one knows.
If it were someone else, they certainly wouldn't be so clueless and ungrateful as to keep searching.
After all, someone who acts so mysteriously and can make all the monsters in the entire mountain range disappear must not only be a cultivator, but a very powerful one! A normal person would never think of investigating what those red-robed people are doing.
Thinking that they would most likely get themselves killed, those with any self-awareness would not attempt suicide.
But Gu Heng was determined to see what strange secrets lay hidden inside.
He also has self-awareness.
There's nothing else to it. He's already a Nascent Soul cultivator, so why would he be afraid of anyone harming him? Besides, if the strength of a Nascent Soul cultivator isn't enough, he can use a temporary experience voucher to transform into "Number One in the World" and boost the opponent's strength.
That works too.
Regardless of who those red-robed men are, if they're planning to do bad things here, then he'll make sure they suffer a crushing defeat.
It's exciting just thinking about it.
"How do we find those red-robed men? They're moving stealthily in these mountains, and this place is quite large... Hmm?" Gu Heng was troubled about how to find the "secret" location of the group of red-robed men, but just as he looked up, he saw a wisp of blood-red smoke drift past the top of the treetops and head straight west!
there?
Gu Heng's eyes flickered slightly. This plume of blood smoke was clearly not a naturally occurring phenomenon, so there was something fishy going on. Since there was something fishy, he would chase after it and see.
He followed the trail of the blood smoke, tracing its path, and traversed through dense forests. But as he stepped out, Gu Heng suddenly stopped.
"This smell..."
He frowned.
The thick, pungent smell of blood filled the air, making it hard to breathe.
Gu Heng held his breath.
He saw it: a giant python, several meters long, lay horizontally beside the dried-up riverbed, already quite foul-smelling, with many severed limbs of demonic beasts scattered all over the riverbank! Okay, now he knew why these demonic beasts had all disappeared.
So they all died here.
But what's strange is that none of these monster remains smelled bad. Logically, these monster corpses, with their blood dried up, should have been infested with maggots and smelled terrible by now.
Moreover, after gesturing around, Gu Heng discovered that these demonic beasts seemed to have died within a specific range, and their number was a fixed one hundred!
wrong.
There's definitely something wrong.
Such a fixed number, and also a defined "range"...
This made him think of the term "evil magic"—although he had only recently become a cultivator, there were some major events in this Xuan Tian Realm that even mortals knew very well.
For example, heretical cultivators! So-called heretical cultivators are a group of people whose cultivation methods are extremely bizarre and whose intentions are extremely wicked. They like to perform all kinds of live blood sacrifices, power worship, or some particularly disgusting and bizarre unorthodox Taoist practices...
all in all.
Doesn't seem like a good person.
Although Gu Heng felt that this was just a difference in cultivation methods, and there was no such thing as evil or not, the reason why evil cultivators were universally condemned was precisely because their killings had no bottom line and no morality.
"Should I stay away from these guys...?"
Gu Heng muttered to himself, the thought of leaving weighing on his mind.
No matter what happened here, Gu Heng had a vague feeling that those red-robed people were probably evil cultivators, and that their purpose in killing demonic beasts and torturing corpses was probably to set up some evil magic that no one else knew about!
He wasn't afraid of evil cultivators, but it was best to avoid provoking such madmen if possible. He did like secrets, but getting into trouble wouldn't do him any good. Perhaps, he should just leave?
But as soon as he took a step, he heard a rustling sound.
He looked up suddenly and saw a tiny snake tail swaying among the pile of monster remains. Then, a small snake head slowly emerged from the pile of corpses!
Black scales, vertical pupils tinged with green.
Before Gu Heng could think any further, the small black-scaled snake suddenly pounced on him, heading straight for his neck!
He was startled, but quick-witted, he grabbed the snake, glanced at it in his hand, and then snapped it in disgust!
The little snake died immediately.
This snake is obviously no good; it might have some kind of deadly venom.
The smaller the snake, the more dangerous it is.
After easily crushing the snake, Gu Heng thought for a moment and decided to continue deeper inside. If something dangerous was happening inside that he couldn't handle, he could simply use his "teleportation" skill to escape quickly.
……
In a dark valley in the Western Regions.
Yin energy scattered and rose up in all directions, and the Yin Horse Demon Lord sat cross-legged in the deepest part of the valley where the yin energy was most concentrated.
He opened his eyes.
He looked at the massive bone cocoon, as large as a person, emanating a bloody aura.
There are exactly eighteen cocoons!
These bone cocoons are the key to the "descent" of demon cultivators!
"The rate at which this flesh and blood is being absorbed is still a bit slow, but there doesn't seem to be a faster way..."
Yinma Demon Lord pondered.
This "Netherworld Cocoon" is a unique item of the Demon Realm. Its function is very simple: to allow Demon Realm cultivators to be "reborn" inside the bone cocoon and then descend to the Xuan Tian Realm with their full cultivation!
This is a particularly unconventional and unique approach to crossing boundaries.
There are eighteen cocoons in the Xuan Tian Realm, and there are also eighteen corresponding cocoons in the Demon Realm. The Yin Ma Demon Lord's true form also sat inside one of them.
Once his true body crosses over to the Xuan Tian Realm using this "Nether River Cocoon," this avatar, which is only at the tenth level of the Demonic Realm, can retire.
However, this process will take quite a long time.
Crossing between two worlds is never a simple matter. It could have been very simple, but with the Five Realms Passage gone, the Demon Lord Yinma had no choice but to resort to this arduous and thankless method.
These Styx cocoons undergo "transformation" by absorbing flesh and blood.
The creature that absorbs flesh and blood is the "Nether Serpent" that lives alongside this Styx Cocoon!
All eighteen Netherworld Serpents have been released and taken outside by the "evil cultivators" of the Xuan Tian Realm to absorb flesh and blood.
Once they are full of blood and flesh, they are brought back and filled with fresh blood and energy... This process continues until the result of "breaking out of the cocoon and being reborn" arrives.
Therefore, those Netherworld Serpents are extremely important.
If the snake dies, the Styx Cocoon will surely wither, and there will be one less powerful demon from the Demon Realm who can come.
However, the Netherworld Serpents are also very powerful, each possessing the strength of a fixed fifth-level Demonic Transformation stage, making them virtually impossible to threaten in this Xuan Tian Realm.
"Crack!"
Yinma Demon Lord watched as one of the eighteen cocoons suddenly withered and shattered.
He immediately emitted a sharp, explosive sound!