bookbashuk Chapter 93 Discovery
Chapter 93 Discovery
"Senior Sister Zhang..."
Yao Ye spoke first, his tone tinged with a hint of probing, "That attack just now wiped out all the alien mountain demons and dragons, and the threat to this place has been eliminated."
Why don't we go and investigate the whereabouts of that "mountain girl"?
"Can."
Zhang Ruxue nodded slightly, without saying much.
After searching around the original site of the deep pool, the two found no trace of the mountain girl.
She pondered for a moment, then turned her gaze to the mountainside and said:
"Let's go to the mine."
The two retraced their steps and found the mine entrance halfway up the mountain.
The cave was pitch black.
Zhang Ruxue pointed her fingers, and the flying sword was drawn from its sheath and hung at her side, its frosty white light illuminating the mine tunnel several feet ahead.
The two entered the cave one after the other, and the sword light was gradually swallowed up by the darkness in the depths.
……
About an incense stick's time later.
A figure emerged from the bushes in front of the hill.
Chen Bai extended his spiritual sense to confirm that no one was around before turning his gaze to the battlefield before him.
It was nearly evening.
The cold moonlight shone on the hillside, illuminating the crimson expanse covering the entire mountainside.
The mandrill carcass was piled up on the ground in layers, its black blood soaking into the soil, and in some low-lying areas, it had even formed dark red pools of blood.
The flattened half of the mountain peak gleamed faintly in the moonlight.
"We've struck it rich...we've really struck it rich!"
Chen Bai murmured, his eyes reflecting the outlines of the corpses scattered all over the ground, "This trip was definitely worthwhile."
He suppressed his excitement, took a deep breath, and chose a relatively flat spot at the top of the slope, where he sat down cross-legged.
The moonlight fell on his shoulders, casting his shadow on the charred rock wall behind him.
Little Six the Crow emerged, curled up into a ball of fluff the size of a fist, and obediently perched on my shoulder, helping to keep watch.
A pair of small, red eyes, wide open, warily scanned the surroundings.
Chen Bai closed his eyes, and his powerful spiritual sense spread out like a tide, instantly covering an area of a hundred feet in radius.
Under the moonlight, the location of every mountain demon corpse, the depth of every pool of demon blood, and every fragment of bone shattered by magic power were clearly reflected in his sea of consciousness.
"Let's try it first and see if this small cauldron can completely recycle it."
He muttered to himself, then squatted down.
He spread one hand and pressed it to the ground, completely disregarding the blood and filth that stained his palm.
Within his sea of consciousness, the Cauldron of Returning to Origin and Creation suddenly lit up.
The cauldron trembled, emitted a burst of spiritual light, and an invisible vortex opened at its mouth.
This time, he made no attempt to conceal his intentions and exerted all his strength to activate the small cauldron's recycling ability.
Outside the body.
An invisible and mysterious power.
After passing through Chen Bai's arm, it quickly spread to the areas covered by his spiritual sense.
"here we go......"
A look of understanding appeared in Chen Bai's eyes.
The next scene was both eerie and solemn.
Under the moonlight, the battlefield, spanning hundreds of feet, seemed to be gently stirred by an invisible hand.
Blood of demons splattered everywhere, moving without wind.
First it trembled slightly, then it seemed to be pulled by something.
It transformed into gurgling streams, flowing backwards from all directions towards Chen Bai's location.
Silently, they flowed into his palm, like rivers flowing into the sea.
Meanwhile, the mountain of mandrill carcasses was dissolving bit by bit.
First, the fur loses its luster and becomes gray and brittle; then the flesh shrinks and collapses, peeling off like soil that has been drained of moisture.
Finally, even the bones crumbled into powder, and the entire corpse collapsed at a visible speed, turning into clumps of grayish-white dust.
However, just a few breaths later, the surroundings were still like a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
But now it has changed completely, returning to its original appearance, and not even a trace of dried blood can be found in the pile of rubble.
The mountains of corpses were nowhere to be found; only a few more piles of dust remained in their original locations.
Chen Bai stood up and let out a long sigh of relief.
Gazing at the unbelievable scene before him, he began to daydream: the legendary supernatural power "Universe in the Sleeve" was nothing more than this.
A sleeve can hold all things, a palm can encompass mountains and rivers.
Although he is still far from perfect, his previous act of gathering had already shown some of the beginnings of "gathering all things".
He chuckled and shook his head, then focused his breathing and casually flicked his sleeve, scattering several conspicuous piles of dust.
The gray dust rose with the wind and quickly blended into the night, leaving no trace.
"Now we're just waiting for the small cauldron to be retrieved, and then we'll see what kind of generous reward we can get!"
Chen Bai pondered this, and a hint of anticipation crept in.
"Buzz..."
After about an incense stick's time, the small cauldron finally stopped trembling.
After a brief silence, a dazzling white light suddenly shone from the mouth of the cauldron.
Countless orbs of light flew out of the cauldron almost simultaneously and hovered in his sea of consciousness, densely packed like stars scattered across the sky.
[Recovery: The carcass of the "one-legged mandrill"...]
[Collection: Corpse of the Fetal-Breathing Monster "Monster Mandrill" *35]
[Collection: Corpse of the Fetal Breathing Monster "Jiao-type Mountain Demon" *12]
Extract: "Demon Essence" *25
[Extract: "Beast Bloodline" *35 - "Crimson-Eyed Ferocious Hound", "Blue-Bearded Long Ape", "Frost-Horned Wild Bull", "Iron-Feathered Vulture", "Earth-Splitting Horned Rhinoceros", "Black-Armored Yuan Tuo"...]
Extracting: "Essence, Blood, and Qi"...
[Primal Quality: 32,000 points]
Chen Bai's gaze swept over the densely packed extracts, and his breathing quickened slightly.
"More than 30,000 points of elemental essence..."
This was the largest sum of money he had received since acquiring the small tripod.
There were also twenty-five essences of demonic energy.
The thirty-five strands of ferocious beast bloodline were even more diverse. From leopards to rhinoceroses, from birds to aquatic beasts, they covered almost all kinds of demonic beasts commonly found on the outskirts of the Ten Directions Mountains.
But all of this pales in comparison to the weight of that essence and blood energy.
The essence and blood extracted from the corpses of thousands of mandrills, after being concentrated and refined by the small cauldron, actually condensed into a small pool of blood.
The pool of blood floated in the cauldron, its crimson color shimmering, radiating spiritual light, and its life essence so rich it was almost tangible.
Compared to the previous blood essence, this pool of blood was worlds apart—
However, what truly captivated Chen Bai's gaze was that cluster of seven-colored light.
Among the dense clusters of light, one cluster stood out conspicuously.
It was brighter than any other orb of light, displaying seven colors, and hung in the very center, like a bright moon surrounded by stars.
The light was not dazzling, but it possessed an indescribable depth and solemnity, as if some extremely ancient and noble being was slumbering within that light.
Chen Bai's throat bobbed, as if a surge of heat was rising in his chest and rushing to his head.
He reached out his hand towards the seven-colored ball of light.
As the light flowed through his fingertips, it carried a subtle, almost imperceptible, pressure, like a suppression of bloodline.
He carefully held the ball of seven-colored light up to his eyes.
The light flowed through his palm, gradually fading away the outer glow to reveal what lay hidden within.
Chen Bai's pupils suddenly contracted.