Bang!
Fifteen kiloters deep within the Blood Miasma Plain, beneath a blood-red mountain approximately four to five hundred ters high, a black shadow suddenly dove down from mid-air, using its body to force open a hole in the mountain wall. After quickly slipping inside, it even swung a sword to collapse the snow on the mountain, completely burying the entrance.
"Cough cough cough..."
Inside the dark cave, Xia Hong coughed continuously a dozen tis, spitting out five or six mouthfuls of fresh blood before his breath gradually stabilized.
His face was deathly pale, and he hurriedly took out a golden round pill from his Yellow Mustard Bag, swallowing it quickly. He then swiftly activated the Enlightennt Lotus Platform, sitting cross-legged alone, and started healing with closed eyes.
"What on earth was that thing!"
While healing, Xia Hong didn’t relax his vigilance, keeping his mind focused on the outside of the cave. It took dozens of breaths before he sensed no signs of anything approaching outside, allowing himself to slightly relax, with both apprehension and intense anger in his eyes.
"Strength of a Hundred Jun, excluding Yin Yang Mirror techniques which it can’t replicate, the Shattered Star Sword, martial arts, everything else just like mine, Solidified Fire Oil, Yellow Candle have no effect on it. How did that monster achieve this..."
Xia Hong looked at the more than twenty wounds on his body, recalling the more than hour-long chase by the counterfeit Xia Hong and Fan Qinghu’s five n, still filled with dread.
At the critical mont, he had no choice but to escape deeper into the southern side of the Blood Miasma Plain, though he wasn’t mindlessly charging ahead.
Compared to the five counterfeits, the deeper part of the Blood Miasma Plain was obviously more dangerous. If he recklessly charged in, he would probably end up in a worse situation.
Therefore, Xia Hong only slightly shifted southward, trying to ensure safety while maneuvering with the five fake Xia Hongs for more than an hour.
The result of maneuvering was that the five chased him repeatedly, and the twenty-odd wounds on his body ca from that.
While maneuvering, he constantly adjusted towards the south. As the maneuvering with the five went on longer, he was inevitably forced deeper into the Blood Miasma Plain.
"Are they afraid to chase further, or have they already achieved their goal?"
While Xia Hong closed his eyes focusing on recovering, his perception outside the cave didn’t relax for a mont, muttering under his breath with an unchanged solemn expression.
As his injuries rapidly started to heal, his expression slowly relaxed a bit.
The Holy Vein Pill is currently the most precious sixth-level elixir in Great Xia. Even if one’s body ridians are completely severed, one pill can restore them as before. Strictly speaking, its effect far surpasses re healing, belonging to divine-grade elixirs used for saving lives or restoring cultivation to soone incapacitated.
Currently, the production across Great Xia is scarce; each pill is extrely precious. Xia Hong only brought 10 pills on this trip, and last year when injured by the Black Wind General on the Bone-Eroding Path, he used only one.
This ti, he had already taken one pill when being chased, and another upon entering the cave, totaling two pills.
The Enlightennt Lotus Platform’s effect of five tis cultivation enhancent allowed his healing efficiency to far exceed ordinary people. Though less than a hundred breaths had passed since entering the cave, his injuries had already healed seventy to eighty percent.
"I know nothing about the Miasma Area within, I can’t just move around recklessly any longer..."
Xia Hong opened his eyes, his expression remaining somber despite the calm occurring outside the cave as per his perception.
Having explored unfamiliar areas before, even if he was dangerously chased by the five just now, he rembered the general locations and tis.
"Since entering the plain till now, it’s been less than three hours; I should be around 15 kiloters deep in the Miasma Area, southwest of Cai Qiu’s 21st district over 50 kiloters—by that reasoning, Chen Cang isn’t far!"
Within the Miasma Area, looking up sees no sky, only blood-red color with no division between day and night, only able to rely on sensing ti passing. The chase monts were extrely perilous; rembering this much was due to exploring experience accumulated in earlier years, else anyone else would’ve long gotten disoriented.
"Whichever direction has dangers now, no rush, huh..."
Buzz buzz...
After contemplating silently for a mont, Xia Hong suddenly heard a faint sound from within his body, his expression slightly stunned, eyes instantly showing excitent.
"It’s the three Blood Jade Pearls I had consud just now..."
The flesh beneath the skin mbrane was quickly disintegrating and reorganizing!
The effect of those three Blood Jade Pearls was potent; Xia Hong already sensed it upon consumption, yet back then he couldn’t stop to cultivate, allowing them to advance on their own.
But now, the already strong effect has amplified severalfold.
No, it must be dozens of tis!
Seeing himself sitting cross-legged on the Enlightennt Lotus Platform, Xia Hong instantly realized, expressing joy along with a hint of doubt.
"No, no, the Enlightennt Lotus Platform only has five tis the cultivation enhancent; this Blood Jade Pearl’s effect amplification far exceeds five tis, sothing else must be causing this..."
Pondering deeply for over a dozen breaths without any conclusion, Xia Hong decisively pushed this confusion aside, swiftly activating the Blood Jade Pearl’s energy to assist with the reorganization of flesh throughout his body.
The energy of the three Blood Jade Pearls was fully absorbed in less than twenty breaths, leaving Xia Hong abruptly shocked with a face full of surprise.
"10 Zong, improved by 0.1 Jin of strength, I didn’t feel wrong, right?"
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