God Emperor

Zhang Ruochen had suffered from Evil Death Qi before. Once it entered one’s body, even a Half-Saint would struggle to resolve it. Were it strong enough, it could even threaten the life of a Saint.

Zhang Ruochen operated Qi of Saint Dragon in the Dragon Marble instantly. Yangqiao Saintly Meridian and Yinqiao Saintly Meridian were transported to his legs, and turned into hundreds of golden dragons to shake off all the blood insects covering his legs.

But the bodies of blood insects were so pliable that they weren’t killed by it.

The minute they fell on the ground, they drilled into the earth with rustling noises, and disappeared in a second.

Elephant-swallowing Rabbit was even faster. It opened its mouth, caught the tail of a blood insect and dragged it out of the earth with its teeth.

The blood insect was about 33 centimeters long, shaped like a centipede and was densely covered with scales. There were dozens of feet under its body, all with sharp barbs.

Chi Chi!

The blood insect let out a noise. Its body circled like a snake. And it opened its mouth to show its four sharp teeth, intending to bite the eyes of Elephant-swallowing Rabbit.

At the same time, Zhang Ruochen used his two fingers to clamp down on the head of the blood insect.

With a cracking sound, the head of blood insect broke, and drops of blood came out.

The eyes of Elephant-swallowing Rabbit turned bright. It rushed forward and swallowed the blood insect even before Zhang Ruochen could stop it.

“Why do you eat everything?”

Zhang Ruochen stared at it.

“Lord…my lord…”

Elephant-swallowing Rabbit groaned and rolled on the ground, holding its belly.

When it climbed up again, it screamed in a mania and kept grinding its teeth. Blood lines were seen in its eyeballs, which appeared to be full of slaughter, desire and evil.

Zhang Ruochen immediately slammed a palm on the head of Elephant-swallowing Rabbit, dispersing the Evil Death Qi, and forcing it out from its body.

“This is so scary, so scary. I need a minute.”

Elephant-swallowing Rabbit lay face down on the ground, breathing hard. Then, it took out a silver ginseng leaf, which was about the size of a bowl, and began to chew it.

After it finished chewing the silver ginseng, Elephant-swallowing Rabbit exhaled a long breath and recovered completely.

Zhang Ruochen reminded it, “Be careful. There was Evil Death Qi contained in the bodies of these blood insects. Once it enters your body, it would be difficult for Holy Qi to resolve it.”

“Eh!”

Elephant-swallowing Rabbit opened its eyes wide, and its two ears straightened on its head. “My lord, I find that Sky-swallowing Skill might help refine the blood insect and improve one’s cultivation. Should I…try eating another one?”

Two white teeth stuck out of its mouth. Elephant-swallowing Rabbit looked at Zhang Ruochen, waiting for his consent.

“Try it. If using blood insect could help you improve cultivation, it surely would be good for you.”

With him standing beside, there was no need to worry about accidents.

Since the cultivation of Elephant-swallowing Rabbit had reached Half-Saint level, it had some powerful skills as expected. In a minute, it had pulled a blood insect from the earth.

Its teeth were even sharper than those of a blood insect.

So it killed it with its teeth, swallowed it, and operated Sky-swallowing Skill.

Sky-swallowing Skill was a supreme canon of Sky-swallowing Demon Dragon Sect, and it helped to complete the refinery of a blood insect in a very short time. This time Elephant-swallowing Rabbit became very careful. As it was refining the blood insect, it exhaled Evil Death Qi, and wasn’t affected by it.

Zhang Ruochen nodded. “As powerful as Evil Death Qi is, there is only little of it in a blood insect. A Half-Saint can resolve it, just with much caution.”

In the following three days, Elephant-swallowing Rabbit kept searching for blood insects while Zhang Ruochen kept on looking for the exit of Stone Forest. It had eaten more than one hundred insects as if it would never be full.

Zhang Ruochen observed the changes happening to Elephant-swallowing Rabbit silently. In just three days, the cultivation of Elephant-swallowing Rabbit had almost doubled, approaching that of a human monk who was a top First Level Half-Saint.

Blackie was really wise to have given Sky-swallowing Skill to it, Zhang Ruochen thought.

In the past three days, some Half-Saint humans and six-level savage beasts were seen flying over Stone Forest. But none of them survived from the chop of a blood-red giant axe, and all became corpses.

Once the corpses fell to the ground, blood insects would feast on them. Nothing would go to waste.

That’s why Zhang Ruochen didn’t want to fly. He had to restrain his breath, and move forward with great caution.

Zhang Ruochen and Elephant-swallowing Rabbit were attacked by some blood insects as well. But they were not powerful and were defeated very quickly.

Densely placed stone columns did not lead the way out of Stone Forest. At last, Zhang Ruochen couldn’t help but doubt if they had lost their way.

Zhang Ruochen hadn’t met any other human monk in Stone Forest until the fifth day.

This monk was a Half-Saint of the Immortal Vampires. Zhang Ruochen had seen him standing behind Feng Han.

He was fighting a blood insect which was almost 10 meters long. His hair was disheveled. Dozens of wounds could be seen on his body. Nobody knew how long he had been fighting, but weariness was showing in his looks.

Aside the battle scene, hundreds of blood insects were making chichi noise with their heads up. They were waiting for the death of this Half-Saint of the Immortal Vampires, and would rush up and devour him the minute he died.

It was the first time that Zhang Ruochen saw such a big blood insect, and he was quite shocked.

Elephant-swallowing Rabbit opened its eyes wide and drooled. “So fat, so big. It must be tasty…”

Zhang Ruochen didn’t like Immortal Vampires at all, so he had no plan to help the Half-Saint. Besides, the blood insect was very scary, and its strength was about that of a Third Level Half-Saint.

The Evil Death Qi it gave out and its fast speed stopped Zhang Ruochen from wanting to attack it as well.

“My lord, look, what is that?”

Elephant-swallowing Rabbit pointed to the back of the blood insect with a hand.

Zhang Ruochen looked and saw the stone forest there rose up a little to become a hill. On top of the hill was a black dried-up tree without a single green leaf. Only a black fruit was on it, giving off a strong exotic smell.

“A tree in Ghost God Valley? And with a fruit on it? Is the blood insect watching over it?”

While the blood insect was busy fighting the Half-Saint, Zhang Ruochen took the form of a flying light and rushed to the top of the hill at his fastest speed.

At the same time, another person rushed out from the opposite direction.

They arrived on the hilltop at almost the same time, and reached out their hands to pick up the fruit.

Zhang Ruochen was barely one step ahead of him.

When he was going to pick up the fruit, the other person threw a treasure bottle, which was created by a Print Rule, toward Zhang Ruochen’s belly.

Zhang Ruochen didn’t slow down as he reached out his hand to pick up the black fruit. At the same time, the Abyss Ancient Sword left its sheath automatically, dragging a long sword Qi and hitting the Print Rule hard.

Boom!

They both retreated.

The black dried-up tree cracked noisily, turned into powders and burnt into dust in just a minute. Even the hill under the feet of Zhang Ruochen and the other person split into parts and fell to the ground.

“Sir, I found this Shenwan Fruit before you did. You’d better give it back to me, otherwise you’ll get yourself into trouble.”

The man who stood opposite Zhang Ruochen was all covered with white cloths and bandages, except for a pair of black eyes. He looked like a walking mummy.

There were three small pure golden bells on the mummy guy’s belt, knocking into each other and giving out a jingle sound.

He could defend himself from Zhang Ruochen’s blade and fight with him, which showed that he was a powerful warrior as well.

Zhang Ruochen put the black fruit into the Spatial Ring with no haste, and said, “Aren’t you too much of a bully in saying things like that, sir? We could never tell who was the first to find it. But, I’m the person who picked it up, and it naturally belongs to me.”

The mummy guy stared at the Spatial Ring, and appeared to be a little surprised. “In that case, I’ll fight with you, and see what you’ve got to allow you to withhold this Shenwan Fruit.”

A rustling noise passed from afar at that moment.

The ten meters long blood insect had finished swallowing the corpse of the Half Saint from the Immortal Vampires. And its body had extended about 2 meters long to become 12 meters long in total.

And the strength bursting out from its body had reached the prime of Third Level Half-Saint very quickly.

And now, the giant blood insect, together with hundreds of small blood insects, was rushing toward Zhang Ruochen and the other person, carrying enormous Evil Death Qi with them.

Both the looks of Zhang Ruochen and the other person changed. They stopped fighting against each other, and ran away in different directions.

“My lord.”

Elephant-swallowing Rabbit moved desperately with two short legs to run after Zhang Ruochen, while holding one blood insect with each hand and eating.

The speed of Elephant-swallowing Rabbits was really comparable. Although Zhang Ruochen wore Shooting Star Invisible Cloak, he was just a little faster than Elephant-swallowing Rabbit.

“Follow me. I’ve found the way out of Stone Forest,” said Zhang Ruochen.

While he was at the top of the hill, he had used Eye of the Deity Print to look through the thick ghost fog and find the border of Stone Forest.

But the giant blood insect moved rapidly too. It closely followed Zhang Ruochen and Elephant-swallowing Rabbit, roaring.

After each roar, a swarm of blood insects would come out of the earth from all directions.

“My lord, why would that giant insect chase us?”

Elephant-swallowing Rabbit ran rapidly with its tail between its legs.

It must have had something to do with the black fruit. Maybe Zhang Ruochen had taken its treasure away.