Phi-Fic Chapter 126 Trampling Through Wind and Snow, the Blood Demon at the Bottom of the Dragon Transformat
Chapter 126 Trampling Through Wind and Snow, the Blood Demon at the Bottom of the Dragon Transformat
The train stopped at its final stop, Golmud, 200 kilometers from the Kunlun Mountains.
Further ahead lies a desolate, snow-covered area.
A strong wind whipped up large snowflakes that pelted my face. The temperature had dropped to minus thirty degrees Celsius.
Lu Yuan, wearing only a thin white shirt, walked through knee-deep snow.
The snowflakes, within half a foot of his body, melted instantly into vapor, as if encountering an invisible furnace. His Qi and blood, honed to the peak of his Mahayana stage, remained at an alarmingly high temperature even without circulating true essence.
Ye Qingcheng followed behind, wrapped in a thick down jacket, her lips turning purple from the cold.
She had to use her inner energy to resist the bitter cold, making her journey extremely difficult. Looking at Lu Yuan strolling leisurely ahead, her awe deepened.
"Mr. Lu, the magnetic field ahead is completely disrupted."
Ye Qingcheng glanced at the broken compass in her hand; the needle was spinning wildly.
"The Ancient Martial Arts Alliance's information says there's a natural maze in this area. Martial artists below the Divine Realm who enter will freeze to death within the illusion. Should we find somewhere to shelter from the snowstorm first?"
Lu Yuan stopped in his tracks.
He ignored Ye Qingcheng and instead took out the bronze fragment from his pocket.
The star-studded patterns on the surface of the fragment were emitting a faint red light. This red light seemed to resonate with the rhythm of breathing, creating a kind of harmony with the earth beneath their feet.
"A natural maze?"
Lu Yuan gave a cold laugh.
"It's just a broken spirit-gathering array. The way it was set up is awful, it can't even control the flow of spiritual energy."
He raised his head and looked at a huge ice peak deep in the snowstorm.
In the world of cultivation, even outer disciples look down on such formations. But on this Earth, where spiritual energy is depleted, it has become a death zone in the eyes of mortals.
"Go in a straight line."
Lu Yuan put away the copper piece and walked directly towards the ice peak.
"If I encounter a breach, I'll crush it."
The two walked for two hours in the wind and snow.
The surrounding scenery began to change eerily. The once white snowfield suddenly vanished, replaced by a barren, black, scorched earth. A strong smell of sulfur and blood filled the air.
Ye Qingcheng gripped her longsword tightly. She sensed countless eyes watching them from the shadows.
"arrive."
Lu Yuan stopped in front of a huge underground fissure.
The crack was bottomless, and a biting cold and dark red mist billowed out from it.
This is the entrance to the Dragon Transformation Pool beneath the main peak of Kunlun Mountain.
"Mr. Lu, the malevolent energy here is too strong, and my internal energy is not circulating smoothly." Ye Qingcheng's face was pale, and she felt as if her blood was being frozen by this malevolent energy.
"Stay up there. Just don't die."
Lu Yuan had no expectation that she could be of any help. He leaped into the bottomless crevice.
The wind whistled in my ears.
After falling for over a hundred meters, Lu Yuan's feet finally slammed heavily onto the hard rocky ground.
boom!
The ground was smashed into a large crater.
The space here is enormous, like a hollowed-out underground cavern. In the center of the cavern is a blood-red pool of water with a diameter of over fifty meters.
The pool water was boiling and churning, filled with the white bones of humans and wild beasts.
Above the pool, a dilapidated altar floated. In the center of the altar sat an old man, emaciated as a skeleton.
The old man's skin clung tightly to his bones, making him look like a dried corpse. However, the aura emanating from him was more than ten times stronger than that of Wang Zhentian, the previous head of the Wang family.
A true peak of the divine realm! He has even stepped one foot into the Foundation Establishment stage of the cultivation world!
"Another blood sacrifice has arrived."
The old man, now a mummified corpse, slowly opened his eyes. His pupils were pure scarlet, with no whites.
"Hmm? That's not right."
The old man twitched his withered nose and stared intently at Lu Yuan at the bottom of the pit.
"You have no true qi, but your blood and qi... are like those of a fully grown dragon! It's wonderful! As long as I absorb your essence and blood, I can completely repair this teleportation array and welcome the arrival of the sect master of the Sirius Star Region!"
The old man with the dried corpse let out a maniacal laugh like an owl.
He suddenly waved his hand.
The bones in the blood pool instantly pieced together into more than a dozen enormous bone beasts, which roared and pounced on Lu Yuan.
Each of these bone beasts possesses strength comparable to a Grandmaster of the Transcendent Realm, and they are fearless in the face of death.
Lu Yuan twisted his neck, producing a series of cracking sounds from his bones.
"A traitor from the Sirius Star Region, clinging to life by extracting energy from the earth's veins in China, dares to spout nonsense in front of me."
He didn't dodge, but charged straight into the first bone beast.
boom!
Lu Yuan's shoulder slammed hard into the bone beast's sternum.
The skeletal beast, powerful enough to tear apart an armored vehicle, was instantly blasted into a cloud of bone dust, as if it had been struck head-on by a fully loaded high-speed train.
Lu Yuan didn't stop, his whole body turning into a blur as he rushed into the horde of bone beasts.
There were no fancy spells, no earth-shattering sword energy.
Only the most primal violence tearing things apart.
He could smash a skull with a single punch and crush a spine with a single stomp. Hard bones were like fragile cookies in his presence.
Less than ten seconds.
The dozen or so bone beasts were all reduced to dust scattered all over the ground.
Lu Yuan stood at the edge of the blood pool, patting the bone powder off his hands. He looked up at the old man, a dried corpse on the altar, whose smile had completely frozen.
"Warm-up complete."
Lu Yuan suddenly exerted force with his feet, and his whole body shot into the sky like a cannonball, directly leaping onto the altar in mid-air.
"Your turn, you old man."
The old man's expression changed drastically. He had lived for over a hundred years and had never seen a monster that could leap dozens of meters into the air using only its physical strength.
He formed hand seals, and the blood in the blood pool transformed into more than a dozen blood-red chains, which wrapped around Lu Yuan in mid-air.
"Get down here!"
Lu Yuan had nowhere to grab hold in mid-air, but he had no intention of dodging.
He allowed the blood-red chains to bind his limbs.
"Is that all the strength you have?"
Lu Yuan suddenly pulled his arm outward.
collapse!collapse!collapse!
Those blood-red chains that could even bind a martial artist at the Divine Realm were torn apart by him.
Lu Yuan's body slammed heavily onto the altar. He grabbed the old man's neck and lifted him up like a chicken.
"Where is the other half of the teleportation key?"
Lu Yuan looked at him coldly.
The old man, now a dried corpse, rolled his eyes back as he was being choked. He frantically pounded on Lu Yuan's arm with both hands, but it was as if he was hitting a steel plate.
Just then.
The pool of blood beneath the altar suddenly began to churn violently.
A grand, cold voice, as if from the depths of the endless starry sky, emanated through the boiling blood.
"Let go of my dog. You ants of the earth."