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42: Chapter 42: Crimson Cave Heaven (Please follow!) 42: Chapter 42: Crimson Cave Heaven (Please follow!) The blood mist exploded, followed closely by a figure in black clothes bolting out from the blood-colored fog.

Whoosh!

Xie Xuanyi’s expression was not pleasant.

Upon entering the Cave Heaven Realm, a cultivator’s strength would undergo a “qualitative change” because each cultivator’s Grotto Heaven possessed different traits corresponding to their Dao…

If she wasn’t mistaken, the blood-colored vertical pupil that appeared on Jia Liu’s forehead was her condensed Grotto Heaven!

This Grotto Heaven corresponded to the Heavenly Puppet Sect’s “Blood Refining Skill”!

When the flying sword pierced Jia Liu’s shoulder, Jia Liu took the opportunity to leave her blood on the blade, waiting for Xie Xuanyi to recall the flying sword.

The Blood Refining Skill was powerful, but it came at a great cost!

This technique was somewhat similar to the infamously noble “Seven Injuries Fist” in the martial world.

Each time the caster launched an attack, it required the consumption of their own essence blood…

Cultivators who practiced this way were all deemed “evil cultivators” by the Great Chu.

To compensate for the lack of blood, they would often devour human blood to nourish themselves!

Xie Xuanyi had known from the beginning that this Jia Liu was a ruthless person.

But she had not expected…

that this madwoman would be so decisive!

Once she used the Blood Refining Skill, it would completely cover a radius of ten meters, and she didn’t even care about the living corpse puppet she had painstakingly refined!

Xie Xuanyi successfully escaped.

But the burly living corpse was directly blasted into countless pieces!

The stalwart trunks of the Purple Bamboo Forest gained a faint layer of crimson, and the air was also filled with a rich scent of blood.

“You really have great movement skills…”

Jia Liu excitedly sniffed her nose.

Although she was pale, her expression grew increasingly excited.

The wound previously punctured by the flying sword was still continuously leaking fresh blood…

After the living corpse puppet was shattered, the blood scent in the air almost solidified.

Jia Liu slowly raised a slender arm.

Following her motion, countless scarlet breaths swept through the air, converging into blood-red fireballs.

Blood-red stars, hovering above the Purple Bamboo Forest.

“Go!”

A sharp shout.

Jia Liu’s blood-colored vertical pupil on her forehead suddenly widened, and dozens of hanging scarlet fireballs above the bamboo forest thunderously fell—

Xie Xuanyi turned her head to run without any hesitation, fleeing so quickly and cleanly.

This Heavenly Puppet Sect woman had profound cultivation, struck fiercely, and most importantly, this Crimson Cave Heaven…

was somewhat eerie!

Within moments, the Purple Bamboo Forest turned into a sea of fire.

Bright red fireballs roared down, like the siege bombs produced by the Da Chu Imperial City, each one carrying the force to destroy heaven and earth.

The scorching hot wind burned fiercely from behind her.

Xie Xuanyi, fleeing in “disarray,” took a moment to glance back and, as expected, saw Jia Liu’s fierce and ugly face, showing a hint of mocking cold smile.

This Cave Heaven evil cultivator probably thought the victory was certain by now, only viewing her as prey with nowhere to flee, playing the final game of “cat and mouse.”

“You probably think you’re smart, knowing to wear a mask outdoors to hide your identity.”

“But in my eyes, you’re completely foolish.”

Jia Liu crossed her arms, following leisurely behind, her lips curling up with interest as she watched Xie Xuanyi get bombarded by fireballs, fleeing clumsily, much like beating a dog down the well.

She opened with a smile, “I was originally worried that you wouldn’t dare to meet the appointment at Chenqing Mountain.”

Xie Xuanyi narrowed her eyes.

Through the negotiations over this period, he had confirmed…

Jia Liu’s practice of the Crimson Cave Heaven indeed corresponded with the Heavenly Puppet Sect’s “Blood Refining Skill.”

The ground was pitted, and the sky filled with blood fire.

Every flame burning here was driven by Jia Liu’s own essence blood, yet from Jia Liu’s reactions, it seemed she was still in a state of “sufficient blood volume?”

“Almost had enough fun.”

Jia Liu instantly dropped her smile, saying coldly, “Sending you on your way.”

She clasped her hands together.

The last blood-colored fireball was no longer “just scraping past”; it accelerated towards Xie Xuanyi’s head—

A sharp breaking sound echoed through her ears.

Xie Xuanyi instinctively unsheathed her sword, but the ornamental sword she had casually purchased in Lichao City had been shattered by the vibrations of the Crimson Cave Heaven, and even if she used her primordial power to summon it, it would just bring a pile of fragments…

Xie Xuanyi bent over and ran, reaching for a sturdy purple bamboo, putting strength into her palm, and in an instant, the bamboo bent and pressed to the ground.

The next moment, the sound of breaking under strain arose, and the purple bamboo snapped in two!

Xie Xuanyi no longer ran but grasped the long slender bamboo, twisting her waist and turning around, flinging it like a spear!

In that turn.

Xie Xuanyi’s entire field of vision was filled with falling blood fire!

“Boom!”

The next moment, the huge fireball was penetrated and burst by the purple bamboo, this unparalleled burst of physical strength directly broke through the brute force of the Crimson Cave Heaven’s “Blood Refining Skill!”

Xie Xuanyi raised her sleeve to cover her face, stepping back as the purple bamboo spear burst the fireball, and the sky filled with falling fire rain.

He moved back to a safe distance…

The purple bamboo, which he had thrown with all his might, continued its momentum after bursting the fireball, speeding towards where Jia Liu was.

All this happened too quickly.

Jia Liu’s pupils contracted, and the gesture of joined palms was forcibly broken.

Out of necessity, she stretched out both hands to catch the fiercely charging purple bamboo spear.

The blood fire all around converged into her sleeves like a dragon drawing water, instantly dyeing her black robe a shade of crimson.

With a single shake of her hand, the purple bamboo was shattered from tip to base!

Thud, thud, thud.

Jia Liu retreated three steps, her complexion somewhat unsightly, sizing up Xie Xuanyi with hesitation and uncertainty.

There are only a few sects for body refiners, after all.

The person before her was fierce in every move, showing no more “mercy” than herself, and this technique of killing was obviously unrelated to the Buddhist sect!

Why did she feel that the one opposite was also a practitioner of an evil path, “a fellow traveler”?

…

…

Chenqing Mountain fell into a brief silence.

After the exchange of blows, neither chose to attack rashly.

“Now, it seems that I am still unable to confront someone from Grotto Heaven…”

Xie Xuanyi murmured softly to himself in his heart.

Just as he had expected.

Having ignited less than half of the acupuncture points, it was difficult to wrestle evenly with someone from the Grotto Heaven Realm.

After forming the Grotto Heaven, the power of Blood Refining Skill was far unparalleled to the likes of Xu You.

Qi Control peak and Grotto Heaven Realm seem separated only by a thin bottleneck.

But it’s akin to a chasm.

“Grotto Heaven” itself is a symbol of the Dao.

If it were merely Qi Control, Jia Liu’s “Blood Refining Skill” would not possibly have been performed for such a duration…

this Grotto Heaven provided her with an immensely robust reserve of energy, allowing her to squander recklessly.

Putting aside the difference in realm.

There was another very important factor…

That is, the “Blood Refining Skill” was somewhat too sinister, too malicious.

Xie Xuanyi looked down at his own palm, golden Primordial Energy flowed within the acupuncture points, covering his palms, but a hint of blood-colored tainted aura could still be seen circulating on the skin surface.

The air emitted a hissing burning sound.

Even though he was extremely cautious,

Jia Liu’s “Blood Refining Skill” still splashed onto him.

Evil cultivators who practiced such techniques often engaged in a kind of mad behavior…

that is, mixing poison into their own blood.

Yes, they would ingest various Gu Poisons themselves.

In doing so.

The “fresh blood” normally sacrificed and splashed also carried extreme poison!

This is also why normal cultivators were unwilling to confront evil cultivators; who would want to grapple with such lunatics?

Under such circumstances, even getting a drop of blood on oneself was extremely dire.

“You’re far stronger than I imagined.”

After a moment of silence.

Jia Liu spoke again, her gaze towards Xie Xuanyi changed, no longer showing the extreme disdain she had before.

“To be affected by ‘Blood Refining Skill’ and still be able to stand…”

Jia Liu narrowed her eyes slowly, “Is it a treasure protecting you, or is your bodily constitution truly so domineering that it can withstand the Gu blood?”

Neither.

Xie Xuanyi remained silent, keenly aware of the reason he could still stand.

It was the Undying Spring…

Precisely speaking, it was those golden Primordial Energy that had not yet condensed into the “Undying Spring,” which originally lingered in his Dantian in a free state.

After being affected by the Gu blood, these golden energies began to actively move around on the surface of his body, encountering the poison-laden “Gu blood” that had just invaded his skin, and then the golden energy located it.

Then they reacted together, neutralizing each other.

This was the reason for the continuous “hissing” sounds.

“Whichever case it may be, it’s a good thing.”

Jia Liu did not receive a response, but she was not angry.

“If you have a treasure that can resist Gu blood, after tonight, that treasure will be mine…”

“If it’s your body’s strength resisting, that’s even better, I am indeed in need of a sufficiently robust lifebound puppet.”

She smiled and stretched out her hands, forming another bizarre hand gesture.

Crimson Grotto Heaven loomed overhead, with dazzling red light cascading down like a waterfall.

If one overlooked her fierce, ugly face, and saw Jia Liu bathed in the red light, it might even evoke the illusion of witnessing a compassionate Bodhisattva.

Xie Xuanyi squinted his eyes.

He saw, illuminated by the light of the Crimson Grotto Heaven, Jia Liu’s second pair of arms slowly extending from her back.

This was not an illusion.

Jia Liu really had grown a second pair of hands, though slender and elongated, they were dripping with fresh blood!

The second pair of hands, forming the gesture of the Buddhist Pure Bottle, appeared even more dignified.

Bathed in the blood light, facing the Crimson Grotto Heaven as if donning a rosy halo, the woman softly spoke, “Meeting is fate, tonight the mountain is high under a full moon, serene all around, why shouldn’t we thoroughly enjoy ourselves?”