Chapter 317: One Year
The map drawn by Captain Kim is easy to understand.
Taking Rongxia Village as the base point, you can see a red maple forest about 30 miles to the left after exiting the village entrance, and then turn right about 20 miles to the cliff.
The map also records some of the more conspicuous terrain features along the road to ensure that Su Huai will not deviate from the route and go further and further.
It took a day and a night to get from Rongxia Village to Duniao Village, but it only took more than half an hour to get back to Rongxia Village from Duniao Village, even if the aura and strength could not be revealed.
The night is still extremely quiet.
Su Huai walked along the route, not far from the swamp hand's habitat, but suddenly swallowed and lay down carefully on the ground.
He saw the dead butcher.
It stood in the middle of the swamp, with the dark brown mud just up to its waist. The hands of the swamp kept biting at him, and its small eyes emitted a strange light, which struck the rough skin of the Death Butcher.
But, all this is just in vain.
The Death Butcher reached out and pulled off a swamp hand from his body, then stuffed it directly into the big mouth on his abdomen.
Snap!
Su Huai suddenly heard the sound of exploding liquid.
It’s disgusting and nauseating. This ghost has finally turned its mouth on the Swamp Hand who was dismissive at first!
The Death Butcher spat out half of the bones with a look of disgust, raised his plump bald head, and looked in the direction of Dodiao Village.
Unfortunately, that place is the territory of an Emperor Realm Soul Crossing Bird.
Although it is on the verge of a breakthrough, it has only taken half a step, and in the final analysis it is still in the realm of the emperor.
Although he has the ability to kill the soul-walking bird, the hunting process will definitely cause some big noise.
When the time comes to attract the attention of the ghost lords here... this half-step town will definitely die.
This area is better...
Since the leader of this area, Ghostface Tengrong, died in a battle more than forty years ago, the next leader of the emperor has not yet been born.
That is to say, the ghost-faced vine fig has a special race. It has no flesh and blood, and has little value after it dies. Otherwise, it would have eaten the remains of the vine fig.
As for those parasitic ants under the Grimace Ficus...
The nutritional value is not as high as that of an eighth-level ghost.
Su Huai didn't know what Butcher Death was thinking.
He strives to minimize his presence.
It's not that he's afraid of dying at the opponent's hands. Even if he can't do it with his strength, he can still run away. The reason why he doesn't want to be exposed is the same as the Death Butcher.
That ghost lord is the one that really needs to be feared!
Fortunately, the Swamp Hands in the swamp had been cleaned up by Su Huai in advance. It didn't take long for the Dead Butcher to completely clear the swamp, pat his belly, climb up the shore, and walk away.
The huge feet stepped on the ground, leaving a huge footprint, which was soon filled with the mud carried on the body, and the stench was extremely bad.
When it was far away, Su Huai stood up and looked into the distance with a frown.
"The aura of this Death Butcher...is a little stronger than when I saw it last night. I guess it's not far from the real Zhenguo level."
"Tsk..."
"Forget it, it's none of my business anyway."
Su Huai gathered up the Night Devil cloak, put on the Night Devil mask, and ran towards the red maple forest marked on the map.
The red maple forest was originally the territory of a ninth-level ghost.
But that ninth-level ghost had been hunted by the Death Butcher the day before yesterday, and the entire maple forest was littered with trunks and branches of white-skinned maple trees.
The fallen leaves on the ground were piled up layer after layer.
"Turn right……"
After running for nearly twenty miles again, Su Huai arrived at the top of a fault canyon.
After all, the map was too simple. He walked around the area for a while before he saw the cliff that matched Captain Jin's description.
There was silence on the cliff.
The bottom of the cliff is filled with a layer of thick fog.
In Su Huai's perception, the seemingly ordinary cliff was covered with moths with a wingspan of nearly half a meter and gray back wings that almost perfectly blended into the rocks.
This is a tribe of grimacing hawkmoths.
As Captain Jin said, most of the Grimace Hawkmoths are only at the third or fourth level, and the strongest one is only at the seventh level.
This is also the reason why the Grimace Hawkmoth group can survive the prey of the Death Butcher.
"Yin, can you feel the breath of the source crystal?"
【Hold on】
The little snake's eyes flashed red, and its perception swept across the cliff inch by inch, and then slowly explored into the thick fog at the bottom of the cliff.
It took half an hour for the little snake to look back.
[At the bottom of the cliff, buried very deep]
"The bottom of the cliff?"
[Well, there are no high-level ghosts. Just follow my guidance and keep digging.]
Su Huai took a deep breath, bypassed the densely packed ghost-faced hawkmoths on the cliff, found a relatively secluded path, and jumped down to the bottom of the cliff.
Click——
At the bottom of the cliff, it seems to be the garbage dump of the Ghostface Hawkmoth clan.
There are piles of dry bones in different shapes that have had their flesh and blood absorbed, and there are also many human bones mixed in among them.
Some scavenging creatures are entrenched in the gaps between the bones. The air is very turbid and exudes a strong stench.
"Damn it, the Grimace Hawkmoth... the ghost thing... shouldn't be excreting, right?"
[It cannot be generalized. The ghost clan is just a name for a group. It is different from the "ghost" you imagine. Some ghosts have excretory organs, but the Grimace Hawk Moth is not one of them]
[Okay, here it is, dig down! 】
Su Huai stopped and took out a shovel from the storage ring. With the spiritual power attached to it, the shovel immediately began to rotate at high speed, digging as fast as a drill.
Five meters, ten meters, thirty meters...
When it was nearly 170 meters deep into the ground, the shovel attached to the immortal force made a clanging sound and flew out.
Su Huai's eyes lit up, and he quickly took out a second shovel and carefully cleaned away the surface soil and rocks under his feet.
A section of shiny white bones came into view.
If you look closely, you can see that there is still some thick crystal liquid flowing in the bones.
"This is...marrow liquid!"
Su Huai was shocked.
It is rumored that in the ancient times, some emperor-level masters of the body-refining school would temper their body parts, such as fists, fingers, feet, and heads, etc., into another special "imperial weapon."
Those who have mastered it will derive a special "marrow liquid" from the bones of the tempered part. Applying it to the body can greatly strengthen the body and bones.
But few people can verify it.
Su Huai swallowed and started working hard.
After a while, a strange-shaped white skull five or six meters in size appeared in front of Su Huai's eyes.
The skull was as smooth as jade, and large areas of marrow fluid flowed through it, making Su Huai's heart beat crazily.
"Marrow spirit liquid... so much marrow spirit liquid!"
"Not to mention smearing this amount, it's enough for taking a bath, right?"
"Wait a minute! Since it's on the skull, are the bones in other parts of the body also..."
【Don't be too greedy】
The little snake landed on the skull and rubbed the two raised bone stubbles at the top of the skull with its tail. Judging from the shape of the fracture, there should have been a pair of sharp horns at that part.
[This is the remains of a world lord level demon clan strongman]
[Maledramon, a type of dragon]
[The most proud things of this kind of dragon beast are their head armor and horns, so the marrow liquid in the skull is the purest, and even if there is any in other parts, it is mostly mixed]
【And don't forget】
【What is the real purpose of our trip...】
Su Huai was stunned for a moment, then immediately dug a foothold next to the skull and began digging around the skull.
When the giant beast's skull was fully revealed, the little snake climbed onto Su Huai's shoulder.
[Try to see if you can store the storage ring]
"OK."
Su Huai covered the skull with spiritual power and tried to put it into the storage ring, but the skull did not move at all.
[Okay, now I am sure that the source crystal is inside the skull! 】
[The level of the source crystal is too high, and it can no longer be accommodated by ordinary storage devices]
【Now, dig in!】
【And be ready to run away at any time!】
Su Huai swallowed.
It's okay to be sealed in the skull, but once the source crystal comes out, it will immediately erupt with unique energy fluctuations, which anyone in the imperial realm can detect!
Chapter completed!