Only a vast sea of gray energy clouds fills this boundless void with an unknown past and unknown destination.
Suddenly, a faint and condensed blood-colored light group lit up without warning in the depths of the gray sea of clouds.
It was like a meteor in the night sky, carrying a burst of obscure energy fluctuations, passing through the endless sea of gray clouds, and rushing quickly in a certain direction.
I don’t know how much time passed, and I don’t know how far I traveled.
I saw this bloody light group traveling rapidly, and suddenly stopped abruptly, as if it encountered some obstacle.
It froze in place, its interior like a firefly, flickering on and off several times.
An amazing scene appeared!
I saw that the sea of gray clouds in front of the direction in which this bloody light group was originally traveling suddenly surged violently without any warning.
After a moment, like a curtain being opened, the sea of gray clouds quickly parted to both sides, revealing the space behind it.
It was a vast and inexplicable space. At its boundary, there was an invisible barrier that blocked out the gray sea of clouds in all directions.
In its central area, there is a bare and steep mountain that looks like an island.
Because there is no reference object, the specific scale of this mountain is difficult to determine for the time being.
At this time, the faint blood-colored light group had entered this space through the hole made by the gray sea of clouds, and fell straight towards the top of the mountain in an uncertain manner.
At this moment, countless dark halos suddenly appeared silently on this originally silent mountain peak.
Its dim color is deeper than the gray sea of energy clouds billowing outside.
After these dim haloes appeared, they spontaneously gathered together and soon formed a human-shaped silhouette that was much larger than this mountain peak.
Every detail on its body is very blurry, and no specific appearance features can be seen.
After the figure appeared, he suddenly stretched out an illusory hand that covered the sky and took the blood-colored light ball as small as a firefly in his hand.
"Did you use secret techniques to activate the bloodline mark in your body?"
The figure glanced at the bloody light ball in his hand, and suddenly murmured softly.
Although his tone was calm and there were no other actions, this light word alone caused astonishing turmoil.
I saw colorful light condensing in the space where it was located, and there was a faint fairy-like light and shadow emerging.
On the originally bare mountain peaks, vegetation grew wildly, along with countless flowers.
Even on the gray sea of clouds in the distance, there was an inexplicable disturbance, causing huge waves, accompanied by looming black lightning.
The figure seemed to have not seen this, and after a brief moment of silence, he suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction from which the bloody light ball was flying.
Following his movements, two blazing colorful light pillars suddenly burst out from his eyes.
Like two super-powerful searchlights, these two bright beams of light instantly penetrated the boundless sea of gray clouds and spread towards the endless distance.
At this moment, from the depths of the distant sea of clouds, an extremely cold snort suddenly came.
This short 'hum' sound seemed to have incredible suppressive power, and spread in all directions at a speed that exceeded common sense.
Affected by it, the originally billowing gray sea of clouds in the distance instantly calmed down.
And the two gazes that penetrated the void also froze.
After a brief stalemate, the two quietly broke up.
"Asshole!"
When the figure saw this, he roared angrily.
Along with his voice, boundless waves suddenly arose in all directions.
On the mountain peaks below him, the flowers and grass were withered, and the trees were rotten, and in the blink of an eye they returned to their bare appearance at the beginning.
Even the mountain itself was reverberating with rumbling sounds.
And in the farther space, a vast sea of gray energy surged violently.
There were countless dark cracks looming inside, but calm was quickly restored under the suppression of a powerful force.
"Qingyin!"
"What's the point of spending time with me like this?"
"The 'embers' are resurrected, but you and I are inexplicably stuck here!"
"Once 'Zula' takes the opportunity to come, you and I will both be sinners!"
…
The huge figure swayed and came into the endless sea of gray clouds.
Its huge body covers the sky and the sun, carrying a majestic pressure that shakes the heavens and the earth.
He was seen facing a certain direction blocked by boundless gray clouds, and from time to time he let out roars like muffled thunder.
However, no matter how angry the figure roared, there was no response from the depths of the sea of clouds.
Only the unparalleled suppressive force penetrated the void, coming in endless waves, and quickly calmed down the turbulent vast sea of clouds disturbed by the huge figure.
After an unknown amount of time, the roar of the huge figure finally stopped.
He cursed angrily and unwillingly, and then angrily turned back to the inexplicable space isolated from the sea of gray clouds.
Standing in front of the bare mountain peak, the figure took one last look at the bloody ball of light suspended in mid-air. Without seeing how he moved, the latter trembled and disintegrated.
Seeing this, the figure quickly blurred, and suddenly turned into countless faint lights and shadows, silently blending into the bare mountain peaks on the side.
And this vast space, as well as the endless sea of gray clouds outside, fell silent again.
Everything has returned to how it was before, as silent as if nothing had happened.
…
Southwest corner of the Northern Territory.
In the dense forest near the gray desert.
Gao Yuan looked solemn and flew back several hundred meters.
He cautiously activated the second level of Qi Watching Technique and carefully looked at the mysterious figure with blood and light in the opposite direction.
After the evil young man was hit by the 'Qinglan Ruler', his reaction was the same as those of the targets he had hunted before.
The soul aura in his body was instantly dissipated under the agitation of the power of the talisman.
During this process, the innate sea of air within his body also quickly escaped, and his body, which was completely extinguished, fell straight towards the ground out of control.
However, just when Gao Yuan urged him to play the 'whip bearer card' and was hesitating whether to step forward and touch the corpse, the surface of the corpse, whose aura had completely disappeared, suddenly began to squirm.
Numerous small cracks appeared on the flesh of its body, and wisps of strange dark purple liquid spontaneously escaped from these cracks.
These mysterious and unknown liquids quickly gathered together.
In an instant, the strange figure of blood and light condensed above the young man's remains.
At the same time, a desolate and strange aura that was far greater than before emerged out of thin air, spreading overwhelmingly in all directions.
That mysterious and majestic feeling still clearly enveloped Gao Yuan's body even though he was hundreds of meters away.
Under the pressure, he felt extremely heavy in his heart, and he was slightly out of breath.
"Is it really a descendant of God?"
As his mind turned, Gao Yuan unexpectedly thought of the 'Beast God Statue' he had built in the underground stronghold before, and he became increasingly uneasy.
Seeing the bloody figure squirming rapidly, its outline became more and more distinct. He no longer hesitated, and immediately prepared to activate the 'Blood Shadow Escape Technique' to escape from here first.
At this moment, he suddenly felt an illusory and huge buzzing sound, accompanied by a heaven-shaking void vibration, extending from high in the sky.
Before he could react, he saw the increasingly clear outline of the bloody figure on the opposite side, his whole body shaking violently without any warning.
Then it collapsed from the inside to the outside into a hazy blood-colored light and shadow, and disappeared silently into the void.
In an instant, all the visions in front of him disappeared.
And the shocking desolate atmosphere also disappeared.
"This is?"
Gao Yuan had just started to adjust the blood energy in his body at this time. When he saw such a strange scene, his movements suddenly stopped and he muttered to himself in confusion.
Then he subconsciously activated the second-level Qi Watching Technique and looked intently in the opposite direction.
However, he saw that in the void where the bloody figure originally stood, not even a trace of abnormal energy remained.
The calm look made him start to wonder whether what he saw just now was really an hallucination.
When he thought of this, he turned his eyes and looked at the seriously damaged remains of the young man on the ground.
But I saw that the latter had become extremely shriveled compared to before.
There is only a layer of cracked, dry and wrinkled skin, softly covering the jagged bones.
"Fuck!"
"Is this the whole body of flesh and blood that has been taken away?"
Seeing this weird scene in front of him, Gao Yuan couldn't help but exclaimed in his heart.
"So, the scene of the bloody figure I saw just now did indeed happen."
"As for the current result...could it be caused by the failure of the secret technique?"
As his mind turned, he unexpectedly recalled the magnificent buzzing sound that swept the world just now.
The power of the latter was so powerful that, in his impression, it could only be compared to the ancient magic circle he encountered in the ruins of Qingyuan Mountain!
"Could it be that it was disturbed by this energy fluctuation?"
He recalled the scene just now frame by frame in his mind, combined with the changes before and after the energy wave appeared, and after a long while he said to himself with some surprise.
"Forget it, it's useless to think too much!"
"At least the accident just now should be relatively harmless to me, and that's enough!"
While his mind was spinning, he suddenly reached out and took out a top-quality 'Qianyuan Order'.
With the help of the special field of vision activated by the best talisman, he carefully looked at the opposite direction for a while.
But what he saw on the other side was exactly the same as when he used the Qi-gazing technique to observe it just now, with nothing abnormal at all.
At this point, Gao Yuan finally felt relieved.
He took out the 'collection pole' he carried with him and came to the remains of the young man with concentration and vigilance.
After a few random scratches on his body, he quickly found two storage bags, one black and one brown.
After confirming that there was nothing missing, he used the 'Heart Curse' mode to instantly cast a Lihuo Curse.
The billowing flames burst out and instantly devoured the remains on the ground.
The latter seemed to have become extremely decayed after the recent incident, and was burned to ashes not long after.
Gao Yuan didn't waste any more time and activated the Wind Curse. His whole body turned into a blur of light and shadow and flew away towards the wild forest.
…
At midnight.
Gao Yuan returned to the underground stronghold covered in starlight and dusty.
After eating and drinking, he took a quick shower and came to the lounge refreshed.
Sitting back on the leisure chair, he couldn't wait to take out the two storage bags, easily broke through the spiritual blockade on them, and examined them carefully.
Among them, the black storage bag seems to be the standard equipment of the "Flying Dragon City" personnel.
Both in appearance and capacity, it was the same as the storage bag he had captured when he hunted the 'Flying Dragon City Deacon' several times recently.
As for the brown storage bag, its capacity is much smaller, only about 100 square meters.
Gao Yuan took out the items from the two storage bags one by one and carefully counted them for a while.
Overall, the total number of intermediate spirit stones is around 156,000, and the number of advanced spirit stones is over 200!
Adding these two items together, he has almost recovered all the money he spent on purchasing the '400-year-old immortal mushroom'.
In addition, there are many kinds of elixirs, spiritual materials, ores, talismans and other items.
Most of them are items he knows. A rough calculation shows that they are worth about 100,000 intermediate spiritual stones.
In addition, there are seven talismans of unknown grade and five magical artifacts with unknown functions.
"With that young man's strength and reputation, these things should not be commonplace."
"Whether you keep it for your own use or sell it in the alliance trading area, it is a good choice."
"Although I consumed six of the best 'Qinglan Rulers' before and after this outing, compared with the value of the trophies, this consumption is basically negligible!"
"The only pity is that none of these three guys have any jade slips or other classics with them this time. It's really evil!"
As his mind turned, Gao Yuan directly took out the 'cross-border disk'.
He quickly sorted out the trophies from this outing, and submitted all the parts that had clear functions and were easy to sell to the Exile Alliance through the temporary space.
As for the remaining parts whose value was hard to define, he put them all into storage spaces in categories.
After doing all this, he took out the Exile mask, put it on, and quickly entered the exclusive secret room.
…
After clicking on the last transmission note in the secret room and listening, Gao Yuan couldn't help but show a look of disappointment on his face.
These fourteen transmission notes were all notifications sent from the alliance trading area after the items he had previously submitted for consignment were sold.
Only there was no feedback on the Five Elements Spirit Fruit intelligence gathering mission that he had previously posted.
"In the end, it's just the ingredients for refining the third realm elixir. I don't even want to buy it directly. Is it so difficult to just collect some information about these spiritual fruits?"
He muttered to himself somewhat depressedly.
"If that doesn't work, we can only determine the source of the 'Red Flame Fruit' through the 'Whip Holder' organization."
"If it really doesn't work in the future, the only option is to perform more tasks in exchange for more intelligence consultations!"
With his mind spinning, he quickly walked to the 'Developing Jade', opened the 'Whip Holder' page, and chose to submit the task.
"Dear 'One-Star Whip Bearer', the task you submitted this time has been reviewed by the alliance, and the reward for this task has been credited to your name."
Not long after waiting there, he received a transmission note from the alliance indicating that the mission was completed.
"After another review by the alliance, how did the alliance official confirm that I had actually completed the task?"
"Could it be that the 'whip bearer card' has the function of verifying the results of the mission after it is prompted to play?"
After muttering a few words to himself curiously, he entered the 'Whip Holder' page again:
[Level]: One-star whip bearer (response)
【Meritorious】:5600
[Exchange Treasure House]: Expandable
[Information Consultation]: Can be expanded
"Tsk, another 4,500 merit points have been credited!"
"If you don't take into account the risk of fighting opponents of the same level, it actually doesn't take much time to accumulate the 100,000 merit points required to upgrade your star level."
Gao Yuan sighed softly and clicked on the 'Information Consultation' page.
Seeing the words 'Remaining number of consultations: 1' marked on it, a look of satisfaction suddenly appeared on his face.
Without much hesitation, he quickly submitted the information on the 'Red Flame Fruit' as a matter of consultation.
"I hope there will be a result that satisfies me!"
He whispered to himself.
Then he returned to the main page and skillfully adjusted his task acceptance status and application to 'silent' mode.
After doing all this, he exited the exclusive secret room without staying any longer.