Chapter 6 Bloodstone
At this moment, Zhou Dan seemed to feel that his life was slipping away. All the muscles in his body were tense and he felt powerless from within. He didn't know if he could escape from the demon ape, but comparing the speeds of the two, it would be difficult for him to enter the cave smoothly.
However, Zhou Dan never gave up. He tried his best to speed up, but unfortunately, due to being in the water for too long and not having eaten for two days, his physical strength was almost exhausted. Zhou Dan rolled down and jumped forward, only two meters away from the cave entrance.
At this time, the demon ape had already kicked off the ground, and the distance between the two was only seven meters!
"ah!!!"
Zhou Dan squeezed all his potential, he knew he only had one chance. If he couldn't enter the cave safely after taking this step, what would be waiting for him would be a ruthless slap from the demon ape.
"roar!!"
It wasn't just Zhou Dan who was squeezing out his potential; the Demon Ape was doing the same. Due to his huge size, he consumed almost ten times as much energy as Zhou Dan, and he had not eaten or drunk for the past two days, which had almost depleted his energy. What he was showing now was just the last gasp of his strength.
However, the Demon Ape has reached the ninth level of Body Tempering after all. Even at the end of the Strong Bow, it is definitely stronger than Zhou Dan.
Zhou Dan jumped up, and the demon ape also jumped up.
The distance to the cave was closer, but the distance between the demon ape and Zhou Dan was even closer.
"Ahh! One more meter!"
Zhou Dan screamed in his heart and moved forward desperately. At this time, the demon ape was only two meters away from Zhou Dan, and the speed between the two was fully revealed.
Just when Zhou Dan was only half a meter away from the cave, the demon ape's giant palm whistled over and slapped Zhou Dan's head fiercely. Zhou Dan felt cold all over, and the strong breath of death enveloped his heart. He knew it was too late, and a trace of unwillingness flashed across his face.
clang!
Just when Zhou Dan was in despair, the protective Buddhist beads in his sea of consciousness actually made a loud bell sound, and then an even more powerful energy burst out from his body and spread in all directions. At this moment, the giant palm of the demon ape also slapped down suddenly, and a violent collision occurred between the two.
Bang!
The two powerful energies collided, and Zhou Dan's figure flew forward like a kite with a broken string, and was shaken into the cave.
“Puff!”
Zhou Dan vomited blood. The energy just now directly caused pain in the muscles all over his body. If it weren't for his stronger physique than ordinary people, his injuries would probably be more serious at this moment.
"I'm not dead, hahahaha, I'm not dead!"
Zhou Dan cried out in joy at the thrill of surviving a catastrophe. He couldn't believe that it was the Buddha beads that saved him at the last moment! However, his joy was soon shattered by the thunderous roar outside the cave!
Boom!
A loud noise broke Zhou Dan's mind, and the entire cave began to shake continuously. A look of shock quickly appeared on Zhou Dan's face. This demon ape actually tried to chisel open the cave?
"Damn it, I really don't believe I will fall into your hands today!"
Even a clay man can get angry. It was bad enough that the demon ape was chasing him relentlessly, but it even wanted to take his life. This made Zhou Dan angry. However, Zhou Dan had not lost his mind and was not yet at the point of fighting the demon ape head-on. He observed the situation in the cave. The entrance was not big, but the situation inside the cave made Zhou Dan's scalp numb.
This is not a natural cave at all, it's actually a den of dragons and tigers.
I saw densely packed passages in the cave. Upon careful counting, there were actually hundreds of them. Each passage was about one meter high. It was obvious that there must be monsters living in this cave, and they lived in groups!
Zhou Dan took several steps back in shock. The bitterness and helplessness in his heart almost made him breathless. However, he quickly suppressed this negative emotion, and a look of madness appeared on his face. "Since you want my life, then leave your life for me!"
At this moment, Zhou Dan made an extremely bold decision. He wanted to enter these hundreds of passages and lure out the unknown monsters!
Monsters all have fixed territories. When other monsters enter a monster's territory, it is regarded as a provocation. The provocateur will inevitably be attacked madly by the owner of the territory. If Zhou Dan can successfully lure the unknown monster out of the cave, then it will definitely be a fight between dragons and tigers to defend the territory!
"You forced me to do this!" Zhou Dan looked extremely crazy, and the next moment he escaped into a passage without hesitation. What surprised Zhou Dan was that the passage led directly to the ground, not level with the ground.
Zhou Dan walked forward slowly and carefully. After walking for a quarter of an hour, he found that the deeper he went, the richer the spiritual energy became. However, he did not have the ability to absorb and refine the spiritual energy. At this time, Zhou Dan saw the light at the other end of the passage. "Are we there yet? Let me see what kind of monsters you are."
Zhou Dan knew that as long as he reached the front of the light, he would be able to find out who the owner of the cave was.
"Hey, what is this?" Just as Zhou Dan was moving forward cautiously, his left hand suddenly touched something soft. When he took it out and looked at it, the expression on his face suddenly froze, and then a look of ecstasy quickly spread across his face, "Blood Essence Stone, it's actually Blood Essence Stone!"
Blood Essence Stone, the essence of blood, is formed after some powerful monster died and was buried in the land for billions of years. Blood Essence Stone has the effect of enhancing and increasing Qi and blood. Especially for people in the Body Tempering Realm, enhancing Qi and blood in the body is the most important thing. How can one break through to the next level without Qi and blood?
Some big families and sects naturally have no shortage of this kind of blood essence stone, but for the Zhou family, the blood essence stone is also extremely important, and not every family member can enjoy it. The Zhou family holds a family competition every year, and the reward for the competition result for the family members is that the first place is a palm-sized blood essence stone.
It can be said that if Zhou Dan is given an extremely powerful blood essence stone, then the Zhou family will definitely be able to become a super family within a few decades, and can stand shoulder to shoulder with super forces like the Panxi Sect.
Blood Essence Stone is the most important resource for nurturing offspring, how can it not be important?
Now if Zhou Dan wants to quickly improve his strength, he needs to rely on the Blood Essence Stone in his hand.
"Could this be the place where some powerful monster died?" Zhou Dan couldn't help but think of it, and then a brilliant smile appeared on his face. Since this is the place where monsters died, there must be a lot of good things here. What is Zhou Dan best at? Naturally, digging other people's graves.
Now, in Zhou Dan's eyes, this place is just a grave, not a monster's cave!
Although he had dug up dead people's graves before, this was his first time digging up a monster's grave. However, relatively speaking, digging up a monster's grave was obviously much easier.
As Zhou Dan continued to go deeper, he had picked up more than ten fist-sized blood stones. Soon, Zhou Dan reached the end.
Hiss~~
The noisy sound reached Zhou Dan's ears. Zhou Dan held his breath, and then carefully stuck his head out. He knew that the next step would be to unveil the veil of the monster that had arrived first.
"hiss!"
Zhou Dan took a breath, and what caught his eyes was a dense mass of snakes. To be precise, it was a low-level python, a dark red blood python all over!
This is a huge cenote, a hundred meters long and a hundred meters wide. In the center of the cenote there is a blood-essence stone that is five or six feet high, with hundreds of snakes entwined around it.
"Damn, this Blood Essence Stone is going to be contaminated by you!" Zhou Dan's heart was bleeding as he watched the Blood Essence Stone, which was five or six feet high, being entangled by hundreds of blood pythons. This Blood Essence Stone was enough for the current Zhou family to use for hundreds of years. In a hundred years, the Zhou family would be able to surpass the Panxi Sect!
However, Zhou Dan did not act rashly. Although these hundreds of blood pythons were all low-level monsters, each of them had the strength of the first level of Body Tempering when they were in full force. Not to mention that there were more than a hundred blood pythons here. If they attacked together, even a strong man at the fifth level of Body Tempering would suffer.
"Let me recover my strength first." Zhou Dan decided secretly that he must not give up the Blood Essence Stone here, but if he did not want to give up, he should have strength himself, so Zhou Dan decided to recover his strength while absorbing the Blood Essence Stone. More than ten Blood Essence Stones, if nothing unexpected happens, will be enough for Zhou Dan to reach the second level of Body Tempering.
Zhou Dan took out a piece of blood essence stone and swallowed the fist-sized blood essence stone into his stomach in one gulp. He crossed his knees and closed his eyes to concentrate.
The Blood Essence Stone turned into a strong Qi and blood when it entered his stomach, and then this strong Qi and blood flowed back and forth in Zhou Dan's meridians. Soon Zhou Dan opened his eyes and muttered to himself: "A piece of Blood Essence Stone not only satisfies my hunger, but also increases my strength a lot. It is really a good thing!"
Zhou Dan was secretly delighted, thinking that he was about to die, but the result was beyond his expectation. Not only did he escape from danger, but he also got a monster graveyard, which was undoubtedly a timely help. However, Zhou Dan also knew that now was not the time for him to relax, because there was a ninth-level body tempering demon ape waiting for him outside. Zhou Dan wanted to use the demon beast in the cave to fight the demon ape and repel it, but now he thought about it and decided to forget it. Although one hundred blood pythons were a lot, they were far from enough to deter the demon ape.
"Huh? Is that Qingxin Grass?" Just when Zhou Dan wanted to take another piece of Essence Blood Stone, he found a small light blue grass growing in a corner of the giant sinkhole. Zhou Dan recognized it as Qingxin Grass.
Qingxin grass, in addition to being able to detoxify, also has the effect of stabilizing the mind, but what Zhou Dan values most is that Qingxin grass also has the effect of cleansing the marrow and removing hair. Of course, if you want to have the effect of cleansing the marrow and removing hair, you need to prepare certain herbs.
However, this is no longer a problem that Zhou Dan is considering. Since the Qingxin Grass has the effect of cleansing the marrow and removing hair, it can definitely cleanse the demon ape blood between his neck. If a medicinal herb can cleanse one's own filth, how can it not cleanse external things?
The question now was how Zhou Dan could successfully pick the Qingxin Grass in front of all the snakes. If something unexpected happened, he would be bitten by hundreds of snakes at the same time. Zhou Dan didn't dare to act rashly. But he didn't give up. In order to get rid of the pursuit of the demon ape, even if there were a thousand blood pythons at this moment, Zhou Dan would do it. But this required a detailed plan.