Longevity starts with dual cultivation

Chapter 47 Soul Devouring Blood Fruit
The quiet seabed.

"…Junior brother, are you okay?"

"almost."

"…Junior brother, are you tired?"

"It's OK. No need to rest for now."

"...Junior brother, how long can you hold on?"

"About half an hour left, right? We need to return earlier, otherwise something unexpected might happen."

"Okay, as you say."

……

Under the glazed yellow umbrella, the soft and pleasant voices of two women were heard from time to time.

The three of them have now arrived at a gently sloping area of ​​dozens of miles in radius. As far as the eye can see, under their feet are white and fine sand, shining with a faint light.

Ling Changqing was patiently rummaging through the gravel at this moment, pulling out seven-gill eels that were as long as his arm and as warm in color as jade from the depths of the gravel.

This thing is called the Seven-gilled Jade Conger Eel, and it is also a rare treasure from the sea. Whether it is used to make medicine or directly as an ingredient for cooking, it is a very good choice.

By the time this stretch of gravel was completely cleared, a total of nearly a hundred eels had been caught by Ling Changqing and put into his storage bag.

After silently observing the rate at which his luck and fortune were being depleted, Ling Changqing decided to take one more look before returning.

"Junior brother, I seem to have found some good things, but..."

Ling Qiyue seemed to want to say something but stopped herself.

"What is it?"

Ling Changqing turned and looked at her.

Ling Qiyue pointed to a place hundreds of feet away. In the valley formed between several underwater mountains, there grew countless huge vines with twisted shapes, swaying with the undercurrent.

Although the distance was still far, the ferocious and bloodthirsty aura was truly permeating the air, causing Ling Changqing to feel his scalp tingling.

"This should be... the Deep Sea Soul Devouring Vine, right?"

Tang Qiuyao's soft and charming voice trembled slightly: "This beast has Soul Devouring Blood Fruits growing on it. If we can pick a few, they can be used as the main ingredient for a foundation-building pill!"

Over tens of thousands of years, through repeated research and experimentation by generations of alchemists, more than one formula for the Foundation-Building Pill has been discovered and summarized.

The most common material for foundation-building pills is the Xuanling Life-Making Fruit, which must be grown for more than three hundred years to meet the requirements.

However, this thing is now basically monopolized by major forces, and it is rare for it to be traded outside, including the supporting materials that match it.

This kind of foundation-building pill, which is made from the fruit of the deep-sea soul-devouring vine as the main ingredient and is combined with other necessary auxiliary resources, has a foundation-building success rate of about 30%, which is not low.

However, the deep-sea environment is far from safe for cultivators at the foundation-building stage. Moreover, the deep-sea Soul-Devouring Vine is by no means an easy creature to deal with. Therefore, it is rare to find Soul-Devouring Blood Soul Fruits of sufficient age for sale in the market.

To put it simply and bluntly, for lower-level cultivators, none of the materials related to refining the Foundation Establishment Pill are easy to obtain.

"It should be possible, let me try?"

Ling Changqing took a look and spoke to the two women.

"No, this is too dangerous! We are not sure we can suppress it!"

Tang Qiuyao shook her head to express her opposition. No matter how good this thing was, it was not worth risking her life for it.

Ling Qiyue pondered for a few breaths and said softly, "It's not that there is no trick. This thing feeds on large fish and sea beasts in the deep sea. Once it is full, its reaction will become relatively slow."

"Like a python after feeding?"

Ling Changqing immediately realized that after snakes were full and satisfied, their aggressiveness would indeed decrease for a short period of time.

If this deep sea soul-devouring vine has similar properties, then we can give it a try. "Okay, let's give it a try."

Tang Qiuyao breathed a sigh of relief. As long as she could ensure her junior brother's safety, it would be worth it for them to take some risks.

So, the two women made a circle in the surrounding sea area, and took the opportunity to kill dozens of huge sea fish and several Longbo manatees by means of sneak attacks and clubs. They sealed them with black ice and put them into storage bags.

Then they took Ling Changqing and slowly approached the edge of the activity area of ​​the Deep Sea Soul-Devouring Vine. They opened the storage bag and threw out the prey one by one.

The hungry deep-sea soul-eating vine reacted very quickly. When a Longbo manatee was thrown over, it was immediately entangled by more than a dozen terrifying tentacles covered with sharp bone spurs, which cut open its skin and flesh and began to greedily suck its blood and flesh.

Ling Changqing felt a chill in his heart as he watched. If they were to face off head-on, without the joint efforts of ten or eight Foundation Establishment cultivators, it would be impossible to deal with so many Deep-Sea Soul-Devouring Vines.

Soon, only a piece of cowhide and a skeleton were left of the Longbo manatee, and its flesh, blood, and internal organs had all turned into nutrients for the Deep Sea Soul-Devouring Vine.

Prey were constantly thrown over, allowing this group of deep-sea soul-eating vines to feast on them.

Sure enough, after the last few prey were sucked dry by them together, the reaction speed of the Deep Sea Soul-Devouring Vine became noticeably slower, and the blue-black vine body had turned into bright blood red.

"Okay, now!"

Ling Qiyue said in a low voice.

Ling Changqing agreed and swam slowly over accompanied by the two women.

A moment later, he was standing under a main vine that was like a giant tree. He spotted a fist-sized, blood-red fruit on the surface of the vine and carefully reached out to pick it up.

This fruit is like a large ruby, with a pure red glow covering the surface of the peel and a faint sweet fragrance. It is the Soul-Devouring Blood Fruit.

A newly born Soul-Devouring Blood Fruit is only the size of a grain of rice. Only when it grows to over three hundred years old will it become the size of a fist.

Since this thing was not easy to preserve after being picked, Ling Changqing put it into the cold jade box, sealed it with the mysterious ice spell, put it into the storage bag, and then began to look for the next one.

Countless vines and fleshy tentacles covered with spurs danced slowly all around, and occasionally there were eerie roars that seemed to be there and not there, making one feel as if one was in the devil's kingdom.

Ling Qiyue and Tang Qiuyao were nervously paying attention to the movements around them, and would attack with all their strength once they found any signs of something wrong.

At this moment, Ling Changqing did not dare to delay. He searched among the vines nervously, and picked the suitable target with swift movements.

Time passed quietly, and the inexplicable sense of crisis in his heart became stronger and stronger, making Ling Changqing realize that he could not stay here for long.

"This is already the sixth one..."

He estimated secretly and planned to find another one and leave.

"... Junior Brother, is it almost done?"

Ling Qiyue said anxiously.

"It'll be ready soon."

Ling Changqing responded, put the seventh Soul-Devouring Blood Fruit into the Cold Jade Box, and the three of them turned around and swam away quickly.

Behind them, a fleshy tentacle as thick as a thigh seemed to have reacted, and pounced down like a poisonous python, but missed.

"so close!"

Tang Qiuyao looked back with lingering fear. If she had been a step slower, she would have been entangled and unable to escape.

"Okay, let's go back!"

As Ling Qiyue spoke, the two girls held Ling Changqing on the left and right, and controlled the glazed yellow umbrella to float up at high speed, and within a dozen breaths they rushed out of the water.

It was late at night, three bright full moons hung in the sky, and above head was a deep and vast ocean of stars, mysterious and magnificent.

Tang Qiuyao released the flying boat, which carried the three people into the air and flew at high speed towards Chanxin Island.

(End of this chapter)