Asked About The World Of Mortals

Chapter 65: The Flying Peach

Qin Yi never expected Ye Ling to rush in. He quickly jumped down and supported Ye Ling, asking, "Why did you come in... How do you feel?"

Ye Ling remained silent for a moment before answering, "Nothing, I just can't transform back into human form. It feels like there's some kind of obstruction."

Qin Yi didn't hear anything abnormal in her voice, so she felt slightly relieved. She thought that when the monsters fought in this formation earlier, they didn't feel anything, so it probably wasn't as painful as the version of the formation that involved killing the monsters and extracting their essence. Most likely, they only killed the monsters and took their blood and essence?

But if that's the case, how will they deal with the group of monsters chasing after them?

Qin Yi's gaze fell on the stone tablet, carefully examining it.

"The Art of Refining Oneself and Nurturing Others, a total of nine chapters, with only two remaining."

The first chapter explained how to set up the formation for refining monsters and extracting their essence. It emphasized that the common method of killing monsters to extract their essence actually wasted a portion of the Beast Core's vital essence, which was a pity. Instead, they should use a method of extracting essence while the monster is alive, forcibly separating the Beast Core. However, it didn't mention how to lure the monsters, so it seems that Donghua Zi's demonic mist is another method.

But just from this chapter, the cruelty and malice between the lines had already penetrated deep into Qin Yi's bones. She felt a chill all over her body, and Ye Ling's snake body couldn't help but tremble, as if recalling extremely painful memories.

The second chapter explained the formation for extracting the essence of monster blood, which was the current formation they were in. It required a large amount of monster blood, perhaps a whole pool of it to extract a drop of essence. Therefore, they needed to kill thousands of monsters. Cultivating the monster lotus only required the blood after extraction, while the true essence was used to nourish the Demonic Beasts they raised, similar to the human's Blood Tempering technique. The chapter particularly emphasized that if there were ancient species such as the Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise, Yellow Dragon... Winged Serpent, their bloodlines could be used with endless possibilities.

Finally, it mentioned regretfully that only two chapters of this method remained, and the remaining seven chapters were of unknown profoundness, etc.

Qin Yi understood why the peach flew towards Ye Ling. Presumably, the owner of this place discovered the presence of the Winged Serpent and wanted to refine her!

Ye Ling's body trembled, her eyes turning red.

An extreme feeling of anger surged from her heart, spreading through her veins. Her blood seemed to be burning and boiling, and she wanted to kill.

Qin Yi also felt a chill. This... she originally thought it was some kind of recluse, but this person was trying to refine someone without any reason. He was clearly a malicious and selfish bastard!

Liu Su suddenly said, "There's a backdoor in this technique."

"Hmm?" Qin Yi was taken aback.

"This formation contains the technique. Once you practice this method and successfully build your Dao Embryo, you will be refined to death in return, and your Dao Embryo will be taken by this person. Note that this is about refining oneself and nurturing others, not refining monsters and nurturing oneself. It's fundamentally aimed at humans. If Donghua Zi is not killed by Li Qinglin, continuing like this would also be seeking death. Whether the later chapters are missing or not, they can't be revealed because they are all techniques for refining humans."

Qin Yi let out a long sigh of relief. She originally thought that Donghua Zi was already a very malicious person, but compared to the owner of this place, he was simply an innocent and naive newcomer. No wonder no one would generously carve their techniques outside for others to learn. It was clearly not well-intentioned!

This person was the root of everything. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that he was the mastermind behind the events in Nanli. And now he wanted to refine Ye Ling to death!

A sense of malice also rose in Qin Yi's heart. If you want to refine Ye Ling to death, then don't blame us for tricking you...

He scanned the stone tablet again and remembered a crucial point. He then smashed the tablet with a single strike, saying, "We can't let it deceive anyone anymore."

Ye Ling whispered, "Thank you, brother."

"Do you want revenge?" Qin Yi asked in a low voice.

Ye Ling suddenly turned her head, her eyes filled with a ferocity that Qin Yi had never seen before. "I want to kill him!"

"He's too strong for you to defeat," Qin Yi turned his head and looked at the dust raised by the pursuing monsters behind them.

The time spent reading the inscriptions was actually very short, just a few breaths, but the monsters were already very close. He hurriedly said, "Go and get the Blood Lotus. If you have the chance, take all the blood essence below as well, then run. Run out of this area and hide. That would be the best revenge. I'll handle things here."

Ye Ling hesitated, "Brother, you..."

"I'll manipulate the formation. It's inconvenient for you to stay here. Go."

"Then be careful, brother." Ye Ling gritted her teeth, turned around swiftly, and in the blink of an eye, she flew over the blood pool and plucked the Blood Lotus.

At the same time, a whirlpool suddenly formed in the pool, and a dragon's roar seemed to echo. A powerful suction force pulled Ye Ling into the pool.

Everything happened in the blink of an eye, and Qin Yi couldn't even move forward.

"Roar!" A monster tiger had already chased close, filled with excitement and ferocity, and pounced directly at Qin Yi's neck.

Countless demons have caught up!

Qin Yi no longer had time to look after Ye Ling's direction. He crouched down to avoid several spells and reached into the tree hole at the bottom of the giant tree, finding a core of a formation stone.

Before destroying the stone tablet, he had already found what he was looking for in the text.

After all, he had been studying formations all along and grasped the key points very quickly.

With a "creak," the array on the large formation, which resembled the meridians of a human body, suddenly showed signs of protrusion.

The tiger claws of that demon tiger were already on Qin Yi's shoulders, and he could smell the stench from its mouth.

There were countless demons surrounding him from left and right, and he didn't even have a chance to dodge!

A critical moment!

The demon tiger suddenly let out a roar, then its body stopped, and its expression became extremely painful.

Qin Yi slowly stood up and gently pushed, causing the demon tiger to fall to the ground. All the demons surrounding him, including the endless number of monsters that had gathered, were rolling on the ground in pain and howling.

Qin Yi took a few deep breaths, feeling fortunate. Fortunately, this formation had no delay; otherwise, he would have been doomed...

That peach was just an external object, not part of the formation itself. It was made by the owner of this place for supplementary use. The formation itself had a way to restrict demons, even the first formation for obtaining pills had this effect, so it was impossible for the second formation to not have it. The person who set up the formation deliberately closed off this part of the effect and used the peach's ability to confuse the mind as a replacement.

Qin Yi could naturally activate this part of the effect.

He picked up the wolf tooth club and looked at the howling monsters all around him.

This scene of countless creatures howling was very moving, but at this moment, Qin Yi realized that he didn't feel the slightest sympathy.

These monsters were not Ye Ling. Their first reaction upon seeing humans was to eat them. He wasn't very fast, and if it weren't for Ye Ling leading him away, he would have been surrounded and eaten by them a long time ago.

As Ming He said, they were not of the same kind, so there was nothing to sympathize with.

Qin Yi crossed the slope and quickly rushed to the edge of the pool. At a glance, he saw a fierce whirlpool in the middle of the blood pool, as if something was stirring it up, accompanied by Ye Ling's painful groans.

There was a guardian under the pool! Ye Ling was attacked when she took the lotus and was dragged down!

Qin Yi cursed himself for being careless. He thought there were only demons outside, and the pool water seemed calm and peaceful. He didn't expect there to be a guardian beast underneath...

This was bad. How could he help in this situation? The blood pool was dark, viscous, and heavy. If he jumped in, he would be blind and wouldn't be able to see anything. His movements would likely be extremely sluggish, and he would only cause chaos.

Liu Su said, "There's a blood dragon below. It should be a creature raised by the owner of this place. The collected essence blood is used to nourish it."

"What level is it?"

"Peak of Body Transformation, about to break through. It has the strength to fight against Ming He. Ye Ling is far from being its opponent. She can only rely on her speed to barely survive..."

Qin Yi stomped his foot and shouted into the pool, "Ye Ling, lure it up, I can still help."

He could only see the blood pool swirling, and he could vaguely hear the intense battle below, accompanied by blood splattering everywhere. The sticky blood even made a "gurgling" sound. Ye Ling, covered in blood, was swept up by the whirlpool and at the same time, a blood-colored dragon head followed, seemingly with some suction force that Ye Ling couldn't break free from, causing her to fall back down.

Qin Yi had no other choice but to hold up the wolf tooth club and wait, hoping that the next time the dragon head emerged, he could strike it directly.

While he was feeling anxious, he suddenly felt something flying towards him from above.

He looked up and saw a peach.

What's going on with this peach?

"Don't worry about what's going on. This is your last chance," Liu Su urgently said, "I will transmit a technique to you that can prevent your mind from being affected by this peach. You'll have to rely on it from now on!"

(End of this chapter)