Chapter 24: The Fearsome Devil Fish

  The Blood Fire God Robe transformed into a sharp arrow in an instant, and with a bow and arrow, it shot and killed a ferocious fish instantly.

  Then, it transformed into a long spear, sweeping across thousands of troops, clearing a large area with each sweep.

  Then transformed into small hidden weapons, scattered all over the sky like flowers in the rain, wherever they went, blood flowed like rivers.

  Fight to feed the war, kill to stop the killing.

  The fierce fish of death spewed out a large amount of essence and blood, which gathered together under the attraction of the Shentai Baosheng symbol, forming a huge ball of blood around Chucheng.

  This blood clot is getting bigger and bigger.

  "Divine fetus precious blood, heavenly symbol Taoist talisman; heaven and earth as guarantee, I am the center. His blood my blood, his body my body; seize your essence and blood, refine my true body!"

  Chu City closed his eyes and concentrated, recalling all his blood fire, re-condensing it into a single spark of life, igniting the massive blood sphere.

  This is Bloodfire, the fire of life. Ordinary river water cannot extinguish it. Any living being stained with bloodfire will be ignited by it.

  The entire blood sphere is ablaze, a massive fire bursting out of the water's surface.

  "Look quickly, what is that? A huge fire!" exclaimed towards Zixuan.

  At this time, except for Chu Cheng, everyone else had safely reached the other shore. The appearance of the Tongtian Xuanli Pillar shocked everyone, and they knew that Chu Cheng had been ambushed and might have met with disaster.

  The Eastern Wildly Furious was furious, gloating over Zixuan's misfortune. Leng Cangfeng and Huang Tiancang expressed regret, while the Ninth Young Master's expression remained cold and unreadable.

  "What? Fire?" Dongfang Ye was now pounding his chest and stamping his feet, when he suddenly felt a wave of heat rush towards him. He looked up to see the entire surface of the Shanyang River erupt in a raging inferno, covering at least a thousand square meters, and still spreading.

  "It's all over, Chu Cheng is definitely done for!" Dongfang Ye's eyes turned black: "Sister, brother-in-law is gone, brother-in-law is gone, you mustn't blame me!"

  "9th Master, let's hurry up and leave! Chucheng must have offended someone he shouldn't have and got himself killed in revenge! A person like him deserves to die! If we don't leave, what if that person vents his anger on us? We'll be the ones who suffer!" Zi Xuan looked at the 9th Master.

  "Bullshit! You cowardly bastard, Zixuan, believe it or not, I'll wipe you out right now!" Dongfang Ye's eyes were bloodshot.

  "Alright, Dongfang Ye, don't be angry. With this momentum, Chucheng will definitely not survive. I deeply regret it. The deceased is gone, and the living must continue. Let's go, work hard, and strive for a good ranking in the imperial capital, so that Chucheng can be proud of us." Jiu Gongzi suddenly said.

  "Indeed, even a strong practitioner of the Seventh Treasure Realm would be unable to survive in this great fire, let alone with countless ferocious fish in the river. Dongfang Ye, let's go." Leng Cangfeng sighed.

  Reality is in front of him, and Dongfang Ye can't help it either.

  In the end, several people left.

  But what they didn't know was that a red-haired devil was standing on the top of the Ten Thousand Great Mountains, staring straight at them.

  "Someone actually ambushed Chu City before me? Fine, in that case, Chu City is definitely dead. That means my target has decreased by one, and I'm left with two."

  "Will Leng Cang fall? Will Huang Tian Cang fall? Two geniuses without a powerful background are also going to fall!"

  This man is none other than Red William!

  Since he is here, then the one who assassinated Chu City must be someone else!

  Who is it?

  And all of this, Chu Cheng didn't know.

  In the Shanyang River, amidst the endless blood and fire, Chu Cheng sat cross-legged, allowing the blood and fire to temper his body.

  Cultivating the divine fetus with blood and fire is of a higher grade and has a greater effect than cultivating it with a blood pool.

  Blood classification levels: first is fresh blood, then is refined blood, followed by blood vessels, and finally is blood essence.

  Ordinary people are born with fresh blood; after leaving the ordinary realm, they undergo a first refinement to produce refined blood, a second refinement to give birth to blood vessels, and a third refinement to condense blood essence.

  In the essence of blood, blood fire is generated, which is the foundation of life and also the ladder of progress.

  Blood and fire burning fiercely, refining the entire skeletal system, this is the Seven Treasures Realm.

  Seven Treasures Refine the Bones.

  Of course, only those with the least potential can advance to the Seventh Treasure Realm with just a single drop of Blood Essence.

  A true genius will continue to refine his essence until he has nine drops of pure blood.

  Chu Cheng had just refined his first drop of Blood Essence and didn't plan on refining the second one immediately since he hadn't accumulated enough.

  He wanted to condense this endless blood fire into a single point, merge it with his own blood essence, making the blood fire in that one drop of blood essence ten times stronger than it is now.

  Blood and fire are the foundation.

  At that time, he was still a drop of blood essence, but he was far stronger than the two drops of blood essence strongmen.

  Time flies, the big fire has spread for half a day. At this time, no fierce fish dare to approach here. Even if it's a seven-treasured boundary fierce fish, they will avoid it far away, fearing that being stained with blood and fire would not kill them but peel off their skin.

  Suddenly, from the depths of the river, a terrifying black shadow slowly swam over, and wherever it went, all ferocious fish fled in droves, as if they had encountered their arch-nemesis.

  This was a massive black shadow, at least a thousand meters wide and ten thousand meters long. In front of it, the Heavenly Pillar of Profound Mysteries seemed like four matchsticks, tiny and laughable.

  The dark shadow suddenly opened its mouth and sucked in, the endless sea water, countless corpses, as well as the raging fire and the four pillars of mysterious power that pierced the sky, all were sucked into its mouth.

  The black shadow closed its mouth with satisfaction, let out a burp, and continued swimming further away.

  At this time, Chu City still did not know that it had already fallen into the belly of the dark shadow.

  After an unknown period of time, Chu Cheng opened his eyes.

  "Divine Fetal Treasure Blood, Heavenly Symbol Tao Talisman! One Divine Fetal Treasure Blood symbol, transforming into endless mysteries, truly extraordinary! The ancient mysterious book Heavenly Symbol Talisman, what kind of magical existence is it? Just a simple sentence, yet so powerful, almost establishing my foundation."

  Chu Cheng shook his head, although he had a wealth of knowledge, but for some areas, he didn't know much.

  "Huh, has it gotten dark? No, that's not it, I feel like the entire area is moving? Where am I?" Chu Cheng immediately felt something was off.

  "Blood Pupil Technique!"

  Chu City's eyes closed, then suddenly opened again, a pair of blood pupils shot out bloody light, and the surrounding scene appeared before his eyes.

  "Heavens! I'm actually inside a powerful and unimaginable aura! There's only one explanation for this, which is that I'm inside the body of some living being!"

  Suddenly, the surroundings stirred, and the seawater was quickly drained, revealing a pinkish-red flesh membrane. On the flesh membrane, there were dead fish corpses everywhere, as well as four massive pillars that were the Heavenly Mystic Pillars.

  "What is this place? Is it in that creature's place?"

  Chu City carefully observed and found that the meat membrane began to secrete a large amount of mucus. And those fierce fish corpses encountered mucus, and actually started to dissolve quickly! No, digest!

  "The sky has been digested... This is the stomach, it's a super living thing, no, it's the stomach of a super fierce fish!" Chu Cheng's eyes narrowed, realizing the severity of the situation.

  If he stays here, it won't be long before the gastric juices drown him and digest him as nutrients, and he will die a mysterious death.

  "We can't just sit here and wait for death. No way, we have to get out of here!"

  The city of Chu looked down and saw that the upper esophagus and lower pylorus were both closed, it seemed that if the food was not fully digested, they would not open.

  "Can't get out... then I'll just have to use brute force! Do one's best and leave the rest to fate!"

  Chu Cheng took out his long spear "Ji Guang" and used all his strength to stab at the gastric mucosa under his feet.

  "Sizzle!"

  A loud tearing sound, the long spear "Jing Guang" pierced in, but the long spear itself was also corroded by gastric juice, making a sizzling sound.

  "Alright! This fierce fish hasn't reached the Five Lines realm yet, and its five organs and six viscera haven't been refined. Otherwise, I wouldn't even be able to pierce its stomach lining, and I'd really have no choice but to wait for death!"

  The people of Chu were overjoyed.

  At this moment, his stomach suddenly lurched violently, and Chu Cheng almost lost his balance.

  The entire stomach also began to contract violently, apparently due to being stabbed by Chu City, which was an instinctive reaction.

  "Oh no, stomach cramps, gastric acid overflowing, I'm going to die! What to do, what to do?"

  Chu City looked around and suddenly saw the four Tianxuan Xuanli pillars, his eyes lit up immediately.

  "Hah! Tianxuan Mystic Pillar! Judging from this, it should be made entirely of obsidian, right? This thing is not easy to digest! Nüwa beheaded the giant turtle and propped up the heavens with its four legs. Today, I'll use these four Tianxuan Mystic Pillars to prop up the stomach of this ferocious fish!"

  Ji'nan acts on impulse.

  A hundred-meter-long Tianxuan Mystical Pillar, with a diameter of at least three meters, each one weighing at least 100,000 catties. Although Chucheng had already condensed a drop of Blood Essence and his arms possessed the strength of 10,000 catties, he still couldn't budge it.

  But he has his own way.

  The Tianxuan Mystical Pillar is no ordinary object, it's a genuine Five Elements artifact, only this artifact is a bit too large.

  Since it's a magic weapon, it can be refined.

  But if you want to quickly refine the Tongtian Xuanli Pillar, then you must use the Blood Refining Technique, mobilizing a large amount of essence blood.

  Where did Chu City get so much refined blood to refine the Tongtian Xuanli Pillar?

  "No refined blood? No, on the contrary, where I am now is overflowing with it!"

  Chu Cheng's mouth curled up slightly, revealing a hint of a smile.

  Then, sheathed the long spear "Jing Guang".

  He wants to pierce the gastric mucosa and bleed directly from the stomach. The long gun "Jingguang" can indeed pierce the gastric mucosa, but it's too strenuous and will soon be corroded away. Chucheng decides to use another killer.

  "Taishang Jiulong Tushen Gun!"

  This is a terrifying and unparalleled mountain and sea ritual instrument, and in the mountain and sea ritual instruments, it is also an extremely terrifying existence.

  This kind of artifact, the Chu City can't refine at all. However, although it can't be refined, its sharpness is unparalleled, and the gun tip can break through everything, let alone a mere fish's stomach lining.

  With the Taishang Jiulong Pigkilling Spear in hand, Chu Cheng suddenly stabbed downwards, and in an instant, it entered without a handle. Chu Cheng hastily pulled out, and a blood column as thick as a fist shot out.

  "Haha, what a rich and potent blood essence! The vital energy of this ferocious fish is so strong that just one drop can surpass the entirety of ordinary tigers and leopards! Using it to refine the Heavenly Mystic Pillar would be the right way!"

  Chu Cheng burst out laughing and sat cross-legged on a Heavenly Profound Pillar, starting to refine it.

  He transformed his blood and fire into a Blood Fire God Robe, protecting his entire body from the corrosive effects of the Terror Fish's stomach acid.

  He wants to refine the Tongtian Xuanli Pillar before the Blood Fire God Clothes are completely consumed.