Volume 4: Nan Yue Brings Forth Wind and Clouds 0138 Crisis Arrives

  Compared to the ordinary areas on the periphery, there are indeed many more rare and exotic flowers in the danger zone. However, correspondingly, it is also much more dangerous. Fang Yun can clearly feel that there are several auras that make his hair stand on end.

  These breaths are the territories of these dangerous existences. Any outsider who dares to intrude into their territory will directly face their wrath.

  "Blood Lotus!" Fang Yun suddenly stopped, exclaiming in surprise. Not far away, a delicate and enchanting blood-colored lotus was emitting an irresistible charm that was impossible to resist.

  This Blood Lotus is also a top-grade rare flower in the Cultivation Realm, using it to refine the Mind Concentrating Pill would be a waste, Fang Yun immediately jumped off the Cloud Striding Leopard's back and strode forward.

  As long as he had the Blood Lotus, his Concentrated Spirit Pill would have a foundation. With the Blood Lotus as the guide, and adding several supporting herbs, he could refine the Concentrated Spirit Pill. Moreover, since Yun Ding was snatched away by Ouyang Cheng's treacherous dragon, Fang Yun had refined another cauldron of Dan furnace, with a grade that had already reached lower-grade artifact, which was much higher than Yun Ding.

  Just as he was about to take a blood sample, a bloody aura burst forth and surged towards him.

  Fang Yun's heart skipped a beat as a tens of meters long blood python was pouncing towards him, its huge mouth wide enough to swallow the Cloud Strider Cheetah.

  Yun Teng Leopard's body trembled, and he actually revealed a terrified expression. The aura emanating from this Blood Python was a hundred times more terrifying than Yun Teng Leopard's.

  Fang Yun saw the treasure in front of him, but the Blood Python came to attack, and he had no choice but to retreat. Under duress, Fang Yun hummed a low note, and several golden needles appeared in his hand, shooting towards the Blood Python.

  The blood python's body was filled with a thick bloody aura, and the golden needle couldn't even break through it, and was immediately bounced back.

  Helpless, Fang Yun could only temporarily avoid the sharp edge, the blood python's huge mouth pounced on empty air, biting onto the tree trunk in front of him. With a loud cracking sound, the massive tree trunk snapped in two, an extremely terrifying scene.

  The strength of this blood python has undoubtedly reached the seventh rank, but the aura on its body is thick and not emitted, and the hidden technique is so good that even Fang Yun didn't feel its aura.

  "Guardian beast?" Fang Yun furrowed his brow, the Blood Lotus was precious, but it hadn't reached the level of top-grade rare flowers and herbs, how could it possibly have a guardian beast.

  Moreover, if beasts were to swallow the Blood Lotus whole, they would be poisoned instead. It can be said that if it weren't used for refining elixirs, it wouldn't have any value at all and wouldn't be worth beasts consuming.

  Crunch――Fang Yun stepped back at the same time, and his foot suddenly stepped on something. Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a human skull. Looking around again, there were many similar skeletons, including both humans and beasts.

  "Good fellow, it's actually a lure!" Fang Yun only then understood that this blood python was not a guardian beast at all, but rather used the Blood Lotus as bait to lure other creatures to come and pick it, and then swallow them.

  Although this Blood Lotus cannot be ingested, it emits a kind of aura that attracts humans or beasts due to its unique spiritual energy. Just like when Fang Yun saw the Blood Lotus earlier, he was also deeply attracted by its aura.

  If it weren't for Fang Yun's strong divine sense that detected the Blood Python's existence one step ahead, he would have probably become the Blood Python's food.

  Fang Yun didn't know that in the Xiu Zhen realm, the Blood Lotus was considered ownerless, but in this world, the Blood Lotus would give birth to the Blood Python. The Blood Lotus, due to its unique aura, would attract other creatures to pick and eat it mistakenly, so the Blood Python would be born as a result. The Blood Lotus relied on the Blood Python for protection, while the Blood Python used the Blood Lotus as bait, complementing each other.

  With Fang Yun's current strength, it is clearly impossible to deal with this Blood Python. The Blood Python also reacted unexpectedly to Fang Yun, as this was its first failed hunt. It didn't think that Fang Yun could dodge its first strike.

  Seeing no opportunity to take advantage, Fang Yun turned around and ran away. The Blood Python immediately chased after Fang Yun. Although the Blood Python's speed was astonishing, Fang Yun's speed wasn't slow either. The two of them instantly disappeared into the dense forest.

  Just then, a trembling cloud leopard suddenly came forward, opened its mouth and picked up the blood lotus. In Xiaoyue's astonishment, it disappeared and escaped in another direction.

  The Blood Python and the Blood Lotus have a symbiotic relationship, so as soon as it sensed that something was amiss with the Blood Lotus, it let out a loud hiss and rushed back to its original location without looking back.

  Fang Yun's plan was to create a diversion, drawing away the Blood Python while ordering Yun Zong Bao to pick the Blood Lotus.

  Moreover, he calculated that the Blood Python would turn back, which is the wisdom of a heteromorphic beast. Unless it can reach the level of the Fire Dragon clan, otherwise, it will always be at a disadvantage in human hands.

  Fang Yun immediately found Yun Zong Bao and Xiao Yue, and they left the area within a radius of ten miles. He thought that things had already subsided, but in just an instant, Fang Yun suddenly felt a fierce and extremely angry aura rushing towards him from behind.

  Xue Mang has apparently lost his mind after losing Xue Lian, disregarding territorial restrictions and wanting to dismember Fang Yun and others into pieces.

  Xiao Yue was so frightened that she was at a loss, and could only tightly hug Fang Yun's waist. Her lovely face had completely lost its blood color, and the corners of her eyes were faintly visible as the sky behind her turned upside down, her heart almost jumping out of her throat.

  The speed of Yun Zong Bao has reached its peak, but the Blood Python behind is getting closer and closer.

  Ten zhang... five zhang... three zhang... The Blood Python suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood foam, Fang Yun cried out in alarm, grabbed Xiao Yue's wrist and leaped onto the top of a tree trunk over ten meters high.

  All that could be heard was a mournful cry from below, and Yun Zong Bao had already become a dead soul in the mouth of Xue Man. Facing Xue Man's overwhelming power, Yun Zong Bao didn't even have a chance to resist.

  "Grab me!" Fang Yun no longer dared to hold back, exerting all his strength to display his lightness skill, flying and jumping among the trees.

  The blood python's speed was fast, but it couldn't catch up to Fang Yun who was flying at the top of the tree, and could only closely follow below. It seemed that it wouldn't rest until it had torn Fang Yun into a thousand pieces.

  If animals were more honest, they would be a hundred or a thousand times more persistent than humans, let alone having their 'rice bowl' smashed by people.

  At the same time, Fang Yun on the tree pole could not last long, his chest suddenly convulsed, and a mouthful of blood spurted out. The injury that had been suppressed for a long time suddenly burst out and could no longer be stopped.

  As her body tilted, her entire being began to lean, Xiaoyue became even more tense, with a sob in her voice: "Fangyun, are you okay? You mustn't be hurt..."

  Fang Yun gritted his teeth, he absolutely couldn't fall at this moment. If he fell now, it would be a dead end for both of them, and he hadn't lived enough yet.

  The most important thing now is to get rid of the blood python's pursuit, but Fang Yun is now exhausted from running and has no time to stop the blood python, let alone block it.

  "Xiao Yue, you go and do it according to what I said." Fang Yun said in a low voice.

  "Hmm... you... what do you want me to do?" Xiaoyue asked in a trembling voice from behind.

  "With palms joined together, the mind is calm and the spirit is concentrated. The energy is gathered in the heart, connecting the spirit, soul, and consciousness as one... " Fang Yun was exhausted from running around while teaching Xiao Yue the immortal arts.

  "What is 'united as one'......" Xiaoyue asked with a sobbing tone.

  Although Fang Yun had translated it into the meaning of this world, there were still many obscure terms in the immortal technique that Xiaoyue couldn't understand for a while.

  "Unity is integration, the mind is like a mirror, and the body is like wisdom, which is unity."

  Xiao Yue barely understood six or seven parts, according to Fang Yun's words, she put her palms together and tried to follow Fang Yun's incantation, silently activating her magic.

  In an instant, Xiaoyue immediately felt her own magic power, like boiling water, surging and about to burst out of her body.

  A dark purple flame gradually appeared on Xiaoyue's palms, and she stared at her hands in disbelief. As a pure ice mage, this was the first time she had cast fire magic in actual combat.

  And her first fire magic contained energy that was a hundred times more terrifying than any ice magic she had ever learned.

  This is a deep-seated fear that comes from the bottom of one's heart, just like human beings' fear of the sun. Although Xiaoyue had never come into contact with Xian techniques before, she could clearly feel the terrifying energy contained in the purple flames.

  "Throw it straight down!" Fang Yun said in a low voice.

  Xiao Yue heard this and didn't dare to hesitate, immediately throwing the purple flames in her hands downwards. In the instant the purple flames left her hands, she became as weak as a ghost, fortunately she was on Fang Yun's back, otherwise she wouldn't even have the strength to stand up.

  No wonder, this purple flame was originally the Purple Wei Emperor Yan, which requires a large amount of immortal energy to burn, but Xiaoyue uses magic as energy, naturally making her weak in an instant, and its power may not even reach one-tenth.

  But in Xiaoyue's eyes, this one-tenth was like a terrifying destruction. Behind her not far away, a purple flame burst into the sky, and where the flame passed, everything was completely destroyed, without leaving any residue or damage.

  The blood python's instincts sensed the danger of the purple flames in front of it, and its body suddenly stopped moving. If it were ordinary flames, it would not be afraid at all, but the purple flames brought a sense of crisis to it.

  Surrounding were trees and rocks, anything that came into contact with the purple flames would be reduced to ashes. However, these purple flames were different from ordinary flames in that they wouldn't spread, and ordinary materials couldn't provide enough energy to sustain the purple flames.

  Fang Yun didn't intend to let Zi Yan hurt the Blood Python, just blocking it for a moment would be enough. Fang Yun couldn't hold on for much longer and was unable to leave the danger zone. He was now urgently searching for a secluded place to treat his injuries while refining the Condensing Spirit Pill, allowing him to have sufficient energy to rapidly recover from his internal wounds.

  It's okay to try and practice in the forest, where there are many caves. These caves are mostly nests of alien beasts. Fang Yun doesn't have time to distinguish which one is a high-level alien beast and which one is a low-level alien beast at this moment. Carrying Xiao Yue on his back, he directly enters a cave.

  Fortunately, the cave chosen by Fang Yun did not have any strange beasts to disturb them. These caves all had the aura of their original owners, which could cover up their smell and prevent the Blood Python from finding them so easily.

  Due to excessive magic consumption, Xiaoyue has fallen into a deep sleep. Fangyun couldn't wait any longer and took out the dan furnace and materials, also taking out several dan medicines to suppress his internal injuries once again.

  This time Fang Yun was all-in, couldn't afford to make a single mistake. If this alchemy failed, he would really not have the strength to leave the trial forest.