187 Vine Ocean (1/2)

The egg was around the size of a fist and it was a dull grey color. The shell had carvings on it that appeared simple but profound at the same time.

Zhao Feng held the grey egg and he felt that it was just a stone with no life in it. However, if he calmed down and looked at it with his left eye, it was like he was holding a beating heart.

After inspecting it for a while, Zhao Feng still had no clue whatsoever.

He first put a bit of his True Force in, but there was no response. Zhao Feng realised that the egg shell had strong resistance against True Force.

He suddenly remembered that in some ancient records, it said that one could use their blood to sign a pact.

However, this was just a rumour – Zhao Feng didn’t know how to do it.

He paused slightly. Then, he bit his finger and sprayed a few drops of his blood onto the shell.

The egg still didn’t move, but Zhao Feng felt that his blood made the carvings on the egg more exquisite.

Enhancing his vision several hundredfold, Zhao Feng caught faint signs of the egg responding.

“Is my blood that rubbish?”

Zhao Feng could see clearly that only one-thousandth of his blood had been absorbed by the egg shell.

Then, he had a flash of insight and decided to try it with his bloodline power.

According to the Blood Corpse Protector, Zhao Feng had an ancient bloodline that made even the spawns of the Scarlet Moon Religion wary. This time, Zhao Feng carefully dropped a stream of faint azure blood that was as thin as a string onto the egg.

It entered without resistance.

Zhao Feng was overjoyed!

However, the next instant, his expression changed dramatically.

Wu~ Weng~~~~

The faint azure blood within him was being sucked out - it was seemingly entering a bottomless hole.

The grey egg was like a newborn baby that was ravenously taking in nutrients.

In just two short breaths, over half of the bloodline power within Zhao Feng had been sucked out, making him feel weak after having lost so much bloodline power.

“Stop! Stoppp!”

Zhao Feng circulated his left eye, and the azure abyss in the dimension of his left eye spun.

His bloodline power originated from his left eye and it was controlled by him after all. Zhao Feng had forcefully cut off the relationship with the egg.

Hu!

Zhao Feng effortlessly sat on the ground with a pale face. His mental energy was also low.

Although he had cut off the bond, over half of the azure blood had still been sucked into the grey egg.

The carvings on the egg had a streak of blood running through them, looking beautiful and sinister.

Peh Peh! Peh Peh!

Zhao Feng heard a heartbeat emerge from within the depths of the egg like a new life was being created.

After waiting for a long time, the grey egg stopped moving. The only thing that changed was that its life aura became stronger.

Zhao Feng sat cross-legged on the ground and he took a big gulp of Spiritual wine as well as ate some treasures. He was soon engulfed in a hot feeling.

… He had paid a large price to recover his bloodline power.

“There’s still five days till the trials’ difficulty becomes far harder.”

Zhao Feng felt that time was running out.

According to what had happened, the difficulty would rise another level every ten days.

Zhao Feng had spent five days getting the egg, leaving him five days to prepare.

However, the recovery of his bloodline power was slower than wheat he had imagined.

Even though he had eaten a bunch of treasures and his True Force was bulging to the point that his cultivation had reached the peak of the 3rd Sky, the recovery of his bloodline power was still slow.

While he was recovering, Zhao Feng didn’t pay attention to the ring beside him.

The blood carvings on the grey eggshell faded away and a small crack that couldn’t be seen with the naked eye appeared.

Under normal circumstances, these changes wouldn’t escape Zhao Feng’s eyes. But the latter was focused on recovering his bloodline power and not on examining the grey egg.

In the blink of an eye, three days had passed.

Zhao Feng’s mental energy had reached its peak again and his bloodline power was mostly recovered.

“There’re still two more days till the start of the new pursuit.”

Zhao Feng put the grey egg inside his interspatial bracelet and didn’t notice the miniature cracks on the grey egg’s surface.

The most important thing to do right now was to prepare for the next pursuit.

Four hours later.

Zhao Feng arrived at the origin of the Dragon Snake Ice River - the freezing pond.

The wind near the freezing pond was like chilling knives.

Zhao Feng came over this time to see whether or not the freezing pond could handle another black metal monster.

After a while, Zhao Feng shook his head – the result was the same as last time.

1. The area where the mysterious blue crystal tear was had been occupied by the first two black metal monsters.

2. If he used the tear drop again, the temperature would reach the point where even those at the 4th and 5th Sky of the Ascended Realm would find it hard to resist.

The same plan couldn’t be used.

“I must think of another plan.” Zhao Feng murmured.

He soon remembered the Yao Beast King in the tall tower forest.

“The Yao Beast King in the tall tower forest should be able to fight the black metal monster, and with my ice arrows, we could kill the monster, but it’ll be dangerous… ”

Zhao Feng entered the forest, but after searching for hours, he still couldn’t find the Yao Beast King.

At a certain place in the forest, Zhao Feng saw a scorched hole in the ground; it seemed that a huge battle had taken place here.