Who said I practiced the exercises incorrectly?

The end of the swamp is not land.

It's a big lake.

A huge lake with a gelatinous consistency like asphalt.

Due to the obstruction of the dark fog, no one could see the end of the lake.

However, just the part that was exposed in front of us was already extremely terrifying.

The lake was as calm as a mirror, without any ripples or any common insects, fish, birds or animals. Its surface was a sticky blood color.

But the blood color was not just similar, because the lake water also had an extremely strong smell of blood.

If a fluid looks like blood, smells like blood, and feels like blood.

Then even if it is not blood, it can almost be regarded as blood.

"…But, with such a vast lake, how many people must be killed, or how many lives must be exterminated, before it can be completely filled up."

Standing on the edge of the blood lake, Ji Dinghuang looked at the boundless end with an extremely ugly expression on his face.

"Not only that, the blood accumulated in this lake is probably not ordinary blood."

He Qianyan stood up from the lake, his hands still stained with sticky blood:
“When I was besieging the Blood God Cult’s branch temple before, I obtained several martial arts notes from one of their secret places, one of which involved the art of blood refining. There was a lot of refined blood stored in that secret place, which served as a part of the energy source for the operation of the formation.

The blood that can provide energy for the formation is already a precious blood that is hard for ordinary people to imagine, but the blood in this entire lake contains energy that is even more terrifying than the blood in the formation.

There is no doubt that the blood here is all refined and is definitely not the blood of ordinary creatures.

If you want to accumulate this entire lake of precious blood, you will need at least a hundred times more blood to do it."

"hundred times?!"

Upon hearing this word, the expressions of the many warriors present suddenly changed. Anger, sadness, horror, fear, and other emotions flashed across their faces.

"Old He, I'm afraid you are exaggerating a bit, right?"

Qi Ruyue laughed dryly and said:

“If it really takes a hundred times more blood to refine it, I’m afraid that Fulong City alone cannot do it. Perhaps we need to slaughter all the surrounding counties to meet the requirement.

However, in fact, let alone Fulong, even the surrounding counties have not heard of such a disaster in recent years, which shows that this statement is not true. "

"When did I say this blood came from surrounding counties?"

He Qianyan glanced at him and sneered:
"What if other cities were massacred? You don't think that the Qiongqi God Envoy came here without any preparation for his promotion? Massacred the cities near the sleeping place, is this because he is afraid that others can't find him?"

Qi Ruyue's expression couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

When everyone present thought about it carefully, they felt a chill down their spines and had a deeper understanding of the cruelty of the Qiongqi God's messenger.

"Forget it, regardless of that, the most urgent thing is how to get through this blood lake and get inside."

Ji Dinghuang looked at the vast lake and said:
"I have tried it just now. The blood in this lake is very special. It seems that it is difficult to freeze it even with the extremely cold force. If we can't freeze it, do we have to swim through it?"

Hearing this, everyone's faces turned a little ugly.

Swimming in blood?
It's scary just thinking about it.

"Compared to passing through the blood lake, I think it is more important to explore the blood lake first to see if there are any other traps hidden in it, such as invincible beasts and so on."

After Ning Yan finished speaking, He Qianyan and the others also thought of the swamp demon seal that had emerged from the mud before.

If Ning Yan had not used the spiritual weapon to successfully suppress it, if an ordinary person encountered it, he would probably be at a disadvantage due to the disadvantage in geographical environment alone.

Not to mention winning, even escaping is not an easy thing.

However, this blood lake is in the deepest part of the Yin Jue Forest. If nothing unexpected happens, there must be a very scary monster hidden in it. If the monster really exists, its strength must exceed that of the previous swamp demon seal.

Maybe he has already reached the state of transformation.

The Qiongqi god was seriously injured and sleeping, so it was impossible for him not to leave something around him to guard against interference and harm from the outside world.

As for the things he left behind, after so many years, even if their strength has declined significantly, they may not be so easy to deal with.

Especially the geographical environment of this blood lake made it difficult for them to exert their usual strength, which further restricted them.

When they thought of this, everyone felt it was a very difficult situation.

Afterwards, Ning Yan, as usual, soared into the air like an eagle to check what was happening in the blood lake.

Ji Dinghuang and others were guarding the edge of the blood lake and were not idle.

Since this trip is to deal with the Qiongqi God's messenger, they must make adequate preparations in advance and take various situations into consideration. For example, the blood lake in front of them is actually within their expectations. They also listed corresponding countermeasures.

However, they didn’t know how long they would have to go further, nor did they know if they would encounter similar situations again, so everyone was a little hesitant about whether to take any action.

Therefore, they planned to carefully examine the situation of the blood lake first, and then combine it with the information brought back by Ning Yan, and make a final decision after careful consideration.

At this moment, Li Qingzhi and others all took action, some using their skills to detect the blood in the lake, some using instruments to measure the depth and other characteristics, and some using magic to investigate the situation in the blood lake.

After everyone was busy, they made quite a few discoveries:
"The blood in this blood lake doesn't look very fresh. It looks like it has been there for a long time. Its activity is also relatively weak. It contains very strong energy, almost comparable to violent energy. In other words, this entire lake is filled with the blood of violent energy warriors."

"It's understandable that the activity is relatively weak. After all, such a long time has passed, it's normal for the activity to weaken. It's incredible that the blood is still active after such a long time. However, considering that it was the Qiongqi Divine Envoy who operated all this, it can be explained."

"I have made another discovery. I just took blood from several places with a few brothers, and after comparing and verifying it, I found that the auras of the blood taken from various places are not only completely similar, but can be described as exactly the same.

This means that all this blood looks like it came from the same person. To put it in another way, this entire lake might be an independent monster, so it is understandable that the blood in this monster is extremely similar. "

"It can't be that exaggerated, right? If all this blood is from the same monster, how big would that monster be? Hundreds of feet? Thousands of feet? Tens of thousands of feet? How the hell can we deal with it?"

"I just used a seven-tailed fish to investigate, and found that this lake may not be as exaggerated as we imagined. Don't be fooled by its size, but it is actually very shallow. It is still less than ten feet deep at a distance of one hundred feet. If you consider its lake area, this thing looks like a whole pancake.

Perhaps we don’t need to resort to other means, we can just build a few boats or put a few racks on our legs, and maybe we can get through safely.”

"This idea is too idealistic. What if there are monsters in this lake, or if the blood contains unknown toxins? A few ships won't be able to save us. We must prepare for the worst."

……

Everyone was talking and arguing.

At this moment, a figure suddenly swooped down from the sky. Before Ning Yan could fully recover, Li Qingzhi and the others came over and asked anxiously:
"how is the situation?"

Ning Yan shook his head and said:
"I flew forward without encountering any problems. I soon arrived at the end of the Blood Lake. Judging from the distance, it is about five miles. Although I haven't checked both sides, I estimate that it should be about the same. Overall, it should be a circular lake about five miles wide."

"The lake is surprisingly shallow. Even in the center, it's less than two feet deep. As you go outward from the center of the lake, the water goes up continuously, and the deepest point is about two feet."

"During this period, I didn't encounter any attacks from monsters or evil spirits. It seemed very peaceful, but it was precisely this kind of peace that made me feel creepy."

Ning Yan looked around at everyone on the field and said seriously:
"If nothing unexpected happens, the Qiongqi Divine Envoy is most likely sleeping in this blood lake."

When everyone heard this, their expressions varied, some were excited, some were sad.

What is exciting is that there is no need to continue exploring the road, and no need to face all kinds of traps set by the Qiongqi God and enemies blocking the way. This journey has reached the end.

What is worrying is the unknown enemy, the biggest and most terrifying crisis - the Qiongqi God Messenger.

No matter how determined they were before coming here, no matter how much they hated the Qiongqi God's Messenger at that time and wished they could kill him with their own hands, when the time came, they finally felt the weight of the five words "third-level warrior". Just standing in front of the blood lake, before they actually came into contact with the other party, the suffocating feeling of pressure was already pressing on their hearts like a mountain.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Get moving!"

After being stunned for a while, Ji Dinghuang slapped his face hard and shouted to the people around him:
"Since we have confirmed that the Qiongqi God Envoy is probably hiding in this blood lake, we should not delay any further. We should use all the methods we have prepared in advance on him. While he is still asleep, we should stack all kinds of negative effects on him first, so that when he wakes up, we won't have time to stack them up."

When everyone heard this, they suddenly woke up as if from a dream, and they all took action.

According to the prior plan, they had three sets of plans to deal with the Qiongqi God: before the war, during the war, and after the war.

Each set can be divided into three to five types.

The best thing is to start before the war. When they sneak up on the Qiongqi God's messenger and find that the other party is still sleeping, they will take the opportunity to make various arrangements to significantly weaken him in advance, ensuring that his strength will be further reduced after he wakes up.

Now that they had this rare opportunity, everyone no longer hesitated and immediately started to speed up the arrangements in and around the Blood Lake according to the pre-arranged plan.

As their actions gradually progressed, the originally calm lake began to show signs of movement. Ripples emerged from the center of the lake and slowly spread out in all directions.

Before the ripples got close, a desolate horn sounded suddenly from afar.

Ning Yan and the others couldn't help but stop for a moment and turned to look in the direction where the horn sound came from.

That was exactly the route they took when they came.

Why did the horn suddenly sound at this time?
Without waiting for everyone to figure it out.

The next second, the seemingly calm blood lake suddenly surged violently, and sticky waves rose from it, hitting the body with a tremendous force, and immediately knocked several people who had not reacted in time into the lake.

“Help me—help me—!”

A shrill scream suddenly burst out from the mouth of the person who fell into the water.

Seeing the distorted face floundering in the blood, Ning Yan grabbed the arm of a nearby drowning man, flapped his wings, and prepared to take him away.

Then, at this moment, a strange and inexplicable strong suction force appeared in the lake, so that his whole body was pulled in the air and he could not fly.

Ning Yan frowned, exerted force with his hands again, and started tug-of-war.

The blood in the lake seemed to be exerting force at the same time.

As the two were struggling, the one caught in the middle suddenly let out a shrill scream.

Sensing something was wrong, Ning Yan raised his hand and threw out the stone tablet with the word "Yu" on it. The stone tablet quickly grew larger and slammed down behind the man who fell into the water, as if cutting off the rope that was holding him. Ning Yan immediately sent the force flying into the sky.

However, when he turned his head and saw the situation of entering the power, his pupils couldn't help but shrink slightly.

The person who fell into the water, who seemed normal at first, was now only intact above the neck.

However, the parts below the neck had become withered, with layers of grayish-white wrinkled skin on the surface, bones under the skin, and wet clothes clinging to the body, as if it was wrapped around a skeleton.

All the blood, flesh and energy in his body had been sucked away by the lake water.

"What's wrong with my body?"

The unshaven-bearded Ru Jin asked in confusion.

"Nothing, just... a little thinner."

"I'm so cold."

"Just get some sleep."

"But we haven't killed the Qiongqi God Envoy yet, how can we... sleep..."

His eyes were open, but he was not breathing.

Looking down again, the few people who were screaming earlier had now all lost their voices.

The vast lake water rushed towards the center and soon formed a powerful arm, like a pillar supporting the sky, suddenly appearing on the lake surface.

A giant seemed to be trying to climb out from it.

……

In the deep area.

The place where many evil root creatures died.

Two groups of warriors are fighting fiercely.

One of the groups was Wei Daoqi and others from the Lingzhi Sect.

The other group was led by Zhao Yuntan and other dragon descendants.

The two sides fought on the chaotic battlefield.

Although the dragon descendants have extraordinary origins, the Lingzhi Sect is also a large sect spanning many prefectures and counties.

So after fighting for a while, Zhao Yuntan and others had to retreat towards the core area.

During the retreat, Zhao Yuntan once again picked up a dark brown dragon-patterned horn and put it to his lips.

The ancient and desolate sound of the horn immediately spread throughout the entire Yin Jue Forest. (End of this chapter)