Wild Dogs

Faced with the siege of so many Foundation Establishment and Pseudo Core Formation puppets, they were naturally unable to withstand it and were forced to retreat step by step.

Xue Ming snorted coldly.

"How I control myself is none of your business. In short, you should all get the hell away from me."

After saying that, Xue Ming immediately led Yang Fan forward.

After a while, the two arrived at the shore of Blood Lake, and only then did Yang Fan understand why these people were blocking the way here.

On the shore of Blood Lake, there is an ancient ship made of bones.

A skeleton stood atop the ancient ship, holding a bone oar in its hand, guarding the place.

Seeing this, Xue Ming's expression became much more serious.

He walked to the front of the boat, and the skeletal boatman slowly reached out his hand to him.

It's obvious they want something.

Yang Fan muttered to himself for a moment.

"What should we do? What should we give them? Should we ask for spirit stones?"

Xue Ming, who was standing to the side, shook his head slightly and gestured for him to be quiet.

Xue Ming pulled a bright red heart out of his storage bag.

Then, Xue Ming placed the bright red heart in the boatman's hand.

The skeleton boatman grabbed the heart, stuffed it into his mouth, and chewed it vigorously.

Blood dripped incessantly down the bones, but the heart seemed to have been devoured by some mysterious force.

They disappeared in clusters.

After a long while, the entire heart disappeared, as if the boatman had received permission for some kind of transaction.

He gestured for him to proceed.

Xue Ming nodded slightly, then grabbed Yang Fan, and the two of them leaped onto the bone ship.

The skeletal boatman then raised his oars and rowed them toward the other side of the blood lake.

Yang Fan glanced at the two narrow passages on either side of the blood lake, his brows furrowing slightly.

He lowered his voice and looked at Xue Ming.

"Master, why don't we go through either side? We should be able to get through from either side, right?"

Xue Ming shook his head.

"Those two sides are dangerous, they're dead ends. Only this blood lake can be passed."

Yang Fan suddenly realized what was happening and frowned as he looked at the enormous lake of blood.

"But must we use a bone boat to cross this lake? Can't we just swim across ourselves?"

Xue Ming shook his head.

"You have no idea what terrifying things are down there."

Yang Fan turned back and looked at the shore again.

"But what about those puppets? Are we just going to leave them there?"

Xue Ming smiled.

"It's alright. Once we get to the shore, I'll demonstrate for you, and you'll see how they got across."

The bone boat carried Yang Fan and Xue Ming towards the opposite shore.

Although the lake was enormous, the bone boat was much faster than he had imagined.

Each time the oar is stroked, the entire skeleton boat will leap forward hundreds of feet.

Therefore, even though the lake seemed endless, they reached the other side of the Blood Lake in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

The puppets that had been blocking the way on the other side were now completely out of sight.

Once they reached the shore, Xue Ming led Yang Fan ashore.

He whistled loudly, then stood there silently.

"Is this all you need?"

Yang Fan asked Xue Ming in surprise.

Xue Ming nodded.

You'll find out soon enough.

Yang Fan then saw the boatman row the white bone boat to the other side.

However, before Yang Fan and the puppets arrived, the bone ship came ahead of time.

Three Core Formation cultivators were standing on the bone ship, staring at Xue Ming.

After giving him a wary look, she fell silent.

Once they reached the shore, they silently walked past.

Xue Ming simply smiled slightly and said nothing.

Yang Fan understood that more cultivators had arrived on the bone boat.

The bone boat once again glided towards the other side of the blood lake.

At the same time, Yang Fan finally discovered signs of those puppets.

At this moment, a large group of puppets were swimming steadily towards the blood lake.

"They can swim across from the lake of blood? Aren't there supposed to be something terrifying there?"

Yang Fan asked hurriedly.

Xue Ming smiled.

"These puppets are already inanimate objects, at my mercy, but they are just one of my possessions."

"This lake of blood has no effect on inanimate objects; it truly harms living things."

Xue Ming smiled slightly, then looked ahead.

"Living creatures? What living creatures? Does this blood lake have any effect on living creatures?"

Yang Fan pondered.

Seeing Yang Fan's extreme curiosity, Xue Ming smiled slightly.

Suddenly, he attacked the three people who had just left.

"What are you doing?"

The three of them had already lowered their guard because they had seen that Xue Ming hadn't made a move earlier.

Unexpectedly, Xue Ming suddenly made a move, catching them completely off guard.

One of them was caught off guard and had his heart pierced directly by Xue Ming.

Seeing their teammate killed, the other two knew they were no match for Xue Ming.

They ran off into the distance without daring to stop.

There was no other way; once you get to this place, it's better to die for your fellow Daoists than for yourself. If your opponent is too strong, you have no choice but to run.

After killing the man, Xue Ming held the still-alive cultivator and smiled coldly.

"You'll find out what happens next."

Then Xue Ming grabbed the man and threw him into the blood lake.

"No, no!"

The man shouted with all his might, but Xue Ming sneered.

"His heart is already broken; he won't live much longer."

The moment the man was thrown into the lake of blood, Yang Fan finally understood why this place was a lake of blood.

And why did Xue Ming come over in a bone boat?

The moment the man was thrown down, countless pale corpses crawled out from below.

They grabbed the man tightly and dragged him into the lake.

Immediately afterwards, streams of blood gushed from the man's body.

In just over ten breaths, the man's body resurfaced.

But now he was in pieces, his whole body was white, just like before.

"Did you see that?"

Blood Demon pointed in that direction.

"The bottom of this blood lake is unfathomably deep, and it's teeming with these living dead."

"Once you fall into this lake, you'll be entangled by these things immediately."

"More importantly, once you touch this blood, you cannot use any spiritual energy."

"Then we'll be at the mercy of these corpses."

Xue Ming said, his hands behind his back, looking completely indifferent.

Since he's already safe, it doesn't matter to him.

Yang Fan couldn't help but shake his head.

"Then why don't we just fly over it?"

Xue Ming shook his head.

"There are some really scary things on here, but I won't show them to you."

"In short, this ship is the only way to survive."

Xue Ming waved his hand, and the puppets obediently walked up from the blood lake.

They obediently knelt on one knee before Xue Ming.

Xue Ming waved his hand and put the puppets back into his storage bag.

He then led Yang Fan forward.

By this point, even though he still didn't understand the entire Xuan Yuan Secret Realm, Yang Fan was already feeling a chill run down his spine.