Ancient Devouring Technique

Chapter 937 Weird
At dusk, on a cliff somewhere in the middle of the rift valley.

Ye Xuan and his companions set out from the place where they obtained the Xushen Grass and it took them several hours to get here. According to the instructions in the jade slip, the Soul-Nourishing Blood Lotus is at the bottom of the rift at this location.

"Are you ready?" Ye Xuan stood on the edge of the cliff and looked down. He saw only bottomless darkness, like a huge mouth waiting for prey to fall into the trap. He looked back at the people behind him and said, "Let's go down."

Bingyu and the others nodded, then Ye Xuan took the lead, and several people jumped out together and slowly fell down. In a moment, their figures disappeared in the darkness under the rift.

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"It's a little strange..."

The light was dim in the valley, but it was not a problem for a saint. As they slowly descended, Tianyin Xuannv kept an eye on her surroundings with her divine sense and couldn't help but turned to Ye Xuan with some uncertainty.

"Yeah... it's a bit strange." Ye Xuan also looked a little confused. He looked at the endless darkness below and murmured, "We have descended at least ten thousand feet, but it seems... too smooth..."

Tie Ke, who was standing by, had already noticed something was wrong, and he said, "Yes, it shouldn't be this peaceful in the Falling Phoenix Valley. My brother and I have tried many places before, but none of them allowed us to descend more than five thousand feet. We always encountered Saint-level monsters every time. We have never been able to descend more than ten thousand feet without encountering any danger before."

"This is indeed strange." Ye Xuan was even more confused after hearing Tie Ke's words. He frowned slightly and said, "According to the records in the jade slip, we have passed through the territories of at least three holy beasts. Either the jade slip is wrong, or these beasts have 'moved away', or... they have been eliminated by someone!!"

Bingyu was shocked: "You mean... someone passed by here in front of us?!"

"It's very likely." Ye Xuan speculated, "And it probably won't be long, because even if the original monsters are eliminated, other monsters should come back to occupy the territory after a while."

Tie Ke's expression became more serious. He hesitated and said, "We didn't see any particularly serious signs of fighting along the way. That means it didn't take much effort for that warrior or group of warriors to eliminate the monsters along the way. Their strength... is probably not low. There might be some great saints among them..."

"This is not good..." Bingyu frowned and said, "If this is true, if their goal is also to nourish the soul blood lotus, then aren't we already too late?"

This was exactly what Ye Xuan was worried about. He pondered for a few breaths and said, "These are just speculations. No matter what, I have to go to the place where the Soul-Nourishing Blood Lotus is. If it has really been taken away, then I can only blame my bad luck. If it is still there... I have to get it no matter what!!"

Afterwards, the few of them descended another 30,000 feet in height, but they still didn't encounter any monsters. It was too smooth. Ye Xuan didn't feel happy about this "smoothness" at all. Instead, his mood became even gloomier, because this phenomenon showed that he was walking on a path that had been cleared by others, and the possibility that the Soul-Nourishing Blood Lotus had been taken away by someone was increasing.

Finally, when everyone reached the bottom of the valley, they found a severely damaged environment, and the traces were still very new, so it was roughly estimated that they were probably no more than five days old.

Because of the large-scale destruction, Ye Xuan spent some time to match this place with the map location recorded in the jade slip. He faced one direction, pointed forward and said to everyone: "If I'm not mistaken, the Soul Nourishing Blood Lotus is about 200 miles ahead. Let's go."

Everyone immediately set out to head over there. The area below was so wide that it didn't look like a valley at all. Except for the cliff behind them, the rest of the area was almost the same as the ground. The ground was covered with all kinds of strange plants. Although they were not monsters, there were animals of all sizes with strange shapes everywhere. There were also strange forests, rivers, and even mountains.

"Huh?" After walking more than ten thousand feet, Ye Xuan, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped, as if he realized something, and turned to look to the right with a look of surprise.

The others were startled at once, and looked alert. They followed his gaze, but saw only darkness and nothing else.

Tian Yin Xuan Nu asked in confusion: "What's wrong? Did you find anything?"

"No... maybe it's my illusion. Let's move on." A hint of doubt flashed in Ye Xuan's eyes and he shook his head slightly. Just now for a moment, he felt that there seemed to be an extremely special fluctuation appearing over there, but it disappeared in a flash. If it was a normal expedition, he might go over to find out what was going on, but now he was concerned about the Soul-Nourishing Blood Lotus, so naturally he didn't have this idea.

After the few people left, the void in the direction Ye Xuan had just looked at suddenly twisted, and a very faint transparent light curtain appeared instantly, and then disappeared in the blink of an eye...

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"Roar!!"

After walking forward more than ten thousand feet, a ferocious beast roar and a powerful aura of a demon beast suddenly came from the front, making Ye Xuan couldn't help but look happy.

Yes, he was indeed very surprised, because the presence of a monster blocking the road meant that no one had ever passed through this place before!

With this surprise and expectation, Ye Xuan waved to the people behind him, and then rushed forward first.

For a while, all kinds of roars and beast roars continued. About half an incense stick later, the demon beast in the late holy realm was solved by Ye Xuan. This demon beast was even more unlucky than the previous demon mountain crocodile. It was a wood-type demon beast and was restrained by Ye Xuan's Heavenly Star True Flame. Even though its cultivation was much higher than Ye Xuan's, it could only be burned in a very unpleasant way.

After getting rid of this monster, everyone continued to move forward, but soon encountered another monster blocking them. This time it was a large group of monsters that were as big as a loft. Only the leader was a saint, and the rest were more than 20 semi-saints, and hundreds of martial emperors. Facing such a group of monsters, it was obviously unnecessary for Ye Xuan to take action. The rest of the people went out to fight, and even Tianyin Xuannv joined the battle.

Without much effort, everyone cleared out this group of unknown monsters.

The next section of the journey was quite strenuous for everyone. They felt uneasy because they had not seen any monsters when they descended previously. Now there were too many monsters, which made them very annoyed.

Finally, when he felt the powerful aura of a great sage-level monster in front of him, Ye Xuan chose to take a detour. Although he might be able to defeat it, he didn't want to waste too much time and experience on this.

Finally, after taking some detours, everyone finally arrived at their destination. Judging from the time, a whole night had passed, but there was no sunlight at the bottom of the valley, and it was impossible to tell that it was already morning.

This is an area of ​​ice and snow. There is a thick layer of ice on the ground. The flowers, plants and trees around it seem to be frozen in the ice. In front of everyone is a wide lake with no visible shore. Most of the lake surface is covered with floating ice. The clear lake water can be seen below through the cracks in the ice, but the bottom cannot be seen, so no one knows how deep it is.

Ye Xuan looked at the icy lake in front of him and couldn't help but said with joy: "This is it!! The Soul-Nourishing Blood Lotus... is under this icy lake!"

(End of this chapter)