Gao Wu insists on cultivating immortality.

Chapter 99 Night Tour
Wan Canglong has always been a source of anxiety for Gao Wu.

It's true that Gao Wu likes to help people and is a good person, but he's not very magnanimous and has an extreme aversion and hatred for bad people.

He especially kept a close eye on bad people like Wan Canglong, who posed a threat to him, and dared not forget them for a moment.

It wasn't that he was being paranoid and suspected that there were always treacherous people trying to harm him; it was simply that Huang Hai had taught him a very profound lesson.

If he hadn't fought Song Mingyue so fiercely, he would have really died that time.

It is clear that bad guys must be dealt with as soon as possible; if it is dragged on, trouble will inevitably ensue.

Gao Wu withdrew his Yin spirit, held the Heavenly Fate Sword and pondered for a long time, but he couldn't find a suitable person to test it on. Calculating in the air was meaningless.

He silently recited the Vermilion Bird Divine Light Mantra dozens of times, and the crimson, blood-red divine light of the Fire God shone brightly and flew about, refining all the messy and filthy particles that the Yin God had been tainted with.

The Yin Spirit is now solidified like a physical entity, but it will still be tainted by various impurities when exposed to the vast天地 (heaven and earth). For the Yin Spirit, the endless天地 is like a huge mud pit; it's fine to wallow in it for a short time, but problems will inevitably arise in the long run.

Only through purification by the Vermilion Bird Divine Light Mantra can the Yin Spirit be kept pure and prevented from being eroded and corrupted by external forces.

Once the Yin Spirit recovered, Gao Wu released it again.

The Yin spirit can roam to a distance of 10,000 meters, meaning that the area centered on it is 100 square kilometers, which is the Yin spirit's roaming range.

Yin spirits are unaffected by light, and it is difficult for any living being's aura to escape their notice.

The wandering spirit quickly spotted two snow wolves. By spring, their fur had turned gray, and they were shedding large patches of hair, revealing their lean ribs. Only their eyes remained a vibrant green, filled with gloom and ferocity.

The two snow wolves were searching for prey and had no idea of ​​the Yin spirit.

The main reason is that the Yin spirit has no smell, light, shadow, hot or cold, and only when the Yin spirit actively operates the source energy will there be source energy fluctuations.

Let alone two unintelligent snow wolves, even a martial arts master wouldn't be able to detect the Yin Spirit.

The only flaw was the Heavenly Fate Sword, which floated eerily in the air. The snow wolf wouldn't even bother with such an inanimate object.

Gao Wu calmly drew his sword, controlling his Yin spirit. The Heavenly Fate Sword transformed into a cold light and split to the left and right, piercing through the heads of the two snow wolves and severing their central nervous system.

When the Heavenly Fate Sword, which is completely fused with the Yin Spirit, performs the Cloud Piercing Sword move, it is truly ethereal and mysterious, so much so that the sword is silent, with only a faint flash of cold light.

The two snow wolves died instantly before they even knew what had happened.

A drop of blood stained the Heavenly Destiny Sword, but before Gao Wu could clean it, the blood disappeared naturally. Through his Yin Spirit, Gao Wu could clearly sense that the sword had absorbed the blood…

The things left behind by the Angel of Death were refined by the Vermilion Bird Divine Light Curse, but they did not truly disappear; instead, they were integrated into the Heavenly Fate Sword.

Gao Wu was very clear about this, after all, since the Yin God and the Heavenly Fate Sword had completely merged, he could sense the most subtle changes in the Heavenly Fate Sword.

But he didn't know that this thing could also suck blood!

To test the changes in the Heavenly Destiny Sword, Gao Wu deeply inserted it into the body of a snow wolf.

Sure enough, the snow wolf's carcass quickly shriveled, and in no time, only its pelt remained. The pelt was dry and grayish, looking as if it had been dried for decades…

Looking at the Heavenly Fate Sword again, there was no change. The Yin Spirit had not drawn any power from it either.

I tested it with another snow wolf, and the result was the same. The sword remained unchanged.

After two tests, Gao Wu roughly figured out the situation.

The thing that the Heavenly Fate Sword fused with could absorb flesh and blood. As for why there was no change after absorption, it was probably because the flesh and blood were of too low a grade.

If it were high-grade flesh and blood, it might be able to improve the sword's grade.

Gao Wu used the Vermilion Bird Divine Light Incantation to refine the Destiny Sword several more times to confirm that there was nothing wrong with the sword itself before he was relieved.

The transformation of the sword sounds a bit eerie, but it's easy to understand if you think of the sword as a tree. Absorbing flesh and blood is just a way of converting energy, like photosynthesis in plants.

If you don't understand the underlying principles, you'll find it amazing. In reality, it's just the instinct of plants.

To test this special change in the sword, Gao Wu rode his Yin Spirit to roam within a hundred-kilometer radius for most of the night, killing nine snow wolves and obtaining nine wolf tails.

Apart from that, the sword remained unchanged. Of course, Gao Wu also tried to imbue the sword with the Vermilion Bird Divine Light Mantra; with one strike, the flesh and blood of the snow wolf charred at the point where it was stabbed, demonstrating its terrifying power.

The acrid smell of burning flesh drifted everywhere on the mountain wind. Gao Wu had no choice but to dig up the mutilated corpse and bury it.

The next morning, when Yang Ru and Han Yang got up, they smelled a faint burning smell, but they didn't pay much attention to it.

Low-level beasts have very low intelligence; only humans know how to use fire.

After having breakfast, the group packed their belongings and continued on their way. However, they didn't encounter a single person along the way.

If it weren't for the locator showing that there were many companions around, Yang Ru and Han Yang would have thought they had taken the wrong turn.

In the afternoon, the group ran into two snow wolves head-on, with the two sides only about 100 meters apart.

Han Yang and Yu Rulong drew their bows simultaneously, and the heavy bows with a draw weight of 200 kilograms killed a snow wolf on the spot.

The other snow wolf turned and ran. The two men fired two arrows, but both missed. Just as the wolf was about to disappear into the dense forest, Gao Wu fired. The high-explosive gunpowder and armor-piercing steel-core bullet blasted the snow wolf's belly apart. The deafening gunshot echoed through the mountains and forests, even drowning out the wolf's dying howl…

Yang Ru and the others were startled and looked at Gao Wu, who had fired the shot.

"Brother Gao, what excellent marksmanship!" Yu Rulong praised.

"Not bad, not bad." Gao Wu was quite satisfied with the shot. It was very difficult to kill a snow wolf from a hundred meters away with a pistol.

The high price of the Golden Thunderhawk is indeed justified.

The Yin God's wandering range was only one hundred square kilometers, but its detection range was several times larger. The Yin God did not detect any powerful life force in this area, which was the direct reason it fired its gun.

He was strong enough that his hand holding the gun was exceptionally steady.

His powerful and keen senses allow him to easily lock onto targets a hundred meters away, and he can even hit them easily with iron sights.

Han Yang was also startled. He cautiously discussed with Gao Wu, "The secret realm is dangerous. Bro, can we try to avoid using guns?"

"Okay." Gao Wu nodded in agreement. The gunfire was too loud; it really wasn't safe. It was best to avoid using it if possible.

"This gun is really beautiful, is it the Golden Thunder Eagle?" Yu Rulong was quite clever and quickly changed the subject to the pistol.

He was indeed very curious about the two guns. The Golden Thunder Eagle was so expensive; he wondered where Gao Wu got it from.

At this point, Gao Wu became quite proud of himself. He casually twirled his pistol and holstered it at his waist. "Hehe, this was a gift from a kind person... It's really useful."

After this little incident, having easily hunted down two snow wolves, Yu Rulong, Song Minglin, and Yang Ru all felt that the snow wolves were nothing special, and their mental state was noticeably more relaxed.

Generally speaking, an ordinary snow wolf weighs around 100 pounds, and even if several wolves are together, they wouldn't dare to attack a group of people.

Gao Wu and his team walked for a day without encountering any more large beasts. That night, Han Yang chose a hillside location to set up camp.

With few trees, a large rock wall behind it, and a wide view in front, this is an excellent location.

The hunt lasted four days, and it was only the second day, so Han Yang and his group weren't in a hurry.

After dinner, Han Yang discussed with Gao Wu that they felt they had gone deep enough into the area, and that they would lay blood bait nearby the next day to try to hunt snow wolves or other large beasts.

Gao Wu had no objection to this. He had killed two snow wolves during the day, and with the nine snow wolves he had killed, that was two snow wolves per person, which was enough to advance.

After all, this place is only so big, where would so many large, strange beasts come from?

The main reason he didn't mention hunting snow wolves was that he didn't want everyone to become too complacent.

Just like yesterday, Gao Wu got up at two o'clock in the morning to change shifts. With nothing to do, he naturally released his Yin Spirit to roam around.

The spirits of the underworld can fly freely between heaven and earth, almost unrestricted by any matter. This feeling is very strange, just like becoming an immortal.

There is a sense of carefree joy, as if "the world is vast and I can roam freely."

Even without any particular reason, Gao Wu still enjoys using Yin Spirit Roaming. In environments like secret realms, Yin Spirit Roaming also serves as a warning system.

The spirit circled around for most of the time, but found no snow wolves, not even foxes, hedgehogs, or squirrels.

Gao Wu sensed something was wrong. It was one thing that snow wolves, being exotic beasts, weren't around, but squirrels were everywhere.

Ordinary martial artists cannot see it, but Yin spirits can easily see the spiritual light condensing into life. To Yin spirits, vibrant life is like a flame in the darkness, impossible to hide.

It's incredibly strange that there isn't a single animal in an area spanning tens of square kilometers.

The Yin spirit wandered along the outer circle with a diameter of 10,000 meters for 20 minutes before Gao Wu finally discovered a special life magnetic field.

Through the Yin spirit's gaze into the distance, one could see a ball of white flame emitting intense life energy, which also carried a strong aura of death and an indescribable stench of filth.

"Demon God?!" Gao Wu's first reaction was that it was a follower of the Demon God, because this aura was very similar to that of the Angel of Death, both carrying a strong destructive aura and an unfathomable depth.

The white aura grew stronger and stronger. From the perspective of the Yin spirit, it wouldn't be long before this aura reached its limit and began to undergo other changes.

This thing is extremely dangerous! Gao Wu didn't know what it was, but he could sense the dangerous aura emanating from it through his Yin Spirit.

Since refining the Death Wings left behind by the Angel of Death, the Yin God has become more sensitive to the aura of demon gods. This is also a divine power of the Vermilion Bird Divine Light Spell.

Gao Wu wanted to call for help using the wireless intercom, but since he hadn't figured out the situation yet, he decided to go and check it out first.

Thinking of this, Gao Wu went into the tent and roughly pulled Han Yang out, saying, "Something has happened. You stay here, I'll go take a look."

Before the dazed Han Yang could ask anything else, he saw Gao Wu, wearing a scarlet mask, disappear into the distance in a flash.

When Han Yang regained consciousness, Gao Wu was nowhere to be seen. He was completely bewildered. After a moment's thought, he hurriedly went back to retrieve his sword, gun, and other weapons, put on his protective armor, and then woke up Yang Ru and the others.

Sleeping is a minor matter, but if there's an accident, a moment's hesitation could cost you your life.

Han Yang's gaze fell in the direction where Gao Wu had disappeared. There, the deep forest swayed gently in the wind, and it seemed as if hundreds of ghostly figures were dancing around, making Han Yang's heart pound with unease...

(End of this chapter)