An emperor in his later years is summoned by his sister to save the nation's fate.

The succubus emitted a pink, eerie aura and plunged directly into the churning black water.

At first, the surging of the water did slow down, and Li Xianxiu even showed a smug smile, fantasizing that he would soon be able to control an advanced version of the strange pet.

But within seconds, the smile on his face froze completely.

"What's going on? Why can't I sense the succubus anymore?"

Just as he retreated in terror, the mass of black water suddenly swelled up, transforming into a giant hand made of black water, which directly slammed Li Xianxiu to the ground.

With a chilling swallowing sound, Lee Hyun-soo was submerged and swallowed into the stinking puddle of water before he could even scream.

The next moment, a cold national announcement resounded in the ears of all humans on Earth and the chosen ones.

[National Fortune Announcement!]

[Lee Hyun-soo, the chosen one of South Korea, is dead!]

[Deduct 10 points from South Korea's national fortune value!]

[Punishment Arrives: The system will manifest 1000 C-rank water monsters! They will be randomly released into various bodies of water within South Korea!]

In an instant, the entire nation of South Korea erupted in desperate wails and vehement curses.

"Damn it! That idiot! He killed everyone in our country!"

"The water coming out of the pipes is black! Help!"

In the conference room of the 749 Bureau headquarters in China, Shen Xingzhou and other high-ranking officials watched as a video of the tragic state of South Korea was simultaneously shown on the big screen, and everyone gasped in shock.

Even seasoned top investigators, who were used to seeing life and death, felt their scalps tingle at this moment.

"Is this the punishment for a nation's struggle for survival?"

Xu Tianming's tone was extremely grave: "A single C-level anomaly is enough to destroy a small village. A thousand of them descending simultaneously, and being directly deployed into the water supply system..."

"Our Dragon Kingdom cannot lose."

Shen Xingzhou's gaze was fixed on Lu Xueyao and Liu Mengxi, who remained unharmed on the screen: "We must protect our chosen ones at all costs!"

The long night finally gave way to dawn as the blood moon faded.

A grayish-white tinge appeared on the horizon, and the daytime of the Eternal Night Wasteland was greatly suppressed, plunging it into slumber.

Lu Xueyao pushed aside the rubble blocking the cave entrance and walked out into the cold wind.

After a whole night of tempering her blood nerves, she felt not at all tired, but rather full of inexhaustible energy.

Even their eyesight and hearing became several times more acute.

"We must hurry up and explore," Lu Xueyao thought to herself.

Her goal today was clear: first, to find food and fresh water, among other survival supplies.

Secondly, and most importantly, we must find the 100 pieces of obsidian needed to build the lord's manor.

Although she has entered the Body Tempering Realm, she is still a mortal and cannot rely solely on her physical body to withstand the invasion of high-level strange rules. She must establish her own territory defense line.

Xuantian realm.

At this moment, Lu Li was sitting upright in the imperial carriage pulled by nine dragons, heading at full speed towards the Ancestral Star of the Overlord Body. He slowly opened his eyes.

His powerful Emperor-level divine sense keenly detected a subtle change in the faint protective bond between himself and Lu Xueyao.

"As her cultivation level has advanced to the Body Tempering Realm, her sea of ​​consciousness can not only hold more information, but it can even accommodate a wisp of my divine soul power?"

Lu Li's lips curled up slightly. Although this form, in which only a wisp of his soul resided, could not demonstrate any substantial destructive power on Blue Star, he could use it to remain in Lu Xueyao's sea of ​​consciousness for a long time and actively explore that mysterious Eternal Night Wasteland from a first-person perspective.

"Interesting. In that case, I shall take a good look at what good things are hidden in this so-called source of strangeness."

Without any hesitation, Lu Li directly separated a wisp of pure Emperor-level divine consciousness, which, following the inexplicable connection, entered the depths of Lu Xueyao's sea of ​​consciousness without any hindrance.

Lu Xueyao, who was cautiously exploring the withered forest in the Eternal Night Wasteland, paused slightly as she felt a warmth between her brows.

Before she could react, Lu Li's familiar voice rang in her mind.

"Xueyao, go about 500 meters to your left front at a 45-degree angle. There is a low-lying area covered by dead trees there."

Upon hearing this voice, Lu Xueyao's eyes immediately lit up with surprise.

"Brother! Is that you? You've been watching me the whole time?"

"it's me."

Lu Li's divine sense swept across the surrounding terrain for dozens of miles in an instant from a god-like perspective: "In that low-lying area, there grows a rare and wondrous fruit in the cultivation world—the Thousand-Year Dragon Blood Fruit."

"Although you have just entered the Body Tempering Realm, your foundation is still shallow and you have not yet reached the Abstaining from Grains Realm."

This dragon blood fruit not only provides you with a satisfying feeling of fullness, but the immense pure yang energy it contains can also help you temper your physical body to the pinnacle of body forging in a very short time, creating golden skin and jade bones!

"Go and pick them immediately, and refine them on the spot!" Lu Li's tone was commanding.

For demonic cultivators, safety is only achieved by converting the resources they consume into power.

"clear!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Lu Xueyao dashed off like an arrow, following the direction her brother had indicated.

Following Lu Li's directions, Lu Xueyao sped along the road.

After passing through a patch of dry bushes, she stopped in a secluded ditch.

In the center of the low-lying area, there grew a short plant that was entirely red.

Among the branches and leaves, there was a fruit that was only the size of a fist.

The surface of this fruit is covered with natural, mysterious patterns. If you look closely, the patterns vaguely resemble a coiled dragon.

The fruit was even surrounded by wisps of pale red blood mist that were visible to the naked eye, and it emitted a strange fruity aroma that made one's blood boil.

This is the wondrous fruit that Lu Li spoke of, the Thousand-Year Dragon Blood Fruit.

At this moment, the viewers in the official Dragon Kingdom live stream also clearly saw this incredible fruit from Lu Xueyao's perspective, and the barrage instantly erupted.

"How...how could something like this grow in this wasteland? It looks so eerie!"

"The red mist looks so eerie; it's a mutated fruit caused by radiation from a strange world! I absolutely mustn't touch it!"

"Yes! Investigators from Bureau 749 warned us before that we shouldn't eat anything related to the supernatural."

Plants tainted with an eerie aura, if ingested, could potentially cause irreversible supernatural mutations, even transforming the inhabitant into a monster controlled by the supernatural!

Despite the barrage of panic and dissuasion, Lu Xueyao had no doubt about her brother's words.

She strode forward and reached out to pick it.

The moment the dragon blood fruit detached from the branch, a grand system notification once again resounded in the minds of people all over the world in the blue sky.