"good."

Ning Qi agreed and continued exploring.

The two walked one after the other through a passageway.

Finally, we arrived at an open area.

At that moment, Ning Qi felt he was seeing a familiar scene.

There are several different passages here.

One of them was the blood pool he had visited before.

He went straight to the secret room, and as expected, it was a pool of blood.

"This is……"

Ning Qi stared wide-eyed at the pool of blood before him.

I never expected to encounter a blood pool.

The difference is that there are no bronze tripods here.

It's just a simple pool of blood.

"What, you've been here before?"

Seeing his surprised expression, Xu Qingqiu couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, I've been to similar places before."

"However, there are some differences. The previous one had a bronze cauldron, but this one has nothing."

Ning Qi shook his head, frowning as he looked at the blood pool before him: "This is strange, how come there's a blood pool here?"

"These blood and qi are still so bright red after all this time, there must be something wrong!"

Looking at the blood pool in front of him, Xu Qingqiu couldn't help but say, "We should be careful. I feel there's something wrong with this blood pool."

"Alright, but I can try it and see if this blood pool is the same!"

Ning Qi nodded, then waved his hand and took out his bronze cauldron.

"Buzz!"

The bronze cauldron emitted a buzzing sound after it appeared.

The blood in the blood pool began to surge and churn.

Like a tide, the surrounding area was instantly filled with waves of bloody energy.

However, it only had a slight smell of blood.

"receive."

Ning Qi let out a low roar and manipulated his bronze cauldron to devour the blood pool below.

"call!"

Immediately afterwards, the bronze cauldron began to unleash a powerful tearing force.

It began to absorb the blood from the blood pool towards this side.

"Whoosh!"

In an instant, the blood in the blood pool surged uncontrollably toward this side.

Startled, Xu Qingqiu stepped back and prepared to defend herself.

"Don't worry, my bronze cauldron is specifically designed to counteract blood pools!"

After offering his words of comfort, Ning Qi turned his attention back to the blood pool.

He discovered that the blood was from the same source as his bronze cauldron.

In other words, this blood may also have come from the bronze cauldron.

Or perhaps they are people from the same clan as the blood in the bronze cauldron.

After they were killed, their blood was taken.

All of these are possible, so is this just talk?

One is cruel enough, and here comes another.

Ning Qi stared at the blood pool, utterly perplexed.

The root cause of this kind of thing can't be traced, since the perpetrators have been dead for who knows how many years.

"Splash!"

After about half an incense stick's time, the blood here had been completely swallowed up.

All that remained was an empty pool of blood.

In the center of this pool, there is also a formation.

There is still spiritual essence within it, which is enhancing and circulating, but it is not activated.

It has no real effect.

"What use would this formation be if activated?"

Xu Qingqiu was somewhat curious, after all, Ning Qi said he had seen this blood pool before.

"I don't know. The blood pool I saw before didn't have this formation."

Ning Qi shook his head, his expression grave: "Let me try to activate this formation and see what happens."

Be careful.

Xu Qingqiu was a little worried and couldn't help but remind him.

"Go wait at the cave entrance, just in case!"

Ning Qi pointed to the cave entrance in this direction and told her to go out and wait.

"I'll be fine here. If there are any problems, I can help you out immediately!"

To everyone's surprise, Xu Qingqiu shook her head, showing no intention of leaving.

Seeing her insistence, Ning Qi didn't say anything.

Instead, he leaped directly to the central formation.

Looking at the formation beneath him, Ning Qi activated his immortal and demonic power.

Then a streak of light converged and shot towards the formation below.

"Bang!"

"Boom..."

The next moment, the instant the formation was struck, the entire formation erupted with countless rays of blazing light.

It was as if blood had been evaporated, suddenly surging towards the top of the cave.

The filling caused the entire secret room to shake.

Within this formation, a thick stream of blood began to surge forth, as if it had been forcibly fused together.

Compared to the blood in the blood pool that Ning Qi had seen twice before, this blood was much more concentrated.

"Watch out!"

Xu Qingqiu reminded Ning Qi from outside, "Come out first!"

"Don't worry, there's no danger!"

Ning Qi waved to her, then continued to focus his attention on the blood pool in front of him.

At this point, the blood pool began to churn with blood.

The blood flowed gurglingly, as if it were being steamed, and gradually solidified.

"What happened?"

Ning Qi thought to himself, and at the same time summoned the bronze cauldron: "Go!"

They wanted the bronze cauldron to continue absorbing the blood here.

In any case, these can all be stored, and when there is time in the future, we can explore the blood in this bronze cauldron to see what its purpose is.

"call!"

"prick!"

As expected, the blood here was successfully absorbed by the bronze cauldron.

This bronze cauldron seemed to have a natural ability to restrain the blood, making it utterly vulnerable in its presence.

"call!"

After about an hour, all the blood in the area was finally absorbed.

Even the previous formations have dimmed, and the spiritual essence that activated them has been consumed and lost its luster.

"What's the use of this? There's no response at all!"

Seeing this, Xu Qingqiu, who was standing to the side, couldn't help but look puzzled.

"I don't know, but I always feel like it must be useful for something!"

"I'll take a good look at this when we get back!"

Ning Qi shook his head and then walked out.

"Let's go then!"

Xu Qingqiu glanced at Ning Qi, then turned and left.

Ning Qi followed closely behind, and the two of them soon returned to the outside.

Once they reached the street, they saw Yaoling.

"Master, have you discovered anything?"

When Yao Ling saw the two of them come out, she couldn't help but ask.

"Nothing was found!"

Xu Qingqiu sighed: "Have you noticed?"

"No, I've searched the whole place, and I haven't found anything!"

"This place has clearly been ransacked!"

Yao Ling shook her head and looked at Ning Qi: "Master, I feel that once we reach the next place, we can give up on any place where our divine sense cannot detect any treasures!"

"Even if this group of people didn't loot this place, the previous group or even people from a long time ago have already looted it."

"Yes, you're right, we don't need to waste any more time!"

Ning Qi nodded after hearing Yao Ling's suggestion and pointed to the area ahead: "There aren't many continental fragments left here!"

"Let's finish this quickly and try to get out of here as soon as possible."

"good!"

Xu Qingqiu readily agreed.

"Let's get started!"

Seeing that the two hit it off immediately, Yao Ling jumped for joy.

The nine-tailed cat on Xu Qingqiu's shoulder still looked sleepy.

Disturbed by the medicine spirit, he slightly opened his eyes to take a look.

He then continued to rest on her shoulder.

"Walk!"

Ning Qi waved his hand and then leaped into the air.

They arrived in the void and began to work together with Xu Qingqiu.

The two of them spread their divine senses and explored all the fragments of the continent they passed through.

There was no sign of any treasures; they were simply passed by.

They moved swiftly, and after exploring almost all the fragments of the continent on the edge of the region, they arrived at one of the fragments.

This continent was much larger than any they had encountered before.

If it weren't for the fact that there's a border area here, it could already be called a piece of land.

"This... this is impossible to investigate. I feel there are restrictions on it, and our divine sense will be blocked."

Xu Qingqiu hovered in the void, looking at the continent before him.

A look of shock crossed her pretty face.

Discovering this continent here is undoubtedly a huge achievement.

With a larger area comes more opportunities, but there will always be places that are overlooked.

"We could go and investigate to see what's going on."

Ning Qi looked at the continent before him, turned his head and said with a smile, "How about it, give it a try?"

"Of course, while no one else is coming yet, we might just stumble upon some opportunities!"

Xu Qingqiu nodded and took the lead in flying downwards.

"Whoosh!"

Ning Qi didn't hesitate and jumped down with him.

In the blink of an eye, the two had already landed on this continent.

"call!"

This is a grassland, which at the end turns into a continuous mountain range, and there are many hills at the junction of the two areas.

They don't look very big, but there are many of them, and they are very densely packed.

"Let's go."

Ning Qi waved, signaling Xu Qingqiu to follow.

"Strange, the restrictions here prevent us from flying."

Xu Qingqiu tried several times, but could only fly at low altitudes.

He couldn't help but sigh.

"Wouldn't that be even better? It would be impossible to quickly loot the treasures here now!"

"On the contrary, we will have a chance!"

Ning Qi smiled, then looked ahead: "The people here are really generous; they've actually set up restrictions on the entire continent."

"Let's go, I want to see what treasures await us with such a grand gesture."

Xu Qingqiu quickened her pace.

"Master, I have a feeling there's treasure here. We won't waste our time anymore."

The spirit of medicine hovered in mid-air and said with deep agreement.

"Stay close, it could be dangerous here at any moment!"

Ning Qi glanced at Yao Ling, then continued, "Let me see what's going on here!"

"good!"

After Yao Ling agreed, she started circling around Ning Qi.

Ning Qi and Xu Qingqiu continued their journey along the grassland.

An hour later, the two finally arrived at the hilly area.

"call!"

Xu Qingqiu let out a long sigh and looked ahead.

After passing the hilly area, we reached the mountain range.

"Once we get to the mountain, let's find a high peak and see what lies at the end of the mountain range!"

"My view is blocked here, I can't see anything!"

Ning Qi also stood on a hill, gazing into the distance.

Only by standing tall can you see far.

Their view here is completely blocked by the mountains in front of them.

We couldn't see what was behind the mountains at all, and we had no idea what was going on.

"Okay, let's go!"

Xu Qingqiu nodded and then continued to lead the way.

"Master, I feel like these hills are moving!"

After the two had walked for a while, Yao Ling suddenly noticed something.

So, he flew over and spoke to Ning Qi.

Those little hands were pointing at the hills on the ground, gesturing wildly to Ning Qi.

"Oh? Are you sure you didn't see it wrong?"

Ning Qi smiled upon hearing his words.

They don't care at all.

With so many hills here, it's easy to get lost while walking around.

They would assume that these hills are moving.

"He seems to be right, these hills are indeed moving!"

However, before Yao Ling could explain, Xu Qingqiu spoke up.

"It's moving?"

Ning Qi became curious after hearing her words.

If Yao Ling was mistaken, it's impossible for both of them to be mistaken.

Ning Qi then leaped into the air and looked down at the hills below.

At first, we didn't notice anything, but gradually we realized that these hills were indeed moving.

Although it's slow, it can still move eventually.

"See? I wasn't lying to you."

Seeing Ning Qi's expression turn interesting, Yao Ling raised her chin and said, "They definitely have a problem."

"Hmph, playing tricks."

Ning Qi snorted coldly and took out the Chaos Sword directly.

They were about to deliver a fatal blow to the hills below.

"Don't rush."

However, Xu Qingqiu stopped him.

"What's there to be afraid of? Even if it moves, it'll just be a few hills."

Ning Qi was very interested in these moving hills and wanted to see what was going on.

"They hadn't moved until we arrived. Don't you find that strange?"

Xu Qingqiu looked at Ning Qi with a solemn expression.

"So you mean..."

Ning Qi looked at her and couldn't help but become curious.

"Let's see where these hills lead."

"Or rather, to guide us where to go."

Xu Qingqiu looked at Ning Qi and smiled.

"Huh? Are they leading us away?"

Yao Ling listened to her words and looked at the hills with curiosity.

"Didn't you notice? Only the hills beneath us are moving."

“Every time we go out, these hills move a little.”

"In other words, they want to deliberately lead us to certain places!"

Xu Qingqiu pointed to the hills beneath their feet and said with a smile, "So, we might as well follow the direction of these moving hills."

"Let's see where they end up, shall we?"

"It's all your fault, we didn't even notice!"

Ning Qi looked at Xu Qingqiu and couldn't help but exclaim, "There's strength in numbers!"

"In that case, let's follow them and see where they want to take us."

"Master, what if this... is a trap?"

Yao Ling was a little worried, but she didn't want to offend Xu Qingqiu.

He could only whisper a reminder.

"It's alright, we just won't go if there's danger!"

Ning Qi patted Yao Ling on the shoulder, then landed directly on the hill they had just been on: "Well then, let's follow them and see what's going on!" (End of Chapter)