The essence of human beings and the dangerous ebony

The dark and windy night is just right for doing some important things, such as gathering together... to practice.

This place is roughly similar to an altar, with a high terrain and built on the top of a cliff. The moon in the beast world is already big, and sitting here, it feels like the moon is sticking above your head.

Beasts of all shapes and sizes gathered here, and their pupils reflected strange lights. At first glance, they looked like ghostly will-o'-the-wisp fires floating in the night.

The wolf king stood at the highest point of the altar and began to say a series of sacrificial words praising the beast god. Qin Ruqing thought they would absorb the moonlight and start practicing next, but the wolf king took the lead in dancing again.

Qin Ruqing: ...

What's even more difficult is that the beasts also followed suit and danced. The head and feet swayed in unison, seemingly chaotic, but inexplicably with a wild rhythmic beauty.

Qin Ruqing looked up the meaning of this dance from the beast soul memory, which was usually a sacrificial dance that accompanied a sacrifice.

This really embarrassed her with uncoordinated limbs. Qin Ruqing put on a wooden tiger face and danced with both hands and feet. She glanced

around with her peripheral vision.

The green snake twisted its waist and seemed to be able to barely keep up with the rhythm;

the black panther's movements were like slow movements, and it took three reactions for each movement. It could be felt that this dance was a great test for him.

The big insect was even more miserable. Others had four legs, but he had eight legs, and he was in a mess.

Every move of the pangolin was full of reluctance.

And the little white rabbit? Because of her petite figure, she was strictly blocked by other animals, which was a good opportunity for her to fish in troubled waters.

Qin Ruqing withdrew the remaining light and grinned. Although he felt that this dance was incomprehensible, it was worth it to see the few funny looks of his companions.

Qin Ruqing thought that such dances were usually just a face-saving project, but he didn't expect that after the wolf king finished dancing, the surroundings actually changed.

The huge moon in the sky exuded a light that did not belong to the moon - Qin Ruqing felt that it was a little weird. When the light stopped, Qin Ruqing noticed that the altar was foggy.

It was the moon, misting down.

Qin Ruqing was at a loss, but when she inhaled the white mist into her body without realizing it, she shuddered all over again - it was refreshing.

Is this the feeling of drinking elixir? Do the beastmen have such good things?

Qin Ruqing concluded from her past memories that the white mist was called Moonlight.

Moonlight helps the beastmen in their practice.

The beastmen often have desires for riots and bloodthirstiness. They like to fight, partly to compete for resources and status, and partly to release the manic feeling in their minds.

Moonlight will calm them down.

It feels like their "beastly nature" is suppressed by external forces, and they finally gain a short but clear thinking ability.

This feeling is simply perfect for a good night's sleep, Qin Ruqing sighed. But the beasts obviously thought that this rare moment of peace should be used for cultivation.

They took out the human blood essence they hunted and poured it into the beasts' mouths, then fell to the ground drunkenly as if they had drunk fake wine, and cultivated while absorbing the moonlight.

Of course, the humans felt uncomfortable when they saw this scene. Qin Ruqing saw that the beasts sitting next to her were already fidgeting and began to give her looks.

Drink or not? The big eyes staring at her conveyed such emotions.

Qin Ruqing blinked at them suddenly, turned her body, and faced them sideways to make sure that her movements were not blocked and could clearly enter her companions' field of vision.

All the human blood essence she had collected floated up at once, and then poured into her mouth with a gurgling sound.

Qin Ruqing's action showed it clearly, of course, drinking!

Qin Ruqing drank a lot.

Part of it was from the hunting of the rock tiger himself, he was quite powerful and had the support of a big family.

Another part, of course, was the hush money handed over by the green-eyed wolf.

Qirong and the others dropped their jaws in shock, but they already understood what Qin Ruqing meant. They

must drink.

In this situation, if they don't drink, they will become aliens.

Yes, it's just drinking human blood.

It's the beast they possessed that drank it, not them. Even if they don't drink it and are found out, they will lose their lives.

Being in the beast world, they will die if they are discovered, and they will have nowhere to run.

The Zifeng brand black panther was the first to respond to Qin Ruqing, and the second to drink the blood essence; followed by the pangolin, the green snake...

Qin Ruqing no longer cared to look at the tangled expressions of her companions. She was carefully experiencing the reaction of the beasts drinking human blood.

She had also drunk beast blood in the illusion before, and the feeling at that time was just that beast blood could greatly strengthen the body.

Why now, it seems that the human blood essence seems to have a different effect on the beasts?

As soon as the human blood essence entered the beast body, it didn't take long for a feeling of discomfort to come, not the discomfort of the body and meridians, but the spirit.

A huge repulsive force erupted in the brain, as if to repel this power that did not belong to the beast body.

Qin Ruqing only knew the effect of Yuehua at this moment. The brain felt like it was being pricked by needles. Normal beasts are naturally irritable and agitated. If they were pricked like this, they would definitely go berserk.

She had to rely on the moonlight to calm her mind and shock her brain before she could withstand this force. After getting over the discomfort, Qin Ruqing discovered something different. It was hard to describe, but it seemed that at a certain moment - the sky was clearer, the moon was brighter, the laws of the world had an extra connection with her, and the shackles that restricted her seemed to have been broken a little. Although it was only a little. If this kind of spiritual realization was too abstract and profound, then the increase in power in the beast core was quite intuitive. The memories that Qin Ruqing retrieved from the beast core told her that this absorption was equivalent to one or two months of cultivation for the original beast. Could this be the reason why the beasts kept attacking humans? Why didn't humans have such a big effect when they absorbed the blood of the beasts? Could it be that the activation method was wrong? Qin Ruqing had already absorbed everything, but seeing that the other beasts were still immersed in the moonlight, he had to pretend to follow suit.

When the moonlight ended, some of the beasts lay down on the altar and fell asleep, while others got up and left.

Qin Ruqing gave the team a look, and the seven beasts got up and left the altar.

Fortunately, they belonged to the same patrol team, so they would not attract the attention of the beasts if they acted together. The only remaining green-eyed wolf was unconscious in sleep, saving Qin Ruqing the effort of explaining.

Qin Ruqing pretended to take his teammates to a sheltered place to rest, but in fact they were exchanging information.

"How do you feel about absorbing the essence and blood of the human race?" Qin Ruqing asked in a voice transmission.

As a result, when these words came out, these people in animal skins showed embarrassment and shame on their faces.

It seemed that as human beings, they actually refined the essence and blood of their own kind, which made them embarrassed.

Qin Ruqing could not help but roll her eyes after seeing through their emotions.

"It was the beast you possessed that absorbed it, not you. Why are you still arguing about it?" Her voice was not loud, but it somehow made people feel that she was disappointed that they could not make it.

"Also, I am not asking about your mental state. You are asking how you, as beasts, felt when you were refining human blood!"

Black Panther Xiao Tang was the first to react. He didn't know what was going on and lay down beside Qin Ruqing. At this time, he said in a voice transmission:

"There is a very strong mental impact, which is completely different from the feeling of us humans refining the blood essence of beasts."

The fifth forest pangolin beast also said: "After taking human blood, the speed of beast core cultivation has obviously increased, at least three times the efficiency."

The green snake coiled in a circle, spitting out snake tongue from time to time, "My feeling is similar. What I was more concerned about just now was the moonlight. It is indeed a good thing. It is the gathering of the essence of heaven and earth. Not only for beasts, but also for the cultivation and growth of all things. Some ancient pill recipes use moonlight as a medicine. It's just that the moonlight in the human world is difficult to collect except in some special secret realms. But the moonlight in the beast world can be summoned through special means?"

"This is indeed a strange thing." Qin Ruqing pondered for a while, "Besides this, you don't have any other feelings?"

Qirong and Xiaofenhua just shook their heads.

Tang Zifeng asked sharply: "You have different feelings, right?"

"I don't know if it's different. Maybe you have too, but the feeling is not obvious. After all, I have consumed the most human blood essence. The conditions are different, so we can't compare directly."

After a pause, Qin Ruqing still said what she felt strange.

"I feel that some shackles in my body seem to have been broken. Although only a little bit."

Qin Ruqing's voice transmission resounded directly in everyone's mind.

The voice was obviously very calm, but it inexplicably carried a kind of power that made people feel heavy. It seemed that something that had been lurking for a long time was hidden in these words, waiting for them to discover.

Finally, Little Pink Flower broke the silence. She said in her usual weak voice:

"It's a bit scary. But from what I heard, it seems that the beasts have many benefits from absorbing human blood, more than humans absorbing beast blood. So, is this the reason why they keep launching beast tides?" "

Maybe." Qin Ruqing only gave a brief answer.

She saw that this issue could not be discussed to a conclusion for a while, so she turned to the most important one, "The discovery of refining blood essence is an unexpected gain, but don't forget our ultimate goal in coming to the beast world."

"Tianxing Mountain Blood Pool!" Lu Wei and others looked at each other and said in unison.

Qirong couldn't help but ask, "Well, we are also qualified to enter the blood pool, right? Then, should we enter or not?"

Theoretically, they were here to investigate, and only by experiencing it personally could they know what was going on.

But if you think about it carefully, the blessing of the "Beast God" - something related to the Beast God, it makes people shudder just thinking about it.

Even if there is no Beast God, it must involve some forbidden technique of the Beast Tribe. They have human souls stuffed in their bodies, and if they really enter the blood pool, it will feel no different from exposing themselves.

God knows what will happen.

What Qirong can think of, Qin Ruqing must have thought of too. She pondered for a while and said only four words.

"Act according to circumstances!"

When the morning light just brightened the sky, the Wolf King announced that the team would set out again.

Last night's collective training seemed to have given the beasts a shot of stimulant, and they were obviously eager to accept the blessing.

The beasts' way of traveling is very simple, just relying on running.

But they also have some special auxiliary means, which is a kind of magical leaf. When you hold it in your mouth, you will have the effect of being as light as a swallow, which can make your steps faster.

Their group of 100 beasts just held the leaves and ran all the way to Tianxing Mountain.

The foot of Tianxing Mountain can be described as a "mountain of beasts and sea of ​​beasts".

These beasts keep a little space between each other, but their movements are very unified - their bodies are all facing in one direction, their heads are slightly raised, and their eyes are staring at the top of the mountain stubbornly and fanatically.

It's like a grand pilgrimage.

Qin Ruqing sighed in his heart.

But after worshipping for a long time, Qin Ruqing didn't even see the object of "worship". Her patience was gradually lost and she began to get impatient.

She asked the green-eyed wolf next to her: "When will our blessing ceremony start?"

The green-eyed wolf treated her like a father because of her performance in helping him pass the test several times before. He quickly replied:

"When the sun moves to the top of the mountain, Prince Wumu will probably come out to represent the Beast God and tell the Beast God of his kindness to our people. After that, we will probably have to hold another round of elections, and the people who are finally elected can go up the mountain and enter the blood pool."

Prince Wumu? Qin Ruqing thought of the horned young man she had seen in Guixu before.

Such an important event was hosted by a prince?

But if the Beast King is very busy, it seems normal to ask his son to do things?

"Another round of selection, or another fight?" Qirong stretched out a bug leg and poked the green-eyed wolf, causing the green-eyed wolf to glare at him unhappily.

"Not necessarily!" The green-eyed wolf still replied to the rude bug, "We have been carefully selected, and there is not much point in fighting again. Maybe we can ask the Lord Beast God to choose his favorite people himself?"

When he said the words "favored people", the green-eyed wolf had a dreamy look on his face, and it was obvious that he really hoped that this chosen beast would be himself.

Qin Ruqing and the others ignored his strange expression and looked at each other secretly.

The Beast God personally selected?

Could it be that the beast god of their beast world is really alive?

When the sun rose to the top of Tianxing Mountain, the prince Wumu really came out.

Before entering Guixu, he used the image of half-human and half-beast, but now in the beast world, he is completely in beast form.

The beasts worship hugeness, but the beast form of this prince Wumu is just the size of an ordinary beast. However, the pair of horns growing on both sides of the head are raised high to the sky, like a symbol of some kind of power.

Wumu began to speak on behalf of the beast god. Qin Ruqing didn't pay much attention to what he said. Her attention was completely on Wumu's eyes.

Pure scarlet color.

She couldn't help but start to recall, were Wumu's eyes so red when he was in Guixu?

I don't know if it's because the sun on the top of the mountain is too dazzling, but even at such a long distance, Qin Ruqing feels that the ebony seems a little dangerous.

Was the ebony like this before?

Before Qin Ruqing could think about it carefully, the scarlet eyes seemed to have sensed something, and suddenly swept in the direction of Qin Ruqing.

Her heart skipped a beat, and a huge sense of crisis instantly spread throughout her body, making her blood cool and her adrenaline surge.

Qin Ruqing's instinct was higher than her thinking, and she subconsciously made a move - lowered the beast's head and kowtowed devoutly.

There were many beasts who did the same as her, and Qin Ruqing was not conspicuous among them.

And this action also allowed her to successfully avoid the scarlet gaze.

The beast's pupils did indeed pause for a moment in the direction of Qin Ruqing, and after noticing anything unusual, they finally slowly moved away.

Qin Ruqing kept her head down and stared at the ground with a calm expression.

She was now certain of one thing -

that "ebony" was not just a little dangerous.

It was really, really dangerous!