CHAPTER 392: CHAPTER 379: IS THIS TRAP TAILORED SPECIFICALLY?

Orange Grandpa who was picking his nose suddenly sensed someone’s gaze upon him and swiftly turned his head to see Liang Yi’s inquisitive little eyes.

"What’re you lookin’ at, meow?"

"You haven’t noticed anything different about me lately?" Liang Yi, facing Orange Grandpa’s somewhat disdainful eyes, thought about it and decided to ask more tactfully. Otherwise, saying it outright would only get him mercilessly teased by Orange Grandpa.

"Huh? Different, meow?" Orange Grandpa was stunned. Had this guy gone dumb? But since Liang Yi had brought it up, their relationship demanded that he take a good look.

With this thought, Orange Grandpa put down his paw and gave Liang Yi a serious once-over from head to toe.

"No change at all, even if you’ve become dumber I wouldn’t be able to tell, meow."

"Hey, you cat..." Liang Yi was lost for words, feeling that the reward was just bizarre.

They were currently staying in a cave on an island tens of thousands of miles away from the ambush site, and they prepared a full array of talismans and formations to hide their aura, so they were not worried about being discovered by Jia Xian.

Next to them, Liu Rouxin was sitting cross-legged, meditating with her eyes closed. Having the Blood Core removed hadn’t affected her at all, but because she didn’t want to see Orange Grandpa, she preferred to immerse her consciousness within herself and went to play with her Blood Sister.

As for Su Youyi, she was seizing the time to cultivate and comprehend sword techniques, her attitude being completely opposite to the idle Liang Yi and Orange Grandpa.

"How much longer do we have to wait, meow? I haven’t had dried fish for days." Because of the generally high temperatures in the territory of the Blood Control Sect, Orange Grandpa was already hot enough to lie on a rock sticking out his tongue.

What made Orange Grandpa even more desperate was that he had already finished his stockpile of dried fish treats, making this period feel like sheer torture!

"It shouldn’t take too much longer, right?" Liang Yi stopped thinking about the mission reward and turned his head to check his experience panel.

Thanks to the players’ tireless efforts, his previously depleted experience reserve was once again substantial. Even due to the bonus reward from the previous sect mission, his experience points were increasing at a terrifying speed.

This was all the players from every Super Force uniting to help Liang Yi store up experience—this efficiency was virtually like cheating!

If it weren’t for the fact that it wasn’t suitable to cause too much commotion at the moment, Liang Yi would have considered power-leveling by leaps and bounds, Wan Wan.

It’s also fortunate that some mission panels and NPC privileges exist, saving Liang Yi from having his spirit crushed by eight-digit level and skill experience point requirements.

Letting him do missions and farm dungeons for experience and leveling now would be a massive headache to even think about. Leveling is fun for a moment, but storing up experience is a tear-inducing process.

While Liang Yi was allocating experience to his experience points and level, a transmission from tens of thousands of miles away clearly sounded in the cave.

"He’s here!"

Su Youyi, who was cultivating, Liu Rouxin, who was chatting with her Blood Demon about colors within herself, and Orange Grandpa lying on a rock, all perked up energetically.

Tens of thousands of miles away, on the island.

Deformed Jia Xian, wrapped in blood and malice, holding a broken broadsword, suddenly appeared over the island, without any trace of his arrival. Confusion heavy in his eyes, Jia Xian seemed to be unable to comprehend what the problem was.

In his perception, there was an irresistible attraction on this island, and incredibly, this temptation was coming from the Blood Demon!

Liu Rouxin’s possession by the Blood Demon was a secret known only to Xu Yi and Liu Yishou within the Blood Control Sect, which Jia Xian was actually unaware of.

Xu Yi originally planned to tell no one, allowing this secret to be known only between him and Liu Rouxin.

But Liu Yishou, who had always treated Liu Rouxin as his granddaughter, keenly noticed something was amiss with her. Under his persistent questioning, Xu Yi finally revealed the truth to Liu Yishou.

With Jia Xian’s intellect at the time, he didn’t notice anything amiss here. But as a cultivator of the Eighth Realm, he vaguely sensed there might be some danger.

The instinct of a cultivator was warning him, but he didn’t expect that this master wouldn’t use his brain at all; he didn’t consider the danger whatsoever.

After only a brief moment of hesitation, Jia Xian charged straight towards the red light at the peak of the island.

The irresistible temptation was right there!

And when he saw the fiery red crystal stone atop the mountain, his eyes were completely fixed on it, unable to look away.

Although the object in front of him had no fluctuations of spiritual power, he knew that consuming it would bring immeasurable benefits, even saying it could directly change his current situation!

In an excited state, Jia Xian’s already limited intelligence was further reduced, and he didn’t even think to simply investigate his surroundings before heading straight towards the red crystal in front of him.

"I originally thought this trap posed a risk, but now it seems I didn’t understand deeply enough," Xu Yi, hiding in the shadows, touched his hair, finding the situation was going incredibly smoothly to an almost unbelievable extent.

"The rules of conduct in this state shouldn’t be assessed by normal reasoning," Liu Yishou, also in hiding, did not expect things to go so smoothly either. They had been dealing with Jia Xian for so long, yet not even a Demon Clan Young Master who had hardly interacted with him understood him better—truly embarrassing!

"Shh, he’s starting," Zhou Yuqing, who had been closely watching Jia Xian, made a silencing gesture.

Xu Yi and Liu Yishou’s gazes sharpened as they looked towards Jia Xian on the island.

Jia Xian casually put away his broken great sword and then reached out to grab the floating crystal stone in front of him.

Jia Xian, who had just grasped the crystal stone, looked somewhat dumbfounded, even lifting it up and observing it several times, as if confused and unsure how to use it.

He just felt a strong temptation from the object, but had forgotten how to use it.

This situation continued until Xu Yi and others in the shadows were getting anxious, almost wishing they could appear and give a hint, when the opportunity for a change finally presented itself.

Jia Xian seemed to suddenly understand, grasping the red crystal stone, no bigger than half his fingernail, in his right hand, while his left hand reached straight for his throat.

Similar to Liu Rouxin’s extraction of the Blood Core, the same glowing light emanated from the extraction site, and the Blood Core was slowly drawn out.

With the extraction of the Blood Core, Jia Xian’s aura noticeably weakened, the blood energy in his body greatly diminished, and a sinister aura instantly enveloped his entire body.

If it were a regular Blood Demon, even the extraction of the Blood Core wouldn’t cause such a drastic weakening, but Jia Xian became a Blood Demon solely because of that Blood Core, so without it, he became severely weakened.

"Get ready..." Xu Yi in hiding touched the knife in his hand, preparing to seize the moment and end this disgusting existence once and for all, preferably leaving no corpse behind.