Dapo couldn't believe his ears. This senior had kidnapped them and taken them a long distance to simply retrieve a crystal.
He was about to volunteer when his instincts told him that the crystal wasn't simple.
"The blood god demon crystal?" Lu Zheng recognised the red gem from afar.
"You know it?" Adara was surprised.
"Hmm" Lu Zheng nodded. "The blood god demon crystal is the beast core of a blood god, a blood path beast with extremely high battle strength. The blood god is so battle hardened that the muscles in its brain are also used for fighting"
Cui Feng clicked his tongue: "Junior is quite knowledgeable. Why don't you retrieve it?"
Lu Zheng gazed at Cui Feng whose eyes glistened with killing intent. He knew that if he disobeyed the senior, his death would not be simple.
"Okay" Lu Zheng knew better than to argue. He swallowed a Spirit Grade pill and his Qi leaves turned verdant in his aperture again.
His Qi spiked as he approached the blood god demon crystal. As he neared it, his blood became disorderly in his blood vessels.
Golden runes shined in his blood and the feeling disappeared.
Soon, Lu Zheng was already before the blood god demon crystal. When he looked back, he saw that Cui Feng's expression was already tense like he was anticipating something.
Taking a deep breath, Lu Zheng held out his hand to pluck the floating blood god demon crystal.
Just then, a red light shined from the crystal as a formless force of attraction emanated from it.
Lu Zheng felt his own blood drawing till it poured out of the pores of his hand into the blood god demon crystal.
Vermillion Blood was consumed by the blood god demon crystal like an endless abyss as an unmistakable rank ten aura radiated from the gem.
"Rank ten!" Adara and Dapo were stunned by the turn of events.
Rank ten cultivation materials were incredibly rare and now, one was randomly floating before them.
Dapo hated that he did not move out to retrieve the blood god demon crystal.
None of them could see that Lu Zheng's blood was pouring like a waterfall into the gem.
If it were any human that was in Lu Zheng's place, the human would have died from blood loss. Fortunately, Lu Zheng had the Vermillion Bird Race's bloodline.
His blood was many times much more than that of a regular human.
Lu Zheng's blood flowed limitlessly into the demon crystal as he was transfixed at the spot.
"Hold on till it is full!" Cui Feng shouted. His tone was extremely hopeful.
Time flowed like Lu Zheng's blood. After a few hours had passed, the flow of blood stopped and the demon crystal dropped on his pale palm.
"Tcha!"
Space tore mercilessly to reveal a spatial passage.
"Hahahaha. You've done good, junior. You can keep the demon crystal. If karma persists, we shall meet again" With that, Cui Feng jumped into the spatial passage and disappeared.
The secret realm rumbled as spatial rifts tore everywhere. Lu Zheng was extremely dizzy and dark spots danced in his eyes.
Spatial blades tore through the air, cleaving the floating island in two. Lu Zheng was almost split into two clean halves.
"Let's leave! The secret realm is crumbling!" A spatial passage revealed itself behind Adara who had already turned to leave.
Lu Zheng focused his mind and tossed another Spirit Grade pill into his mouth.
His heart beat rigorously as his mind cleared. Vermillion Blood was pumped into his blood vessels.
Executing a special footwork, Lu Zheng left the secret realm with Adara and Dapo.
The scenery morphed and they returned to the large plain that was Flaming Stone Palace.
"We're back" Adara muttered as she sat on the ground. They had narrowly escaped death.
Lu Zheng stored the blood god demon crystal in his spatial ring when a gigantic arm with white fur and sharp claws crossed space and grabbed Lu Zheng.
Under the astonished gazes of Adara and Dapo, Lu Zheng was pulled across space and disappeared from Flaming Stone Palace.