Heavenly Ranking

Chapter 62 Discovery
"Have I been lured by a monster?"

As Ji Fuyou recalled the unusual behavior of Blood Bat No. 2, an incredible thought popped into his mind.

That blood bat...

It seems they're deliberately luring the enemy in deep to hunt them down!

Mythical beasts...

Such wisdom!?

They even cooperate in groups!?
However, now is clearly not the time to consider these issues.

Each blood bat has a physical strength stat of over 20 points, and possesses the strength of several tons with every move.

Their sharp claws, in particular, are no less powerful than steel knives.

In a one-on-one fight, a well-prepared assassin wouldn't be difficult, but when more than a handful of blood bats swarm in...

With his small frame of only 12.2 meters, if he were to be hit by a knife by someone with the strength of at least one ton, he would definitely be torn apart and shattered into several pieces.

go!
"Dang! Dang! Dang!"

The discordant sounds of the chime bells echoed continuously throughout the cave.

Ji Fuyou's spiritual perception was stimulated to the extreme.

He had prepared no fewer than three hiding places for himself along the way, but the chase for Blood Bat No. 2 was too fast and too urgent, so the nearest hiding place was more than 700 meters away!

The blood bats have already arrived, numbering as many as eight. It will be difficult for him to cross this 700-meter distance while being surrounded and attacked by eight blood bats!

The only way...

"Buzz!"

A circle of sword intent erupted from Ji Fuyou's body.

The sudden surge of sharpness made the nearest blood bats feel threatened, causing them to pause slightly in their attack.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ji Fuyou rushed out with great speed, bursting out at the maximum.

In mental perception...

The fog in that direction thinned.

According to what we understand...

The strange beasts rarely leave the mist-shrouded land.

"call out!"

Following this line of thought, Ji Fuyou suddenly erupted.

With the release of his power, his speed per second soared to over 10 meters.

This was even under the circumstances where the chimes needed to be activated to interfere with the blood bats' pursuit, and the running posture was not standard.

100 meters, 200 meters, 300 meters...

When Ji's floating spirit was stimulated to its extreme, carrying the burst of sword intent and the interference of the chime bells, and doing his best to evade the pursuit of 8 blood bats and cross more than 300 meters, the fog in front of him suddenly cleared.

Rushed out!

Almost as soon as he burst out of the mist, the blood bats that had been relentlessly pursuing him stopped abruptly, squeaking as they went, but ultimately did not chase after him any further.

Gradually……

They disappeared into the light mist.

Ji Fuyou walked further in the direction where the fog thinned out until he was sure it was completely safe before he felt relieved.

He glanced at his injuries.

Even if he pushed his mental perception to its limit, and was interfered with by sword intent and chime bells, the difference in their physical strength was still too great.

Many times, even though he clearly judged the blood bat's attack trajectory, his body was too slow to dodge.

In the end, he could only do his best to avoid fatal blows and watch helplessly as these monsters left wounds on his body.

"The speed is too slow and the explosive power is too poor. I need at least 15 points of physique to barely keep up with the speed of these strange beasts! If it weren't for the interference of sword intent and chime bells, plus my rich experience from fighting hundreds of blood bats in my dream, I would probably be a corpse by now."

As for spiritual mysticism?

His spiritual energy had not yet liquefied, and it would take him at least a second to complete the visualization and condense the demon god before he could cast the Soul-Suppressing Spell.

Given the speed of the blood bats, they would be torn to shreds two or three times in a second by this monster.

Ji Fuyou felt the wound on his chest, the one that had almost torn half his body apart...

"The injuries are severe. If we use conventional methods to recover, it will take at least one or two months! We absolutely need another physical-type source crystal!"

Source Crystals can strengthen the body and promote wound healing.

Of course, this will reduce the enhancement effect of the Source Crystal. Therefore, many people would rather wait until their injuries heal before using the Source Crystal than waste this precious enhancement opportunity.

Ji Fuyou recalled the scene where he had just been attacked by eight blood bats...

"These strange beasts can really hunt in groups... That Blood Bat No. 2... is like a leader, using its mental power to command the other strange beasts to ambush them."

Ji Fuyou was certain of this.

Then he thought of something.

If the beasts issue combat commands through mental communication...

Then, the mental monsters would probably be at the level of minor bosses.

Similar to mutated blood bats...

Big boss?
Commander! ?
As soon as the strange beasts emerge from the mist, they spontaneously gather around the minor leaders and commanders.
The reason he didn't discover this phenomenon on Lion Mountain and the first level of Yellow Dragon Cave was because he killed all the big bosses as soon as they came out.
Many guesses arose in Ji Fuyou's mind.

but……

Now is clearly not the time to consider these issues.

Before the blood bats wander off, we must find as many of the remaining blood bats (numbers 5 and 7) as possible and extract the source crystals from them to heal our injuries.

"Fortunately, Blood Bat No. 2 is dead, so we are no longer at risk of being ambushed."

Ji Fuyou pondered for a moment, then used his mental and physical strength to control his body and quickly stopped the bleeding from the wound.

He even relied on his powerful mental strength to suppress his own perception of pain, avoiding the weakness caused by the pain of the wound.

Having done all this, he set off again, heading towards the mist.

But before he could get out of the fog, he suddenly realized something.

"This is……"

The surroundings were unfamiliar!

But there was a hint of familiarity amidst the unfamiliarity!
This sense of familiarity stems from...

"The dream realm where the skeleton monster resides!"

Ji Fuyou looked around and was surprised to find that he had inadvertently found the location where the skeleton monster was.

"The fifth dream... contains many skeleton monsters. These skeleton monsters are skeletal composites, about two meters tall. The most terrifying one is a blood-red skeleton, nearly three meters tall, wielding two steel forks!"

He compared the scenes in his dream one by one.

Before long, he had confirmed his guess.

"The old man Zhang Heng, who was known for his profound wisdom, once speculated that the cave in this dream was also in Huanglong Mountain, and now it seems that this is indeed the case."

After searching for a while, Ji Fuyou quickly arrived at a location with a huge crack.

This crack is only a dozen meters wide, forming a geological fault in the cave and blocking it from view.

And the depth of the crack...

He wasn't prepared with any detection tools and could only perceive complete darkness!
It's probably at least a hundred meters!

I don't know what's inside.

At least in his dreams, he never ventured deep into that crack.

After observing the edge of the crack for a long time, he returned to a pit more than 200 meters away from the crack.

The pit is over ten meters deep and over twenty meters wide, with a gentle slope.

If he remembered correctly, the blood skeleton crawled out of this pit.

"found it."

Being ambushed by Blood Bat #2 was extremely dangerous, but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as it led to the discovery of the Blood Skull's location.

The fog hasn't spread yet...

Judging by the timeframe, it should be about half a month from now, or at most twenty-odd days from now.

Ji Fuyou calmed his mind and carefully surveyed the area to ensure he had enough materials to construct the dream and activate the Great Dream Scripture before turning his attention back to the mist-shrouded land.

He's been circling around here for hours. Even if the blood bats were blocking the road, it wouldn't have taken this long.

As he was about to re-enter the mist, he couldn't help but look back at the cave.

"To distinguish it, let's give it a name too."

He said, "Let's call it the Third Level of Yellow Dragon Cave."

(End of this chapter)