Proving Immortality Starting with Hextech Runes

Several days later, a valley surrounded by black, strange rocks appeared before Chen Xu's eyes.

The valley entrance was filled with a faint smell of blood and decay, and the spiritual energy was also rather thin.

"Is this Blackrock Valley?"

Chen Xu stood at the entrance of Black Stone Valley, feeling a foul stench wafting towards him.

He wrinkled his nose, then extended his divine sense to explore the valley.

Within a radius of one mile, there are jagged rocks and the ground is sticky and damp.

However, all that could be seen was deathly silence; not a single red-blooded rat could be found.

"Strange..." Chen Xu muttered to himself.

The mission intelligence mentioned that the rat population was huge, and even if they were scattered foraging, the area shouldn't be this clean.

Then Chen Xu cautiously stepped into the valley.

After going several miles deeper, a deep cave entrance, barely wide enough for one person to pass through, appeared below the rock wall, its edges covered with fresh scratches and teeth marks.

Seeing this, Chen Xu thought to himself, "It seems this is the place... but this place is unusually quiet, there might be something fishy going on."

Immediately, he focused his mind and released his divine sense again, extending it into the cave.

The cave entrance was narrow and winding, limiting the range of divine sense's exploration.

Finally, after penetrating a winding and narrow passage, the divine sense arrived at a wide cave.

After exploring the cave, Chen Xu's pupils suddenly contracted.

Inside the cave, countless red lights flickered, and thousands of blood-red rats were densely packed in the central area, creating a terrifying scene.

In the center of the rat swarm, on a stone platform, stood a crimson rat the size of a wild boar, which must have been the Rat King.

However, that rat king actually had the cultivation level of the late stage of Qi Refining, which was much higher than the third level of Qi Refining recorded in the sect.

"hiss..."

Chen Xu gasped, thinking to himself, "The information provided by this sect is way too wrong!"

"However... the fact that these Crimson Blood Rats are so concentrated in one place does save us a lot of trouble..."

He frowned slightly, analyzing the possibility of wiping out this group of Crimson Blood Rats:

"If I unleash a barrage of talismans, I can probably kill nearly 30% of the Crimson Blood Rats."

"If the rats are startled and scattered after just one strike, then we'll be in trouble..."

Just as Chen Xu was planning how to safely evacuate after the surprise attack.

The rat king suddenly twisted and pulled out a fist-sized yellow crystal from under its body, clutching it tightly to its chest.

"This is... a topaz?! And it's such a big piece!"

Chen Xu was shocked and instantly recognized the object.

This yellow crystal is a top-grade spiritual material that can be used to cultivate the skin-refining chapter of the "Mysterious Bone True Demon Art".

It can not only greatly accelerate the skin refining process, but also solidify the foundation and enhance the body refining effect.

In the outside world, a fist-sized piece of topaz is always highly sought after but rarely available.

At this moment, Chen Xu looked at the yellow crystal and fell into deep thought.

"The original plan was to first bombard a group of Crimson Blood Rats with talismans, and then quickly retreat."

"After several rounds of this, these Crimson Blood Rats will be unable to cause any more trouble."

"However... that topaz is too fragile; if it is accidentally damaged, its energy will dissipate rapidly..."

"Since a direct assault won't work, then we'll have to rely on this..." In a flash, Chen Xu had already come up with a plan.

He took out a translucent fabric, as thin as a cicada's wing, from his storage bag.

This item was obtained from Xiao Muwan's storage bag and named "Moonlight Veil" by Chen Xu.

After he draped the Moon-Hidden Veil over himself, his figure quickly became blurred and transparent, and his aura was completely concealed.

However, the Rat King was quite powerful, and rats have an exceptionally keen sense of smell and hearing, which made Chen Xu somewhat uneasy.

He then took out two lightness talismans and one concealment talisman and stuck them on his body.

Having prepared, Chen Xu took a deep breath and silently stepped into the deep cave entrance.

The cave is winding and narrow, with slippery rock walls.

Chen Xu held his breath and carefully descended.

The few red-blooded rats he encountered along the way did not notice his presence.

After a series of close calls, Chen Xu finally made his way to the bottom of the cave and stood on the outer edge of the terrifying swarm of rats.

Before them stretched a dense swarm of crimson rats.

The Rat King's enormous body lay on the central stone platform, its paws clutching the yellow crystal, seemingly pondering how to bite into it.

Chen Xu's gaze was fixed on the yellow crystal, and he sighed inwardly:

"Sigh... the range of the Green Wood Talisman's telekinetic abilities is limited; it seems we'll have to force our way in..."

Then Chen Xu's gaze sharpened slightly, and without further hesitation, a thought suddenly occurred to him.

The lightness talisman attached to his body was activated instantly, and he immediately used Shadow Step to rush forward.

Chen Xu's figure left a faint afterimage in place, and in the blink of an eye, he rushed to the front of the Rat King.

"squeak!!!"

Almost at the same time that Chen Xu's aura erupted, the surrounding Crimson Blood Rats let out sharp hissing.

Immediately afterwards, thousands of Crimson Blood Rats were startled, and their scarlet eyes all turned to Chen Xu.

On the stone platform, the Crimson Blood Rat King reacted with astonishing speed.

Its scarlet eyes instantly locked onto the figure rushing towards it, and its violent demonic power erupted in an instant.

However, just as the Crimson Blood Rat King was about to pounce on Chen Xu, an invisible shock entered its mind without warning!

"squeak!!!"

The Rat King's scarlet eyes suddenly rolled back, his body stiffened abruptly, and he crashed onto the stone platform.

Seeing that he had killed the Rat King with one blow, Chen Xu's thoughts raced: "Sure enough, apart from some exceptionally talented demons, the souls of most demons are far weaker than those of human cultivators of the same level."

"This Concentrated Spirit Thrust is practically a dimensional reduction attack against a Rat King in the late Qi Refining stage!"

While thinking to himself, Chen Xu moved swiftly, catching the yellow crystal that was about to fall and putting it into his storage bag.

At the same time, his other hand was not idle either. With a flash of cold light, the Hidden Bitter Sword cleanly and neatly cut off the Rat King's two huge fangs and took them in at the same time.

The mission is complete, and we even found topaz; the gains from this trip have far exceeded our expectations...

However, the anticipated chaotic scene of the rat king dying suddenly and the rats scattering and fleeing without their leader did not occur.

The moment the Rat King fell to the ground, thousands of Crimson Blood Rats in the entire cave went completely berserk and lunged at Chen Xu.

Upon seeing this, Chen Xu felt a chill run down his spine.

"Seriously?! Are these rats really this united?"

He couldn't help but make a complaint before quickly drawing his Hidden Bitter Sword.

After all, the range of Concentration Strike is limited, and it consumes a lot of spiritual energy.

Even if you can wipe out a whole group, it's like a drop in the ocean compared to the swarms of rats rushing in like a tidal wave.

At this moment, he was surrounded by rats rushing towards him. If he used talismans to bombard them, he could easily injure himself and it would be difficult to guarantee that he could escape unscathed.

"It seems our only option is to fight our way out in close combat!"

Once the thought was made up, a fierce glint flashed in Chen Xu's eyes.

He gripped the Hidden Bitter Sword tightly in his right hand and frantically poured spiritual power into the blade.

The sword hummed and instantly unleashed a beam of light.

"Get out of my way!!"