Proving Immortality Starting with Hextech Runes

A few days later, Chen Xu reappeared in Blackstone Valley.

This time he was alone, draped in a moon-veil.

Concealed by the gauze robe, his aura and figure almost blended into the surrounding jagged rocks, silently slipping into the deep cave.

He soon reached the bottom of the cave.

His gaze was fixed on the spot where he had last sensed the Crimson Blood Rat, which had suddenly appeared and then mysteriously disappeared.

"This is it," Chen Xu thought to himself, stopping a few feet away from the corner.

He once again extended his divine sense, carefully scanning that seemingly unremarkable corner.

The feedback from the consciousness was clear and normal, and no energy fluctuations were perceived.

Chen Xu frowned, his doubts deepening.

To verify this, he subtly manipulated a tiny, inconspicuous grain of sand at his feet.

Guided by his will, the sand drifted slowly toward that corner.

Just as the sand was about to touch the ground, it suddenly vanished into thin air.

"There's definitely something wrong!" Chen Xu thought with suspicion.

The scene before him was completely beyond his comprehension.

There were no energy fluctuations, no signs whatsoever—how was this possible?!

At this moment, he really wanted to reach out and touch that strange area to find out what was going on, but he was also afraid that the situation inside was unclear.

If you touch it rashly, who knows what might happen?

After some thought, Chen Xu decided to wait until the Crimson Blood Rat swarm emerged before making any further plans.

Once the decision was made up, he no longer hesitated.

Using the moon-veil as cover, she arrived at a recess in the rock wall at the bottom of the cave.

He concealed his aura to the extreme, and at the same time, he held several talismans in his palm, ready to be activated at any time.

Time passed slowly, and the chill in the cave seemed to grow even stronger.

Just then, at the edge of that eerie corner, the air seemed to distort very slightly.

With a faint, eerie blue light flashing by, a crimson rat appeared out of thin air in that strange corner.

"They're out as expected..." Chen Xu thought to himself, silently observing everything.

The moon-veil perfectly concealed his entire presence.

The crimson rat circled twice quickly at the bottom of the cave, seemingly to confirm its safety, before finally returning to that eerie corner and disappearing from sight.

Immediately afterwards, the rock wall in that corner seemed to come alive and suddenly caved inward.

The next second, countless crimson rats surged out of it like a surging dark red tide.

"Squeak...squeak squeak..."

The ear-piercing hissing sound instantly filled the entire cave.

Hundreds, thousands... their numbers are increasing at an alarming rate.

Chen Xu hid in the shadows of a rock crevice, silently calculating.

Five thousand... seven thousand... ten thousand!!?

No...is this reasonable?

This number far exceeds the scale of Chen Xu's last crackdown.

Moreover, all of these Crimson Blood Rats were at the mid-stage of Qi Refining, and there were even ten rat kings at the late-stage of Qi Refining.

In just a few short years, the strength of the rat population has undergone such a terrifying leap?

This is definitely not a scale that natural reproduction could achieve. What secret does it hold?

Just after the suffocating swarm of rats had fully emerged, Chen Xu keenly detected a slight energy fluctuation.

At the edge of that eerie corner, the air seemed to have been torn open by an extremely fine crack.

The space around the crack was distorted and was rapidly closing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The opportunity was fleeting. Almost at the moment the crack was about to close, Chen Xu used his divine sense to probe into it and was immediately shocked.

It was a much wider cave, and above it, a blood moon the size of a human head floated.

This blood moon is not a physical entity, but rather a strange phenomenon formed by the condensation of some kind of energy.

Wherever the blood-red moonlight reached, the space took on a morbidly distorted appearance.

Beneath this blood moon, a crimson rat was wielding two short swords in a bizarre manner.

Chen Xu's consciousness was locked on that figure, his brain in a state of malfunction.

When the tiny spatial rift completely closed, Chen Xu abruptly withdrew his divine sense and came to his senses.

"What a joke?!" A storm raged in his heart, and he almost thought that his divine sense had misread the situation.

A Crimson Blood Rat at the late stage of Qi Refining was actually wielding two short swords?

This scene is simply too absurd...

"And what about that strange blood moon?"

"Could it be that this Crimson Blood Rat... has awakened a divine innate ability!?"

Upon realizing this possibility, Chen Xu's heart skipped a beat.

Ordinary demonic beasts only have a very small chance of awakening a unique innate divine ability when they reach the Core Formation stage.

And this Crimson Blood Rat in front of us is only at the late stage of Qi Refining, could it have awakened a talent-based divine ability?

Just as Chen Xu was lost in thought, he saw the three rat kings walk to the front of the rat swarm and begin to issue commands:

"Squeak squeak squeak..."

However, thanks to the "Beast Taming and Spirit Communication Technique," Chen Xu was already able to understand what the rats were saying.

"Target: Humanity's sacred fields!"

"After this job, Boss Rat will be able to summon a Foundation Establishment stage Crimson Blood Rat!"

"Then we won't have to hide anymore, let's go!!"

With the final command, the massive swarm of rats instantly surged and then rushed out of the cave.

Chen Xu remained motionless under the protection of the Moon-Hidden Veil, pondering in his heart:

"The Rat Boss... must be that weird Crimson Rat that wields dual swords."

"But judging from what those three rat kings said..."

"Such a massive swarm of crimson rats, all summoned by that rat leader!?"

"It can even summon Crimson Blood Rats in the Foundation Establishment stage?!"

Thinking of this, a glint flashed in Chen Xu's eyes.

"This boss rat must become my spirit pet, at any cost!"

……

After the swarm of crimson rats had all left the cave entrance, the cave returned to a deathly silence.

After confirming that the rat swarm had indeed gone far away, Chen Xu quietly took out a jade slip and immersed his divine sense into it.

Within the jade slip space, Chen Xu's consciousness rapidly coalesced, and then he summoned the phantom of the Rat Boss.

Soon, after experiencing the strength of the Rat Boss, Chen Xu's consciousness returned to his body, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

Although this rat boss is not strong enough, its value is probably far beyond imagination.

"We must take it down!" This thought was unwavering in Chen Xu's mind.

He looked at that strange corner again, and with a slight thought, manipulated a grain of sand to float towards that spot.

This time, the sand fell to the ground without any hindrance.

"Just as I thought, only Boss Rat can actively open that spatial passage..."

It seems the only way to break in is to wait for the Crimson Blood Rat swarm to return.

Chen Xu suppressed his anxiety and closed his eyes to regulate his breathing.

The next morning, the Red Blood Rat swarm finally returned.

However, the rat population has dwindled to just over two thousand.

Of the three late-stage Qi Refining Rat Kings that were originally leading the pack, only one remains.

One of its forelimbs appeared to be badly injured, indicating that it had clearly been through a fierce battle.