novelzi Chapter 177: 170: Spiritual Energy Mine
Chapter 177: 170: Spiritual Energy Mine
Chapter 177: Chapter 170: Spiritual Energy Mine
Su Han had transformed the Mother Nest Ancient Tree into an anthropomorphic state, turning it into a dark somber-colored tree person over four meters tall, with crimson eyes standing behind him.
The Blood-winged Alligator Dragon was recalled to the Book of Blood Spirit, to be summoned again after entering the rift in the alternate dimension.
The party wasn’t large, consisting of Bai Qilan, Zhu Xiong, Ye Kailing, and then a team of twenty warriors, all of First Order Upper Grade strength.
The group arrived on the ruins, and the closer they got to the rift in the alternate dimension, the more intensely they could feel the emanation of the powerful spiritual energy.
With such dense spiritual energy, even without using monster injection serum, one could rapidly increase one’s strength until reaching the racial bottleneck of an Angel Envoy.
As Su Han pondered, he suddenly asked, “Do you think it’s possible that the fallen one had advanced to Third Order by fusing with his own Angel Envoy?”
Startled by Su Han’s question, Bai Qilan paused to think for a moment, “It’s not impossible; otherwise, he should have summoned his Angel Envoy to fight you.”
The two did not delve deeper into the issue and set their sights on the rift of the alternate dimension. Su Han’s thoughts stirred, and the four dependents of the Mother Nest Ancient Tree took action first.
They entered the rift one after another, disappearing after entering, followed by the Blood-winged Tiger and Vine Giant Rat from the lineage.
Ten minutes passed without any incidents. Then, Su Han said, “Let’s go in.”
Leading the way, Su Han passed through the rift, and an immediate sensation of warping overcame him. The next moment, a swath of red appeared before him, and he found himself on a strange new land.
The color red seemed to saturate every part of this place, with a sky that flowed with a red glow like a canopy, dark red soil, and a churning crimson sea...
This was a bizarre space, rich in spiritual energy, yet entirely different from the real world.
“Are we on an island?”
Zhu Xiong looked around. Although he couldn’t see the whole picture, all he could see were the red, eerie seas he could extend his sight to.
“Old Zhu, take some people and search around, but be careful not to touch anything randomly.”
The island was filled with too many unusual things; it was best to be cautious.
Zhu Xiong understood this principle, nodded in response, and then signaled his men to start exploring.
With a thought from Su Han, the Blood-winged Tiger and Tree-born Worm were already being directed by him, starting to explore the surroundings simultaneously.
The island was not small; about 4 kilometers in length and 3 kilometers in width, irregularly shaped but covering an area of roughly four to five million square meters, equivalent to hundreds of football fields.
The exploration continued, but after ten minutes, Su Han noticed something off as the spiritual energy started to fluctuate.
His gaze immediately turned to the distant Red Sea, which began to churn like blood. The fluctuations in spiritual energy were stirred by it.
A twisted figure began to emerge from the churning edge of the Red Sea, slowly crawling to the shore and emitting a low growl, revealing the form of a Gray Inferior Demon.
“Swoosh swoosh”
The vines shot over quickly, binding the Gray Inferior Demon quickly, but not immediately killing it.
Bai Qilan frowned and inspected it, saying, “It’s not much different from the Gray Inferior Demons outside, but its strength is a bit weaker, and the keratin hasn’t fully hardened.”
A Red Sea that breeds monsters, such a thing was unheard of before.
Su Han also frowned; the boundless Red Sea felt incredibly oppressive, as if facing some abyss.
If the entire sea were breeding monsters, then this small island would likely be overrun with them before long.
“Let’s go have a look.”
He summoned the Blood-winged Alligator Dragon, and the Mother Nest Ancient Tree also reverted to its huge body, guarding both of them.
It wasn’t just about the contact causing warping and erosion; even fusion was not easy for Su Han to suppress. The fusion progressed very slowly.
It was like trying to fuse with an exceptionally powerful living monster, its resistance extremely strong.
The situation with the Spiritual Energy Blood Sea seemed to serve as a warning to Su Han. Although he could fuse with it, compared to those obscure and strange things, he wasn’t as safe as he imagined.
You can fuse, but before successful fusion, you will definitely die a horrible death.
Zhu Xiong and his team’s exploration ended quickly. There were no other Gray Inferior Demons on the island, only strange plants and rocks; however, the Blood Sea remained eerie.
The situation was the same as with Su Han’s group; when they approached the Blood Sea, it also slowly churned and then spawned monsters.
It seemed that spawning monsters was an innate function of the Blood Sea, and their presence there slightly intensified this mechanism.
After surveying the general terrain, Su Han conducted two tests. The Blood-winged Tiger escalated infinitely, charging towards the sky.
At less than a kilometer, the terrifying and chaotic spiritual energy directly warped the Blood-winged Tiger, turning it into a bloodthirsty monster with a distorted body and fierce eyes, launching an attack on them.
A clean kill, followed by a flight experiment towards the sea surface. At a distance of less than five hundred meters, the Spiritual Energy Blood Sea churned and devoured it outright.
The Tree-born Worm utilized its advantage of burrowing to explore underground. At a depth of three hundred meters, the spiritual energy was similarly dense and chaotic. Its will distorted and body mutated, then it launched an attack.
The range of activity was clarified by Su Han—no more than a kilometer in the air, more than three hundred meters underground, and no more than five hundred meters in the Spiritual Energy Blood Sea.
The fundamental reason for the restrictions was the powerful and chaotic spiritual energy.
In principle, if the strength is strong enough to endure such chaotic spiritual energy, it might be possible to explore further.
In some respects, this was like a massive cage, trapping them in a foreign-world prison.
However, even if they couldn’t move too far, just having one advantage was enough—the abundant spiritual energy here greatly accelerated the strength enhancement of the Apostles.
It wasn’t inducing mutations, but genuinely elevating the level of spiritual energy, gradually advancing.
This was a treasure ground for training troops and a great place for quickly accumulating strength, and there was another benefit. Here, crops also could be grown, and they thrived well.
Su Han led his people to station and explore around this crack in the alien space for three full days.
In three days, they finally figured out some tricks.
The Spiritual Energy Blood Sea had tides, influenced by the real world’s day and night.
At night, the alien space darkened, tides were slightly stronger, and more monsters were spawned.
Daytime was calmer, and the spiritual energy was more ordered, but it was equally dangerous, though fewer monsters were spawned.
Monsters were primarily Gray Inferior Demons, but not exclusively, as Zhu Xiong and his team also encountered another type of monster resembling a skeleton, the Corpse Ghost.
Somewhat stronger and very fast, it almost attacked an observation team, but fortunately, it was quickly subdued.
During the observation patrol, Zhu Xiong also brought Su Han a pleasant surprise.
The tidal Spiritual Energy Blood Sea not only brought forth monsters but also another good thing—spiritual energy mines.
The spiritual energy mines were left on the beach with the tides, discovered by Zhu Xiong on the second day in the alien space.
He reported it to Su Han at once and handed over a sample to him.
The spiritual energy mine was purple throughout, no bigger than a thumb, irregularly shaped, but translucent throughout, emitting an aura of spiritual energy.
Compared to the other chaotic and disordered spiritual energies, this spiritual energy mine was extremely stable.
“The test results are out. The two guards who absorbed the spiritual energy mine advanced from First Order Inferior to First-level Intermediate in two days.”
Bai Qilan, holding the simple test data, found Su Han.