726: Chapter 726 The Guardian!!

That's right, he had actually overlooked it—Xiao Hei was not only of the Demon Race, but also a powerful dark Cultivator.

Its Dark Spiritual Power had already reached over five hundred hertz, and its strength far exceeded that of an ordinary Seventh-Grade Grandmaster.

Its Shadow Clone was equally powerful, focusing on the Dao of darkness.

With Xiao Hei and its Shadow Clone, he had two Grandmaster-level experts protecting him at all times.

Moreover, there were experts from the Holy Land protecting him in the shadows, at least at the Grandmaster level.

Thinking of this, Qin Yan felt even more reassured about this trip to the Guhen Kingdom.

Experts from the Holy Land, Xiao Hei, the Shadow Clone, Spirit Talismans, the experts behind Jiang Li... with so many layers of protection, as long as he didn't offend those super experts during this trip—such as Great Grandmasters or Venerables—there would naturally be no danger regarding his safety.

After clarifying his own situation, Qin Yan immediately picked up his long spear and began to train.

The Flying Ship would still take a day to reach the Guhen Kingdom, and this day could not be wasted. With the long spear in hand, shadows of the spear multiplied.

The progress of the Destruction Spear Intent was improving bit by bit; Skill Points were accumulating little by little.

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One day later.

The Holy Land's massive ship slowly decelerated and finally came to a stop on a vast, open flatland. The ship's hull shuddered slightly and stabilized.

Qin Yan and Jiang Li walked out of the Flying Ship.

The two walked down the gangway and stepped onto the solid ground.

The scene before them was completely different from the Taixuan Holy Land—the sky was grey and hazy, the clouds hung low, giving one a feeling of oppression.

The distant mountains rolled, the trees were sparse, and the air was filled with a faint scent of dust.

The two looked around and soon determined their current location.

"We are currently about twenty li outside the Guhen Kingdom. We won't go to the Guhen Kingdom; we will go directly to the Ruined Battlefield," Qin Yan said, looking into the distance.

"Alright, everything will be as you wish," Jiang Li nodded, having no objections.

She had come on this trip primarily to accompany him, so she would let Qin Yan make the arrangements as he saw fit.

"Alright."

Qin Yan nodded, his figure rising from the ground and transforming into a stream of light, speeding towards the direction of the Ruined Battlefield.

Jiang Li followed closely behind, transforming into another stream of light, trailing him.

Two streams of light, one after the other, cut through the grey, hazy sky and flew towards the northeast.

The Ruined Battlefield was very far from where they were now, a full hundred li away.

Even for Qin Yan and Jiang Li, it took nearly half a day of flying before they arrived at the Ruined Battlefield.

The two stopped in mid-air, their robes flapping loudly in the wind.

Looking at the Ruined Battlefield before them, their expressions were slightly solemn.

The sight before them was completely different from any place they had seen before.

Looking out, the ground was a dark red, the soil was scorched black, and the surface was covered with cracks, like cracked skin.

In the cracks, a dark red light faintly flickered; it was the blood qi remaining in the soil, which had not dissipated for decades.

The air was filled with a dense scent of destruction and blood.

The two scents intertwined, forming a unique, suffocating pressure.

Qin Yan had the deepest understanding of this sensation.

After all, he was cultivating the blood path, and one of the cores of the Indestructible Blood Demon Scripture was blood. His perception of blood qi far exceeded that of ordinary people.

He could clearly "see" how much blood qi was contained within this land—not just one or two streams, but a vast ocean.

In the battle back then, millions of troops were deployed, and countless experts fell.

That blood had seeped into every inch of the soil, turning this land into a blood-colored desert.

Based on the state of this blood qi, he could fully perceive what immense slaughter this land had experienced back then—rivers of blood and mountains of corpses were probably far from enough to describe it.

"Qin Yan, let's go in," Jiang Li said after a while.

Qin Yan nodded.

Immediately, the two walked forward and arrived at the edge of the Ruined Battlefield.

Ahead lay an invisible barrier.

The barrier was transparent and almost invisible to the naked eye.

But Qin Yan could perceive energy circulating within the barrier.

It was a Formation set up by a Formation master to prevent the aura inside from leaking out and to prevent outsiders from entering at will.

Just then, the space in front of the two suddenly tore open a crack.

That crack was initially only a line, as thin as a hair, almost invisible to the naked eye.

Then, the crack rapidly expanded, as if torn apart from the middle by a pair of invisible hands.

The Void Realm rolled back to both sides, revealing a pitch-black Chaos behind it.

Immediately, the figure of a middle-aged man walked out from the space.

The middle-aged man was burly with a resolute face and was dressed in a grey robe.

His aura was as deep as an abyss, and his depth could not be discerned.

His gaze swept over Qin Yan and Jiang Li, expressionless.

"To enter the Ruined Battlefield, each person must hand over one Sixth-Grade resource," the middle-aged man said, his voice low and flat.

Seeing this, Qin Yan and Jiang Li knew this was one of the so-called guardians of the Ruined Battlefield.

The Ruined Battlefield was not ownerless land; it was managed by a power—the Guhen Kingdom was the actual controller of the Ruined Battlefield. They had set up guardians here to collect fees from those entering.

And two Sixth-Grade resources were equivalent to an admission ticket.

Sixth-Grade resources—they could be Sixth-Grade Spirit Pills, Sixth-Grade Spirit Medicine, Sixth-Grade Ore, or Materials from a Sixth-Grade Vicious Beast.

As long as it was of the Sixth-Grade level, it would do.

Qin Yan did not hesitate and immediately took out two Sixth-Grade Spirit Pills and handed them over.

He might not have much of other things on him, but he definitely had plenty of Medicinal Pills.

He had refined so many batches of Sixth-Grade Medicinal Pills—some for healing, some for recovering True Qi, and some for recovering blood qi; added together, there were at least dozens of them.

Handing over two pills didn't cause the slightest ripple in his heart.

The middle-aged man took the pills, looked down at them, and nodded.

The two Sixth-Grade Spirit Pills were of excellent quality, filled with medicinal power.

Someone capable of refining pills of this quality was not far from becoming a Seventh-Grade Alchemist.

"Alright, go in," the middle-aged man said, and his figure vanished from where he stood.

He took a step back, merging into the spatial crack, and then the crack slowly closed, as if it had never appeared.

Leaving only a pitch-black spatial crack that slowly dissipated in the air.

Spatial crack—this was a method that only an Eighth-Rank Grandmaster could achieve. Tearing through space and walking in the Void Realm was one of the core abilities of a Great Grandmaster.

This middle-aged man was at the very least an Eighth-Rank Grandmaster.

After the middle-aged man disappeared, Qin Yan and Jiang Li walked into the Ruined Battlefield.

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