176: Top-grade elixirs and continuous bursts of luck!

The moment Xiao Shi opened his eyes, an intensely strong sense of crisis suddenly surged and exploded within the mind of this Demon Hand Clan Blood Martial Realm martial artist!

It made his entire body tremble uncontrollably.

Even the smiling face on his Demon Hand twisted in fear, becoming extremely ugly.

This caused the laughter emanating from the smiling face to transform into a cry, filled with endless terror.

At this moment, Xiao Shi had emerged from the Taiyin, revealing his form and appearance.

This allowed the Demon Hand Clan Blood Martial Realm martial artist to clearly see him.

But at this moment, the Demon Hand Clan Blood Martial Realm martial artist had no time to ponder why this person looked like his companion.

Numerous streams of blood energy, following Xiao Shi's opened eyes, continuously emanated from his body.

Directly on his face, they converged to form the visage of a Crimson Tiger!

The entire Crimson Tiger face exuded a terrifying aura.

It overlapped with Xiao Shi's face, appearing extremely eerie, and moreover, giving people a sense of dizziness.

This scene made the Demon Hand Clan Blood Martial Realm martial artist's body tremble even more violently.

In such a state, he couldn't even muster the courage to attack.

He only felt that what he was facing at this moment was some terrifying, irresistible existence.

Killing intent flickered in Xiao Shi's eyes.

When he gathered and integrated all these inspirations in his mind, the entire Blood Art initially took shape!

If this scene were witnessed by other Blood Martial Realm martial artists, they would undoubtedly be immensely shocked.

After all, the creation of Blood Arts is incredibly difficult!

Among all Blood Martial Realm martial artists, those capable of creating Blood Arts are exceedingly rare.

Most Blood Martial Realm martial artists struggle their entire lives to create even a single Blood Art.

And those who can create Blood Arts all first create a portion of the Blood Art when their first Natal Martial Blood reaches its peak.

Then, after their second Natal Martial Blood reaches its peak, they create another portion of the Blood Art.

Finally, they combine each part of the Blood Art to form a complete Blood Art.

In other words, the creation of Blood Arts often requires the entire Blood Martial Realm cultivation stage.

It cannot be completed in a single phase.

To create a Blood Art when the first Natal Martial Blood reaches its peak is unprecedented!

Now... Xiao Shi, after his first Natal Martial Blood reached its peak, successfully created a Blood Art.

And the entire process of creating this Blood Art was not difficult for him.

He did not feel any strain or difficulty during this process.

Although this Blood Art is currently only in its initial form and still requires much strengthening and refinement, he can already use it!

Immediately, beneath the overlapping Crimson Tiger face, a tremendous tiger roar erupted from the combined Crimson Tiger and Xiao Shi's face.

At this moment, the sense of crisis in the Demon Hand Clan Blood Martial Realm martial artist's heart reached its peak.

He felt as if he had already stepped one foot into the gates of hell.

In this life-or-death situation, he no longer cared about his inner fear, and with madness and ferocity, he unleashed the full power of his Demon Hand, his eyes red, and attacked Xiao Shi with all his might.

However, the instant his Demon Hand struck down, a sound wave, invisible to the naked eye, had already spread and swept over his body.

The Demon Hand Clan Blood Martial Realm martial artist's body trembled.

His entire movement abruptly paused.

His descending strike completely froze in mid-air.

At this moment, a Crimson Tiger face also appeared on his own face.

This Crimson Tiger face roared continuously on the Blood Martial Realm martial artist's face.

However, at this time, the roar emanating from the Crimson Tiger face could only be heard by the Blood Martial Realm martial artist himself.

And the entire roar exploded directly in his mind.

Instantly, the Blood Martial Realm martial artist's head became covered in cracks, and a large amount of fresh blood flowed out along these cracks.

Then, with a bang, his entire head directly exploded!

"Is this... the power of a Blood Art?!"

The scene before him brought great shock to Xiao Shi.

Even though he had known early on that there was a world of difference in strength between a Blood Martial Realm martial artist with a Blood Art and one without.

But when he truly experienced it firsthand, he gained a clearer understanding of the Blood Art's power.

One must know that his Blood Art was currently only in its nascent stage.

It was still incomplete, and its power had not reached its maximum.

There was still much room for improvement.

Yet, even so, it effortlessly killed this Blood Martial Realm martial artist!

Xiao Shi glanced at the opponent's Demon Hand.

Now, with the death of this Blood Martial Realm martial artist, his arm quickly returned to its original state.

However, during the arm's recovery, Xiao Shi clearly felt the fear that the smiling face on the Demon Hand had towards him.

This made him narrow his eyes.

He immediately took action, digging out the Demon Hand from the martial artist's body!

The Demon Hand within this Blood Martial Realm martial artist's body was identical to the Demon Hand he had previously displayed, but it was much smaller, only the size of a palm.

However, what surprised Xiao Shi was that when he tried to excavate the opponent's Natal Martial Blood, the Demon Hand, which was the opponent's Natal Martial Blood, actually tried to escape from his body!

He had never encountered such a situation before!

Even with the two Blood Martial Realm martial artists whose Natal Martial Blood were insects, after they were killed by Xiao Shi, the insects within their bodies did not attempt to escape.

This made Xiao Shi realize that the Demon Hand within the body was not an inanimate object, but rather possessed a certain level of intelligence!

As he dug out the Demon Hand, this point was further confirmed.

Once the entire Demon Hand was in his grasp, it trembled continuously, displaying its fear of him.

Xiao Shi clearly understood the value and significance of this Demon Hand.

This was comparable to the Blood Beast Blood Source within the Orthodox Faction's system, and it was an extremely powerful Blood Beast Blood Source.

And with this Demon Hand as a token of allegiance... then whether it was the Yuncha City in that desert or Lieyin City in the Flame Land, he could go.

Thinking of this, Xiao Shi quickly picked up the items dropped by the opponent after his death, as well as his storage bag, and left the area.

Although his battle with this person was very brief, and the area was open, no one else noticed their fight.

However, as a member of the Demon Hand Clan, this person might possess some means for his clansmen to sense his death.

Regardless of whether such a method existed or not... Xiao Shi needed to be wary!

To avoid further complications, he had to leave this Rainforest as soon as possible.

Only by completely leaving here would he be safe.

Whoosh! Immediately, Xiao Shi directly entered the Taiyin.

And through the Martial Emperor Shoulder Armor, he activated flight mode, moving away from here at the fastest speed.

The Blood Martial Realm martial artists he had killed earlier had maps of the Rainforest's distribution on them.

Xiao Shi directly followed the map and chose the Flame Land, which was relatively closer to him, between the desert and the Flame Land.

He rushed there at top speed.

Along the way, Xiao Shi saw many Demonic Path martial artists belonging to Zhuogu City.

But he now had enough tokens of allegiance and no longer needed to kill.

If he were to rashly kill, it would only cause a greater commotion, which would be detrimental to himself.

After all, he was currently carrying the life of a Zhuogu City noble... he needed to escape as quickly as possible.

Fortunately, the Demon Hand Clan did not have a way to sense the death of their clansmen.

Xiao Shi was not pursued during his escape.

Thus, with his continuous flight, he successfully left the Rainforest after a day and entered... the Flame Land connected to the Rainforest!

As a dangerous place like the Rainforest, even without Demonic Path forces, the environment of the entire Flame Land alone was filled with extremely terrifying dangers.

The ground here was crimson.

Although there were no flames, the ground contained incredibly astonishing high temperatures.

And the longer one stayed on the ground, the more the surface temperature would continuously rise.

If one remained standing still in one spot, the temperature of that spot would quickly reach an extremely terrifying degree.

This meant that ordinary people, upon entering this Flame Land, needed to constantly move around.

They couldn't stay in one place.

In addition, various different kinds of flame existed in this Flame Land.

These flames were scattered throughout the Flame Land, forming many different areas.

Some flame areas had astonishingly high temperatures.

If an ordinary person accidentally stepped into a flame area, they would instantly turn to ashes under such high temperatures.

The most terrifying thing was that the areas formed by these flames had no markings.

Sometimes, one might inadvertently enter a flame area while walking.

Even some powerful individuals, if they entered certain powerful flame areas, would find it difficult to come out alive.

According to the information Xiao Shi had obtained, this Flame Land, like the Rainforest, even the Lieyin City that occupied it, still contained some unknowns that they could not control.

The Demonic Path martial artists living here often needed to be careful and cautious.

Although this Flame Land was full of various dangers, Xiao Shi, after entering here, was, to some extent, safer than if he had continued to stay in the Rainforest.

He temporarily didn't have to worry about being pursued by powerful individuals of the Demon Hand Clan.

He had been in a hurry to travel before and hadn't checked his gains.

Now, after entering the Flame Land, Xiao Shi flew in the air via the Martial Emperor Shoulder Armor, and by not touching the ground, he didn't have to worry about the terrifying high temperatures of the ground.

At the same time, he took out the items dropped by the Blood Martial Realm martial artists he had killed earlier and examined them.

Besides the previous blood enlightenment pill, he now had three unchecked items in his hand.

He took them out one by one and examined them carefully.

"Name: Blood Healing Saint Pill (Peerless)"

"Type: Medicinal Pill"

"Description: The strongest healing medicinal pill in the Blood Martial Realm. Even the most severe injuries, as long as they don't result in instant death, can be healed."

"Note 1: The healing effect of this medicinal pill is only effective for the Blood Martial Realm. If the cultivation is insufficient for the Blood Martial Realm, or exceeds the Blood Martial Realm, it will be ineffective."

"Note 2: As a sacred healing pill, even if limbs are severed, it can regrow them."

"Note 3: Only one such medicinal pill exists in the world."

Xiao Shi looked at the medicinal pill in his hand, his eyes gleaming with intense light.

This medicinal pill could almost be categorized as a top-tier item.

After all, its healing effect was incredibly heaven-defying!

It was absolutely the strongest healing medicinal pill in the Blood Martial Realm, without a doubt!

Its ability to regrow severed limbs alone was enough to make countless people go crazy.

Of course, the only drawback was that it was only effective for Blood Martial Realm martial artists.

If it had such an effect on martial artists of all realms... then the value of this medicinal pill would probably drive some mighty figures mad.

But even so, for Xiao Shi, it was a treasure of extraordinary value.

"I didn't expect to be so lucky after coming to the Demonic Path forces' territory!" Xiao Shi was incredibly excited.

The previously dropped blood enlightenment pill was already quite good.

Now, his ability to comprehend Blood Arts so easily owed a great deal to the blood enlightenment pill.

Without the blood enlightenment pill, he wouldn't have comprehended it so smoothly.

And the Blood Healing Saint Pill dropped this time was even more astonishing than the blood enlightenment pill.

The continuous drops of medicinal pills also made Xiao Shi wonder if killing Blood Martial Realm martial artists from Demonic Path forces had some kind of bonus for medicinal pill drops.

The Blood Martial Realm martial artists from Orthodox Faction he had killed earlier hadn't dropped a single medicinal pill.

However, after killing martial artists from Demonic Path forces here, two medicinal pills dropped at once.

And the quality of both medicinal pills was quite good.

"If Demonic Path martial artists are more prone to dropping medicinal pills, then that's fine!" Xiao Shi smiled, then continued to look at the next item.

This item was also a medicinal pill.

"Name: Blood Luck Pill (Unknown)"

"Type: Medicinal Pill"

"Description: Luck is something invisible and intangible. Even some mighty figures who have reached the pinnacle of martial arts cannot fathom it."

"Note 1: This is a medicinal pill that can enhance one's luck, but it is only effective for the Blood Martial Realm."

"Note 2: This pill is born from heaven and earth, not refined by humans, nor can it be refined by humans."

"Note 3: The luck enhancement it brings will have a time limit. During the period of enhanced luck, good fortune will continuously occur."

Xiao Shi took a deep breath.

This was another extremely powerful medicinal pill!

He knew very well that luck was an incredibly mysterious thing!

No one had ever been able to control luck.

And with this medicinal pill that could enhance luck... putting everything else aside, just the drops after he killed would be enough to make him rich!

"I just don't know how much luck this medicinal pill will enhance..."

"If the luck enhancement is significant, perhaps I'll casually kill a Blood Martial Realm martial artist and drop top-tier items!!"

Just thinking about it made Xiao Shi's heart race with excitement.

Although he had a burst of good luck this time, continuously dropping two medicinal pills of astonishing value, he couldn't guarantee that he would be so lucky in the future.

With this Blood Luck Pill, he would be able to ensure that every item dropped during the period of enhanced luck would be of higher quality than those dropped under normal circumstances!

Just this point alone made the value of this medicinal pill immense to him!