40: Blood Pill

When Mu Feng looked over, the few of them were a bit uneasy, not knowing what Senior Mu Feng wanted to do.

“Senior Mu Feng, hello,” Captain Xing Jue said.

“My name is Captain Xing Jue, and I am the captain of this team.”

“Thank you so much for helping us.”

“If it weren't for you, all five of us would probably have been buried in the mouth of this monster.”

Captain Xing Jue forced a smile, trying to curry favor with Senior Mu Feng.

“Captain Xing Jue, I know you,” Mu Feng nodded.

“There’s no need to thank me.”

“My intervention wasn't entirely to help you!”

“I see your strength is quite good.”

“Especially that round shield, it must be a Medium Grade Magical Artifact, right?”

“It was actually able to withstand the Blood Puppet’s attacks for so long.”

After Mu Feng finished speaking, he looked at the slightly cracked round shield.

“Blood Puppet? So this monster is called a Blood Puppet.”

“Senior, your guess is indeed correct.”

“This round shield of mine is called the Earth Brown Shield, it is a Medium Grade defensive Magical Artifact.”

“Our team found it in an iron box, and because my strength is the strongest, I have been keeping it.”

“Senior, if you like it, please take it!”

Captain Xing Jue gritted his teeth and voluntarily handed over the round shield he held.

Mu Feng looked at Captain Xing Jue with some surprise.

The other party was quite a character.

Knowing that he was interested in this round shield, he actually handed it over voluntarily.

This kind of courage is not something an ordinary person can display.

This made him look at the other party a few more times.

“You are quite sensible.”

“But never mind, I’m not very interested in this shield.”

Mu Feng shook his head.

He already had the Qingming Bell, which integrates offense and defense.

If this shield was only a Medium Grade Magical Artifact, he wasn’t very interested.

Moreover, this round shield was already cracked and probably couldn’t be used many more times.

It was something that was tasteless to eat but a pity to discard.

It was better to do the other party a favor.

“Thank you, Senior!”

Captain Xing Jue was delighted and very grateful to Mu Feng.

“How about this, since Senior you are unwilling to accept this Earth Brown Shield, we still have some Materials here, we’ll take them all out for you to see.”

“If you like any of them, just take it, consider it as compensation for Senior saving us.”

With that, he waved his hand.

The few people behind him took out all the Materials they had on them.

He himself also poured out all the items stored in his low-grade Storage Pouch.

“Senior, please take a look, don’t be polite, although our strength is weak, we also know how to repay kindness.”

“If you fancy any of them, please don’t be polite with us.”

The other party was so sensible that Mu Feng felt a little embarrassed.

He had indeed just wanted to extort some Materials from them.

But with the other party acting like this, it made him feel a bit awkward.

Of course, awkwardness aside, he still had to take what he was supposed to take.

Mu Feng took a rough look; the few people had quite a lot of items.

However, they were all common Materials.

After flipping through a few times, Mu Feng picked up several purple spirit grass and a piece of green essence of vegetation.

“These few purple spirit grass and this essence of vegetation are indeed useful to me.”

“I’ll take them.”

“But I won’t take advantage of you; according to market price, these items are worth about thirty to forty Spirit Stones.”

“However, since I saved you, let’s calculate it at the lowest price.”

“Here are thirty Spirit Stones.”

“You can take them.”

After putting away the Materials, Mu Feng took out thirty Spirit Stones.

“Senior, you really don’t have to!”

“If it weren't for you, we would probably be dead by now.”

Captain Xing Jue shook his head, refusing Mu Feng’s Spirit Stones.

“Alright, since you’ve said so.”

“Then I’ll accept it.”

Seeing the other party’s insistence, Mu Feng no longer declined.

“A life-saving grace, it should be so!”

Seeing Mu Feng take back the Spirit Stones, Captain Xing Jue breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that they were completely safe.

“Alright, if there’s nothing else, you can leave.”

“Oh, and don’t spread word about me everywhere.”

People fear fame like pigs fear getting fat.

He didn’t want too many people to know about his strength.

“Senior Mu Feng, rest assured, we will definitely keep quiet!”

“Yes, yes!”

“Senior, you are too handsome!”

The few of them vowed solemnly.

The two girls even secretly sent flirtatious glances towards Mu Feng.

“Alright, alright, go.”

Mu Feng waved his hand, signaling for them to leave.

“Then Senior, we’ll be going, we won’t forget your life-saving grace, if Senior ever needs anything in the future, just tell us, and if we can do it, we will never refuse!”

Captain Xing Jue bowed to Mu Feng, then led the four people out of this Secret Realm space.

“Little Lizard, come out.”

Seeing the few people leave, Mu Feng called out the Little Lizard that was hidden nearby.

When he first came out, he ordered the Little Lizard to keep an eye on Captain Xing Jue and his team.

If they made any unusual moves, he would eliminate them.

Now that the few people had left, there was no need for the Little Lizard to hide its figure anymore.

He had already searched most of this Secret Realm space.

Confirming there was nothing left, he took the Little Lizard and prepared to leave.

[Did you not notice that there’s something in the Blood Puppet’s head that hasn’t been collected?]

“Head?”

“Is there something else besides the soul?!”

Mu Feng was stunned by the sudden red prompt.

He indeed hadn’t touched the head when he was collecting Materials just now.

Mainly because it was a bit disgusting.

Also, he had collected a “soul.”

He subconsciously thought it was collected from the head.

Now it seemed there was something else inside.

Otherwise, the System wouldn’t have specifically reminded him.

Immediately, Mu Feng stopped and returned to where the Blood Puppet’s head had fallen.

He squatted down to collect it.

Soon, a red spherical bead emitting an evil aura was found by him.

This bead was not large, only about the size of a pinky finger.

[System Notification: Blood Pill x1]

“Blood Pill?”

“What is this thing?”

“So demonic.”

Mu Feng picked it up curiously.

[Blood Pill: Formed by the condensation of the Blood Puppet’s essence blood, it is the favorite food of all Yao Beasts in Immortal Caves. After consumption, it can greatly increase the physical strength of Yao Beasts.]

“This thing is good, but I don’t know if humans can eat it?”

Something for body tempering.

If he could eat it, the benefits should be considerable.

[I advise you not to have any crooked ideas. With your current physical strength, eating this thing would not benefit you at all; on the contrary, you might explode and die because you cannot withstand the Bloodline Power within it.]

“Alright~_~”

“It seems I need to change my habit of wanting to eat good things whenever I find them!”

Luckily, the System prompted him.

Otherwise, he really would have tried it.

“But it said my physical strength is too weak to withstand the Bloodline Power.”

“If my physical strength increases, does that mean I can eat it?”

Mu Feng’s eyes lit up.

[You really are a clever little ghost… Theoretically, yes.]

[However, you would only not die; you wouldn’t gain any benefit from this Blood Pill.]

[So, you should just give up on that idea!]

Alright then.

Mu Feng sighed.

He took the Little Lizard and left this eerie Cave Secret Realm.

Back in the Immortal Cave, Mu Feng began to tally his gains from this exploration.

The gains from this exploration were as follows: Soul x1, Silver Crystal x3, Blood Pill x1.

Besides these, he also obtained essence of vegetation and four purple spirit grass from Captain Xing Jue and his team.

The harvest was abundant.

As for the Soul, there’s no need to mention it; whether it’s for Puppet upgrades or refining Soul Summoning Pills, a large amount of Soul is needed.

Mu Feng would never have too much.

The same goes for essence of vegetation; these are things one can never have too much of.

Currently, he had eight Souls on hand.

And three essence of vegetation.

Besides these two, Silver Crystal was also an item he needed.

Upgrading the Puppet Lizard required a large amount of Materials.

However, the only thing he had no clue about before was Silver Crystal.

Now the most difficult part was obtained.

The rest just needed to be accumulated slowly.

He didn’t have to worry about not finding all the Materials.

purple spirit grass was also one of his most scarce Materials.

With these four purple spirit grass, he could refine Qing Ling Pills again to exchange for the Materials he needed.

Among the five items, perhaps only the Blood Pill was temporarily unusable.

However, the Blood Pill’s value was very high.

It could be said that none of the five items from this exploration were useless.