83: Chapter 83 Dragon Blood Black Gold Fruit

"Wuu..."

[Boss, I'm exhausted. The crocodiles in here are all so huge...]

"Don't lose heart. You should be fine with the low-level ones, but there are just so many of them."

Qin Ding, who was comforting Earth Dog, paused.

"Besides, this isn't a place we should be at this stage; it's just because of an accident..."

Patting Earth Dog's head, Qin Ding found a large rock to lean against and sat down. He pulled out his phone, his brow furrowing slightly.

"Nine o'clock at night."

"Nine o'clock?" Cui Yan looked up at the sky abruptly. Above her head was still that unchanging, dim, dusky light. She couldn't help but click her tongue irritably. "Is this what it feels like to have fixed day and night?"

"It's impossible to feel the passage of time from the outside..."

The surroundings were dead silent, save for the occasional gurgling sound from the swamp.

Her gaze swept across the boundless swamp and landed on the only person who was still relatively calm.

Qin Ding was leaning against the rock, closing his eyes to rest, and the Sha Jin Wolf beside him was also lying on the ground, curled up in rest.

Seeing this, Cui Yan's heart tightened. She didn't know why, but looking at the situation before her, she felt an inexplicable thought, as if they were just waiting to die.

"Qin Ding, tell me... can we really get out of here alive?"

Qin Ding opened his eyes, a flicker of surprise flashing across his gaze. "You haven't considered the worst-case scenario?"

"The worst?"

Qin Ding's voice was as calm as if he were stating someone's fate. "Failing to find the space rift, not waiting for the rescue from Chang City, and finally becoming food for the spirit beasts in the Spirit Realm."

"Of course, it's also possible that your father doesn't have enough influence. Generally speaking, the Federation won't intervene in a Spirit Realm immediately. They only move when spirit beasts from the Spirit Realm swarm out on a large scale."

"You have to know that the resources within a Spirit Realm are very abundant."

As his words fell, the air instantly solidified.

Cui Yan's usually exquisite face stiffened. She forced a smile that looked worse than crying. "Heh... hehe... Can you please stop talking?"

Qin Ding glanced at her, then closed his eyes and said no more.

At this moment, a rustling sound came from the ground. Red Chain Snake slithered over and wrapped around Cui Yan's waist. The cold touch made her shiver slightly.

A long silence lasted for nearly half an hour. Cui Yan came to her senses and wanted to say something to Qin Ding to relieve her boredom, but she froze when she turned her head.

Qin Ding had already entered a meditative state, his breathing long and steady, and even his beast was lying on the ground, eyes closed in rest.

She stared blankly at this scene, difficult-to-understand emotions churning in her heart. "They might die here in the next second, yet this master and servant are acting as if nothing is happening? Resting when they should rest, and cultivating when they should cultivate?"

Is death not frightening?

Suddenly.

"Sniff... sniff..."

The sleeping Sha Jin Wolf twitched its nostrils without warning, suddenly lifted its head, and nudged Qin Ding with its hard skull.

"Awoo!"

[Big Brother! Wake up! Such a fragrant smell! Especially fragrant! It's drifting over from the direction we were just walking!]

Qin Ding opened his eyes instantly, his gaze like lightning, looking at Cui Yan first.

"My beast sensed the aura of a maturing spirit item. This is a newly appeared Spirit Realm with no human involvement, which means spirit items are far denser than in the outside world."

Cui Yan blinked. A few seconds later, a chill ran from her spine up to her scalp. She stared at Qin Ding, wide-eyed and incredulous.

"Are you saying we're going to compete for food with the spirit beasts in the Spirit Realm?!"

Qin Ding shook his head, his gaze cast into the depths of the darkness. "The exit rift is also likely in that direction. That spirit item is growing on the only path, and besides..." He paused. "It's a Metal-element spirit item."

"So my beast could smell it. Do you think there will be any Metal-element spirit beasts in this Spirit Realm?"

Metal-element? In this place full of swamps where it's hard to even find a piece of hard ground?

Cui Yan opened her mouth, her heart filled with confusion and shock. She glanced at the Sha Jin Wolf, which was of the Metal element, and swallowed her words back.

At this moment, she just felt it was unbelievable. Metal-element spirit items appearing in a swamp?

Is this right? Shouldn't it be Water, Wood, or Earth spirit items?

"Don't dawdle, let's go." Qin Ding had already stood up.

"Let's go see what kind of spirit item it is, and continue walking in the previous direction while we're at it."

"What the hell, such a thing exists?"

Xiang Tian and the Sha Jin Wolf were submerged in the foul-smelling mud up to their chests, with only their heads exposed. The Sha Jin Wolf's mouth flashed with a silver light, its gaze fixed unblinkingly ahead.

"Swamps everywhere, and a Black Gold Fruit can actually grow in a ghost place like this?"

Ahead, a strange grey-black, cone-like tree trunk broke through the water, about one to two meters high.

The trunk was completely devoid of branches or leaves, like an iron nail driven into the swamp, with a pitch-black, round fruit perched on top.

The man and the wolf were lurking more than a hundred meters away from the target, constantly observing.

"Wait, these patterns..." Xiang Tian narrowed his eyes, full of doubt. "How can a Black Gold Fruit have blood-red patterns? It's glowing red even from a distance."

He turned his head to look at the Sha Jin Wolf beside him and asked in a low voice, "Is the Metal element in the vicinity rich?"

The Sha Jin Wolf shook its head decisively, its gaze never moving from the Black Gold Fruit ahead.

"There really is such a thing? Strange..."

Xiang Tian's brows were furrowed, his tone filled with even more confusion. "In a place where the Metal element is thin, it's already rare for a tree trunk to grow, and it can actually bear fruit? And it grew into this state, with red patterns?"

He originally thought it was a great opportunity, but now he only felt it was strange and creepy.

The current situation is equivalent to a peerless, sweet fruit that shouldn't exist growing in a pile of excrement. Even if you brought a genius student here, they would start doubting themselves immediately.

Just then, the Sha Jin Wolf suddenly whimpered and signaled in a certain direction.

"Hmm?" Xiang Tian followed its gaze, and after seeing who was coming, a cold sneer curled the corner of his mouth. "Heh... truly, there is a path to heaven, yet you refuse to take it..."

"Now, not only can I sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, but I can also reap the fisherman's profit."

Beside that Black Gold Fruit tree, a big guy was hiding.

Otherwise, he would have rushed up to pick the fruit and leave. How could he be lying far away like a toad, secretly watching?

[Spirit Item: Dragon Blood Black Gold Fruit (High Grade)]

[Element: Metal]

[Utility: Because the trunk is soaked in the blood of a dragon-type spirit beast, it can barely bear fruit despite the thin Metal element. It can enhance the bloodline of dragon-type spirit beasts with thin bloodlines and strengthen the elemental power of Metal-element spirit beasts.]

"Awoo..."

[Fragrant... too fragrant...]

The Sha Jin Wolf sniffed the scent in the air. With it now so close, its expression was intoxicated. Its front paws were already about to pounce forward, but Qin Ding grabbed its tail and dragged it back forcefully.

"Wait!"

"Black Gold Fruit? How could a Black Gold Fruit grow in a ghost place like this? It's already amazing that a tree trunk could grow!"

Cui Yan also saw the fruit clearly, feeling as if all the common knowledge about spirit items she had learned from her father was collapsing.

Qin Ding didn't speak, just pressed her head and the wolf's head down together, leaving only their heads exposed on the surface.

He stared fixedly at the Life Records displayed in front of him, repeatedly reading the utility of that Dragon Blood Black Gold Fruit.

Soaked in dragon blood...

Qin Ding's face turned slightly pale. He seemed to know why this Black Gold Fruit tree could bear fruit in this swamp.

The answer was out: it borrowed the vigorous vitality and powerful medicinal effects of dragon blood.

Then, the beast king of this primary Spirit Realm is likely an unheard-of dragon of the Commander Rank!

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