192: The fisherman reaps the benefits

The crimson-gold blood light, like a burning meteorite, carried a terrifying aura that made one's Soul tremble as it plummeted straight toward the valley where Gao De was hiding.

Behind it, the dark green poisonous miasma and the Hundred-Eyed Centipede's massive, frenzied figure almost completely obscured half the sky.

Danger! Extreme danger!

Gao De's heart felt as if it were about to jump out of his chest.

With his Late Stage of the Third Order strength, in a conflict of this level, the slightest carelessness would result in being reduced to ashes.

Although the Hundred-Eyed Centipede was heavily injured, its Fourth Order status was undeniable; that monstrous poisonous miasma and terrifying Physical Body strength were definitely not something he could contend with.

"Rainbow, come back!" Gao De urgently summoned Rainbow, who was monitoring from the clouds, via Divine Thought.

Almost the instant his thought was sent, a nearly imperceptible colorful thread swooped down from high above, silently merging into the shadow beside him.

Rainbow transmitted an urgent thought—the speed of that blood light was slowing down, as if being pulled by something, and the Hundred-Eyed Centipede's state was extremely unstable, its pursuit trajectory appearing somewhat erratic.

In a flash of lightning, several thoughts raced through Gao De's mind:

Escape? With his speed, he might not be faster than a crazed Fourth Order Yao Beast, and the commotion would be too great, inevitably exposing him.

Resist head-on? That would be suicide.

The only chance of survival... lay in this special terrain, and that as-yet-unexplored "Rainbow Light Resonance"!

"Gamble on it!" A look of determination flashed in Gao De's eyes.

Instead of retreating, he pushed the Hidden Scale Concealment Technique to an unprecedented extreme!

His entire person seemed to transform into a phantom constantly shifting across the glazed ground of the valley, perfectly merging with the light and shadow as he rapidly snuck toward the deepest part of the valley, the direction where Rainbow's sensing was strongest.

At the same time, he tightly gripped the "prison" character dragon talisman he had obtained from the Dragon Palace Secret Passage, which he had never used before, ready to activate the space power contained within at any moment—this was a trump card for life-saving that he had only recently researched, and using it once meant one less time.

"Boom—!"

The crimson-gold blood light finally plummeted, not crashing into the center of the valley, but as if drawn by some invisible attraction, it landed precisely a hundred zhang in front of Gao De—that was exactly the core area where Rainbow sensed the "Rainbow Light Resonance"!

The moment the blood light touched the ground, it did not cause an earth-shattering explosion; instead, it eerily "seeped" into the ground that had been melted by high heat into a seven-colored glazed state!

The glazed ground suddenly lit up, and countless fine lines, similar in color to the suanni precious blood, were activated, spreading out like blood vessels and emitting a powerful force of attraction and restraint!

That head-sized main mass of blood light was actually firmly "sucked" into the center of the glazed ground, struggling with a flickering light.

"Hiss—!!!"

The Hundred-Eyed Centipede following closely behind let out a frantic hiss; it clearly had not expected this scene.

But the precious blood was right before its eyes, and greed overcame everything.

Its massive body, carrying poisonous miasma capable of corroding mountains, crashed down like a collapsing mountain of flesh toward the trapped precious blood. All its hundred legs moved in unison, and hundreds of compound eyes shot out malicious emerald light beams, attempting to forcibly seize it.

Just as the Hundred-Eyed Centipede's giant mouth was about to touch the precious blood—

A sudden mutation occurred!

Deep within the glazed ground, which had been thoroughly activated by the suanni precious blood, the source that resonated with Rainbow finally revealed its true form!

It was a small piece, only a foot long, crystal clear throughout, with what appeared to be flowing seven-colored rosy clouds sealed inside... a severed claw!

The claw was covered in fine, mysterious natural patterns, exuding an ancient, auspicious, yet sorrowful aura.

"Neon Luan Claw?!" Gao De's heart shook violently.

He understood instantly!

This valley, perhaps countless years ago, had been inhabited by or was the final resting place of a divine bird of the Neon Luan species. Its residual keratin had combined with the ley lines, forming this strange glazed texture.

The suanni belongs to fire, while the Neon Luan belongs to auspicious rosy clouds; their power attributes have a subtle resonance and conflict.

The precious blood falling here had happened to activate the residual purification and restraint Dao charm within this Neon Luan severed claw that had been silent for eons!

"Li—!"

A clear, ethereal cry of sorrow, as if traveling through time and space, resonated faintly from that severed Neon Luan claw.

The severed claw suddenly erupted with pure, brilliant seven-colored rosy light. It was no longer gentle nourishment but transformed into a cage of light filled with purifying power, conversely enveloping the suanni precious blood along with the head of the Hundred-Eyed Centipede that had pounced down!

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—!"

The rosy light collided violently with the suanni's crimson fire and the Hundred-Eyed Centipede's poisonous miasma, producing a teeth-grinding sound.

The violent energy of the suanni precious blood was constantly worn down and purified by the rosy light, while the Hundred-Eyed Centipede let out a scream of extreme pain!

Its poisonous miasma vanished rapidly before the Neon Luan Rosy Cloud Charm like snow meeting the sun.

More terrifyingly, the purifying power contained within the rosy light seemed to have a natural restraint against its body, which was nourished by sinister, filthy Qi!

Its head was scorched by the rosy light, billowing black smoke, its carapace cracking, and its compound eyes bursting one after another!

Opportunity! A once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity!

Gao De's heart pounded wildly.

The two forces were deadlocked, the precious blood was bound, and the Hundred-Eyed Centipede was injured and distracted... this was the only, and potentially fleeting, window of opportunity!

"Rainbow!" Gao De no longer hesitated, shouting via Divine Thought.

Rainbow, who had been hiding in the dark, suddenly appeared!

It did not attack the Hundred-Eyed Centipede but instead pushed its innate talent for manipulating light-attribute energy to the limit!

Its slender, cloud-ribbon body instantly transformed into a huge "Rainbow light lens" that distorted light, deflecting and focusing a portion of the rosy light emitted from the Neon Luan severed claw!

The focused rosy light's power increased several times over, like a seven-colored sword of light, piercing with absolute precision toward the connection between the Hundred-Eyed Centipede's head and body—that was exactly the wound that had not yet fully healed after being bitten into several sections by the Black Bone Crocodile King earlier!

At the same time, another part of the deflected rosy light cleverly interfered with specific nodes of the rosy light cage binding the precious blood, causing it to have a tiny, fleeting slack!

"Hiss-roar—!!!"

The Hundred-Eyed Centipede suffered heavy damage; the intense pain caused its already chaotic mind to become completely frenzied, its massive body twisting wildly, venom and severed limbs splattering everywhere, leaving it temporarily unable to attend to anything else.

Now is the time!

Gao De's figure shot out from the shadows like a ghost!

He had long held his life-bound Yao weapon, the thunder fang formation-breaking halberd, in his claw, but not for attacking. Instead, he pushed his entire Essence, Qi, and Spirit, along with the Purple Heaven Dragon Transformation Art, to the limit, injecting the aura of his own Dragon Pearl and a faint trace of Neon Luan Rosy Cloud Charm from the bird's nest into the tip of the halberd, forming a unique traction field with an extremely strong attraction and temporary containment effect on ownerless high-level Bloodline energy!

"Collect!"

He let out a low roar, and the tip of the thunder fang formation-breaking halberd transformed into a miniature purple vortex, probing with absolute precision into the moment the rosy light cage slackened, lightning-fast "cutting" off a small mass of crimson-gold blood light about one-third the size from the edge of the main mass of precious blood that was bound and being purified by the rosy light!

The moment he succeeded, Gao De did not linger, not even looking at the remaining precious blood still deadlocked with the Neon Luan severed claw or the frantically struggling Hundred-Eyed Centipede.

He quickly put away that mass of blood light, which was now much more docile but still exuded terrifying fluctuations, using a special jade box and stuffed it into the deepest part of his Storage Pouch.

"Go!"

[Lightning Evasion] fully exploded!

He did not choose to flee in a straight line, but instead, utilizing the energy turbulence and poisonous miasma cover kicked up by the Hundred-Eyed Centipede's frantic writhing, he transformed into a zigzagging, flashing purple bolt of lightning, first rushing into a narrow rock crevice on the side of the valley, and then, without hesitation, activated the "prison" character dragon talisman!

The dragon talisman flashed with light, and a faint spatial fluctuation enveloped Gao De and Rainbow.

The next moment, their figures blurred and vanished on the spot, as if dragged into another spatial rift by an invisible force, leaving behind only extremely faint spatial traces that were quickly dispersed by the chaotic energy.

Almost at the same time they vanished, the Hundred-Eyed Centipede, enraged to the extreme by the intense pain and having a portion of the precious blood "stolen," finally temporarily broke free from the burning of the rosy light. Its huge, tattered head turned sharply toward the direction where Gao De had vanished, hundreds of remaining compound eyes flashing with a frenzy to destroy everything, and a dark green poisonous miasma breath, condensing the majority of its remaining power, roared toward that rock crevice!

"Boom—!"

The entire cliff melted and collapsed under the poisonous breath, turning into a toxic quagmire emitting blue smoke.

However, it was already empty.

A few breaths later, in the distant sky, several Divine Senses swept over this area, and the "Shadow Sword Guard" belonging to the Heavenly Sword Alliance finally arrived in pursuit.

They only saw a devastated valley, the Neon Luan severed claw's rosy light slowly dimming, the Hundred-Eyed Centipede still frantically destroying everything around it, and the mass of suanni precious blood in the center of the valley, bound by the rosy light, its volume significantly smaller and its light increasingly pure.

The Shadow Sword Guards looked at each other and quickly transmitted the intelligence back.

"What? The Hundred-Eyed Centipede and some residual rosy light Restriction were both badly hurt? The precious blood seems to have been weakened and purified by a mysterious force? A third party acted in an extremely short time, stealing part of the precious blood and vanishing into thin air?" The Heavenly Sword Ancestor received the report, his brows locked in a frown.

He quickly performed deductions, but due to the chaos of heavenly secrets and the interference of the dragon talisman, it was difficult to determine the background of that "third party."

"Pass the order, the Shadow Sword Guard shall retreat for now and only observe from afar. That Hundred-Eyed Centipede is at the end of its rope, and the rosy light Restriction is also dissipating. Wait until they exhaust their last bit of strength... that remaining majority of the precious blood, my Heavenly Sword Alliance is determined to have it! As for that small missing portion... hmph, to be able to snatch chestnuts from the fire in such a situation without leaving a trace, they are definitely not someone to be trifled with; note this down for now."

Meanwhile, about five hundred li away from the valley, in a hidden underground river cave.

Space fluctuated slightly, and Gao De and Rainbow tumbled out, looking slightly disheveled.

His face was pale, a trace of blood spilling from the corner of his mouth; forcibly activating the "prison" character dragon talisman to perform a short-distance spatial jump had been a huge burden on him.

Rainbow also appeared somewhat listless; manipulating the rosy light just now had consumed a huge amount of energy.

But in their eyes, both were shining with the light of surviving a disaster and irrepressible excitement.

Gao De tremblingly took out that special jade box. Inside the box, a mass of blood light about the size of a fist, crimson-gold with a hint of seven-colored rosy halo flowing through it, floated silently, exuding majestic energy and Bloodline pressure that was much purer and gentler.

Although it was only about one-third of the original precious blood, this was the Origin precious blood of a Fifth Order suanni that had been preliminarily purified by the Neon Luan Rosy Cloud Charm! Its value was immeasurable!

"Succeeded... we really succeeded!" Gao De took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down.

He looked toward the faint sounds of fighting and energy explosions that still hadn't ceased in the distance outside the cave.

The chaotic feast of the Yunmeng Marsh was gradually reaching its climax.

And he, this deep-diving flood dragon, had already quietly swallowed a "delicacy" at the edge of this feast that was enough to change his destiny.