Chapter 1185 - 522: The Guiding Hill
"Okay."
Ning Qi agreed, continuing to explore forward.
The two walked one after the other through a corridor.
Finally, they arrived at an open area.
At this moment, Ning Qi felt he saw a familiar scene.
There were several different passages here.
And among them was the Blood Pool he had been to before.
He went directly to this secret chamber, and as expected, it was a Blood Pool.
"This is..."
Ning Qi looked at the Blood Pool in front of him and couldn’t help but widen his eyes.
He never expected to encounter a Blood Pool.
The difference was, there was no Bronze Tripod here.
Just a simple Blood Pool.
"What, have you been here before?"
Xu Qingqiu, seeing his surprised expression, couldn’t help but ask.
"Yes, I’ve been to a similar place."
"But it’s a bit different; the previous one had a Bronze Tripod, and this one has nothing."
Ning Qi shook his head, frowned, and looked at the Blood Pool in front of him: "It’s really strange, why is there a Blood Pool here too?"
"These energies and blood, still so scarlet after so long, something must be wrong!"
Xu Qingqiu looked at the Blood Pool in front of them and couldn’t help but say: "We should still be cautious, I feel something’s off about this Blood Pool."
"Alright, but I can try and see if this Blood Pool is the same!"
Ning Qi nodded, then beckoned and directly brought out his Bronze Tripod.
"Buzz!"
After it appeared, the Bronze Tripod let out a buzzing sound.
The blood water in the Blood Pool began to churn continuously.
Just like tides, instantly filling the surroundings with waves of blood energy.
This only brought a slight smell of blood.
"Collect."
Ning Qi shouted, controlling his Bronze Tripod to devour towards the Blood Pool below.
"Whoosh!"
Following this, the Bronze Tripod began to emit a powerful tearing force.
It started absorbing the blood water from the Blood Pool.
"Splash!"
In an instant, the blood water in the Blood Pool uncontrollably surged towards them.
Xu Qingqiu was startled and stepped back, ready to defend.
"Don’t worry, my Bronze Tripod is specifically meant to suppress Blood Pools!"
After comforting her, Ning Qi turned his attention back to the Blood Pool.
He discovered these blood waters were akin to his Bronze Tripod.
Meaning, these blood waters might also originate from the Bronze Tripod.
Or like the blood water in the Bronze Tripod, they are from the same clan.
After they were killed, their fresh blood was taken.
This is possible, so what is this?
Having just one is cruel enough, yet here appears another.
Ning Qi looked at the Blood Pool, unable to make sense of it.
This kind of thing, tracing it to its source is impossible, after all, these instigators have been dead for countless years.
"Crash!"
After half an incense stick’s time, the blood water here had been completely absorbed.
Leaving only an empty Blood Pool.
In the center of the pool, there’s an Array.
Within it, Spiritual Marrow was operating, but not activated.
It had no substantial effect.
"If this Array were activated, what would happen?"
Xu Qingqiu was curious, given Ning Qi mentioned having seen this Blood Pool.
"I don’t know, the Blood Pool I saw before didn’t have this Array."
Ning Qi shook his head, showing a solemn expression: "Let me try to activate this Array and see if anything happens."
"Be careful."
Xu Qingqiu was somewhat worried and couldn’t help but remind him.
"Go wait at the entrance, just in case!"
Ning Qi pointed towards the entrance, indicating her to wait there.
"I’ll stay right here, if anything happens, I can still help in time!"
Unknown to Ning Qi, Xu Qingqiu shook her head and had no intention of leaving.
Seeing her determined look, Ning Qi said no more.
Instead, he directly leaped towards the center of the Array.
Looking at the Array beneath him, Ning Qi circulated the Immortal Demon Power.
He then gathered it into a beam, shooting it towards the Array below.
"Bang!"
"Boom..."
The next moment, as the Array was struck, it burst out with countless dazzling lights.
Just like blood water being vaporized, it surged towards the cave’s top.
Under the filling, the entire chamber began to shake.
Within this Array, a thick surge of blood water emerged, as if it were forcibly fused together.
Compared to the blood water Ning Qi had seen in the two Blood Pools, this was much richer.
"Be careful!"
Xu Qingqiu outside reminded Ning Qi: "Come out first!"
"Don’t worry, this is not dangerous!"
Ning Qi waved her off and focused his attention back on the Blood Pool before him.
By now, the Blood Pool had started to churn out some blood water.
This blood water rolled and flowed, just like it was steamed, gradually solidifying.
"What’s going on?"
Ning Qi thought to himself and summoned the Bronze Tripod: "Go!"
He wanted the Bronze Tripod to continue absorbing the blood water here.
No matter what, these could be stored, to explore the Bronze Tripod’s blood water later to find out its purpose.
"Whoosh!"
"Pierce!"
As expected, the blood water here was successfully absorbed by the Bronze Tripod.
It was as if the Bronze Tripod was naturally meant to suppress this blood water, rendering it weak before it.
"Whoosh!"
And so, after one two-hour period, the blood water was completely absorbed.
Even the initially radiant Array had dimmed, the Spiritual Marrow fueling it had lost its luster.