Chapter 593: Blood Winged Eight-Clawed Dragon
As the group's spirits were bolstered by their consistent gains, they gathered Blood Moon Stones with even greater vigor within the Blood Moon Forest.
Ye Chen's "intuition" contributed the most.
Of course, several of the Zhou Family's true gods, and the young Zhou Yue, also made discoveries.
With everyone working together, in less than an hour, they had gathered more than nine hundred Blood Moon Stones, which left them with just a few short of their target of a thousand!
They even began to hope that they might gather even more Blood Moon Stones to save up some Black Divine Coins for Zhou Yue's brother, Zhou Dun.
This day was indeed when the Blood Moon Forest was teeming with the most monsters, and along the way, the group encountered numerous monster attacks.
However, as they searched for Blood Moon Stones on the outer edge of the forest, the strongest monsters they encountered were only of the Five Tribulations True God level. The six middle-aged men leading the way easily dispatched these monsters, ensuring that Ye Chen, Zhou Yue, and Zhou Dun remained unharmed.
Just when everyone thought this day would be a day of great harvest for the Zhou family from Fallen Moon City, they entered a mountain valley shrouded in a blood-red aura.
"Ye Chen, there are so many Blood Moon Stones hidden underground here!"
"This is strange, the bloody aura filling this valley is even thicker than when we first came from Circulation of Heaven Divine City and passed through the core area of the Blood Moon Forest!"
As soon as they entered the valley, Xiaojiu called out to Ye Chen.
Ye Chen too was somewhat shaken.
As soon as he entered the valley, he could feel the rich blood-red aura entering his body with every breath, nourishing his spirit wonderfully.
Ye Chen's mind swept over the ground and likewise discovered countless Blood Moon Stones hidden beneath the earth.
Clearly, this valley was no ordinary place; it was likely a precious treasure site or some peculiar realm!
While Ye Chen and Xiaojiu were closely examining this area, the six middle-aged men of the Zhou Family ahead also noticed the valley's extraordinariness.
"We've never been to this area before, but the Blood Moon aura here is so strong!"
"Blood Moon Stones, there must be many here!"
The six middle-aged men grew excited, and the young Zhou Yue and her brother Zhou Dun were similarly thrilled.
They had already gained much on their journey and had ventured off their usual path. Now they had entered an area with such a dense blood-red aura.
Having already found more than nine hundred Blood Moon Stones, if they discovered more here, reaching over a thousand to provide Zhou Yue with enough Black Divine Coins to go to the Circulation of Heaven Divine Institute would be no problem at all!
At this thought, the graceful and elegant Zhou Yue couldn't help but smile.
At that moment...
Both Ye Chen and Xiaojiu exclaimed, "Not good!"
Zhou Yue, who was next to Ye Chen, saw him burst forward at a speed she had never seen before, towards the six middle-aged men of the Zhou Family who were examining the Blood Moon Stones.
"What's happened?!"
Both siblings, Zhou Yue and Zhou Dun, were shocked.
Then, they saw a surge of blood mist suddenly rise in the valley ahead of them. Within the mist, the six middle-aged Zhou Family members vanished in an instant!
This sudden change completely stunned Zhou Yue and her brother Zhou Dun!
Their father and uncles were True Gods of the Four, Five, and Six Tribulations. How could they just disappear all of a sudden?
This was only the outskirts of the Blood Moon Forest; it simply wasn't possible to encounter something that could overpower True Gods of the Six Tribulations without a fight! Could this odd valley be the reason?
While the siblings were still in shock, they heard Ye Chen's voice, "It's a special space; this valley hides a special realm within it."
"They've been pulled into the special realm!"
"Let's hurry in and find them, don't let anything happen to them!"
Boom!
As Ye Chen spoke, he swept his True Qi toward a half-meter tall rock in front of him. The rock emitted a bloody mist that enveloped Ye Chen, making him vanish from sight.
Ye Chen had seen that the blood mist which had taken the six middle-aged men was emanating from that very rock, leading him to discover the special space hidden within it.
Hearing Ye Chen's words and seeing him disappear, Zhou Yue and her brother Zhou Dun bit their lips in determination. They flew to the rock where Ye Chen had disappeared and like him, swept their True Qi toward the rock, vanishing from sight.
Once the dizziness of entering the special realm dissipated, the young Zhou Yue saw the scenery before her, and her rosy little mouth opened wide in shock, her chest heaving dramatically.
She saw that it was a vast, somewhat desolate and dilapidated space, with piles of white bones strewn across the ground before her. Ye Chen, who had disappeared earlier, along with her father and uncles, were now looking up into the sky.
Her younger brother, Zhou Dun, was equally shocked as he looked toward the sky.
Looking into the sky, one could see a gigantic dragon, over a thousand zhang in length, lowering its head, its divine eyes staring right at them!
This enormous dragon had a pair of blood-red wings and eight blood-red claws.
As soon as she saw the dragon, Zhou Yue couldn't believe her eyes and screamed, "Blood Winged Eight-Clawed Dragon!"
She had never seen such a creature before, but there was a legend in Fallen Moon City about a formidable Nine Tribulations True God monstrous beast, the Blood Winged Eight-Clawed Dragon, in the Blood Moon Forest. This Blood Winged Eight-Clawed Dragon had devoured many warriors who entered the Blood Moon Forest, including a large number of Seven Tribulations and Eight Tribulations True Gods!
Zhou Yue had always believed that such a Nine Tribulations True God monstrous beast would be at the core region of the Blood Moon Forest. She never imagined that this creature would appear on the outskirts of the Blood Moon Forest, within this special space, and had even captured her father and uncles within it.
Looking at the countless white bones on the ground in this space, Zhou Yue knew that these must be the remains of the warriors who had been captured into this space by the "Blood Winged Eight-Clawed Dragon" and killed!
The families of these gone warriors likely could never imagine that their loved ones died within this special space.
Zhou Yue couldn't believe that they had actually encountered such a Nine Tribulations True God monstrous beast. Could it be that they all were destined to die in this place, becoming nothing but piles of bones?
Now that Zhou Yue had recognized the "Blood Winged Eight-Clawed Dragon," so had the other members of the Zhou Family.
At that moment, everyone's faces were deathly pale.
This was a Nine Tribulations True God monstrous beast, after all. The most powerful among them was none other than Zhou Yue's father, Zhou Tianhao, who was at the Six Tribulations True God realm. Facing a Nine Tribulations True God monstrous beast, a Six Tribulations True God had absolutely no chance of resisting and was doomed to die!
Originally, when the six middle-aged men from the Zhou Family were drawn into this space and discovered the "Blood Winged Eight-Clawed Dragon," their hearts sank completely. Now, seeing that Zhou Yue, Zhou Dun, and Ye Chen had followed them in, they became even more panicked: "Yue'er, Dun'er, Ye Chen, how did you come in here, too?"
"Run, run for your lives!"
In the midst of speaking, Zhou Tianhao and the other five turned their bodies around and were about to fly towards Zhou Yue, Zhou Dun, and Ye Chen, intending to quickly flee with them across the land.
At that moment, the "Blood Winged Eight-Clawed Dragon" in the sky simply opened its mouth and exhaled. A burst of blood-colored breath instantly immobilized all six True Gods, including Zhou Tianhao, on the ground.
Moreover, the "Blood Winged Eight-Clawed Dragon" looked at Ye Chen, Zhou Yue, and Zhou Dun and spoke in a human voice, "I was content to eat these six tough old fellows first, but I didn't expect you younglings to walk right into my trap."
"Oh well, I might as well eat you all together!"
The "Blood Winged Eight-Clawed Dragon" opened its mouth and exhaled again, and a burst of blood-colored breath shot towards Ye Chen, Zhou Yue, and Zhou Dun, binding them as well.
Then, as the "Blood Winged Eight-Clawed Dragon" seemed to pace leisurely in the sky, it glanced at Zhou Tianhao and the other five, then at the youngest Zhou Dun, and slowly said, "Which one should I eat first?"
The words of the "Blood Winged Eight-Clawed Dragon" made the youngest on the scene, Zhou Dun, cry in fear: "Sister, Father!"
Zhou Dun, just fifteen years of age, had never seen such spectacle.
The "Blood Winged Eight-Clawed Dragon" wasn't planning to kill them instantly but seemed to savor their taste, wanting to eat them one by one, which utterly terrified Zhou Dun.
Hearing Zhou Dun's cries, Zhou Yue, Zhou Tianhao, and the others who were also bound felt their hearts being torn apart.
They hadn't expected what was supposed to be a day of great harvest to end this way.
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Tears also streamed down Zhou Yue's beautiful eyes as she looked at Ye Chen, her heart filled with just one thought.
What a pity it was for such a young man who could instinctively detect the Blood Moon Stones.
She had promised to lead him out of the Blood Moon Forest, but in the end, she had caused him to lose his life along with them.
With her heart heavy with sorrow as she looked at Ye Chen, Zhou Yue was taken aback when her gaze fully fell upon Ye Chen's face.
Because she noticed that Ye Chen, who should have been restrained like her, was suddenly stepping forward, taking a step forward, and as if sensing her gaze, he turned and smiled at her.
"Ye Chen, how can he move under the confinement of a Nine Tribulations True God?" Zhou Yue's tears hung on her face, confused.
Then she suddenly remembered the way Ye Chen had swiftly flown towards her father and uncles outside of this special space, trying to save them.
That movement, Zhou Yue knew, was impossible for her own father, Zhou Tianhao, even at the Six Tribulations True God realm, to perform!
"Could it be that Ye Chen... his strength is greater than Father's?!" An idea suddenly flashed through Zhou Yue's mind.
As her thoughts raced, she then heard Ye Chen's calm and collected voice in the face of the "Blood Winged Eight-Clawed Dragon": "Xiaojiu, it seems I have to make a move."
Xiaojiu?
When Zhou Yue was still in shock, she saw the little sparrow on Ye Chen's shoulder suddenly lift off, transforming into an immense azure giant bird, a thousand zhang in size.
An azure giant bird even more mystical than the "Blood Winged Eight-Clawed Dragon" in the sky.
This azure giant bird even chuckled at Ye Chen, "Ye Chen, go ahead and make your move. This is just an ordinary Nine Tribulations True God monstrous beast. It's no match for you!"