Chapter 1078

Yang Kai had followed Ji Ping and his group and walked in this place for many days. Although there were some hardships, they didn’t encounter too much danger because Ji Ping had a classic left by his ancestors and knew which direction to go was safe.

But Dickey was different. They wholeheartedly wanted to find treasures here and encountered all kinds of danger. All the people around him had long since died, leaving only him alone struggling to survive, and his state was also not good.

Originally wanted to come up behind Ji Ping stealthily and kill him, but unexpectedly was seen clearly by Yang Kai.

He glared at Yang Kai viciously, angry that he had spoiled his good deed.

“How did you find your way here？” Ji Ping asked in a cold voice.

Dickie snorted heavily： “I’m not deaf. With the shouts coming from this side, how could I not hear？”

As he spoke like this, his expression became ecstatic, and looking at Ji Ping, he said： “Were all the things you just said true？ Can this Body Tempering Divine Pool really improve a person’s constitution？ Did your ancestors really cultivate to the Void Return Third Layer Realm？”

“So what if it is？” Ji Ping didn’t deny it either. Dickie had clearly been here for a while and must have heard what he said to Gui Che and the others. Denying it now would be of no use at all.

“Good, good！” Dickie was overjoyed. “It’s not in vain that I brought people to look for you for almost half a year. Before, I didn’t know exactly what you were doing, I just knew there were benefits to be gained. Now I finally know. Ji Ping, you’re no match for me. If you want to stay alive, then leave obediently, otherwise don’t blame me for being rude to you.”

A hint of panic flashed across Ji Ping’s face. He only had the cultivation of the Saint King Second Layer Realm, while Dickie was one small realm higher than him. He knew he was no match for him. But soon, that hint of panic disappeared. Ji Ping smiled and said： “Your current state isn’t good either, is it？ If you could easily kill me, there would be no need to say all these useless words. I just don’t know who would be the one to survive in the end if the two of us really fought now？”

“You’ve seen through it？” Dickey smiled freely. Without any embarrassment, he nodded and said, “Since you’ve seen through it, then I won’t play tricks anymore. There are only the two of us left here. I’m afraid neither of us can do anything to the other. How about we discuss it？”

“What do you want？” Ji Ping looked at him with some annoyance.

Although he knew that Dickey also brought people into this place, he never expected to encounter the other party at this critical moment. In his heart, he wished he could immediately kill Dickey, but he was a bit cautious and didn’t dare to act rashly.

“We won’t look for trouble with each other. Anyway, this pool is so big. We can both go in and temper our physical bodies together. In this way, everyone can get benefits and not hurt the harmony.” Dickey proposed with a serious face.

“Okay, I was also thinking this way. We’ve already come this far. I really don’t want to fall short at the last moment. It doesn’t matter if I share some benefits with you.” Ji Ping nodded readily.

“Then it’s settled？” Dickey chuckled.

Ji Ping nodded again.

The two of them looked at each other from a distance of more than ten zhang, both with satisfied expressions, as if they had really reached an agreement.

Suddenly, a dark golden armor appeared on Ji Ping. He waved his fists, and fierce forces burst out from the tips of his fists. Those energies converged into substance, like sharp swords, whistling and blasting towards Dickey.

The silver light flickered in Dickey’s hand, and the silver long spear appeared leisurely. The patterns on the long spear seemed to come alive, surging with a strong water-like atmosphere. Furious waves were generated, like a tsunami, meeting Ji Ping’s attack head-on.

The great battle was on the verge of breaking out. The two people who had just reached an agreement launched a killing move against each other at the same time.

Yang Kai, who was hiding in the pool water, sneered. He knew very well that it was impossible for these two people to coexist peacefully, because Ji Ping would not give Dickey time to recover. Once Dickey recovered, then he would definitely not be an opponent. So he had to fight Dickey at this time, whether he had the confidence or not. He also had to take a gamble.

Although Ji Ping’s cultivation level was slightly inferior, Dickey’s condition was not good. Without fighting to the end, no one knew which side would win.

Yang Kai watched for a while and then felt a little bored. He let go of his body and mind and no longer resisted the pulling force from under his feet, allowing that force to pull him into the pool water.

He wanted to see what mysteries were hidden in the pool water.

The dark red pool water tumbled, like boiling water. The various mysteries contained inside were boiling Yang Kai’s blood all the time.

He narrowed his eyes and sank all the way. After a long time, he felt that he touched the bottom of the pool. Only after arriving here did that pulling force disappear.

It was dark below, and nothing could be seen. The dark red pool water blocked the infiltration of all light.

Yang Kai had to take out a strange stone for illumination and hold it in his hand. He released his spiritual awareness and probed around. From a position not far away, a strange fluctuation of power came. He knew that it should be the location of the altar that Ji Ping had mentioned.

He didn’t rush to the altar but started to search around at the bottom of the pool.

After a short while, a spatial ring lying quietly at the bottom of the pool was found by Yang Kai. He probed into it with his spiritual awareness and checked it for a while, then Yang Kai grinned and laughed.

In this spatial ring, there was the thunder-attribute bird wood that had grown after the death of the Rank 10 Monster Beast Lei Luan, the carapace of the Red-tailed Purple-armored Scorpion, and countless medicinal herbs and Inner Cores of Rank 7 and 8 Monster Beasts.

This was Gui Che’s spatial ring！

Yang Kai stuffed the ring into his bosom with satisfaction and put it away carefully.

Spatial rings were very special. Because they had an independent space inside, they had a conflict with the Demon God’s Manual. All spatial rings could not be put into the Demon God’s Manual, but Qiankun Bags could. Yang Kai didn’t know why exactly.

Gui Che’s spatial ring had the most good things. After finding it, Yang Kai’s heart was greatly relieved, and he continued to search in the vicinity.

The Body Tempering Divine Pool was not very big, only about thirty zhang in radius, but its depth was more than a hundred zhang.

It was not difficult to find a few rings in such a place. Soon, the spatial rings belonging to Gan Ji and Luo Yao were also taken into Yang Kai’s bosom by him.

Above the pool, intense energy fluctuations came, intermittently interspersed with the angry roars and shouts of Ji Ping and Dickey. The two were clearly still engaged in a fierce battle and couldn’t part easily. Yang Kai paid attention for a while and felt that they simply couldn’t disengage for a while. Only then did he slowly swim towards the location of the altar.

In an instant, he arrived beside the altar. Looking around, an altar-like thing stood quietly there. There was an extremely complicated array pattern on it, and the surroundings were filled with with things like holy crystals, shining with brilliant crystal light. The energy fluctuations were alarming.

Yang Kai looked carefully and found that these holy crystals could no longer be called holy crystals.

They were better than the best top-grade holy crystals, and the energy contained within them was almost incomparable to that of holy crystals.

Was there a higher-level energy combination above the holy crystals? Yang Kai was slightly moved. He didn’t know how to call these crystals.

On the altar, the lines of the array pattern were like the palm prints of a person, densely packed, crisscrossing and extremely complex.

This place was obviously not naturally formed but was deliberately arranged. It was just not known which powerful person it came from.

Countless light spots, like fireflies all over the sky, were flowing on the altar, beautiful and magnificent, making people’s hearts flutter. The light spots converged into a stream of energy, seemingly running non-stop.

On the altar, there were countless natural treasures that Yang Kai couldn’t name, each one extremely rare and peerless.

It was precisely under the effect of this altar that the efficacy of those natural treasures was stimulated, and Yang Kai’s blood was tempered, allowing the purest Demon God Golden Blood to be born！

He was overjoyed and immediately sat cross-legged on the altar, wanting to receive a more intense tempering.

Who knew that as soon as he sat firmly, the entire altar shook violently, and the Divine Pool for Tempering the Body seemed to have been stimulated by something. Suddenly, the water level in the pool dropped by a large margin and rushed towards the altar ferociously.

Yang Kai’s complexion changed drastically. He simply didn’t expect such a situation to occur. He used all his strength to try to break away from the altar, but was tightly bound in place by the reversed water flow. He didn’t even have the strength to move a finger.

Releasing his spiritual sense, he clearly perceived that the water level of the entire Divine Pool for Tempering the Body was dropping crazily. It wasn’t ‘tthat the water in the pool was decreasing, but because it was being compressed by the altar.

Such an abnormality also alarmed Ji Ping and Dickie, who were engaged in a life-and-death struggle. The two stopped fighting one after another and looked towards the Divine Pool for Tempering the Body in shock.

After discovering that the divine pool was like a big hole had been broken and the water in the pool was rapidly decreasing, Ji Ping shouted crazy ly and rushed towards this side regardless of everything.

He had gone through countless hardships and even calculated many people just to temper his physical body. His wish was about to be fulfilled. Although Dickey was obstructing, he wouldn’t compromise. But if the Body Tempering Divine Pool was gone, then he would never be able to achieve his goal.

He abandoned Dickey and chased after the lowering water level like a madman, but he could never touch it.

Dickey was also dumbfounded and stood there blankly.

In less than ten breaths, the Body Tempering Divine Pool that was hundreds of zhang deep directly became dry. All the pool water was compressed into a small group and condensed into a one-zhang-square blood-red crystal like a silkworm chrysalis.

When Ji Ping chased down, he happened to see Yang Kai, who was trapped in the chrysalis crystal and looked like a dead person. The altar that should have existed had disappeared without a trace.

He stood there, his eyes dull, as if he had lost his soul.

A moment later, Ji Ping suddenly shouted and launched a crazy attack on the blood-red crystal. The full power explosion of the two-layer Saint King Realm made Dickey, who was standing in the distance, tremble with fear.

He thought he couldn’t take on Ji Ping’s desperate explosion.

But the strange thing was that the blood-red crystal was as solid as a rock. Ji Ping’s attack couldn’t destroy it at all, and not even a trace was left.

The ground suddenly trembled, and huge ravines appeared on the flat ground. The beasts that had always lived here sensed the approaching crisis and rushed out of their habitats one after another, scattering and fleeing.

Dickey’s face also changed, and without hesitation, he quickly fled far away.

Ji Ping also stopped his actions, released his divine sense, and sensed something was wrong. Finally, he regained a little sanity. After bombarding the crystal one last time with all his strength, he also prepared to leave.

But it was already too late. From the crystal, an endless suction force came. In this strange world, all living things, and even the vitality in the grass and trees, were attracted by that suction force and turned into little fluorescent lights, converging towards the blood-red crystal.

Ji Ping watched helplessly as his skin became wrinkled, his flesh withered, and his vitality passed away. In an extremely short period of time, time seemed to flow through him for thousands of years, making him become old and decrepit. Finally, he fell to the ground and turned into a pile of withered bones. When the strong wind blew, the withered bones also turned into powder.

Before he died, he happened to meet Dickey’s pair of extremely horrified eyes.

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