Blood Crystals

The Netherlamp Behemoth furiously roared, and thousands of tongues quickly shot towards the girls.

Ziyun instantly unleashed her ice breath, the tongues froze mid way and crumbled to the ground, she warned "Don't get caught by the tongue, it kind of makes you feel weak."

The girls didn't want to waste any time, they started using their best moves, Ziyun used Ice Age, while Ning'er used Thunder Storm as for Lanruo, she stepped away from the fight since she was only able to do physical attacks.

The attacks bombarded the Netherlamp Behemoth, it died in a split second. A miserable shriek came from it. The Netherlamp Behemoth wailed as the lamp on its forehead slowly dimmed and ultimately, died.

Itachi looked at the dead Netherlamp Behemoth and shook his head. He then looked around, only to find the entire place being covered by ice and Ning'er's Thunder Storm had even made a hole in the tunnel, revealing the outside. Itachi suddenly looked towards the hole.

"Hiss Hiss." A shadow can be seen slowly getting closer. This thing is absolutely monstrous. Before it, the Netherlamp Behemoth seemed like a little puppy.

"Move" Itachi warned the girls, he didn't want them to suffer any injuries now. Hearing Itachi, the girls moved away from the Netherlamp Behemoth and went behind Itachi.

Woosh! Woosh! Woosh!

A thread net shot out of the gigantic creature, and wrapped around the Netherlamp Behemoth.

As the gigantic creature slowly descended, it threw its forelimbs forward, pierced the body of the Netherlamp Behemoth and carried it up while flying away.

It's size is extremely large. The Netherlamp Behemoth that was brutally slaughtering the Scarlet Ghost earlier just became prey. It was captured by the huge creature.

"Well, now that that's over, we'll continue exploring deeper. We have to search for the twenty-three Stones of Light to activate the teleportation array to return." Itachi said. They can't be trapped here for long. Although they have sufficient food in their interspatial rings to stay here for one or two years, Itachi isn't interested in continue staying.

Ziyun came forward and pinched Itachi, saying "If you ever let me fight that kind of ugly monster again, I won't let you kiss me again."

Itachi immediately agreed, seeing that she won't allow him to kiss her. Seeing this Ning'er and Lanruo smiled, but still looked towards Itachi with disdain.

Right now, everyone looked towards the distant mountain. On the hillside, there seems to be little lights flashing.

"It couldn't be the Netherlamp Behemoth again, right?" Ziyun's face changed.

"It's not Netherlamp Behemoth." Itachi shook his head. The little lights on the mountains seems like the lights of a village. There should be people living there.

Itachi pointed at the direction of the lights and said "We'll move towards that direction."

The group continued their journey. Although those lights seemed to be close in the darkness, the truth is, they are extremely far away.

After a while, a lot Scarlet Ghosts gathered once again. There are at least a few hundred of them and the numbers are still accumulating.

"These fellas still dare to come." Lanruo's face turned slightly solemn.

"This piece of land is their hunting grounds. Since we've been moving around in their territory, they have been able to get ahold of our scents and gathered their comrades." Itachi said, while taking his katana and said "scatter, Senbonzakura!"

The katana disintegrate into millions on petals and surrounded Itachi and the girls forming a barrier.

The Scarlet Ghosts were jumping around.

One of the Scarlet Ghosts suddenly jumped towards them. However, just as it got close to them, the petals instantly killed it in one go.

Itachi and the girls moved forward, while the Scarlet ghosts surrounded them. With Senbonzakura guarding them, the Scarlet Ghosts wasn't an obstruction to them.

Suddenly, Ning'er realised something, leaped to the center of the pile of Scarlet Ghost corpses. A tiny, pea-sized object caught her attention. It's emitting a faint luster within the darkness.

Ning'er held onto the thing, puzzled by it, and said, "Itachi, I've found something. What is it?"

Itachi curiously took the item from Ning'er's hand. The moment he took it and looked it over, he knew it was a blood crystal with the help of the library.

"This is a Blood Crystal!" Itachi said, "Blood Crystals are a type of extremely strange ores. After being swallowed and refined by demon beasts, it could generate a surge of endless power, it even has the ability allowing them to raise in rank. Aside from that, the Blood Crystal has another usage. By sealing it within the body of low-grade demon beast, it could forcefully raise the growth speed. However, the demon beasts produced this way would become extremely brutal."

No wonder the Scarlet Ghosts here are so insane. Generally, the Scarlet Ghost likes to group up to hunt for prey, however, their guts are extraordinarily small. When encountering a prey in groups, they would usually tail them until their prey's physical strength was exhausted before attacking. However, these Scarlet Ghosts simply attack the prey as soon as they see it.

"You're saying that these Scarlet Ghosts have Blood Crystals sealed within them? But, why were we only able to find one Blood Crystal?" Ziyun curiously asked.

"The one that laid out this realm only captured a small amount of Scarlet Ghosts and sealed the Blood Crystals within them. The Scarlet Ghosts after that should be reproduced subsequently." Itachi said, "However, due to the first generation of Scarlet Ghosts already being violent, the later generations would also be extremely violent."

"So that's the case. It's no wonder that with so many Scarlet Ghosts, we only found one Blood Crystal." Ziyun and the girls understood what's going on.

Among several hundreds of Scarlet Ghost, only one of them was from the first generation of Scarlet Ghosts. How long have these Scarlet Ghosts been flourishing for then?

He never thought that he would be able to find such good stuff like the Blood Crystal so early, well now he would definitely kill all these Scarlet Ghosts, thinking that he smiled. They are even rarer than a Legend rank Demon Spiritualist. Seems like the person who did this should be a powerful and wealthy individual, since he used Blood Crystals on these Scarlet Ghosts.

Aside from the previously mentioned uses, the Blood Crystal also has another special refining usage for it. By getting rid of the impurities within, they can be used to aid the rise in cultivation and greatly enhance soul force. Even a Legend rank Demon Spiritualist would get some great effects from it.

Whish whish whish

All it took was a couple of seconds, Senbonzakura annihilated the entire wave of Scarlet Ghosts, that were surrounding them.

Itachi and the girls found a lot of Blood Crystals on the ground. Roughly within several hundreds of Scarlet Ghosts, there would be one or two Scarlet Ghosts that carried a Blood Crystal within them.

After obtaining dozens of Blood Crystals, Itachi didn't waste any time and immediately began to remove the impurities from the crystals. Since he already has all the ingredients he needs in his interspatial ring, he just began refining them.

The Blood Crystal slowly melted into the chemical compound that Itachi had made. The black coloured impurities precipitated to the bottom. Itachi placed in another chemical compound in and the Blood Crystal quickly recondensed, turning into purer crystals.

"Take how much ever you girls want." said Itachi as he placed them in front of the girls.

As according to Itachi's instructions, they kept the Blood Crystals with them. From time to time, they would draw out a trace of soul force from the Blood Crystal and refine it. The pure soul force in the Blood Crystal made some notable improvements to their cultivation.

The group hunted Scarlet Ghosts while moving towards the mountainous direction.

Just then, at the mountainside, two lights were shot into the endless sky.

"What's that?" Everyone was slightly surprised.

They originally thought that those lights were fire lights of a village. They never imagined that two of the lights would fly towards the sky. Just what exactly is happening?

Ning'er walked to Itachi's side and asked, "Itachi, are we still moving forward?"

She sensed a faint amount of danger. Those lights couldn't be some kind of strange creature, right?