Chapter 922 – Secret of the Slash Marks

The skies were dark, like the eternal night had arrived.

If it weren’t for Qin Yu standing right beside Lei Xiaoyu, allowing her to clearly hear his breathing, she would have cried out in alarm.

The entire world was swallowed by darkness, making one feel as if they were the only ones left alive. The encroaching fear and unquenchable sense of loneliness were enough to crush the strongest wills.

Luckily, this darkness didn’t continue for too long. A faint blood-colored light sprinkled down from above.

Lei Xiaoyu’s eyes widened. She looked at the blood moon that had appeared. It hadn’t been there a moment before, but now it was in the heavens.

The feeling it gave off was that it had existed for tens of millions of years and would continue to exist like this.

“Big Brother Qin, this is…”

Qin Yu looked at the ground that was bathed in red once more. He slowly said, “I thought it was like this. A great terror is about to arrive.”

He looked at the blood moon quietly resting in the skies and his pupils shrank. Because today’s blood moon was even rounder and fuller than the last time.

This was likely to bring about unknown and even more horrifying changes.

Qin Yu never thought that his guess would be confirmed so quickly. When the tree hole started to shake, the dead heaven-reaching tree was revived once again.

Whoosh –

Whoosh –

Countless dead branches turned into bloody tentacles that shot towards the opening. Lei Xiaoyu shouted out loud, her face instantly paling.

Qin Yu pulled her back. Soon, the slashing marks at the entrance released a silver-colored light and the blood red tentacles stopped once again.

But this time, Qin Yu furrowed his eyebrows. He remembered that when the blood moon appeared before, the tentacles stopped a hundred feet away from the opening. But now they had come in even deeper.

Measuring the distance, the tentacles were at most 70-80 feet away from the opening.

His eyes swept over the silver slash marks at the tree hole’s opening. Then, he looked up at the even fuller and brighter blood moon in the skies. His eyes darkened. Was this the reason?

If the blood moon in this mysterious land followed the waxing and waning rules of the moon in the outside world, then this blood red moon still had a time to go until it became a perfectly full moon.

In other words, if Qin Yu’s guess was correct, then over the next few times the blood moon appeared until it reached perfection, the power possessed by the revived dead tree would become stronger and stronger.

Once the slash marks at the entrance weren’t able to block the tentacles anymore, this place of temporary safety would become a death zone.

After hovering around for a while, the tentacles retracted once again. Just like yesterday, the dead tree pulled out its roots, twining them into thick legs as it rumbled off into the distance.

Lei Xiaoyu had finally regained her composure. Disbelief flooded her eyes. “Big Brother Qin, this tree came back to life, it actually came back to life!”

Qin Yu looked at the direction the tree was going in. He knew that it was heading towards the same mountain valley from yesterday and the same bloody scene of death and slaughter would reappear. He thought for a moment and said, “Xiaoyu, in a while you might see something that leaves you uncomfortable. If you can’t stand it, seal your senses and stand behind me.”

Lei Xiaoyu pursed her lips. “I understand.”

Like yesterday, the withered tree climbed up the steep mountain cliff, rapidly ascending to the summit where the great mountain valley appeared.

The smell of blood from yesterday had completely vanished, as if some unknown existence had sucked it all up.

After yesterday’s battle, the number of cultivators and monster beasts that was reduced by half had basically recovered to the original amount Qin Yu first saw.

It was clear that this place wasn’t sealed up. It connected to the outside world, and this was the only reason it was continuously replenished with new troops.

If there was a passage, then this wasn’t a land of absolute death. There had to be a way to leave…

Taking a step back, even if this was a danger zone, Qin Yu would still use his fists and break open a path to survival!

Before he could think more, a chill coursed through his heart as if something had locked onto him. He could hear loud heaven-shaking rumbling sounds.

He turned his head and saw the massive body of a bone beast. Covered in blood red moonlight, it wildly rushed over.

It roared out loud, its giant hollow eye-sockets fixed onto Qin Yu. The gaze was so intense that it almost condensed into substantive killing intent…as if all the water in the world would be unable to wash it away.

The withered tree instantly reacted. Its legs spread out and countless roots drilled into the rock walls to fix itself there. At the same time, innumerable tentacles formed from dead branches howled out at unimaginable speeds, causing the air to explode.

In an instant, the giant beast collided with the tentacles and a sky-shaking explosion rang out. The tentacles that struck the giant beast instantly collapsed. But, they clearly had an incredible regenerative ability. The broken tentacles