Late at night, the Snow Mountain Range air felt unusually cold.
However, the Ancient Demon clansmen were completely unaffected, some of them even laid down half naked on the snow to experience this unfamiliar coldness.
At some point, snow had started falling, causing gasps of surprise to ring out as the Ancient Demon clansmen held out their hands to catch the falling flakes.
Everything about the outside world was fresh and new for them.
Yang Kai sat cross-legged off to the side, refining and absorbing the Soul remnants he had absorbed of those who had died in the previous battle just now while comparing and cataloguing their insights into the Martial Dao and Heavenly Way with his own.
“Master,” Li Rong came over and softly called out.
Yang Kai opened his eyes and looked up at her, “What happened?”
“I found something strange.”
“Oh? What?”
Li Rong quickly handed over what was in her hand.
The moment Yang Kai accepted it, he felt an odd sensation pulse through his body. Staring blankly at it, he discovered this object was a dark red stone about the size of a small clenched fist.
Yang Kai’s knowledge at a considerable level. Because of his immersion in Alchemy, he had become quite skilled at identifying or at least evaluating this world’s rare treasures, spirit grasses, and spirit medicines.
However, he was at a complete loss regarding this stone.
It had a reddish colour to it and felt somewhat damp, as if it had just been plucked out of a stream of water, but there was no sign of liquid anywhere on its surface.
What drew Yang Kai’s attention the most though was the huge force of vitality contained inside this stone.
In fact, listening carefully, Yang Kai could even hear a thumping sound coming from it along with the sound of flowing water.
There was also a thick bloody smell that wafted from it.
“Where did you find it?” Yang Kai asked.
“It was inside the Universe Bag of that person.”
She was talking about Zhang Ao but obviously never bothered to remember his name.
Yang Kai looked it over a while longer before shaking his head, “You’re unable to recognize what it is?”
Li Rong slowly shook her head, pondering for a moment before suggesting, “Perhaps Hua Mo will be able to identify it, he is the oldest of my clan…” Saying so, she silently sent him a Divine Sense message.
Hearing her call, the leaders of the Ancient Demon Clan gathered together.
The dark red stone was passed around between the five Saints but each of them only took a moment to observe it before shaking their heads. Like Yang Kai, they also noted the thick bloody smell coming from it, wondering why this strange stone seemed like it was filled with a massive quantity of blood.
“Sir Holy Master… can you let me take a look?” Wu Jie suddenly said.
Yang Kai casually tossed the stone over to him.
Wu Jie grabbed it and examined it carefully before condensing some of his True Qi at his fingertips and injecting it into the stone, causing it to emit a strange force that seemed to disturb the blood inside it.
Seeing this, the Ancient Demon Clan’s Saints couldn’t help staring in surprise.
Wu Jie nodded lightly as he handed the stone back to Yang Kai and said, “If I am not mistaken, this should be a Blood Essence Stone!”
“Blood Essence Stone?” Yang Kai’s brow furrowed while Li Rong and the others also wore confused looks, obviously never having heard of such an item before.
“What Zhang Ao was talking about before he died may be true…” Wu Jie spoke thoughtfully, “I thought he was just trying to lure Sir Holy Master into the trap that was set on his Universe Bag, but perhaps there was more to it than just that.”
“You mean, what he was saying about the Starry Sky?”
“Indeed,” Wu Jie nodded sincerely, “Because this Blood Essence Stone is not a product of Tong Xuan Realm, but something from the Starry Sky!”
Yang Kai’s eyes immediately lit up!
The Starry Sky was a place of legend in Tong Xuan Realm, one no one had ever truly explored.
Yang Kai and Di Yao had visited the Starry Sky through the Thousand Year Demon Flower many years ago and Yang Kai had even spent a year or so in it, but the Starry Sky was simply too vast to explore in such a short time. As such, after breaking through to the Transcendent Realm, Yang Kai had immediately rushed back.
“Sir Holy Master is aware that some unique products from the Starry Sky appear in Tong Xuan Realm from time to time, yes?”
“Naturally,” Yang Kai nodded, “I’ve seen some of them before.”
Back when he was a ‘guest’ of Bright Thunder Spirit Religion, Du Wan had taken out a strange blue stone that originated from the Starry Sky and used it to for a barrier to resist the destructive power of the Wind Eye exploding, after which the stone had shattered.
“Most of these unique products are strange stones which inadvertently land in our World after drifting here from the Starry Sky. Some have no effect and are just ordinary stones, making them worthless, but this Blood Essence Stone is different!”
“How do you know all this?” Yang Kai asked curiously.
Wu Jie shrugged his shoulders, “I had an acquaintance who possessed a similar stone before, but the one he had was much smaller than this one.”
“What is it used for?”
“If Sir Holy Master injects his True Qi into it, you will be quickly come to understand what use it has!” Wu Jie smiled mysteriously.
Yang Kai didn’t ask any more and simply held out the Blood Essence Stone and poured his True Qi into it.
In an instant, the stone went from dark to bright red and released a brilliant crimson light that caused the hearts of everyone nearby to jump.
The Blood Essence Stone then began emitting a strange force that drew in all of the spilt blood from the surroundings, literally pulling it out of the ground it had just soaked into a few hours earlier.
At a speed visible to the naked eye, subtle depressions in the area around Yang Kai began to appear as more and more blood was drawn out of it.
*Xiu xiu xiu…*
Tens of thousands of tiny blood droplets flew over from the surrounding dozen kilometer radius and sank into the Blood Essence Stone.