Demon Cultivator in Abyssal Era

Chapter 104: Chapter 98: The Second Blood Moon Reward

”...Blood?”

Chu Xiu looked at the tongue writhing in front of him as if throwing a tantrum, raised an eyebrow in silence, and lowered his head in thought.

While he was pondering, that raspy duck-like voice sounded again: ”The Countess had never left Lin Yuan Castle since birth, so the moment she saw the handsome Kobold chef, her 203-year-old maiden heart couldn’t help but race uncontrollably...”

Without expression, Chu Xiu sliced his finger with a Bone Spear, letting a drop of blood fall onto the tongue to stop it from continuing.

”Slurp.”

The tongue licked upwards lecherously, then convulsed violently as if it had tasted something utterly disgusting.

”Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! What did you feed me, you bastard! Such disgusting blood, so dark and filthy, did you get it from a creature in the sewage?”

Chu Xiu: ”...”

A surge of desire to smash the tongue with a punch rose inside him.

But he held back in the end, retrieving another item from the Storage Space.

[Lower Blood Demon’s Blood (Treasure)]

This was something that had dropped while defeating Blood Demon servants earlier.

He dripped that crystal-clear blood onto Laplace’s tongue, and it was rapidly absorbed upon contact.

The tongue wiggled: ”Pah, you give this lord such lowly blood?”

Chu Xiu said, ”If you want better, you’ll need to provide valuable information first.”

Actually, he didn’t have any other blood; he was just bluffing the tongue.

What Chu Xiu didn’t expect was the tongue started cursing again: ”No, no! Are you an idiot? This is the Rule! Understand Rule? With low-quality blood, you can only get low-quality secrets!”

”This city has seven great secrets; if you want to know them, you better get me high-quality blood! Understand? Idiot!”

Chu Xiu: ”...”

He really wanted to teach this foul-mouthed tongue a lesson, but the mention of the word [Rule] made him abandon the idea of coercion.

If his guess was correct, the tongue would only provide one secret a day, and the value of the secret must match the quality of the blood it absorbed.

If Chu Xiu gave it nothing, it would just babble meaningless gossip, counting as a secret too, like that story about the Countess. If Chu Xiu didn’t give it blood after it finished, today’s opportunity would be wasted.

Understanding this, Chu Xiu waved his hand: ”I have no other blood.”

”So poor, this lord has ended up with a pauper.”

The tongue muttered and paused for a moment, seemingly pondering what secret to tell Chu Xiu. Suddenly, it seemed to think of something, shook excitedly, and exclaimed, ”Oh! My Gastric Bag! I can feel my Gastric Bag was thrown down by that b*tch too!”

”Once I get the Gastric Bag, I can generate delicious Blood Wine endlessly!”

”It’s in that direction, about fifty-five kilometers away. Hurry, go fetch it!”

Saying that, the tongue jerked in that direction and then, ”plop,” fell to the ground, motionless.

Chu Xiu: ”?”

”What, is that it?”

He was speechless, just pointing in a random direction and asking him to find something fifty-five kilometers away? What do you think I am, a compass?!

Worst of all, the crappy tongue isn’t even a clear pointed structure; its tip is thick, almost rounded, and the body is slanted. Judging direction with it would at least produce a five-degree error.

And a five-degree error extending fifty-five kilometers would create a very large area.

Annoyed, Chu Xiu prodded the tongue: ”Hey, at least be more accurate!”

But after sharing the secret, the tongue became like an ordinary object again, with no reaction at all.

Chu Xiu couldn’t help but feel the urge to curse. However, at this moment, he suddenly thought of something, and uttered a light ”huh.”

He looked in the direction the tongue pointed and roughly calculated that... it seemed to be precisely where Lin Wanyue was located.

Chu Xiu’s eyes lit up; he found this logic very reasonable. Based on the tongue’s description, the Gastric Bag was likely also thrown down as a Blood Moon reward, and not many could claim Blood Moon rewards.

”Looks like it’s time to find Lin Wanyue a little earlier.” Chu Xiu rubbed his chin.

Originally, he planned to clear out the resources outside first, but now it seemed everything was progressing faster than expected.

But that was for later; the priority now was to clear out Warrior Tier monsters.

Without further thought, Chu Xiu waved the Yin Wind Banner, releasing a large number of Yin Ghosts and Fierce Ghosts, rampaging through the city’s streets like countless starving beasts.

Time to continue leveling up!

...

Two hours later, Chu Xiu returned to the outpost.

What troubled him was that he found out the Resurrected Corpses from the Corpse-Driving Technique had nowhere to be stored. They could be put into Storage Space as items, but their size was too large to fit.

Moreover, to maintain the connection with the Divine Soul, these Resurrected Corpses couldn’t be too far from him, this distance calculated based on Chu Xiu’s Mental Attribute, currently maxing out at three kilometers.

Helplessly, Chu Xiu had no choice but to find an underground parking lot that wasn’t easily discovered and let it hunker down there.

Of course, there was also good news. After he consumed the remaining marked Warrior Tier creatures and cleared out the Corpse Demons along the way, the scale of his Ghostly Legion expanded further.

Now he had sixteen Fierce Ghosts and thirty-nine Yin Ghosts.

The total increase wasn’t much, but the level of elite quality soared dramatically.

The Cause and Effect Points had also accumulated to 1500 points.

However, what made Chu Xiu feel regretful was that without a nest target, relying solely on hunting solitary Corpse Demons in the wild, his leveling efficiency dropped sharply.

Whether it was to farm Cause and Effect Points or to enhance his Skeleton Armor, high-efficiency monster slaying was necessary.

”The government is still quite shrewd. If they disclosed all the monster information, people like me would snatch them all up, and low-tier Awakened wouldn’t get a piece,” Chu Xiu lamented.

In fact, in most cases, what the government does is correct, maximizing the overall strength of the Awakened and increasing the probability of completing world missions.

But Chu Xiu was a special exception. Ordinary Awakened killed monsters only to acquire the dropped items and experience, while for him, both the monster’s body and soul could be fully utilized, so resources wouldn’t just be wasted; instead, the utilization rate would be even higher.

Therefore, Chu Xiu felt no guilt about seizing the opportunities meant for others. The Abyss is inherently like that.

Hurrying back to the gathering point was to see if he could find the location of other gathering points, sneak over and seize their nest locations as well.

Of course, not tonight. Chu Xiu wasn’t a superman. After wiping out two nests and nine Warrior Tier creatures in succession, the energy within him was nearly depleted.

Under these circumstances, even if there were nest information, he wouldn’t go farming, not because he was worried about his safety, but because without him specifically clearing High-Tier Corpse Demons, relying on the Ghostly Legion to fight head-on would incur heavy losses.

However, when he arrived at the outpost, he was surprised to find that the gathering point was bustling with activity.

”Why are you all not sleeping in the middle of the night?”

Chu Xiu was a bit dumbfounded.

And as soon as he stepped into the outpost, he saw Chu Qin hurrying toward him, ”Ah Chu, where have you been? I’ve been looking for you for ages.”

”What’s up, Sister Qin?” Chu Xiu asked.

At the moment, Chu Qin seemed busy beyond belief, pulling Chu Xiu along as they headed upstairs, saying as they walked, ”Something happened. A special horde of Corpses appeared out of nowhere and took out two nests near our gathering point.”

”The nearby gathering points are all in a panic, sending lots of people to track this horde’s trail, but they’ve lost its location.”

”According to the trackers, the massive horde just vanished all of a sudden! Absurd! Could the horde leader actually know Spatial Techniques and just teleported all the Corpse Demons away?”

Chu Xiu: ”...”

He remained silent.

He knew that causing such a big commotion would surely attract attention, but the government’s response was faster than he had anticipated.

This indicated that the person in charge of the outpost operations was very meticulous, considering everything thoroughly.

At this point, Chu Qin handed him a few sheets of paper: ”These are sketches based on the information profile. Take a look, and if you encounter it, run as far as you can.”

Chu Xiu glanced at them; the first few were sketches of Yin Ghosts and Fierce Ghosts, labeled ”New Type Corpse Demon” and ”New Type Corpse Demon Elite.” They looked quite accurate, even capturing the bone spike details on the back.

But when it came to the ”New Type Corpse Demon Leader,” the style turned bizarre.

The whole picture was just a blurry black shadow, with the only vaguely recognizable feature being two long sharp horns on the head.

”Those should be the horns on the Skeleton Helmet, but why are they so long? This is drawn like an Advanced Demon.”

Flipping to the last sketch, named ”New Type Corpse Demon Leader’s Combat Form,” it had many inexplicable dotted lines and a pair of huge wings on the back, looking incredibly intimidating.

This left Chu Xiu amused and exasperated, thinking this must have mistaken the Celestial Demon Hand for wings. And what are these dotted lines? Shadows left by my high-speed movement?

Still, you couldn’t blame the artist. Chu Xiu’s perception ability was high, and he hadn’t detected anyone trailing him, so that person must’ve been hiding very far away, probably catching a few glimpses by luck and then drawing from memory and imagination.

While Chu Xiu was admiring his portraits, Chu Qin took him to the sixteenth floor: ”At the end lies your rest room, the bed is already set. Don’t wander around, because with the nests destroyed, the people from our outpost will need to switch to other outposts to eat development and resources.”

”But people from other outposts don’t want their resources divided, so they’re still engaging in a tug of war. You might be needed at any moment.”

Hearing this, Chu Xiu’s eyes lit up slightly: ”Sister Qin, is there a good chance for us to move to another outpost?”

”Unlikely, but don’t worry, if all else fails, I’ll take you to roam around,” Chu Qin said.

”Roaming around,” actually referred to Free Exploration. In this city, there were still many High-Tier beings and nests undiscovered during the first Abyss exploration, and even where Chu Xiu had swept through, numerous Corpse Demons would remain.

After all, just as he had avoided hordes when he first arrived, those Corpse Demons, once sensing danger, would hide from him, especially the higher intelligence Advanced Corpse Demons.

Underground garages, high-rise buildings, large malls... there were too many places to hide, which was why his efficiency dropped significantly after clearing the targets.

However, this method only allowed him to scoop some soup after others finished eating the meat; unless luck exploded and he picked up the remains, the harvest was usually minimal.

”Forget it; being able to completely take down two nests is already an extraordinary gain.”

”Tomorrow, I’ll hunt for opportunities based on the circumstances. If there aren’t any good chances, I won’t wander around wasting time. I’ll quickly go find Lin Wanyue to investigate the whereabouts of the Gastric Bag.”

”And I must also collect the 300 Cause and Effect Points for refining the armor; that’s not a small amount anymore.”

With this in mind, Chu Xiu didn’t return to his room directly but followed Chu Qin to the front of Shen Tuhu’s office.