189: The Bloodstained Realm! The Vampire Jungle!

"If that's the case! I can only go in by myself!"

Su Lie sighed, gave another instruction to the Little Skeleton of the Exploration Team, and then strode into the secret realm gate.

Buzz!

When Su Lie passed through the secret realm gate, he had the illusion of being grabbed by mist.

Amidst a dizzying spin.

Su Lie arrived in a blood-red world.

The ground and sky of this world were entirely blood-red, and even the plants were blood-red.

The location where he appeared was a corner of the world, and behind him was a dense, blood-red spatial barrier of the world.

Beyond the barrier was endless blackness.

"Is this a world fragment? Or a plane?"

Su Lie gazed in shock at the endless blackness behind him, unable to resist reaching out to touch the red world barrier.

In an instant, spatial power surged within the barrier.

Poof!

Su Lie's outstretched hand was instantly ground into powder.

He didn't even feel the slightest sensation of pain.

"Hiss!"

Su Lie stepped back two paces and quickly used the Limb Regeneration Skill to restore his lost hand.

At this moment.

Only then did he feel the gut-wrenching pain.

"Damn! That's truly sinister!"

Su Lie couldn't help but curse; he hadn't expected the world membrane here to actually devour people.

He turned and walked toward the blood-red wasteland ahead.

Plants grew profusely on the wasteland, and the wild grass was a full half-meter tall.

This wild grass was extremely tough; even with Su Lie's Level 21 strength, he couldn't pull it out of the ground.

"This grass is highly useful!"

Su Lie's eyes lit up upon seeing this, and he immediately said, "Should I take some of the soil that nurtures this grass back with me? It might also be a material!"

As he spoke.

He took out the Eye of Identification.

A prompt appeared in the Eye of Identification.

[Buzz!]

[The Eye of Identification cannot analyze anything nurtured under the rules of the secret realm world!]

Su Lie sighed after reading it: "I guess I'll have to collect blindly!"

Thinking this over.

He took out his machete and bent down to cut the wild grass.

Zzzt!

The crisp sound of the machete slicing the wild grass rang in Su Lie's ears.

In the area where the wild grass met the blade, a cloud of blood-red vapor was released.

Before Su Lie could throw the wild grass away.

The vapor instantly turned into a streak of light and rushed into his lungs through Su Lie's nostrils.

Immediately after, Su Lie began coughing violently.

A fiery burning sensation, along with a heavy, drowsy feeling, made him dizzy, and his whole body felt unbearably hot.

At this moment, he felt an indescribable sense of unwillingness to submit.

"Am I running a fever?"

Su Lie touched his forehead and found it scalding hot.

Furthermore, he sensed that his whole body was shaking, and his hands and feet were icy cold.

These were the physical characteristics of a fever.

"Was that vapor poisonous? But we clearly have the Severe Toxin Immunity Talent!"

Su Lie couldn't help but ponder quietly.

He immediately looked at his status panel.

He saw a dark gray icon appear next to his name.

[Under Spirit Curse Status, lose 1% of total blood per second, and lose 1000 Spirit per second!]

"Hiss! I was just cutting grass, and I actually got Cursed! Damn!"

Su Lie couldn't help but take a sharp breath upon seeing this.

He quickly took out the God-grade bamboo pill.

This was a pill refined from ordinary fine-quality bamboo shoots plus monster crystal.

After being Strengthened by Su Lie, the bamboo pill could cure all colds and dispel all Spirit-type curses.

He had prepared a large quantity of bamboo pills for this trip.

Gulp!

Once Su Lie ate the bamboo pill, a refreshing sensation spread throughout his body.

Su Lie's drowsy head immediately felt incredibly light again.

When he looked at the panel again, the Spirit Curse Status had disappeared.

"Hoo!"

Su Lie let out a mouthful of stale air.

He looked down at the wild grass clutched in his hand and saw that, within the short few seconds since it had been severed from its roots, it had grown blood-red root systems.

Su Lie put the wild grass into his ruyi pouch and started harvesting again with his machete: "Such tenacious vitality! If made into rope, it shouldn't be weaker than wula grass rope!"

This time, he was Cursed again.

Having no choice, Su Lie could only continue using the bamboo pill.

Just like that, Su Lie used a total of one hundred bamboo pills, finally collecting one hundred stalks of blood grass.

Su Lie then took out a shovel.

He planned to dig up some soil to take back.

"This time is primarily for exploration. If the materials are useful, I'll focus entirely on collecting these resources the next time I come in! Also, I need to test the ratio between the secret realm time and the outside world time!"

Su Lie muttered softly.

Thud!

He plunged the shovel into the soil.

Instantly, a large amount of blood spurted out from the soil.

A slight vibration surged up from beneath the ground.

Immediately after.

Poof! Poof! Poof! Poof!

The leaves of the surrounding wild grass instantly stretched several meters, transforming into countless sharp blades.

They actually sliced directly through the giant bear leather armor Su Lie was wearing.

Su Lie lowered his head in disbelief to look at his body.

He saw that the wild grass had stabbed him all over.

"Are you kidding me! I was just digging soil! This wild grass's aggressiveness is way too strong!"

Su Lie spoke in shock.

Large amounts of blood dripped from the corners of his mouth.

A deadly crisis swept over his entire body.

The endless weakness caused Su Lie to stagger and collapse onto the ground.

Whoosh!

Only then did the leaves of the wild grass retract.

Su Lie quickly used the Limb Regeneration Skill again.

After the injuries to his body were restored.

Su Lie finally climbed back up from the ground.

When he looked down, he noticed that his hover boots were gone.

And his feet were whiter than before.

"Holy crap! I didn't fall down by myself just now; my feet and the hover boots were corroded away by the blood that spilled out of the soil!"

Su Lie said in astonishment: "I lost my balance and fell because I no longer had my feet!"

He then looked at the giant bear leather armor on his body.

He saw that the leather armor was not torn, nor were there any holes left after being pierced.

This indicated.

The permanent durability effect of the leather armor had played its role at the crucial moment.

However, the leaves of the wild grass still pierced his body.

Evidently.

The wild grass possessed a power that could bypass armor and inflict "true damage."

And his hover boots also possessed the permanent durability effect.

Yet they were still corroded.

They were corroded completely along with Su Lie's feet, and he hadn't even felt any sensation.

It seemed this blood also possessed some kind of special effect.

Alarm bells rang in Su Lie's heart: "How can soil possibly contain blood?"

He slowly climbed up, muttering softly, "It seems that if I want to acquire resources in the secret realm, I need to be careful, careful, and even more careful! Being so reckless... I probably won't get far before I kill myself!"

"If I didn't have a healing Skill like Limb Regeneration, I would have perished here today!"

"Most importantly, the power of the guardian brooch cannot be triggered here!"

Su Lie took out the old shoes he had brought to the Mist World and put them on his feet.

Now, the shovel was also reduced to just a wood handle.

The excavated soil was no longer blood-red but black-red, and it had become compacted.

A nauseating stench of decay emanated from the soil.

The ground beneath the soil had actually recovered completely.

This phenomenon.

This gave Su Lie a sharp jolt.

He couldn't help but think of one possibility: "Isn't this similar to skin self-healing, blood clotting...?"

"Could this secret realm world actually be a living entity? The land is skin, the wild grass is hair..."

A terrifying thought emerged in Su Lie's mind.

He collected the putrid soil and placed it into his ruyi pouch, then got up and walked toward the jungle at the edge of the wasteland.

Twenty minutes later.

Su Lie crossed the wasteland and arrived in front of the jungle.

He stood at the boundary, carefully observing the nearby jungle. The chilling aura drifting out of the jungle, along with the sense of crisis brought by his God-grade perception, made him hesitant to stay.

At this moment, the Exploration Hint issued a prompt.

[Exploration Hint: The Blood-Sucking Jungle is fraught with danger, you can obtain special wood resources by felling trees!]

[Exploration Hint: Before felling trees, you need to use Exorcism Holy Water to pour onto the trunk of the blood-sucking tree!]

[Exploration Hint: You can use the Invisibility power of the Invisibility Cloak to enter the depths of the Blood-Sucking Jungle and harvest blood fruit!]

[Exploration Hint: blood fruit cannot be consumed directly; it needs to be purified before use.]

... Su Lie looked at the prompt before him and couldn't help but turn his head back: "What the hell! Why wasn't there a prompt just now?"

[Exploration Hint: This hint only provides information for areas you have the desire to explore, it cannot provide information for your desire to collect!]

"Uh..."

Su Lie was stunned, then stopped worrying about it.

He took out the god-grade glass bottle containing Exorcism Holy Water and walked step by step toward a nearby blood-sucking tree.

Whoosh!

As he approached.

Su Lie heard a series of dense rustling and coiling sounds.

He was shocked to find that the branches of the nearby blood-sucking trees were slowly growing toward him. They resembled countless withered skeletal hands, seemingly intent on surrounding and killing Su Lie right there...