Chapter 1586 - 1109: Blood and Gore (Part 2)

Chapter 1586: Chapter 1109: Blood and Gore (Part 2)

"The Evil Ghosts in the Storage Bag, each slot can hold 99 of the same type. If only the Refining Workshop could stack them like that too." He muttered under his breath, spending over a million to open four work slots.

At least that gave him an extra twenty minutes.

He randomly threw the Evil Ghosts from the Storage Bag onto the slots to wait for refining, then Jiang Yuan went out the door, heading straight for his nearest target—the Thousand-Layered Hide that could drop from Insect Ghosts. He needed 130 pieces to build the Treasure Forging Workshop, and now he finally had some to grind.

"Wuu wuu wuu~"

He had barely stepped outside when a fierce yin wind swept past, and the sky changed before his eyes.

The clouds above first connected into thin strands, which at a glance looked like enlarged blood vessels from an X-ray film, or like a strange black spiderweb stretched across the sky.

"Tsk, this weather really is a bit creepy." He immediately took out a Memory Stone and casually snapped a shot, capturing a cinematic horror vibe.

Before he had time to send it to the group chat, the rolling dark clouds shifted form again.

Clusters of pitch-black cloud massed together, revealing slivers of bright sky behind them, as if the whole firmament were filled with gigantic black eggs, packed one beside another in dense rows, stretching out of sight.

"Crack!"

A bolt of lightning slashed across the sky. Even though Jiang Yuan didn’t understand meteorology or cloud patterns, he realized something was seriously off.

[The winds and clouds roil; foul entities emerge from the mountains. A blood rain laden with countless Evil Ghosts is about to descend.]

[Note: If you lack Purification methods, return to your courtyard immediately; if you possess the Purification Technique, and can ensure your own safety, you may attempt to slay the special Evil Ghosts carried by the blood rain for generous rewards.]

Oh? Who knew the Underworld had special mini-dungeons you could farm.

Jiang Yuan snapped his fingers, and icy-blue Flame spread along his arm, quickly covering his whole body.

Tenth Level Ice Flame—previously, when he released it, the Flame had been lazy and sluggish. Clearly, the polluted aura in the air here was far thinner than inside the dungeon, making its Purification effect half as effective for twice the effort. Now, however, the flames leaped and danced excitedly, even showing keen interest in the dense dark clouds above.

Unfortunately, his Purification Ability had its limits. Though the clouds looked low, there was still too much distance between them and his flames.

"Plop!"

"Plop, plop!"

First, blood-red raindrops the size of Copper Coins started falling one by one. Wherever they hit the ground, they fizzed and bubbled. It was as if the system was deliberately leaving newbies some dodge time; after two leisurely minutes of sporadic plopping, a torrential downpour suddenly crashed down!

Everywhere he looked, it was a sea of red.

The gale roared in, carrying a thick stench of blood that made it hard not to frown.

The idiom "blood rain and howling winds" was almost literally manifesting before his eyes.

The Ice Flame grew even more excited. The blue Flame shot up over a meter high, greedily Purifying every trace of blood that tried to approach. With Jiang Yuan as the center, there was a clean circle about a meter in diameter on the ground around him.

The stone ground corroded by the blood rain was still holding out; it could clearly resist the damage. The trees, however, were done for—their branches and twigs were wrapped in crimson, and chunks of bark peeled off and fell to the ground with the raindrops.

No wonder he could sense they were still alive and slowly growing, yet they looked like they were in a deathly slumber. Turned out they’d been corroded by this blood rain; no matter how well they grew, getting drenched once meant all that effort was wasted.

"Boom!"

A skeleton leaped out from the curtain of rain. The rainwater coursed through its white bones, dyeing them a gruesome blood-red.

[Special Evil Ghost: Thorn Corpse]

[A special Evil Ghost modified by pollution; cannot be recycled or refined. Killing it has a chance to drop rare materials.]

This skeleton stood about two meters tall, with horns on its skull and a row of razor-sharp spikes along its spine. Even its arm and leg bones were studded with bone spikes of varying lengths.

Jiang Yuan remained unhurried, raising his shield first;

The Clone Arm Ring was ready, standing by to strike at any moment.

Before his opponent could even enter its wind-up animation, he started his own attack at 0 frames.

Ghost Immortal Scripture!

Critical Strike -500!

Five Elements Cloud-Piercing Thunder!

-7000!

"Rumble~"

Centered on the target, the blast rippled out for dozens of meters, and all the Evil Ghosts that had just landed were blasted to smithereens by a single Cloud-Piercing Thunder.

[Tiny Select-Your-Own Building Materials Pack +5]

[Open to obtain 5 units of a building material of your choice]

"This item couldn’t have come at a better time!" Jiang Yuan was genuinely delighted.

He clicked open to check, and sure enough, a list of selectable building materials appeared. He only had to choose one and click claim, and five units of it would be sent straight into his Storage Bag.

He gazed again at the bizarre special Evil Ghosts raining down all over the mountains, and it was as if the Treasure Forging Workshop itself was waving at him.

Kill, kill, kill!

The Evil Ghosts that landed near the Fuyun Courtyard immediately tried to attack the protective shield.

Aside from occasionally throwing out Ghost Immortal Scripture to pad its XP bar, Jiang Yuan spent the rest of his time unleashing his Group Attack Skills in a full-on massacre!

The thrill of a Max Level Lord slaughtering in Newbie Village—he was experiencing it firsthand.

Once he cleared the special Evil Ghosts at the mountaintop, he headed down the slope.

And there he saw a scene that made his blood boil—the bizarre, unrefinable Evil Ghosts were frantically devouring the refinable ones!

The hell?! The system refreshes these things on a timer for me to farm materials. What the hell do you think you are, daring to treat them like an all-you-can-eat buffet?

"All of you just die for me!"

[Tiny Select-Your-Own Building Materials Pack +3]

[Tiny Select-Your-Own Building Materials Pack +2]

[Thousand-Layered Hide +2]

[Mysterious Soul Fragment +3]

......

The rain came as fast as it went.

With Ice Flame Body Protection Purifying the blood rain, Jiang Yuan cast Five Elements Cloud-Piercing Thunder with one hand and Devouring Mountains and Rivers with the other, slaughtering to his heart’s content.

First the rainfall weakened, then the Evil Ghosts stopped falling. After that, a fierce wind blew apart the grotesque clouds overhead, and the sky cleared once more.

All told, the blood rain had lasted less than an hour.

The upside: he’d farmed nearly a hundred Tiny Packs—materials he could choose anytime, anywhere. The downside: every farming zone had been heavily devastated by the blood rain and the falling special Evil Ghosts.

The once-abundant Evil Ghost populations had been devoured, leaving only a wrecked battlefield behind. Who knew how long it would be before the system refreshed them back to normal. Even the lava mudfields had stopped bubbling, turning into a landscape of blood-soaked sludge.

[Polluted lava cannot be excavated. You must first Purify the bloodstains with a Purification method, then dig it out to resume normal refresh; if you lack a Purification method, please wait patiently for three hours. Once the system finishes Purification, you may excavate it and resume normal refresh.]

The trees, the ground—everywhere he looked, it was all blood-red, and the air grew increasingly rank and fetid.

"No idea how often this thing comes. The courtyard’s shield is practically on life support." After Jiang Yuan finished cleaning up the battlefield and left the Ice Flame blazing over the lava mudfields, he rushed back to the courtyard to check.

The Level One courtyard’s protective shield glowed faintly.

It had managed to block the blood rain and the special Evil Ghosts, but based on last time’s experience, he could see at a glance that its durability wasn’t that high anymore. If an evil-storm like this hit again, he’d definitely have to repair it, and it might even damage the buildings and farmland inside the courtyard.

No, he couldn’t just sit and wait to die!

Jiang Yuan immediately opened the communication interface and asked Du Li if she still had any Advanced Arrays from their previous trades. At the same time, he briefly described the situation and asked Array Master Hao Daqiang if he could custom-design a powerful Array specifically to protect the courtyard from foul winds.

"There should still be some in the Old Alliance Warehouse. If you’re not in a rush, sir, I’ll go check the warehouse once I’m done with things here." Du Li was busy working with Yuan Man to oversee the Demon Cultivator migration.

Now that Mr. Jiang had urgent business, the destruction of the Demon Beast Teleportation Array was temporarily on hold, but scaring the migrants couldn’t stop, so Lan Shanying was still wandering around outside.

Some who could see the writing on the wall had already realized that leaving the Wilderness was only a matter of time, and they were forming groups to use the Otherworld Teleportation Array.

Yet compared to the vast Wilderness, these proactive Demon Cultivators were still only a tiny fraction. Most Demon Cultivators were still craning their necks in anticipation, hoping the City Lord and the Immortal Alliance would bring them new Demon Beasts and new hope; in remote regions untouched by the conflict, most Demon Cultivators didn’t even know about the migration.

Hao Daqiang didn’t reply, so he was probably in seclusion again.

Lately he’d had a lot on his plate—discussing and designing Teleportation Arrays with Du Li’s group, and studying the Arrays that Mr. Jiang had built for those Immortals. For all Jiang knew, Hao might not even remember where he’d left his Teleportation Stone.

[Black Fire Crystal +5]

[Black Fire Crystal +5]

...

Jiang Yuan tore open Tiny Packs like mad, stacking them in bundles of five. Together with the small haul from his recent farming spree, he barely scraped together all the materials needed to build the Treasure Forging Workshop.

He selected a corner and clicked build, and before long, an ancient-looking Treasure Forging Workshop stood completed.

Then he clicked on the Yellow Springs Ferry Blueprint he’d gotten a long time ago. One glance at the construction requirements, and he immediately lost all momentum—how could building a single Yellow Springs Ferry require so many materials?! Was he supposed to grind the entire map until the year of the monkey?