Lu Yu, pulled by Hai Wei, arrived at a partially collapsed hall.

The two lay behind the broken wall outside the hall and saw the wandering demon flower fish monsters inside through the gap.

Lu Yu also saw human figures, all controlled by demonic flower vines parasitizing their bodies.

The innermost walls of the hall were covered with red-black vines, and at the center of the wall was a large blooming purple-red flower, with a diameter exceeding three meters, covering most of the hall’s wall.

The good thing Hai Wei talked about was the fruit formed on the vines, which were fruits spawned from the Qi Blood and Spiritual Qi of parasitized creatures devoured by the demonic flowers.

Inside the hall, two humans and four sea creatures wandered about, and the vines bore twelve fruits: six red Qi Blood fruits and six Spiritual Qi fruits of various colors.

Consuming the Qi Blood fruits could enhance one’s Qi Blood, and consuming the Spiritual Qi fruits could enhance one’s Spiritual Power. The fruit condensed from the Qi Blood and Spiritual Qi of beings of which realm would be effective for beings of that realm.

The fruits appearing in the hall must have been from beings above the Air Control Realm. The Qi Blood fruits might not affect Lu Yu, but the Spiritual Qi fruits containing the Spiritual Qi of Air Control Realm beings would definitely affect him.

After all, his Spiritual Power cultivation was currently only at the first level of the Air Control Realm.

Fruits, condensed from the Qi Blood and Spiritual Qi of beings, are not sold in the marketplace because these items are not considered natural treasures.

Devouring and cultivating using the Qi Blood and Spiritual Qi from other beings would accelerate cultivation speed in the short term but would leave hidden dangers for future cultivation paths.

Unless one can completely remove the imprint of other beings from the fruits.

“Six monsters, are there? And it’s uncertain if that giant flower has any offensive ability. To be safe, there are at least seven monsters in the hall, not to mention those possibly lurking in the dark.”

Lu Yu peeked inside the hall, estimating his odds in his mind.

“The best choice is to lure the six monsters out, deal with them from a distance, and then tackle that strange flower.”

Having made a decision, Lu Yu handed the Light and Shadow Treasure Pearl to Hai Wei, instructing her to hide and not move.

After checking the surrounding environment and finding no hidden poisonous creatures, Lu Yu took a detour out of the broken wall.

He wasn’t certain whether the parasitic controlling magic flower vines were intelligent, so he didn’t climb over the wall directly to avoid exposing Hai Wei’s hiding place.

As Lu Yu reached the gap of the hall, the monsters inside finally reacted. Two demon flower fish monsters charged at the forefront, flicking their tails, quickly approaching Lu Yu with sharp tridents aimed at him.

Watching the demon flower fish monsters’ physical attack coming at him, Lu Yu drew out the Demon-Breaking Saber, burst his Qi Blood, and countered with a quick draw technique.

The demon flower fish monsters would clone martial arts to counterattack, but Lu Yu gave no chance for that, slaying it with a single blow.

As the demon flower fish monster got closer, Lu Yu quickly controlled his Spiritual Power to surge into the Water-Repelling Pearl, expanding its area of effect, making the monster plunge from the seawater into the air.

Boom! The sky-cracking quick draw technique struck with irresistible force, breaking the thrust tridents, crushing the sea creatures parasitized by the flower vines.

Even though the flower vines absorbed most of the damage, it was futile, as the power within the sea creatures had long been devoured by the demon flowers, turned into fruits. Now, they were just empty shells filled by vines.

Bam! The explosion of Qi Blood caused secondary damage, blasting the demon flower fish monster’s body into pieces, with a purple-red flower floating down.

Lu Yu swung his saber, slicing the flower atop the demon flower fish monster’s head in two and deflecting the incoming trident of another demon flower fish monster.

When the flower was split in half, Lu Yu noticed that the scattered vines of the fragmented demon flower fish monster twitched as if it was an unconscious reaction to pain.

He found that the bodies of these demon flower fish monsters were severely depleted of Qi Blood. With his strength, he could completely overpower these fish monsters, not needing to use sky-cracking techniques to slaughter these creatures by sheer brute force.

If it weren’t for the vines on these monsters absorbing most of the damage, Lu Yu would have easily slain these monsters instantly.

Seeing two more demon flower fish monsters rush into the Water-Repelling Pearl’s range, Lu Yu infused his Spiritual Power into the Demon-Breaking Saber, making its weight exceed ten thousand pounds instantly.

In this space, without the hindrance of seawater, the weight of the Demon-Breaking Saber could be fully unleashed.

He struck down, smashing the trident and arm of a demon flower fish monster, swinging again to smash the monster’s shoulder, cutting through most of its body. It only remained intact due to the parasitic strange vines.

Being nearly split in half did not affect the demon flower fish monster’s actions. Weaponless, the monster leaped at Lu Yu, trying to bite him.

Slice! The cut light flashed, shattering the flower atop the demon flower fish monster’s head; its movements froze, and it was cut into pieces by Lu Yu with several strikes.

The vines inside the demon flower fish monsters scattered all over; their bodies had long lost flesh, and only those strange vines sustained the sea creatures’ movement.

The following two demon flower fish monsters that charged into the Water-Repelling Pearl’s range were swiftly dealt with by Lu Yu. Though controlled by vines, when transitioning from seawater to air, their movements inevitably distorted.

After all, in the air, they couldn’t move by swinging their tails nor have the buoyancy that seawater provided.

After taking care of four demon flower fish monsters and waiting a while, Lu Yu saw no appearance of the two demonic flower Martial Cultivators. Returning to the hall’s gap, he lured them out once more, drawing out the parasitized Martial Cultivators.

These six parasitized monsters were not strong; with their Qi Blood and Spiritual Qi completely devoured, they were mere empty shells with strength only equivalent to Martial Cultivators of level two or three in the Air Control Realm.

Each monster provided Lu Yu with over 30,000 experience points, with the six contributing nearly 200,000 points.

With vines absorbing damage, the monsters had formidable defense. Without the strength of a fourth-level Air Control Realm, it was challenging to damage these empty shells.

While using Spiritual Power attacks, the vines’ defense would be even stronger, and upon absorbing sufficient Spiritual Qi, it could mimic and counter the martial arts used by attackers.

But these traits were significantly discountable when facing Lu Yu.

These monsters only have such limited strength, yet the Qi Blood and Spirit Fruit within the hall haven’t been picked by other Martial Cultivators, indicating there are still other dangers inside.

A danger greater than these six surface monsters, that is the reason other Martial Cultivators have met their downfall here.

Lu Yu quickly figured this out.

After killing a few monsters parasitized by the vines, Lu Yu halted the input of Spiritual Power to the Water-Repelling Pearl, causing its range to swiftly shrink back to its original scale.

In just a few minutes, the Water-Repelling Pearl consumed a quarter of Lu Yu’s Spiritual Power. Creating a water-free combat space within the ocean consumes a lot of Spiritual Power.

Plus the energy expended on the Demon-Breaking Saber, Lu Yu now has only half of his Spiritual Power left.

Glancing at the situation beyond the gap in the hall, Lu Yu took out a Primordial Spirit Fruit to replenish Spiritual Power. While the Primordial Spirit Fruit only helps Martial Cultivators in the Body Refinement stage enhance their realm, it is still very useful for replenishing Spiritual Power.

The Spirit Qi within the Primordial Spirit Fruit is mild and easy to refine, and a single fruit can replenish over 100 points of Spiritual Power; Lu Yu consumed eight fruits and fully restored his depleted Spiritual Power.

Eating eight Primordial Spirit Fruits is almost equivalent to eating eight medium-sized apples; only Lu Yu can digest so many fruits within a short time.

Other Martial Cultivators would fill their stomachs after consuming four or five fruits in a short time, unable to eat more. Even if forced to consume them, digestion would be an issue.

If they cannot digest the fruits, the Spiritual Power within the Primordial Spirit Fruits would not be absorbed and transformed into their own Spiritual Power; it would be wasted.

During the period of replenishing Spirit Qi with the Primordial Spirit Fruits, the Qi Blood that Lu Yu consumed also fully recovered, with his state completely full, Lu Yu took out the Seven-Colored Glazed Tower and walked into the hall.

The hall concealed an existence that could make other Martial Cultivators wary, so Lu Yu dared not be careless.

A phantom of the Seven-Colored Glazed Tower enveloped Lu Yu, he stepped over the collapsed rubble and entered the depths of the hall.

After entering the hall, Lu Yu discovered that the red-black vines didn’t just cover the deepest wall, but enveloped the entire hall.

The purple-red magic flower swayed gently in the seawater, seemingly like an ordinary marine plant.

Lu Yu glanced at the magic flower and casually bought a spear spirit weapon from the store. After weighing the spear and finding the force point, Lu Yu fiercely threw the spear at the magic flower.

The spear sped through the seawater, cutting a cavity, bringing up a mass of bubbles that surged towards the ground.

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Bang! Although the spear was sharp, it made the sound of a sledgehammer hitting a leather drum when hitting the magic flower.

Under Lu Yu’s immense force, the magic flower showed a dent; the second-grade spirit weapon-level spear didn’t manage to penetrate the magic flower.

Hoo~ The magic flower’s dent restored itself, a large number of bubbles flowed out from the magic flower.

Lu Yu felt the ground vibrating and quickly scanned the surroundings, finding that all the vines were retracting toward him, tightly wrapping around the Seven-Colored Glazed Tower, continuously shrinking, trying to squeeze the Seven-Colored Glazed Tower.

Lu Yu felt his Spiritual Power rapidly depleting; the Seven-Colored Glazed Tower consumed a significant amount of Spiritual Power to resist the vine’s encirclement.

Upon seeing this, Lu Yu hurriedly slashed several times, severing the vines winding around the Seven-Colored Glazed Tower, and stored the Seven-Colored Glazed Tower away.

The strength of these vines was not formidable, using the highly-consuming Seven-Colored Glazed Tower for defense was like using a sledgehammer to kill a fly; it was overkill.

The overkill wasn’t the key issue; the critical point was that the Seven-Colored Glazed Tower’s consumption was too immense. If too much Spiritual Power is consumed, and in a crucial moment, he wants to create an open Water-Repelling combat space but lacks the Spiritual Power.

After storing away the Seven-Colored Glazed Tower, the red-black vines began wrapping around Lu Yu’s legs, gradually spreading upwards.

The vines tightly coiled around Lu Yu’s legs like giant pythons, trying to crush them. But his legs seemed like solid iron pillars, unmoved no matter how tightly the vines coiled around them.

Lu Yu continuously wielded the Demon-Breaking Saber, sending out flashes of saber light to cut apart the surrounding vines; however, the number of vines was overwhelming. They unknowingly reached Lu Yu’s waist, and even his chest.

As the amount of vines on him increased, Lu Yu began feeling pressure.

Although his skin engraved with the Golden Armor Spirit Array could resist blades, it didn’t perform well against continuous pressure attacks; such attacks relied more on Lu Yu’s skeletal strength.

As long as his bones were not crushed, Lu Yu’s life wouldn’t be in significant danger.

But in areas like the waist and abdomen, where bones didn’t protect, he could feel his stomach tightening.

Lu Yu’s Qi Blood erupted, his muscles trembling fiercely, shaking off the vines a little, revealing a purple-black protective spiritual armor on his body surface.

Revealing the protective spiritual armor wasn’t because Lu Yu intended to rely on it to fend off the vine’s encirclement attack; it was to retaliate.

Once the purple-black protective spiritual armor surfaced, purple-black flames enveloped Lu Yu’s entire body, igniting the Purple Flame Demon Fire on the protective spiritual armor.

The vines suffered from the Purple Flame Demon Fire’s attack as if touched by a lethal poison, gradually losing strength, easily brushed off by Lu Yu.

Hoo~ A mass of Purple Flame Demon Fire spewed forth, filling the bubble formed by the Water-Repelling Pearl, and the vines entering the bubble all fell to the ground, losing their drive power.

“Is it because each vine’s Soul Power is very weak?” Lu Yu speculated, gazing at the vines that lost their drive.

The surrounding vines dared not enter the bubble filled with Purple Flame Demon Fire; witnessing this, Lu Yu smiled and maintained the Purple Flame Demon Fire while walking towards the magic flower.

The magic flower was the body of the vines; solving the magic flower would solve the vine problem.

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