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The blood moon cast its light upon Monk Minghui.

After waiting for a while, Minghui felt no effect from the blood moon, shielded as he was by the protective divine light of the Guixu Great Grinding Wheel.

In other words, the spiritual pollution of the blood moon couldn't penetrate his protective divine light, causing only a slight loss.

Upon further careful sensing, he noticed something special: the illusory image of the Great Grinding Wheel slowly rotated, refining the blood-colored moonlight.

This discovery delighted Minghui, as it meant he could refine this polluting power.

Wouldn't that mean that as long as he sat still, constantly bathed in moonlight, he could grow stronger?

However, he realized he was overthinking it; the Guixu Great Grinding Wheel could indeed refine the power of pollution, but very little.

Sitting still would indeed make him stronger, but insignificantly so, not nearly as fast as refining ferocious beasts; the difference was too great.

Then, with a thought, Minghui withdrew the protection of the Guixu Great Grinding Wheel's illusory image.

His body was directly exposed to the blood-colored moonlight.

"Hiss!"

Without the protection of the Guixu Great Grinding Wheel, Minghui clearly felt the spiritual pollution of the blood moon, its intense corrosive and distorting nature.

But when it tried to affect his spirit, the Guixu Great Grinding Wheel within his spirit rotated, likewise refining the polluting spiritual power.

At this, Minghui smiled knowingly.

Those not far away saw his smile, and they understood what it meant: the blood moon would hardly cause them any substantial harm.

After sensing it again, Minghui returned to the house, to a place where the blood moon couldn't reach.

"Fellow Daoists, I don't know if it's the effect of the Guixu Great Grinding Wheel on the spirit, or something else, but this old monk is unaffected by the blood moon; my visualization can even absorb the distorted and polluting spirit, turning it into nourishment. As for Qi refinement and body refinement, fellow Daoists will need to experiment for yourselves."

Minghui said to the others.

Hearing this, Jiutong and Sun Hui exchanged a glance, then walked into the area covered by the blood moon, intending to test the effects on Qi refinement and body refinement.

Soon, one of them held a bronze furnace above his head, while the other held a Tongtian Jianmu, and they walked into the blood moon's light.

Initially, under the protection of their visualizations, both of them, like Minghui, suffered no harm, and both the Heaven and Earth Furnace and the Tongtian Jianmu subtly absorbed the blood moon's pollution.

Then, both of them withdrew the protection of their visualizations, exposing their bodies to the blood moon.

They felt the same as Minghui, suffering the erosion of distorted and polluting spirits, but likewise, their visualizations refined it within their spirits.

They exchanged a delighted smile, then returned to the house.

"Not only spiritual distortion and pollution, but also physical pollution and Qi pollution; it can be said that the blood moon is a source of pollution targeting the essence, Qi, and spirit."

Jiutong concluded.

After a series of summaries and organization, by midnight, the group had simply explored the rules of the Blood Moon World.

"Tomorrow, we'll continue to clear the ferocious beasts from Nine Moon Lake. Don't approach the depths for now, and if you do, do it during the day. Although we can deal with those serpentine demon beasts, they're hard to catch if they want to run."

Although they didn't have transcendent beings, and individuals couldn't defeat demon beasts, they had weapons to deal with them.

Not to mention hot weapons, they did have weapons needed by cultivators.

Among them, the White Bone Pagoda was one; this pagoda could be summoned with points, but the cost was too high, and no cultivator had used it yet.

And although the four major forces had suffered no small number of casualties in their wilderness battles, none of them had summoned the White Bone Pagoda.

One reason was to temper themselves, another was to avoid being looked down upon by Xuanhuang, and a third was a competitive mentality; if other forces didn't summon the White Bone Pagoda, why should they?

Wouldn't that mean they were inferior?

Moreover, demon beasts weren't strange entities, equivalent to spirit masters, perhaps even weaker than spirit masters.

Spirit masters controlled strange entities, albeit half-crippled, but half-crippled was still strange entity rules.

What demon beasts could use was nothing more than 'demon arts', similar to innate divine powers, and a powerful body.

Against this, the cultivators had nothing to fear.

They could completely exhaust a demon beast to death.

The laws of Xuanhuang were called invincible laws not only because of their various auxiliary abilities and methods, but also because of the powerful combat power of the invincible laws, which was also an important component.

If they couldn't fight strange entities beyond their level, couldn't they at least deal with a demon beast?

"Tomorrow, the remaining personnel will continue to build the Nine Moon Lake base, and fifty people will be sent to deal with the demon beasts and demon people in Flowery Field Village that Brother Li mentioned… If everything goes smoothly and there's time left over, we'll go to Kaoshan County to scout."

"Agreed. Fifty people, ten from each of the four major forces, and the remaining ten representing rogue cultivators."

"Feasible."

"We agree."

"Good, let's do it that way. Rest for a bit, and await tomorrow's actions."

"Okay."

"…"

The first night in the Blood Moon World passed like this.

Meanwhile, Xuanhuang.

He had long since left the main group and headed alone into the wilderness.

The 'Kaoshan' in Kaoshan County didn't mean 'backing', but rather 'close to the mountains'.

These mountains were called the Hundred Thousand Mountains, a very common name, almost rampant in various worlds; it seemed that every world had such a mountain.

In fact, it was more of a description of a place that was sparsely populated, full of dangers, and difficult for humans to conquer.

There were various risks such as poisonous insects, ferocious beasts, miasma, and getting lost.

Such places were often rich in resources due to their remoteness, and Xuanhuang didn't go to the crowded counties, towns, or villages.

Those were areas explored and discovered by his subordinates; he was more suited to entering the depths of these desolate and uninhabited mountains.

Here it was more dangerous, and here he would gain more.

Drawn by the Qi, Xuanhuang came to a mountain stream, where miasma permeated the air, and visibility for ordinary people was no more than three meters.

But for Xuanhuang, there was no difference; his will condensed in his eyes, and he could see through not only the miasma, but even the earth.

The reason he came here was because Xuanhuang had discovered a spiritual vein here.

Of course, spiritual veins were not uncommon in small worlds; in previous small worlds, cultivators could cultivate because the heavens and earth had spiritual energy, and because the heavens and earth had spiritual Qi.

And the resonance of spiritual energy and spiritual Qi produced spiritual veins.

Blue Star really didn't have it…

No, that wasn't right, the previous Blue Star didn't have it, but now that Blue Star's spiritual Qi was rich, the prerequisite for producing spiritual veins was already there, it was just that there hadn't been enough time for them to be born.

Under the distortion of the Heavenly Will, the spiritual veins inevitably underwent changes.

However, the changes weren't that significant. They were, after all, entities without intelligence. The distorted Heavenly Will only altered their spiritual energy, not their essence.

For example, the spiritual vein here emits spiritual energy as rich as that of the outside world, but it is also as toxic, filled with distorted spiritual energy.

Xuan Huang came here for his plan.

It was for his Qi refining needs after entering the Second Order. He already possessed the Placenta Anomaly and wanted to preserve its miraculous ability to transform into Primordial Qi.

If he were to refine and nurture the spiritual vein together with the Placenta Anomaly, it would be equivalent to adding a huge amount of accumulation to the Placenta Anomaly.

To put it simply, if it could produce a wisp of Primordial Qi a day, after merging with the spiritual vein, it could produce a hundred wisps of Primordial Qi a day.

Moreover, because the spiritual vein was nurtured by heaven and earth and was similar to anomalies, it would accumulate strength, and the fusion of multiple spiritual veins could give birth to higher-order spiritual veins.

Spiritual veins in the small world are also divided into levels, such as First Order spiritual veins, Second Order spiritual veins...

This place is a First Order spiritual vein, and Xuan Huang has the ability to extract it.

There is nothing wrong with one first, one hair, one inside, one tolerance, one presence, one look!

The main body of this First Order spiritual vein isn't large. After Xuan Huang's investigation, he discovered that it was only about a thousand meters in size, but it could influence a radius of a hundred miles.

The closer to the main body of the spiritual vein, the richer the spiritual energy, until it diminished after a hundred miles, becoming the same as normal places.

Within this hundred-mile radius, Xuan Huang also discovered many medicinal herbs, but there were no extraordinary spiritual plants. The only extraordinary spiritual plant had also become anomalous.

It was a vine plant covering nearly a thousand meters, with dense thorns on the vine, the sharpest parts tinged with black, suggesting it was highly poisonous.

The thick main vines numbered thirty-six, each nearly three meters thick, with countless branches. The entire area it occupied, a thousand meters in radius, was devoid of any animal life, the ground black and containing rotten black soil.

This wasn't a demonic entity catalyzed by the Blood Moon but an existence that had lost control due to its own extraordinary nature.

It didn't petrify during the day like the demonic beasts catalyzed by the Blood Moon.

Plants inherently possess little intelligence, relying more on instinct. Therefore, extraordinary loss of control has little effect on plants, especially these demonic plants.

Before losing control, it existed as it was; after losing control, it only became stronger.

And in its center, a three-meter-tall peach tree. Xuan Huang discovered that this tree was covered with a dense aura of fortune.

It had reached the limit of becoming extraordinary. If it were delayed by another ten days or half a month, it might become a demonic plant like the demonic vine.

It could be said that Xuan Huang arrived at the right time.

Seeing this, Xuan Huang smiled, recalling the gourd vine at the foot of the Jianmu tree.

"I wonder if it's its fortune that led to its narrow escape, or my fortune that led to me encountering it?"

This was the second time, this miraculous fortune.

If he hadn't encountered the peach tree, the peach tree would have become a demonic plant, but since he encountered it, he gained an additional spiritual plant.

Who benefited?

The location of the demonic vine and peach tree was the south side of the spiritual vein's mountain. On the north side of the mountain was another demonic entity, a giant black cat.

It had nine tails and three eyes.

Each of the nine tails had an existence like a 'split soul,' equivalent to nine split souls and nine lives.

However, these nine split souls, due to their loss of control, acted independently and were not controlled by the main soul.

This black cat was equivalent to nine chaotic minds coexisting in one body, one could imagine how absurd it was.

The chaotic minds made it bizarre and awkward, with tails fighting each other, tails swaying randomly, and tails trying to burrow into the body, drilling the black cat's waist into a bloody mess.

And there were the strange three eyes, filled with crimson red.

This black cat was a walking absurdity, and its strength was not bad. Xuan Huang discovered for the first time a ferocious beast with mid-First Order strength.

The distinction between ferocious beasts and demonic creatures was simple: demonic creatures had wisdom and intelligence, while ferocious beasts were uncontrolled demonic entities without wisdom.

True demonic creatures didn't actually exist yet. Only on nights when the Blood Moon hung in the sky could the demonic creatures of the Blood Moon world temporarily possess intelligence.

The demonic creatures of the Blood Moon world could only be half-demonic.

True demonic creatures would only be born at the Fourth Order, demonic creatures condensed from True Self.

However, they still faced the same problem. Because the time was too short, various demonic beasts, demonic creatures, and ferocious beasts hadn't been clearly defined and named.

Some called them ferocious beasts, some worlds called them demonic entities, some simply called them monsters, some called them demonic beasts, and some directly called them monsters.

In short, the names were very complicated and needed to slowly form conventional names over time.

Qingyun Mountain was also in the process of sorting them out, with those that had lost control being called ferocious beasts, with distinctions such as Entry Order ferocious beasts, First Order ferocious beasts, etc.

And those with wisdom and intelligence were uniformly called demonic creatures, with those half-demonic creatures from the Blood Moon Realm called demonic entities.

Plants were classified in the same way.

Those that had lost control were called demonic plants, such as Entry Order demonic plants, First Order demonic plants, Second Order demonic plants, etc.

And those that hadn't lost control were called Entry Order spiritual plants, First Order spiritual plants, Second Order spiritual plants, etc.

Qingyun Mountain was slowly promoting this to form unified names and terminology, and it had already gained the approval of many people, including the Spirit Masters.

The Spirit Masters were also annoyed by the different names used by different people, which were too difficult to distinguish and needed to be integrated.

The black cat was a mid-First Order ferocious beast.

Xuan Huang restrained his aura, and neither the black cat nor the demonic vine noticed.

Seeing the demonic vine and the black cat, Xuan Huang's love for research surged.

He wanted to capture both the demonic vine and the black cat and see if he could transform them. He felt that the demonic vine had the greatest hope, and he wouldn't even need to take action himself; his little brother Jianmu could handle it.

The peach tree was the same. Going to Qingyun Mountain would be another gourd vine.

The black cat needed a major transformation. Since there were ferocious beasts and demonic creatures, why couldn't he tame a new category: spiritual beasts?

It was nothing more than suppressing its nine split souls, then re-refining its distorted main soul, giving birth to new intelligence, and adding a suppressive object to the black cat's soul.

The existence of the Three Treasures might be incomprehensible to the black cat because it lacked intelligence; wisdom wouldn't work either.

But he could replace the Three Treasures.

Starting... by imprinting his will on the black cat's soul to suppress the black cat's soul.

Afterward... after the black cat gained intelligence and became a spiritual beast, he would let it choose to comprehend on its own.

He would also study the cultivation methods of demonic creatures.

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, feeling that it was feasible.

Currently, what could excite and anticipate Xuan Huang was various research, comprehension, experiments, and practice.

This was his path, and it was also his hobby.

Learning from heaven and earth, learning from nature.

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