After Qi Feng left, Su Yueli returned to the crevice among the jagged rocks.
She pulled out the white jade bottle, uncorked it, and poured out the blood-red True Martial Blood Soul Pill, which was radiating a dense blood qi.
Just as she was about to swallow it in one gulp, Xiaohei on her right wrist suddenly began to vibrate violently.
With a flash of black light, Xiaohei transformed into a dark-gold streak of sharp light and landed in her palm. The blade rubbed against the pill, transmitting a sense of extreme longing and greed.
Su Yueli quickly held it down. “Stop messing around. This is the treasure I'm using to try and break through to the Eleventh Realm of the martial path. There's only one, so none for you.”
Hearing this, Xiaohei immediately threw a tantrum.
It wriggled frantically in Su Yueli's hand, conveying feelings of intense anger and grievance. The blade flickered with dark light, reminding her of what she had promised it back in the cave.
Its behavior was exactly like a child who had been swindled out of their New Year's money.
Su Yueli felt rather helpless.
It was true. If Xiaohei hadn't withstood the desperate, dying blow of the Earth-Splitting Bear back then, she would probably still be struggling to lift this arm.
“Alright, alright, I give up. How about I give you half?”
Su Yueli gritted her teeth and exerted a bit of force with both hands, snapping the extremely hard True Martial Blood Soul Pill cleanly in two.
She handed one half to Xiaohei. Xiaohei instantly snatched it up. Its dark-gold patterns immediately erupted with a blinding light as it frantically absorbed the massive blood qi within.
In just a moment, it let out a satisfied burp, transformed into a stream of light, and shrank back onto Su Yueli's wrist, lying completely still.
Looking at the remaining half-pill in her hand, Su Yueli sighed and swallowed it.
Once the pill entered her stomach, it instantly turned into a ball of scorching fire, exploding wildly through her limbs and bones.
Su Yueli's expression turned solemn. She quickly closed her eyes and focused, circulating her blood according to her cultivation route to guide this violent, immortal medicinal power.
The blood qi of a Tenth Realm Martial God roared like a tsunami, continuously devouring the medicinal power.
Feeling the blood qi throughout her body swell to its peak, Su Yueli attempted to break through the invisible physical ceiling in one fell swoop, searching for the legendary Eleventh Realm of the martial path.
However, as her consciousness rose infinitely alongside her blood qi, it suddenly crashed into an boundless, dense fog.
Everything around her was a vast expanse of white. There was no direction, no path, and not a single trace left behind by predecessors.
In the mortal world, the Tenth Realm was the absolute end of the martial path. There was simply no path to the Eleventh Realm.
She was like a blind person walking through a dead-end wilderness, completely ignorant of where the Eleventh Realm actually lay.
After an unknown amount of time, the medicinal power in her body gradually quieted down.
Su Yueli opened her eyes and exhaled a breath of turbid air.
Although she hadn't managed to break through the fog and find a path, she could clearly feel that her foundational blood qi was significantly stronger than before.
The next morning.
Su Yueli poured out another Blood Marrow Pill and swallowed it.
This time, she didn't try to force a breakthrough. Instead, she patiently directed all the medicinal power toward tempering her bones and meridians.
She sat there for three whole days.
It wasn't until the evening of the third day that the medicinal power of the Blood Marrow Pill was completely absorbed.
Su Yueli stood up and casually stretched her limbs.
Although she hadn't broken through to the Eleventh Realm, and still had no idea what it even was... she could feel a very obvious increase in her strength.
Buzz. At that moment, Xiaohei popped out from her wrist on its own.
Su Yueli focused her gaze and saw that the dark-gold blood patterns on Xiaohei's body had become incredibly profound. The cold gleam on its edge was completely restrained, exuding a chilling aura.
Heaven-grade high-rank!
This little fellow had actually advanced directly after eating half of the True Martial Blood Soul Pill.
Su Yueli was somewhat surprised. She tapped the blade with her finger. “Not bad, Xiaohei. You've become a Heaven-grade high-rank divine weapon. It seems that fighting that higher-realm demon beast was indeed worth the blood.”
Xiaohei spun in the air with great pride, arrogantly transmitting a thought demanding credit.
Su Yueli smiled, put Xiaohei away, and looked at the sky outside.
Night had already fallen, and the surroundings were pitch black.
“Four days have passed in the blink of an eye. Tomorrow is the fifth day. There are only three days left before our seven-day agreement. I need to get to work on the mission.”
Wasting no more time, Su Yueli moved. Under the cover of the night, she rushed at full speed toward the Rocky Wasteland on the west side of Black Wind Valley.
The wasteland was filled with jagged rocks, and a cold wind howled.
Not long after entering the wasteland, relying on her senses as a Martial God, Su Yueli quickly locked onto her target in a pile of rocks.
A completely pitch-black Red-Tailed Venomous Scorpion, its tail gleaming with an eerie green poison, was entrenched there.
An early stage Third Realm demon beast.
Su Yueli's eyes turned cold. Stomping her foot, she closed the distance instantly like a flash of green lightning.
The scorpion reacted incredibly fast. Its massive pincers snapped viciously, and its lethal red stinger whipped forward like a phantom, aiming straight for her face.
Su Yueli twisted her body in mid-air in an eerie maneuver, dodging the poisonous stinger, and unleashed Xiaohei from her right hand.
The sharpness of a Heaven-grade high-rank divine weapon was fully displayed at this moment. With a wet slice, it cut right through the scorpion's hard carapace and its massive pincers.
After a brief struggle, Su Yueli cleanly shattered the scorpion's internal organs with a single punch. She then cut off the venomous stinger and stowed it into her storage bag.
Looking at the corpse on the ground, Su Yueli clenched her fists, feeling very satisfied.
She had indeed grown stronger.
If this had been four days ago, she probably would have had to sustain significant injuries to take down such a large early stage Third Realm beast on her own.
Buzz. Xiaohei vibrated on her wrist, arrogantly transmitting: “It's all because I became sharper! I deserve the most credit!”
Su Yueli couldn't help but laugh. “Fine, fine. I'll give you the credit.”
With her first victory secured, Su Yueli set off to find the second one.
However, what happened next left her somewhat dumbfounded.
She braved the cold wind and searched until daybreak, but she didn't see even a shadow of another scorpion.
“Strange. Are these demon beasts really that rare?” Su Yueli wiped the sweat from her forehead, her brow furrowing slightly.
She decided to conduct a thorough, grid-by-grid search of the wasteland.
This search lasted another full day.
It wasn't until the sun dipped below the mountains and night fell once more that a faint rustling sound echoed from the sand ahead.
Su Yueli focused her gaze and saw a giant scorpion with a pitch-black body and a bright red tail slowly crawling out from a crevice in the rocks.
It was indeed the second Red-Tailed Venomous Scorpion.
Su Yueli let out a sigh of relief. “I finally found you. You really made me work for it. If I couldn't find you, I would have had to start digging up the ground with my bare fists.”
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