Chapter 91: Husband, You Should Leave While You Still Can

He stepped into the blood cavern.

At first, Chu Feng had intended to rely on his memory to find the chamber where Lady Yun’s painting had once been stored.

Yet the instant he entered the blood cavern, he discovered that he was not in the space he had entered before at all, but suspended above a crimson lake.

Before he could even fall, a monstrous upheaval surged beneath him. From the scarlet water rose a giant head, jaws gaping wide as it lunged to swallow him whole.

Inside that maw were rows upon rows of pale teeth.

It was enough to make his skin crawl.

“If you want to eat me, you’ll have to do better than that.”

The Heaven-Burning Sword appeared in Chu Feng’s hand in an instant, and with a single slash he cleaved down upon the blood beast.

At once, the beast’s enormous head was split cleanly in two and dropped into the lake.

But the crimson waters churned again.

The severed head was swallowed on the spot by another colossal creature hidden beneath the surface.

The next moment, countless giant heads thrust up from the lake, their white teeth snapping hungrily as they tore toward Chu Feng.

“Wretched things.”

Chu Feng snorted coldly.

Facing those huge heads, he swept out another sword strike. Under the force of his overwhelming sword intent, they all turned to ashes.

Only then did the blood-red lake finally fall quiet.

Chu Feng had a chance to examine his surroundings in detail. He was inside a massive cavern, with a blood-colored lake beneath his feet.

All around him, it was as if countless strands of flesh were writhing; blood flowed swiftly along the cavern walls and poured into the scarlet lake.

The feeling gave Chu Feng the unsettling impression that he had entered the body of some demonic beast.

That was it.

The body of a demonic beast.

Chu Feng raised his hand and slashed.

With a tearing sound, blood sprayed outward and rushed at him.

A golden light flashed over Chu Feng’s body, blocking the blood outside. The droplets fell to the ground, where they hissed with green smoke and corroded a large hole into the stone.

And where Chu Feng had split the wall, a huge fissure immediately appeared. Through that opening, he could clearly see another cavern beyond.

A far more normal one.

In other words, it was entirely possible that upon entering the blood cavern, he had really been swallowed by a blood beast.

But the crack healed quickly, returning to its original state.

Still, it gave Chu Feng a warning.

With that first experience in mind, he found the flaw this time more easily.

Another sword strike.

Once again, a seam was carved open.

Taking advantage of the brief instant before it healed, Chu Feng slipped out through the opening.

Outside, he found that his guess had been right after all: he really had been swallowed by a blood beast and entered its stomach. Only the blood beast before him was merely the size of a puppy.

For a moment, he even wondered whether he had truly been swallowed by this puppy-sized creature.

Before Chu Feng could react, the blood beast bared its teeth and lunged at him.

Its mouth opened wide, and a tremendous suction force crashed over him, dragging him involuntarily toward it.

It was only a blood beast at the Fusion Realm.

The next instant, Chu Feng split it cleanly in two.

Blood spilled everywhere.

Just as he was about to leave, a crimson crystal embedded in the flesh caught his eye.

With a sweep of his hand, the crystal flew into Chu Feng’s grasp. A vast surge of life-blood power burst from it and was absorbed by him in an instant.

The crystal itself then crumbled into ash.

“Hm? My blood essence actually increased.”

Chu Feng was somewhat surprised.

He also noticed that each time he killed a blood beast, his luck value increased as well.

An increase of three thousand points.

Far less than what he gained from killing humans, but better than nothing.

Clearly, in this blood cavern, the one thing that was never lacking was blood beasts.

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Three days passed in a flash.

Chu Feng killed more than three hundred blood beasts, and his luck value rose by over five million.

His total luck value now reached forty million.

He was only ten million points short of obtaining the final five hundred words of the Great Celestial Immortal Art.

And after absorbing more than three hundred crimson crystals, his blood essence had increased by more than a full fold, causing the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art he cultivated to improve as well.

Through the Luck Shop, he had only purchased the first revolution of the Nine Revolutions Mystic Art, and even cultivated it to the perfect realm.

That was the limit of the first revolution.

He had thought it could go no further, but this time, propelled by the crimson crystals, it had broken through into an entirely new realm, raising his physical toughness by at least a full fold.

The first revolution, once described as sinews like steel and bones like iron, invulnerable and indestructible, had now become truly impervious to all methods.

After a bout of slaughter, the blood beasts scattered in all directions. The moment they saw Chu Feng, they fled as if a mouse had seen a cat.

It left Chu Feng unable even to kill more of them if he wanted to.

“I almost forgot.”

“My Lady Yun.”

Chu Feng slapped his forehead.

An incense stick later, he finally returned to the cavern he had once found.

The instant Chu Feng stepped inside, the dim cavern brightened at once, and the hanging portrait of Lady Yun drifted upward as well.

Chu Feng felt his vision blur.

He immediately understood that Lady Yun, aware of his arrival, was trying to draw him into an illusion.

He made no resistance.

The next moment, he found himself in a resplendent palace of dazzling splendor and exquisite beauty. Lady Yun, dressed in red, smiled warmly as she walked slowly toward Chu Feng, her entire body radiating a captivating aura.

“Husband, you have come.”

Chu Feng smiled and said, “Since I agreed to your request, of course I would keep my word.”

“Come, my wife. Let us go. I will take you home.”

Yet Lady Yun shook her head and, moved to tears, embraced him. “Husband, just to know that you came to save me is enough for me. You should go. You will not be able to take me away.”

Chu Feng replied with confidence, “Since my wife knows my cultivation level, you should also know my methods. A mere blood cavern—I can come and go as I please.”

“We are leaving now.”

With that, he took the initiative to withdraw from the illusion.

Once again, he appeared in the mysterious cavern.

Looking at the painting before him, Chu Feng immediately reached out to put it away.

But just as his hand was about to gather it in, a formidable blade intent suddenly descended from the void, striking down in a single cut.

“Brazen fool! Who dares be so bold as to come onto my turf and steal my treasure? Die.”

Blade intent raged across the sky.

The void shattered.

Because of that one strike, the entire blood cavern began to tremble violently. Countless filthy blood masses converged, forming a colossal blood-colored tiger that pounced straight at Chu Feng.

At that moment, Chu Feng finally understood what Lady Yun had meant.

That is to say, Lady Yun was not free, but under someone’s control.

This strike was very likely launched by the hidden mastermind controlling her.