Chapter 686 - 656: Blissful Troubles

To be honest, everyone was a little terrified by the news Lin Xinghai delivered.

The saying goes that when the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up, but they doubted whether those "tall ones" could actually bear the weight—or bear it completely.

After all, the Mutated Zombies still held an absolute advantage in terms of numbers.

Now, they were even amassing more forces. The Abyssal Passage hadn’t closed, and a steady stream of Abyssal Creatures and Mutated Zombies was still pouring out.

No one knew just how terrifying it would be when the enemy finally launched their premeditated attack.

So, Lin Xinghai’s words didn’t offer them much comfort.

Lin Xinghai frowned at the sight and was about to say more, but Liu Miaomiao spoke up first. "We’re far better prepared than any other squad. Plus, we have Ah Xing. Our chances of survival are much higher, even if we run into trouble. If they’re not scared, then we have no reason to be."

"Besides, on the way here, everyone has already used at least two Blood Bags! And we’ll only be able to use more after entering this district."

At her words, the members who had shown fear in their eyes instantly became resolute.

As the saying goes, "Men die in pursuit of wealth, and birds die in pursuit of food." As long as the reward was great enough, plenty of people were willing to risk their lives.

Two Blood Bags might not sound like much, but it was actually an incredible amount.

After all, a single Blood Bag was equivalent to ten Nine Yang Blood Pills.

A single Nine Yang Blood Pill sold on the market for a full 30,000 Huaxia Coins. This meant that based on potency alone, one Blood Bag was worth 300,000 Huaxia Coins.

Moments ago, each person had essentially received a windfall of 600,000 Huaxia Coins. From that perspective alone, the temptation was hard to resist.

What’s more, the truly important aspect of a Blood Bag was its incredibly fast absorption rate. A single Blood Bag could be fully absorbed in just ten minutes, increasing one’s total Blood Qi Power by a full 10 points.

That might not sound like a lot, but at the Blood Qi Realm, an increase of 100 points in total Blood Qi Power was enough to break through to the next Small Realm of Cultivation.

There were still some members in the squad at the Blood Qi Realm Late Stage who needed only ten Blood Bags to reach the Peak of Blood Qi Realm.

And based on Lin Xinghai’s hunting speed, it was estimated that in just over an hour, he could secure more than ten Blood Bags for every member, allowing them to advance a Small Realm.

This was a prospect that would drive anyone into a frenzy.

Even for people like Yan Feijie, who had already reached the Peak of Blood Qi Realm and were in the stage of accumulating their total Blood Qi Power, this was no exception.

Whether they could compress one or two years of Cultivation into a single day all depended on this opportunity.

"Son of a bitch, who cares if I die! My total Blood Qi Power is going to break a thousand today," Little Fatty said, gritting his teeth.

The others’ eyes burned with intensity, their fighting spirit soaring.

Seeing this, Lin Xinghai gave Liu Miaomiao a thumbs-up and then ordered the squad to move out.

The convoy soon pushed forward. After they entered the new area, the Abyssal Creatures became incredibly dense. A new wave appeared almost every two to three hundred meters.

Often, they had just finished off one wave of Mutated Zombies when the next one was already upon them.

Moreover, since the proportion of Abyssal Creatures carrying Blood Bags had increased to one in five, the number of Blood Bags they acquired was soaring.

Killing 100 Abyssal Creatures yielded 20 Blood Bags. For the Xinghai Squad, it was practically like finding free money.

After all, a typical squad would be heavily restricted in this green Poisonous Fog District. If they encountered a group of over a hundred Abyssal Creatures, it would take them at least five to ten minutes to annihilate the enemy without any casualties.

If Mutated Zombies were involved, it would be normal for that time to extend to fifteen or twenty minutes.

That’s right. In this district, the number of Mutated Zombies hadn’t decreased; it had actually increased, appearing in greater numbers than they usually encountered.

Of course, the vast majority were First and Second Level Mutated Zombies; even Third Level ones were quite rare. However, most of these Mutated Zombies were ranged attackers, as if their sole purpose was to deliberately slow the squad’s progress in hunting Abyssal Creatures.

Therefore, for other squads, while this place was better than elsewhere, they would find the actual hunting to be far less easy than anticipated.

But things were different for the Xinghai Squad. With Lin Xinghai present, any Mutated Zombie below Level 4 was a free kill, and ranged Mutated Zombies were no exception.

Thanks to Lin Xinghai’s Speed, he could dash out, kill a Mutated Zombie, and return in two or three seconds at most. It was impossible for it to affect their rate of advance.

With the Xinghai Squad’s incredible speed and the high density of Zombies here, they could annihilate an entire group of Abyssal Creatures in about a minute.

Considering they earned 20 Blood Bags for each group of Abyssal Creatures they killed, that meant they could obtain nearly 200 Blood Bags in just ten minutes.

This incredible efficiency even stunned Lin Xinghai himself.

Previously, they had spent an entire afternoon just to get nearly 600 Blood Bags.

It was true that their current massive haul was only possible because the Abyssal Plane had deliberately created these "traps" everywhere as night fell.

Even so, the members of the Xinghai Squad were still dumbfounded. After all, a haul this large was frankly terrifying.

This also led to a situation no one had anticipated: they were acquiring Blood Bags faster than they could absorb them.

Normally, it took a person ten minutes to absorb a single Blood Bag. This meant that for the fifty members of the Xinghai Squad, the entire group could only absorb a total of 50 Blood Bags every ten minutes.

Of course, Lin Xinghai and Liu Miaomiao were special cases. Lin Xinghai had his Time Acceleration Ability, and with his innate talent and the bonus from his heart’s metamorphosis, he could absorb a Blood Bag in 30 seconds. Even so, he could only absorb a maximum of 20 in ten minutes.

As for Liu Miaomiao, although her heart had also undergone one metamorphosis, due to factors like her Perception Power, she was still a step behind Lin Xinghai. Her absorption time for a Blood Bag was about 40 seconds, meaning she could absorb 15 Blood Bags in ten minutes.

Compared to the others, the two of them were practically a bug in the system.

But even so, the entire squad could only absorb a total of 83 Blood Bags every ten minutes.

"Boss, we can’t take much more! Our meridians are swelling. What do we do?" Little Fatty cried out after consuming another Blood Bag.

It had been less than five minutes since he’d consumed his previous Blood Bag, and his body was still surging with potent Blood Qi Power.

Now, after consuming another one, it was like having the Blood Qi Power of one and a half Blood Bags coursing through him.

If not for the extreme purity of the Blood Qi Power within the Blood Bags, he would have suffered a severe backlash long ago for daring to consume so much of any ordinary Elixir.

But even so, his meridians were reaching their limit. The others were likely in a similar state.