Li Yue stood in the middle of a gray, overcast land. The ground beneath his feet was brown, and the soil was mixed with a mixture of grayish-brown and blood-red. It looked like a mix of jujube cakes. As his nostrils flared, he could smell a fishy stench coming from it.
It was the smell of rotten blood. Even after tens of thousands of years, it was still so dense that it didn't disperse.
The sky was grey, so grey that it was hard to see clearly. There were no clouds, no sunlight, and no stars. There were only wisps of drifting mist that intertwined with each other. They were like resentful spirits that drifted with the wind. Occasionally, one could even hear low whimpering sounds that made one's scalp go numb.
This land wasn't barren. On the contrary, apart from the strange colors, there were many plants. The vegetation was also very lush, to the point that it was outrageous.
Li Yue swept his gaze over the surroundings. Within a hundred meters of him, there were many plants that he couldn't name. Among them, there was a tree that was especially huge. It was as thick as several people hugging it. Its bark was bumpy, and it was suffused with a greyish-white color. It looked like the skin of a toad. Its surface was covered with lumps. Some of the lumps had burst open, leaving behind a thick blood-like liquid that left a long withered trail on the trunk.
That tree grew strangely. It didn't have any branches or leaves at the top. The branches were thin and long, and they hung down from the trunk. On the contrary, its roots were abnormally robust. Its thick roots protruded from the ground, deeply rooted in the earth.
"There's no sunlight, so there's no need for photosynthesis. On the contrary, the need for nutrients from the ground has increased?"
Li Yue muttered to himself. Soon after, he narrowed his eyes and walked towards the big tree with its protruding roots.
"Ya ~ Ya ~ Ya ~"
In the distance, a black crow flew past, letting out a hoarse cry. It quickly streaked across the sky and disappeared into the distance.
"Three-eyed Crow?"
Li Yue's heart trembled. This creature had long since gone extinct in the Pure Sun Great World. It was said that it was an ominous symbol that foretold death.
Every Three-Eyed Crow was born from the condensation of countless vengeful spirits, and only those who were about to die could see them. That was why they were known as ominous.
Thinking of this, Li Yue chuckled and shook his head. He continued forward. He was very interested in this tree. He wanted to study its structure and analyze the situation of this battlefield.
He walked up to the tree, but before he could do anything, the slender branches on the strange tree suddenly moved. Each of the slender branches was like a snake, quickly coiling towards him.
At the same time, a series of popping sounds rang out. Not only on the tree trunk, but also at the bottom of the roots, the soil exploded. Thick roots coiled towards Li Yue like pythons.
Several of the bulges on the trunk exploded at this moment. Thick streams of blood flowed down, and the air was immediately filled with an extremely pungent smell of blood. Just a single whiff of this smell was enough to make one's mind empty, their souls stagnate, and their thoughts slow down.
"It has a lot of tricks. A man-eating tree?"
These tricks were pretty good. The bulges of the tree had exploded, and secreted a special lethal liquid and gas. The tree trunk and roots would bind the prey, and then capture and kill it.
However, it was useless.
Li Yue waved his hand, and an energy ripple burst out. It cut off the branches and roots of the man-eating tree. Suddenly, a low and sharp hissing sound rang out from the man-eating tree. It sounded like the screech of an owl. The hissing sound wantonly destroyed everything in the surroundings. The sound waves that couldn't be seen by the naked eye shook and exploded the vegetation in the surroundings.
"Infrasound?"
Interesting.
He didn't pay attention to it. The evolution of this strange creature was very special. However, Li Yue wasn't interested in the evolution of this creature. Instead, he was interested in seeing all kinds of information about this battlefield through its evolution.
… …
Around an hour later …
The man-eating tree had already fallen down. Its trunk had been cut open, and disintegrated into pieces. They were scattered on the ground.
Li Yue turned around, his face calm as he walked towards a direction, preparing to leave.
Through dissecting this man-eating tree, he had seen a lot of information about this battlefield. Under this chasm battlefield, the gray chaotic qi had covered it all year long. Sunlight couldn't penetrate it. At the same time, there were countless corpses buried under the ground. Each of them had an extraordinary origin, and they all had astonishing strength. They were great nutrients, great nourishment.
Therefore, many creatures in this battlefield had absorbed nutrients from the ground, or from the dead corpses. Some of the corpses had been dead for thousands of years, but they still hadn't decayed. They had even nourished many terrifying monsters.
These monsters all had different origins. Some were born from the battlefield itself, while some were evolved from the pets of outsiders or the descendants of demon beasts. They were ferocious, powerful, bloody, and cruel. Every single one of them that could survive had their own tricks up their sleeves.
For example, this man-eating tree had evolved into a brain, which was like a sarcoma growing deep inside the tree trunk. Li Yue had read a lot of information from this brain. Although it was broken, with his analysis, he was able to see some changes in this battlefield in the past hundreds of thousands of years.
"This is an incomparably dangerous place!"
"But to me, these are just small tricks. The ones who feel the real danger are the outsiders. If an ordinary Immortal Realm expert isn't careful, he might really be killed."
Moreover, there were countless monsters in this battlefield. This man-eating tree was just an ordinary monster that could be seen everywhere. The truly dangerous and powerful hunters were usually very rare, and they usually had astonishing strength.
If those geniuses were unlucky and encountered one, they would be in trouble.
However, these had nothing to do with him. Li Yue remembered his own business. His purpose this time was to investigate the connection between the dark space and this battlefield.
He couldn't wait to encounter all kinds of monsters. This way, he could obtain more information and understand the situation in this battlefield more comprehensively. He hoped to find a place or something related to the dark space as soon as possible.
"It's a pity that these monsters generally have low intelligence. Even if they have evolved brains, the useful information stored in their brains is too little. Other than eating, they only have the instinct to avoid danger …"
Li Yue shook his head. He could only hope that he could encounter monsters with higher intelligence. This way, he would be able to obtain more valuable information.
Others might be afraid of these monsters, but to him, they were just a source of information. The more, the better.
Li Yue walked in a direction, step by step. That leisurely look on his face was as if he was strolling in his own backyard. As he walked further and further, his figure gradually disappeared.
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