After being reborn, all I want to do is run away.

Chapter 311 Dilapidated Buildings

Chapter 311 Dilapidated Buildings

The village of Taoyuan was exceptionally quiet in the early morning. At this moment, Shen Xu and his group of four were heading down the mountain. Guo Yan couldn't help but turn his head to take another look at the village on the mountain. After letting out a soft sigh, he caught up with the group again.

"How long has Brother Guo been staying in Taoyuan Village?" Shen Xu couldn't help but ask upon seeing this scene.

"Time has passed in Peach Blossom Village. Xiao Jing's daughter is already fifteen years old. I must have been in Peach Blossom Village for nearly twenty years. I remember how spirited we were when Xiao Mei and I both broke through to the Blood Transformation Realm."

We came to the True Blood Battlefield because we didn't want to be bound by the royal family and wanted to see a higher view. We never expected to be trapped here for so long, wasting so many precious years of our lives.

So I genuinely want to help you get out of this situation. You are much younger than we were back then, and you can't afford to repeat what we went through.

"Brother Guo, please rest assured, we will definitely all get out of here safely," Shen Xu said with a smile, trying to reassure him.

"That's all we can hope for!"

"If we head in that direction, we should reach the first marker on the map, which is a barren hilltop. If we don't encounter many blood demons along the way, it means this map is still working." Guo Yan took out the map and carefully compared the directions.

"Xiaoyu, you must stay close to me on the way. If you feel unwell, you must tell me immediately. Remember, you are definitely not a burden to us, but a very important member of us," Shen Xu solemnly instructed Heyu beside him.

Seeing Shen Xu's serious expression, He Yu nodded solemnly.

"Then let's set off!" Shen Xu said to the group with a smile.

On the mountaintop, the old woman's figure, leaning on her cane, looked somewhat forlorn in the chilly morning wind.

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The deeper one ventures into the blood mist, the denser it becomes, reducing visibility to only a few meters around the perimeter; even sunlight cannot penetrate it.

A dilapidated building stood alone in the desolate landscape shrouded in blood mist, like a discarded pawn of time. This was the fourth landmark on the map the village chief had given them, and the last one.

The map the old woman gave them was of an unknown age, but it was very useful. Over the years, the distribution of the blood demons had not changed. By following the routes depicted on it, they avoided most of the blood demons. Sometimes, even the Prayer Crane would fly onto him and accompany him for a while.

But that's where it ends. Beyond this dilapidated building, they will set foot in a territory that even many people from Peach Blossom Village have never set foot in.

The longsword in his hand shattered the bloodstone inside a blood beast that suddenly appeared. The heavy bloody smell instantly spread into the surrounding blood mist, forcing Shen Xu to divert his attention to suppress the blood intent that was about to burst out of his body.

Although the map helped them avoid most of the blood demons, blood beasts were almost everywhere in the blood mist. As long as they were in the blood mist, they could not avoid these creatures. He had accumulated a pile of complete blood stones in his storage ring.

Even He Yu, who had initially been panicked, became calm because he knew that Shen Xu would help him drive away all the threats that appeared around him.

What puzzled Shen Xu was that the blood beasts attacking them all targeted He Yu. At first, he thought that the blood beasts attacked He Yu because he was the weakest, but after the sample size became large enough, he felt that something unusual was going on.

"Which direction should we go next?" Guo Yan put away the map and asked in a deep voice, knowing that the real test was yet to come.

None of them dared to make this decision lightly, because if they chose the wrong direction, they would most likely face an attack from the Blood Demons.

Shen Xu suspected that they had already entered the body of that giant blood beast, because even he could not feel that the blood energy was more concentrated in this place, and the blood energy around them was evenly distributed.

"Let me ask the Spirit Crane! The one it chose shouldn't be too dangerous," Shen Xu said to the group.

Shen Xu was somewhat glad that he had brought the Qiling White Crane with him. Although the creature was a bit lazy, its tendency to seek good fortune and avoid misfortune was genuine and had helped him avoid certain death several times.

He had been training the Praying Spirit White Crane to obey his commands while he was in the Ancient Forest, but with little success. However, he was certain that the Praying Spirit White Crane understood the meaning of his every action, but simply couldn't be bothered to respond.

Thinking of this, Shen Xu waved to the sky repeatedly. He didn't know if the Qiling White Crane could see him, but this was the only way he could do it. He had tried whistling before, but it was better to keep things quiet in this place. The Qiling White Crane hadn't made a sound since it followed them into the blood mist.

After trying to call out for a while and finding that the white crane still hadn't come down, he had no choice but to give up on the idea and decide to just choose any direction to go, since he figured it would be just as dangerous no matter which way he went once he got to this place.

Just then, he saw Li Xiaoyi seemingly examining a rather large, dilapidated building next to them, so he took He Yu and walked over to Li Xiaoyi's side.

The dilapidated building before him was made of an unidentifiable black jade-like stone. Time had etched countless fine cracks on its surface, making the stone's deep black color appear mottled and weathered.

There seem to be some runes carved on it, but unfortunately the lines of those runes have gradually faded and blurred under the erosion of time, and now they are so broken that it is difficult to recognize their original appearance.

However, according to his observation, this did not seem to be a building that had been standing here before. Judging from various signs, it seemed more like a fragment that had broken off from a taller and more magnificent building after it had been hit by some extremely powerful external force.

Because a large part of the building is buried deep in the soil, with only a small portion exposed above the ground, and it is the only man-made structure in the surrounding desolation, it gives people a sense of abruptness.

"Sister Yunyao said that the runes on it are special runes that are engraved when the boundary gate is built, and this black jade stone is also one of the precious stones used in the construction of the boundary gate, which has an excellent ability to resist the impact of spatial turbulence."

Shen Xu was shocked by Li Xiaoyi's words, and at the same time, a bold guess flashed through his mind.

"So, the Blood Central Realm used to have a boundary gate, and now this kind of stone is appearing here. Is it possible that the True Blood Palace smashed the boundary gate of the Blood Central Realm, causing the Blood Central Realm to completely lose contact with the True Origin Continent?"

"That's very likely the case, which would explain the many connections between the Blood Central Realm and the True Origin Continent."