We Agreed to Set Sail, but You Became the Ruler of the Deep Sea?

Under the sky full of cracks.

Countless sludge giants are endlessly changing and squirming, rising and falling like waves.

But the target they were chasing was an extremely small figure.

laugh!

Bloody sword light flashed in the darkness.

A ten-meter-tall flesh and blood giant, its legs were completely broken. After losing support, its huge body fell down.

After clearing the obstacles in front of him, Xia En raised his head and looked not far away, but his pupils could not help but shrink.

On the plain of flesh and blood there, there was a hill made of corpses.

Among them, there are blood slaves with deformed bodies, pale vampires, and burly pirates...

But in addition to them, there are also a lot of people in the mountain of corpses who look like ordinary civilians wearing simple clothes.

"……they are?"

Xia En's heart skipped a beat when he suddenly thought of something.

The main body of [Blood Moon Secret Realm] is a city.

Although there are many vampires in the city, they are obviously far less than the city's supposed population.

The empty and abandoned low-rise houses in the city undoubtedly prove this point.

So, where have the original owners of these houses, or in other words, the common people of this city, gone?

Xia En originally thought that they had all become the blood food of the vampire clan.

But now it seems that it’s not just that?

The corpses not far away, without exception, all looked pale and shriveled, reminiscent of insect corpses that had been injected with digestive juices by spiders and then sucked clean.

To be precise, it was just a fragile empty shell.

And in the center of the mountain where the empty shells are piled up, there is a tall and weird "tree."

Its skin is dark red and very rough, like the veins of blood vessels pulsing slightly on it, as if transporting some mysterious nutrients.

It is said to be a "tree", but it does not have any leaves and its surface is bare.

Only numerous whisker-like "branches" extend from the main trunk.

At the end of each "branch", there are one or two relatively fresh corpses hanging there like heavy fruits.

Once it "ripens", it will fall to the ground and turn into one of those empty shells.

"Is this the trunk of the [Crimson Ancient Tree]?"

"No, it's more like... some kind of organ used to absorb nutrients."

Xia En speeded up again, avoided the siege of several flesh and blood giants, came to the side of the "tree", and gently reached out to touch it.

[The roots of the dark red ancient tree]

[Type: Material]

[Quality: Epic]

[Description: The roots of the crimson ancient tree buried deep in the secret realm. 】

[Absorbing the power of flesh and blood and the secret sea all day long, in order to maintain the existence of the "Blood Moon Secret Realm". 】

[Legend has it that the original "Crimson Mother Tree" gave birth to the earliest vampire - the Scarlet Lord. 】

[Therefore, the "Crimson Ancient Tree", the offspring of the "Crimson Mother Tree", has always been worshiped as a holy tree by the vampires. 】

[This ancient tree has possessed powerful mysterious power since ancient times. 】

[If you sacrifice a lot of flesh and blood to it, you can even hide in the gap between the "secret sea" and reality, right? 】

"Is it really the roots..."

Xia En's heart was shaken, and at the same time enlightenment arose in his heart.

The information in this description completely connects all the previous clues!

Since the vampires need the blood stone secreted by the [Crimson Ancient Tree] as food, why would they place its trunk in this exiled land?

And the roots... are obviously buried deep underground.

Combined with this information, it is extremely close to the [Secret Sea] and is a gathering place for a large amount of waste.

The truth is already coming out——

This space is located on the backside of the [Blood Moon Secret Realm]!

Deep underground in the city, you can reach this place across an extremely long distance!

The Vampires use special methods to continuously throw corpses here to "fertilize" the roots of the [Crimson Ancient Tree].

The squeezed waste and empty shells are accumulated here generation after generation, and under the influence of the [Secret Sea], they become [blasphemous flesh and blood].

It is precisely because of this layer of [Desecration of Flesh and Blood] as a barrier.

Even if the film that isolates the [Secret Sea] cracks, or even becomes thinner and disappears, the Vampires will not be too concerned.

After all, nothing that happens in this exile will affect their life on the surface.

In fact, Xia En had made some guesses before.

Just because of the flip of gravity, I still had doubts for a while.

"And...the ancient crimson tree...sacrifice flesh and blood...hide in the cracks..."

Xia En glanced at the empty shells of suspected civilians and confirmed another thing.

When the "Great Flood" came, different kingdoms and cities used different methods to continue the fire of civilization.

This group of vampires held a grand bloody ceremony and sacrificed all the civilians in the city.

Only then did the entire city sink into the [Secret Sea] and turn into a [Secret Realm] isolated from the world.

As time went by, some vampires left the [Blood Moon Secret Realm] and thrived on Silver Moon Island.

Either because they don’t want to leave their homeland, or because the environment here is more suitable for vampires to survive, or for some other reason...

There are also a large number of vampires living in the [Secret Realm] and unwilling to leave.

In order to meet their survival needs, but also to maintain the existence of the [Blood Moon Secret Realm].

The vampires who were the first to leave fabricated the lie of "Blood Moon Night" to attract treasure hunters on the sea to fall into their trap.

"This should be the whole truth..."

Xia En's mind was filled with thoughts, silently digesting this shocking secret.

However, compared to these truths.

What he cares more about is whether his previous bold idea can succeed?

Xia En looked at the thickest and tallest root in front of him. Its end had submerged into the broken sky and was vaguely connected to the [Secret Sea] outside.

Will this root contain the power of the [Secret Sea]?

The faint attraction coming from my intuition seemed to confirm this.

But on the other hand, this [Crimson Ancient Tree] looks very powerful, so I'm afraid it's not that easy to provoke.

"Fight! Give it a try and the bicycle will turn into a motorcycle!"

Without hesitating for long, Xia En gritted his teeth, picked up the big sword and slashed hard at the root.

clang!

The roots of the [Crimson Ancient Tree] are unusually hard, and a sound like the sound of metal and stone can be heard coming from it.

Xia En's sword, which was enough to cut open the flesh and blood giant's body, only left a shallow wound on its surface, from which a drop of deep, viscous blood seeped out.

"Good guy, he's so hard!"

Just as Xia En was feeling emotional, an extremely angry roar sounded in his mind.

This roar was timeless and ancient, with a shocking power that made Xia En even feel terrified.

Immediately, this root began to tremble violently, and the strange secret power expanded outward.

next moment.

The empty corpses that were lying around the roots suddenly opened their eyes.

Those chaotic scarlet eyes are filled with madness and chaos!

The sticky and dirty [blasphemous flesh] crazily poured into their bodies, making them glow with new vitality and vitality.

At the same time, more flesh and blood giants were rising from the ground around the roots.

They squirmed, flowed, and gathered together, making disgusting murmurs, and finally gathered into a figure tens of meters high, and strode over.

The ground shook with its movement.

Xia En's expression changed slightly, and he only had time to reach out and touch the strange drop of root blood.

boom! ! !

With a loud noise, the flesh and blood giant stepped on him with huge force!