The girl's condition was even worse than hers... I remembered that she had only slept for a short while? How did Aisuen suddenly become so weak?
The answer, of course, is mental overdraft.
Almost all of the remaining spiritual power was drained by the God's Eye, and Hitzfeld was now completely exhausted. The two words he said when he sat down completely drained her. Knowing that the woman woke up, she felt relieved and leaned on her.
After resting for a while, Xia Yibing still had some strength left. She laid Hitzfeld on the ground, stood up and walked forward a few steps, and saw the sea of blood below.
this……!
With her eyes wide open, Xia Yibing almost suspected that this was an illusion.
I pinched the back of my hand...even though there were blood marks, it was still a dark red ocean. This must not be fake...all the legends and speculations were true! The gray fog really connected to another world!
The sound of the wind blew her hair away, and she came to her senses, realizing that the debris was falling faster and faster.
It took almost half a minute to descend from 300 meters to 200 meters, but it took less than ten seconds to descend from 200 meters to below 100 meters!
The wind pressure was getting stronger and stronger. Xia Yibing immediately guessed the outcome. She didn't care about Madeline anymore. She staggered back, threw herself on the girl, hugged her tightly, and sat down against the wall.
As soon as she completed this action, the entire fragment shook violently.
slam-la-
A huge blood mist was rising around her. In a daze, she vaguely heard some people shouting. Various noises mixed with Alessia's curses drifted farther and farther away. Her body, corroded by hunger, could no longer support herself, and she fell asleep with her head tilted.
Then...Xia Yibing felt like she was dreaming.
She dreamed that the debris had landed, a large chunk of it embedded in the earth, and that all three of them had managed to survive the collision, although they were badly injured.
But the good times didn't last long, as there were too many evils hidden in this land... Along the way, they saw all kinds of evil monsters, such as a wolf with seven eyes and a mouth that could open like petals... A forest with roots and toes that would spontaneously follow the sunset and migrate... and
Ferocious birds and beasts would suddenly fall from the sky and transform into humanoid monsters... They endured enormous pressure far beyond their imagination in this strange environment, and soon they were separated during an escape.
When she confirmed this, Xia Yibing felt her heart was broken.
I...I lost Aisuen...
With self-blame echoing in her heart, she fell into madness and no longer cared about the hidden danger of evil spirits polluting her mind. She began to eat the flesh of alien species and drink their blood. Miraculously, she survived and all her injuries healed.
But this did not increase the efficiency of the search much, because this place was too big. She walked on every inch of soil within her sight, and asked those weird creatures, most of which could talk, about the whereabouts of Aisuen Hitzfeld, but she only got disappointment every day.
Half a month later, she found Madeline.
Her former subordinates had died in miserable ways, and when she found the metal plate, it was hanging on a piece of corroded and broken bone, and there were many bones like this nearby.
This made her guess that Madeline was not the only one killed. There must be some extremely ferocious predator here, and this pit was their nest.
Will Aisun be in this?
Almost immediately, Xia Yibing thought of the strange collar around the girl's neck.
That thing can't be taken off no matter what, so the best way to identify whether she is in the corpse is to see if there is a collar.
She did not hide the noise of her rummaging, and finally attracted the real owner of the pit of bones.
It was a short, fat snake, but it was so big that its head was as big as a truck. It swam close to the rummaging woman with its body that was only seven or eight meters long at most, and circled around her for a long time. Finally, it couldn't help but be cautious and asked, "Excuse me...are you looking for someone?"
Xia Yibing stopped what she was doing, turned around and asked, "Did you spit out all the bones here?"
The giant snake nodded, and the next moment a cold light flashed, and its head fell to the ground.
Xia Yibing continued to search in the pile of bones, but after a busy day, she still couldn't find the black collar.
She was very happy because it meant that Hitzfeld was not here, she might still be alive, and she still had hope of finding her again.
After eating the snake meat and drinking the snake's blood, she dug a hole nearby and buried Madeleine's name tag in it as a token of her gratitude for their past friendship.
On the journey again, I asked questions along the way. Changxia Dao also drank a lot of strange blood.
"The person you are looking for is in the east." The wind was moved by her spirit and brought her the message as it whistled past.
“Going east, she joined the Kingdom of God Church.”
"The person you're looking for is in the east." Thunder and Yulu also followed suit, and lightning flashed in the roar of the rainstorm to illuminate the way for her.
"Go east... She is now successful and famous!"
Although she felt that everything here was incredible, Xia Yibing no longer had the energy to care about so much.
She followed the guidance of the wind and rain and headed east, passing through the wasteland and crossing the river, killing those blind monsters at will while constantly adjusting her precise direction.
Finally, another month later, prompted by the sound of the wind, she found the first human town so far.
Fangta City - that's the name of this place. Xia Yibing wanted to find someone to ask for directions and ask them if they had seen Hitzfeld, but she soon found that everyone here was very afraid of her.
There were soldiers standing guard at the gate, and they were very harsh on those entering the city, and everyone had to be searched and pay a heavy tax. But when they saw her tattered leather clothes and the leather cape that was obviously stripped from some giant beast, they began to tremble and immediately made way for her, even losing the courage to speak.
Blood killer.
She heard a buzz of discussion around her.
"She is a blood-slaughterer..."
"A monster that can come back from the pus and blood wasteland... must be very powerful among the blood slaughterers..."
"The Blood Butcher is no different from those monsters... Don't mess with her... I heard that they eat humans..."
Because of this fear, she has not been able to get the information she wants.
Everyone ran away as soon as they saw her approaching. How could I ask this question?
But fortunately, she remembered the hints given to her by the wind and rain - they seemed to say that Hitzfeld had joined the church?
The Church of the Kingdom of God...The Kingdom of Corrupted Blood?
She felt a little weird, but Xia Yibing still searched according to the information.
She soon found a church-like spire-shaped building. There were people wandering around from time to time, and they were finally not so scary to her anymore.
"New here?" A man dressed as a ranger whistled when he saw her and walked over, obviously trying to tease her.
"There are very few women among the blood-slaughterers, and such powerful women... You must have killed a 'body-eating snake' with this outfit, right? This kind of snake only has a head when it is born, and it grows one meter longer every time it eats a hundred lives. Looking at your body... The one you killed should be two meters long?"
He was showing off his knowledge. Although Xia Yibing was too lazy to pay attention to him, she really needed his information.
There was a long queue in front of the church, or rather the monastery. Those gathered here seemed to be her "colleagues", or what the common people called blood-slayers, people who dared to hunt in the wild.
The ranger was very talkative, and from him Xia Yibing finally got the basic information about this ghost place.
In general, this is indeed the Kingdom of Corrupted Blood.
But it is the border of the Corrupted Blood Kingdom - located in its westernmost part, right next to the Pus and Blood Wasteland, one of the most dangerous places.
"The Blood Wasteland is not a place for pleasure." The Ranger said, "Only stray dogs... people with nowhere else to go would come here to fight... to seek a chance to transcend."
"Detachment?"
"Of course. Don't you know the transcendence principle of the Blood Slaughterer? Just eat them. Eat their meat and drink their blood. You will become stronger and stronger... until you have the power to transcend here and completely get out of this purgatory."
"Is this place purgatory compared to the center of the Kingdom of God?"
"One hundred percent!" The ranger gestured, "There's fog surging every moment, and monsters sneaking in every night to eat people! But even so, there's still a constant supply of people. Why? Because we have no other way!"
What he said was mysterious, but after further questioning, Xia Yibing finally understood. What he meant by "no other way" was that most of them had made enemies with the powerful people in the Kingdom of God, and if they went to other places not only would their path to transcendence be blocked, but they would also be hunted down.
Only dangerous places, such as the bloody wasteland, would not investigate their origins.
The laws of the Kingdom of God were not fully enforced here, and it was almost a lawless zone. Every day, blood-slaughterers came here with dreams of transcendence, and every day, blood-slaughterers died here.
"The Kingdom of God needs us~" the Ranger said with a grin, "We only eat meat and drink blood. Because we have to eat it hot, there will be a lot left... Those materials can be sold for money. The civilians you see are here for this."
The scum is just needed to maintain stability on the border.
Xia Yibing understood the basic situation and also learned that the monastery in front was "directly under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom of God" and that there was a newly promoted "Savior Nun" inside.
The nuns have a very high status here - you can tell by just looking at the neat queues. These blood-slayers who are feared by the civilians like demons are actually willing to queue up obediently, and even if conflicts break out, they are limited to verbal attacks.
They dare not cause trouble here.
"Why are you queuing here?" Xia Yibing asked the question that had been bothering her for a long time.
The blood-slaughterers obviously have no faith. They only seek transcendence, to become stronger and to fulfill their wishes. Some seek revenge, some seek to stand out. They should not be so pious.
"Healing."
As he spoke, the ranger unveiled his vest.
Xia Yibing lowered her head and saw a big hole in his upper body.
There was a hole as big as a bowl. On his right hand side, he could vaguely see some kind of organ wriggling inside, and black pus and blood were overflowing every moment.
"People come here only to heal their wounds." The ranger said, "Many people think that the blood-slaughterers have no faith, which is true... But we are grateful to the 'Blood of Salvation' from the bottom of our hearts. Without it, there would be nothing on this earth."
"Blood of salvation?"
"The symbol of the Church of the Savior Mother." The Ranger nodded, then frowned: "You don't even know this? Where are you from?"
"I'm from the westernmost village."
"There's actually a village there? Oh... I see, it must be protected by the blood river..."
He muttered something, but Xia Yibing didn't hear it clearly. She was still paying attention to the Church of Our Lady of Savior that he was talking about.
"They believe in the blood of salvation." The ranger obviously wanted to please her and continued to show off his knowledge.
"The blood of salvation... How should I put it? According to legend, this land was divided."
"Yes, it is separation... According to the church, we are imprisoned in an extremely vast world, separated from the world we once lived in, forever separated... Only with the power of the blood of salvation can humans survive in this land. The blood of salvation is distributed to all humans.
A drop of blood, we rely on this drop of blood to continue to reproduce and pass on, struggling hard, and looking for a way to transcend here."
"This is also the origin of the saying that the blood butchers are 'transcendent'." The ranger nodded, "Of course, not only the blood butchers, but also those blood mages, all of them are pursuing 'transcendent'."
"But we all know that's nonsense... Transcendence, how can we transcend? We can't even conquer the Bloody Wasteland. This world is too vast and there are too many dangers. Anyway, I only plan to go back to retire after reaching the fifth level."
"But you just said that you are grateful for the blood of salvation..."
"Yes, that's right... We are grateful to it and the Church of Our Lady of Savior, but not because we agree with them. It's simply because the church is willing to send at least one Savior Sister to all places like Fangta City. She can help us heal quickly."
"Do you understand?" The ranger shook his right index finger. "In a place like this... by healing our wounds quickly, she is saving our lives!"
Can that injury be treated quickly?
Xia Yibing looked at the wound on his chest and remained silent.
Judging from the speed of the queue, one person advances every 1-3 minutes. The Blood Slaughterer's vitality is obviously very strong, so the injuries he suffered should not be light. He can heal such injuries so quickly. What kind of ability does this have?
Subconsciously ignoring the ranger's chattering, Xia Yibing saw a sturdy woman coming out of the back door.
She remembered very clearly that the right sleeve of the woman was empty when she was queuing. She thought at the time that this person had one arm, but it turned out that she had just been injured?
And now she clearly has two healthy arms!
It hasn't even been 3 minutes since she went in!
The corners of Xia Yibing's mouth twitched, and she roughly understood what "successful and famous" meant.
Aisuen, it can't be you...
This small monastery has a lot of rules, and one must be confirmed to be injured before being allowed in. Xia Yibing cut her arm with her long sword while no one was paying attention, and walked through the gate under the strange gaze of the guards.
The hall was empty and dark.
Although candles were lit on both sides, the lighting capacity was very limited. A large part of the interior was hidden in the darkness. A huge monster could be vaguely seen crawling in front.
What it is?
Stopping and looking up, Xia Yibing simply picked up a candle and held it in front of her. She saw a... flesh ball covered by a black cloth standing in front of her?
"Let me see... who's here?"
A familiar voice came from above. Xia Yibing looked over there tremblingly and saw Hitzfeld's face appear.
She...how did she become like this?
Taking a step back, Xia Yibing felt a chill in her heart.
This body is simply too fat... Is that black cloth a nun's robe?
This is the so-called Salvation Sister???
She didn't want to accept...
impossible……
This is not the one I know...
"Xia...are you hurt?"
