As I was staying guard, the weather seed to change. Fog as red as blood began gathering on the dirt. It was so thick one would think it was liquid red water.
"Interesting phenonon," I mumbled, and just as I spoke, I felt a shiver running down my spine. Sothing out there is watching .
"Everyone, ready up for battle!" I said. But nothing ca back, no reply, and no words were spoken.
I turned to the cave and went inside, everyone was dead asleep.
The fog had penetrated into the cave and seed to have caused them to doze off, I couldn't even wake them up.
"Shit," I cursed then pulled out several talismans I had on . I splattered them across the ground and they erected a protective barrier that stopped the fog from coming in.
"Y, protect them."
Y ca out of my Poison God's Book and stood tall at the front of the barrier.
"Lord, are you venturing out this night? It seems to be dangerous," Y spoke.
"Yes, it seems that sothing is out there, and as long as we're here, we're nothing but sitting ducks. I'll take X with , don't worry, before we beco prey, we'll be the one hunting tonight," I said and walked out.
The feeling of being watched continued to pressure as I looked left and right, but there didn't seem to be anything in the vicinity of the cave. Not that I could see it if it was, the atmosphere was just that dark.
"X, follow closely," I said then moved forward. Weapon in hand, and several explosive pills in the other.
***
"Are you sure you want to head out tonight? I have a bad feeling," said the Grand Elder.
"It's not like I have a choice, A red Night happens once every ten years. I cannot miss the opportunity. This should help calm the pain for so ti. I cannot afford to miss the opportunity."
"Let at least put a couple of guards to go with you," said the Grand Elder.
"No, I'm not sure of anyone's loyalty right now, no matter who. I must do this in secret, and you cannot allow any of the sect mbers to know. This is a night when all of my cultivation will have to be sealed. And I cannot trust anyone right now," she said.
"As you wish Sect Master," the Grand Elder said. "I'll prepare all you need for your journey, the do should be fully risen by now, you must make haste."
Soon, the Sect Master took the holding bag prepared by the Grand Elder and headed out in the darkness of the night, unbeknownst to any of her sect mbers, she headed deep into the red forest.
After an hour of flight, she arrived to a massive blood do that seed to erge only once every ten years, by the effects of the Red Night.
This Do is in fact the barrier protecting a small miraculous pond, it is what the Sect Master needed to reduce so of the pain from her chronic affliction.
Once she arrived to the Do, she used a special red candle, that she lit up. The candle's light tore apart a portion of the barrier, revealing a blue pond that seed to be exuding a slight amount of heat.
The sect master then removed her clothes and dipped inside the pond, starting ditation.
This is where the pond's effects began as they eroded her Qi causing imnse pain, but at the sa ti, they eroded the vile Qi inside her body that was causing her constant agony with every breath she ever took.
A long night awaited the sect master.
***
"God fucking damn it!" I cursed as I swiped my sword for the millionth ti as it felt.
Hundreds upon hundreds of palm sized moths were following after , and they were after blood. Literally, my blood.
Each of these moths weren't powerful on their own, but the sheer number of these pesky little fuckers following made it a pain in the ass to stop and deal with them. Not to ntion this stupid sticky fog, none of my poison skills are working, I threw several poison pills but the blood fog was simply too thick for the poison to spread and the mont my poison ca in contact with the fog, it would cause it to drop down to the ground.
The only thing that remotely worked were my explosive pills, but I'm already out, so what I needed to do was simple.
Leg it. and leg it I was.
I ran high and low, sliding under giant tree roots and jumping over high bushes. I sent my Divine Sense scanning the area around in hope of finding sowhere to run to.
I still regret not going back to the cave where Y was, as for X, he sadly was very inadequate in fighting small sized enemies since he was fully decked out in bullets and weaponry.
Shooting this endless sea of Blood Moths was nothing but a waste of bullets as all the bullets that I have on and on X combined wouldn't make a dent in the number of these creatures.
I needed sowhere to hide.
As my Divine Sense was extended, I ca to find an interesting area. It seed that it completely blocked divine sense from penetrating it, and felt like a giant Do.
I headed there as fast as I could, if it could block Divine Sense, it could definitely hide if I'm near or inside this do.
Rushing in, I arrived to the do, and for a mont I regretted it. This was not a building as I had hoped, but a literal giant do of blood. It looked like a cocoon that was about to birth a vile creature.
I had no ti to waste though, so I pressed my hand on the do trying to gage its inner size, and my hand was imdiately repelled.
"Formation?" I muttered, this whole thing is a formation, how did it co to be? It also looks like a natural made formation.
With little ti on my hand before the horde of Moths co my way, I pulled my Divine Brush and began writing inscriptions redirecting and changing the command of this natural looking formation. It took less than a breath to finish writing, since this was a natural made formation, the laws it was using were simple, a denial of entry for anyone who isn't in the possession of so special item.
I just needed to deduce the item's effect, then fake the fact that I don't have it, into a fact that I have a similar item.
Imdiately, the do opened up for and I got inside, then it closed as soon as I was inside but one of those stupid moths managed to get inside.
I grabbed it by hand then crushed it, "Damn fucking pest," I sighed as I looked around
What pulled my attention weren't the ungodly amount of spiritual herbs that were growing inside the do, nor was it the warm glistening pond. But a woman who seed to have had her face turn blue from sheer terror as she gazed upon .
She was naked, but I'm sure no one would be as terrorized or blue faced when seeing soone even if they were naked.
Not to ntion, she wasn't human, since no human would ever look as beautiful as that, especially if you add two horns on her head.
'A demon race?'
"Hello," I said.
But didn't receive a reply, the woman however imdiately went to a holding bag that was right next to her, but she couldn't open it.
Terrorized she muttered, "Don't co any closer!"
I held both my hands up, "Relax, I'm not here to harm you, I'm just hiding from the moths outside." I said.
"Like I would believe a human!"
'Ah this damn ntality again. But I wouldn't bla her, humans are ass,'
I sighed.
"Here," I said as I placed down my sword far away from and so I did to my holding bag.
Usually I would never do this, especially since soone this hostile, but it was clear form one look that she was completely mortal.
Which ca as a surprise, since Demon Race are born as cultivators, but she didn't have an ounce of Qi on her, not a single bit.
I looked around at all the herbs and didn't see a single stalk missing, she wasn't here for the herbs, and looking at her inside the pond seed to be the reason for her coming here. Why would a mortal ever cross such a distance in this dangerous forest to take a dip in this water? Well the answer is simple, this water is special.
"I guess you're ill?" I asked.
"…"
She didn't reply. And I found it rather rude to use my Divine Sense to scan another woman, I've learned my lesson from Yuyu, she did not like it.
"Leave this place!" she said.
"Like hell I would, it's a fucking nightmare out there," I said.
She grumbled for a bit before saying, "Then stay there, don't move, the monsters will all leave by morning, don't even take a step or I'll end my own life," she said.
"Wow, wow, chill who do you think I am?" I asked.
"A human!" she said as if it was an insult.
"Oh…right, we do tend to have a very bad reputation, but don't judge all of us by the actions of one, hell I didn't even do anything to you and we're talking like civilized people aren't we?"
"That's because you don't know what I'm capable of!" she said.
"Like hell I don't, you're completely mortal right now, hell you don't even have enough Qi to open your holding bag. And if I had any ill will toward you, you think you would kill yourself faster than I could take action?" I said.
My words caused despair to fully subrge this woman.
"Anyway, I'm Shen Mo," I said.
"Yao Hua," she said.
"Nice to et you," I said clasping my hands.
"Now, if I were to take an educated guess, you're ill," I said as I sat down.
"…"
"I'm a bit proficient with dicine, so no need to be too wary, and I'm also bored and have no one to talk with, also this could help pass the ti till morning and I will leave you be," I said.
"Yes… I'm sick, but it's not sothing you can manage," she said "Not even the divine doctor was able to fix this, and the only thing that could stop so of the pain is this pool." She said.
"Is that so…" I said, "Would you mind taking a look?" I asked.
"Yes I would, I don't trust you!" she said.
"Then what if I give a heavenly Vow that I will not harm you or bring any ill will towards you," I said.
"You will just waste your ti, no one can fix this Destruction," she said.
"Wait, you said Destruction? Are you suffering from a Poison Destruction?" I asked.
"Yes…"
"This is intriguing, I've never seen a Destruction this calm," I said.
"Calm? What do you an calm, do you know how much agony I suffer every day?!" she said.
"Just calm down, what I'm talking about is, your body is completely fine, I've treated an Ice Destruction Poison once, but from you I can't feel any of the effects," I said.
"It's not an Elental Destruction, it's a Poisoned Soul Destruction," she said and sighed.
"Oh, this is rather interesting, but would you believe if I said, I can fix that?" I said.
The person in front of looked dubious of my words, "I wouldn't believe the words of a human," she said.
"Sigh, well I guess I can't help it then," I said I shrugged and sat down ditating waiting for morning.
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