However, the strange birds paid a terrible price for this. At least a third of the strange birds had been bitten to death by the large turtle. Some of the strange birds’ corpses had been dissolved by venom, while some were pulled into the large turtle’s mouth for it to chew on to replenish its stamina.
Now, the large turtle’s mouth was filled with blood. It was flowing down like a red waterfall!
This blood was a combination of the large turtle’s and the strange birds. The Fusang woods had already been dyed red by blood. Mud was mixed with flesh and blood, turning the area into a blood-red marsh!
With the battle reaching such a stage, it was a shocking sight!
The strange birds and the large turtle were the lords of the second level of the God Advent Tower. There was probably going to be a victor determined today, which would then decide who was the absolute dominator of the second level!
At this moment, Yi Yun’s main objective was accomplished. He could already leave, but he was not planning on leaving.
Not far away, there was a constant production of strange bird corpses. They were good stuff.
Although the rule to condensing an Aspect Totem was that one needed to kill a desolate beast with one’s own hands to condense a beast mark, just using the strange bird corpses as materials to refine into pure Yang relics was also a very good choice.
Yi Yun was tempted for a while before finally abandoning this thought. The reason was that if he wanted the strange bird corpses, he needed to approach the battle ground. The flock of strange birds had very sharp eyesight. If he were to steal the corpses, it was likely that he would be discovered.
It was not worth it.
Hence, Yi Yun turned his gaze towards the lava lake. Inside the lava lake, the red lotus was blooming splendidly as it tasted blood. Instead of alarming the red lotus due to the killing between the desolate beasts, the blood rain and bloody wind was in fact the best nourishment it liked.
Yi Yun slightly sighed. His current position was about a few thousand feet away from the red lotus. The position of the red lotus in the lava lake was different from the strange birds’ nest. There was nothing to conceal him. Be it charging forward or picking the red lotus, both of them required time. To do it in broad daylight made it very likely for him to be discovered by the strange birds.
If that happened, the outcome would be disastrous. The three-legged strange bird could even give up on the large turtle and charge at him, disregarding everything.
And with its speed, Yi Yun did not have confidence in escaping.
It was a tough problem for him to safely pluck the red lotus.
With some hesitation, several ideas flashed past Yi Yun’s mind, but they were all rejected one after another. Finally, he decided to gamble on one!
Yi Yun did not rush directly at the red lotus for that was courting death. He used the mountain cliff’s blind spot to conceal himself as he ran down the mountain.
Yi Yun used his movement technique and in less than a minute reached his destination.
In front of Yi Yun was a deep valley. At the bottom of the valley was flowing lava!
This lava valley was connected to the lava lake above the mountain.
After some hesitation, he jumped off from the top of the valley!
He followed the inclined cliff and jumped around a few times before clinging onto a boulder. He was just above the surface of the lava flow. Here, the lava was just a few meters away from Yi Yun. The bright white lava was silently flowing. The rolling heat wave felt like a flame that was roasting Yi Yun’s face. The heat was smothering!
“I cultivate pure Yang laws and can control pure Yang energy. With the Purple Crystal protecting my body, I should be able to dive into the lava!”
Yi Yun muttered to himself as he released his hand from the boulder and jumped towards the lava lake!