The younger girl’s commotion attracted the attention of many nearby beasts.
Naturally, it also caught the attention of the long-haired beauty.
She clearly hadn’t expected to find a third human here.
Signaling for her giant eagle to follow behind, she walked over and carefully looked Bai Qiu up and down.
“You… don’t have a suitable beast companion?” she asked.
The orange tabby certainly didn’t look like it possessed much combat ability.
Bai Qiu froze for a moment.
He stroked his chin thoughtfully, glanced at the giant eagle behind her and the handsome warhorse behind the younger girl, and realized…
She might actually be right.
He really didn’t have a proper mount-type beast companion.
“Mm… I suppose not,” Bai Qiu replied.
He was curious about what she intended to say next.
Could she be planning to help me find a suitable mount?
“Then… come with us. Once I’ve earned enough Blood Crystals, I’ll take you out of here.”
Only then did Bai Qiu understand what she meant.
She had assumed he couldn’t leave the Bloodmoon Beast Arena because he lacked a suitable beast companion, so she was kindly offering to help him get out.
He was genuinely surprised.
Beneath her cold, aloof exterior hid a warm and compassionate heart.
“That won’t be necessary. We’ve already finished fighting,” Bai Qiu said as he rubbed the orange tabby’s head.
After two straight days of arena battles, both A Yan and A Yuan were exhausted and were currently sleeping inside their contract spaces.
“Very well. Good luck.”
The long-haired beauty paused briefly, glanced at the completely ordinary-looking orange tabby, said nothing more, and turned to leave.
Bai Qiu nodded inwardly.
She was kind-hearted, yet she didn’t insist after being refused.
He found himself liking her personality a little.
Watching the younger girl happily continue petting the orange tabby, Bai Qiu knew that as long as the two girls didn’t challenge King-class arenas above their level—and as long as they didn’t end up competing against each other on the Lord-class arenas—they would have virtually no opponents.
So Bai Qiu simply waited until the girl had finished petting the cat before taking the orange tabby away.
“[That felt so good…]”
The orange tabby sounded thoroughly satisfied.
The young girl’s petting skills were clearly excellent.
Arriving before the minotaur Kandar, Bai Qiu said, “[I’d like to exchange for some items.]”
“[Please take your time browsing.]”
As Kandar spoke, a special interface unfolded before Bai Qiu.
It contained twelve exchangeable items.
The first was an Exit Ticket, costing 100 Blood Crystals.
The rest were various mysterious items.
Since Bai Qiu couldn’t use Appraisal to inspect them, he could only guess their functions from their names and prices.
Boiling Blood Totem — 10,000 Blood Crystals
Berserk Totem — 100,000 Blood Crystals
Bloodmoon Totem — 800,000 Blood Crystals
These three looked like items capable of allowing someone to break through into Transcendent-tier attributes.
Without hesitation, Bai Qiu purchased the Bloodmoon Totem.
It might not necessarily have been the best.
But it was certainly the most expensive.
Just like that, the Blood Crystals he had worked so hard to earn over the past two days dropped to a little over 400,000.
Next came another group of items:
Aminos Archipelago — Random Treasure Map — 1,500 Blood Crystals
Aminos Archipelago — Random Ruins Secret Realm Blueprint — 3,000 Blood Crystals
Aminos Archipelago — Bestiary — 1,000 Blood Crystals
Aminos Archipelago — Item Compendium — 1,000 Blood Crystals
All four were inexpensive.
Without any hesitation, Bai Qiu bought one of each.
His philosophy was simple:
It’s fine if I never end up using them—but I can’t afford not to have them.
The final three items were:
Great Ruins — Water Capital Locator Card
Great Ruins — Trial Peak Locator Card
Sky Island Token Fragment
Each cost 50,000 Blood Crystals.
After purchasing them all, Bai Qiu had less than 250,000 Blood Crystals remaining.
Following the arena’s rules, he bought four Exit Tickets.
Then, together with the orange tabby, A Yuan, and A Yan inside their contract spaces, he left the Bloodmoon Beast Arena.
The moment Bai Qiu was teleported back to the Boundless Plains, he noticed that the special storage space used for Blood Crystals hadn’t disappeared.
Instead, a countdown floated above it:
28 Days 21 Hours 51 Minutes
Blood Crystals would only avoid naturally dissolving if stored inside that space.
Without hesitation, Bai Qiu transferred all the Blood Crystals he had temporarily placed inside his Storage Card into it.
Blood Crystals were highly refined energy crystals.
They could strengthen one’s vitality, provided abundant nourishment, restore expended energy, and reduce the side effects of physical overload skills.
For example, Bai Qiu’s Berserk skill normally left him weakened for five minutes after use.
If he consumed a Blood Crystal afterward, the weakened state would be reduced to only two and a half minutes, while the debuff that reduced all attributes by 50% would instead become only a 25% reduction.
Overall, Blood Crystals were extremely useful.
That said…
The moment Bai Qiu remembered that these crystals were formed from the corpses of beasts that had died in the Bloodmoon Beast Arena…
He suddenly lost any desire to eat them.
Bloodmoon Totem (B+ Rank)
Description:
After branding your body with the Bloodmoon Totem, you will obtain the Blessing of Blood and the Blessing of the Moon.
Blessing of Blood:
While bleeding, your attributes increase.
The more blood you lose, the greater the increase.
At maximum effect, this blessing can ignore the Extraordinary bottleneck, raising all attributes to B+ Rank, while completely negating all weakness-type status effects.
Blessing of the Moon:
When bathed in moonlight during a full moon, all of your attributes increase dramatically.
Additionally, you become immune to all negative status effects below B+ Rank.
Totem Power:
Raises your attribute growth cap.
Strength, Magic, Endurance, and Agility can all be increased up to B Rank.
Note: This totem can only be used by the Berserker class.
Bai Qiu was rendered speechless.
He hadn’t expected the most valuable item to be one he couldn’t even use himself.
A Berserker…
The first person who came to mind was Li Qingshan.
As far as Bai Qiu knew, Li Qingshan was the strongest Berserker around.
Unless something unexpected happened, he would most likely find his own opportunity to break into the Transcendent realm.
“Forget it. I’ll keep it for now,” Bai Qiu muttered to himself.
He stored the Blood Moon Totem back into his storage card.
Even if he couldn’t use it personally, he had no intention of giving it to anyone else.
Next, he took out the item he cared about most besides the Blood Moon Totem—the Heavenly Island Token Fragment.
Heavenly Island Token Fragment (1/9)
Description: Contains a mysterious spatial aura. If all the fragments are gathered, it may grant access to the domain of the gods…
Note: Heavenly Island Token Fragments resonate with one another. If another fragment exists within a radius of one hundred li (about 50 kilometers), the fragment will emit a glow.
After that, Bai Qiu took out the Random Treasure Map and the Random Secret Realm Locator Blueprint.
Looking at the two markers—one located at the easternmost edge of the Aminos Archipelago and the other at the westernmost—he couldn’t help but feel a twinge of regret.
The two locations were over 1,500 kilometers apart.
Even at the Wind Spirit Hoverboard’s maximum speed, it would still take nearly four hours to fly from one to the other.
Incidentally, the Boundless Prairie lay at the center of the Aminos Archipelago.
That meant whether he wanted to visit the secret realm or the treasure site, he would first have to travel nearly 800 kilometers in a straight line.
In other words, visiting both would require a minimum journey of roughly 2,400 kilometers.
Fortunately, the Great Ruins—Water Capital Location Card and the Great Ruins—Peak of Trials were much closer to each other.
He only needed to head north for about 200 kilometers, pass through Cloudpeak Ridge, and then travel another hundred or so kilometers to reach the Water Capital.
As for the Peak of Trials, it was located at the northernmost tip of the Aminos Archipelago, only about 300 li away.
Compared to those two random maps, it was practically next door.
Having made up his mind, Bai Qiu decided to abandon the low-value Random Treasure Map and Random Secret Realm for the time being and head first to the Great Ruins—Water Capital to see what awaited him there.
— The end of the Chapter–
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