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Upon looking, he could see nothing at all.
The rolling sea of malevolent qi surrounding the Divine Sword Blade not only obstructed the view, but even Divine Sense could only penetrate a small part of it.
Ye Chen's Divine Sense reached down about a dozen meters before it could no longer penetrate any further.
Seeing Ye Chen looking down, Lu Jia smiled and said, "Ye Chen, you want to see the Blood Ignition Fruit, don't you?"
"That Blood Ignition Fruit grows on the ground far below, and can't be seen from up here. Come, I shall take you down to the very bottom and explain how to strike the Blood Ignition Fruit, preparing you to enter the Divine Sword."
As he spoke, Lu Jia began to lead the way in front.
Ye Chen glanced at Elder Xiao Supreme Elder and Mu Qingqing, and after seeing them nod with a smile, he swiftly followed Lu Jia down.
Finally, Elder Xiao Supreme Elder and Mu Qingqing followed behind Lu Jia and Ye Chen, also flying downwards.
As for the rest of the Protector Sword Disciples, they vanished back into the sea of malevolent qi, taking up their guarding positions and continuing to protect the Divine Sword.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
After flying downwards for about one to two kilometers, passing through seven or eight layers of malevolent qi, Ye Chen at last saw the ground below.
He could see that a vast expanse of red malevolent qi below had been pushed far away, making the situation on the ground clearly visible.
What Ye Chen first noticed was the Divine Sword's immense tip anchored into the earth, piercing the ground to create an enormous rift hundreds of meters long.
The tip had disappeared into the rift, leaving only the giant blade above it.
Looking around the blade, he could see within tens of thousands of meters from the blade, grand trees with a peculiar blend of silver and red hues grew, as if the colors of the blade and the malevolent qi were combined together.
Within this area of tens of thousands of meters, there could be thousands of such grand trees!
On these enormous trees grew long, arm-shaped fruits, each one resembling a clump of blazing flames, blood-red beyond compare!
Upon seeing these fruits, Ye Chen understood at once—these must be the famed Blood Ignition Fruits that Elder Xiao Supreme Elder and Lu Jia had mentioned.
Just as Ye Chen was scrutinizing these "Blood Ignition Fruits," many of these fiery red fruits abruptly fell from the trees and shot rapidly towards the far reaches of the grove, into the rolling sea of malevolent qi.
The speed of these Blood Ignition Fruits ranged from fast to slow, yet even the slowest of them moved at speeds nearly that of late-stage Spirit Sea Realm experts, while the fastest reached the speed of late-stage Heavenly Saint Realm experts!
This greatly surprised Ye Chen, for he had never seen fruits that could fly so fast!
As Ye Chen's Divine Sense enveloped the area, he noticed that as the Blood Igniting Fruits shot towards the sea of malevolent qi, a dozen figures leaped up from the dense grove and from various directions, ferociously striking towards the "Blood Igniting Fruits."
Many failed to strike the "Blood Ignition Fruits," and as those fruits burst into the malevolent qi, they exploded with a "bang," completely eradicating a puff of malevolent qi.
This caused Ye Chen to narrow his eyes—the "Blood Ignition Fruit" could actually annihilate malevolent qi!
No wonder the malevolent qi at the very bottom was pushed so far out, gathering only outside the grove. It turned out that the Blood Ignition Fruits within the grove possessed such formidable power!
Some, however, were successful in striking the "Blood Ignition Fruits." The moment these fruits were hit by them, they exploded, turning into a faint blood-red glow that enveloped the hitters.
Those who successfully struck the Blood Ignition Fruits all revealed joyful smiles.
"So this is what it means to strike 'Blood Ignition Fruits'?"
At the same time, Lu Jia also reminded Ye Chen, "These Blood Igniting Fruits burst forth at varying speeds, and even the fruits from the same tree have different velocities. Even for practitioners in the later stages of the Dan Rotation, it takes a long time to bombard one hundred Blood Igniting Fruits.
Ye Chen, considering your mid-Spirit Sea Realm, it will be quite challenging to hit one hundred Blood Igniting Fruits, so you must hurry up."
"The Blood Igniting Fruit Trees to the far south, relatively speaking, have a slower projectile speed for the fruits, so you can go there to bombard Blood Igniting Fruits."
As Ye Chen was brought by Elder Xiao Supreme Elder, Lu Jia naturally wanted to give Ye Chen a good reminder, so he could enter the Divine Sword for cultivation more swiftly.
Hearing Lu Jia's advice, Ye Chen smiled and nodded.
However, he did not specifically head towards the southernmost Blood Igniting Fruit Trees, but instead thanked Lu Jia, who had been explaining for quite a while, then gave Elder Xiao Supreme Elder and Mu Qingqing, who were floating above and watching him, a nod before his sleeves swept up, and he directly burst toward the Blood Igniting Fruit Tree below.
Ye Chen did not make any particular choice but simply selected the tree nearest him to begin bombarding the "Blood Igniting Fruits."
This surprised Lu Jia.
"What is Ye Chen doing? I reminded him that the Blood Igniting Fruits in the south are easier to capture. Why isn't he heading there?"
While Lu Jia was pondering this, just after Ye Chen had descended to the ground near a Blood Igniting Fruit, one of the fruits fell from the tree and erupted forth, shooting toward the rolling malevolent energy in the distance.
The speed of this Blood Igniting Fruit's burst was astonishingly at the initial stage of the Dan Rotation level.
It was then that Lu Jia saw Ye Chen move.
The mid-Spirit Sea Realm Ye Chen directly chased after the erupting Blood Igniting Fruit, seemingly choosing to directly bombard this fruit.
"That's a Blood Igniting Fruit at the initial Duandan speed; how can Ye Chen, at the mid-Spirit Sea Realm, catch up..."
Lu Jia hadn't finished speaking when his voice abruptly ceased.
For he was suddenly struck by the realization that Ye Chen, who was chasing after the explosive fruit, had overtaken it although he took off later, moving even faster than the Blood Igniting Fruit and instantly catching up with it.
Whoosh!
In barely a tenth of a blink, Ye Chen had swung out the black fire sword from behind him, the tip of the sword stabbing directly and bombarding the swiftly flying Blood Igniting Fruit.
Bang!
The Blood Igniting Fruit exploded instantly, a faint red light then lingering around Ye Chen.
The first Blood Igniting Fruit, hit!
"This..."
"Such incredible speed!"
When Lu Jia heard the explosion of the Blood Igniting Fruit and saw the faint red light around Ye Chen, he could hardly believe his eyes.
He had never seen such speed on a disciple at the Spirit Sea Realm; the speed was probably that of a Duandan practitioner!
As Lu Jia was still in disbelief, another Blood Igniting Fruit fell from the tree and shot out.
The speed of this Blood Igniting Fruit was even faster than the previous one, reaching the Escaping Speed at the late stage of the Dan Rotation.
To Lu Jia's increased astonishment, Ye Chen moved again, chasing after this second rapidly firing Blood Igniting Fruit!
Ye Chen had chosen to bombard the Blood Igniting Fruit at the late Duandan Escaping Speed!