A purple-black fireball advanced through the densely layered vines, with blades of purple-black flame flying out from the fireball, slicing through the blocking vines as they entered the seawater.

Even a slight touch from the purple-black fire would cause the vines to lose their strength.

Whoosh~~ realizing the vines couldn't stop Lu Yu's advance, the petals of the magic flower vibrated rapidly, emitting ultrasonic waves that caused the surrounding seawater to continuously tremble along with the purple flame demon fire surrounding Lu Yu.

The demonic sound entered his ears, and for an instant, Lu Yu's mind went blank.

The cold seawater slapped against Lu Yu's face, bringing him back to his senses, surrounded by floating shards of vines, the hall filled with floating, shattered vines.

The Water-Repelling Pearl had been damaged in the previous attack, and the surrounding vines were cut to pieces inadvertently when Lu Yu faced danger.

The battle hasn't ended yet.

Lu Yu found that he had already activated the Blood Burning Secret Technique, which was still exerting its effects, and he rushed toward the magic flower's true form.

There was no time to purchase another Water-Repelling Pearl from the store.

All Lu Yu could do at this moment was to kill the magic flower in front of him before the Blood Burning Secret Technique ended.

During the blank period just now, some subconscious actions of Lu Yu consumed a large amount of spiritual power and Qi blood; if he couldn't kill the magic flower before the secret technique ended, Lu Yu would have to run away.

The magic flower controlled the vines to roll up stones and hurl them at Lu Yu, but the speed of the stones in the water was concerning, allowing Lu Yu to easily dodge and get closer to the magic flower's true form.

The magic flower realized throwing stones in water wasn't effective, so it controlled the vines to whip at Lu Yu instead.

This time, it was smarter, knowing that Lu Yu's flames could make its vines lose control; it abandoned entanglement, opting for whipping, so even if the vines lost control, the whipped vines would continue attacking due to inertia.

It used parts of its body as a whip-like weapon.

Bang! Lu Yu grabbed a whipping vine, stopped his steps, and tightly grasped the vine with his left hand, twirling his left arm and wrapping the vine around his hand a few times to prevent slipping.

Pulling one of the magic flower's vines, Lu Yu exerted all his strength to drag the magic flower's true form toward him.

Under Lu Yu's brute force, the flower of the magic flower began to detach from the wall.

Seeing half of the magic flower tearing away, Lu Yu put away his Demon-Breaking Saber and grabbed the vine with both hands, pulling hard.

The small yellow roots fixing the magic flower on the wall were snapped, and after detaching from the magic flower, the roots quickly shrank back into the wall and disappeared.

The magic flower continued to struggle, whipping Lu Yu with its vines, while some vines tied to the columns in the hall, attempting to resist Lu Yu's pulling.

It even considered self-severing its vines, but the vines were too tough, and it didn't possess such an ability. Trying to break vines capable of withstanding full-force attacks from the fourth level of Qi Condensation on the spur of the moment was beyond its capacity.

Seeing the magic flower pulled out from the wall, Lu Yu grinned, "If you don't come, I'll come over!"

While pulling the vine, he approached the magic flower's true form, and seeing the looming threat getting closer, the magic flower finally used its last trick.

A vine with twelve fruits extended from the bottom of the magic flower, trembling as it reached towards Lu Yu. These fruits were its bait, but also its food.

To grow and advance, the magic flower had to devour the Qi blood and spiritual Qi of living beings. They themselves were a composite consciousness, and these fruits, imprinted with souls, were its delicacy.

The spiritual imprints and lingering consciousness in these fruits could strengthen the magic flower's consciousness.

The magic flower didn't mind its consciousness being polluted or mixed because its consciousness was already a composite entity, formed from countless pieces of consciousness.

"Hmm?" Lu Yu looked at the magic flower with surprise, "Are you surrendering?"

The vine with twelve fruits nodded, the mature Qi blood and spiritual Qi fruits swaying on it.

"Interesting, for a plant to have the idea of surrendering."

Since the magic flower was willing to give its fruits, Lu Yu unceremoniously accepted, picking all twelve fruits, the vine withdrew tremblingly, like a child who had lost its beloved possession.

The magic flower shook the vine held by Lu Yu, meaning: "I've given you the things, will you let go now?"

Letting go wasn't an option; after all, the magic flower still had a heap of experience points yet to give him, Lu Yu straightened the vine and continued toward the magic flower.

Feeling Lu Yu's actions, the magic flower was extremely angry; it had already given its items to Lu Yu, yet he still intended to attack; it decided to unleash its final move.

"Mommy, help me!"

The magic flower's conscious wave transmitted out, Lu Yu received it, and after a while, understood its meaning, just as he was puzzled by these words.

The ground started to shake, this time it was a real earthquake; not just the hall, but the ground outside the hall was trembling, Lu Yu felt a vast power emerging from underground.

This power was so massive that even in the underwater ruins where perception was severely suppressed, Lu Yu could feel it.

Bang! Deep purple-red vines surged up from underground, flipping over the entire hall, and Lu Yu was thrown out by the vines.

Spinning in the seawater, Lu Yu saw a vine over ten meters thick emerge from beneath the ground, with the magic flower he had been gripping now fusing into the deep purple-red vine.

Upon closer inspection, the surface of the thick purple-red vine bore strange patterns resembling magic flowers.

This was the true form of the magic flower, the real master of the underwater ruins—The Invincible Vine.

Hai Wei swam over quickly, catching up with the spiraling Lu Yu. With Hai Wei's help, Lu Yu stopped spinning and gazed at the distant vine slowly retracting underground.

In the cavern below the great hall, a large number of fine black-green vines rapidly emerged. These vines, after absorbing the qi blood and spiritual qi of living beings, would grow into red-black vines, eventually blooming into a magic flower and merging with the body of the undying magic vine.

"The energy of that purplish-red vine is immense because of its large size? And it seems it doesn't attack humans proactively, only coming out when the magic flower summons it."

Lu Yu and Hai Wei distanced themselves from where the purplish-red vine appeared.

Getting hit by the purplish-red vine didn't cause much harm to Lu Yu; the vine was targeting the magic flower, and Lu Yu was merely swept aside.

After merging with the magic flower, the purplish-red vine immediately retracted underground.

Lu Yu found a barely intact house in the underwater ruins with Hai Wei, chased the original owner out, and bought a new Water-Repelling Pearl. Activating the pearl created an air bubble in the room.

"Can you sense your clan members?" Lu Yu asked.

He got the idea from Hai Wei previously giving him a scale, thinking that maybe the mermaids have unique sensing methods.

Hai Wei responded, "If they share the same bloodline as me, I can sense them from afar. For mermaids of other bloodlines, it depends on the proximity."

Upon hearing this, Lu Yu nodded and said, "Let's stay here for a while. In a bit, we'll go out to check if your clan members have arrived."

"Don't go out; I need to seize the time to improve my strength."

Hai Wei nodded, found a stone lying on the ground to sit on, understanding the dangerous situation both she and Lu Yu were in.

Just now, entering the sea was a bit exciting, momentarily losing control.

Watching Lu Yu take out the fruit, Hai Wei boredly teased the small fish and shrimp hiding in the crevices around.

Directly consuming the qi blood fruit and spiritual qi fruit, although it can enhance qi blood and spiritual power, it easily leaves hidden dangers for future cultivation.

Impure spiritual power creates major obstacles when advancing from the sea of qi realm to the core formation realm, even causing one to stagnate at the sea of qi realm without a breakthrough.

A qi blood fruit appeared in Lu Yu's hand, and a purplish-black purple flame demon fire burned on his palm, roasting the qi blood fruit.

Lu Yu vaguely sensed crackling sounds from within the qi blood fruit, sounds that were the soul imprint and spiritual fragments left by the fruit's owner.

With the purple flame demon fire capable of burning souls, this is why Lu Yu dared to consume fruits containing cultivation from others.

As long as the purple flame demon fire completely burns away the soul imprint and spiritual fragments inside the fruit, the fruit becomes pure qi blood and spiritual qi, able to quickly enhance the user's qi blood and spiritual power limits.

To be safe, Lu Yu continued to roast the fruit for ten minutes after no longer sensing the crackling sounds before stopping.

The purple flame demon fire targets souls specifically, so its temperature isn't high enough to destroy the fruit brimming with qi blood.

Glancing at Hai Wei, Lu Yu cast the Silent Shadow Concealment Array.

In the ruins, perception is suppressed to the extreme. Unless someone enters the room, the array won't be detected.

Quickly drawing the Golden Armor Spirit Array on the surrounding walls, the hastily arranged array might miss some spots, causing those areas to be more fragile. However, the overall safety of the building is greatly enhanced.

After setting up defenses, Lu Yu began refining the qi blood fruit.

Biting into the qi blood fruit, piercing its skin, Lu Yu felt the nearly liquefied qi blood rapidly overflowing, and he quickly sucked hard to swallow all the qi blood inside.

After sucking the liquefied qi blood dry, he didn't waste the peel, chewing it two or three times before swallowing.

A large amount of qi blood erupted in Lu Yu's stomach, slightly expanding his resilient stomach walls.

He clamped his mouth and rear shut, preventing qi blood from leaking out, as the qi blood fruit was rapidly absorbed by Lu Yu's robust body.

This qi blood fruit contained about 750 points of qi blood in total, equivalent to the entire essence of qi and blood from a Martial Cultivator of the fifth level control qi realm.

An ordinary control qi realm martial cultivator who dares to swallow such a large amount of qi blood essence in one gulp would be blown up by the qi blood essence released by the qi blood fruit. Lu Yu's stomach only slightly expanded.

[Absorbed one qi blood fruit, qi blood +32]

For a control qi realm martial cultivator, the qi blood fruit could significantly enhance their physique strength, yet it only increased Lu Yu's qi blood by 32 points, with a conversion rate of less than one-twentieth.

Seeing the result, Lu Yu could still accept it, given his current qi blood strength far exceeds 750 points. Any improvement is already quite commendable.

Carefully sensing his body for a while, finding no lingering issues, Lu Yu took out five qi blood fruits and refined them all at once.

With the purple flame demon fire completely burning away the soul imprints and spiritual fragments within the qi blood fruits, he consumed them all.

Receiving five consecutive system prompts, Lu Yu checked his qi blood again, finding that the six qi blood fruits increased his qi blood by 180 points, roughly equivalent to the increase from refining his body with the purple flame demon fire over these days.

After chewing up and absorbing all the purple flame demon saber to extract the purple flame demon fire, Lu Yu's third flame body refinement progress advanced to 45%, increasing qi blood by about 200 points.

Currently, Lu Yu's qi blood strength has reached 1785 points.

A Martial Cultivator of the seventh level sea of qi realm, who has not specifically cultivated qi blood, has a qi blood strength around this level. Yet Lu Yu also has the body refinement bonus of the iron bone realm, making his qi blood even purer and denser, with qi blood powers equivalent to twice those of martial cultivators of the same level.

The sea of qi realm requires qi blood to reach 3570 for physical strength to match Lu Yu's, but defense falls far short.

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