Boom!

A towering ancient tree as thick as a five-person hug broke from it. The fracture was cleaned by Cheng Shen and was as smooth as a mirror. He jumped up and used the flat tree stump as a workbench, and then began to take out items one by one from his backpack.

black mist grass,

Qian Jie Teng,

Spirit blood flower...

They are all nightmare materials obtained from Cheng Shen's previous deal with Adele.

The nightmare energy contained in these materials is definitely higher than the ordinary substances that can be seen everywhere in the black mist.

Extractions with higher purity are also possible.

However, Cheng Shen suspected that refining it alone was not enough. If the Nightmare Melanin was so easy to obtain, it would be impossible for the church that had already refined the Life Hematin to not discover it.

But he always has to give it a try.

Pacha!

The two divine blood cores were directly crushed by him, turning into flying crystal red dust and spreading on the tree stump. Then they were quickly outlined with Cheng Shen's soul power, forming a small magic array as complex as a star map.

This is a smelting array.

certainly.

It's an enhanced version.

To extract the most original substance from the nightmare material, it is difficult for Cheng Shen to do it with bare hands. He needs the help of the alchemical formation. And using the precious divine blood core as the energy of the formation is extremely luxurious.

After obtaining the hunter badge, Cheng Shen's exclusive career store also opens.

The products inside are quite complete.

For example, the limited item he purchased from Guerra could only allow him to return to reality briefly:

Lucid dreams.

There is absolutely no limit in professional stores, and the price is cheaper.

It only costs ten blood cores to redeem one piece.

besides.

Other items in the hunter's shop also require blood cores to purchase.

props,

potion,

Even high-end equipment.

Miles in the hunter store can be directly redeemed for Tier 3 and Tier 4 perfect level equipment, but the price of a piece of equipment is quite high.

No need to think about it yet.

"Start refining."

Cheng Shen pushed all the materials in front of him into the alchemy circle, and his perception covered them.

The actual operation of the refining step is extremely simple. The medicinal properties and characteristics of these materials do not need to be directly removed. Instead, the most basic substances must be taken, which are the impurities that need to be removed when refining the medicine.

It is completely opposite to the usual operation when refining potions and props.

Buzz!

The complex formation rotated on the platform, like a bright star, emitting strong fluctuations, swallowing up every piece of material.

smelting,

stripping,

Cheng Shen did not waste the stripped essence substance. While distracted, he smelted it twice and made it into props. He also extracted and refined the remaining basic substances many times until it was no longer possible.

"Sure enough, there's something missing..."

at last.

Cheng Shen put the substances extracted from more than a dozen pieces of materials into bottles.

The melanin particles were piled up lifelessly, barely covering the bottom of the bottle. The appearance of these substances already had the shape of nightmare melanin, but the power they contained and the effects they could exert were far different.

"It has been refined to the limit."

Cheng Shen shook the bottle.

The form of this bottle of matter, refined by the alchemical formation, is one level higher than the energy level that his natural energy control can control.

….

Said before.

If the forms of energy are also divided into different levels.

With the effect of his first-level energy control, he can only control the most basic first-level energy such as earth, wind, water, and fire.

After fusing the soul power, his control authority has been strengthened, and he can already control the second-level energy. Even the divine blood energy, the blank energy caused by the space turbulence in the camp battlefield, only belongs to the second-level category.

.

But now Cheng Shen has come into contact with more than one higher level of energy.

life blood,

nightmare melanin,

They all belong to energy of level three or higher.

However, the bottle of substance in front of me only has its shape and lacks the most important charm of nightmare melanin.

"If the nightmare substance is compared to the physical body, this bottle of substance lacks the spiritual power to activate it."

Cheng Shen was thoughtful.

"But where can we get the consciousness of nightmares?"

While thinking hard, Cheng Shen suddenly thought of a creation god in the legends and myths of the original earth.

Pangu.

According to legend, her flesh and blood transformed into the four poles and five mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, while her essence and spirit gave birth to the spirits of all things.

If the nightmare world is considered to have a similar structure, if he wants to obtain the consciousness of nightmares, he should also start with living beings.

"I hope I can still find nightmare native creatures here..."

Cheng Shen thought silently.

Clean up traces.

He continued to explore the depths of the Infected Lands.

The swamp in front of him was just a piece of swampy land, intertwined between the thick roots of towering ancient trees, and the swampland was all over the place. Cheng Shen killed the divine-blood monsters he encountered along the way, and he didn't bother with those that felt troublesome.

Currently, the only ones that can make him feel troublesome are strong players at the priest level, monsters with divine blood equivalent to fourth-level lords.

Fourth-level bosses and elite-strength divine-blood monsters can also be regarded as priest-level, but the threat to them is far different.

And with the protection of the Invisible Lord, once he hides, not even the messenger-level divine blood monsters can find him.

Just move forward like this.

Gradually, wooden houses covered with decaying green plants appeared in the spreading swamp.

"It's an abandoned manor..." Cheng Shen walked past the huge waterwheel that had sunk into the mud, raised his hand and fired two shots to kill the monster hiding in the shop.

Ahead is a farm.

The broad field has been occupied by squirming lumps of flesh and blood. There are barns, farmhouses, and a gray wooden building sitting on a high stone platform in the distance. The appearance is still relatively well-preserved.

"There is a strange blood deep in the swamp...the other strange blood is probably hiding here."

A large part of Cheng Shen's clothes was corroded by something unknown. It was the work of the alien creature in the swamp. That ghost thing was filled with strong acid and poisonous mist. Let alone hunting it, Cheng Shen's strength could not even get close.

Law.

It was also this encounter that made him understand the gap between himself and messenger-level monsters.

If it were said that before, because he had obtained a new weapon, he still had the slightest fantasy of killing a strange blood.

Now I have completely given up the idea...

"There is not a single nightmare creature." What he discovered along the way also made Cheng Shen a little helpless. The fecundity of the divine-blood monster was even more terrifying than that of cockroaches. Within the scope of its existence, nightmare creatures could not survive at all.

….

"Let's refresh the hunting value first and then think of a solution after we return."

Cheng Shen thought in his heart.

Peng!

He opened fire directly, and the huge gunfire alarmed the monsters entrenched in the farmland. The bloated flesh and blood tissue immediately began to squirm, crushing the wooden fence around the manor, and giant tentacles split apart as they crawled.
To be continued...