Chapter 1154: Bloodline Fruit

Dong Dahu's face was bruised and swollen, almost unrecognizable. His eyes were dark, and his nose was bleeding. He was filled with inexplicable grief and indignation.

Both of them had already acknowledged the "Four Great Beauties," so why did they still beat him up? Could they still form a proper team and roam the mortal realm together?

"Say no more," Old Gu declared, looking triumphant. "From now on, the world will have a 'Four Great Beauties' organization. All of us are as graceful as jade, with unparalleled looks, destined to dominate the mortal realm."

Old Gu strutted about, looking high-spirited and proud.

"Yes, 'Four Great Beauties' is a really good name," Chu Feng nodded.

Dong Dahu grew even more indignant. Was there any reason left? They all thought it was a good name, yet they still beat him first. Was this just pure malice?

Old Gu quickly changed the subject. "There's always a period of acceptance for new things. Stop glaring and quickly look at that ancient bloodline tree; the fruits are about to ripen. Don't miss it!"

The Northeast Tiger, still unconvinced, nudged Chu Feng. "Brother, do you think this Old Gu is reliable? He's a Nine Netherworld Creature. Aren't they said to be utterly evil, incredibly sinister and malicious? Let's make sure we don't get led into a trap by him; we might not even know how we died."

"You have a point!" Chu Feng nodded, then looked at Old Gu.

In fact, Chu Feng had always been curious. Nine Netherworld Creatures were rumored to be evil, venomous, and terrifying, but the Gu Dahai he knew was quite different from that, and he even retained his past life memories.

Since they had just gone through a difficult situation together, Chu Feng directly asked his question without hiding anything from him.

"Who am I? I'm Gu Chenhai from the prehistoric era, one who dared to snatch the mortal realm's foremost beauty. Naturally, I possess extraordinary talent!" Gu Dahai boasted.

Chu Feng immediately wanted to hit him. The so-called "foremost beauty" was Qin Luoyin's past life, and Old Gu constantly bringing it up infuriated him!

"You scoundrel, trying to seduce sister-in-law! There's nothing more to say. Brother, let's beat him together and give him a black eye too!" Dong Dahu egged on.

"Alright, let's let it go this time. Old Gu, continue. As a Nine Netherworld Creature, why are you so different?" Chu Feng asked again.

"Does that even need to be said? Firstly, I possess extraordinary talent. Secondly, my elder brother is Li. He taught me a method that can reverse Yin and Yang. Of course, the materials required are priceless, incredibly rare, and difficult to gather. Poor me, when I was looking for coffin materials, I originally set my sights on a Chaos Root, but the opportunity slipped away, and I had to settle for a Heavenly Gold Stone Coffin instead, which lacked a certain essence."

He sighed.

In truth, everyone had their secrets. Chu Feng didn't really care about Old Gu's past or why he hadn't lost himself like other Nine Netherworld Creatures.

The key was that they had just shared hardships and could act together against external threats.

"They're ripe! The fruits are ripe, haha..." Old Gu laughed loudly, his voice echoing through the sky.

He was stable at the quasi-saint level, his face fair, exuding a hint of heroism, and he truly cut a striking figure.

In front of them, emerald light shot into the sky. Over a hundred fruits on the ancient tree swayed in unison. A rich fragrance wafted over, refreshing and invigorating, making every pore on their bodies relax. It was incredibly comfortable.

Their own bloodlines surged and pulsed intensely, as if sensing a power ready to activate them.

On the island, corpses lay everywhere: from Kunpengs to White Kirins, to Golden Crows, and everything in between. These were all former powerhouses who had died in this desolate land.

This scene made the central bloodline ancient tree appear even more transcendent and sacred.

"Quick, quick, quick! If these ripen, they'll shrivel up within a quarter of an hour if not picked. All their essence will flow back into the mother tree and be completely absorbed, leaving nothing for outsiders," Old Gu urged.

"There's such a thing?" Chu Feng was surprised.

Old Gu said, "What do you think these bloodline fruits come from? Do you see all the divine birds and fierce beasts scattered across the island? Without their vital essence to nourish it, this tree wouldn't have enough nutrients."

"I suddenly feel a bit disgusted. Can this thing be eaten?" Dong Dahu hesitated, but the refreshing aroma made him instinctively swallow.

Old Gu asked, "If you put it that way, do ordinary mortals eat fruits and vegetables that are fertilized and ripened with chemicals, or do they not?"

Dong Dahu was conflicted.

Old Gu then said, "Don't worry. This ancient tree only absorbs the divine substances permeating this island. It doesn't grow by absorbing decaying corpses. Haven't you noticed that all the divine beasts and fierce birds remain in their original form, undeteriorated?"

Dong Dahu replied, "That puts my mind at ease. I wasn't originally a vegetarian, but that damned old donkey tricked me into reincarnating as a donkey and then ran off, which made me change my diet to vegetarian."

Swish, swish, swish!

They quickly set to work, harvesting the ripe fruits. However, the crystal-clear fruits on the ancient tree were very difficult to pick; they were extremely firmly attached.

Chu Feng's target was the attribute-less fruits imbued with chaotic energy, which would be effective for his Human King bloodline and aid in its transformation.

As for Old Gu, he set his sights on a gleaming white fruit adorned with the image of a monster featuring a human body and a snake tail.

"Old Gu, are you a beautiful snake spirit?" Dong Dahu shrieked in surprise.

At that moment, Old Gu felt like devouring him. *Damn it*, what nonsense was he spouting? How did he resemble a beautiful snake?

Meanwhile, the Northeast Tiger himself managed to pick a fruit adorned with a tiger pattern and let out a triumphant roar: "Awoo!"

"Don't just stand there, quickly pick! See if there are any Kirin fruits, Phoenix fruits, Kunpeng fruits, etc.!" Chu Feng shouted.

As for Chu Feng, he had already begun to swing his Heavenly Blood Starry Sky Mother Gold Dagger. Since the bloodline fruits were hard to pick, he simply used his sword. With a series of crackling sounds, there were over twenty of those attribute-less fruits, and he swiftly severed the stems of more than a dozen of them, successfully collecting them.

"Fast enough! Keep picking!" Old Gu cried out, but after searching for a moment, he found no Phoenix or Kunpeng bloodline fruits.

These things weren't available just because you wanted them; it depended on luck. This time, there wasn't a single such fruit on the entire ancient tree.

The entire tree was fragrant, its emerald leaves glowing. All the fruits were as white as jade and exuded a rich aroma. Various patterns of birds and beasts intermittently appeared on them, each unique and faintly discernible.

Chu Feng saw a bull-headed fruit and decisively cut it down. In the future, whether it was the Yellow Ox or the Great Black Ox, if they ever met again, he could give it to them. If they still liked their past lives, then consuming this fruit would be perfectly suitable.

"There's even a toad fruit?" Chu Feng said, raising an eyebrow.

"You really think it's a common toad? This is definitely an exotic primordial beast! Pick it! We can trade it for heavenly materials and earthly treasures later!" Old Gu exclaimed.

Chu Feng chuckled, "Alright. If push comes to shove, and I feel both affection and loathing for a certain creature, I'll just give them a powerful toad bloodline fruit!"

Fwoosh!

Suddenly, the entire ancient tree began to dim, and all the fruits shriveled instantly. The essence within them flowed backward and was reabsorbed by the mother tree.

"That's not right, it's not time yet!" Chu Feng cried out.

Old Gu was shocked. This completely contradicted what was recorded. It had just begun, so why had all the fruits shriveled and lost their spiritual essence?

Rustle, rustle, rustle!

Leaves fell, littering the ground. Since all the essence had been absorbed by the mother tree, the shriveled fruits, now just husks, also fell.

The entire mother tree was bare and dim, as if it had lost its vitality forever.

Old Gu exclaimed, "This is too bizarre, too despicable! It's an ambush! It doesn't make sense! The mother tree absorbed the essence of those fruits and fell into slumber. Who knows how many ages it will take to recover? At least for this era, there's no hope!"

He was extremely unwilling, almost frantic, because, up to this point, the total number of bloodline fruits he and Dong Dahu had managed to gather was less than ten.

As for Chu Feng, even with the aid of his Heavenly Blood Starry Sky Mother Gold Dagger, he had only managed to collect a dozen or so in the end, a far cry from his original goal of gathering them all.

Just now, he had carefully observed; there were at least 150 bloodline fruits on the entire tree, but they had collected less than thirty!

"This... I want to cry! How did they all just vanish? Wasn't it supposed to take a quarter of an hour?" Dong Dahu wailed, clutching a bloodline fruit with a tiger pattern to his chest.

"Oh no, run!" Old Gu shouted.

Without the sacred radiance of the mother tree, the area was once again engulfed by an electromagnetic storm and covered by a torrential blood rain. The baleful energy was immense; it was a great catastrophe.

"Escape!"

Chu Feng called to the two of them, and they dove into the stone jar. Then, they fled in the jar, speeding away from the island's center and escaping towards the outside.

Finally, the stone jar pierced through the light barrier composed of time fragments, burst out of the special island, and they found themselves standing on the vast, turbulent sea.

By this time, Chu Feng had already put away his past-life Dao Fruit. Even so, when he looked up, he saw lightning flashing and thunder rumbling, faintly visible above the sky, almost striking them several times. He felt a pang of guilt.

"Time to share the loot and eat the bloodline fruits!" Dong Dahu roared with laughter. No matter what, he had gotten his wish; he could finally change his bloodline and no longer be a donkey.

"Wait a moment," Old Gu reminded them. "First, let's find some reliable containers to store the fruits we don't need to consume immediately, to prevent their essence from leaking."

Clearly, the most suitable place was inside the stone jar; burying them under the Samsara Soil would definitely preserve them.

However, Chu Feng had learned his lesson. During a battle with a descendant of the Martial Maniac, he was unexpectedly attacked, and the contents of the jar were scattered and partially destroyed.

Even the Meng Po soup was nearly lost.

"Old Gu, have your Heavenly Gold Stone Coffin disintegrate! In this situation, don't hide such heavenly materials and earthly treasures. Take them out for artifact refinement; they're guaranteed to be sturdy!"

"What do you mean? Are you going to split up even my coffin lid?!" Old Gu's eyebrows shot up, and he huffed in anger.

"Things are meant to be used. Come on, let's refine artifacts!" Chu Feng said, swinging his Mother Gold Dagger, chopping at the Heavenly Gold Stone Old Gu had provided. He then took out some space stones and fused them into the Heavenly Gold Stone, thereby adding space and sufficient sturdiness.

After most of the fruits were sealed inside, Dong Dahu was the first who couldn't resist and swallowed his own bloodline fruit.

"Awoooo..." He roared repeatedly, rolling on the ground. The vital energy within his body surged and raged violently. The pain was unbearable; this was a sudden mutation of his bloodline, naturally causing immense changes.

"Oh no, what have I become? I've grown tiger fangs, but I still look like a donkey! The transformation isn't complete, damn it! Why is one side of my body black and the other pure white?!" Dong Dahu shrieked.

Old Gu comforted him, "Don't rush. If you want to fully transform into a tiger, it will definitely take some time. Otherwise, directly turning a donkey into a tiger isn't realistic. How terrifying would that change need to be? Your very genes would collapse!"

"Slow physical change is fine, but why is my body color changing so rapidly? Look, I'm split into two, becoming perfectly symmetrical black and white! Oh my goodness, even my face is like this? I've got a Yin-Yang face!" Dong Dahu wailed. This appearance was truly hideous.

When he transformed into human form, he looked normal, but when he took on his beast form, he became a Yin-Yang body, one side shining black, the other crystalline white. It was utterly bizarre.

Dong Dahu felt his face turn green, though this was just his illusion, as he was currently only black and white, with a Yin-Yang face.

Old Gu speculated and deduced, "The bloodline fruit is extremely potent. It's trying to mold you into an Exotic Wild Tiger, and this strongest tiger bloodline has always evolved from the fusion of black and white tigers..."

"So, I'm going to have a Yin-Yang face forever?!" Dong Dahu's fur bristled.

Chu Feng laughed, "The saying goes: 'When black and white tigers meet, black and white collide, Yin and Yang merge, and the Exotic Wild Tiger bloodline is formed.' It's probably something like that."

"Argh, argh, argh..." Dong Dahu shrieked.

Next, Old Gu gritted his teeth and also swallowed his bloodline fruit.

Chu Feng, naturally, didn't hesitate either, swallowing an attribute-less fruit that emitted chaotic energy, awaiting the mutation of his Human King bloodline.