Duoduo led Lin Xi on the mountain road.

This mountain was formed by geological changes at the beginning, and it is about seven or eight hundred meters high, and it looks lush from a distance, and it does not look like an ecosystem that should be in a plateau environment.

As evolution progressed, most plants did not mutate, but their adaptability was greatly enhanced, and they were able to thrive in both the hypoxic environment of the plateau and the high salinity of the saline-alkali land.

The tall trees blocked the dazzling sunlight, and Lin Xi's body quickly jumped between the branches, but he was a little strange, there were no mutated creatures on such a mountain.

The so-called abnormality must have a demon, no wonder Duoduo would bring him to this place, but he didn't dare to be sloppy at all, with the experience of Sunset Valley, maybe there was something here that mutated creatures didn't dare to approach.

"Wow!" Duoduo, who was leading the way in front, suddenly shouted at Lin Xi.

"What's wrong?" Lin Xi jumped down from the tree.

Duoduo bit Lin Xi's trouser leg and dragged him straight into a bush on the side.

"Rustle." Lin Xi pushed the bushes away, and a huge mutant corpse appeared in front of him.

"Is this a giant stone ape?" Lin Xi noticed that the ape-like creature was covered with rock-like armor on its upper and lower levels, which was actually just the solid cuticle it had grown.

The giant stone ape is a mutant creature in the middle of the seventh order, not only is it infinitely powerful, but its defense is also terrifying, and weapons with a caliber of less than 10 mm can't penetrate its thick stone armor at all, even if it is a seventh-order warrior, it is quite tricky to encounter.

But what caught Lin Xi's attention was the strange death of this giant stone ape, the water and blood on its body seemed to have been sucked dry by something, and almost only a thick layer of animal skin and bones remained.

This kind of death made Lin Xi feel a chill down his spine, this is obviously not a means of human martial artists, it is not unheard of to kill mutated creatures to take blood, I heard that the blood of some powerful beasts can help people temper their bodies.

There are several branches in the combat skills, one of which is called alchemy, low-level alchemy needs to be assisted by various medicinal liquids composed of strange flowers and plants, but those high-level alchemy techniques require the blood of powerful mutated creatures.

Therefore, many powerful warriors will drain the blood from their bodies after finding those mutated creatures, and then sell it to those who need it, and the supply of this blood is generally very low, so the price is extremely high.

But the giant stone ape is obviously not in this category, and the blood of warrior-level creatures has no effect. And if it is a warrior hunting, unless it cannot be carried, most of the most valuable part of the prey will be taken away, but the corpse of the giant stone ape in front of him is very complete.

"Definitely not human!" Lin Xi quickly ruled out this possibility.

"Is it a mutated creature?" But Lin Xi thought about it for a long time, and he didn't seem to have heard of any mutated creatures that liked to suck blood.

After observing this corpse for a long time, Lin Xi finally found some clues, there was a shallow trace on the wrist and ankle of the giant stone ape, although the blood had been drained and there was no bruising to be seen, but because of the loss of moisture, the corpse was hard, and these parts were dented, as if they were tied up by something.

Not only that, but there was a small hole the size of a thumb in the neck of the giant stone ape, and there was a trace of blood around the wound that had not completely dried up.

"Looks like you have to be careful, there's something unusual about this mountain!" Lin Xi's face became serious.

The giant stone ape didn't seem to have been dead for too long, and the corpse hadn't smelled yet, in line with the principle of not wasting it, Lin Xi put it into his storage ring, and then took out a huge battle sword.

This is a human-level high-grade war sword, almost the same length as Lin Xi's, 28 cm wide, the thickest part is 3 cm, and the weight has reached a terrifying 120 kilograms, which was recommended by Hikana to Lin Xi to buy, and almost spent his last bit of savings.

Hikana told Lin Xi that after he was able to initially open his mouth to pierce the clouds, his attack power had almost no opponents among junior warriors, but defense was still his biggest flaw, and although this wide and thick sword was heavy and heavy, it had a very strong defensive effect.

Not only that, as long as Lin Xi began to learn "Phantom Sword", even a heavy sword could exert great power, and the weapon of the Soul Sword Venerable was also a huge heavy sword, which was both offensive and defensive, and the power was infinite.

"Wow, that's heavy!" Lin Xi's arms sank, and the fifth-order physical fitness that he had almost reached was so difficult to even pick it up, let alone use it, and he didn't know if it was a self-defense or a burden.

"Hehe, you can think of this as a kind of training!" Hikana gloated.

As he went deeper and deeper, there were more and more such corpses, and he even saw the corpses of several eighth-order creatures, some of which had gradually decayed, and looked like they had been dead for a long time, while some were still very fresh, and even a few of them had not completely cooled down.

"What the hell is here?" The strange atmosphere made Lin Xi's breathing a little short.

"Huh? How many small holes are there? When Lin Xi was observing the corpse of an eighth-order creature that had been dead not long ago, he suddenly saw several small holes in the soil around it.

The dirt was turned out, and there was even some dampness, and it was clear that the small holes were made from the inside.

He hurriedly walked back and glanced at the corpses in front of him, and sure enough, there were small holes similar to this next to those corpses, some of which were only the thickness of a finger, and some of which were almost as thick as an arm.

"What the hell is it? Could it be a snake? Lin Xi guessed, but the mutated snakes have basically become as huge as the previous pythons, and only some highly venomous snakes will maintain their former size, but these dead creatures obviously do not show any signs of poisoning.

Before he knew it, Lin Xi had already walked halfway up the mountain, and finally, he saw the corpse of a human warrior!

The corpse's death was equally eerie, sucked of blood, stiff and cold.

"This is probably a seventh- or eighth-order junior warrior, right?" Lin Xi saw the battle knives scattered next to him, they were human-level and high-grade, but they were broken by a force that he didn't know what he didn't know, I am afraid that this power is at least the peak of a junior warrior can have.

"Hikana, can you see what kind of creature made it?"

"No, there is a very pure energy source on this mountain, and some of my senses have been affected, and some parts cannot be scanned." Hikana said.

"A pure source of energy?"

"Yes, it should be what the little guy is going to take you for, although I don't know what it is, if you can get it, it should be of great benefit to your growth."

"Do you think this weird thing has anything to do with this energy source?" Lin Xi guessed.

Shikana pondered for a moment: "It's possible, pure energy sources are not very common on planets like yours, this energy source seems to have just appeared, it is estimated that its appearance has attracted something, you have to be careful, although you have been able to use the Cloud Piercing Thorn initially, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with that thing." ”

"Got it!" Lin Xi said seriously.

Suddenly, a faint vibration came from under Lin Xi's feet, and it seemed that something was coming towards him.

"It's coming! Be careful! Shikana hurriedly got in shape.

Lin Xi looked around, he didn't know what it was now, if he fought in a daze, he would definitely suffer.

"There it is!"

He leapt and landed on the trunk of a large tree not far away, holding his greatsword in front of him, staring intently at where he had just stood.

Poof!

A large patch of dirt splashed up, and a purple vine broke through the soil, coming straight towards Lin Xi's cheek with a violent whistling sound!