Chapter 26

At this moment, the terrifying aura that had frozen Lingxi in place finally disappeared. Lingxi had thought Long Chen was fine, but unexpectedly, he was now writhing in pain on the ground. Lingxi, both shocked and frightened, quickly appeared from the Lingxi Sword, her tiny body circling around Long Chen in a panic.

"Long Chen, Long Chen, what’s wrong with you? Don’t scare me..."

As she spoke, her eyes gradually turned red. If she still had tears, they would have already flowed.

"My skin, it hurts so much!"

At this moment, Long Chen felt that every part of his body’s surface was experiencing excruciating pain! The one-thousandth of the heritage blood in his body was spreading rapidly like poison throughout his entire body. The current state of his skin was actually due to that blood coming into contact with it.

"Lingxi, something is growing on your body!"

Lingxi’s panicked voice reached Long Chen, who was in immense pain. Hearing Lingxi’s words, he panicked and suddenly opened his eyes to look at his arm.

He saw that his arm had completely turned blood red, and it was neatly divided into countless small areas, each the size of a fingernail. In each small area, something was growing. To Long Chen’s horror, these were actually pieces of blood-red scales!

He was greatly shocked. Enduring the intense pain all over his body, he lowered his head to look at his body. As expected, his entire body was now covered in these fine, blood-red scales. On his fingers, toes, knees, and elbows, there were even blood-red, knife-like bone spurs protruding, their sharpness surpassing that of ordinary swords and knives!

Looking at the knife-like bone spurs protruding from his fingers, Long Chen was stunned: "This... This is a damn claw?! Have I turned into a beast?"

He suddenly touched his back and felt a row of sharp spines behind him. These blood-red spines were all over his body, even on his head, which was now covered in fine, blood-red scales, and his hair had disappeared, replaced by fierce, blood-red spines!

Although Long Chen couldn’t see his entire appearance, just from his body and limbs, he could tell that his current form was a perfect combat form. The blood-red scales provided strong defense, and the spines were offensive weapons!

"This appearance... with the blood-red scales, it’s really cool to the extreme..."

The pain in Long Chen’s body gradually subsided, indicating that the transformation was almost complete. He looked at his body in a daze and tried to make light of the situation.

Hearing that Long Chen could still speak clearly, Lingxi finally breathed a sigh of relief. Just as she was about to speak, Long Chen suddenly asked, "Xiaoxi, do you think I look cool or not?"

Lingxi took a look. Long Chen’s current appearance was fierce and bloody, but the lines of his scales and spines were very perfect, indeed very cool. But what was the point?

"Long Chen, how are you... really?"

Long Chen felt and said, "I don’t know... but I feel a powerful force, a very strong feeling!"

He was experiencing the strength of his body, and at this moment, the one-thousandth of the heritage blood that had been implanted into his body began to spread to the last area, the dantian.

At this moment, Long Chen’s body had been completely transformed into a strange form.

Long Chen could even see that in every organ, every bone, and even every drop of blood, there was the shadow of a blood-red divine dragon roaring and rolling endlessly!

Every organ and muscle in his body seemed to come alive. His heart’s beating speed increased several times, and the transformed blood, when flowing through those organs and muscles, was directly swallowed!

Such a bizarre scene was something Long Chen had never imagined in his wildest dreams!

"How did I end up like this... what’s wrong with me?"

Long Chen was still muttering to himself. At this moment, the expanded heritage blood suddenly merged into his true qi, which was already at the fifth level of the Dragon Vein Realm. Instantly, his true qi began to rapidly transform. The original true qi gradually turned a bit blood red, and as the true qi transformed, the blood red in his dantian became more and more intense!

This process was not painful, but Long Chen was shocked to discover that it seemed to take ten parts of his original true qi to transform into one part of blood-red true qi!

Just as he realized this, Long Chen felt an intense hunger spread throughout his body, and his face immediately turned very pale.

Lingxi, worried, asked, "What’s wrong with you... now?"

She could see the concern in her eyes, and Long Chen felt very warm.

"I... I feel so hungry... I can’t take it, I’m so hungry!"

As he spoke, Long Chen let out a low growl in pain. They were both shocked to find that this growl was actually a dragon’s roar!

However, Long Chen didn’t have time to worry about this. The hunger was due to the lack of true qi, and he found himself very similar to other beasts!

"I’m so hungry! So hungry..."

Long Chen fell to the ground, the hunger making him feel weak all over. The situation today was full of twists and turns, and Lingxi was also very anxious. When Long Chen said he was hungry, she had no way to solve it and could only panic, "I... I’ll go find something for you to eat!"

If she went out, she would definitely have to control the Lingxi Sword to fly, and she would probably die in a few moments, let alone find something for Long Chen to eat. In a daze, Long Chen heard her say she would go out and quickly stopped her, "No, you don’t have to go out! I don’t eat those..."

He almost said this subconsciously, and Lingxi, anxious, asked, "Then what do you want to eat?"

Long Chen was stunned. He was also thinking about what he wanted to eat. His hunger was due to the lack of true qi, so...

Long Chen still had over five hundred spirit jade stones. Thinking of this, he quickly took out the spirit jade. When the spirit jade appeared, Long Chen found that his body instinctively reacted, not by refining the earth qi from the spirit jade, but by directly eating it!

He couldn’t resist. In Lingxi’s shocked gaze, he directly grabbed a handful of spirit jade and stuffed it into his mouth. The true qi-infused jade was crushed by his sharp teeth, and a huge amount of earth qi was completely swallowed by Long Chen, then transferred to his dantian and rapidly transformed into new blood-red true qi!

At this moment, the feeling Long Chen experienced was like that of a person who had been hungry for days suddenly eating delicious food. However, if those people ate too quickly, they might choke, but Long Chen wouldn’t!

His current strange body absorbed earth qi very quickly. The nearly six hundred spirit jade stones were completely swallowed and transformed into new blood-red true qi within a quarter of an hour!

However, Long Chen found that his hunger was only slightly relieved!

The spirit jade seemed to be not very effective for his blood-red true qi. Even the amount of spirit jade that would have been enough to reach the sixth level of the Dragon Vein Realm felt like a small dish to him.

However, this small dish finally eased his hunger somewhat.

Long Chen felt that if he didn’t eat something else tonight, he might starve to death.

Seeing Long Chen eating spirit jade, Lingxi was so shocked she couldn’t speak. Despite her extensive knowledge, she didn’t know what was happening. Seeing Long Chen return to normal after eating the spirit jade, her tense heart finally relaxed a bit.

Just as Lingxi was about to speak, Long Chen, who had finished eating the spirit jade, suddenly said, "Xiaoxi, go back into the Lingxi Sword. We need to go out. Find me a group of beasts nearby! Hurry!"

It was still a critical moment. Despite having many questions, Lingxi saw the urgency in Long Chen’s eyes and obediently returned to the Lingxi Sword, which pierced his ear.

However, Long Chen’s current body was abnormally tough. Even with the sharpness of the Lingxi Sword, Lingxi had to use a lot of effort to succeed.

Without a word, Long Chen ran out. It was deep into the night, and his body was emitting a strong bloody aura, which was very noticeable. However, the ancient dignity in the bloody aura made some small beasts tremble in fear from a distance.

Long Chen headed towards the depths of the Great Wasteland Mountain. After a while, Lingxi said, "There’s an underground cave ahead. I can sense many auras inside, but they seem to be around the fifth rank of the Yellow Stage. You..."

Before Lingxi could finish, Long Chen’s figure darted directly into the underground cave. The smell of food was already very clear.

The underground cave was very humid, and the bloody aura was very strong. Along the way, there were faintly visible bones. Soon, Long Chen arrived at an underground cave.

The space in this cave was very large, and at the bottom was a black mud pit, from which a putrid smell wafted. However, Long Chen didn’t notice it at all.

Not far from his feet was the mud pit. At this moment, a blood-red figure gradually emerged from the mud pit, a pair of blood-red eyes coldly staring at the intruding Long Chen.

"It’s... an underground blood lizard."

Long Chen’s aura was very noticeable, and soon he found that a large area of red dots began to light up in the cave, like countless lanterns in the night, but these lanterns were filled with a sense of severity and bloodiness.

With a whoosh, Long Chen felt that the nearest blood lizard was already pouncing at him, the putrid smell coming from its body.

He found that the underground blood lizard also had some blood-red scales and many bone spurs. Its appearance was somewhat similar to the current Long Chen, but its scales were large, dirty, and irregular, and its bone spurs were crooked. Compared to Long Chen, it was a world of difference in terms of appearance!

However, Long Chen didn’t care about that. When the blood lizard pounced at him, its huge body seemed to want to crush him. In the past, Long Chen would have directly used a combat technique to destroy it, but now he didn’t do that.

He felt his blood boiling. Although the blood lizard was dirty, Long Chen strangely felt that it was a very delicious food.

He leaped up, turning into a red shadow. In the next moment, his arm had already pierced into the blood lizard’s chest, directly grabbing its heart!

At this moment, the mysterious dragon jade moved again!

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