Chapter 39

Chapter 40: Upgrading Bloodline

Leifeng's internal injuries were neither serious nor light. However, the Dan Ding Sect had plenty of medicines for treating internal injuries.

After two hours of recuperation, Leifeng's internal injuries had recovered to about seventy to eighty percent.

Due to his low cultivation, he had made a big fool of himself, allowing the enemy to break through the banner gate he was in charge of and escape. Leifeng, who was usually boastful and arrogant, felt quite embarrassed in front of Qian Xing.

However, Qian Xing's mood was even worse than Leifeng's!

For the first time, he realized that his relatively satisfactory demonic transformation was nothing but a kneeling puppet in front of a high-level demon. He encountered a high-level demon for the first time that could make him kneel involuntarily.

Worse still, the high-level demon had escaped. If Qian Xing met the heartless and ruthless Bada Wei, the tiger-headed fire gun demon, again, he would need at least forty percent of his magic power to resist the pressure the high-level demon exerted on him.

On the other hand, Leiyue, Leihai, and Leifeng were always together. Even if they met Bada Wei in the arena in the future, self-preservation would not be a problem.

Who would be happy to have a life-and-death enemy who naturally overpowered them? Qian Xing's face was already so gloomy it could almost drip water.

Even when the system notified him that he had earned 50 points and that the four of them had collectively obtained a red box, which might contain something from the tiger-headed fire gun demon, he couldn't feel happy.

In total, they received 150 points for the over-level kill. Qian Xing and the two Lei people each received 50 points.

After the four of them unleashed their full power, the system's evaluation of them improved significantly.

Leiyue walked to the remains of the short tiger-headed fire gun demon, rummaged through it, and pulled out a fire-red bead, clear and transparent, about the size of a pigeon's egg. It was undoubtedly the high-level demon's core. Compared to the rough magic core of the Black Star Sand Beast, it was like one was in heaven and the other on earth.

Leiyue, holding the clear, transparent red magic core, turned to discuss with Leihai and Leifeng. As they communicated, Leihai and Leifeng's expressions changed twice, showing some reluctance, but they finally nodded in agreement.

Qian Xing's heart thumped. They must be discussing something related to him.

After their discussion, Leiyue, holding the transparent red magic core, walked over.

"Little brother, we were careless and let that fire gun demon escape, leaving you with a major threat."

Qian Xing forced a smile, more awkward than crying, not knowing what to say.

"The magic core of a high-level demon is a rare supplement for low-level demons. It may not increase your magic power much, but it has a high chance of inheriting the innate abilities of a high-level demon, thus elevating your realm. We have discussed it, and if you consume this magic core, we can use our sect's Nine Revolutions Purple Fire Technique to stimulate the core. This will give you a significant chance to evolve your low-level demon bloodline to the tiger-headed fire gun demon's bloodline, gaining the innate ability of the fire gun demon's hellish fire."

"As for the Ice Frost Technique you are cultivating, there are other methods to resolve it. Many cultivators have tried cultivating multiple techniques simultaneously in the past, and there are several solutions."

As Leiyue explained, Qian Xing understood that even a powerless mortal, upon consuming a high-level demon's core, would immediately gain formidable power. The downside was that his mental world had a high chance of being eroded by the residual will of the high-level demon within the core.

Among ordinary people, only a few out of a million could avoid the erosion of the high-level demon's will. In this arena, the ability to spend a large number of points to purchase a high-level demon's bloodline was likely due to this.

However, the arena could easily erase the high-level demon's will, minimizing its impact.

For cultivators who had reached the innate realm, it was different. After reaching the innate realm, their divine consciousness was already cultivated. Even Qian Xing could use his divine consciousness to read jade slips, and the three Lei people could use their Nine Revolutions Purple Fire True Qi to wash away some of the demon's residual will.

Qian Xing's chances of success were quite high.

Of course, it still depended on Qian Xing's choice to consume the magic core.

A bitter smile appeared on Qian Xing's face—do I have a choice?

This is the arena. Once the mission is over, he would be transported back to his world, and he might never see these three Lei people again.

If he and the three Lei people were in the same place, he could at least stick closely to them, and he might even enter the Dan Ding Sect—safety would be guaranteed even if he were just a miscellaneous disciple.

If he did not consume the core, he might encounter Bada Wei again in the arena, and he would definitely die!

"Swallow it!" Qian Xing gritted his teeth and made the decision!

With the decision made, Leiyue taught Qian Xing the first five levels of the Nine Revolutions Purple Fire Technique.

The Nine Revolutions Purple Fire Technique was not a top-tier cultivation method in the cultivation world. Its main feature was its suitability for alchemy. The Dan Ding Sect, which had been passed down for nearly ten thousand years, had many secular relatives of Dan Ding Sect cultivators who knew this technique, forming the outer branch of the Dan Ding Sect in the secular world.

Therefore, the three Lei people felt that teaching the technique to Qian Xing was no big deal.

Qian Xing sat cross-legged on the ground, first forcing all his Ice Frost True Qi to the right side of his body, leaving the left side completely empty.

For males, the left side is yang and the right side is yin. Therefore, the Ice Frost True Qi could only be stored on the right side.

Next, following the Nine Revolutions Purple Fire Technique taught by Leiyue, he ran it through nine cycles. He then tilted his head back and swallowed the pigeon-egg-sized core.

As soon as the core entered his stomach, Qian Xing felt a raging fire start burning in his abdomen.

He quickly ran the Nine Revolutions Purple Fire Technique, trying to incorporate the raging fire into its path.

At first, he could guide the raging fire into the meridians on the left side of his body, running it according to the path of the Nine Revolutions Purple Fire Technique. However, the fire grew larger and larger.

At this point, Qian Xing felt a massive heat flow from his left shoulder welling up towards the heat source in his abdomen.

As the two heat flows fiercely battled, Qian Xing's consciousness gradually blurred. In a daze, he saw a demon towering about fifteen zhang tall, with long goat horns, a head that was part tiger and part wolf, limbs as thick as a giant gorilla, but with dinosaur-like claws, and two enormous bat wings, each over twenty zhang long.

The demon's entire body was burning with black flames. Its massive, muscular right hand was angrily gesturing at Qian Xing, and its mouth seemed to be roaring, but Qian Xing couldn't hear a single sound!

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