Chapter 3 - Blood Awakening Second Layer

On the road to his house, Wang Shu kept thinking of ways to make himself stronger. he thought to himself.

Based on his memories, Wang Shu understood that he was currently in a place called Crimson Sky Land. It was a place where cultivators have the highest status, but not everyone could cultivate. Only those who had their blood qi awakened could do so.

As to how one awakened their blood qi, there were no concrete answers. They only knew that when a person reached a certain age, his/her blood qi would awaken automatically. Some awakened at the age of four or five, some at ten or more. Normally, the earlier you had your blood qi awakening, the better talent you were, since it also represented you have more time to cultivate. There was one scary fact. which up till now hasn’t been broken, was that once you passed the age of eighteen and didn’t go through awakening, you would never be able to have your blood qi awakened. Wang Shu was nineteen years old, so it was natural to say that he could only be a mortal for the rest of his life.

Certainly, Wang Shu was a special case. It was not that he hadn’t awakened his blood qi. As a matter of fact, his blood qi was awakened when he was seven. He was considered a little genius at that time, but sadly, his cultivation didn’t progress even an ounce after ten years of hard work. Stuck at the first layer of Blood Awakening phase, he was the laughing stock of people’s everyday topic.

If it was a normal person, people would just laugh it off as slow progress, but Wang Shu was different. Wang family’s seven generations were passed down by a single line and each generation was a cultivation genius. His father, Wang Zhennan, had his blood qi awakened when he just born. He reached Blood T. Heart phase when he was about the same age as the current Wang Shu. At the age of thirty, he reached the Blood Convergence phase and became a general for the Da Song Emperor, guarding the southern boundaries to prevent other countries from invading.

(TLN:Blood Tempering Heart)

Sadly, a hero became the father of a trash son. Not only did the previous Wang Shu not have the talent of his father, his IQ also had problems.

From the moment Wang Shu took over this body, the IQ problem had perished, but the issue of strength remained. If one wanted to survive, make a name for themselves, they would need power, thus cultivation was the only path that led one to those desires. Especially for the current Wang Shu. If he wanted to protect himself, protect Lan Yue, he needed to get stronger.

“They should have pills that can raise one’s cultivation.”

Wang Shu popped open the Invincible Exchange System and clicked open the Pill section. Looking through the choices, he found the item he was looking for relatively quickly.

[Name: Blood Essence Pill]

[Grade: Lvl.1 pill]

[Effect: After intake, it will allow the person to rapidly raise his/her cultivation. A person who is in the first layer of Blood Awakening phase will directly break through to second layer after the intake. The intake doubles for each layer.]

[Price: 1 system coin]

[Warning; It only applicable from the fifth layer of Blood Awakening phase and under, it will be ineffective after the fifth layer. After one break through, you will need to wait ten days after in order to use the pills for another breakthrough]

“This is great!”

After reading its description, Wang Shu instantly bought the pill. His SC balance changed from 5 to 4, and a kidney bean looking pill appeared on his hand out of nowhere. With the incident of the poison, Wang Shu didn’t doubt its miracle and shoved it down his throat.

The effect came fiercer than he had expected; not long after he swallowed the pill, a pain of hell fire immediately spread in his stomach. Feeling the changes in his body, Wang Shu found a remote area and sat down, quietly waiting for the effects to fully take over his body,

After half an hour, the violent rampage slowly died down within his body, but Wang Shu hadn’t broken through to the second layer.

“Again!”

Knowing it showed effectiveness, Wang Shu bought another pill and swallowed it.

The previous experience made it easier for Wang Shu to handle, thus, it only took couple of minutes before the effects wore off.

“Just a little more…”

Wang Shu could clearly feel the thin membrane blocking him from reaching the second layer. He just needed another one to surely break through.

Another fifteen minutes passed, Wang Shu suddenly opened his eyes. wave of second layer Blood Awakening phase’s presence leaked from his body…