Chapter 36

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Chen Xun knew he had a slim chance. The electric snake lightning struck his back, and his mind instantly shattered into pieces. In an instant, the golden snake lightning transformed into countless tiny currents, spreading along his limbs like the most toxic venom in the world, instantly turning his back into ashes.

However, his divine soul and consciousness were as solid as a rock, standing firm in the world. At the moment the electric snake lightning injured his soul, an invisible roar erupted from the depths of his soul sea, stirring up a sea of divine light, which devoured all the pure golden currents, comparable to divine power.

After that, Chen Xun fell into a deep coma, unaware of what was happening.

When he woke up, he was being carried in a soft embrace, racing through the air. The wind whistled past his ears, and he heard Su Tang, who was running at full speed, sobbing in his ear:

"You fool, you bastard, who asked you to die for me..."

"Uh," Chen Xun struggled to speak, "If you run so fast, I'll be jolted to death before we reach Canglan City!"

"Ah!" Upon hearing Chen Xun speak, Su Tang almost threw the "corpse" she was tightly hugging. Shocked, she asked, "How can you not be dead?"

"Do you want me to die or not?" Chen Xun asked, speechless.

"With such severe injuries, how could you possibly not be dead?" Su Tang was still overwhelmed with shock, forgetting that she had just been crying and begging the heavens not to let Chen Xun die.

Chen Xun asked Su Tang to put him down, thinking to himself that compared to the fierce beast trapped in the isolated peak, the six-armed giant demon was indeed a higher existence.

The drop of golden demon blood, which had become the core of his soul sea, was far more mysterious than he could imagine. It also played a crucial role in this critical moment, blocking the fatal blow for him.

Su Tang put Chen Xun down and stared at him with a look of disbelief.

The electric snake lightning, though seemingly not very powerful, contained extremely pure spiritual energy, almost evolved into divine power. Even at her peak, she might not have been able to withstand such a blow. She couldn't understand how Chen Xun, with such low cultivation, could have survived.

When the electric snake lightning struck Chen Xun, she clearly saw his back turn to ashes in an instant, leaving only white bones. With such severe injuries, how could he possibly have survived?

Chen Xun asked Su Tang to put him down and wanted to sit cross-legged, but he felt a piercing cold energy invading his internal organs. Turning his head, he was startled to see the exposed white bones on his back.

Anyone who saw their back with no flesh attached, revealing the terrifying organs inside, would be as shocked as Chen Xun.

Not knowing if it would work, Chen Xun sat cross-legged and visualized the Nine Abyss Barbarian Soul.

His injuries were so severe that his blood and qi were already depleted, leaving no divine light to draw upon.

However, his soul sea, as solid as a rock, was more turbulent than ever. Waves of pure golden divine light surged, roaring as they chased after Chen Xun's mind, which had submerged into the soul sea.

As he visualized, the Nine Abyss Barbarian Soul instantly formed, but it couldn't withstand the pure divine light directly surging from the core of the soul sea. In a moment, the seemingly powerful Nine Abyss Barbarian Soul collapsed, and countless divine lights shattered like snow. In the next moment, the six-armed giant demon, exuding a terrifying aura, stood atop the soul sea.

The entire process was completely beyond Chen Xun's control.

However, watching Chen Xun heal, Su Tang was even more shocked, her face showing surprise:

The old ancestor said that the Nine Abyss Barbarian Soul, passed down for a thousand years by the black python, was already a rare and fierce existence in the Western Wasteland. But the fierce aura Chen Xun was now exuding was far more intense than the Nine Abyss Barbarian Soul, more like a roar and a wave of black flames from the depths of the Nine Abyss Hell, enveloping Chen Xun's damaged body.

This fierce aura alone was enough to burn everything around to ashes.

Su Tang's琉璃心境 (Liu Li Xinzijing, a state of mind like crystal) was just beginning to show signs of recovery, but it was shattered again by the fierce aura.

Su Tang inwardly lamented, knowing that her Liu Li Xinzijing was damaged again, and it was uncertain if it could recover.

The Liu Li Xinzijing was the foundation of all her cultivation, but she couldn't leave Chen Xun alone in the wilderness and run away by himself.

A few green wolves, which had been following them from a distance, had planned to wait until Su Tang was exhausted and Chen Xun was no longer a threat before attacking. However, the fierce aura that Chen Xun exuded terrified them so much that they turned and fled, fearing that even a moment's delay would result in being devoured by the fierce aura.

Su Tang sat cross-legged, struggling to maintain her shattered Liu Li Xinzijing, but the shock still lingered in her heart.

What kind of barbarian soul was Chen Xun cultivating? With such low cultivation, how could the aura he exuded directly injure her Liu Li Xinzijing?

After all, even the trace of divine power from the ancient bloodline of the evil ape, which had shattered her soul, had not damaged her Liu Li Xinzijing.

What shocked Su Tang even more was that the cloud formations within a few hundred miles south of the Great Isolated Peak were boiling and churning, drawn by the fierce aura.

Su Tang was severely injured, and her dormant spiritual acupoints had just begun to recover. Normally, she wouldn't be able to sense the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but now it was like boiling water, fiercely boiling, making it impossible for her not to sense it.

In an instant, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth surged like an ocean, gathering around Chen Xun, forming a visible dense cloud, and entering his body.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered so densely that it formed a cloud!

Apart from the old ancestor, Su Tang had never seen anyone in the clan whose cultivation could stir up such a commotion.

But the old ancestor was at the peak of the Heavenly Yuan Realm, while Chen Xun hadn't even entered the Rebirth Realm, and had not yet condensed true blood. According to reason, he shouldn't even be able to draw upon the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, so how could he cause such a commotion?

As the vast ocean of spiritual energy of heaven and earth surged into Chen Xun, the edges of his muscles and bones, which had been burned by the electric snake lightning, emitted a divine light, and new muscles and tendons grew inch by inch before Su Tang's eyes...

Spiritual energy shaping the body, bones regenerating flesh!

Su Tang almost couldn't believe what she was seeing. Chen Xun's ability to heal his physical body was so strong that it could regenerate flesh from bones!

Was he still the barbarian youth she had known for the past ten days?

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The six-armed giant demon was spontaneously formed by the divine light in the soul sea, drawing upon the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to repair the body.

Once new skin and flesh grew on Chen Xun's back, the six-armed giant demon transformed back into several pure golden divine lights, dispersing into the soul sea, as if even a little waste was extremely painful.

The boiling spiritual energy of heaven and earth, like boiling water, instantly calmed down, leaving only the extremely cold spiritual energy that could freeze water, still permeating the air.

The golden soul sea, which had previously been vast, had shrunk significantly. Chen Xun's mind could faintly sense the existence of a distant, dim boundary.

After suffering two fatal injuries, both times the core of his soul had spontaneously released pure divine light, forming the six-armed giant demon to save his life. How could there be no consumption at all?

Chen Xun inwardly felt that if he suffered two or three more fatal injuries, his soul sea might regress to the level of an ordinary barbarian warrior.

Chen Xun wasn't particularly heartbroken about the massive consumption of his soul sea.

On this trip to the Lake and Marsh Wilderness, he had seen the miserable living conditions of the barbarian tribes under the threat of heavenly power and beast herds, and had thought about many things.

In the face of barbarian beasts and the power of heaven, humans were so insignificant. Even if one had great potential for cultivation after a hundred years, what did it mean for someone whose life was uncertain from day to day?

Although he suffered severe injuries this time, and the core of his soul sea was greatly consumed, if he hadn't taken this risky plan, he wouldn't have been able to eliminate the evil ape, and he wouldn't have had any other choice.

Although the core of his soul sea was greatly consumed, besides the fatal injury to his back being completely healed, there were other benefits.

Chen Xun felt a hot flow of blood and qi surging through his body, becoming even purer, as if his entire body had been renewed. He felt a sense of strength permeating his blood, and he had directly advanced to the seventh level of the Blood Transformation stage of the Barbarian Warrior, while the blood veins that had previously been prominent due to muscle training had now returned to normal...

Seeing Su Tang's eyes looking over, Chen Xun thought she was about to draw her knife and cut him open to see what was happening.

"What are you going to do?" Chen Xun was startled.

"Do you have ancient bloodline in your body, or did you eat some top-grade spiritual medicine when you were young and ignorant?" Su Tang asked, staring at Chen Xun.

"What is ancient bloodline?" Chen Xun asked.

"Have you heard the saying that all barbarian tribes are descendants of gods and demons?"

Chen Xun nodded.

Su Tang said, "In ancient times, the Eight Wastelands and Cloud Continent were the abodes of gods and demons. After the three calamities, the gods and demons were all destroyed, and the human race gradually prospered. As descendants of gods and demons, after tens of thousands of generations, the bloodline of gods and demons in the human body has become extremely diluted. Only a few rare individuals have a slightly purer bloodline. However, even a slightly purer bloodline is already a heaven-endowed talent and a cultivation genius."

"Then there's no essential difference from the ancient bloodline that the black python mentioned, right?" Chen Xun said.

"It's just a different way of saying it," Su Tang said. "Barbarian soul cultivation focuses on refining pure blood and qi. Only blood that is pure to the extreme can compare to the power of gods and demons. Therefore, the fundamental path of barbarian soul cultivation is to cultivate demons into gods. Do you have ancient bloodline?"

"I've bled so much, can't you tell if I have ancient bloodline in my body?" Chen Xun asked, puzzled.

Although Su Tang lacked experience in surviving in the wilderness, when it came to cultivation, she was like an encyclopedia. Moreover, before she was injured, she was a peak mid-stage Rebirth Realm powerhouse, with eyes far superior to ordinary people. Chen Xun thought Su Tang had already figured something out.

"An ancient bloodline that is related to gods and demons is extremely fierce and violent, how could an ordinary human body withstand it?" Su Tang said.

"If it can't be withstood, what can be done?" Chen Xun asked, spreading his hands.

Su Tang glared at Chen Xun, thinking his cultivation foundation was really weak. She patiently and carefully explained to him:

"When a person is in the womb, their blood, qi, and tendons are mixed and unobstructed, which cultivators call the pre-natal state. If one has an ancient bloodline, it is also mixed and integrated with the blood and qi, indistinguishable from each other. However, after a person leaves the mother's body, the physical body grows, and the blood and qi in the human body no longer mix, making it impossible to withstand the extreme violence of the ancient bloodline. At this point, the ancient bloodline exists in the form of a soul sea anomaly in the spiritual acupoints. People with such bloodlines usually show anomalies at birth, and unless there is a soul-searching technique, it is impossible to see the soul sea anomaly in someone else's spiritual acupoints..."

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