Chapter 127: Chapter 124: Blood Spirit
With Jiang Zuo’s current attributes, his Blood Qi was so abundant it was terrifyingly difficult to measure.
However, converting Blood Qi into Inner Breath took time. Jiang Zuo couldn’t just break through unfamiliar acupoints in one go.
For the final twelve acupoints of the Blood God Skill, he needed three days to break through just one.
All twelve acupoints would take about a month.
This speed was already astonishing, but Jiang Zuo was not satisfied.
With a thought, a Blood Mist Flower appeared in his hand.
This Blood Mist Flower was a condensed Blood Intent Crystal. It could be eaten raw, but Bu Qiyang had warned Jiang Zuo to never do so.
The blood intent contained within the Blood Mist Flower was so terrifying that eating it raw would most likely result in one’s body exploding.
Even if one managed to survive, it would cause immense damage to their Qi Veins and acupoints, ruining their future prospects.
Every three years, if the people from the Bu Family who entered the Blood Mist Forest could gather just three Blood Mist Flowers, they could refine enough pills to supply ten Grandmasters for three years of Cultivation.
This showed just how terrifying the blood intent contained within the Blood Mist Flower was.
However, replenishing Blood Qi was only one of the Blood Mist Flower’s effects, and not even its most important one.
The most precious quality of the Blood Mist Flower was its ability to guide a Cultivator of the Blood God Skill, helping them open acupoints by using the optimal and most suitable route for their own Inner Breath circulation.
This was the reason why members of the Bu Family, as long as their aptitude was sufficient, could quickly break through to Innate Great Perfection.
Without a sufficient supply of Blood Mist Flowers, the Bu Family’s high-end combat power would be greatly diminished.
After all, breaking through acupoints at a normal Cultivation speed was far too difficult.
Jiang Zuo, of course, wasn’t afraid of his Blood Qi making him explode. He swallowed a Blood Mist Flower in one gulp.
BOOM!
It was as if a bomb had detonated inside him. An astonishingly vast amount of Blood Qi surged forth from within his body.
Furthermore, this Blood Qi spontaneously and rapidly converted into Inner Breath, which then began to circulate through Jiang Zuo’s body.
"This feeling..."
Jiang Zuo’s eyes narrowed.
He was all too familiar with it. Just like with the Life Essence Returning Skill and the Blood Sea Creation Skill, the Cultivation Technique was operating on its own!
Jiang Zuo’s own immense Inner Breath followed the technique’s lead, charging toward the ninety-seventh acupoint.
Under the assault of the violent Inner Breath, the ninety-seventh acupoint was broken through in less than half an hour.
But this was an acupoint opened through brute force. Both the acupoint itself and Jiang Zuo’s Qi Veins suffered considerable injuries.
The Blood God Skill was supposed to have a protective function for the Cultivator, but under such a violent surge of Blood Qi, it had no effect whatsoever.
Normally, at this point, one would have no choice but to stop, recuperate, and allow their body to heal. Otherwise, the damage would only grow more severe.
But Jiang Zuo activated his Life and Death Technique, and a vast wave of the Power of Life swept through his body.
The internal injuries caused by the breakthrough healed completely in the blink of an eye.
The rampaging Inner Breath, converted from Blood Qi, then charged toward the ninety-eighth acupoint.
Just like the ninety-seventh, it wasn’t long before it too was successfully opened.
The Power of Life followed right behind, repairing the acupoint and Qi Veins.
In this manner, Jiang Zuo opened four acupoints in just over two hours.
After the fourth acupoint, the Blood Qi provided by the Blood Mist Flower was nearly depleted.
Jiang Zuo immediately consumed another Blood Mist Flower...
And so, in a total of seven hours, the final twelve acupoints of the Blood God Skill were all broken through. Jiang Zuo had cultivated the Blood God Skill to the Great Perfection stage.
With this, Jiang Zuo had now opened a total of one hundred and thirty-two acupoints in his body.
Now, when Jiang Zuo circulated the Blood God Skill, his entire body would be enveloped in tangible-looking Blood-colored Flames.
With a thought, these Blood-colored Flames could form a suit of Blood-colored Armor over his body.
His previous Blood and Qi Wings had also transformed into tangible-looking Blood Flame Wings.
With these Blood Flame Wings, Jiang Zuo could fly even faster.
’These last twelve acupoints are probably the key to undergoing a heavenly baptism of a different attribute when I Promote to Innate. But in my current state, what will happen when I do promote?’
’Does it simply depend on the Cultivation Technique I choose to use for the breakthrough?’
Jiang Zuo wondered curiously.
He would probably have to wait until he broke through to the Innate realm to find out for sure.
Dispelling the Cultivation Technique, Jiang Zuo stood up from the stone slab.
The blood-colored mist behind the stele dissipated, revealing rows of Blood Mist Flowers.
Jiang Zuo went forward and counted them. The Inheritance Stele had given him a full thirty flowers at once!
This was likely an unprecedented feat, one that would never be repeated.
Without a shred of politeness, Jiang Zuo picked them all in one go.
The Blood Mist Flowers would continue to grow even after being picked, and no one else could reach this place to harvest them anyway.
Although Jiang Zuo didn’t need them himself, they would undoubtedly be excellent for training his Pet Beasts.
After picking the Blood Mist Flowers, Jiang Zuo returned to the small path outside and continued forward.
The path began to wind. He hadn’t walked for long this time before a tombstone appeared ahead, instead of another fork in the road.
’Is this the tombstone of a Bu Family ancestor that Bu Qiyang mentioned?’
Jiang Zuo walked over and stopped in front of the tombstone.
A few characters that Jiang Zuo couldn’t understand were engraved on the tombstone, from some unknown dynasty.
Bu Qiyang had seemed intentionally reluctant to say much about this tombstone.
But as Jiang Zuo stared at the tombstone for a while, his eyes narrowed.
There was something strange about this tombstone.
He had only been looking at it for a moment, yet he already felt dizzy and disoriented.
He circulated the Blood God Skill, and in an instant, endless Blood Qi enveloped both him and the tombstone.
This was how he had triggered the previous Inheritance Stele.
According to Bu Qiyang, even the subsequent Inheritance Steles were triggered in the same way.
But this tombstone showed no reaction at all to Jiang Zuo’s immense Blood Qi.
’Bu Qiyang wasn’t lying. Is this tombstone really just an ordinary tombstone?’
Unconvinced, Jiang Zuo reached out and touched the tombstone.
In the next instant, Jiang Zuo’s vision suddenly went black.
BOOM!
His head felt like it was about to explode. Enduring the pain, Jiang Zuo opened his eyes and looked ahead.
What greeted his eyes was a desolate, ravaged land.
However, his gaze was instantly drawn to several figures in the distance.
Looking up, he saw a dozen or so giants, each twenty to thirty meters tall, striding across the desolate landscape.
Jiang Zuo’s perspective was attached to someone else, a person who was shouting words he couldn’t understand as they desperately chased after the giants.
One of the giants turned back, grinned, and opened its enormous mouth to speak to Jiang Zuo: "..."
BOOM!
Jiang Zuo was struck as if by lightning. Both he and the person whose body he was attached to froze on the spot, unable to move.
Then, Jiang Zuo’s vision went black again.
When he regained consciousness and opened his eyes, he was back in the Blood Mist Forest, lying in front of the strange tombstone.
"The Forbidden Words!"
Jiang Zuo let out a heavy breath.
So this was the origin of Bu Yuehua’s Forbidden Words! It came from this very tombstone!
No wonder Bu Qiyang had deliberately avoided the topic of this tombstone and was unwilling to say more.
If Jiang Zuo hadn’t sensed that something was off with the tombstone, he probably would have given up and continued deeper into the Blood Mist Forest after the Blood God Skill failed to trigger a reaction.
"I was unconscious for half an hour."
Jiang Zuo checked the system time.
Everything seemed to have happened in an instant, but in reality, half an hour had passed.
After resting for a moment, Jiang Zuo touched the tombstone again.
His vision went black, and the scene he had just witnessed replayed before his eyes.
Jiang Zuo was prepared this time and was able to adapt slightly better.
However, when the giant turned back and spoke the Forbidden Words again, Jiang Zuo was still unable to react. He couldn’t even discern what the giant had said before he was thrown back to the outside world.
’It’s useless! If I touch it a few more times and keep practicing, I could probably learn to imitate these Forbidden Words, just like Bu Yuehua did, and catch people off guard.’
’But unless I can truly understand what the giant said, it’s only useful against mortals. It would likely have almost no effect on Cultivators.’
’But Bu Yuehua was right. These are Forbidden Words. In this world, they likely cannot be recorded, cannot be spoken, and cannot be heard.’
’No matter how powerful I become, I’ll never be able to truly know what that giant said.’
’That aside, the crucial question is, what message did the owner of this tombstone want to convey to future generations?’
Jiang Zuo knew that the Forbidden Words were absolutely not something he could master.
It would be more practical to spend that time mastering those mysterious tadpole scripts.
But the Bu Family’s ancestor had deliberately left a tombstone here, leaving behind such a vision. It must have been to convey a message to posterity.
It was just that this message could not be expressed directly, nor could it be recorded.
Jiang Zuo had a feeling that not even the Bu Family knew what it was.
As for him, it was even more impossible to figure it out in a short amount of time.
Committing the scene to memory, Jiang Zuo didn’t linger any longer and continued forward.
After walking for a while, another fork appeared in the path ahead.
Jiang Zuo took the path and arrived before an even more ancient Blood-colored Stele.
’According to Bu Qiyang, I can obtain an Innate Technique from this stele.’
’Based on what he said, people with different aptitudes will obtain different promotion techniques from the stele.’
’The trial for this stage is also very simple. I just need to pour my Inner Breath into the stele until it’s completely depleted. During the infusion, the body can’t generate new Inner Breath. In other words, this stage mainly tests the total amount of Inner Breath one has stored.’
Jiang Zuo circulated the Blood God Skill, and a continuous stream of Inner Breath immediately poured from his body into the Blood-colored Stele.
The Blood-colored Stele began to turn a deeper red, becoming more conspicuous. It was so vivid it looked as if blood was about to drip from its surface.
Jiang Zuo had one hundred and thirty-two acupoints in his body, and his Inner Breath was stored within them.
The Inner Breath within the one hundred and eight acupoints belonging to the Blood God Skill was quickly depleted.
However, Jiang Zuo still had another twenty-four acupoints, and there was still Inner Breath inside them.
After a moment’s thought, Jiang Zuo decided to circulate his technique and pour the Inner Breath from these twenty-four acupoints into the stele as well.
He didn’t know if this was a reliable method, but he wanted to see if it would produce any unexpected results.
At worst, he could just start over.
By the time the Inner Breath in all his acupoints was almost completely gone...
Before Jiang Zuo could stop on his own, the stele proactively severed the connection with him.
At this moment, the Blood-colored Stele was supposed to react and grant Jiang Zuo his Innate Technique.
But things seemed to be a little different from what Bu Qiyang had described.
The Blood-colored Stele didn’t react. Instead, the blood mist to the side suddenly gathered together, forming a blood-colored figure.
Moreover, this figure was different from the Blood Mist People on the previous arena platform. Jiang Zuo could feel a consciousness from it!
Jiang Zuo warily took a few steps back, creating some distance.
"Don’t be afraid, little one. I am the Blood Spirit of this Blood Mist Forest!"
the blood-colored figure said.
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