Spirit Realm Chapter 662-665

Chapter 662: Bloodline Awakening

Qin Lie was tortured until he wanted to die.

In his spirit sea, energies of different attributes fought one another and caused him to endure inhuman torment. He wasn’t even able to enter the state of Thoughtless Tranquility to escape it.

His nine natal palaces resembled suns, constantly giving off potent elemental energy.

Also, without any reason, the Demon Sealing Tombstone also appeared in the spirit sea. It was also the fiercest of all the powers, which astounded Qin Lie.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”

Suddenly, seven blinding lights floated out of the tombstone.

The prismatic divine light moved through his spirit sea like an enormous hand. It released vast, ancient, and mind-shakingly mysterious vibrations.

Suddenly, Qin Lie seemed to hear that unknown divine language, and his mind lost focus.

The pain in his spirit sea was greatly increased when those mysterious voices sounded.

The lightning snakes, the ice frost storms, and the rays of bloody light seemed to feel something and calmed for a while.

“Glub glub!”

The blood inside his body seemed to be ignited and boiled like hot oil.

The terrifying burning feeling came from every blood vessel in his body. The destructive heat seemed to want to burn everything.

Qin Lie was astounded.

In this moment, the burning that appeared in his blood vessels gave him more torment than the fight that had previously occurred in his spirit sea!

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh!”

Seven blinding divine lights came out of the Demon Sealing Tombstone and shot around his spirit sea.

Soon after, the light broke through the spirit sea barrier and appeared inside his body. It continued to release a vast and ancient aura. Seven rays of divine light were like catalysts, catalyzing something.

In great pain, Qin Lie managed to gather his focus that had not collapsed yet to and tried to inspect the mysterious process his blood was undergoing.

His mind consciousness penetrated the blood vessels and went deep into his blood…

In an instant, he was so shocked by the mysteries of the blood that he couldn’t help but scream.

The crimson red blood that flowed within each blood vessel seemed to have become boiling hot lava.

Inside the boiling blood were ancient characters that jumped out and flashed away.

He gathered all of his consciousness to look!

He found to his shock the mysterious characters that jumped out were like ancient imprints of his blood vessels. They covered his organs, bones, cells and tendons!

The imperishable ancient imprints that seemed to have been there since his birth had now been awakened by Demon Sealing Tombstone.

That was a power that he was far from being able to completely withstand—the power of the bloodline!

His blood boiled like the hottest lava that existed in the world. Among the burning waves of heat, mysterious characters that represented the same meaning jumped out of his boiling blood. They were like imprints of life that had been branded over his body.

This torment was hard to endure!

He found to his shock that those ancient characters flew out of his blood channels into his dantian’s spirit sea.

When the mysterious characters entered the spirit sea, the restless and rebellious spirit powers of different attributes suddenly became gentle.

The power of thunder, frost, earth and blood stopped battling, and became docile.

The nine natal palaces stopped releasing violent energies.

Strangely, the three thunder natal palaces, three frost natal palaces, and the three great earth natal palaces that resembled balls of lightning, ice, and earth started to move toward one another.

Qin Lie found to his shock that the three thunder balls were merging together, the three ice balls gathered together, and the three earth balls also became one.

The merging of natal palaces that were the same attribute caused the nine natal palaces to become three natal palaces.

The blood spirit power that had entered the spirit sea docilely entered the characters after they arrived.

The chaos of the spirit sea immediately calmed after the mysterious characters appeared.

However, the enormous pain inside Qin Lie’s body did not lessen.

His spirit sea was no longer chaotic, but the pain brought by the mysterious characters that steamed out of his burning blood vessels, spread through his body, branded his bones, organs, and sinews surpassed the fight over his spirit sea by far.

Despite that, when the battle in the spirit sea concluded and he tried to enter the state of Thoughtless Tranquility, he easily entered it.

When both his spirit sea and his body had been dominated by one voice and one power, he could finally enter the state of Thoughtless Tranquility.

That piercing pain he could not endure under normal circumstances had now become bearable.

His soul consciousness floated into the Soul Suppressing Orb as he observed the transformation his body was undergoing as if he was an outsider.

He saw every blood vessel, the lava-like blood inside, and the mysterious characters that continued to float out.

Those characters burrowed into his bones, organs, mind, fingers, every tiniest fiber of his existence.

He watched silently.

Suddenly, he realized that he could recognize these mysterious characters. These ancient characters meant “blaze!”

This was the bloodline power that was imprinted in his blood!

The most ancient and strongest races could pass down their inheritance through their blood.

For many elite ancient beings, their pure blood was the biggest treasure they had. The pure bloodlines would be imprinted with the orthodox and oldest inheritances of their race. These inheritances would grow along with the bearer. The things rooted deep in the blood would slowly awaken and be displayed.

The pureblood descendants of the strongest races did not need to worry about having no way to cultivate or being unable to see the secrets of their own body.

All the strongest cultivation arts of their race, their race’s long history, the secret arts, they had already been imprinted onto their blood the moment they were born!

For those ancient and mysterious races, blood was like a library for humans. It recorded all the mysteries of this race.

If a descendant was of pure blood, as they grew stronger, they could awaken their bloodline and discover the mysteries of their race through their blood.

This was why strong races rarely declined.

For a race like that to truly disappear, all the clansmen would have to be killed.

Otherwise, when this race had a newborn, a child of pure bloodline, and they grew up, grew stronger, their bloodline would naturally awaken, reveal all the mysteries of their race, and guide them back onto the path to the top.

Any race that could imprint their inheritance onto blood was powerful. Such a race would be considered blessed by the heavens.

“So I’m the same as Yushi. Even if I am not completely of another race, inside my body flows the purest blood of another race.” Qin Lie realized.

The evil race blood in Ling Yushi’s body was the pure bloodline of the Dark Nether Race. After her bloodline had awakened, she changed so much that Qin Lie could barely recognize her.

Her purple blood allowed her soul to become incredibly strong. The stronger she grew, the more she could extract from her blood.

Even if she did not go to search for the Dark Nether Race, when she reached a certain level of power, she could reconstruct and understand the past from her blood.

This was the special power that the heavens gave the strong races!

The pure bloodline recorded everything. The descendant of a strong race could excavate their race’s mysteries after becoming strong.

Qin Lie finally knew why he felt his blood boiling many times when he was cultivating the Blood Spirit Art, forming his blood essence, or when he was impatient and savage.

It was the power of his bloodline moving, struggling and trying to awaken.

Unfortunately, perhaps it was because his cultivation had been too low before, or the method was not right that he had not managed to awaken that power earlier.

This time, he had experienced the slaughter on the Setting Sun Islands, he had endured stimulating his potential with Duan Qianjie’s Limit Sublimation Art, and he had also broke through to the Fulfillment Realm. He finally stepped onto the path of his bloodline awakening!

He perceptively felt that the Limit Sublimation Art played a major part in the awakening of his bloodline, and the Demon Sealing Tombstone acted as a catalyst.

This gravestone that was closely connected to the eight god corpses and Graveyard of Gods seemed to have a close connection to his bloodline as well…

Chapter 663: Pretending To Be Dead

The divine characters that flew out of Qin Lie’s blood in his first bloodline awakening had a meaning—blaze!

“Blaze, Blaze, bla…”

In the state of Thoughtless Tranquility, Qin Lie repeated the word “blaze.” He thought of his own name and became entranced in thought.

The “lie” character in his name must have come from this divine character. This meant that the person who named him definitely knew that he had another race’s pure blood!

The divine characters “blaze” were the reason for his name, and they seemed to be representing a powerful and ancient race.

“Blaze” was an extremely deep imprint!

As he pondered, the divine characters that meant “blaze” were still flying out of his lava-like blood and continued to brand his limbs.

Qin Lie gradually found that his body that could be considered freakish was gradually unable to withstand the divine “blaze” brands.

His body slowly became burnt black, and under the strong burning fire, it seemed to almost become charcoal.

It seemed that the present him could not tolerate the terrifying power of his first bloodline awakening!

Even hiding in the state of Thoughtless Tranquility, his consciousness started to blur under the endless branding of the “blaze” characters. He gradually lost control of his soul and body.

He once again fainted.

He did not know that after he went unconscious, more “blaze” divine characters floated out of his skin. These ancient characters that contained a special meaning wrapped around his body like fiery ropes and unhurriedly burned his body as though they were refining a spirit artifact.

Sparks of fire sprayed out of his body like pure lava flames.

Flames appeared in this verdant green forest. The sparks of fire spread and soon after, the forest was drowned in flames.

“Crick crack!”

The forest was burning intensely. The fire spread in all directions and its range grew wider and wider.

Qin Lie was unaware of this.

Unconscious amidst the flames rampaging through the forest, he entered a strange state of sleep.

In this sleeping state, he did not feel any pain. He felt as though he was wrapped up in comfortable warmth and his entire body was relaxed.

He did not know what was happening outside.

He did not know that the forest he was in was in the territories of Seven Fiends Valley.

The strong forest fire caused the spirit beasts inside to scatter in terror. Due to this, many of the young martial practitioners of Seven Fiends Valley were disturbed, so they came over to see the situation.

Unfortunately for them, because the fire was still burning furiously, they could not go in too deep and had to wait at the outskirts.

They cut down trees on the periphery to stop the spread of the fire, and waited for the fire to weaken and naturally extinguish itself.

They waited for three days.

Subsequently, the fire at the center of the forest gradually calmed and the martial practitioners of Seven Fiends Valley finally dared to enter its depths.

After travelling for a day, they came to where Qin Lie was. With a glance, they saw the crystalline war chariot.

The crystalline chariot had been created with special spirit material that sparkled and gave off enchanting light under the sun. It had not been burned to dust by the forest fire.

The eyes of the Seven Fiends Valley martial practitioners lit up. They charged over with cheers.

They didn’t notice, that in the ashes there was a burnt black person, or that this person still gave off soul fluctuations.

“This is a flying spirit artifact! It is priceless!” one of them shouted.

“I’ve seen something like it. Two years ago when the people from Joyful Union Sect came to the Scarlet Tide Continent, they seemed to have been on this kind of flying spirit artifact!” a martial practitioner from Gold Fiend Valley was extremely excited. “I heard that even Profound Heaven Alliance and Eight Extreme Temple don’t have a crystalline chariot like this. This thing can soar above the clouds and is extremely quick!”

The dozen of martial practitioners from Seven Fiends Valley gathered around the crystalline chariot, excitedly touching this and that, but not knowing what to do.

They had no way of activating it.

“Hm?” A young female dressed in the robes of Dark Fiend Valley suddenly shouted, “There’s a burnt body over there!”

The Seven Fiends Valley martial practitioners that were squeezed around the crystalline chariot suddenly reacted. They looked towards the blackened Qin Lie with changed expressions.

“It must have been him that set the fire!” a Gold Fiend Valley martial practitioner shouted.

“Pity he’s dead. Otherwise, we might have gotten something out of him.”

“Mn, if he wasn’t dead, we would have been able to ask how to use this flying spirit artifact!”

“Such a pity.”

They chatted and did not think anything of the “burnt corpse.” They were still studying the crystalline war chariot with interest.

Only that young female that had shouted left the circle around the crystalline chariot after a moment of thought and walked up to Qin Lie.

Qin Lie had actually woken up already.

When these martial practitioners from Seven Fiends Valley gathered from all directions, he felt their soul fluctuations was woken up.

These people were only in the Refinement and Natal Opening Realms. There wasn’t even one in the Manifestation Realm.

With such low levels even if he did not move, these people would not be able to harm him.

So he was not in a hurry.

Actually, even if he was, it would be useless.

He knew that he was already in the Fulfillment Realm and he could feel the changes in his body.

Probing with his mind consciousness, he found that his boiling blood had already calmed down. There were no “blaze” divine characters left inside his body.

Everything seemed to have returned to normal.

However, because of his bloodline awakening, because of the “blaze” characters being branded onto his limbs and organs, all the moisture in his body had evaporated. He was like a mummy, in a strange state of fake death.

He was unable to move.

He desperately needed water to replenish for himself!

He could not open his eyes but he could feel someone coming close. He gathered all of the power he could gather and called out in a tiny voice, “Water, water, water…”

The young female from Dark Fiend Valley finally walked closer.

There was a shriveled body laying in the wood ashes. It was motionless and horrific to look at. It had clearly been burned for a long time.

The young female’s eyes widened when she glanced at the spatial rings on the hand of the burnt body.

Her eyes suddenly lit up.

In Black Iron rank force like Seven Fiends Valley, only those valley masters and elders were so rich as to have spatial rings. Normal disciples like her could not possess something so valuable.

Because he needed a place to put away the crystalline war chariots, Qin Lie had three spatial rings. While the three spatial rings were black and dim, the young female still recognized them with a glance.

Her heart beat rapidly as she used her narrow back to block the eyes of her senior brothers at the crystalline war chariot so that they could not know what was going on here.

The young female was cunning. She wanted to take the three spatial rings for herself so she silently got closer.

When she finally got close and leaned down to take the three spatial rings, she heard an extremely weak voice.

“Water, water…”

The young female was stunned.

Her shoulders trembled lightly. She gritted her teeth as she fought inside.

Should she take out her waterskin to pour water into this person’s mouth or kill this person and take the three spatial rings for herself?

She fought herself inside.

In the distance, the Seven Fiends Valley martial practitioners on the crystalline war chariot were still trying to figure out how to activate it.

One of them accidentally touched the control and activated the power of the spirit stones.

The chariot suddenly shot into the air with the Seven Fiends Valley martial practitioners on top.

They immediately started to cheer in joy.

This, no one noticed the young female and her inner conflict.

“Water, water…” Qin Lie continued to call, his voice so weak it was almost imperceptible.

Because the young female was close, she heard it closely. Her eyes were locked onto the three spatial rings as she wavered.

A long time later, she finally gritted her teeth and said in a low voice, “I hope that I won’t regret this!”

As she spoke, she finally took out the waterskin and moved it to Qin Lie’s dry lips.

Drops of water flowed out of the waterskin and into Qin Lie’s mouth.

Wondrously, as the first drops of water entered his mouth, a strong wave of vitality seemed to come into Qin Lie’s weak body.

The drops of water were ordinary but seemed to contain endless power at this time.

The drops of water seemed to be the sweetest power in Qin Lie’s mouth. They nourished Qin Lie’s dry mouth and flowed into his body.

Qin Lie’s dried body quickly recovered its vitality like the first rains after a drought.

Soon, Qin Lie drank the entire bag of water the young female took out.

At this time, Qin Lie could finally open his eyes. He looked at the unfamiliar female and said, “Give me more water, please!”

“A weirdo!”

The young female muttered. She took another waterskin from her belt and poured the clean water into Qin Lie’s mouth.

After Qin Lie took a long draw, he said, “Is there any more?”

“There is a stream right there, full of water. If you want to drink, go yourself,” the young female said impatiently.

“I’m temporarily unable to move.” Qin Lie’s eyes were distressed. He begged, “If it is not too much trouble, could you bottle some for me?”

If he had five more bags of water, he could recover some moisture in his body and move on his own.

“Who are you? Why are you here? Why do you have a crystalline war chariot?” the young female did not immediately agree but asked first. Her expression gradually became wary.

Qin Lie frowned inwardly. He carefully examined the young female. From the robes of the young female, he gradually recognized her identity—a disciple of Dark Fiend Valley.

Ling Yushi and Ling Xuanxuan had cultivated under Granny Jiu, they had been core disciples of Dark Fiend Valley.

Lu Li was also a member of Dark Fiend Valley.

A string of thoughts flashed through his mind. Qin Lie suddenly said, “I am friends with Lu Li.”

“You know Senior Sister Lu?” The young female was startled. Her expression changed slightly and she said in a small voice, “Senior Sister Lu had been imprisoned for several years, how can you know her?”

“Why was she imprisoned?” Qin Lie was shocked.

“Senior Sister Lu told and helped the Ling Family escape the pursuit of Seven Fiends Valley. She caused her Valley Master Shen and Gold Valley Master Jia Songlin to die. After the matter, the valley prosecuted her and imprisoned her. It has been many years,” the young female replied.

Pausing, the young female said, “Are you really a friend of Senior Sister Lu?”

Qin Lie nodded.

“Alright then, I will help you get water!” The young female gritted her teeth and said, “Senior Sister Lu treated me very well before. For Senior Sister Lu, I will help you once! Do not move, continue to play dead! This way, those people will not notice you!”

“Alright!”

Chapter 664: The Result of Greed

“Lu Li…”

When the young female went to get water, Qin Lie murmured and couldn’t help but reminisce the past.

He still remembered how Jiu Liuyu had passed through Ling Town, and discovered Ling Yushi and Ling Xuanxuan. She had wanted to take the sisters as disciples and take them to Seven Fiends Valley.

At the time, Ling Yushi had not wanted to leave and wavered.

In the end, he had been the one to urge Ling Yushi to leave Ling Town.

When he had forced himself to push Ling Yushi out of the little room, Lu Li had floated over and shoved a Natal Ordering Pill through the door. She told him to forget Ling Yushi, and said that he and Ling Yushi were of different worlds. They would never have a chance to meet again.

Even now, he still remembered Lu Li’s hubris and coldness.

However, when he and Song Tingyu had been trapped in the Nether Realm, and when the new valley master of Dark Fiend Valley, Sheng Meilan, had wanted to marry Ling Yushi off to Li Zhongzheng as a concubine, it had been Lu Li who had notified the Ling Family, and Asura Hall’s Tu Zhe and Zhuo Qian. She created a chance for the Ling Family to escape, and in the end, he had managed to save the Ling Family.

Lu Li was cold to him, but she was good to Ling Yushi and Ling Xuanxuan. She had helped them many times.

Right now, she was being imprisoned in Seven Fiends Valley because she had lent a helping hand to the Ling Family in the past, and caused Sheng Meilan and Jia Songling to die.

Qin Lie frowned and devised a plan. He decided to help Lu Li get free after he has recovered to repay her on behalf of the Ling Family.

“Boom!

The crystalline war chariot that had been soaring in the air suddenly fell from the sky due to the inexpert control of the youths from the Seven Fiends Valley.

The martial practitioners who had been squeezed on the chariot were bruised blue and green. They started to swear and curse, blaming others for the incident.

“Pei Xiang, what are you doing?” a martial practitioner from Gold fiend Valley shouted.

“What did you find from that burnt body?” someone else asked.

“Ah?” The young female had filled the waterskins and was walking back to Qin Lie. She was just inches away from Qin Lie. She was startled by this shot. After an exclamation, she hurriedly said, “No, nothing, he’s completely burnt.”

The young female was called Pei Xiang. She was only a lowly disciple of Dark Fiend Valley. Her cultivation was low, and her status was nothing special.

The Seven Fiends Valley was made from the Mystical, Dark, Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth Fiend Valleys. In the past, Mystical Fiend Valley and Dark Fiend Valley were the strongest, and the other five were slightly weaker.

However, after the former dark valley master, Jiu Liuyu, and the following valley master, Sheng Meilan, were both killed by Qin Lie, Dark Fiend Valley declined, eventually becoming the weakest valley of Seven Fiends Valley.

They didn’t even have a valley master chosen.

Due to this, Pei Xiang who came from Dark Fiend Valley was someone without any status among the group.

“Impossible!” a martial practitioner from Gold Fiend Valley reacted and shouted, “This person rode on the crystalline war chariot. Someone like that was definitely wealthy!”

“He definitely has good things!” someone screamed.

“Let’s go see!”

The Seven Fiends Valley martial practitioners on the crystalline war chariot became excited.

Pei Xiang’s expression changed. Seeing the crowd come toward Qin Lie, she lost her calm.

“Water, pour the water on me!” Qin Lie said in a low voice.

Pei Xiang was actually very close to Qin Lie. Hearing this, she pulled out the corks of the two waterskins and splashed the water inside on Qin Lie according to his orders. She also reminded him, “Hide the rings on your hand!”

The two bags of water turned into two streams that poured over the surface of Qin Lie’s body.

Wondrously, Qin Lie’s burnt body greedily sucked up every drop of water like a sponge.

That burnt and shrivelled body started to swell up at an astounding speed after being replenished with the two bags of water.

Pei Xiang gaped with wide eyes.

At this time, the martial practitioners from Seven Fiends Valley had already come over from the crystalline war chariot.

They surrounded Qin Lie and Pei Xiang.

“Spatial rings! Three spatial rings!” exclaimed one of the group, his gaze filling up with obvious greed.

“Heavens! This person is really wealthy to wear three spatial rings!”

“Quick, take the rings off! See what is inside! There must be great treasures!”

“There definitely are!”

Everyone became excited. Everyone’s eyes flashed with burning light as their shoulders trembled uncontrollably.

“He’s still alive!” Pei Xiang said urgently.

“Alive? He’s still alive?” The expression of the Gold Fiend Valley martial practitioner, Yin Cheng, darkened. “Nonsense. He is burnt black. How can he still be alive?”

As he spoke, Yin Cheng made his way through the group and walked towards Qin Lie.

Under everyone’s covetous gaze, Yin Cheng moved forward and prepared to take the spatial rings off Qin Lie’s fingers.

Yet when he saw Qin Lie’s burnt hand and fingers, he showed an expression of distaste and then suddenly took out a dagger.

“You, what are you doing?” Pei Xiang yelled.

“Since he’s already dead, I’ll just cut off his finger. It will be easier to take off the spatial rings that way.” Yin Cheng’s expression was dark. “This guy is already like this, he might be poisoned. If I touch his finger, I may get infected. It will be better to be more cautious.”

“He’s alive! I just said that he’s still alive!” Pei Xiang was extremely anxious.

“Move away!” Yin Cheng waved his hand. A golden curtain of light flashed and threw Pei Xiang far away. “Don’t block me!”

The other martial practitioners from Seven Fiends Valley glared coldly at Pei Xiang. One of them said coldly, “You want to get a share?”

“Pei Xiang has stayed by this corpse for so long, she must have gotten something! Maybe… she got something already?” One person had a puzzled expression. “She didn’t take the three spatial rings immediately but went to take water. Maybe the rings were too hot so she was using water to lower the temperature?”

“It must be like this!”

“This whore must have gotten something already!”

“Search her!”

The other people discussed and then stared with unfriendliness at Pei Xiang.

Three martial practitioners from Fire Fiend Valley snorted and moved towards Pei Xiang. One of them said maliciously, “Pei Xiang! Take off your clothes, empty your pockets, let us inspect you and then we will spare you!”

“How can you do this?!” Pei Xiang was so anxious she was about to cry.

“Even if he is dead, someone that had ridden a crystalline war chariot must have had something good on them!” That person’s eyes flashed with more and more greed. “For us, just a small thing from him could change our lives, so we will definitely not let anything pass!”

Yin Cheng and these people moved into two groups, one targeting Qin Lie, the other staring at Pei Xiang.

With the temptation of the enormous wealth that could exist, their greed was stirred. They all wanted to use this chance to change their fate.

No one wanted to miss this one in a thousandth chance.

“Friend, no matter if you are alive or dead, I will have these three spatial rings!” Yin Cheng snorted. His dagger flashed with golden light as he sliced down.

“Clang!”

The dagger landed on Qin Lie’s burnt finger but it actually sparked as though it had cut on iron.

A bright yellow earth light suddenly released from Qin Lie’s hand and formed a gentle but strong barrier.

Yin Cheng changed expression.

He suddenly realized it was not good.

Whether or not someone was dead, if he could not cut the other’s finger off when they were lying motionlessly and completely burnt, it meant that he couldn’t afford to offend them.

A ray of icy light flashed across Qin Lie’s hand.

“Pss!”

The three waterskins hanging at Yin Cheng’s belt were penetrated by the icy light. The water that was held inside poured out.

All of the water landed on Qin Lie’s dried body.

All of the water was completely absorbed by Qin Lie without a drop left.

“Thump thump!”

Like a drumbeat, Qin Lie’s heart beat loudly from his chest and caused Yin Cheng to change expression.

“You want my spatial rings?”

At this time, Qin Lie opened his eyes and slowly sat up. He grinned at Yin Cheng.

Yin Cheng’s soul left his body.

“Tsk tsk.” Shaking his head, Qin Lie said disdainfully, “Your thinking is good. Pity, but even if I am dead, you might not be able to take my spatial rings! Let alone when I am not dead!”

As he spoke, Qin Lie stood up and reached his hand towards Yin Cheng’s head.

“Bam!”

Yin Cheng bled from all of his orifices, and his head seemed to shrink back into his neck as he died immediately.

Chapter 665: An Extremely Deep Impression

After killing Yin Cheng in a single blow, Qin Lie turned his head and found the remaining Seven Fiends Valley martial practitioners had surrounded Pei Xiang. They were going to tear away Pei Xiang’s clothing and search her body.

Pei Xiang continued to beg in hopes that they would stop.

However, urged on by greed, these people would not listen to anything Pei Xiang said.

Right now, the Dark Fiend Valley’s decline caused Pei Xiang’s status to be extremely low. No one thought anything of her.

“I-I’ll take them off! Don’t come over!” Pei Xiang suddenly screamed.

Seeing that she could not persuade them, she prepared to endure the humiliation to protect herself and not cause even more unpredicted consequences. She prepared to take off her robes, and empty all her pockets to show that she had not taken anything from Qin Lie’s body.

“Good!” The martial practitioner from Gold Fiend Valley grinned.

“Let her take them off!” someone laughed.

Under the gazes of the group, Pei Xiang gritted her teeth. Her eyes were filled with grief as she reached to untie her belt.

“Whoosh!”

A bolt of lightning suddenly charged through.

The lightning condensed and turned into Qin Lie’s still burnt body. Pei Xiang’s gaze turned stunned and she couldn’t help but scream.

In the next moment, like an ancient monster within a herd of sheep, Qin Lie started to kill the Seven Fiends Valley martial practitioners.

Pei Xiang heard the wails and screams of the Seven Fiends Valley martial practitioners. Blood covered everything in her view!

“Crack crack!”

The horrifying sound of bones breaking came from those people. In a short ten seconds, those people fell to the ground as though their skeletons had shattered, and were covered with blood.

No one was left alive.

“I’m going to the river to wash.”

After casually throwing these words to the wind, Qin Lie disappeared from Pei Xiang’s side like lightning.

Pei Xiang looked dazedly at Qin Lie’s departing figure. Then, she looked at the gory corpses, and Yin Cheng’s horrific and bloody state. Her eyes became dumbstruck.

“How-how did it become like this?”

Pei Xiang murmured soullessly to herself. Terror and anxiousness appeared on her face.

Yin Cheng and these people had status in Seven Fiends Valley. Gold Fiend Valley and Fire Fiend Valley put great importance on them. One of them even came from Mystical Fiend Valley and had extraordinary status.

Now, all of them had died here. Seven Fiends Valley would not sit idly and watch. They would pursue this with all of their power.

She, Pei Xiang, would be furiously pursued by Seven Fiends Valley due to Qin Lie’s actions.

“Terrible, this is terrible. Dark Fiend Valley is weak, this time… no one will be able to save me.” Pei Xiang became more terrified the more she thought.

“Splash!”

On the other side, Qin Lie leapt into the stream and then immediately relaxed.

Feeling with his mind, he quickly found that the pores in his body were furiously absorbing the water. This body that seriously lacked water quickly became filled.

The skin that had been burned black by the flames had been as hard and dry as the bark of ancient trees. But soaking in the water, the cracked and burnt skin quickly fell off his body.

Under the blackened skin, the new skin was clear and transparent. It had the sheen of jade and gave people a feeling of flawlessness.

At this time, the burnt skin fell off his body like a snake shedding its skin. A body that was more refined, more balanced and stronger has been exposed.

The “blaze” characters that had been imprinted onto his limbs and body had disappeared. He could not feel them.

In his spirit sea, the three natal palaces that had been created by the merging of the natal palaces of the same element were like lightning, ice, and earth balls that released surging power.

The Demon Sealing Tombstone returned to his spatial ring.

Everything turned back to its normal appearance.

He tried to channel spirit energy, and guide the lightning, ice, and earth powers to flow through his veins.

There were no abnormalities. His spirit power flowed much faster than before!

Channeling blood spirit power did not cause his blood to burn like before. Not only did his blood not boil, it also did not produce the power of the bloodline, and did not show anything unusual.

The appearance of the power of the bloodline seemed to have been an illusion. He seemed to not have changed at all.

“This is not right…”

Frowning, he floated naked in the stream facing the sky as he thought.

“Those divine characters that mean “blaze” clearly came out of my blood, and were imprinted onto my bones, tendons, and organs. How come I cannot feel them at all?”

“But that must have been the power of the bloodline! The power of the bloodline once awakened should not disappear!

“It must be that I haven’t found the way to activate it!”

He was not in a hurry to leave the stream. He floated on the water surface naked as he continued to ponder what he did not understand.

“The Fulfillment Realm, a breakthrough into a new realm, is there anything different?”

As he thought of this, he temporarily put aside his pursuit of the bloodline power. He started to examine the changes in his spirit sea and consciousness.

The changes in his spirit sea were very simple. The nine natal palaces turned into three after merging. After probing with his mind consciousness, he noticed that the three great natal palaces that had formed were much bigger compared to the original ones. The power of thunder and lightning in the thunder and lightning natal palace was more than five times that of the three previous natal palaces added together!

The ice and earth natal palaces were the same!

This meant that after he finished refilling spirit energy in the natal palaces, the power in his spirit sea would have increased by five times!

And that was just after entering the Fulfillment Realm!

In his sea of consciousness, the Soul Lake was clearly much vaster. The True Soul that was inside the Soul Lake wasn’t just much bigger than before, it was also much clearer.

When he looked at it, he found that the True Soul was packed with lightning that criss-crossed inside the True Soul like channels.

Exclaiming in shock in his mind, he examined the True Soul even more closely.

Like through a magnifying glass, the True Soul enlarged!

When the True Soul had been magnified by a few factors of ten, he found that divine characters that meant “blaze” were deep within the True Soul. Those divine characters roamed inside the True Soul like tongues of fire and did not seem to rest.

“As expected, I had not looked closely enough!”

As he arrived to that conclusion, he examined his body once again. He gathered his mind and peered deep into the bones.

He magnified one of his bones.

After reaching a certain magnification, he found to his shock that the divine characters which represented “blaze” were on the bones’ material, the bone membrane, the bone marrow. They slowly moved and released faint golden light.

His mind shifting, he focused his attention on his heart. Yet again, he found to his shock that the chambers of his heart, the windpipe, and the arteries also had moving divine characters imprinted on them.

“So the divine characters have been imprinted on every part of my body.” Qin Lie realized.

In the beginning, the reason he did not see them was because the divine text was so small that he could not immediately see it.

Only when he was extremely focused and gathered his consciousness to go to the deepest part could he see the truth.

He knew that the bloodline power was slowly changing his body in a way that he could not understand.

But he still did not find the way to use the bloodline power and control those divine characters to use their power.

He wanted to continue searching. However, he knew that Pei Xiang probably would not be able to wait for long. After a moment of thought, he stopped.

Moving his body, he walked out of the stream. He didn’t just recover his appearance, he was even more alert and his eyes seemed to shoot lightning.

As he put on dark blue martial practitioner robes, he cracked his neck as he walked towards Pei Xiang.

Pei Xiang was anxious as she stood next to the gory corpses of the members of her sect. She was still sighing as she pondered how to avoid the calamity.

“I’m going with you to Seven Fiends Valley.” Qin Lie walked over and said directly to her.

“I do not dare to return to the valley. If I return there now, my fate would be even worse than Senior Sister Lu’s.” Pei Xiang turned her head. Her face was conflicted. Then, she shouted in shock as she pointed at Qin Lie, “Y-you!”

Fifteen minutes ago, Qin Lie had been completely blackened like a burnt corpse.

Qin Lie who came back wasn’t just of a strong stature. His features were clearly defined, handsome, and he gave off a strong masculine charisma.

There was no similarities to his previous appearance. This stunned Pei Xiang.

“Do not be nervous, this is my true appearance,” Qin Lie smiled and said politely, “Let me reintroduce myself, I am Qin Lie…”

“Ah!” Pei Xiang screamed.

“Yes, just like you guessed.” Qin Lie said seriously with a smile, “I am the person who killed both your valley masters!”