Myriad Paths of the Chapter 33

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Chapter 33: Unbelievable Blood ridian Ability

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Blood ridians were categorized into nine Levels, and each Level had its own number of ridian focal points.

A First Level blood ridian would have a single ridian focal points while a Second Level blood ridian would have two. The amount would increase based on the Level.

However, there was not even a single ridian focal point on Lu Ming’s blood ridian.

Could it be a Zero Level blood ridian? Nobody had ever heard of such a thing before.

Furthermore, Lu Ming had tested it before. His blood ridian’s absorption rate of the Spirit Energy around him was comparable to that of a Fourth Level blood ridian.

‘I also shaved off half of the Sword Qi when my blood ridian erupted. Could my blood ridian have a special skill?’ Lu Ming pondered as his eyes flashed with excitent.

This skill was truly terrifying if it could really block half of soone’s attack. Lu Ming could not wait to test it out.

At that mont, he exited the Supre Shrine and entered the woods in search of demonic beasts.

It was not long before he found one.

The Fla Wolf was a demonic beast on Seventh Grade First Level. With the ability to spit fireballs, it boasted great strength.

Roar!

The Fla Wolf opened its gaping mouth and roared when it noticed Lu Ming. A fireball gathered and flew towards Lu Ming.

“It’s ti to test the power of my blood ridian when it erupts!”

At the thought of that, a fountain of power surged from Lu Ming’s spine into his body. His body started to shine a brilliant dark hue that emanated a devouring aura.

Lu Ming did not dodge but allowed the fireball to land on him instead.

In that instant, he could clearly feel the power of the fireball being continuously consud by the dark shine of his body until only half of its power remained.

He took a step back and avoided the remaining half of the fireball.

‘So, apparently, the attack wasn’t blocked, but rather, it was devoured. Half of its power was devoured!’ Shock flashed across Lu Ming’s eyes.

At that instant, the power from the blood ridian within Lu Ming’s body disappeared without a trace.

‘For real? It’s only been a single breath. It deactivated too quickly!’ He was speechless.

It was then that the Fla Wolf shot another ball of fla out.

However, Lu Ming was unable to make his blood ridian erupt another ti despite trying to do so. He understood that it was because the strength of his blood ridian was depleted and needed ti to slowly recover.

However, wasn’t the duration too short?

He was aware that the average Warrior Realm martial artist could hold an erupted blood ridian for approximately one minute.

The strength of the blood ridian would be depleted after approximately a minute and required ti to recover.

The power of the blood ridian would increase in Master Realm, allowing it to erupt for approximately two minutes. The duration would increase with the growth of cultivation from thereon.

However, Lu Ming could only erupt his blood ridian for the span of a single breath!

An average breath would only take two seconds. That was a whopping thirtyfold difference compared to others!

It seed that although the ability to block half of an attack’s power was seemingly overpowered, it could only be used at a crucial mont.

Also, how strong of an attack would it be able to withstand? Everything had its limits, and Lu Ming did not believe that his blood ridian would be able to withstand an attack from soone several leagues above him.

He needed to find out about all this.

No matter what the outco was, Lu Ming was still satisfied. This skill would be able to turn the tables in a crucial mont, so it could definitely be used as a trump card.

Bam!

He took a step with the Dragon Serpent Steps and evaded the Fla Wolf’s attack before retaliating with one attack himself.

Poof!

A blade pierced the Fla Wolf’s heart, and it thrashed around as it took its last breath.

‘I wonder how long it’ll take before my blood ridian fully recovers.’

His black worm-shaped blood ridian manifested as he thought about it, but Lu Ming wanted to observe a little while longer.

It was at that mont that sothing peculiar happened.

The black worm-shaped blood ridian suddenly widened its mouth towards the Fla Wolf’s corpse and created a strong suction.

Nine droplets of blood essence darted out from the Fla Wolf’s wound and were swallowed by the worm-shaped blood ridian in one go.

At the very next mont, an imnse power surged from Lu Ming’s spine. The power lded together with Lu Ming’s Essential Qi, causing his cultivation to spike erratically. He instantly ascended from beginner of Sixth Grade Warrior Realm to peak beginner of Sixth Grade Warrior Realm.

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Buzz!

A pale-red ridian focal point then appeared on the black-worm-shaped blood ridian. It shone ever so brilliantly in Lu Ming’s eyes.

Lu Ming was stunned, he took a mont before he reacted.

“My... my blood ridian can devour the blood essence of demonic beasts and convert it into Essential Qi? And on top of that, my blood ridian can increase in Levels?”

Lu Ming was murmuring to himself as his eyes shone brilliantly. His heart was wild with joy.

It was already unbelievable that blood essence could be devoured and converted into Essential Qi.

However, level advancent was unheard of.

Everyone knew that a blood ridian’s Level was fixed. Bar the exceptions of peculiar cases, a blood ridian was normally unable to advance Levels.

However, his blood ridian had broken all the rules by being able to advance Levels.

Lu Ming could distinctly sense that the blood essence he consud from the Fla Wolf just now was divided into two.

One half was converted into Essential Qi, while the other half was absorbed by his blood ridian.

It was because of that that caused an improvent in both Essential Qi and blood ridian.

If he continued on with devouring blood essence from demonic beasts, would the Level of his blood ridian continuously advance?

Advancent to the Fifth Level, the Sixth Level... The Eight Level and Ninth Level, or even surpassing that. It was not impossible.

Lu Yao’s Fifth Level blood ridian was nothing!

Hahaha!

Lu Ming broke into a loud guffaw.

“Ti to hunt so demonic beasts!”

Lu Ming could not wait to hunt for so demonic beasts and begin testing.

It was not long before Lu Ming found another demonic beast in the Eighth Grade First Level. Furthermore, there was a tal tablet worth two points on the demonic beast.

Lu Ming defeated the beast and kept the tal tablet. He circulated his blood ridian and once again extracted nine droplets of blood essence from the demonic beast.

Blood essence was the soul’s cumulation of a living being and contained a massive amount of energy.

Legends told that no matter human or beast, there were only nine drops of blood essence in a single body.

The blood essence was once again divided into two after it being consud by the dark worm-shaped blood ridian. One half was converted to Lu Ming’s Essential Qi. In that instant, Lu Ming made a breakthrough in his cultivation and reached mid Sixth Grade Warrior Realm.

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As for the blood-red ridian focal points on the blood ridian, although it did not level up, its color was a shade deeper.

Surely enough, the blood essence of a demonic beast on the Eighth Grade First Level had a stronger effect than that of a demonic beast on the Seventh Grade.

“Let’s call you the Spirit-Devouring Worm. I’m coming after you, Duanmu Family! Ti to continue!”

Lu Ming dubbed the dark worm-shaped blood ridian the Spirit-Devouring Worm. Then, he proceeded to hunt down demonic beasts within the Midnight Hills in a frenzy and absorb their blood essence.

His cultivation increased at an insane pace. In just over one day, his cultivation ascended to the Seventh Grade Warrior Realm, successfully breaking through to the peak top of Eighth Grade Warrior Realm after three days.

Surely enough, the Level of his blood ridian had increased during that mont. Another ridian focal point appeared as it turned into a Second Level blood ridian.

After relentlessly hunting demonic beasts for three days, Lu Ming finally figured out a part of the countless mysteries his blood ridians held.

The first thing was that there was a cap for the blood ridian’s skill to absorb half the power of an attack. He discovered that it only worked against demonic beasts that were five Grades above him, at most. It was ineffective against anything more than five Grades.

For example, if Lu Ming was in First Grade Warrior Realm, it would only work against soone below the Sixth Grade Warrior Realm. It would be rendered completely useless if he t soone on the Seventh Grade Warrior Realm or above.

The eruption of the blood ridian initially only lasted for the span of a single breath. It would take three hours after erupting before it could be used again.

However, there was a change after the blood ridian advanced by a Level. For every Level that the blood ridian advanced, the duration of its eruption would increase by another breath span.

The duration of Lu Ming’s blood ridian eruption had increased to three breath spans when his blood ridian advanced to the Second Level.

Similarly, the ti that was required for the strength of his blood ridian to recover was reduced slightly.

All this motivated Lu Ming even more.