kvmb Chapter 244: Mixed Blood Elements
Chapter 244: Mixed Blood Elements
After staggering down from the carriage, Shen Xu sincerely expressed his gratitude: "Thank you so much, Miss Lin and Miss Xiao Ling, for taking care of me these past few days. I am deeply grateful!"
"What are your plans for the future, Young Master Shen?" Lin Qingxiang asked with some concern.
Shen Xu shook his head helplessly, "I have no past, so naturally I don't know where the future should lead me."
"Would you be willing to come to my house and become a retainer?" Lin Zhengwei suddenly walked over and asked.
"The Lin family saved my life, and I shouldn't refuse, but given my current condition, I'm afraid I can't help Master Lin much." Shen Xu couldn't help but feel ashamed.
"Your body is very powerful, but it hasn't absorbed any kind of spiritual blood, so I guess you must be an ancient cultivator. Faced with the enormous benefits brought by spiritual blood, those who can still persist in cultivating using ancient methods are extremely rare."
Although you don't remember many things, the stories you told were very interesting. I also have a child at home who loves listening to stories, and if possible, I would like to ask you to go back and tell him stories.
Upon hearing Lin Zhengwei's suggestion, Shen Xu couldn't help but look at Lin Qingxiang, whose eyes darted away.
If he wasn't mistaken, Lin Qingxiang must have recounted his story to Lin Zhengwei and successfully persuaded her father to keep him.
"In that case, I shall respectfully comply," Shen Xu said, bowing in the manners of this world.
He was very interested in the ancient cultivators that Lin Zhengwei mentioned. Could it be that this world initially used the cultivation system from the True Origin Continent, and then, for some reason, switched to the spiritual blood system, which they believed to be more powerful?
The Blood Central Realm's spiritual blood system is divided into five realms: Qi Blood, Fusion Blood, Refining Blood, Transforming Blood, and True Blood. Except for the Qi Blood realm, the other realms all require the participation of something called spiritual blood.
What is called spiritual blood is actually the essence blood of demonic beasts. When people from the Blood Central Realm integrate the essence blood of demonic beasts into their bodies, they will gain some of the abilities of those demonic beasts. The higher their realm, the closer they will become to those demonic beasts, and eventually they can even directly transform into those demonic beasts to fight.
After so many years of evolution, Shen Xu began to doubt whether there were still pure-blooded humans in the Blood Central Realm.
Moreover, even he could see that the cultivation system of the Blood Central Realm had major problems. No matter how a normal cultivation system changes, it should not deviate from the four major directions of refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit, refining spirit into emptiness, and refining emptiness into the Dao.
For example, the cultivation system on the True Origin Continent involves the Qi Nourishing Realm completing the process of refining essence into qi, the Rebirth Realm completing the process of refining qi into spirit, and the Void Inquiry Realm beginning the process of refining spirit into emptiness. As for the later process of refining emptiness and merging with the Dao, it is beyond his knowledge.
The Bloodline System of the Blood Central Realm seems to be rushing headlong down the path of refining essence into qi, without developing the soul aspect of cultivators in the slightest.
Moreover, incorporating demon blood into oneself and arbitrarily altering the purity of one's human bloodline is simply an evil act. The White Feather City Lord regards her two bloodlines as an inescapable curse, while the people here take pride in incorporating powerful demon bloodlines.
However, after careful consideration, Shen Xu could understand the choices of the people in the Blood Central Realm. The primordial energy here was too mixed and not suitable for ordinary people to cultivate. Even if they forced themselves to cultivate, they probably wouldn't achieve a high level of success. Moreover, there was the threat of endless demonic beasts outside the Seven Kingdoms.
With their lives hanging by a thread, no one cares whether their human bloodline is pure.
While integrating with the bloodline of the demon race can indeed grant them immense power to defend against external threats, it is precisely because of this that the humans here are always confined to their current territory, and becoming demon beasts would never allow them to defeat the demon beasts.
This was almost a dead end. He didn't know how the Four Directions Sword Alliance would view the situation here or how they would deal with the people here if they were to explore this world on a large scale.
Shen Xu followed the Lin family's caravan and slowly drove into Fumo City. As the capital city of Yunyang Kingdom, Fumo City was quite prosperous, with shops lining the streets and crowds of people. When the Lin family's carriage drove through the streets, children would follow the carriage and play around.
The Lin family clearly understood what the children's purpose was, so they took out the candy they had prepared beforehand and scattered it. After the children grabbed the candy, they scattered in all directions.
However, it's also clear that the Lin family gained a lot from this trip; they wouldn't have been so lenient with the children if they had made a losing deal.
According to Shen Xu's understanding, the Lin family is in the cloth business and is famous in Yunyang for their purple brocade and black brocade. This time, the Lin family's caravan is going to the capital to deliver the purple brocade that the Yunyang royal family has ordered.
Because the Yunyang royal family favored purple, the Lin family, which produced purple brocade, naturally received preferential treatment from the Yunyang royal family and was considered one of the wealthiest families in Fumo City.
The Blood Central Realm is, after all, a world where strength reigns supreme. No matter how wealthy the Lin family is, they are merely merchants and are destined to never enter the upper echelons of Fumo City. Therefore, the Lin family distributes most of their profits to several powerful families in Fumo City in exchange for their protection. This is also the Lin family's way of surviving in Fumo City.
However, the Lin family was not content to be just a merchant. Over the centuries, they had been quietly accumulating strength and had a good reputation within the Yunyang royal family by providing purple brocade to them for free.
By the time Lin Zhengwei became the head of the Lin family, the Lin family had become the largest commoner family in Fumo City. Naturally, Lin Zhengwei did not want the Lin family to remain associated with commoners.
However, Yunyang Kingdom has its own national conditions. Apart from the meritorious nobles at the time of its founding, other families must go to the border to be ennobled for their military achievements in order to obtain a title.
Therefore, Lin Zhengwei placed all his hopes on his youngest son and spent a great deal of money to obtain something from the Yunyang royal family that was said to be able to change the fate of the Lin family.
Although Shen Xu couldn't glean what it was from Lin Qingxiang, he guessed it was probably the essence blood of some powerful demon beast.
However, Shen Xu was very curious why Lin Qingxiang shouldn't have kept this a secret. Why did she tell him so easily? Wasn't she afraid that he would covet it?
Even if you think he doesn't have the ability to seize it, aren't you afraid he'll tell someone or some force that does?
Rather than believing that Lin Qingxiang accidentally let it slip, he was more inclined to believe that the Lin family had some backup plan and wasn't afraid of others trying to take it away.
Thinking of this, Shen Xu couldn't help but smile. What happened to the Lin family was not of much concern to him. As the local tyrants of Fumo City, the Lin family did not need his concern. Even if someone or some force came to cause trouble for the Lin family, he could not help them with his current physical condition and strength.
What he cared more about was when his strength would recover. He had been trying to repair the vortex of vital energy in his body for the past two days, and there had been some success, but not much.
At this rate of repair, it won't be able to recover in less than a month. He had originally planned to break through to the Qi Sea Realm within a year! Now he's trapped in this place with such chaotic and disordered energy.
Fortunately, he had the foresight to store a lot of pure Yuan Qi in the Yuan Qi storage bottle; otherwise, he really wouldn't know how he would survive here.