bookcurios Chapter 55 Bloodline Essence
Chapter 55 Bloodline Essence
In less than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Gao Zhun had already arrived near the Gao family's inheritance pool with Gao Shi. Looking at the huge and magnificent palace, she suppressed the excitement in her heart and asked, "Is the inheritance pool here?"
Gao Shi nodded: "However, we cannot accompany you inside. Every member of the Gao family can only enter the Gao family's inheritance pool once in their lifetime. This is a layout map of the palace. In fact, once inside, the location of the inheritance pool is immediately clear. You need to hurry up and complete the inheritance. As for what you can take after the inheritance, don't be shy about taking anything inside."
Gao Zhun understood the implication in Gao Shi's words: "Take whatever you can without hesitation?!" And only after the inheritance?! Taking the jade slip from Gao Shi, Gao Zhun probed it with her divine sense. Sure enough, it contained a layout diagram of the palace's interior, but more importantly, it explained the precautions for entering the inheritance pool and shared the experiences of predecessors. She also learned that this palace was like a treasure vault, filled with countless treasures. As long as you were qualified, you could take them all without the Gao family saying anything. In fact, they judged the success of the inheritance and the level of inheritance the inheritor would receive based on how many and what kinds of treasures the inheritor could take.
She was quite surprised that the awakened bloodline inheritors of the Gao family were even graded. Recalling Gao Qi, whom she had met before, she asked, "What level of inheritor is Gao Qi of Fengyin Villa? Level one to nine, that must be quite high."
"Gao Qi?" Gao Shi's expression was a mixture of joy and worry upon hearing this. In the end, he could only say helplessly, "She is indeed one of the few bloodline talents in the Gao family. The jade slip did not explain in detail. The bloodline awakeners in the Gao family are divided into nine levels, but most awakeners are at the lowest level of nine, and can only take away two treasures from the palace. As for Gao Qi, she is very special, but she is only an eighth-level inheritor."
"A Level 8 Inheritor is that powerful?" Gao Zhun felt her heart pounding wildly. Even the little figure in her dantian abandoned its meditative posture and began to dance around. Her nascent soul seemed rather peculiar... Watching that slightly chubby, miniature version of herself act like this, Gao Zhun's restlessness and desire for power inexplicably calmed down. After silently reciting the calming mantra she had learned from Madam Zhu's study, she finally regained her composure. Now that she knew the answers to her questions, she naturally wouldn't linger outside the palace. After speaking to Gao Shi, she strode confidently towards the palace.
He wondered if the young girl would succeed... Gao Shi stood outside the palace waiting, somewhat anxious but not uneasy. Subconsciously, he believed that Gao Zhun would succeed. Gao Zhun's awakening of the Eye of Truth had already proven that she was extraordinary, even more so than Gao Zhilin, who had saved his life back then. It was precisely because of this that he was eager to know what level of inheritor Gao Zhun could become.
Upon entering the palace, Gao Zhun felt as if she had entered a space sealed off by a barrier. The Gao family's bloodline inheritance was conducted one by one, and recently she was the only one to enter the inner courtyard of the Gao family, so she didn't even need to queue to enter this inheritance space.
Gao Zhun only briefly surveyed the treasures displayed around her with her divine sense. Upon seeing them, her recently stabilized state of mind surged violently once more. These treasures were all top-tier items on the Immortal Spirit Continent, legendary in their respective domains. If she could obtain even one of them…
Gao Zhun shook her head violently, realizing she had been carelessly distracted. What kind of immortality did a cultivator cultivate by relying too much on external objects? A faint bitter smile appeared on her face. She really needed to temper her Dao heart. If she was so easily blinded by treasures, how could she go far on the path of cultivation?
For some reason, Gao Zhun thought of Qin Hanyuan. The reason why that man's state of "supreme goodness is like water" was so amazing was mainly because it was the closest to the state of "devoting oneself to cultivation". If that was the case, she couldn't afford to fall behind.
However, we should still take the treasures if we can, just not now.
Thinking of this, Gao Zhun quickened his pace and arrived at the edge of the inheritance pool. The Gao family was quite thoughtful; there was even a special place to put away clothes that had been taken off. After quickly removing the clothes that symbolized him as a direct descendant of the Gao family, Gao Zhun stepped directly into the inheritance pool.
The Bloodline Inheritance Pool appears no different from an ordinary hot spring on the outside. However, once inside and the mist dissipates, the difference becomes apparent. The pool water is a pale gold color, and one can vaguely see some deeper golden currents swimming around like fish. At this moment, the fish reacted just like fish in the water, swimming away as soon as they saw Gao Zhun enter the pool.
Having read the jade slip, Gao Zhun naturally knew what those golden streams of water were. Every member of the Gao family who entered this inheritance pool could undergo bloodline purification, but not everyone could become an Awakener. The key to the problem lay in these streams of water. Only by attracting these streams of water into one's body could one successfully awaken their bloodline talent. The jade slip described these streams of water as bloodline essence, but of course, they were not the bloodline essence of ordinary people. Instead, they were placed here by the first head of the Gao family.
There are countless such bloodline essences in the inheritance pool. However, as long as you can absorb nine, you will become a level nine inheritor. For every nine more, your level will increase by one level. Gao Zhun watched the bloodline essences swimming away because of her entering the water. She was not in a hurry. She closed her eyes and slowly circulated the Gao family's mental cultivation method. This was the method to attract those bloodline essences.
Although Gao Zhun considered herself to be at the bottom of the Gao family's inner courtyard in terms of combat strength, she was extremely confident in her ability to absorb and convert spiritual energy. After all, her meridians had been forcibly widened several times over in Yongcheng, and further widened under the influence of the Purple Heaven Thunder Tribulation. Now, the width of her meridians was comparable to that of a Nascent Soul cultivator. A Nascent Soul cultivator possessing meridians comparable to a Nascent Soul cultivator's would have an astonishing cultivation speed. However, since returning, she had suppressed this speed. The reason was simple: advancing from Nascent Soul to Spirit Division required more than just reaching a critical value in true essence; comprehension of the laws was equally indispensable. A cultivator who comprehended the laws of heaven and earth before advancing to Spirit Division had a much smoother path than one who comprehended nothing, and their future achievements would be far greater. This is why people can cultivate from mortals to Nascent Soul in ten years or even less, but they cannot break through to Spirit Division in a short time. They need to comprehend; the more they comprehend, the smoother their future path will be.
However, at this moment, Gao Zhun unleashed the speed of his mental cultivation technique. Before long, a small vortex of spiritual energy formed in the closed palace. At the center of the vortex was naturally the little figure meditating in Gao Zhun's dantian.
"Bloodline essence, come quickly! There's plenty of spiritual energy here that you love to eat..." Not knowing exactly what was attracting the bloodline essence, Gao Zhun could only make up a story and silently chanted it in his heart.
Perhaps Gao Zhun's silent recitation truly conveyed to the bloodline essence, for the bloodline essence that had previously avoided her at all costs was now surging towards Gao Zhun's location one by one. Before long, there were quite a few bloodline essences surrounding her, but they were all just circling around Gao Zhun's body, seemingly having no intention of entering her body.
After an unknown amount of time, the meditating girl frowned, and a golden light flashed between her brows. A bloodline essence changed its trajectory from circling around her and instead rushed towards Gao Zhun's dantian. After the first one, the second and third followed in succession. Because Gao Zhun had his eyes closed and his divine sense was not open, he was unaware of the situation around his body. Since the golden light flashed between her brows, there were now even several bloodline essences vying to enter his body, as if afraid of being too late.
Although she couldn't sense the outside world, Gao Zhun, who had been observing the changes in her body through internal vision, saw the blood essence that had entered her body at some unknown time. They didn't stay in Gao Zhun's dantian for long before disappearing. What followed was a painful sensation as if her bones were being gnawed at. Blood essence, blood essence... Could it be that what entered her bone marrow?!
This point was not mentioned at all on the jade slip, otherwise Gao Zhun would not have been caught off guard by this sudden, excruciating pain. A moment later, Gao Zhun felt as if holes had been drilled through all the bones in her body, and streams of blood essence were surging into her bone marrow like eels...
Is this the legendary feeling of ants crawling all over your body during drug withdrawal? Gao Zhun smiled bitterly. Why didn't anyone tell her? If she had known it would be this painful, she wouldn't have done it. What she wanted to temper was her Dao heart, not her body's ability to endure pain. She wasn't a masochist at all; in fact, she still retained the pain-fearing characteristic she had on Earth. Now, she almost wanted to faint. However, one of her bloodline essences had actually drilled a hole in her skull. How could she possibly fall into a coma under such intense stimulation?!
After an unknown amount of time, the blood essence, which had been desperately trying to enter her body, finally disappeared. The blood essence that had entered her bones began to slowly transform the blood throughout her body. Everything was progressing in a positive direction. The pain and itching were long gone, replaced by a tingling sensation of rebirth. Gao Zhun could even feel that the blood flowing in her veins was more powerful than ever before.
Gao Zhun was certain that she was already a bloodline awakener, but the level seemed impossible to define. She currently had over two hundred bones in her body, and each bone contained nine bloodline essences, far exceeding the boundaries of awakener levels. Gao Zhun sighed, wondering if she had somehow regressed to her ancestral form again...