Chapter 265: Chapter 254: Battle of Bloodlines

“Interesting!”

Wang Wu felt a joy in his heart; this human smoke and fire aura was indeed extremely useful.

Don’t think that 20% is too little, it should be built on Wang Wu’s Passive Concealment.

And if you want to achieve 100%, you have to fill all five energies.

“The human smoke and fire aura refers to the ordinary people who want to live a good life.”

“The awe-inspiring aura in the chest refers to those with grand ambitions and high virtue, though few, can lead an era.”

“The celestial aura is obviously referring to cultivators.”

“The aura of bustling with trivial pursuits, interesting, can this also rank alongside the previous three?”

“And this dark and corrupted aura, fearing that it does not specifically refer to some fallen villains, but rather to the darkness in people’s hearts?”

“Perhaps, these five auras do not refer to specific types of people, but to human nature, the complexity of human nature?”

Wang Wu thought deeply.

The night gradually deepened, and the village was quiet as Wang Wu refined two more furnaces of Spirit Pills before calling out General Xuelang to return to its usual size.

“Alright, I’m ready.”

“What?”

General Xuelang was stunned, wanting to say ’What are you preparing for? At night you refine Lifebound Demon Soldiers, during the day you watch those mortals, even crying, someone might think you’re a Human Race spy.’

However, it dared not say such things since if Xiong Wu was a Human Race spy, then the West Desolate Demon Race could hang themselves upside down.

After all, this was the only existence capable of revitalizing the West Desolate Demon Race.

“Perhaps, this is the unusual aspect of someone who can achieve great deeds.”

General Xuelang thought this, and even its gaze towards Wang Wu became much more tender.

At this moment, it first bit its tongue-tip blood, quickly drawing a snow wolf head on Wang Wu’s face.

Then it made gestures of prayer, seemingly apologizing to the ancestors of the Snow Wolf Race. Moments later, it unexpectedly drew out another drop of blood from its own heart, drawing a snow wolf heart on Wang Wu’s chest, continuing its silent prayer for a moment.

Thus, it slit its own wrist again, letting out about a bowl of wolf blood for Wang Wu to consume.

When these steps were completed, it directly came in front of Wang Wu, face-to-face, and quietly chanted some strange syllables, akin to a wolf’s howl.

Wang Wu watched the whole process, not feeling anything mysterious until suddenly General Xuelang held a mark similar to the Snake Guard Mark in his hand.

This item bore a wolf head emblem, looking just like a Wolf Guard Mark.

Seeing his surprised expression, General Xuelang said calmly, “Do not overthink it. I will place my Third Grade Bright Demon Pill into this mark. Now, open your mouth—do not attempt to resist, tongue-tip blood to tongue-tip blood, heart blood to heart blood…”

Wang Wu instinctively opened his mouth, and General Xuelang suddenly bit down hard on his tongue. At the moment the blood erupted, General Xuelang’s tongue-tip blood fused with his at that instant!

Immediately after, it sliced open Wang Wu’s chest and its own chest, revealing their hearts, matching heart blood to heart blood…

In this instant, Wang Wu momentarily lost himself, hearing a wolf’s howl as the wolf head painted on his face and the wolf heart painted on his chest, which originally felt unremarkable, were activated by some mysterious power.

He seemed to truly transform into a giant wolf, galloping among the rolling mountains…

But this trance-like illusion quickly disappeared; when he regained clarity, General Xuelang had already fainted on the ground.

Good heavens, Wang Wu himself felt nothing, the wounds had even healed, yet it had paid a considerable price.

Without delay, Wang Wu stuck several Concealing Talismans on General Xuelang, and then began to examine himself, for indeed he felt no significant—

Just as he thought about this, Wang Wu’s entire body suddenly went rigid as his Qi Blood fiercely burned within him, very much like the feeling when brushing against Negative Resistance, but with some places distinctly different.

He could even feel a proud and untamed giant wolf roaring and boiling within his Qi Blood, eager to tear apart and escape.

Indeed, it was like this.

And the commotion was so massive.

So much so that even when he activated the Inner Breathing Technique and fully circulated Qi and Blood, it was hard to suppress.

Because this was a confrontation between two entirely different bloodline genes.

Like the battle between type A blood and type B blood, even more complex and more fierce.

And this kind of battle was the most exhausting for Qi Blood.

No wonder General Xuelang said that if unprepared, it could even consume a hundred years of lifespan.

In less than ten seconds, Wang Wu already felt weak, truly weak.

But at this moment, he immediately tossed a handful of Ginseng Vitality Pills into his mouth, accelerating the transformation of Vitality by circulating Qi and Blood.

Barely able to keep up with the consumption of Qi Blood, maintaining Qi Blood safety on the borderline of something truly faint— a perilous edge teetering.

Even the Ice and Fire Spirit Root was cheering on the side, well, it was actually capable of helping, supplementing a bit of Qi Blood by running Ice and Fire Spiritual Qi, though it’s a bit scant.

Moreover, Wang Wu was pleasantly surprised to find that at this moment, the Innate Bloodline System surprisingly considered the Acquired Ice and Fire Spirit Root as an ally and the invading Wolf Race bloodline gene as an enemy.

He truly had no words for this.

“But taking advantage of this opportunity, gather grass and rabbits, bolster the discourse power of the Acquired Cultivation System.”

With this thought, Wang Wu grit his teeth, slowed the transformation of Vitality, artificially creating a Qi Blood weakened state, thereby allowing Ice and Fire Spiritual Qi to participate even more.

The effect was rather dire.

With Qi Blood weakened, Wang Wu clearly felt his lifespan dwindling, a day, two days, three days; in this brief moment, his lifespan had already reduced by over thirty days…

But the good news was, after being entrusted with an important role, Ice and Fire Spiritual Qi did not disappoint, accelerating and increasing the replenishment of Qi Blood.

Ultimately doubling the effect.

At this point, Wang Wu’s lifespan had already decreased by nearly three years.

Enough is enough.

Continue to supply large amounts of Vitality, here comes the big boss.

The unification of innate and acquired forces finally pushed the standard of Qi and blood deficiency from too weak straight to mildly weak with effort, and after more effort, to somewhat weak…

And then the front line stalemated here.

Wang Wu was gobbling down Ginseng Vitality Pills as if they were popping beans.

In just half a day, the amount of Vitality Pills he consumed was enough to form a million points of vitality.

But the most important part wasn’t the quantity, but that he could convert these million points of vitality into Qi and blood in such a short time.

That’s what was truly amazing.

The battlefield waits for no one. The clash of two Bloodline Talents is exponentially more intense than external skirmishes, hundreds, or even thousands of times stronger.

Every second is a supersized battle, and every few seconds is a world war.

Not enough ammunition, not enough supplies, and you’d really get overwhelmed.

Of course, that’s not to say that the Wolf Race’s bloodline had much logistical support either.

But the opponent was a desperado, reckless.

They were attacking right into the core area.

Killing one enemy would make it worthwhile; killing two would be a profit.

If Wang Wu lost one here, it meant a loss; losing two meant a major loss.

The standards were different.

Wang Wu now equated to preserving his most essential, peripheral assets, while also absorbing the opposition.

Finally, as dawn approached the next day, this battle of bloodline genes concluded.

Wang Wu’s Ancient Bear Bloodline successfully fused with a portion of the Ancient Wolf Bloodline. Complete fusion was impossible because it was a face-to-face, blood-on-bayonet fight where losses were unavoidable.

At that moment, Wang Wu felt like he was about to explode, his blood burning all over, Demon Qi wanting to soar to the heavens, wanting to release, desperately release, feeling like his eyes were turning red.

Seeing mortals outside only made him want to devour them, a side effect of the Ancient Wolf Bloodline fusion.

Seeing General Xuelang made him want to administer on-the-spot justice, a consequence of the excessive intensity of Qi and blood, accompanied by arrogance.

In short, he wanted to vent, he wanted to pierce through everything, tear apart everything, destroy everything.

Because his Innate Bloodline Power was really continuing to evolve, his beast side was greatly magnified.

Of course, it was also the reason for his overpowering nature; if during the earlier bloodline clash he had let his own bloodline suffer mutual destruction too, this problem wouldn’t have arisen.

“Xiong Wu, do you want me to help you…”

The visibly weakened General Xuelang saw the problem too, though it didn’t understand why it was happening?

But Xiong Wu definitely needed to vent, his eyes were bloodshot.

“Shut up, don’t speak!”

Wang Wu still remained calm inside. Although he felt he was about to lose control, weren’t there still other ways? Doing something to General Xuelang now would be deadly.

He quickly took out the four Eighth-Grade Five Elements Spirit Pills from the Storage Pouch and swallowed them directly.

No time to wait, it was necessary to refine the Ice and Fire Dual Spirit Roots now because only the Acquired System could effectively restrain the innate beast nature.

This was his ordeal, and also the most crucial threshold he needed to overcome—a unification of innate and acquired, the balance of Spirit Pills and Demon Pills—all needed to be resolved this time.

As expected, when Wang Wu used Ice and Fire Spiritual Qi to activate the four Eighth-Grade Five Elements Spirit Pills in one burst, the beast nature of the Innate Bloodline was immediately ’shocked’ and temporarily fell into a state of blissful ignorance, unconcerned with events.

More accurately, the Innate Bloodline System felt the pressure and crisis.

A spiraling escalation of opposing forces.

But at this point, Wang Wu had no time to break through but ordered General Xuelang to shrink using the Settling Technique before making a quick Earth Escape with it.

He had no choice; just a hint of his beast nature had seeped out earlier. Although it wasn’t a big problem and had the aura of the human world to conceal it, to be cautious, he shifted immediately to the next village.

He couldn’t go to the wilderness, couldn’t go underground, because with the aura of the human world concealing him, staying in this mortal village was more effective.

Once settled again, Wang Wu’s face was already half blue and half red.

He was reaching the physical limit soon.

Quickly sitting cross-legged, his Ice and Fire Dual Spirit Roots had turned into rabbit tails; the terrifying spirit effect of the four Eighth-Grade Five Elements Spirit Pills was unimaginably formidable.

Eradication, continuous eradication, this wasn’t like the previous tempering; it was like starting a whole new venture.

Blood started uncontrollably seeping from his pores, though his Passive Concealment still managed to maintain him, the scent of fresh blood…

No big issue though, because General Xuelang reacted quickly, promptly bowing skillfully to lick clean the blood beads that oozed out.

It was deeply experienced.

And Wang Wu was seemingly loitering at the moment.

He had nothing else to do.

The Innate Bloodline System was kept under control to maintain the basic foundation from collapsing.

His Heart of the Earth was pounding like a drum, beating 500 times a second, what more could be done?

The two Ice and Fire Spirit Roots were eradicated; there weren’t even roots anymore.

Everything—meridians and the Acquired System—had become a ball of chaos.

Like a big belly full of mush.

The only thing left for him was to endure!

And then wait for the final outcome.

Either he would succeed in refining Spirit Pills.

Or the Innate Bloodline System would take over, and his Five Demon Pill System would likely still be able to digest the legacy left by the Acquired System.

But from then on, he could forget about dabbling in the Acquired again.

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