Chapter 33 (2/2)

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

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

At the very next moment, an immense power surged from Lu Ming’s spine. The power melded 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.

Buzz!

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

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

“My… my blood meridian can devour the blood essence of demonic beasts and convert it into Essential Qi? And on top of that, my blood meridian 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 advancement was unheard of.

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

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

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

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

It was because of that that caused an improvement in both Essential Qi and blood meridian.

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

Advancement 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 meridian was nothing!

Hahaha!

Lu Ming broke into a loud guffaw.

“Time to hunt some demonic beasts!”

Lu Ming could not wait to hunt for some 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 metal tablet worth two points on the demonic beast.

Lu Ming defeated the beast and kept the metal tablet. He circulated his blood meridian 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 consumed by the dark worm-shaped blood meridian. 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.

As for the blood-red meridian focal points on the blood meridian, 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! Time to continue!”

Lu Ming dubbed the dark worm-shaped blood meridian 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 meridian had increased during that moment. Another meridian focal point appeared as it turned into a Second Level blood meridian.

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

The first thing was that there was a cap for the blood meridian’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 someone below the Sixth Grade Warrior Realm. It would be rendered completely useless if he met someone on the Seventh Grade Warrior Realm or above.

The eruption of the blood meridian 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 meridian advanced by a Level. For every Level that the blood meridian advanced, the duration of its eruption would increase by another breath span.

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

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

All this motivated Lu Ming even more.