Chapter 878: Three Latent Abilities! (1/2)
Chapter 878: Three Latent Abilities!
”Senior...”
Qin Lie showed respect for the first time as he bowed towards this old man.
”I'm Teng Yuan, the ‘yuan’ that means ‘far away’,” the old man said coolly.
”I see, Senior Teng.”
”No, no, call me Old Teng. I like other people calling me that.”
”Alright, Old Teng.”
”Mn, this is more pleasing to hear.”
Qin Lie felt puzzled but he still asked seriously, ”Old Teng, why did you help me?”
In the past few days, he had been tormented by Old Teng in the deep abyss.
In the daytime, the three suns' powerful light shone on him after being amplified through those crystal-shaped mirrors.
In the night, the moonlight of the moons was gathered and tormented him to unconsciousness.
In both cases, thick and suffocating earth spirit energy furiously poured into him.
Many times, he felt he was about to die.
But whenever he was on his last gasps, Teng Yuan would appear and throw a rank six spirit beast to him. Qin Lie would drink the blood and eat the meat to recover from his wounds.
Right after he’d recovered, Teng Yuan would rudely throw him back down into the abyss to be tortured.
He repeated this process.
He thought he would die some day, but now... he was alright, and his bloodline had made a breakthrough.
He realized that Teng Yuan was never trying to kill him.
”What latent abilities did you receive?” Teng Yuan asked again.
”Strengthening transformation, enhanced recovery ability, and an ability called ‘ignition.’ If I ignite half of my blood, my strength will double.” Qin Lie knew that he could not hide anything in front of this old man. Therefore, he answered obediently.
”Holy shit, as expected of the god race bloodline. Transformation and recovery ability, this is already terrifying, and ‘ignition’ too!” Teng Yuan gaped.
”Bloodlines are also divided into ranks?” Qin Lie asked what puzzled him.
”If bloodlines were equal, why would the Ancient Beast Race members be divided into ten ranks? Not just the Ancient Beast Race, many other powerful races use the ranks of a bloodline as the ranks for strength.” Teng Yuan had a disdainful expression. “You have the god race bloodline, but you do not know about the ten bloodline ranks? No wonder you had only rank four bloodline despite being on the verge of breaking through to the Fragmentation Realm. If I didn’t help you, who knows how it would take you to reach rank five.”
”Please teach me,” Qin Lie said seriously.
Teng Yuan looked in wonder at him. ”You really don't know.”
Qin Lie shook his head.
”Just like the Ancient Beast Race’s bloodline, ancient bloodlines are divided into ten ranks based on their transformations. Many ancient experts use the bloodline as ranks. When the bloodline has just awoken, it is between rank one and rank three. It’s not particularly evident, and there are no special abilities.”
”At these ranks, only the body and the biomagnetic field is strengthened, and potential is developed. Ancient experts’ strength, speed, and perception all advance together”
”Starting from rank four, the breakthroughs in bloodline will lead to obtaining latent abilities.”
”Usually, latent abilities are related to bloodlines. For example, the members of the Serene Moon Race have the ability to absorb moon power. They can form powerful attacks through moon power. The same with Flame Race.”
”As the bloodline advances, the ability will be enhanced. On top of that, it is possible to gain new latent abilities.”
”In other words, when a member of a powerful ancient race possesses a pure and powerful bloodline, as it advances, they can gain many different latent abilities.”
”You, after reaching rank five, have three latent abilities: transformation, enhanced recovery, and ignition.”
”As you continue to advance, when your bloodline reaches rank six, seven, eight, and nine, your three latent abilities will be enhanced, and you will possibly obtain new latent abilities.”
“Latent abilities are unlike secret bloodline techniques. They can be directly used by your body to generate overwhelming power.”
”Secret bloodline techniques such as the fire wheel you used your bloodline to form earlier come from the race's Chaos Blood Realm. They are like the spirit skills of humans, they are ways to use the bloodline.”
”In other words, the bloodline latent abilities are unique powers of the bloodline, while secret bloodline arts are ways to use the bloodline.”
”Do you understand what I am saying?”
Teng Yuan stopped, and looked at Qin Lie.
”Yes, latent abilities are simply abilities exclusive to the bloodline. Secret bloodline techniques are purely skills to kill enemies with the bloodline,” Qin Lie said.
”Yes.” Teng Yuan grinned and said, ”The increase in your bloodline’s rank will increase your potential in all aspects, will let you think faster, be more intelligent, and will grant you stronger perception. Your responses will be faster, and your rate at gathering spirit energy and absorbing it will naturally be faster as well. Your cultivation will also quickly increase! In my opinion, you will reach the Fragmentation Realm soon.”
”The breakthrough of the bloodline strengthens potential and will greatly increase cultivation speed?” Qin Lie was shocked.
”Yes!” Teng Yuan snorted. ”Humans schemed to obtain the pure bloodlines of the ancient races in hopes to get rid of their biggest weakness, fragility. Through the strengthening of their bloodline, they can develop their potential and increase their cultivation speed.”
”This is also why humans are more and more terrifying.”