Chapter 38 – I want to become strong!
The instant Su Ming waved his right hand, the crescent moon in the sky that was about to fade away suddenly shone brightly. This silver radiance was invisible to others, only Su Ming could see it clearly.
Following the movement of Su Ming’s hand, the silver light descended from the sky. The view in front of Su Ming became distorted, and the light from the moon flashed. With a boom, a gigantic boulder that was in front of Su Ming shattered into numerous fragments, scattering all over. Some fell off the mountain slope, causing a resounding echo in the region.
Su Ming’s eyes widened and he drew a deep breath. It was some time later when he recovered from staring at his right hand dumbly. Raising his head to look at the sky, the moon had disappeared while the sun had peeked over the horizon, enveloping the lands in daylight.
“Th…this is the Fire-Mán technique… It is related to the moon, and not fire, but why…” Su Ming mumbled, his heart pounding inside him. The might of his right hand under the moonlight’s influence made him ponder in wonder. However, the potency of that strike made him desire for it.
Clenching his right fist, he struck another boulder beside him in the blink of an eye. Circulating his blood, the twenty-five blood veins surfaced. The instant his fist met the boulder, a m.u.f.fled boom sounded. With a cracking sound, numerous fractures crept along the boulder. At the same time, a reactive force surged towards Su Ming’s right hand, but was neutralised by the circulation of his blood qi.
Su Ming retreated a step, watching the numerous cracks on the boulder, his eyes revealing excitement.
“With the strength of my fourth layer of blood condensation, I can only create cracks on this boulder. If I utilise the soul-absorbing Mán-Technique on a suitable beast, I might be able to crush the boulder entirely… But this is already my full power, compared to the trace of moonlight, it is obviously lacking.”
“A trace of moonlight had such power, if there’s more…” Su Ming drew a deep breath and smiled, looking happy. He could feel his transformation and the power within his body. More importantly, he antic.i.p.ated the coming of night.
“It’s a pity the power of moonlight can only be executed in the night.” Su Ming thought in silence before turning around to return to the cave.
Never did Su Ming had such a strong antic.i.p.ation for night to fall. Observing through the small holes, he found the day to pa.s.s exceptionally slow. Gradually, when the sky darkened, and moonlight shone upon the land, Su Ming suppressed his excitement. Looking at the moon, he exhaled a long breath, his eyes shining.
From the Mán-Totem inheritance, Su Ming was aware that once he reached the fifth layer of blood condensation or higher, he will be able to utilise two powerful techniques that were pa.s.sed from the medium-sized WuShan Tribe hundreds of years back.
Wu Blood Dust and Triple Vanquishing Strike!
For Wu Blood Dust, a single drop of Mán-Blood is coalesced from the user, allowing his power to magnify in an instant. As for Triple Vanquishing Strike, it made Su Ming thrilled just thinking of it.
To utilise Wu Blood Dust, more than fifty blood veins are required. Triple Vanquishing Strike is even more demanding, requiring two hundred blood veins to be able to execute the first strike!
The fifth layer of blood condensation required fifty-three blood veins. To become a Mán-Cultivator of the sixth layer, it require one hundred and nine blood veins! As for the seventh layer, the requirement is two hundred and forty-three blood veins!
The peak of the middle stage of blood condensation, the eighth layer, requires three hundred and ninety-nine blood veins!
The ninth layer and above is deemed the late stage of blood condensation, with the eleventh layer being the maximum number of blood veins ordinary cultivators could attain, seven hundred and eighty-one. If one is able to raise their number of blood veins, not only do they become stronger, but their chances of attaining the awakening stage also increase!
Su Ming’s eyes shone. Watching the moon in the sky, the antic.i.p.ation in his eyes got stronger. In his mind, he imagined the moon to be red, and gradually, it became a red moon to him. The burning sensation surfaced once more.
This time, Su Ming did not hesitate. Biting his finger, he wiped fresh blood across his eyes. His entire body resounded, and the strange phenomena that gripped Black Flame Peak the previous night occured again.
“I want to become strong!” Su Ming muttered, the twenty-five blood veins surfaced on his body. His body flashed with red light as he unceasingly absorbed the surrounding aura. At the same time, the blood moon in his eyes flashed. Raising his right hand, he wiped his eyes once again.
Those who seek my Mán
Coming from all eight directions,
Merge your blood with the flames,
At will,
Incinerate the Heavens.
When the blood moon rises,
Covering the land and skies……
This is the time to ponder
Kindle the blood flame
Nine is the Utmost
One is the pathway
Nine bows towards the Fire-Mán
Thus is the path of fire worship
Nine is the utmost! Nine is the utmost!! The meaning of this phrase should be to kindle my blood nine times!” Following his second wipe, he whole body shuddered. Even the entire Black Flame Peak seemed to shake, but this movement was undetectable by outsiders.
An even more majestic aura washed over him which was then also absorbed by Su Ming making him feel as if he was about to explode. On his body the twenty five blood veins shone majestically and started twisting as if they were alive.
At this instant, on Su Ming’s body the twenty-sixth blood vein started to appear, without stopping the twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth … … all the way until the thirty third blood vein appeared!!
Su Ming panted as his heart rate accelerated, the powerful feeling of strength permeated his entire existence. Not wanting to wake up from this statem his eyes flashed with the image of the blood moon as he raised his right hand and bit his middle finger.
The fresh blood on the finer had a strange kind of power, as Su Ming saw the fresh blood slowly fill his vision he wanted to kindle his his blood for the third time.
He was almost certain that if he could kindle his blood thrice it would greatly benefit his cultivation! The intensity of this feeling made his body shake as he stared at his finger, tightly pressing it against his right eye he made a light sweeping motion, with this light swipe, the entire Wu Shan seemed to tremble.
Not only was the black flame peak trembling, the other four mountain peaks were also shaking, countless birds were terrified stiff as they dared not even move, but in the eyes of any other person, the mountain seemed the same as ever, as if nothing had even changed.
Wu Long Tribe felt nothing, and neither than the Wu Shan Tribe, only Bi Tu who was currently in the Hei Shan Tribe refining the NightWing blood he absorb as he was trying to breakthrough the Awakened stage suddenly felt his mind rumble as his eyes flashed open in dismay, instantly running out of his house to gaze the the sky.
But that momentary feeling had already disappeared, despite his efforts he could not find its origin.
Other than that, when Su Ming was trying to kindle his blood the for the third time, inside the five mountain peaks where the NightWings resided in, all the NightWings could be seen excited and practically going crazy as they seemingly wanted to fly out of their mysterious tree trunk to find their king.
But only they seemed to have been trapped by a mysterious force preventing them from doing so.
Similarly, the giant red tree in the Wu Shan was trembling, except it is unknown whether it was out of excitement or fear.
In the cave, after Su Ming wiped his b.l.o.o.d.y finger in his eye, his body trembled non-stop, the boundless qi that appeared on Wu Shan seemed to enter his body at a crazy rate, transforming into blood veins on his body at a rate that even terrified Su Ming as his cultivation soared.
Thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six……forty-two, forty-four…… all the way until forty-seven!!
Su Ming could no longer continue, the feeling of his body on the verge of exploding became increasingly clear. At this moment, he felt as if he could hear the cries of the many NightWings in the entire Wu Shan.
He raised his right arm as he stabilised his breathing, taking deep breaths, his body was drenched in sweat. At this moment in time, the majestic aura of Wu Shan had already disappeared, the qi pouring into him had also stopped, the cries of the NightWings in his ears had also vanished, everything had returned to normal.
But Su Ming could clearly tell that nothing was back to normal.
“Was a powerful Mán-Technique!! After just three kindles I can already feel the growth in my blood veins! This is also just the third kindle, if I were to be able to do it all nine times……” Su Ming gasped, a small fear arising within him.
“This is also nine time specifically, from what I understand, after kindling of the blood flames nine times, I have to offer my respects to the blood moon…… and then after nine times, the fire would open the path to the heavens!” Su Ming muttered, as he felt the unbelievable majestic power coming from his own body, slowly raising his head, his eyes flashed with a hint of determination.
With his fists clenched tightly he thought “With the combination of medicinal pills and cultivation technique… … I can become an awakened cultivator!”