Levi looked at the fox in the cage across, he found it quite interesting, the fog coming from it"s legs anyway. before leaving the cage, he extracted the rhino"s bloodline, which was silver in color. a blob of silver blood floated over Levi"s right shoulder, as he walked out of the large cage. " what is this?" Levi asked the man. " this is an illusion fox! a rare mutated beast! it"s fighting ability isn"t high, but it can make illusions to lead people into traps!" the man hurriedly explained. " how much?" Levi asked coldly. " uhh...are you going to kill it...." the man asked awkwardly. "..." levi"s brows furrowed. controlling his anger was indeed hard. " ah, it"s 1000 gold coins!" seeing Levi"s frosty expression, the man quickly spoke. he wasn"t afraid of Levi, but afraid that he wouldn"t be able to sell the fox.levi looked at the man silently, as his expression became awkward with a tinge of guilt. silently, levi retrieved the gold coins and simply released them, causing them to drop onto the ground. he took the fox from it"s cage and walked away. the man"s expression darkened as he looked at Levi"s back. he threw the coins at the old man, but dropped his on the ground, wasn"t this just a slap to his face? but after standing there for a while, he started to pick up the gold coins, as multiple eyes were glued to them.
as levi walked, he checked his blood energy level. it had returned to the 3rd stage, and felt like he only needed a bit more blood to reach the 4th stage. he didn"t know why he broke through so fast, but thinking back, it was most likely because he had already broken through to the 4th stage, but he dropped back to the second stage for an unknown reason. " meep!" the fox squeaked. levi was holding it by the nape of it"s neck, ensuring that it wouldn"t be able to get away.
he lifted the fox to his eye level and looked at it, only to see it"s tail releasing a pink colored fog. "!!" Levi sensed killing intent to his side and looked around, only to see a martial artist wearing blue robes, with a sword, charging at him. jumping out of the way just in time, he grew the fingernails on his right hand out, and as the martial artist charged at him again, thin wind blades shredded him. but the scene of blood splattering and organs falling out did not happen, instead, the martial artist simply turned into plume of pink fog.
Levi looked down at the fox, as he suppressed his anger. he began to walk again, under the cautious eyes of the pa.s.sers-by who witnessed Levi"s supposed "outburst". on his way back to the in, the fox had conjured multiple illusions. after a few attacks, Levi got used to it. since the illusions would turn back to fog when attacked, why would he need to worry about them? when the fake swords. .h.i.t him, wouldn"t the illusion shatter anyway? he continued on his way, on guard, but ignoring the fox"s shenanigans.
after stepping foot into the old in, a light cracking sound rang out, as Levi swiftly broke the fox"s neck. without a word, he silently went to his room, the silver blood still floating above his shoulder. he silently released the green liquid (which i will now refer to as "ant acid" for convenience.) and enveloped the fox"s body in it. his goal was to see if bloodlines were stored at a particular place, or if it was just spread all over the beast"s body until he tries to absorb it. after the skin was desolved, he then started to desolve the muscles, carefully leaving the heart and veins intact. after removing all of the muscles and bones, which was slightly difficult, he decided to desolve the veins and heart slightly, so that he would be able to see through them. but although he was careful, multiple holes appeared as blood flowed out. looking at everything through the ant acid, he found that from a few holes in the heart, leaked a smokey white liquid.
removing the ant acid, he separated the fox"s blood from the smokey liquid. he then absorbed the blood, and continued to look at the two floating blobs before him. placing his hand close to the rhinos bloodline, he felt a strong energy. but when he placed his hand close to the smokey liquid, the energy wasn"t strong, rather, it was weak. he thought about whether to absorb the bloodline or not, but in the end he decided to absorb it. although it wouldn"t increase his strength, it might become useful in a dangerous situation. a line of the smokey bloodline went towards Levi"s palm, before all of it was swiftly absorbed. Levi braced himself for pain, but it didn"t come. he found this strange. " are there some bloodlines that don"t cause trouble inside my body?" he mumbled.
his shoulder and feet abruptly began itching, which indicated that the bloodline was making the necessary changes to his body. but other than that, nothing else happened, this caused him to be slightly unsettled. after calming himself down for a few minutes, he sat down on the bed, his legs crossed. he began practicing the water commandment, but the qi flowed through his body like it wasn"t there. gritting his teeth, levi absorbed qi, and attempted to use his entire body to contain it. 1 minute,2,3,4,5..."huuuuu! huff!" levi breathed in a large breath of air. while trying to trap the qi, it felt like he was suffocating. he began again, but this time, instead of using his entire body to trap the qi, he attempted to attach it to something in his body, similar to how inscriptions were attached to different vessels.
"cough! cough!...." after a few minutes, levi coughed two mouthfuls of dark blood. this blood was still liquid, but was dark as if it was burned or scorched by something. his chest was burning, as he gulped down air. he wanted to to try again, but he forcefully stopped himself, before something irreversible happened.