Chapter 77 - 69: Blood Sect Demons, Dual-Attribute Beast Cultivator_2

After speaking, without caring about the displeased expressions of the two, he went straight up to the second floor, leaving Su Chen with Chang Zhichun and the others, all staring at each other in bewilderment. After a long while, Su Chen finally mustered the courage to ask, "Senior Brother, is what Third Senior Brother said true?" Chang Zhichun’s cunning long face showed a trace of embarrassment. Smacking his lips twice, he smiled and said, "Don’t listen to that guy’s nonsense. Your Second Senior Brother and I are the most honest people in the sect, how could our sleeping posture be dishonest? Su Chen, wash up and sleep, I guarantee you’ll sleep through the night till morning!" Su Chen nodded, half understanding, and went upstairs. After he left, Niu Yuanshan chuckled and said, "Senior Brother, it seems Junior Brother Leng Xing still holds a grudge from last time?" "Hmm, it’s all my fault, I got you involved, Yuanshan." Niu Yuanshan frowned, "Senior Brother, we’re all family, no need to be so polite. Besides, I also played a part in sticking my toe into his mouth..." Chang Zhichun: "..." It was late at night, and Su Chen lay tossing and turning in bed, not because Chang Zhichun and Niu Yuanshan occupied "half the room" or due to their ugly sleeping postures making them a laughingstock. In his mind, he kept replaying that horrific scene at Yongde Temple. A mere ring actually killed a Beast King-level blood attribute expert like a powerless child? What kind of power is this? Just thinking about that bat creature’s painful and helpless struggle made Su Chen shiver. What if that power ever acted on him? "Hmm, Su Chen, why aren’t you sleeping, what are you doing, come lie down quickly!" Chang Zhichun, half-opening his eyes, reached out to pull Su Chen. Su Chen shrank his head, avoiding him, then jumped off the bed, "Senior Brother, you sleep first, I’ll sit for a while." Chang Zhichun mumbled a few words, then put his foot on Niu Yuanshan’s face and fell back into a deep sleep. Su Chen’s fear of the ring subsided a bit. No wonder Senior Brother Leng Xing warned him, turns out these two living treasures really have terrible sleeping postures. He walked to the window, gazing at the pitch-black outside, the sparse starlight blinking in the sky. Su Chen suddenly thought of his father’s towering yet lonely figure. Father shouldn’t be bullied by the family, should he? He’s so strong, enough to protect himself. The key now is himself. Apart from strengthening himself, nothing else deserves his attention. Su Chen clenched his fist, gazing at the dark night sky, and suddenly felt a surge of heroic spirit. The Carefree Sect, someday he must become the most outstanding figure in the Carefree Sect, and by then, he will return to Iron Stone City full of honor, to see if those family members still dare to despise and look down on him! With this thought, his passion for cultivation arose again. Immediately sitting cross-legged on the ground, he circulated the Beast’s Qi Energy within him, starting the exhausting Small Heavenly Cycle... The night wind gently blew past the window, bringing a cool sensation, yet Su Chen felt nothing. He just sat there cross-legged by the window, eyes closed, holding his breath, and focusing entirely on cultivating the Proud Celestial Profound Scripture. After some unknown time, a slight ripple appeared on his calm face, and his eyebrows slightly furrowed. Suddenly, he felt a warm current being directed into his heart. Su Chen’s heart trembled, rendering the circulation of Beast’s Qi Energy not as smooth. The warmth intensified from some unknown area, subtly affecting every strand of the Beast’s Qi Sea. Fearing things were not right, Su Chen tried to accelerate his qi flow to break through the warmth’s influence. However, he was shocked to find that the strands of warm air were almost impossible to cut off. The critical point was that Su Chen couldn’t discern its source, unable to mobilize more qi to intercept and block it. Thus they stalemated, the qi flow growing increasingly sluggish, the Small Heavenly Cycle slowing to its slowest state ever known. After some unknown amount of time, Su Chen finally decided to direct his heart’s control away from the lower Dantian center to examine the warm source’s origin. Though this halted his cultivation, his prior observations revealed that the area with the most warmth came from the Chest Acupoint area. With his heart’s mind condensed into a ball, he slowly floated upward toward his abdomen. With doubts, reluctance, and a touch of terror. Finally, the heart’s mind reached the Chest Acupoint, where the warmth suddenly magnified into scorching heat! Su Chen’s entire body trembled, large beads of sweat appearing on his skin! Beads of sweat dripped from his forehead, wetting the entire floor. In their sleep, Chang Zhichun and Niu Yuanshan remained oblivious, arms and legs tangled together. At his chest, Su Chen felt his breathing quicken, almost unable to accept the reality before him! That area, isn’t it where the ring hangs? In other words, the location of the middle Dantian within the human body? Is it possible, the ring also wants to absorb his essence blood? The searing heat spreading over a large area, cold sweat rampant. For a solid two hours, Su Chen sat in such torment. The night outside morphed into shadow, a cold breeze blowing past, yet unable to dry the profuse sweat. The burning heat finally dissipated, returning to calm as the center Dantian, like the clouds and rain retreating, the strange aura emitted by the ring also absorbed completely. Su Chen’s heart remained guarding below, and suddenly, a small, extremely dark red sphere appeared in the once pitch-black center Dantian! The sphere was about the size of a rice grain. It glowed with a dark red luster throughout, its surface incredibly smooth yet carrying a faint bloody aura. Su Chen’s heart trembled slightly, for he seemed to feel this bloody aura was related to the bat creature from before? But when he wanted to control his heart’s spirit to float over to take a closer look, the black mist suddenly drifted over on its own, completely obscuring the already tiny sphere! No matter how he tried to change routes, he couldn’t glimpse a single bit of the center Dantian again. Exhausted, Su Chen ultimately chose to return to the lower Dantian. After finally summoning the energy, he recycled several Small Heavenly Cycles, then finally felt a lot more comfortable throughout his body. Unaware of how long it took, when he opened his eyes, a ray of sunlight had drifted through the window. Stretching lazily, he wondered, "So it’s daylight already?" The sunlight was rather glaring; it would be nice if something could block it a bit. As Su Chen’s thoughts turned, he suddenly felt a slight movement within him, and then a small shadow inexplicably appeared on the window lattice, just blocking the glaring light in front of him? Startled by the sudden shadow, Su Chen quickly felt an inexpressible excitement rising in his heart! "This is a dark attribute skill, but how... do I have dark attribute skills?" Racking his brains, he still couldn’t figure it out. Leaning by the window, Su Chen appeared both puzzled and jubilant, his heart harboring faint palpitations. Dark attribute skills, doesn’t this mean he can cultivate dual-attribute skills? As his father had said, in this world, there are very few who can cultivate dual-attribute skills, and those who can are almost always renowned exceptional masters! Yet, upon further thought, he hesitated again. Logically, for a Beast Cultivator to cultivate skills of two attributes, the prerequisite is that the Spirit Beast (not the Spirit Beast partner) they inherit should be a high-level Spirit Beast with dual attributes. This is only a prerequisite; it doesn’t mean they can necessarily cultivate skills of two attributes. Secondly, the Cultivation Technique they cultivate must be at least of third stage or higher; otherwise, it would only waste a lot of time, even delaying their life’s path and affecting the cultivation of their original attribute (the most powerful kind of attribute). Lastly, the cultivator must have an extremely thorough understanding of the Cultivation Technique and Beast’s Qi Energy, or else they risk dangers like blocked meridians, memory errors leading to loss of qi due to various reasons, etc., during cultivation. And what made Su Chen delighted was that it seemed he met all three of these requirements?