Chapter 266: Chapter 265: Nine Transformations of Fish and Dragon Perfection (Fourth Update, Seeking Subscription)
At this moment, flipping through the [Nine Transformations of Fish and Dragon], there was a different feeling.
Life is about choices, with different choices leading to different life paths in the future.
The young man in black armor chose to integrate with creatures like Kunpeng, Cyan Dragon, Taotie, Sun-Illuminated, Moon-Induced, Qiongqi, Taowu, and Chaos, subconsciously believing that koi were inferior to those top divine beasts. So he wanted to absorb the essence blood of those top divine beasts to obtain top divine techniques.
The subconscious belief of inferiority planted the seed of failure.
But are koi really inferior to those top divine beasts?
Not necessarily!
Even an ant harbors ambitions against the heavens, and a koi has the aspiration to transform into a dragon.
Transforming into a dragon is not about taking the form of a dragon.
Rather, it’s about maintaining the body and bloodline of a koi, yet still being invincible in the world.
That koi predecessor refined the essence blood of various divine beasts, not to become a koi with dragon blood, but to use these divine beast bloodlines as resources to aid the evolution, upgrade, and transformation of their own bloodline.
Because of this, that koi predecessor created the Nine Transformations of Fish and Dragon and ultimately achieved ascension to immortality.
The originally lowly race of the black koi line suddenly became the royal family among the demon race.
An emperor does not take pride in bloodline, but the descendants of an emperor do take pride in bloodline.
"The second bloodline should choose Thousand Jin Ant!"
Lu Xuanji pointed with a finger, and a mass of cyan essence blood transformed into a stream of light and entered his body, beginning to refine.
The Thousand Jin Ant, a lower-ranked species within the demon race, with its strongest barely reaching the peak of Purple Mansion, never broke the bloodline shackles to step into the Golden Core Realm.
Lacking strength, they win with numbers.
The Thousand Jin Ant is known for its strong reproductive ability, numbering in the billions, sweeping in with sheer numbers, making even Golden Core demon kings retreat.
During the beast tide, Lu Xuanji killed a Purple Mansion-level Thousand Jin Ant with one move, initiated the [Vertical Earth Golden Light] and disappeared, striking and fleeing at great speed.
The Thousand Jin Ant was killed in one move, considered extremely weak.
However, he still chose the Thousand Jin Ant.
The Thousand Jin Ant has three divine techniques: [Thousand Jin Power], [Bloodthirsty Frenzy], [Command]
He chose [Thousand Jin Power].
[Thousand Jin Power; the lifebound divine technique of the Thousand Jin Ant tribe, can increase strength by a thousand times]
As the blood was refined, a rune appeared at the position of the heart. As the runes increased, reaching a hundred runes, they were engraved on the heart, causing the heart to beat, and suddenly physical strength began to increase.
But at a certain point, there was a bottleneck, unable to improve further.
This is the limitation of race as well as the limitation of talent.
He is human, and even if he employs [Nine Transformations of Fish and Dragon] to refine the essence blood, it’s difficult to perfectly inherit its talent, only inheriting a portion of the incomplete divine power.
The third choice was [Flea], the fourth choice [Hundred-Foot Earthworm], the fifth choice [Seven-Star Dragonfly], followed by [Three-Life Bird], [Sand Worm], [Hippopotamus], [Mantis].
Within the demon race, these demon beasts have low bloodline talents, low combat power, and limited growth potential, making them lower demon races.
Yet Lu Xuanji chose them, valuing their bloodline talents.
In terms of talent choice, he respectively chose strength, explosiveness, defense, speed, agility, mana storage, recovery, danger perception.
These are basic attributes of a cultivator. The more unremarkable the attributes and talents, the greater the enhancement for a cultivator.
For example, [Void Stomach], seemingly not very useful, merely increases a cultivator’s digestive ability, yet in reality speeds up his cultivation significantly.
Without the Void Stomach, Lu Xuanji would at most be at the sixth layer of Purple Mansion now.
The [Strength] of the Thousand Jin Ant, its strength is a thousand times its body weight, regarded as the first among demon beasts. Unfortunately, the so-called first in strength is meaningless because demon beasts not only compare strength but also physique in battles. The Thousand Jin Ant is merely fist-sized; no matter how strong, it can’t defeat an ordinary demon wolf, due to the difference in physique.
The [Explosiveness] of the flea is powerful, capable of erupting with a hundredfold attack power.
If Lu Xuanji had a hundredfold explosiveness, he could reverse the heavens and slay a Nascent Soul Demon Emperor with the cultivation of the eighth layer of Purple Mansion.
But the flea is only the size of a fingernail, even with a hundredfold explosiveness, it can’t kill even the weakest rabbit demon.
The Hundred-Foot Earthworm possesses powerful [Recovery], able to regenerate from a drop of blood in the Qi Refining Realm. Even if its body were sliced into three segments, it could fully heal, something even many demon emperors can’t achieve. Unfortunately, most Hundred-Foot Earthworms are merely in the Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment Realms; no matter how strong the recovery, they are destined to become food for other monsters.
The Seven-Star Dragonfly has tremendous [Speed], claimed to be first, yet its bloodline limit is low, and its small body makes its actual speed much inferior to those of avian species.
The Three-Life Bird has a talent for time, capable of sensing future fragments, yet its limit is only the peak of Purple Mansion, with fighting power still at the bottom.
The demon beasts he chose, purely on talent, are almost the first of the demon race.
But strong talent is not as important as bloodline, nor as important as the racial limit.
The bloodline limit restricts these demon beasts’ realms, leading them to the bottom of the food chain among the demon race.
Nevertheless, he doesn’t care about bloodline limits; he only wants to absorb the essence of these demon beast bloodlines and refine them into the Nine Transformations of Fish and Dragon. On the other hand, some strong divine beast bloodlines, though immensely boosting himself, are difficult to refine into his own bloodline, even impossible.
Boom boom boom!
About a day later, the initial refinement of the bloodline was complete; nine masses of fresh blood merged into the body, forming totem patterns on his body.
The second step began, starting to refine these bloodline essences into the body.
The body was slowly changing, and by the second day, the totems disappeared, the nine demon beast bloodlines vanished, completely devoured by Lu Xuanji’s bloodline, becoming his own.
The true essence of the Nine Transformations of Fish and Dragon does not lie in devouring demon beast bloodlines, nor in replicating demon beast divine techniques, but in digesting other demon race bloodlines to raise his own bloodline limits.
On the third day, Lu Xuanji ended his cultivation.
Sensing the changes in his body, there was not a trace of demon beast bloodline, only the bloodline of the Human Race.
Arrived at the martial arts field, stretching his muscles, punched one punch after another.
Simultaneously, employing [Destiny Calculation], conducting data calculations, and soon relevant data appeared.
In terms of strength, it had greatly increased, comparable to the early stage of the Golden Core.
In terms of speed, it was faster than even the early stage of the Golden Core.
In explosiveness, it could instantly unleash five times the attack power, capable of shattering a Golden Core with one blow, but the drawback was a period of weakness after the outburst.
In defense, it could withstand a blow from the early stage of the Golden Core and not die.
In True Essence storage, it had doubled.
In recovery, wounds on his body visibly healed, even with a broken head or heart wouldn’t immediately lead to death, as long as body damage doesn’t exceed seventy percent, it could recover; limb and head regeneration were no longer dreams but reality.
Danger perception became sharper, but exactly how much could not be clearly stated.
Through cultivating the Nine Transformations of Fish and Dragon, he did not obtain powerful divine techniques, but rather greatly enhanced his physique, strength, speed, perception, explosiveness, recovery, defense, True Essence capacity, and more.
The short-term benefit was a significant boost in combat power at the same realm;
But the long-term benefit was the enhancement of potential, broadening the path of the future.
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