Qi Lin Becomes a Father!

Those eleven words rumbled like heaven and earth, shaking Su Lianxi's ears.

Her eyes flew wide open!

In that instant, the God-Serving Hall vanished without a trace. She suddenly found herself in a boundless, pitch-black abyss of a universe, and infinite terror instantly flooded her heart.

The next moment, a hundred fissures tore open in the void!

From each fissure, enormous cosmic eyes, one after another, squeezed their way out like blood-red suns, dyeing the entire universe a sea of blood. Their incomparably exalted gazes all fell upon Su Lianxi's delicate body.

"Hah... hah..."

Su Lianxi breathed heavily, sweat constantly beading on her skin.

Her beautiful eyes widened further, and her whole body went limp and weak. All her killing intent vanished, and she crumpled to the ground, tears streaming from her eyes.

"God... supreme god..."

Murmuring, she trembled all over and knelt before Qi Lin, her Ice Soul Sword falling to one side.

Qi Lin looked at her coldly, then bent down and pressed both hands against her head, turning her beautiful eyes toward his own.

"Sacrifice."

Qi Lin uttered the word.

"Yes!"

Su Lianxi trembled uncontrollably, but the tragic beauty in her eyes showed that she was more than willing.

Gurgle! Gurgle!

Her eyeballs actually bulged halfway out of their sockets. Strands of blood tore out of her eyes and streamed toward Qi Lin's.

"God-Inherited Bloodline?" The little beast on the sword hilt was somewhat dumbstruck.

Su Lianxi's God-Inherited Bloodline was entirely in her eyes. Had it been elsewhere in her body, the process of stripping it away would indeed have been even more horrifying.

Qi Lin said nothing. He silently absorbed the Blood Moon God's God-Inherited Bloodline, gathering it first in his eyes.

Let's see whether this bloodline can fight the Fire Burning Disease.

Under his control, strands of the God-Inherited Bloodline flowed toward the little finger of his left hand.

The instant they touched it, the God-Inherited Bloodline seemed to let out a scream as thick smoke rose from it!

It's over.

Qi Lin's vision went black.

The God-Inherited Bloodline was ineffective!

Everyone said that people with God-Inherited Bloodlines were born immune to the Five Decays of the Heavenly Dao, so why didn't it work for him?

It made no sense!

What was so special about his Five Decays of the Heavenly Dao?

I have Symbol God One's Origin Divine Bloodline. By rights, it's far stronger than the God-Inherited Bloodline of some Crimson Firmament Rank false god, and it still hasn't gotten rid of the Fire Burning Disease...

Having thought it through, Qi Lin understood even more clearly that the Fire Burning Disease would probably cling to him until death!

Forget it. At least everything's fine for now. I'd better stock up on more Ice Mystic Pills.

That was all he could do.

It also meant that Qi Lin had gained nothing from coming to the City Lord's Manor tonight.

What little God-Inherited Bloodline Su Lianxi had was useless to him, who possessed Symbol God One's Origin Divine Bloodline.

He looked at Su Lianxi, kneeling and trembling before him, a picture of pitiful beauty, and fell silent for a while!

Then I'll play this a different way.

At that thought, he reversed the direction of the God-Inherited Bloodline he had just absorbed, returning it to his eyes.

In his eyes, the God-Inherited Bloodline seemed to meet a nourishing rain. It flourished, becoming countless times thicker, like a blood-colored azure dragon.

"What are you doing?"

The little beast on the sword hilt sensed something it instinctively recoiled from and hurriedly growled.

Qi Lin ignored it and injected the altered God-Inherited Bloodline straight back into Su Lianxi's beautiful eyes.

"Ah!"

Su Lianxi's whole body jolted.

The instant her eyeballs returned to their sockets, her gaze and expression changed completely.

The blood moons remained in her eyes, but they were already, faintly, evolving toward the state of blood-colored suns!

It worked.

Qi Lin released her, stepped back twice, and silently watched Sister Su, who had once been like a holy maiden of Pingyang District.

Back then, he had been her little follower when she did good deeds, constantly calling her Sister Su.

And now she knelt before him, her delicate body twitching several times as violent changes took place within her, as though her tendons were being transformed and her marrow cleansed.

After about thirty breaths.

Everything about her seemed to have returned to normal... yet not quite.

Judging by her presence, she was nobler, holier, and more unworldly. Though he had yet to see her face, she seemed even more beautiful.

"Look up," Qi Lin suddenly said.

Hearing the command, the beauty in the white dress slowly raised her head.

She looked at Qi Lin through a haze of tears. After a moment of confusion, her gaze slowly grew utterly entranced.

"Why are you crying?" Qi Lin asked.

"F-Father God!"

Su Lianxi's delicate shoulders trembled, boundless emotion pouring into her voice. "Father God above, Lianxi kowtows in thanks for Father God's grace. In my heart, Father God stands above my own father, beyond all comparison... I beg Father God to give Lianxi the chance to kneel and serve you for the rest of her life..."

Hearing this, Qi Lin silently watched her for a long time.

He could no longer bring himself to call her "Sister Su."

After all, in her eyes, he was now a god who was like a father!

This was the result of infusing her with his Divine Vein!

And it was what made "gods" truly terrifying.

Qi Lin had mastered this method, and his test on Su Lianxi had succeeded.

His control over the Divine Vein was still rudimentary, so in the future, he might have difficulty using this method on those with stronger God-Inherited Bloodlines from gods of the same lineage.

But it was enough for Su Lianxi.

Qi Lin looked coldly at the delicate, entranced woman. "I give you the chance to kneel and serve me."

"I am willing to burn away this life for Father God."

Su Lianxi's eyes shone, as though this were the finest moment of her life.

"Rise," Qi Lin said.

"Yes."

Su Lianxi slowly rose. At eighteen, she was lush and lovely.

Once, she had been like a precious white jade lotus in the City Lord's Manor.

She had held some weight in Qi Lin's heart. It could not be called affection; he had mainly admired her.

Unfortunately, a person's heart lay hidden beneath their skin.

The person Qi Lin had admired could hardly be called her, either.

Perhaps sensing the change in Qi Lin's gaze, Su Lianxi lowered her head slightly and slowly took hold of a button on her collar with her jade-like fingers.

"Are there any details of the deal between your Su Family and the Xiao Clan that I don't know about?"

Qi Lin's sudden question interrupted her.

"Father God, there are." Su Lianxi paused in surprise and let go. "The Xiao Clan discovered a vein of Ice Mystic Crystal beneath Pingyang District. It can be used to refine Ice Mystic Pills in large quantities and sell them for enormous profits."

"No wonder."

Qi Lin had finally found the Xiao Clan's motive.

So even if he hadn't killed Xiao Tianyang, the Divine Capital Xiao Clan would not have stopped swallowing up Pingyang District!

This war between the clans was destined to be unavoidable.

"Father God." Su Lianxi looked at him nervously. "Lianxi is willing to fight the Xiao Clan for you."

"No need." Qi Lin already had a plan. He looked at Su Lianxi and said, "Since you traded for a place in the Divine Strategy Manor, go there and cultivate. If I need you, I'll give the order."

"Yes!" Su Lianxi curtsied, her eyes still gazing at Qi Lin in utter devotion. "Having inherited Father God's bloodline, Lianxi now has an opportunity to break through to the Mystic Sea Realm Fifth Stage. I can enter the Divine Strategy Manor as a top-tier genius and cultivate diligently, striving to dedicate myself to Father God one day."

"Go!"

Qi Lin waved his hand.

"Lianxi kowtows in farewell to Father God."

Su Lianxi was plainly reluctant to leave, but she did not dare delay in the slightest.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

She knelt and kowtowed deeply three times before withdrawing from the God-Serving Hall.

Qi Lin silently watched her leave.

He only sighed. "In this world, the human heart and the turmoil of the gods go hand in hand. It's too complicated!"

"How did you know you had a trick like that, kid?"

The black wooden sword turned back into a little beast, which glared at Qi Lin as it asked.

Qi Lin gritted his teeth. "Instinct."

"Damn it all!" The little black beast gritted its teeth too, then said speechlessly, "Anyway, this is a move your ancestors made. It does look a little sinister, but it's not my place to interfere!"

"Mm."

Qi Lin did not reject such methods. He believed more in seeking truth from facts.

He considered this ability to create god slaves useful, so he used it.

Su Lianxi might only be the beginning.

"But there's one thing I don't understand." As Qi Lin left the God-Serving Hall, he asked, "After I altered her Divine Vein, why did her cultivation advance greatly and all her talents soar, while I clearly possess Symbol God One's Origin Divine Bloodline but haven't changed in those ways?"

"Because her God-Inherited Bloodline nourishes her flesh, tendons, bones, and organs, and merges with her true essence, while your Divine Vein is confined to your eyes," the little black beast said with a chuckle.

"Why can't I let my Divine Vein nourish my whole body and merge with my true essence?" Qi Lin asked again.

"If you did that, you wouldn't be human. You'd be a new Hundred-Eyed God!" The little black beast paused. "Do you want to become that monster hanging in the sky like a world-destroying blood lantern?"

Qi Lin shook his head. "No."

He knew that was definitely not the reason his ten ancestors had made him enter the game himself, either.

No wonder I have to cultivate the Heaven-Piercing Prison-Suppressing Art. It can suppress the Symbol Divine Vein.

Qi Lin understood.

"Your lifelong goal must be to control the Divine Vein with your human body, not let the Divine Vein control your human body. Only god slaves are controlled by Divine Veins." The little black beast was unusually solemn. "So, even though the road is difficult, you must walk it one steady step at a time. If one day your Divine Vein is unlocked and turns against your human body, you'll instantly become a heaven-defying powerhouse... but the real you will already be dead."

Qi Lin listened silently to the end, and the light in his eyes changed again.

The gods are descending upon the mortal world once more...

I seal the Divine Vein within a mortal body. Will I be able to slay gods one day?