God-level demons... weren't they all in the Outer Regions?
And they had to be direct-blood descendants of supreme-level demons. Even Xia Country had encountered only a handful so far.
Could this stupid little thing really be a God-level demon?
Watching Little Black happily lick his blood, wearing that adorably daft expression, Xu Jie found it hard to believe.
"System, what species is Little Black?"
Scanning... Ding! The bloodline of this demon is extremely similar to that of the Nine Heavens Underworld Divine Dragon. The system has determined there is an 89% chance that it is a direct-blood descendant of the Nine Heavens Underworld Divine Dragon. However, the system has also detected that it suffered severe injuries before it was born, lost its inheritance, experienced bloodline regression, and has an unstable foundation! The host is advised to nurture it carefully and restore it to its complete form!
The Nine Heavens Underworld Divine Dragon?
What kind of species was that...?
Xu Jie planned to find time to visit the school library and see whether he could find any information on this species.
As for Little Black having been severely injured before he was even born...
No wonder the little black snake remembered nothing. And though he possessed great intelligence, he behaved like an idiot.
"How old is he?"
Less than three days since birth!
"..."
Fine. He wasn't stupid—he was simply far too young!
So Little Black had been born for merely three days, had suffered severe injuries, and regressed, yet his defense was already this powerful.
If Xu Jie helped Little Black recover his complete form, raised him fully, and then fused with him, just how great would the boost to his combat strength be?
It was hard to imagine!
Wait...
Born three days ago?
Didn't that mean the little black snake had only broken out of his shell when Xu Jie had first arrived in this High Martial World?
And he had been inside his dormitory?
Could it be... that the little black snake was the treasure Father Xu had entrusted to Xu Jie?
Xu Ming, one of the Xu siblings, had once said that Xu Jie was unworthy of touching that treasure.
Xu Shishi had also said that she was the fiancée of a descendant of the Jiang family...
Xu Jie's mind was meticulous. He was skilled at piecing clues together from the tiniest traces—one of the abilities that had allowed him to survive in a place like Southeast Asia in his previous life.
The treasure his cheap father had left behind was actually a snake?
The Xu siblings had turned his dormitory upside down without finding the treasure they wanted, the very thing even the Jiang family of Central Prefecture coveted.
So... the little black snake was the greatest inheritance his cheap father had left him?
But with his father's strength, how had he obtained Little Black's egg?
And... what did this have to do with his mother?
The more Xu Jie thought, the more his head hurt. His vision seemed shrouded in layer upon layer of mist, and he could not help reaching out to stroke the little black snake's head.
The little black snake immediately wore a humanlike expression of comfort and enjoyment, his big eyes narrowing, though he still refused to let go of Xu Jie's finger.
"Little Black, from now on, follow me!"
"Mhm, mhm~"
Only now, after Xu Jie had deduced the little black snake's origins, did he truly accept him in his heart.
Not because Little Black was a regressed God-level demon, nor because their symbiosis had granted Xu Jie a thousand years of Lifespan, nor even because of the little black snake's potential.
It was simply because the little black snake was the final inheritance his cheap father had left him!
It was time to break through!
After rubbing the little black snake's tiny head, Xu Jie ignored Little Black, who still clamped down on his finger, closed his eyes, and used his available Lifespan to raise his cultivation.
"System, continue cultivating the Blood Burning Art!"
Although you were only one final kick away from breaking through, you still cultivated for a full ten years! Until one night, as you slept, the blood throughout your body surged without end, finally breaking through the last shackle and advancing into the Pulse Opening Realm! Progress until next draw (302/3000)!
He had broken through!
The instant Xu Jie broke through into the Pulse Opening Realm, he felt the meridians throughout his body connect together.
The meridians that had once been blocked opened one after another, forming a great circulation within his body. It gave him the illusion of having opened the Ren and Du Meridians from a martial arts novel.
This caused Xu Jie's power of qi and blood to strengthen continuously, while the overall strength of his physical body rose alongside it.
Yi Jin Duan Gu Scripture (cultivatable): This martial art is divided into the Muscle-Tendon Changing Scripture and the Marrow Cleansing Scripture.
After breaking through into the Pulse Opening Realm, Xu Jie finally met the conditions to cultivate the Yi Jin Duan Gu Scripture, which he had previously been unable to train.
Without another word, he immediately began cultivating this special technique he had drawn from the system.
He wanted to see its exact effects and how it differed from the native martial arts of this High Martial World.
"System, raise the Yi Jin Duan Gu Scripture!"
Yi Jin Duan Gu Scripture · Muscle-Tendon Changing Scripture (Beginner): A hundred years passed in the blink of an eye. You successfully cultivated the Muscle-Tendon Changing Scripture to the beginner level. Under the unceasing tempering of qi and blood, the Twelve Meridians throughout your body became tough and stable, while your cultivation advanced in tandem to the third level of the Pulse Opening Realm.
There was nothing different about it...
Other than consuming more available Lifespan, Xu Jie could not yet sense anything special about the Muscle-Tendon Changing Scripture.
Logically speaking, a martial art of the Pulse Opening Realm should not consume so much. Just reaching the beginner level had cost him a hundred years of Lifespan.
Would reaching mastery require a thousand years of Lifespan?
If the Muscle-Tendon Changing Scripture truly had nothing uniquely praiseworthy about it, yet still consumed a massive amount of available Lifespan...
Then he might as well cultivate the martial arts of this High Martial World instead.
After all, ever since the school had canceled the ranking battles, Xu Jie had lost his greatest advantage in using the system to obtain available Lifespan for cultivation.
A martial art that consumed this much was simply adding frost to snow for him!
No rush, no rush!
Wait a little longer!
Xu Jie suppressed the trace of irritation in his heart and did not hastily jump to conclusions.
Instead, he continued allowing the system to consume his available Lifespan.
He wanted to see what different changes would occur once the Muscle-Tendon Changing Scripture reached minor mastery.
Yi Jin Duan Gu Scripture · Muscle-Tendon Changing Scripture (Minor Mastery): In the three hundred and fiftieth year, your Muscle-Tendon Changing Scripture reached the minor mastery stage. Aside from the Twelve Meridians becoming even tougher, during cultivation you also discovered two Extraordinary Meridians. These were hidden meridians within the human body that could not originally be cultivated. Yet after being developed through the Muscle-Tendon Changing Scripture, you successfully opened two Extraordinary Meridians no weaker than the ordinary meridians. Taking this opportunity, your cultivation broke through to the fifth level of the Pulse Opening Realm. Progress until next draw (652/3000)!
What?
Extraordinary Meridians?
If Xu Jie remembered correctly, the Pulse Opening Realm in this High Martial World had never had any concept of Extraordinary Meridians!
Orthodox Pulse Opening Realm martial artists had to temper the Twelve Meridians to their limits before reaching the ninth level of the Pulse Opening Realm.
Then, at the Pulse-Opening Peak Stage, martial artists needed to open up new meridians.
The twelve new great meridians corresponding exactly to the Twelve Meridians were called the Twelve Ordinary Meridians.
Pulse opening, pulse opening—the term referred precisely to opening up new meridians!
In theory, the limit of a martial artist in the Pulse Opening Realm was to develop twelve new ordinary meridians.
Yet in reality, Pulse Opening Realm martial artists capable of opening all twelve ordinary meridians were few and far between.
Like martial artists who had moved blood nine times, they were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns.
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