First Blood Replacement

Name: Lin Xingyu

Age: Six

Soul Power: Level 13, 56%

Martial Soul: Red Gold (Second Awakening 32.01%)

Martial Arts: First Blood Replacement 99%

"Martial Arts had reached the First Blood Replacement stage, and my Soul Power had risen by a level and a half in three months. Not bad."

After instructing the old steward not to disturb him and having him request a morning's leave from his teacher, Lin Xingyu took some Medicinal Cuisine into the training room.

The training room was not large, but it was already filled with all kinds of armor. It could be considered a small Simulated Environment Training Ground!

He would complete his first Blood Replacement in Martial Arts today! The essence of Martial Arts cultivation lay in Blood Replacement. Only after completing the first Blood Replacement could one be considered to have formally entered the path of Martial Arts cultivation.

Before Blood Replacement, one could only be considered to have laid the foundations of Martial Arts.

The major realms of Martial Arts were Body Cultivation, Blood Replacement, Golden Body, Fetal Transformation, and Martial Saint. From Blood Replacement to Martial Saint, it was all a process of repeated Blood Replacements. It was merely that the blood replaced from Golden Body onward, through Fetal Transformation and Martial Saint, was increasingly different.

Ultimately, the overall direction remained unchanged. The principle of cultivation also remained unchanged: through repeated replacement, one's life would advance to a higher level!

After Lin Xingyu adjusted his condition, he took a deep breath and began circulating the Star Breathing Technique.

At the same time, streams of Soul Power coursed through his body, resonating at certain acupoints throughout him. Finally, they began to boil his Vitality, making it even more abundant!

Then, he swallowed the Medicinal Cuisine he had prepared in one gulp.

At once, enormous energy erupted in his stomach, transforming into streams of warmth that flowed in every direction and spread through his limbs and bones, bringing indescribable comfort.

Lin Xingyu immediately used the Star Breathing Technique to refine the medicinal power and swiftly convert it into Bloodline Power.

At the same time, he circulated the Meditation Method to connect with his Martial Soul, doing his best to involve it in the process and achieve better integration!

Internally, the first Blood Replacement represented the elevation of one's life. After completing it, one had already embarked upon the path from human to something beyond human, and could even transform into another race through Blood Replacement!

Externally, it was the consolidation of one's Vitality! Through a particular method, the Vitality scattered throughout the body was gathered and condensed into one whole. Then, through fists, palms, feet, or even weapons, this consolidated power could be unleashed, achieving the effect of concentrating the power of the entire body into a single point for an explosive strike.

It fully mobilized one's Bloodline Power.

It made one's Vitality as obedient as one's own limbs!

It was somewhat similar to the Blood Energy Secret Technique of the Body Sect on the Douluo Continent. However, the Body Sect's Blood Energy Secret Technique condensed a strand of Bloodline Power, then focused solely on cultivating that strand of Bloodline Power!

Blood Replacement, on the other hand, elevated one's life itself. Bloodline Power was merely an external manifestation, not the focus of cultivation!

They looked similar on the surface, but were vastly different within!

Exhale!

Inhale!

Lin Xingyu breathed in long, steady cycles, and his mind gradually gathered between each breath. Warm breath rose from his Dantian, traveled along his meridians to his brow, then circled through his body. At that moment, the conditions of all his meridians appeared clearly in his mind, like an intricate map.

Then, with a slight shift of intention, his Vitality seemed to receive an order and rapidly surged downward. The blood that had originally flowed slowly abruptly accelerated, like a rushing river playing an impassioned battle hymn within his body.

His skin visibly turned red, and the temperature in the room began to rise.

At this moment, it was as though a raging fire had ignited within him. The flames were incomparably scorching, refining his Vitality with overwhelming force and making it increasingly vigorous; mercilessly searing his muscles and bones, making them tougher; fiercely tempering his organs, driving them toward elevation. Under the refinement of these flames, his level of life seemed to rise continuously, bursting forth with entirely new vitality and vigor.

At this time, Lin Xingyu's Martial Soul emerged as well, enveloping his entire body as if merging with his Bloodline Power! In the end, the two faintly resonated and fused around his heart!

Gradually, Lin Xingyu's breathing became longer and deeper.

The Vitality within him was like turbulent waves, growing ever more abundant and Berserk. Yet under the ingenious guidance of the breathing technique, it was also filled with vigorous life.

Blood light blazed around Lin Xingyu. It was dazzling and brilliant, as though it would illuminate the entire room. The radiance resembled a roaring fire, scorching and resplendent, exuding an endless sense of power.

A closer look would reveal that beneath the blood light, his skin had become tougher, his muscles and bones stronger, and his organs brimmed with vitality. Within his blood, it seemed as though all kinds of chains coiled around one another, while countless runes flickered!

Boom!!

A tremendous sound seemed to ring beside Lin Xingyu's ears, and his consciousness seemed to sink into his blood!

When Lin Xingyu regained his senses, he found himself standing on a primordial continent!

At that moment, countless colors covered the boundless sky, as though they were fighting there. Thunderous explosions continually burst across the heavens, and from time to time, a meteor fell from the sky.

Finally, Lin Xingyu saw that, accompanied by a deafening boom, something like a blazing sun crashed into a forest not far from him!

Amid boundless radiance, Lin Xingyu's consciousness returned to reality!

He did not know how much time had passed, but Lin Xingyu's breathing gradually returned to its normal rhythm, and his boiling blood began to settle. However, he could now easily mobilize his Bloodline Power anytime, anywhere.

All kinds of sensations washed over him at once, and his five senses became sharper.

Though he had returned to reality, Lin Xingyu's consciousness seemed to remain immersed in that vast scene.

Gradually, Lin Xingyu came back to himself!

He calmed his emotions and reviewed his condition.

"When I was carrying out the first Blood Replacement just now, I made my Bloodline Power boil. Blood Replacement was originally a method of achieving a leap in life, allowing oneself to transform from a lower race into a higher race.

This was the core of the Dragon God Realm on the Douluo Continent, the place where the Dragon God had fallen. Therefore, all life here was connected to the Dragon God in one way or another, though it could not be expressed.

When I used Blood Replacement to transform my life, it seemed to bring out my bloodline. That would normally have been nothing, but at the time, I was also using High-Dimensional Vision to observe the transformation of my blood.

As a result, I directly witnessed that wisp of ancient memory carried within my bloodline, causing the changes just now! But because this was my first Blood Replacement, the memories activated within my bloodline were too fragmentary, so it only lasted for a brief instant. I still can't determine which period it was from!

But based on the history of the Douluo Continent that I know, along with the mighty celestial phenomenon I saw... hmm, it should have been when the Dragon God fell."

So that should have been the situation. But what use was it to me? It seemed to have increased my Martial Soul Evolution progress a little. That was a decent gain! As for anything else, I had not felt any benefits for the time being. With that thought, Lin Xingyu examined his condition.