Xiao Wu's Passive: Bloodline Power

"What kind of move is that?"

Xiao Wu immediately smoothed her braids, carefully protecting them, and became curious about Zhou Qing's previous method of using leverage against him.

I've never seen him use it before.

A new idea?

"Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon is a technique that uses the opponent's strength against them. If you use your Soul Power, it can be even more effective." Zhou Qing explained with a smile, "After being caught off guard by you last time, I've been thinking about how to improve my combat skills without using Soul Skill, and I've figured out a little bit of experience."

"So you used me as a test?" Xiao Wu pouted, dissatisfied. "You're something else."

"After all, you're tough now..."

"You're the one with thick skin!" Xiao Wu interrupted Zhou Qing angrily. "I don't care, I'm going to learn this move too."

"No problem, but you have to find Tang San. He taught me that," Zhou Qing said. "Once Romantina has learned it too, we can all practice together and improve together."

Regarding the Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon, Zhou Qing actually had an idea: could he combine the Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon with his First Soul Skill?

First Soul Skill: Yongchun. Stepping on the earth, drawing power, unleashing fist force... Although it's a Soul Skill Soul Skill, Zhou Qing could feel the rhythmic movement of his bones and muscles as his Soul Power flowed through his body when he used it.

In theory, the effect of this First Soul Skill can be used even without using other Soul Skill. Its power is directly proportional to one's Soul Power Level and physical attributes, and is also linked to one's control over limb movements.

The technique of Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon, while using the opponent's strength against them, also emphasizes control, mainly the precise control of Soul Power, but it also involves the physical body.

Zhou Qing's First Soul Skill, although it can summon a Moo Spring Ox formed from Qi and Blood and Soul Power, is essentially just a kind of fist force.

Therefore, there are similarities between the two.

Soul Power goes without saying; with the Innate Internal Scripture Chart, it can be freely operated and utilized. However, the Bloodline Power is different from Soul Power. It places more emphasis on one's own control over power and even requires understanding various power exertion techniques in order to access the use of Qi and Blood.

Although Zhou Qing had some early access to the power of Bloodline Power due to his Martial Soul: the Blood Circulation System, he could only get a glimpse of it when his Martial Soul Possession and he used his First Soul Skill.

"Xiao Wu, do you know about the Bloodline Power?"

Since Xiao Wu's physical attributes improved significantly after completing the Secondary Soul Ring Refinement, possibly even reaching the level of a four- or five-hundred-year-old Soft Bone Rabbit, Zhou Qing believed that she might know something.

"Bloodline Power?" Xiao Wu frowned, her Martial Soul Possession, a pair of rabbit ears growing on her head, and a round rabbit tail appearing behind her waist.

Unlike before, after the Martial Soul Possession, a faint golden light appeared on all of Xiao Wu's bones.

Although the golden light was fleeting, Zhou Qing saw it clearly; it was not an illusion.

[Could this be a passive ability that Xiao Wu gained after Secondary Refinement her Soul Ring for the second time? Is it related to her Invincible Golden Body?]

As Zhou Qing was pondering the reason, he heard Xiao Wu say, "After completing the Secondary Soul Ring Refinement, I performed Martial Soul Possession. I could feel a surge of heat flowing from my spine to all the bones in my body, which further strengthened my physique. Perhaps this is what you call the Bloodline Power?"

"Heat, is it the feeling of being filled with energy all over your body?" Zhou Qing pondered the state he experienced when his Martial Soul Possession and he released his Soul Skill. It was as if his whole body was filled with energy, and it also had an extremely special burning sensation.

This intense heat, so hot it seemed capable of melting everything, yet it couldn't harm me; instead, it activated every cell in my body.

"More or less," Xiao Wu nodded.

"That's it, it should be the so-called Bloodline Power." Zhou Qing was quite envious. As a Hundred-Thousand-Year Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu was truly gifted. After Secondary Refinement her Soul Ring twice, she actually came into direct contact with the Bloodline Power.

Moreover, Zhou Qing guessed that this was not just a simple contact, but rather the mastery of a method of using the Bloodline Power.

Xiao Wu herself may not be aware of the specific process and principles involved, but she can use it instinctively, similar to the passive Soul Ring Skill, but there is no doubt that she has mastered it.

"The effect of Bloodline Power should not be limited to simply strengthening your physique. In the future cultivation process, every time your Martial Soul Possession, you can sense that golden hue flowing from your spine to your entire skeleton and try your best to actively control this process."

Zhou Qing instructed, "I believe that once you grasp the underlying principles, your strength will definitely become even greater."

"Of course, I am Xiao Wu!" Xiao Wu said proudly. "Once I master it, I will teach you, Tang San, and Romantina, and see if you can also master this cultivation method."

"No, during this process, you will need to come here every now and then to be examined by the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm inside Romantina's body."

Zhou Qing shook his head; he couldn't let Xiao Wu act recklessly on her own.

Only when he and Tang San, both knowledgeable about meridians and acupoints, watched together, and when Sky Dream Ice Silkworm controlled Romantina's body to observe Xiao Wu's entire process of mastering the Bloodline Power with Spiritual Detection skills, could they truly deduce the real cultivation method of the Bloodline Power.

after all--

Xiao Wu is Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form. The techniques that suit her may not be suitable for him, Tang San, or Romantina. We must be more rigorous.

"Ugh? This is so troublesome!" Xiao Wu immediately deflated upon hearing that she had to make contact with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm. She didn't really like being around the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

It wasn't that she disliked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, but as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast, Xiao Wu felt that if she spent too much time with Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, it might suddenly expose her identity one day.

After a brief encounter with the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, Xiao Wu's impression of it was only one: an arrogant, narcissistic, and conceited silkworm, but one that was still quite cute.

"This is a necessary matter," Zhou Qing said. "The next few months may be turbulent in Nuoding City. We must further strengthen our forces, whether it is so that you can continue to live a life of tyranny in the Nuoding Academy, or so that I can develop in peace."

"I understand the logic, but—"

Xiao Wu roared, "How am I being a bully at the Nuoding Academy? I'm not some kind of villain!"

"Huh? Aren't you? Then why do I feel like all the teachers and students in the academy are afraid of you?" Zhou Qing pretended to ponder, tilting his head, his eyes full of clear doubt.

That's love and respect!

Xiao Wu Wu's rabbit ears stood up straight, and her teeth were grinding loudly, making her look just like a rabbit about to bite when she was in a hurry.