"Had it finally... eaten its fill?"
Yang Ling glanced at his Attribute Panel. His maximum qi and blood had reached exactly 70,000 points!
But his qi and blood had been emptied to zero and were slowly recovering, no longer being devoured by the supreme Martial Way Kindling.
"Looks like it's full. A whole seventy thousand points of qi and blood!"
"If the Old Ancestor hadn't given me a leg up this time, I'd have owed it another three thousand points of qi and blood. I'd probably have had to pay with my flesh."
He breathed a sigh of relief. The thing he had worried about most had been resolved, and he could finally put his mind at ease.
He had made it through the first step toward becoming a fourth-rank grandmaster.
"Now I just need to keep adding fuel, making the flames burn brighter until they finally become a furnace. Then I'll be able to enter the fourth-rank grandmaster realm without a hitch!"
"A fourth-rank grandmaster's attribute points are so terrifying. I reckon there'll be an even more outrageous gene mutation then!"
Yang Ling closed his eyes. The Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling had changed.
It looked several degrees more intense, and countless threads seemed to have appeared on it, tightly connecting it to his flesh and blood.
"It's truly taken root!"
Yang Ling was somewhat excited.
Just then, it suddenly trembled.
Yang Ling thought his senses had been mistaken.
But with that tremor, it actually fed a tremendous surge of qi and blood back into his body, filling his flesh.
Yang Ling watched his qi and blood recover by over a thousand points in an instant!
"What's... going on? It can already feed qi and blood back to me when it's still only Martial Way Kindling?"
Yang Ling found