Notting Junior Soul Master Academy.
Yu Xiaogang lay on the bed and slowly opened his eyes.
"Teacher, you're finally awake!"
Tang San noticed Yu Xiaogang had woken up and hurried over, overjoyed.
Three days ago, Luo Yan had tortured Yu Xiaogang until he passed out. After absorbing his Soul Ring, Tang San had carried him out of the Soul Hunting Forest alone.
Fortunately, the academy's dean knew Yu Xiaogang. Tang San borrowed a great many medicinal herbs from him, and only then managed to pull Yu Xiaogang back from the brink of death.
But Yu Xiaogang had had his Martial Soul stripped away and fallen into a deep coma. Tang San had thought he might spend the rest of his life as a vegetable.
Hearing Tang San's voice, Yu Xiaogang turned his head and saw him.
Looking at Tang San's excitement, he asked, "Xiao San, how long was I unconscious?"
Not only had his Martial Soul been stripped away, but Luo Yan had also drained eighty percent of his vitality. Yu Xiaogang was still extremely weak, his face deathly pale.
"Teacher, you've been unconscious for seven days, since that day.
"That day, you were attacked by that person..."
Tang San was just about to tell Yu Xiaogang everything that had happened afterward.
But as soon as Yu Xiaogang heard Tang San mention Luo Yan, the humiliation he had suffered came rushing back, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
His face grew even paler.
Fortunately, he didn't pass out again.
[Yu Xiaogang thought of his stolen Martial Soul and was so enraged that blood rushed to his head. Resentment Points +900!]
[...]
Tang San glanced at Yu Xiaogang and wiped away the blood before continuing to recount what had happened.
After hearing Tang San's account, Yu Xiaogang had forced himself to calm down, and his complexion had improved somewhat.
But when he thought of Luo Yan's strange form, Yu Xiaogang fell silent. He turned it over in his mind again and again, trying to figure out what Luo Yan actually was.
He was certain that Luo Yan was his Martial Soul, Luo Sanpao.
But Yu Xiaogang couldn't find any related records in his memory.
Hoo~
After a while, Yu Xiaogang let out a breath.
"Xiao San, I never expected you to have such a miraculous healing technique. I owe my survival to you. Without you, it's hard to say whether your teacher would still be alive."
"And this time, you've managed to turn misfortune into good fortune. You absorbed a First Soul Ring at the limit of what your body could withstand!"
Yu Xiaogang changed the subject and stopped discussing Luo Yan.
He wanted to look through the records first and see whether anything resembling his situation had ever been documented.
Yu Xiaogang regretted not looking at books on other subjects when he had been at the Martial Soul Hall Library.
"Teacher, don't worry. One day, I'll avenge you!"
"Even though you've lost your Martial Soul, this continent is vast. There must be some way to restore it—or perhaps you could awaken another Martial Soul!"
Even if Yu Xiaogang hadn't had his Martial Soul stripped away, Tang San believed Luo Yan had already earned his death sentence by daring to give him orders.
Seven days ago, he had secretly sworn that he would kill Luo Yan!
At his words, Yu Xiaogang's eyes filled with hatred once again. "I believe you'll be able to do it someday!"
Inside a cave in the Soul Hunting Forest.
Luo Sanpao's body had changed.
He had originally looked like a dog with the build of a pig, but now he had slimmed down and become a dog through and through.
His fur had also changed from pale purple to grayish white.
Woof! Woof!
His bloodline evolution had finally ended. Luo Yan abruptly opened his eyes and barked several times.
His eyes had changed too. His left eye was now red, leaving him with one black eye and one red eye.
"Damn it!"
"Doesn't Luo Sanpao have dragon blood? Why do I feel like I've evolved into a dog?"
Hearing his own voice, Luo Yan turned his head and looked at his body, feeling miserable.
He had thought that, since Luo Sanpao had dragon blood, this bloodline evolution would free him from his former body and turn him into a dragon.
Fortunately, after the evolution, Luo Yan could clearly feel that the power within him had grown considerably stronger.
Whoosh!
Out of sight, out of mind. Luo Yan immediately took human form, not daring to look at his body again.
He also noticed that a system panel had appeared in front of him once more:
Host: Luo Yan Species: Dark Thunder Red Sun Hound (evolvable) Cultivation: Tier 1 Lesser Demon, peak Physical cultivation: Tier 2 Demon Warrior, early stage Resentment Points: 10786
Luo Yan immediately noticed the change in his cultivation and asked:
"System, does that mean I can break through realms directly as long as I keep evolving?"
"Yes. Compared to humans, the host can increase his cultivation simply by undergoing bloodline evolution.
"Of course, bloodline evolution only raises the lower limit of your cultivation. It won't directly raise you to the upper limit. You can still cultivate on your own."
Luo Yan knew that offspring born from powerful bloodlines inevitably possessed cultivation.
"In that case, this seems pretty good!"
Compared to cultivating on his own, Luo Yan preferred increasing his cultivation through bloodline evolution.
After all, bloodline evolution only required him to collect Resentment Points.
"By the way, System, will bloodline evolution always make me pass out?"
Luo Yan suddenly remembered that he had probably been unconscious for several days during this evolution.
Fortunately, he had been cautious during his first bloodline evolution. If he had passed out outside, there was no telling whether he would have evolved successfully—or whether another Soul Beast would have eaten him.
"This time, you passed out because your bloodline hadn't fully fused with your body.
"Now that your bloodline has completely fused with your body, this won't happen again once your body grows stronger."
Hearing the system's explanation, Luo Yan felt much more at ease.
With all his questions answered, Luo Yan didn't hesitate and immediately began his second bloodline evolution:
"System, begin bloodline evolution!"
"Ding!
"Spending 10,000 Resentment Points to undergo bloodline evolution.
"Bloodline evolution in progress..."
As soon as Luo Yan finished speaking, a series of electronic system sounds rang out again.
"10,000 Resentment Points? Wasn't it 1,000 before?" Hearing that the system had deducted 10,000 Resentment Points, Luo Yan felt bitter.
He had just seen that he still had more than 10,000 Resentment Points in his account and thought he could keep going until he was invincible before coming out. Turns out he only had enough for a second evolution.
This time, Luo Yan didn't pass out.
He felt a warm current appear out of nowhere and flow into his body through all four limbs, gathering inside the Demon Core he had just formed.
Just as Luo Yan thought the entire process would stay this easy and comfortable,
a violent surge of energy burst out of the Demon Core and spread through his limbs. It tore through his meridians as it went, then healed them again.
"Ah!"
The intense pain made Luo Yan revert to his original form. Fortunately, it wasn't enough to make him pass out.
His body continued changing.
If there had been a mirror, Luo Yan would have seen the grayish-white fur on parts of his body gradually darken before turning pale purple again.
The pale-purple fur looked as if strands of violet lightning were hanging across Luo Yan's body.
His eyes changed once again too, turning pale purple.
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