At this moment, Sikong Jing was both shocked and bewildered.
Including himself, everyone had thought that what the Nine Heavens Emperor had given him was Nine Heavens essence blood. Yet upon examination, it turned out to be the essence blood of a magic beast—and the terrifying essence blood of a Blood Devour Magic Beast at that...
"Nine Heavens Emperor, why did you give me a drop of Blood Devour Magic Beast essence blood?"
Sikong Jing's face was filled with confusion. Then, a flash of insight suddenly struck his mind...
"That's it. It wasn't my demonic claw that drew out the Nine Heavens Emperor—it was the meridians I had when I was a Blood Devour Magic Beast."
He understood the true reason why the Nine Heavens Emperor had appeared...
At first, Sikong Jing had been unable to draw her out using the power of the Nine Heavens. When she did appear, he had also wondered whether it had been the power of a claw from the Previous Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts that had summoned her.
But the facts proved that was not entirely the case.
The true reason was...
He had once fallen into demonic madness and transformed into a Blood Devour Magic Beast, and now cultivated and circulated the layers upon layers of meridians from when he had become one.
"The 'he' the Nine Heavens Emperor spoke of should have been a Blood Devour Magic Beast."
"She said I came too late. That meant that if I had arrived earlier, perhaps I could have saved that Blood Devour Magic Beast."
"She saw that I had once been a Blood Devour Magic Beast."
"And she also saw that I had recovered from that state, so she believed I could save it. That was why what she gave me was not