Tracing the Source with Blood, Granting the Tribe Innate Divine Abilities

The Heavenly Immortal Realm is divided into twelve heavens. Those who cultivate the Creation Scripture must condense thirty-six Innate Living Being Dharma Images to reach perfection in this realm.

Twelve heavens, thirty-six Dharma Images; each heaven corresponds exactly to three Dharma Images.

Perfection in the First Heaven yields three Dharma Images, and the Second Heaven yields six. Jiang Yuan has now condensed seven Dharma Images, which corresponds precisely to the Third Heaven of Heavenly Immortal.

Of course, while his realm is indeed the Third Heaven, his combat power is another matter entirely. It could be the Sixth Heaven, the Seventh, or perhaps even the Eighth.

Why is there such a vast gap between his combat power and his realm? Naturally, it is because Jiang Yuan's parameters are far too excessive.

A normal Creation Heavenly Immortal only needs to condense Innate Living Being Dharma Images. But Jiang Yuan? He condenses Innate Divine Being Dharma Images.

Above Innate Living Beings are Innate True Spirits, above Innate True Spirits are Innate Gods and Devils, and only above Innate Gods and Devils are Innate Divine Beings.

With such a massive disparity between the two, Jiang Yuan's combat power naturally far exceeds the norm, unrestrained by the limitations of his realm.

"If I recall correctly, Mu Jiao's cultivation is at the Sixth Heaven of Heavenly Immortal. Even if he has made a breakthrough recently and ascended to the Seventh Heaven, he is still no match for me."

"Since that is the case, it is time to send him on his way."

Jiang Yuan suddenly thought of Mu Jiao and felt it was time to accept his invitation. After all, Mu Jiao had invited him to visit his home so many times, and he had never accepted; it was quite impolite.

Furthermore, before his breakthrough, Mu Jiao had helped him collect quite a bit of the Nine Sons' Essence Blood. This was no small favor, and it had to be repaid.

Thinking of this, Jiang Yuan felt the urge to set off for the Dragon Palace immediately to find Mu Jiao. However, he ultimately restrained himself, for he had more important matters to attend to.

That was to trace the source through blood and bestow the ability of Blood Rebirth upon all his clansmen.

Previously, when Jiang Yuan created his technique, he branded all 129,600 Innate Runes into the human body, transforming them into 129,600 divine repositories, which he named Apertures.

The ability of Blood Rebirth is linked to these Apertures. Future generations of the Human Race need only find a way to open them all, causing the Innate Runes hidden within to manifest, to obtain the ability of Blood Rebirth upon reaching the Void Refinement Realm.

Jiang Yuan's plan was sound, but he had only achieved half of it: only he had succeeded, while the rest of his clansmen had not.

To ensure all clansmen could, like him, possess the ability to achieve Blood Rebirth simply by opening all their Apertures, he needed to reach the Heavenly Immortal Realm. Then, through the method of tracing the source through blood, he could transform this ability into an innate divine power and brand it into the bodies of all his clansmen.

Previously, Jiang Yuan was not a Heavenly Immortal; although he had conceived of this, he lacked the capability to execute it. But now that he had attained the Heavenly Immortal Realm, he could fully attempt this task.

"The Ten Thousand Races all possess innate divine powers; the Human Race must be no exception. Let me leave a blessing for future generations, transforming this Blood Rebirth ability into an innate divine power hidden within every clansman."

After saying this, Jiang Yuan sat cross-legged on the ground and performed the method of tracing the source through blood, using his own bloodline as the starting point to trace upward continuously.

Jiang Yuan had many direct ancestors, but apart from Ancestor Sui, none had attained the Primordial Unity Realm.

Yet, even so, as he began to trace his bloodline, those ancestors at the Heavenly Immortal Realm were startled and one after another employed the same methods, wishing to see who was tracing the source through blood.

This technique could be used not only by one's own kind but also by enemies. And when enemies did so, it was often to exterminate an entire lineage.

By using the method of tracing the source through blood to lock onto the origin of the bloodline, one could slaughter every living being connected to it.

This was true root-and-branch extermination, far more ruthless than executing the nine generations of a family. By killing along the connections of the bloodline, one could be certain that no fish would slip through the net.

Although Jiang Yuan's ancestors did not believe anyone in the Primordial World would be bold enough to attempt to wipe out the entire Human Race, they felt it was better to take a look just in case.

And then, they saw Jiang Yuan.

The ancestors who knew him were shocked, not expecting him to have attained the Heavenly Immortal Realm so quickly. Those who did not know him inquired about his background from those who did.

Seeing this, Jiang Yuan nodded to them as a greeting, then continued to trace upward.

Before long, he traced the bloodline to Ancestor Sui.

If Ancestor Sui were to intervene at this moment, he could easily stop Jiang Yuan. After all, he was a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal, and Jiang Yuan was merely a Heavenly Immortal; the gap was far too vast.

But Ancestor Sui had no reason to do so. On the contrary, upon learning of Jiang Yuan's intentions, he even gave him a hand, assisting him in continuing his upward trace.

Beyond Ancestor Sui, Jiang Yuan beheld the source of the Human Race's bloodline—Lady Nuwa.

Ordinarily, with his strength, he would not have been able to trace to this level, but with the help of Ancestor Sui, he succeeded.

"Master, your disciple has created a technique and wishes to pass it on as an innate divine power to future generations to benefit the Human Race. I hope Master will grant your approval."

Before Lady Nuwa, Jiang Yuan dared not be presumptuous. He knelt respectfully on the ground and offered up the Blood Rebirth technique he had created for her to examine.

This was not the true Lady Nuwa, but a shadow she had left at the source of the Human Race's bloodline to protect it.

Whoever wished to influence the Human Race through the source of its bloodline had to first seek her consent.

"Granted!"

After glancing at the Blood Rebirth technique and confirming that it was beneficial and harmless to the Human Race, Lady Nuwa nodded and stepped aside from the bloodline source behind her.

It was a drop of bright red Holy Blood, like the rising morning sun, with the aura of creation circulating around it and surrounded by the sun, moon, and stars.

This was the source of the Human Race's bloodline; through It, one could influence the entire Human Race. One could bestow talents, strip away talents, or even curse the entire Human Race, or even bring about its destruction.

"Go!"

Jiang Yuan stepped forward and branded the Blood Rebirth technique he had created onto the source of the Human Race's bloodline. Instantly, the source of the Human Race's bloodline revived, crazily devouring the surrounding spiritual energy.

To change the Human Race from the source and bestow innate divine powers upon all clansmen, the technique alone was not enough; a massive amount of resources was also required.

Otherwise, the bloodline source could not conjure power out of thin air to change every clansman. And the more clansmen there were, the greater the power required to bestow these innate divine powers upon them.

Jiang Yuan was well aware of this, so he had prepared in advance, taking out the resources the Human Race had accumulated over the years and transforming them into pure Innate Origin Qi for the bloodline source to devour, compensating for its consumption.

Fortunately, this was the early stage of the Human Race's birth, and the number of clansmen was limited, unlike in later ages when they would spread across the entire Primordial World. Thus, the bloodline source completed the task without consuming many resources.

If this had been a powerful race like the Dragon Race, the resources required to bestow new innate divine powers upon all clansmen would have been terrifying; it would have required the sacrifice of a Quasi-Saint.

With such high costs, naturally, few powerful races were willing to do so. Even if they did, they would only bestow it upon their direct kin, not benefiting the entire race.

Therefore, the act of bestowing innate divine powers upon a race often occurred in the early stages of a race's birth, as the costs were lowest at that time.