Heavenly Emperor Bloodline

Dark gold blood was not the ultimate limit, so what would Tang Tian's blood ultimately become?

As time flowed on, the color of his blood gradually turned gold.

"Gold?"

Fan Siren frowned slightly. Even he found it somewhat incomprehensible.

After all, according to his understanding, someone cultivating the Primordial Star Scripture should have platinum-colored blood.

"Hm? It's still changing!"

Fan Siren's expression abruptly changed. Was the Primordial Chaos Origin Physique truly this terrifying?

"Purple?"

Unexpectedly, a wisp of purple emerged within Tang Tian's blood, which had already turned gold.

Most unbelievable of all, the gold did not fade after the purple appeared. Instead, the two continuously fused and intertwined.

"This... this is..."

Fan Siren's voice was full of disbelief. He simply could not understand why this had happened!

"This is the Heavenly Emperor Bloodline..."

He did not tell Tang Tian. Some things were better left unknown for the time being.

At present, only Fan Siren knew what the Heavenly Emperor Bloodline signified.

"Qian Rong, there is hope for the God Clan's vengeance..."

Fan Siren kept those words to himself.

Another full two days passed before Tang Tian's boiling, burning blood finally calmed.

Yet Tang Tian did not stop cultivating. Instead, he pushed the Primordial Star Scripture to its limit and shouted, "Condense!"

Awaken the power of his blood and summon his Life Soul!

Tang Tian could sense that his Life Soul was within his blood, and that delighted him.

But whether he could summon it was another matter...

"Roar!"

A voice from his Life Soul faintly echoed through his blood and rang out in Tang Tian's mind.

"This voice... sounds so familiar..."

Fan Siren heard it as well, yet he simply could not recall what it was.

This time, Tang Tian was at his wits' end. He tried for an entire day, but still failed to summon his Life Soul.

Could his method be wrong?

"Master Fan, I can sense my Life Soul, but I just can't summon it. Do you know why?"

With no other choice, Tang Tian could only ask for help.

Fan Siren's words struck directly at the heart of the problem. He sneered, "Because you're too weak."

"Uh..."

Tang Tian believed that among those of the same rank, absolutely no one could be his match. Especially now that his cultivation had reached the high stage of the Blood-Burning Realm, he could even fight an expert of the Organs-Hiding Realm.

Yet Fan Siren still mocked him for being too weak?

Then why could Lin Yichen summon his Life Soul? Ye Ruxue certainly could as well, right?

Could it be that they were too strong?

Fan Siren had worried himself sick over Tang Tian. He sighed and said, "Silly child, why can't that little brain of yours turn the corner? Many cultivators can indeed summon their Life Souls, but it isn't because they are too strong—it is because their Life Souls are too weak. You are the exact opposite. Your Life Soul is too strong, while you are too weak to summon it. Understand now?"

Tang Tian's mouth twitched. He did not know whether to laugh or cry.

He was already very powerful, yet his Life Soul was even stronger, making his cultivation seem weak instead.

"Then what is going on with my blood?"

Tang Tian felt that this blood had not been produced by the power he cultivated...

"This is the result of cultivating both the Nine-Turn Heavenly Thunder Art and the Primordial Star Scripture, along with absorbing the power of the Azure Wood Profound Thunder. If you had only cultivated the Primordial Star Scripture, your blood should have been platinum. If you had cultivated only the Nine-Turn Heavenly Thunder Art, it would have been gold. But because you possess the Primordial Chaos Origin Physique, all these factors combined and turned it purple-gold."

Fan Siren had long prepared his explanation and solemnly cleared up Tang Tian's confusion.

"So that's how it is."

Tang Tian nodded. By his own reasoning, that should indeed be the case.

Yet when that trace of purple had first appeared, it carried an aura of dominance and nobility that made even his heart tremble.

In truth, Tang Tian did not know that the Blood-Burning Realm was often not merely a realm for awakening one's Life Soul; it could also awaken one's bloodline.

Bloodlines worked like this: the Tang Family must have once produced an extraordinary figure, whose descendants inherited that person's bloodline.

Possessing a particular bloodline could make one exceptionally powerful.

Yet bloodlines could bring greatness, and bloodlines could also bring ruin.

If one could not transcend one's bloodline, then even after reaching the level of one's ancestral bloodline, one would ultimately remain shackled by it, unable to advance another inch.

The Tang Family's bloodline was exceedingly powerful, yet at present, Tang Tian was the only one who had truly awakened it.

Fan Siren had always found it puzzling. Could the Tang Family have once produced a Heavenly Emperor in such a remote border town?

But if it had produced a Heavenly Emperor, how could the family have fallen to this state, reduced to a minor Lineage in a small city?

Now was naturally not the time to tell Tang Tian these things. All questions would have to wait until he became stronger enough to answer them.

"There are still five days until the appointed battle. During these five days... I will cultivate the Astral Sword Art."

After witnessing the God Clan patriarch's sword shatter the sky, Tang Tian decided to devote himself to the sword.

The sword itself was the sharpest weapon of attack. How formidable was a single sword that could break ten thousand techniques?

Yet in Tang Tian's understanding, cultivation arts were divided in order into yellow rank, profound rank, earth rank, heaven rank, and spirit rank...

As the God Clan's Lineage-defending cultivation art, it had to surpass spirit rank...

"Kid, I suggest that you do not cultivate the Astral Sword Art for now. It is the God Clan's Lineage-defending cultivation art, not something that can be mastered overnight. It also requires formidable strength to support it. Although you cultivate the Primordial Star Scripture, you have not truly communed with the power of the stars. The star power within your body is entirely transformed from the vital energy you cultivated. It is not pure."

Fan Siren was, after all, a peerless expert. His vision and experience were not something Tang Tian could compare to.

Moreover, in this world, only Fan Siren—the good brother of the God Clan patriarch—understood the God Clan's cultivation arts best.

After hearing Fan Siren's words, Tang Tian fell silent for a moment, considered them carefully, then nodded.

His current realm was still too low. What he needed to do was lay a solid foundation. Powerful sword techniques could indeed play a decisive role in a life-and-death battle, but powerful sword techniques also required abundant vital energy to sustain them.

Otherwise, before he had even launched more than a few attacks, he would likely have already exhausted himself to death.

"Alright. Draw upon star power and cultivate the Primordial Star Scripture."

Having made his decision, Tang Tian walked outside the cave.

The best time to draw upon star power for cultivation was at night.

It was still daytime, so Tang Tian first dug up all the Thunder Cherry Blossoms and Heavenly Thunder Vines, soil and all, and sent them into the Primordial Unity Tower.

This action naturally earned him another round of scorn from Fan Siren.

There was still time, so Tang Tian pondered the Astral Sword Art.

He had currently mastered Meteor Beyond the Heavens, and its power was unmatched. Yet he lacked the strength to use the sword techniques that followed. After thinking for a while, he could only helplessly study some other cultivation arts.

In his previous life, Tang Tian had obtained many cultivation arts because of his identity as an alchemist.

Some were very powerful, yet they could not compare to the Primordial Star Scripture and the Nine-Turn Heavenly Thunder Art.

Others, however, were quite wondrous—for example, a technique for concealing one's aura called the Breath-Concealing Art.

The Breath-Concealing Art could conceal one's aura, even one's realm and soul aura, making it impossible for others to detect one's existence. It was exceptionally suited for assassination and escape.

There was also the Thousand Transformations Art, which could alter one's appearance, physique, and even soul aura.

Tang Tian had exchanged for these two cultivation arts from a powerful assassin.

He had been greatly interested at the time and memorized them all, but as an alchemist, he had never cultivated them.

Having been reborn in this life, Tang Tian expected to have quite a few enemies. He felt he still needed to learn more methods to preserve his life.

These two arts were just right, so he began cultivating them.

[Author's note]: Today's third update is here! Tang Tian and Lin Yichen's decisive battle is imminent—please support it with silver tickets!