New Ability

The dark clouds gradually dispersed, and bright moonlight spilled over the world.

Jin Sheng slowly walked over and sat beside Yu Xian. He poked Yu Xian's hand with a finger and smiled. "Still alive?"

"Ugh, not dead yet." Yu Xian groaned and answered with difficulty.

Although his whole body hurt, Yu Xian knew very well that he had not suffered any serious injuries. Jin Sheng clearly understood Vampires' traits quite well and had avoided all the vital areas.

A few minutes later, Yu Xian sat up from the ground. His injuries were already mostly healed.

"Tsk, there really is something off about you. I thought you'd be lying there for several hours, but you were able to get up in less than ten minutes." Jin Sheng looked at Yu Xian, feeling that Yu Xian was more freakish than most extraordinary individuals he had met.

Was he even a normal Vampire?

Yu Xian looked up at the moon and smiled. "If it were daytime, maybe I wouldn't even need a minute."

"Are you a Vampire or Superman?" Jin Sheng could not help complaining. What kind of Vampire recovered even faster during the day? That was completely backwards.

In the same team, trust went both ways.

When Jin Sheng chose to trust Yu Xian unconditionally, Yu Xian had already decided to give Jin Sheng the same trust.

The two had appeared to be chatting just now, but Jin Sheng had actually already figured it out. Yu Xian could recover his stamina by absorbing light, which was also why he did not need to drink blood.

"Captain, are you an esper? What exactly was that lion just now?" Yu Xian asked curiously.

Jin Sheng looked up at the sky and answered, "I'm not an esper, but a pure martial artist. I started cultivating the Golden Light Boy Cultivation when I was young. After mastering the Golden Light Boy Cultivation at eighteen, I switched to the Tiger-Subduing Divine Skill. About five years ago, I consumed a drop of Pangu's Blood, and the Tiger-Subduing Divine Skill mutated into the Golden Light Lion Divine Skill. It's my personal cultivation art. That was also when I gained my current codename, Lion Light."

"So you're a martial artist. No wonder you're so strong in close combat," Yu Xian said in sudden realization.

The moment Jin Sheng heard that, he became as agitated as a cat whose tail had been stepped on. He snapped irritably, "What do you mean martial artists are strong in close combat? Quite a few martial artists are actually weak at close combat and fight at range entirely through their immense inner power. You'll understand once you see more of them. The only way to improve close-combat ability is through more real combat. There are no other shortcuts."

Jin Dajun had beaten him from childhood until adulthood, which was how he had gained his solid real-combat abilities. That process had contained so much blood and tears. How could it be covered up by a mere "so you're a martial artist"?

Seeing Jin Sheng suddenly become so agitated, Yu Xian vaguely sensed the resentment in his words and could not help laughing.

"Tsk..."

Jin Sheng looked at Yu Xian, then finally sighed helplessly and shook his head with a bitter smile.

Over the next few days, restrictions were gradually lifted.

The Aberrant Insects within Silver City had already been cleared out. Only some areas outside the city still needed to be swept clean, and residents sheltering in the various stadiums began returning home one after another.

On the fifth day, Yu Xian returned home.

He changed into casual clothes and immediately went to lie down on a chair on the balcony.

He had been basking in the sun these past few days. Perhaps because regenerating his severed arm had consumed a great deal of energy, he had only gathered nine heartbeats by yesterday.

If nothing unexpected happened, he could awaken his second minor talent today.

He took out his phone and entered the mission section. Now that Silver City's restrictions had been lifted, he could finally accept missions as well.

There were actually many good things in the Merit Shop, such as Pangu's Blood, silver, storage equipment, extraordinary weapons, and extraordinary armor.

Every last one of them required merit to exchange for.

Although Jin Sheng had said that once the Silver City incident was completely resolved, Yu Xian would likely receive a large merit reward based on his contributions.

Still, Yu Xian felt that the more merit, the better. Besides, he had nothing else to do. Perhaps before school started, he could earn enough merit through missions to buy one or two items.

The missions in the mission section came in all varieties. Some were issued by the authorities, while others were posted by other team members.

Yu Xian filtered the missions to Insect Rank and Ant Rank. All higher-level missions were immediately hidden, leaving only the low-level ones.

He began carefully looking for missions he could complete:

\n[Insect Rank Mission: Capture Frostlight Snow Ferrets. 10 merit per ferret. Required: 100.]

[Official—Insect Rank Mission: Gather Mutant Ghost-Hand Green. 15 merit per jin. Required: 1,000 jin.]

[Ant Rank Mission: Collect zombie fangs. 25 merit per fang. Required: 66.]

[Official—Ant Rank Mission: Clear the zombies appearing in Fragrant Water Town. 50 merit per zombie. Required: kill them all.]\n

Yu Xian discovered that missions issued by the authorities generally offered higher rewards, but their requirements were also greater. Moreover, many official missions overlapped with privately issued ones. He could accept two missions at once and receive double rewards.

Just as he was considering whether he could complete these missions, his heart suddenly pounded violently. A stream of heat surged from his heart and quickly spread throughout his body.

With his previous experience, Yu Xian did not panic this time.

He took a deep breath, then closed his eyes and quietly waited for the new ability to take shape.

About ten minutes later, he slowly opened his eyes, his expression somewhat strange. He spread out his hand, and a smear of blood-colored energy immediately formed in his palm. It looked both like water and fire.

\n[Blood Energy]\n

This could be called a Vampire's most classic ability, as well as its most important ability.

And according to the guides, if one encountered a Vampire who had mastered Blood Energy, members below Sparrow Level could immediately retreat.

Once Vampires possessed Blood Energy, they could learn all sorts of blood magic. They would no longer be at the bottom among the many extraordinary races. Even among spellcasting extraordinary individuals, Vampires who had mastered Blood Energy were considered rather troublesome opponents.

If ordinary Vampires were fragile assassins, then Vampires who had mastered Blood Energy were noble mages. Their status was worlds apart.

However, as Yu Xian looked at the Blood Energy in his hand, the first question that came to mind was who he should find to learn blood magic from.

As far as he knew, only two races currently possessed blood magic: Blood Elves and the Blood Clan.

The blood magic passed down within the Blood Clan had been intuitively comprehended by their progenitor during his growth after benefiting from the Forbidden Fruit. Yu Xian was a wild Vampire. The Blood Clan showing restraint by not killing him was already generous enough; there was no chance they would teach him any blood magic.

As for the Blood Elves, their progenitor had died in battle several hundred years ago, leaving them extremely few in number. They were now basically concentrated in Europe, and they were even more exclusionary than the Blood Clan. There was no way they would teach him blood magic either.

This...

Did this mean he had to use the earth-shattering wisdom he had kept hidden for so many years and create all kinds of blood magic himself?

Yu Xian looked at the Blood Energy in his hand, and his eyes gradually turned wise.