Inheritance Space

"Frost Fist and Gale Legs require at least the Blood Soul power of Spirit Martial Tier Six to use, yet I can actually use them already! Although I can only reach the minor mastery stage, it is enough to increase my combat strength by around twofold!"

If the thoughts in Li Ye's heart were known to others, they would surely stir up a tremendous uproar!

Combat techniques were easy to begin learning, but reaching minor mastery required a certain amount of diligent practice. Someone like him, who learned by secretly watching others perform them and quickly reached the minor mastery stage, was simply a monster.

"Unfortunately, if I want to cultivate them to major mastery, I cannot use them at all unless I enter Spirit Martial Tier Six."

Shaking his head inwardly, Li Ye then turned his attention to the only Movement Technique among the three combat techniques and movement techniques he had secretly learned earlier.

"Phantom Step is even harder to cultivate than ordinary High-Grade Yellow-Tier Combat Techniques."

This could be seen from Li Wei. At the peak seventh level of the Spirit Martial Realm and nearly twenty years old, he had clearly cultivated for quite some time, yet he had only reached the minor mastery stage. He could split into three figures and barely produce a fourth.

Within the Li Family, even if Li Wei could not be considered a peerless genius, he was at least among the first tier. If even someone with his talent and comprehension was like this, let alone everyone else. Even Li Xuan had only chosen the Yellow Tier Mid-Grade Movement Technique, Wind-following Step. This showed just how difficult the High-Grade Yellow-Tier Movement Technique, Phantom Step, was to learn.

When he had defeated Li Xuan earlier, Li Ye had relied precisely on Gale Legs' deceptive moves. He instantly split out a figure to draw Li Xuan's attention, while he himself flashed behind him and used Blood Eyes to unleash an illusion that struck at the other party's mind, achieving the effect of a surprise attack.

"That battle just now was a dangerous victory for me."

Excessive arrogance would make one proud. Li Ye understood this very well.

If they truly compared strength, Li Xuan definitely surpassed him!

Of course, now that Li Ye had broken through to Spirit Martial Tier Five, the gap between the two of them had become almost negligible.

As he imagined it in his mind, Li Ye suddenly discovered that he seemed to have sunk into a strange space. Looking around in the blink of an eye, he found himself inside a castle filled with an ancient aura. Outside lay an endless wasteland, while the entire sky was dark and oppressive.

"Where is this?"

After his initial panic, Li Ye instead calmed down. Looking outside, he saw that the vast wasteland's very earth was blood-red, as though it had been soaked in countless gallons of blood.

Pushing open the castle doors and walking inside, a thick stench of blood immediately rushed into his nostrils.

Rather than repulsing Li Ye, the smell gave him an exhilarating sensation of being immersed in it and enjoying it. He instantly shuddered all over.

"Young Blood Clan member, choose the Ancient Castle you may enter according to the purity of your bloodline."

Suddenly, an aged and ancient voice echoed through his mind.

"Who is it!"

He vigilantly looked around but found no one. Instead, there stood a human statue with bat-like wings on its back.

"A Vampire statue?"

The statue before him depicted an incomparably handsome man. The pair of wings on his back were not the black bat wings of Vampires in movies, but golden.

"Enter the room you are qualified to enter and receive the Blood Clan's inheritance."

The aged voice rang out again. This time, Li Ye realized that the voice acted directly upon his mind; it was not something heard through his ears.

"I'll assess the situation first!"

Since he had arrived here for no apparent reason, Li Ye instead relaxed. Since this Ancient Castle contained a statue of a Vampire-like man, and he himself was a Vampire, there should not be much danger.

And the Blood Clan mentioned by that voice was precisely what Vampires called themselves.

With a sweep of his gaze, he found that the Ancient Castle was enormous. There were seven gates in total, and above those seven gates stood another golden gate sealed shut.

Walking before the seven doors, he started from the left. The first door was the smallest, only the size of an ordinary room door. The following seven doors grew increasingly larger, and the auras leaking from them became increasingly startling as well.

"Baron's Gate?" Strange words were carved upon the first door, yet he understood them at a glance.

He then looked at the second door, where another line of words was carved. The moment he saw them, they translated themselves in his mind: "Viscount's Gate."

"Could it be?" Li Ye's heart stirred as he continued looking.

Sure enough, the third door read Count's Gate, while the fourth read Marquis's Gate. The fifth door read Duke's Gate. Finally, the most magnificent seventh door bore the words Prince's Gate in faint golden lettering.

"Are these the ranks of Vampires?"

As someone who had watched quite a few Vampire movies and read Vampire novels, Li Ye had long memorized the hierarchy of Vampires, or the Blood Clan. Looking at it now, there truly seemed to be some basis for it.

"Then what rank of Blood Clan am I now?"

Since that aged voice had told him to enter the appropriate gate, it meant he had to choose one suited to himself. But he was troubled. His becoming a Blood Clan member had been entirely accidental, and no one had ever told him the details.

Left with no choice, he began directly with the lowest, the Baron's Gate.

He reached out and pushed, but it did not budge.

The second gate also showed no response. This surprised him somewhat. "Neither the Baron nor Viscount gates reacted. Could my rank be very high?"

The higher the rank of the Blood Clan, the greater not only their status and suppression over lower-ranking Blood Clan members, but the greater the changes in every aspect.

"The Count's Gate is motionless too."

The third door likewise remained completely still, making Li Ye even more curious.

Finally, when he reached out to push the fourth door, there was a response.

In an instant, Li Ye felt himself enter another strange space. When he opened his eyes, he found himself in a room. Before him stood a man in his thirties, dressed in a tailcoat.

"Do not be nervous. I am the Inheritance Spirit within the Marquis's Gate."

Seeing the vigilance in Li Ye's eyes, the other man smiled, revealing his teeth. His every gesture was like that of a medieval European nobleman, without the slightest flaw to be found.

"Inheritance Spirit?"

"That is right. Since you have entered this place, as a member of the Blood Clan, you bear the mission of reviving the Blood Clan. As for me, I am the Inheritance Spirit who will, over the coming period of time, allow you to truly understand how to use your Blood Clan power."

Half-believing and half-doubting, Li Ye surveyed his surroundings. Only after finding no danger did he relax slightly.

"How do I receive the inheritance?"

Clearly, Li Ye now knew that he was a Blood Clan Marquis. Yet what puzzled him was that legends said Vampire Counts possessed immense supernatural abilities. Why was it that, as a Marquis, he instead displayed no particularly great power?

"It is very simple. Open your mind, and I will transmit some of the most basic knowledge into your soul."

Li Ye frowned, and another trace of vigilance rose within him.

"Is there another method?"

"There is. This place contains nearly every book concerning the Blood Clan, but you would need to read them one by one."

The Inheritance Spirit did not mind Li Ye's wariness. He merely smiled and pointed around the room. Only then did Li Ye notice that this was an incomparably enormous study, with countless books arranged within it. At a glance, he had no idea how many there were.

He reached out and picked up a book. The words on it were the same as those on the gates, yet he could understand them at a glance.

"Perhaps this is the Blood Clan's own writing?"

But the instant he looked down, his eyes suddenly erupted with a burst of blood-colored radiance. The next moment, the contents of the book appeared directly in his mind, as though copied.

"This works too?" Li Ye was overjoyed. This was equivalent to photographic memory, even more monstrous than photographic memory! With one glance, everything was truly copied in full!

At that moment, the Inheritance Spirit was also greatly shocked. He had seen the change in Li Ye's eyes, and his expression immediately became strange.

As for Li Ye, he silently absorbed the contents of the book in his hand. Whether by coincidence or not, this book happened to record the origins of this mysterious space.

"Inheritance Space. I never expected it to be a unique inheritance space belonging to the Blood Clan."

From it, he learned that his consciousness had come here, similar to a soul leaving the body. As for how to leave, it was also very simple. With a single thought, he could depart from this place.

Sure enough, with a slight movement of his mind, his vision immediately went black. When he opened his eyes again, familiar clamor and sounds of fighting reached his ears.

"I'm back." At this moment, he found that he was still sitting where he had been. Even the time that had passed outside was not much compared with the time he had spent in the Inheritance Space.

"I stayed in the Inheritance Space for at least half an hour, yet only one or two breaths passed outside."

The Inner Disciple battles were still continuing, but now it was time for the centerpiece everyone had been waiting for.

One person suddenly leaped out and landed on the arena. When everyone saw him, they drew in sharp breaths.

"It's Li Huo! Ranked sixth among the Inner Disciples!"

Li Ye also looked over. This man was even more unfathomable than Li Xuan and Li Wei. After all, he was a Martial Dao Master who had entered the eighth level of the Spirit Martial Realm, a powerhouse capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with some of the family elders.

"Li Huo, whom do you challenge!"

"Li Mo, first among the Inner Disciples!"

Uproar!

Upon hearing his words, quite a few people clicked their tongues in astonishment!

Li Ye also looked at him in surprise. Among the top six Inner Disciples, Li Mo had held first place steadily for years. Li Yue had previously ranked fourth, but for some unknown reason, he had not appeared today.

Now that someone was directly challenging Li Mo, who ranked first, everyone's attention was immediately drawn to it.

It was even possible to see that many family elders who had not appeared before had now arrived. After all, this was a contest concerning Li Mo, the Li Family's number one genius.

Li Mo's reputation was thunderous. Compared with Li Ye, they were like one in the heavens and one in the earth, two complete extremes. From birth, he had displayed extraordinary talent for cultivation. With fair winds and smooth sailing all the way, he became the family's chief disciple!

"Although Li Huo entered the eighth level of the Spirit Martial Realm last year and became a Martial Dao Master, the one he is challenging is Li Mo, hailed as the family's number one genius and one of Wuzhou City's Four Great Geniuses! That freak broke through to the seventh level of the Spirit Martial Realm at fifteen and the eighth level at seventeen!"

Countless dazzling halos surrounded Li Mo. Within the family, even some elders treated him with three parts courtesy!