At sunrise, Chu Xisheng sat cross-legged on the floor inside the Cloudsea Immortal Palace.
The instant the sun rose, blood energy surged above Chu Xisheng's head, shooting seventeen feet high in a single moment, nearly piercing the roof and bringing the pavilion down.
The Blood Astral Force surrounding Chu Xisheng condensed into dragons that coiled around his entire body.
These strands of Blood Astral Force were actually only finger-thick, but they drew vast quantities of the world's Origin Power together, forming nine enormous flood dragons, complete with claws, fangs, and scales. They bared their fangs and brandished their claws, looking exceedingly imposing.
Chu Xisheng had successfully advanced to upper fifth rank a day earlier.
The top-quality main ingredient of his secret medicine made his True Essence purer and more concentrated, while the strength of his bones and flesh changed rapidly.
Just before dawn today, as the changes inside Chu Xisheng intensified, he had unhesitatingly spent Blood Essence Points to raise his Ninefold Refinement Ultimate Origin Purple-Gold Body to the eleventh layer.
The system panel displayed the thirteenth layer, but that included the boosts from his Battle Diagram and bloodline powers.
As this body-tempering art improved, the changes deep within Chu Xisheng's Blood Marrow grew even more intense.
That was precisely what he wanted.
The gods' bloodline seals were like the joints of bamboo: once pierced, they allowed passage to the next segment.
Most of the time, however, the wider a passage was, the better.
If he could widen the opening as much as possible while piercing the bamboo joint, it would benefit his next advancement even more.
It would also allow him to accumulate more True Essence and awaken more bloodline talents through the Blood Source Diagram Pillar.
Little Flathead had already awakened. It stretched its limbs, extremely satisfied with