Abandoning His Bloodline, Starting Over!

"Ancestor..."

An elderly Hui Shu demon stammered:

"If you truly lose your cultivation, who will take care of the daily affairs of the Spirit Rat Line?"

"Second brother in charge."

The Lord Rat pointed to the Treasure-Seeking Spirit Rat: "During my seclusion, I entrusted all clan affairs to him. He also took over the tasks of liaising with the Sun and Zhao families and dealing with various powerful demons."

The second brother said with a bitter face, "Boss, I'm just a Treasure-Seeking Rat, how would I know anything about these complicated things..."

"Study."

The Lord Rat's single word blocked all escape routes.

"When I was with my ancestor, I didn't know anything. I learned intelligence, I learned earth escape. I even learned how to speak human language. Who knows everything when they are born?"

The second son lowered his head and stopped arguing.

The Lord Rat stood up; its dark red fur was inconspicuous in the dim cave.

He was short, hunched over, and his beard was already turning gray. He looked at his people, who had followed him for many years, and said:

"The clever rat is born weak; it's fate, and no one can be blamed."

"But our ancestors gave us an opportunity: a wisp of Wind Dao Heaven and Earth Qi, and the hidden sentries of Nine Winds Valley. These things are things that other weaker clans wouldn't even dare to dream of."

"The opportunity has arrived; whether we can seize it or not depends on ourselves."

"I don't want future generations to be spies and laborers, generation after generation. Our Spirit Rat Line should have something to be proud of!"

Having said that, the Lord Rat said no more.

He turned and went into the deepest chamber of the cave, and moved the stone door open.

The stone gate slammed shut behind them, and everything finally returned to calm. Everything would eventually settle down, since there were no pioneers.

So he will be the first mouse to pounce!

Inside a sealed room.

The light was dim, with only a few luminous pearls emitting a faint glow, while the Lord Rat lay on a stone platform.

There were three more items laid out in front of me.

Inside a treasure box were more than ten bottles of second-tier Beast Essence Pill, which would help him recover his cultivation in the future.

There was another bone fragment with cyan spiritual patterns undulating on it. It was a bone fragment of a level-five flying Demon Beast that he had asked the Sun Clan to help him find over the past few months. It contained a rich Dao of Wind energy.

It cost him tens of thousands of Spirit Stone, practically emptying his savings.

Finally, there was a bottle of third-grade low-level Sha-Cleansing Spirit Pill, which he had obtained from True Person Qingshan of the Azure Light Gate.

We had to rely on the ancestor's reputation; otherwise, it would have been really difficult.

After a long silence, the Lord Rat felt at peace.

He opened his mouth and spat out a bright red, Blood Sha short blade, which was the top-grade magic Law Artifact he had refined back then.

This is also the foundation upon which he now stands in the Blood Dao.

The Lord Rat clenched its fists, then loosened them. It loosened them, then clenched them again.

He remembered a night many years ago.

At that time, he was still an unawakened Hui Shu. Later, he met the ancestor by chance, which awakened his spiritual wisdom.

Although he has forgotten the process of how he attained enlightenment...

But all of this is thanks to our ancestor!

It can be said that everything he has now is due to the ancestor, and he is unwilling to stop here.

These years have passed.

The ancestor progressed step by step from Foundation Establishment to Golden Core.

He witnessed firsthand the rise of his ancestor, from a small place in Hongtian City to the present-day Purple Firmament Peak.

Witness firsthand the rise of the Northern Mountain Range from weakness to strength!

Every step was earned by our ancestor risking his life.

Compared to our ancestor, what is this Lord Rat?

What's so bad about destroying the foundation?

"Bring it on..."

Lord Rat regained his composure, and then his brows and eyes were filled with determination.

The next instant, all his Spiritual Qi was poured into the blood-red blade. With the continuous infusion, the blood-red blade immediately emitted a series of cracking sounds as it struggled to bear the weight!

"Bump!"

With a crisp crack, the blade shattered, and its very foundation was crushed by its own power!

Countless fragments scattered and shot out, causing a complete collapse.

The Blood Sha power within his body was on the verge of spiraling out of control, and a sharp pain exploded from his lower abdomen, spreading along his meridians throughout his body.

Fresh blood seeped from the gaps in the fur.

The Lord Rat clenched its teeth and didn't make a sound.

After this hurdle...

The Spirit Rat Line has no way out!

The process of stripping away the Blood Sha power was a hundred or even a thousand times more cruel than described in the book; it was practically like tearing flesh and bones apart!

For the first three months, the Lord Rat was losing blood almost every day.

The power of Blood Sha has been rooted in the Dantian for over a decade, and has long been intertwined with the meridians and flesh.

Actively peeling away Blood Sha energy, cracks will appear in the corresponding meridians. You must wait for the cracks to heal themselves before you can continue.

Large patches of dark red bloodstains spread across the floor of the sealed room, drying layer by layer before being covered by a new one...

The air was thick with the pungent smell of blood.

Days passed, Lord Rat curled up in a ball on the stone platform. His blood-red fur turned dry and sparse, revealing the pale skin underneath.

His physique had shrunk considerably since his seclusion, not because he had lost weight, but because he was losing a lot of Qi and Blood...

Three months later.

The Lord Rat's cultivation level has fallen to the Foundation Establishment Early Stage...

Six months later, his cultivation level dropped to the peak of Qi Refining.

He peeled away most of the Blood Sha energy within his body, strand by strand.

But the remaining residues that have penetrated deep into the bone marrow are even more stubborn, as if they have grown into the cracks in the bone, and cannot be scraped off cleanly.

"Fortunately, I obtained the Sha-Cleansing Pill from True Person Qingshan."

"As expected, being well-prepared is always a good thing."

Thinking of this, the Lord Rat grabbed the pill bottle and swallowed a Sha-Cleansing Spirit Pill. The effect was amazing; the remnants of Blood Sha, like maggots clinging to bones, were completely subdued by this Sha-Cleansing Pill.

Just as ice and snow melt away, the medicinal power continuously circulates throughout the body, constantly purifying the blood Sha Qi within...

The whole process went extremely smoothly, but it was incredibly painful!

The Lord Rat was in so much pain that blood was seeping from its seven orifices, and its body was convulsing violently.

Despite the extreme pain, he burst into laughter!

In the ninth month, the Lord Rat's Blood Sha was finally completely eliminated.

The price to pay was a drop in cultivation level to around the Qi Refining Fourth Layer for Perfected Person cultivators, and a complete graying of the body, making the person appear old and frail...

The Lord Rat lay sprawled on the stone platform, panting heavily.

His body felt much lighter, not only because he had become thinner, but also because his entire demonic body had become "empty" after losing the power of Blood Sha.

The Dantian felt empty; spiritual energy, which once flowed throughout the body, was now Spiritual Qi and weak, and the meridians were riddled with holes...

miserable.

This is absolutely terrible!

However, when the Lord Rat channeled his spiritual power and drew upon the wind spirit power within that section of the Demon General's remains, everything changed...

The feeling of the wind spirit power flowing slowly through the meridians and into the body was completely different from that of the Blood Sha power.

There was no intense, burning pain, and no tearing sensation as if flesh was being gnawed at!

light.

soft.

It was like a gentle breeze blowing across the dried-up riverbed.

Even more remarkably, when that wisp of wind spiritual energy passed through his body, his physical body felt a bronze-like sensation, even his talent for concealment was affected.

They were all subtly imbued with a touch of wind spirit energy...

"It really works!"

The Lord Rat murmured, a smile appearing on his gaunt face.

The compatibility between the Dao of Wind spiritual energy and the Rat Race's hidden bloodline was even higher than he had anticipated.

He initially cultivated the Blood Dao as a last resort, forcibly stimulating bloodline mutations, and his path was fraught with difficulties.

And the Dao of Wind is a natural fit.

If he had known this path existed, why would he have suffered such hardship as a foreigner?

The Lord Rat smiled wryly, but in this world, how many people know beforehand? Without the ancestor bestowing upon him the Heaven and Earth Qi, without the fortuitous opportunity of Nine Winds Valley, this path probably wouldn't even exist...

In the days that followed.

He began to rebuild his foundation with the spiritual power of the Dao of Wind, using his ruined body as a means to do so.

Progress was extremely slow, but it was steady.

Each wisp of wind spiritual energy poured into the meridians did not trigger a rejection reaction; in fact, the broken meridians began to repair themselves under the nourishment of the wind spiritual energy.

It's slow, but it's definitely being fixed.

This is unimaginable in the path of Blood Dao cultivation.

The power of Blood Sha can only tear, not repair, while the spiritual power of Dao of Wind is gently and firmly filling every crack in his body.

It only took a short year.

His cultivation level then recovered to the Qi Refining Peak Stage.

Two years later.

His meridians were mostly repaired, and his cultivation level was almost at the threshold of Foundation Establishment.

Four years later, the stone door to the secret chamber suddenly burst open.

The Lord Rat came out, and the sunlight made him squint.

His appearance has changed.

The grayish-black fur turned grayish-white with a bluish tinge.

It wasn't the pale white of old age, but a cool, metallic grayish-blue. His body was slightly smaller than before, but his limbs were longer and his figure was more streamlined.

Its tail is very long, three inches longer than before.

At the end, a barely visible wisp of blue aura lingered.