Breeding Mixed Bloodlines, a Spirit Transformation Secret Realm!

After destroying the lake, Shi Xiao continued his journey south.

But the restlessness in my heart did not subside in the slightest; on the contrary, it burned even more intensely.

Purple Firmament Lightning is the most powerful and intense of the six Divine Firmament Immortal Foundation. Those who cultivate this Immortal Foundation must have an extremely righteous and unyielding mind.

Shi Xiao considered himself to have a strong will.

However, he was still young, and his cultivation at the Nascent Soul Early Stage couldn't withstand the erosion of the increasingly powerful Daoist aura caused by the Purple Firmament Lightning.

That destructive, conquering, and possessive urge surged like magma from the earth, making his already not-so-gentle nature even more obsessive.

He didn't think there was anything wrong with himself.

The strong prey on the weak; this is the principle his father taught him. In the Nine Realms, the royal bloodline should be so domineering; he was merely putting it into practice.

In the days that followed, Shi Xiao's behavior became increasingly extreme.

Wherever he went, any female cultivators he found pleasing to the eye, regardless of race, had their cultivation sealed with lightning talismans and thrown into his personal secret realm.

Human Race, mixed-blood Flood Dragon, Winged Human Race, and also minor Demon Cultivator.

The cultivators ranged in cultivation level from Foundation Establishment to Golden Core, and there were even a few Nascent Soul, each with a unique appearance; their looks were extremely beautiful, arousing intense desire in those who beheld them.

Inside the secret realm, the female cultivators initially cried and struggled, but later fell silent.

Some had resigned themselves to their fate, while others had their cultivation completely destroyed by the lightning talisman. Shi Xiao would occasionally go in to take a look, throwing in some spiritual fruits and pills as a way of keeping them alive.

He didn't even think there was anything wrong with it.

In the tradition of the Giant Bear Clan, it is only natural for the strong to take concubines; the Ancestor Shanyue of the Mountain Bear Lineage once had dozens of dao companion and his offspring were spread throughout the various branches.

That old bastard Cang Wuji has countless illegitimate children.

It's just that those predecessors did it respectably, while he did it crudely.

It's not a big difference; it's just a little bit of whimsy.

He comforted himself in this way.

Three years have passed in the blink of an eye.

In the Shi Xiao Secret Realm, the first child was born.

The mother was a beautiful Human Race cultivator at the Foundation Establishment. When the child was born, Shi Xiao was hunting a Nascent Soul beast outside the secret realm.

When he returned, he saw the female cultivator lying on the bed with her eyes wide open, holding a small baby in her arms.

The infant was extremely small, several times smaller than ordinary Demon Beast cubs; however, faint arcs of lightning flickered around its body, its skin was half white and half purple, its entire body was covered in white down, and it had pointed ears, a beast-like nose, and beast-like eyes.

This is Half-Demon, a hybrid of Human Race and Giant Bear Clan.

Compared to those Demon Human formed through blood donation, its bloodline is far more powerful; its potential for future improvement is also quite good, with no hidden dangers.

Shi Xiao stared at the infant for a moment, then reached out and squeezed his little fist.

The infant neither cried nor fussed; a faint purple light flickered in its vertical pupils, and it grinned, revealing a set of animal teeth, as if it were actually smiling at him.

"That does have some merit."

Shi Xiao muttered something to himself, casually tossed a few spiritual items aside, and turned to leave.

The female cultivator hugged the child tightly, without saying a word.

She had stopped crying and begging for mercy; from the first day she was captured, she knew what she meant to this Demon Beast.

To live, to raise children, that's all.

She even considered strangling the child, but whenever she heard the child cry out, she ultimately couldn't bring herself to do it, and simply lived numbly.

In the years that followed, the number of children in the secret realm increased.

Shi Xiao abducted more than twenty female cultivators in total; of them, fifteen or sixteen survived, with varying levels of cultivation.

These female cultivators were used as tools for reproduction within the secret realm.

Shi Xiao would occasionally return to stay for a few days, but most of the time he would wander and fight outside; over the past ten years, thirteen more children had entered the secret realm.

Their bloodlines are mixed and their forms are varied.

The children born to female Human Race cultivators are all Half-Demon Bear Human; their physique is between that of humans and bears, their limbs are longer, their faces are more Human Race, but their bones are strong, and they are born with an affinity for the Dao of Lightning.

Among these children, two possessed exceptional talent, exhibiting Spiritual Qi fluctuations at the Qi Refining Third Layer at birth.

The offspring of the mother dragon of the Flood Dragon Clan are even more terrifying.

It is a hybrid of Dragon Bear. Although small in size, its body is covered with scales and fur, and a row of bluish-black thorns grows on its back; faint arcs of lightning run through those thorns, which makes it clear that it has an extraordinary bloodline.

The Dragon Bear cubs are born with incredible brute strength; they can tear apart Foundation Establishment Demon Beast as soon as they turn one year old.

There was also a female cultivator from the Winged Human Race whose offspring was Feather Bear.

With wings on its back and pale fur interspersed with gray feathers, this hybrid is born with the ability to fly, though it cannot fly high or far. However, for the Giant Bear Clan, this ability is already quite rare.

Shi Xiao raised these children in a secret realm, nourished by Spirit Vein and fed with spiritual fruits.

They didn't treat me with excessive care, but they didn't mistreat me either.

His attitude towards these offspring was simple: keep those who were useful and discard those who were not; give a second glance to those with strong bloodlines, and don't even bother to name those with mediocre talent.

This is completely different from his father, Shi Jian.

Although Shi Jian did not spoil Shi Xiao, he still put a lot of effort into guiding and teaching him; from cultivation Cultivation Method to conduct, he never took anything lightly.

But Shi Xiao is not Shi Jian.

Deep down, he was wilder, more intense, and colder than his father.

The erosion of the Daoist essence by the Purple Firmament Lightning was merely a catalyst; the true root lay in his own temperament—he enjoyed everything that power brought him.

Enjoy conquering, enjoy plundering, enjoy the fear in the eyes of the weak.

Of course, what he did was nothing in the eyes of the Giant Bear Clan; after all, he was a Giant Bear Clan, not a human.

There aren't many morals; it's a race that reveres strength. As long as you're strong enough, all the absurdities are just the privilege of the strong.

They fought, killed, raped, and plundered for twelve years.

Shi Xiao finally grew tired of it. The restlessness that had been suppressed for more than ten years actually subsided slowly after being vented countless times.

The Daoist essence of the Purple Firmament Lightning was no longer as violent and surging as before; instead, it sank deep into the meridians, becoming more restrained and solid.

My State of Mind gradually changed.

Shi Xiao couldn't say for sure; he only knew that he had killed enough and had had enough fun. Those things that once made his blood boil now seemed nothing special.

The path to becoming a strong person ultimately doesn't lie in these things.

He sat cross-legged in a desolate mountain, briefly explained the affairs of the secret realm, and then began his meditation.

Some of the female cultivators were released by him, while others stayed voluntarily; the children were raised, and for the few with good aptitude, he inscribed several sets of Cultivation Method in the secret realm as a way to give them a way out.

Afterwards, Shi Xiao went into seclusion.

The Purple Firmament Lightning Immortal Foundation surged within his body, and all the combat insights, tempering through battles, and collisions of Daoist principles accumulated over more than a decade rushed to his mind at this moment.

He has lingered at the Nascent Soul Early Stage for far too long.

It's not that I can't cultivate, but that my mind wasn't on cultivation before; now that my mind is settled, the foundation of Immortal Foundation principles are operating on their own, and things are progressing naturally.

The retreat lasted only three years, until one day...

His Nascent Soul became increasingly solid, his cultivation level soared, and his aura became overwhelming.

Nascent Soul Middle Stage, achieved!

The moment of breakthrough, the Daoist essence of Purple Firmament Lightning permeated his limbs and bones, and the lightning arcs around his body surged several times over; that fierce and blazing Daoist essence shattered all the rocks within a hundred miles, thunderclouds surged in the sky, and purple light soared into the heavens.

Shi Xiao opened his eyes, the purple light in his vertical pupils receding.

The feeling of being in the Nascent Soul Middle Stage is completely different from that of the early stage.

The Immortal Foundation foundation of immortality underwent a qualitative transformation, with the range of Divine Sense more than doubling and the perception of the thunderous energy of heaven and earth becoming extremely clear.

He stood up, stretched his limbs, and his Divine Ability and bright.

"It's time to go back."

Shi Xiao muttered something to himself, but didn't rush to leave.

After more than twenty years of wandering, he had a thorough understanding of the terrain in the southern part of the Dao Realm; the next thing to do was to return to Lightning Plain with the spoils of war, and then bring the Dao Spirit Human Race back.

Just as he was preparing to tear through the void and return north, his Divine Sense suddenly detected a strange aura.

Deep within the earth beneath our feet, in a place extremely deep and far away, a surge of energy was fluctuating.

The aura was extremely faint; if it weren't for his greatly enhanced Divine Sense after breaking through to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, he probably wouldn't have been able to detect it at all.

But the Daoist essence contained within that energy made him catch his breath.

Spirit Transformation essence.

Although it was only a remnant, nearly disintegrated Spirit Transformation aura seeping out from the depths of the earth, it was mixed with an extremely rich aura of the Space Dao.

Space Dao.

That is the Way of Space, the fundamental path to opening up secret realms and tearing apart the void.

Shi Xiao's heart stirred. Over the years, he had been collecting materials related to the Space Dao in order to expand his personal secret realm; however, the quality of the materials was never high enough, and the secret realm was only about fifty miles in circumference.

It's barely enough.

If there truly is a secret realm of inheritance left behind by a Nascent Spirit Transformation underground...

Without much thought, Shi Xiao gathered lightning arcs in his palm and slashed at the ground beneath his feet.

Boom!

Rocks collapsed and the earth's strata churned.

Using the essence of the Purple Firmament Lightning Dao as a guide, he followed the direction of that wisp of Spirit Transformation Qi, carving downwards, hundreds of feet, thousands of feet, tens of thousands of feet...

The deeper one goes, the clearer the aura of the Space Dao becomes.

Until they dug 30,000 feet underground.

Shi Xiao stopped. In the rock strata in front of him, there was a semi-transparent light curtain.

The light screen was small, only a few feet in circumference, and its surface was covered with cracks, as if it could shatter at any moment; but inside the light screen, one could vaguely see the scene of another world.

This was actually a secret realm, and at the entrance of this secret realm, there was a line of ancient characters engraved, which Shi Xiao deciphered after a moment.

"Fortuitous opportunity is given to those who are destined; those who enter must inherit its path and endure its trials."

Shi Xiao stared at the light screen, his vertical pupils flashing with purple light.

The secret realm inheritance left behind by the Spirit Transformation must contain the Space Dao legacy at the Spirit Transformation level; if he could obtain this, his personal secret realm could be instantly expanded, increasing several times over from a radius of fifty miles.

But the words "suffer its calamity" made him frown slightly.

How could a Nascent Soul cultivator easily handle the trials left behind by a Nascent Soul cultivator?

Shi Xiao remained silent for a few moments, then a smile curved his lips; with his Law Treasure Divine Ability and supernatural Nascent Soul, he was nearly invincible among those at the Nascent Soul stage.

Even if he possessed some kind of Spirit Transformation technique, the divine thoughts of his parents, Shi Jian and Shan Li, both Spirit Transformation, still resided within him.

These are enough to save your life!

"I never expected to find such fortuitous opportunity in this desolate wilderness. It's truly a blessing from heaven, and I deserve it!"