Chapter 94 - Is There Still Hope for Me Looking Like This?
Chapter 94: Is There Still Hope for Me Looking Like This?
Two days later.
Li Ao finally defeated the last Star Spirit Warrior.
Like the nine previously utterly crushed companions, the Star Spirit Warrior transformed into a cluster of stardust, gradually fading into invisibility.
Li Ao, whose silver armor was completely shattered and body was covered in wounds, was so exhausted that he could barely stand straight.
Supporting his body by resting his hands on his knees, he was gasping for breath wildly.
Blood and sweat mixed together, sliding down his face, dripping drop by drop from his chin.
Truthfully, Li Ao had not expected these Star Spirit Warriors to be so troublesome. Not only was the combat power of each nearly at the Golden level, but they also coordinated with each other tacitly.
In group battles, these Star Spirit Warriors employed endless clever tactics and various combination attacks, which left Li Ao overwhelmed.
If it weren’t for Li Ao being a millennium-old monster reborn, possessing unmatched combat skills himself, he would have been reduced to a pile of mush long ago.
“The Bloodline Trial Ground suits me well. These elders, putting other things aside, have a unique depth of insight into bloodline powers!”
Li Ao hoped that if possible, he would come back here to train again.
Li Ao had ascended to the Celestial Realm before.
He knew that deceiving the Death God, who possessed superior divine power, was not easy.
When a person dies, unless a deity sends an envoy to guide his soul to their own divine realm for resettlement, all souls would be managed by the Death God.
This Bloodline Trial Ground established by the ancestors of the Ironclad Family was likely a fragment of a fallen Titan deity’s realm ruins from the ancient Titan era.
Though this space appeared small.
It possessed some functionalities of a divine realm in the Celestial Realm.
The elders of the Ironclad Family, under the pretext of soul transference to divine realms, would send a divine envoy of at least godly level to negotiate with the Death God’s subordinates, the Underworld Divine Envoys, to claim the souls of their descendants.
These souls, once placed covertly into this Bloodline Trial Ground… Of course, this included souls of descendants who died during the trials.
Bound by laws, they could not leave here easily—at least not without fulfilling certain stringent conditions to evade the keen senses of the Underworld Divine Envoys.
Creating such a Bloodline Trial Ground, the Ironclad Family clearly would not be satisfied with just being a powerful clan in the Great Luo Kingdom on the Tianfeng Continent.
Through such ruthless methods of eliminating weaker descendants, their goal was evidently to awaken the ancestral bloodline and restore the glory of the ancient Titan era!
“Last life, I missed it, but this life, let me fulfill your desires!”
Li Ao straightened up.
Clenching his fist.
This life.
He must awaken the most perfect bloodline power within him.
He had a premonition that the bloodline power would be an important safeguard for him to gain influence in the Celestial Realm in the future… The ancient Titans, those giants who had thrived during the ancient Golden Age, though all had vanished in the river of time, were still feared by the gods, who dreaded their possible return to the Celestial Realm!
In the distance.
The black-red giant and an ultra-large black giant slowly surrounded him.
Unlike the soul battles with the stars, these creatures wouldn’t disappear when vanquished; this fact confirmed Li Ao’s belief that the Bloodline Trial Space was indeed a fragment of the divine nation’s ruins.
These black giants, once defeated, would temporarily lose their energy and disintegrate into dust.
After a period of time.
Due to the faint influence of the divine nation’s laws.
They would gradually reassemble and continue to fight.
This was a characteristic of the ruins of the divine nation. Li Ao’s former vengeance-driven divine nation, despite being devastatingly defeated by the gods and reduced to ruins, never lost its self-repairing divine law.
Because of the fall of the ancient titans, coupled with it being just a minuscule fragment of space, the divine law of the Bloodline Trial Ground was nearly imperceptible.
However, when Li Ao saw the black giants reforming, he immediately realized their unique nature.
There are countless types of spatial laws.
Other than the divine nation laws.
No other spatial law has the same functionality.
“Uh?”
As Li Ao was gearing up for another battle, he was suddenly surprised to see that the black and red giants and the super-sized black giants no longer attacked him.
They silently raised their weapons and collectively made a saluting gesture.
What?
Had they recognized his bloodline power?
Li Ao approached the black and red giants, realizing that they indeed now saw him as one of their own.
If that was the case, he might as well head to the inner space to find the Silver Shadow. After defeating him, he could then challenge the old fellow who said Li Ao wasn’t yet qualified to fight him!
Crossing the outer space’s land.
At the end.
There indeed was a shattered spatial passage.
Stepping out of the broken passage, there was a spiraling stone staircase descending downward.
Li Ao reached the bottom to find Tie Zheng, whose body had turned into iron, and Fuxi, who had transformed into a nearly unrecognizable ball of flesh, waiting for him, leading him to express some surprise: “When did you two big shots get here?”
“We arrived a day ago,” Fuxi hurriedly replied. “We saw you fighting fiercely with several silver shadows, wanting to help but afraid of causing you trouble, so we simply came here early to wait. How did it go? Did you finish? If you’re done, let’s head back. I can’t stand staying here any longer; this place is terrifying!”
“Big shot, how did you end up like this?”
Li Ao noticed something peculiar about Fuxi’s awakened bloodline power.
“Hehe!”
Fuxi scratched his head a bit sheepishly.
“His bloodline power has awakened. It seems to be of the devouring type, but it also has something to do with flesh. His flesh can automatically heal injuries and even merge with enemies of similar attributes,” Tie Zheng nodded and explained to Li Ao.
“How exactly did it awaken?”
Li Ao asked.
“I don’t know,” Fuxi shrugged.
“I was just eating… and after eating, that fake just stopped fighting me!”
“How much did you have to eat to end up transforming your body into a ball like this?”
Li Ao felt that it would require some skill to eat oneself into a spherical shape in such a short time.
“Not much… You don’t know how sneaky that fake was. Before he left, he turned the black iron rhino and the black monster back into two pieces of black flesh and forcibly merged them into my body. Otherwise, how could I end up like this?”
Fuxi spoke rather sadly: “My peerless beauty! By the way, Little Li Ao, can you see if there’s any hope for me now?”
“Don’t worry, even though your body’s a bit rounder, it doesn’t affect your peerless beauty at all,” Li Ao reassured him.
“I’m relieved to hear that,” Fuxi said, suddenly feeling a great weight lift from his heart.
“…”
Tie Zheng suddenly felt an urge to tell the truth.
For Li Ao’s sake, he endured.
Li Ao then turned to Tie Zheng, who resembled an iron man, and asked, “Brother Tie Zheng, what is the nature of your bloodline power?”
A look of joy that Tie Zheng couldn’t hide spread across his face.
“My bloodline power is of the Steel Body type. It hasn’t been tested yet, so I can’t pinpoint exactly what it is. Steel Body isn’t considered a top-tier bloodline power, but it suits me well, and I am content with it!”
Fuxi knew he shouldn’t pry into Li Ao’s secrets, but his curiosity got the better of him. “And what about yours, Little Li Ao?”
Li Ao briefly explained, “Mine is of the Giant type. You’ve probably seen an energy giant standing over me when I fight.”
Fuxi lamented with repeated sighs, “Little Li Ao, your bloodline power is so great. You are both strong and handsome. My talents seem useless in battle, good only for eating an extra bowl or two at meals!”
“Don’t worry. In the future, we’ll find a way to get you a dragon. Once you’ve merged with a dragon, you will become the Devouring Dragon, Fuxi!” Li Ao painted a grand picture for him.
“Really?”
Fuxi was overjoyed to the point of fainting.
“That’s the goal for the future, but first, you need to enhance your bloodline power. Even if I gave you a dragon now, you wouldn’t be able to merge with it.”
Li Ao’s words revitalized Fuxi.
The Devouring Dragon Fuxi—it sounded like an immensely powerful figure.
Such a formidable character would surely be at least a king, and perhaps even a legendary warrior!
Legendary warrior Devouring Dragon Fuxi.
That name.
Wow, doesn’t it sound incredibly impressive?
Imagining such a powerful version of himself, Fuxi wondered what he would do if many beautiful young ladies fell for him and refused to marry anyone but him.
As a pure-hearted and devoted lover of flowers, how could he bear to reject any of them? Yet, his heart was too faithful, which troubled him deeply…
Lost in his fanciful troubles, Fuxi was utterly distracted.
Tie Zheng quickly shifted to a more normal conversation with Li Ao.
They exchanged insights about their bloodline powers.
Li Ao offered him a few tips.
Tie Zheng was no fool; he grasped the concepts immediately and benefited greatly from Li Ao’s guidance.
If it weren’t for the need to look after Fuxi, he would have rushed back to the outer space to find the weakest Black Giant and test his new strength.
“You are welcome to wait if you like, or you can go back first,” Li Ao decided to take on the challenge of the inner space again.
“Be careful,” Tie Zheng knew of Li Ao’s resolve and admonished him not to overexert himself.
“Don’t worry!”
Li Ao waved his hand.
“Li Ao, are we not going back?”
Fuxi was as if woken from a dream.
“I promised that guy I’d have a fight with him, don’t worry, I can run if I can’t beat him. You guys rest well, I’ll be back soon!”
Li Ao knew that with his current strength, challenging the inner space was basically impossible.
However, his goal was not to defeat the seniors of the Ironclad Family but to break through to the Gold level and officially awaken the power of the Golden Giant in his bloodline.
Li Ao was gone for a day.
Tie Zheng and Fuxi.
Waited anxiously.
But fortunately, there were two of them, comforting each other, and they managed to endure.
They firmly believed that Li Ao would definitely return.
If there had been only one of them, perhaps during tough times they might have had chaotic thoughts, but with two people, as soon as one’s will faltered, the other would immediately offer encouragement.
With such mutual support, they waited for Li Ao’s return.
On the third day, Li Ao staggered out like a blood-soaked figure, not a single part of him was unharmed.
Slap!
Li Ao collapsed to the ground, powerless.
As his mind relaxed, he could no longer control his injuries, which erupted fully, splashing blood everywhere…