"Ahhh！！！”Liao Xiao Jin let out a loud roar, and a powerful aura burst forth from his body. His originally pitch-black wings now revealed threads of silver, and the air currents blowing around him sent papers, books, and even heavier objects like stools and desks flying about.

  Zhou Qing's face was covered in sweat as he manipulated the spiritual key, helplessly gazing at the pack of wolves before him. Yet, his heart was filled with joy: indeed, a descendant of the Jiuli tribe, possessing the heavenly pulse of Chi You. Looking at this aura, it's the sacred blood of Jiuli! The legendary supreme spiritual medicine, even if it drained all the blood from your body, might not yield a single drop after refinement. However, you're a blood clan, and your blood can regenerate endlessly. I'm truly lucky to have encountered a descendant of Chi You, an ancient being thought to be extinct, and on top of that, a member of the blood clan! Ah ha, fortunately, the Practitioner's Compendium had records, or else I would have missed this treasure. Wouldn't I regret it if I didn't seize this opportunity?

  The powerful airflow suddenly stopped, and Liao Xiaojin jumped up, his entire skeleton crackling like a handful of beans. He looked at the six jade plaques floating above his head with some confusion, "Ah"! Liao Xiaojin let out a sharp cry, thinking that Zhou Qing was about to make a sneak attack. But what he saw instead was Zhou Qing using the six jade plaques to burn Anthony's corpse into a wisp of green smoke. How could he not be afraid?

  Zhou Qing saw him like this and hastily said, "Don't misunderstand, I saw you absorbing the power of Taihua to heal your wounds, so I helped you a bit." Liao Xiao Jin finally put his mind at ease, noticed the changes in himself, and when he saw his own wings with silver stripes, he couldn't help but feel shocked and ecstatic. "How is this possible? How did I suddenly evolve from a baron to a viscount?! And it's almost close to reaching the level of an earl! How can it be so fast? Other bloodlines would take at least fifty years or more! Thank God!" Liao Xiao Jin went crazy with excitement.

  When Liao Xiao Jin called out to God, Zhou Qing also burst out laughing. "Does your bloodline believe in God too?" Upon hearing Zhou Qing's teasing, Liao Xiao Jin's face turned slightly red as he said: "After staying in the UK for a few years, it became a habit, of course, our bloodline believes in Satan, I was just too excited earlier and called out to that old enemy God, but I think Lord Satan will forgive me."

  "What's so exciting? Just now, I used the Taiji diagram to absorb all the Taihua power in the moonlight within a radius of tens of miles and helped you replenish your energy. How was it? Our Chinese Taoist divine powers are far superior to any God or Satan, and if my skills reach the level of practicing Qi to transform into a god, I can absorb the Taihua power from hundreds of miles around and easily advance you to whatever title you want." Zhou Qing gave a heavy dose of medicine, stimulating Liao Xiao Jin. Seeing Liao's big mouth, Zhou felt a sense of satisfaction: Hmph! Tempting him with benefits, I'm not afraid he won't be moved. Especially since your bloodline values strength above all, I'm not worried you won't follow me obediently.

  "Hey, Big Brother Zhou! Can you teach me that Tai Chi formation?!" Seeing Zhou Qing's puzzled look, Liao Xiao Jin waved his hands repeatedly. "I know this is sudden, but if Big Brother Zhou can teach me this formation, I'll definitely become a Marquis soon and gain power. With that, I can take back my Jenny. You can ask me to repay you in any way you want." To gain Zhou Qing's trust, Liao Xiao Jin told him his story from the beginning. It turned out that Liao Xiao Jin was an overseas student who had gone to England three years ago. In a bar in London, he met a beautiful girl named Jenny and they fell deeply in love. Later, Jenny told Liao Xiao Jin that she was a vampire, and for them to be together forever, Jenny had to turn him into a blood relative as well. However, their happiness was short-lived. The young master of the powerful Lockwood family, Edward, also took a liking to Jenny. Liao Xiao Jin was just an ordinary blood relative with no power or influence, so how could he compete with Edward? If it weren't for Jenny's pleading, Liao Xiao Jin would have been killed long ago.

  "Ah! Another modern-day version of Liang Zhu, and it's a modern vampire version too." Zhou Qing thought to herself, "This kid is also a pitiful person. It seems that the word 'love' not only makes humans lose their minds and become infatuated, but even the legendary cruel and cunning vampires are no exception. I wonder if the heavenly beings outside the nine heavens are the same way?"

  "This is our sect's ultimate skill, and it shouldn't be passed on to outsiders. However, there isn't no way..." Zhou Qing paused for a moment, looking at Liao Xiao Jin who was full of hope, and asked: "What way?"

  "As long as you acknowledge me as your master and join my sect, I will not only teach you the Taiji diagram array, but also gradually pass on our sect's ultimate skills."

  Liao Xiao Jin was overjoyed when he heard this, and hastily knelt down on the ground, calling out to Zhou Qing: "Master is above, please accept your disciple's bow."

  "Don't rush to bow, let me make one thing clear: once you enter my gate, for the rest of your life, you must not betray our sect or defect to another. If you do, I will crush your bones and scatter your ashes, refine your soul into a magic treasure, and ensure that you never reincarnate."

  Liao Xiao Jin knelt on the ground, kowtowing incessantly. "I beg of you, Zhou Qing, to accept me as your disciple today. For one day I am a disciple, for a lifetime I will be a disciple. If I betray my master's teachings, may heaven and earth condemn me."

  "I'm entering your school, becoming your disciple doesn't bring any loss, but instead can learn the ultimate skills. Not betraying is not betraying, why would I betray my master's teachings for no reason? Am I just bored after eating too much?

  Moreover, in the future when dealing with Edward and Kulak, as a master, you wouldn't help me out? Looking at your appearance, that old ghost Kulak isn't even a match for you!" Liao Xiao Jin thought to himself, full of ulterior motives.

  On this side, Zhou Qing also calculated: "First scare you, let you be my apprentice obediently, and then casually come up with some kind of skill or something. It's easy to extract blood, right? After all, you're a blood clan, and you have the Chi You Heavenly Pulse, your blood is endless. As long as I refine the nine drops of 'Nine Li Sacred Blood', when I take it, it will make up for at least hundreds of years of hard work, and maybe even break through the Qi Refining stage and reach the realm of Practicing Qi to Refine Spirit."

  "Master, what's our school called? Are there others?" Liao Xiaojin asked Zhou Qing.

  "Ah, this... Our sect is called Lian Qi... No, our sect is called Tian Dao Zong." Originally, he wanted to say it was Lian Qi Zong, but he thought the name wasn't impressive enough, so Zhou Qing changed it. "Hmph, our Lian Qi Zong's specialty is formation techniques and refining magical artifacts. We don't have materials to refine artifacts, so that's not possible. This formation technique is all about following the will of heaven and borrowing the power of nature to get things done. You could say it's the way of heaven too." Zhou Qing thought. From then on, the Tian Dao Zong sect, which would later shake the three realms, began to take shape.

  "As for people, our Tiandao Sect has always been a single line of transmission. My master, also your Master Lingyun's ancestor from over a decade ago, had already achieved 'Ascension through Enlightenment'. " Zhou Qing casually fabricated a lie. If she were to say that her own master was killed by someone several years ago, this new disciple might immediately betray the sect.

  "Can one really ascend to the heavens through Tao?" Liao Xiaojin expressed his doubts. "Why not? Aren't blood clans also legendary things? And aren't you one now? In this vast world, nothing is impossible." Liao Xiaojin thought about it and found it reasonable, so he let it go.

  "Master, are these worm-like symbols really useful? I'm getting dizzy from drawing them!" Liao Xiaojin held a vermilion wolf-hair brush and was copying a strange symbol onto yellow paper. "You're not even average, it took you three days to learn the Soul Fire Symbol, but when I was your master, I learned it in one go." Zhou Qing, who was meditating on an array, opened his eyes and scolded Liao Xiaojin, "What's the use? This Soul Fire Symbol can gather and summon the fire spirit energy between heaven and earth! Watch closely!" Zhou Qing held the symbol that Liao Xiaojin had just finished drawing with two fingers. "Heavenly fire spirits, listen to my command, quickly like a law!" With a flick of his hand, the paper suddenly ignited without any flame, forming a small fireball. "It's truly amazing! But Master, I still think it's not very useful... this small fire is enough for lighting cigarettes, but using it against enemies might not work?" Liao Xiaojin still had doubts.

  "Hmph! You've only learned the Dao for three days and you can already produce a flame like this, not bad. But how much true yuan do you have? Not bad, your bloodline's physical skills are indeed impressive, but our TianDao Sect emphasizes borrowing the power of heaven and earth. Can your bloodline surpass even the universe? You think the power of the soul fire symbol is just that little?"

  With that, Zhou Qing took over the cinnabar brush and drew five different symbols in a row. He picked up the fire symbol he had just drawn and said, "Let me show you the basic power of the soul fire symbol." Under Liao Xiao Jin's disbelieving gaze, a huge fireball floated in mid-air, emitting high temperatures that made Liao Xiao Jin feel like his hair was about to catch on fire.

  Zhou Qing then threw out four more symbols, which quickly merged into the fireball. "Be careful!" Zhou Qing shouted at Liao Xiao Jin. "See if you can withstand it!"

  Liao Xiao Jin nodded heavily and retreated a zhang (about 3 meters) back, his body glowing with a silver light as he transformed into a winged creature. His eyes gleamed sharply as he stared fixedly at the approaching fireball.

  Just when the fireball was about to hit Liao Xiao Jin, Zhou Qing smiled sinisterly and changed the direction of the symbol with a flick of his wrist. "Five elements reversal, yin-yang transformation!" As soon as he spoke these eight words, the fireball suddenly disappeared without a trace.

  Liao Xiao Jin felt a surge of disdain: what a big fuss over nothing! But before he could react, his body was enveloped in a thick fog that obscured everything around him. "Not good!" Liao Xiao Jin's instincts screamed at him to get out of there as fast as possible.

  With a loud roar, Liao Xiao Jin burst into speed, but just as he was about to break through the fog, he felt an enormous force like a mountain crashing down on him. The impact sent him stumbling back, his vision blurring.

  As soon as he regained his footing, another wave of sharp, piercing energy shot towards his chest. Liao Xiao Jin barely had time to react before it hit him, and he could only use his wings to block the attack. The force was so great that it sliced through his wing, leaving a gash four inches long and an inch deep.

  Liao Xiao Jin let out a pained cry as blood spurted out of the wound like a fountain.

  But before Liao Xiao Jin could recover from the pain, another wave of cold air struck him, making his bones ache. Without any defense, Liao Xiao Jin was hit by the cold air and let out a series of coughs. The blood that had just sprayed out of his wings froze into ice blocks, which fell to the ground with a loud clattering sound. Fortunately, as a member of the Blood Clan, Liao Xiao Jin often absorbed the yin energy from the Moon Flower, making him more resistant to cold air. Moreover, his blood contained the sacred blood of the Nine Li, so if an ordinary person were hit by this wave of cold air, they would likely turn into an ice sculpture and shatter into pieces with a single tap. Just as Liao Xiao Jin was shivering with cold, he suddenly saw a huge fireball floating beside him, which made his soul fly out of his body. He shouted loudly: "Master! Don't! I won't be able to hold on!" As soon as the words left his mouth, the fireball disappeared and was replaced by a green, peaceful aura that quickly merged into his body. A force like the revival of all things flowed through his body, making Liao Xiao Jin let out a comfortable sigh. To his surprise, he found that his wounds were slowly healing, even faster than when he absorbed the Moon Flower's energy.

  Looking at Zhou Qing with a smile and an air of detachment, Liao Xiao Jin's soul was still shaken, and he exclaimed: "What kind of kung fu is this? I completely can't figure out the direction! Such power is something I absolutely can't resist! The wings of our bloodline are the hardest! And I'm going to evolve into a Count's bloodline! I dare say that even bullets can't pierce it, and yet a small talisman has such great power?"

  "Right, didn't you see me draw five talismans just now? They are fire talisman, water talisman, earth talisman, metal talisman and wood talisman. Each of them can mobilize the power of the Five Elements within a radius of ten miles. I set up a small Five Elements Reversal Formation with them. You must have felt it too while you were in the formation! And yet you say it's useless?"

  "It's useful, it's useful, it's extremely useful!" Liao Xiaojin felt it personally and no longer had any doubts. "Master, teach me quickly! If I were to use this on that old devil Kulak, he wouldn't die but would be skinned alive!"

  However, this array also has its weaknesses," Zhou Qing paused for a moment before continuing, "earlier when I was setting up the array, with your speed, if you had quickly attacked me, I might have been caught off guard and wouldn't have had time to set it up. This is also a common problem with arrays - the best way to deal with them is to not let them be set up, otherwise once they are, it's no longer a fight between people, but a fight against heaven. Unless you have several times more power than the person setting up the array, or have a treasure that can break through the array, or are well-versed in array techniques, there's nothing to do but wait for death. Also, using cinnabar and yellow paper as symbols, storing true yuan has limited effect, at most it can only be saved for three hours, after which the spiritual energy disperses and it becomes useless, unless you use a naturally occurring treasure that can absorb spiritual energy like cold jade, warm jade, or purple crystal."

  "Is that so! I get it, heh heh, cultivating the Tao also requires money, looks like money is still the most important thing." Liao Xiao Jin let out such a sigh of emotion. "When I was in England, I didn't have any money or power, unlike that damned Luo Ke family who are wealthy and arrogant, even raising a large group of blood slaves. They can drink virgin's blood whenever they want, whereas I, even wanting to drink blood had to go to the hospital to buy it, secretly sucking the blood of a few vagrants, still afraid of being discovered by the Vatican. Ah, Master, why don't we go get a large sum of money?"

  "How do we get the money?" Zhou Qing asked. "The fastest way is to rob a bank, you can get tens of millions at once, and after a dozen times or so, you'll have billions." Upon hearing Liao Xiao Jin's words, Zhou Qing, who had just picked up his cup to take a sip of tea, almost choked on the water.

  "YOU! YOU!" Zhou Qing's fingers shook wildly as he pointed at Liao Xiaojin, "Why don't you just die? If this method was possible, I would have done it long ago. Do you think you're so capable that you can do whatever you want? Decades ago, the country established a secret organization, I don't know what its name is, but I know it's dedicated to preventing people from using Taoist magic and supernatural powers for criminal purposes. It has gathered countless experts, several major sects, such as Matou, Kunlun, Tianshi, and Shushan, have all sent their top disciples. This kind of reckless behavior, I don't even know how to describe it! Ha ha! You vampire, if you're discovered by them, I don't know what the consequences will be, but it'll be terrible. In England, you can only buy blood to drink, you don't dare suck human blood directly. Every country has similar organizations, otherwise, everything would have fallen apart long ago. Don't tell me that Britain doesn't have one!" Zhou Qing took the opportunity to threaten Liao Xiaojin again.

  Liao Xiao Jin awkwardly smiled: "Just kidding, just kidding. I heard from a senior vampire that there's an organization in the UK called BBL, where all sorts of people are gathered, including the Holy See's Illuminati, Templars, and even a Cardinal, not to mention our vampires and dark sorcerers. It's really hard to imagine how they get along." "What's so strange about it? When driven by interests, even mice and cats can get together! By the way, apprentice, you wouldn't be one of those naive idealists, would you?" Zhou Qing slowly savored his tea.

  "Of course not, actually we can go gamble, with Master's divine power, the banknotes will come easily?" Zhou Qing shook his head and said: "This method is also not good, I heard that there are several Southeast Asian masters sitting in the casinos in Macau when I was doing antique business. Now we are weak and should not provoke trouble, hehe, if I cultivate to the realm of Nirvana, use the three flavors of true fire to refine a few more treasures, then the world will be at our feet."

  "I didn't say I wanted to go to Macau! Hehe, Master, since China is so hard to mix in, why don't we go to Las Vegas in the US? It's a place where all sorts of people gather, and there are many strong dragons who have crossed the river. Plus, the flow of funds is huge. We can win a few billion dollars and then return to China to start a company. Wouldn't that be better? Besides, even if we get robbed there, it won't be a big deal!"

  "This is actually a good idea, but I wonder if there are any thorny figures in the US? Hmph! Who cares about that much? A cultivator who fears this and that can't cultivate anything. Once I have money and establish my own power, that will be quite comfortable. Always hiding oneself isn't a solution either. Moreover, with this treasure here, greatly increasing our power is only a matter of time. Even now, as long as we don't engage in direct combat, relying on my 'Sword Qi Ling Kong' technique combined with the flying sword magic treasure, especially our school's array method, unless we encounter someone at the Hua Shen level, we shouldn't be at a disadvantage."

  Zhou Qing secretly calculated.

  "Alright, wait for me to prepare, we'll set off in three months. We've got the money to establish our own power, and by then you can also have the strength to take back your Jenny! Let's destroy that what's-his-name Lock family, anyway they're not Chinese people, I still have to consider China's Taoist sects, but foreigners are another matter, we can do whatever we want with them!" Zhou Qing made up his mind. Instead, he boosted Liao Xiao Jin's morale, making him excited beyond control.