Chapter 9: The Bloodline of Kings

  Ling Shuiyan ignored Xiao Chen's muttering and after explaining, he headed towards their destination.

  Xiao Chen also followed, and Ye Liu Xing's voice echoed in Xiao Chen's mind again. Ye Liu Xing said: "Xiao Chen, this is your chance, listen to me, you can condense the vortex."

  "Shooting Star Sister, do you have a way to help me condense the vortex!" Xiao Chen is now facing a bottleneck. Due to the Stellar Battle Body, Xiao Chen needs more than ten times the energy of an ordinary person to condense the vortex in his dantian. Now that Ye Liu Xing has an idea, Xiao Chen naturally can't wait.

  "Of course! Just listen to me when the time comes." Ye Liu Xing said confidently.

  Walking in the mountains and forests, there is a gloomy feeling. Fortunately, nothing unexpected happened along the way. When the footsteps stopped at the foot of Ling Shuiyan, it finally arrived at the destination.

  However, upon arriving here, Xiao Chen's expression changed instantly, becoming extremely solemn, because he sensed a terrifying aura, that of the King's majesty.

  This pressure doesn't need to be deliberately spread, it directly acts on people's hearts, Xiao Chen's cultivation can't resist at all, and he immediately feels a desire to escape from this pressure.

  However, Xiao Chen endured humiliation and hardship for ten years, his mind was tempered to be as strong as a rock, withstanding the invasion of this powerful pressure, not fleeing, but closely following Ling Shuiyan's side.

  Ling Shuiyan watched Xiao Chen's performance with a nod of approval, very satisfied with his display.

  Ling Shuiyan said: "There is a king-level demon beast living here, called the Youming Tiger King."

  "King-level demon beast?!" Upon hearing this, Xiao Chen's heart skipped a beat. From his past life memories, he knew that demon beasts also had a division of strength, and king-level demon beasts were already equivalent to human warriors at the Fish-Leap Boundary.

  Cultivators have nine major realms, and demonic beasts also have levels that correspond to them in sequence.

  The practitioner divides into nine major realms: feeling response, practicing qi, condensing the spirit, spiritual awareness, penetrating the mysterious, fish jumping, empty mirror, true mirror, and shattered mirror.

  The demon beasts are divided into levels, including soldier level, general level, commander level, king level, lord level, emperor level, and supreme level. Demon beasts above the lord level can transform into human form, such as the Four Great Regions, the Northern Yu Region's Demon Palace, where the palace master is an emperor-level demon beast, equivalent to a true mirror warrior in human society.

  Induction and Qi cultivation belong to the foundation building stage, so they are not counted as internal. Only when one enters the stage of concentration does one become a true martial artist. The demonic beasts condense their demonic nuclei into demonic soldiers, therefore, concentration corresponds to demonic soldiers, and it can be inferred from this.

  "Don't worry," Ling Shuiyan said: "This young tiger king has not yet come of age, it's just a cub. Last time I accidentally found it when I went down the mountain, now this good fortune is to be shared with you."

  "Sister's great kindness, how can Xiao Chen repay it?" Xiao Chen felt a deep sense of gratitude.

  "You stay here and don't move," Ling Shuiyan said.

  Then, Xiao Chen only saw the Ling Shui smoke figure flash and arrived at the lair of the You Ming Tiger King. In an instant, a low and muffled tiger's roar burst out from the cave, causing the earth to shake and the mountains to tremble!

  Xiao Chen hid in the distance, only to discover that Ling Shuiyan's body was also bursting with an incredibly powerful and heart-trembling aura at this moment, even more intense than that of the Youming Tiger King.

  A hazy mist of smoke and water burst forth from Ling Shuiyan's body, making her seem like a female warrior goddess emerging from the water at this moment, gentle yet powerful!

  Ahh!

  Buzz!

  At this moment, a thunderous tiger roar suddenly came from the cave, and then Xiao Chen saw a whirlwind blowing out of the cave. It can be imagined how fast the Tiger King was, pulling out the wind to form a whirlwind!

  Then a black and white figure, like a whirlwind, burst out of the cave, roaring and shaking the earth. Before it even approached, its majestic aura was already terrifying, as if it could swallow everything in its path.

  The tiger king of the underworld stood up, its height was more than one person tall, it looked like a calf, and its black and white striped fur seemed to be oozing with oil, reflecting a faint glow.

  Its eyes were as black as ink, shooting out two cold lights, with a fierce killing intent, its large mouth was wide open, roaring loudly, the sound shaking the sky, and echoing in the mountains and valleys.

  Ling Shuiyan stood still, unmoving, gazing at the majestic and powerful Youming Tiger King. His calm eyes and sweet voice contained an irresistible majesty that suppressed the Youming Tiger King, as he violently shouted: "You beast, kneel down!"

  "Rooooo..." The Phantom Tiger King let out a low, rumbling growl, his four paws landing on the ground, but he did not kneel. His eyes gleamed with a fierce light, as if deep in thought.

  "Trouble." Ling Shui's eyebrows furrowed, and then his palm flipped over, a long sword that seemed to flow like water suddenly appeared in his hand, and the killing intent burst out suddenly.

  Xiao Chen only found that Ling Shuiyan disappeared in an instant, while You Ming Hu Wang suddenly let out a thunderous roar at this moment. His buffalo-like body became extremely agile, and he instantly turned around, with his tiger tail, which was like a sharp steel chain, whipping out. The air exploded like a blast of thunder, and the wind blades were torn apart.

  Clang!

  A metallic impact-like sound was heard, and Ling Shuiyan appeared. The True Water Sword in his hand collided with the tail of the Youming Tiger King.

  A brief pause, as if in slow motion.

  The next moment, an extremely strange scene unfolded. The tail of the Phantom Tiger King was suddenly severed, and Ling Shuiyan's True Water Sword also vanished in that instant. The next moment, it reappeared with a flash, and the aura of true water soared into the sky.

  Ling water smoke green silk fluttering, as if a banished immortal descending to the mortal world, his whole body surging with energy, he suddenly shouted: "Twenty-four Cloud Exit Style!"

  Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

  A sudden storm, Xiao Chen only saw the flying sword of blood beads, the bloody waves surging, but he couldn't see how Ling Shuiyan drew his sword, as if Ling Shuiyan had been standing still in his original position all along.

  Shocking!

  Xiao Chen was in a state of extreme shock, muttering to himself: "This is the ultimate technique of the Yunjian Sword Sect, Yunjian Twenty-Four Styles! Fast as pear blossoms in a stormy rain, winds sweeping away the remaining clouds, an unbeatable sword!"

  That majestic tiger king didn't even have the strength to resist, under the Cloud Twenty-four Style. It didn't even let out a mournful cry. By the time Ling Shuiyan told Xiao Chen he could come over, all Xiao Chen saw was a pile of white bones. The magnificent and boundless king had already disappeared.

  Xiao Chen's mouth was wide enough to hold a duck egg. "Unleash the Twenty-Fourth Style of the Cloud Exit, Sword Out White Bone in One Land."

  "Although it's a king-level demon beast, it's still young, only about to reach the next level. If it really grows up, I'll have to run away." It's clear that this Ghost Tiger King is extremely formidable, and even Ling Shuiyan doesn't dare to underestimate it.

  "Ling Shijie, what realm are you in?" Xiao Chen asked curiously, because the combat power that Ling Shuiyan had burst out with earlier was already unimaginable. The Twenty-Four Forms of Yunwu were executed, and it was as if the wind swept away the clouds, creating something out of nothing.

  "Tong Xuan." Ling Shuiyan said faintly, and immediately changed the subject: "You've eaten this demon core, and also swallowed these two golden spirit pills. I'll use my Xuan Gong to help you catalyze it, and assist you in shaping your king's bloodline."

  Upon hearing this, Xiao Chen didn't stand on ceremony and accepted everything into his hands. He then urged the true energy in his dantian to circulate according to his cultivation method.

  After a week of running the Heavenly Circuit, Xiao Chen swallowed two Golden Spirit Pills and the Demon Core, while Ling Shuiyan immediately began to help him refine them. Ling Shuiyan's palms slowly pressed against Xiao Chen's back, and then that pure and powerful True Water Primordial Force was injected into Xiao Chen's body, directly acting on the two medicinal pills and the Demon Core.

  It's undeniable that Ling Shuiyan's power had reached an extreme point, and the indestructible demon core of Youming Tiger King directly melted under her Xuan Gong catalysis.

  The medicinal power of Jin Ling Dan had already been dissolved, and it immediately merged with the violent energy in the demon core, making this energy gentle.

  Everything is under Ling Shuiyan's control, proceeding quietly.

  But just as Ling Shuiyan was about to let out a sigh of relief, her eyebrows suddenly furrowed and her eyes snapped open, "How is that possible..."

  At this moment, Ling Shuiyan suddenly discovered that he couldn't control the energy of the Golden Spirit Pill and the Demon Core in Xiao Chen's body. His true yuan was unable to flow through Xiao Chen's body, as if it was being repelled.

  This situation, Ling Shuiyan had never encountered before. This method was passed down to her by her master Zhou Zishan. The probability of counterattack is one in a hundred, but now, this one percent seems to have been encountered by Xiao Chen.

  "Not good!" Ling Shuiyan's face changed, and he formed a wonderful seal with both hands. The thick true water yuan force was injected into Xiao Chen's body again, trying to control the energy in Xiao Chen's body, lest it backfire and kill him.

  Xiao Chen was not actually counter-attacked, but Ye Liu Xing had just used his extremely powerful divine soul to directly cut off Ling Shui Yan's true water elemental force, allowing Xiao Chen to use that massive power to condense a vortex.

  "At this moment, Ye Liu Xing's voice was urgently saying in Xiao Chen's mind: 'Use air to rush the spirit, control the spirit and restrain the air, unify the air and spirit, move within the dantian...'"

  Xiao Chen didn't dare to be the slightest bit careless, as the demon core of the Youming Tiger King was amplified by the power of three Golden Spirit Pills. This energy was extremely massive, and if he wasn't careful, his body would likely be blasted apart and killed by this enormous energy.

  At this moment, Xiao Chen's body and mind were fully immersed in the state of cultivation. Following Ye Liu Xing's guidance, he began to condense the vortex, attempting to channel this massive energy. However, Xiao Chen's true qi was too weak. Even with Ye Liu Xing's guidance, it was extremely difficult for him to control this power and condense it into a vortex in his dantian.

  At this moment, a warm and gentle power suddenly surged into Xiao Chen's body. This power was like a timely help in time of need for Xiao Chen!

  "Xiao Yatou's true yuan energy arrived just in time, watch me help you!" Ye Liu Xing only had a pure and trembling divine soul power, but he didn't have any true yuan, so he couldn't directly assist Xiao Chen.

  However, Ling Shuiyan, who was worried about Xiao Chen's safety, poured the thick True Water Elemental Force into Xiao Chen's body, allowing Ye Liu Xing to directly use his powerful divine soul force to intercept this power and help Xiao Chen drive the You Ming Tiger King's demon core and the three Golden Spirit Pills' power, causing Xiao Chen to condense a vortex.

  "My power... Xiaochen is absorbing my power..." Ling Shuiyan furrowed her brow, only to feel her own power entering Xiaochen's body and disappearing instantly, like a mud cow entering the sea.