"let's start!"
Zhang Yao had a thought and activated the 'One Heart, One Destiny Curse'.
Silently, his vitality fluctuated violently and quickly began to burn.
Like a brilliant firework, the vitality burned slowly at first, but after just three or two breaths, the momentum became extremely fast.
"call……"
Zhang Yao's breathing was long and his expression was calm. This point of longevity burning was completely insignificant to him.
But the demon fish in his hand sensed something was wrong and struggled desperately in his hand, as if it was about to be stranded and about to die.
But Zhang Yao's palm grasped it firmly like an iron hoop. After the demon fish jumped for a few breaths, it gradually lost its strength, and its scales gradually lost their luster.
"about there."
Zhang Yao accurately sensed the time through his subtle sense of vitality, and immediately removed the curse of One Heart and One Life after burning the longevity energy to a fixed limit.
now--
The demon fish in his hand only has one-third of its lifespan left, and the upper limit of its vitality has been locked. As long as the Taoism is not broken, ordinary elixirs and spiritual objects can no longer replenish its lost lifespan.
The effect of the One Heart and One Life Curse, like the Blood Curse, is inherited by blood. If this demon fish has descendants, their descendants will also only have one-third of the upper limit of their lifespan.
"thump!"
Zhang Yao put the languid demon fish back into the large crystal fish tank.
After the demon fish swam feebly for a while, it sank into the gravel and sand at the level of the fish tank and remained motionless.
Zhang Yao keenly sensed that this demon fish was absorbing the spiritual energy around it and refining it into its own demon power in an attempt to make up for the damage it suffered.
"Um……"
Zhang Yao observed patiently, while recording the details of the demon fish's changes and organizing them into corresponding data.
More than two hours later:
The energy damage caused by the burning of vitality on the demon fish was compensated a lot, which allowed it to regain a little vitality and start to swim around in the large crystal fish tank and start looking for food.
"He has indeed become weaker!"
After Zhang Yao observed carefully for a moment, his eyes suddenly lit up.
After the upper limit of lifespan was locked, the body strength, level and total amount of demonic power of this demon fish, and even its initial intelligence level, all deteriorated to a certain extent.
When competing with the same kind of demon fish for some rarer food, it was now difficult to compete with its opponents who could win against each other before. It was beaten and fled in embarrassment, and the gap was very obvious.
"It seems that the connection between the upper limit of vitality and bloodline level is indeed very close and affects each other."
"If any change occurs on one side, it will immediately be reflected on the other side..."
Zhang Yao couldn't help but smile when he thought of this.
This result was the best news for him, and it meant that subsequent bloodline experiments could be carried out smoothly.
If the upper limit of the demon clan's vitality is not strongly related to the bloodline level, or if it only affects it unilaterally, then he can only stop here.
"But from this point of view, Li Shuixian's bloodline seems to be quite extraordinary..."
Thoughts flashed in Zhang Yao's mind, and he thought of the blood spell on Li Shuixian.
He has confirmed that the reduction of the upper limit of vitality will also lower the bloodline level, which means that the blood spell on Li Shuixian will also suppress the bloodline level of her entire family.
This is the most terrifying and vicious curse technique, and I am afraid that even the ancestor of Jindan may not be able to undo it.
Under normal circumstances, after being hit by a blood curse, it should not be passed down to several generations, and the bloodline will become mediocre, and it will be difficult to give birth to people with spiritual roots. Generations of people will sink into the world, die in vain, and suffer torture.
According to Li Shuixian’s self-report:
Their family has been under the blood curse for at least hundreds of years. Although the family has indeed gradually withered away, monks are born in every generation. Compared with other immortal cultivating families, there is no obvious difference in the birth rate.
Judging from this point, before the blood curse, the power of their family's bloodline was simply unimaginably powerful, far exceeding any other cultivating family he knew.
"It seems... that Li Shuixian's ancestor was an extremely important person."
"I just offended the evil cultivator and suffered revenge after his death, which led to such a miserable ending for future generations..."
Zhang Yao felt a little sad when he thought of this, but he had no more thoughts.
The world of cultivating immortals in Dali is turbulent. I don’t know how many Jindan Patriarchs have been born. There are talented people from generation to generation, and each has been leading the way for hundreds of years.
Li Shuixian's ancestors may have once been the most famous overlords in Dali, but after so many years, they have long been buried in the dust of history.
"call!"
Zhang Yao took a deep breath:
"The next step is the highlight!"
After confirming the bloodline connection, the next step is to forcibly increase the upper limit of vitality to promote the promotion of bloodline level in reverse.
This step cannot be done by relying on him alone. Although his energy is endless, it carries a strong personal imprint and cannot be transferred directly to living creatures. A medium and bridge are needed.
He happened to have such a treasure on his body - Earth Soul Crystal.
“I just need it to serve as a channel for conversion and communication, and there shouldn’t be any loss to it.”
Zhang Yao thought of this and took out a piece of Earth Soul Crystal.
All life-extending treasures in the world can be divided into two different types - replenishing the lost vitality; or directly increasing the upper limit of vitality.
The first type is relatively common, and most of the life-extending elixirs refined the day after tomorrow fall into this category.
The second type is quite rare. Most of them are naturally occurring treasures of heaven and earth, and a very few are artificial products like earth soul crystals.
"Uh-huh!"
Zhang Yao reached out and took out a new demon fish.
The shell inside the earth soul crystal is the only substance Zhang Yao has ever seen that can trap and suppress vitality.
This means that he can use this to use the earth soul crystal as a kind of 'adapter', use the demon body as a shell, force his own energy into it, and pressurize and force his bloodline to advance.
He didn't need to think about it to know that this approach had many disadvantages, and the success rate would probably be very impressive.
Even if he succeeds in the end, because his vitality is used, the promoted demon race will most likely be a mutilated and deformed child. The only advantage is that the blood collected may be unusually suitable for him.
But there is no way, how precious is an earth soul crystal? Zhang Yao was reluctant to use the vitality in the Earth Soul Crystal to catalyze the bloodline of the demon clan.
"Zizzizi..."
Amidst a strange soft sound, Zhang Yao slowly absorbed his own vitality, and forcefully poured it into the body of the demon fish through the medium of earth soul crystal.
Because he had refined the Earth Divine Embryo, his vitality could no longer affect the vitality inside any earth soul crystal.
This was originally a restriction on him, but in this case, it turned out to be a big help to him, allowing him to use the earth soul crystal as an adapter without fear of damaging or infecting the pure vitality inside. .
"Bah bang bang!"
The demon fish in Zhang Yao's hand immediately started struggling crazily, as if being electrocuted all over its body. The fish's tail was lashing desperately, its eyes turned outward, and traces of blood spilled from the eye sockets.
"Bang!"
The demon fish in his hand exploded into pieces and turned into a ball of blood mist and minced bones and flesh.
Zhang Yao frowned slightly, waved his sleeves, and used his magic power to sweep away the blood mist and minced bones and flesh, and put it into a porcelain bottle.
"It failed on the first try..."
He recalled the details just now, and after thinking hard for a long time, his brows slowly relaxed.
"There should be something wrong with the control frequency of the vitality transition. It should be slower..."
When he just started:
The external vitality clashed violently with the demon fish's own vitality, causing it to be unable to bear it and explode to death.
If he wanted to further improve the experiment, the first problem he had to solve was the conflict of vitality.
…………
Time flies by.
While Zhang Yao devoted himself to practicing hard, he also set aside a fixed amount of time every day to perfect bloodline tests, practice Taoism, etc.
Thanks to his taking charge of the GCC and becoming wealthy, the supply of spiritual stones for cultivation and spiritual pills for increasing mana has been opened up, and the speed of cultivation is much faster than in previous years.
One day more than three years later.
Deep in the Cangjiang Water Mansion, in Zhang Yao's cave.
"The 2355th experiment begins..."
Zhang Yao took out a new blank jade slip and prepared to start recording experimental data.
More than three years have passed. After daily experiments, reflections, and summaries, he has built a complete recording mechanism and compiled many rules.
Fortunately, the water veins of the Cangjiang River stretch for hundreds of miles, and the spiritual energy is very abundant. Tens of thousands of aquatic monsters live there, and they reproduce very quickly. Otherwise, another place would not be able to withstand his excitement.
"Uh-huh!"
A demon fish broke out of the water and was captured by Zhang Yao's magic power.
Zhang Yao controlled the frequency of vitality with ease, shooting back and forth with his spiritual thoughts, observing the subtle changes bit by bit.
"The transition of vitality went smoothly...the first phase is completed!"
"Entering the stage of fusion of vitality and energy, preparing to carry out interference... The second stage is completed!"
"Prepare to enter the bloodline catalysis stage..."
When the experiment reaches the third stage:
With a "sizzle", a blood-red tendon broke through the scales of the demon fish and stretched out from its forehead, fangs and claws like tentacles.
The demon fish made a mournful sound, flapped its fins a few times, and then quickly died.
After the breath of the demon fish was cut off, the blood-red tendons also drooped, becoming extremely dry and lifeless in a few moments.
"...The third stage failed, and there was still physical distortion caused by blood abnormalities."
After Zhang Yao recorded the data, he further observed carefully:
"Um……"
His expression was silent, still looking at the blood-red tendons:
"The direction of the bloodline mutation this time should be more towards the basic physical body, but the frequency rhythm and the changes in the energy fusion node do not match."
"It seems that further experiments are still needed to understand the key nodes in the fusion stage of vitality and their effects on specific parts of the bloodline..."
After Zhang Yao summarized his experience and lessons, he recorded the data and quickly ended the experiment.
After leaving the crystal laboratory, he returned to the quiet room, preparing to start today's practice and a new round of retreat.
More than three years have passed:
His cultivation level has not improved qualitatively, but all his spiritual weapons have been replaced with high-end quality, and the two golden armor talismans have also been re-refined, and their quality is much higher than the old ones.
Coupled with the further cultivation and understanding of his own Taoism, his combat power has become much stronger than three years ago.
The only regret is probably that three years was too short and failed to successfully recruit new foundation-building monks. The GCC's strength and influence basically remained at the same level.
"Guild Master!"
At this moment, Zhang Yao suddenly changed his expression and heard several familiar divine thoughts.
He got up and left the quiet room, came to the door of the cave and opened the formation, and saw Peng Yuexian, Fairy Lichen, Taoist Xanthium and others.
"I didn't expect that all fellow Taoists would come together. Please come in quickly."
He was quite surprised. After greeting everyone, he invited them to the main hall of the cave.
After the guests and hosts were seated, they chatted for a while before Peng Yuexian revealed the reason for his visit. He wanted to exchange his contribution points for some treasures.
"That's it?"
Zhang Yao said in surprise:
"I thought you guys came here together because there was something important. That's what we did for a long time."
After he took charge of the GCC, because he could not find a suitable and trustworthy candidate for a while, he did not hand over the treasure house of Shuifu, but kept it in his own hands.
Normally, Lao Peng, Taoist Xiangu and others would come to him directly to exchange money if necessary, but this was the first time he had seen such people come together to exchange money together.
"Is it possible that the leader of the association is unclear?"
Peng Yuexian and others were also a little surprised and couldn't help but said:
"In half a month, it will be Tianbao Tower's once-in-a-decade auction!"
"This is a grand event for the entire Dali Immortal Cultivation World. I don't know how many foundation-building monks will gather. Is it possible that the leader is not planning to go?"
"Big auction?"
Zhang Yao looked slightly hesitant when he heard this.
The reputation of Tianbao Tower's grand auction has long been known to him, but he has never had a chance.
When the last big auction started, he was still on duty in Suiyu Mountain. He heard that Master Haihe led everyone to have a fun time and took a lot of good things.
"Um……"
He pondered for a moment, thoughts flashing in his mind:
"To go or not to go?"
Tianbao Tower's grand auction, after being held so many times, has long become a broad public platform.
In the big auctions and various subsequent trade fairs, it is very likely that there will be top-level spiritual weapons that are rarely seen in the outside world, or the blood essence of the foundation-building demon clan, which he needs.
His bloodline experiment is still far from successful. If he misses this opportunity, he will have to wait another ten years.
But the host was Tianbao Tower, which still made him worried, especially since he had offended Yu Wentai, the owner of Tianbao Tower a few years ago, so there was a certain risk.
"correct."
Zhang Yao suddenly thought of something and asked casually:
"In previous years, did Master Haihe participate every time?"
"right."
Peng Yue nodded first and said:
"In the past dozen or so large auctions, Master Haihe has never missed a single one."
"After all, fellow Foundation Builders like us rarely have such an opportunity to openly communicate and exchange knowledge, so as long as we can make it in time, we will basically participate."
(End of chapter)
