Chapter 206: Chapter 194: 3rd Bloodline Evolution

As his spirit entered the Storage Dantian, the very first thing to meet his eyes was a massive pile of Spirit Stones!

Spiritual Qi billowed from these Spirit Stones, suffusing the entire Storage Dantian. It must have accumulated for countless years, for it had actually condensed into a large pool of liquid.

Primordial Essence Spirit Liquid!

It was all Primordial Essence Spirit Liquid!

Dozens upon dozens of drops of Primordial Essence Spirit Liquid!

’A single drop was enough for me to break through from the Armor Realm. With this much Primordial Essence Spirit Liquid, reaching the Ultimate Venerable Peak should be no problem at all!’

The sheer amount of Spiritual Qi radiating from them was enough to form Primordial Essence Spirit Liquid. One could only imagine the number of Spirit Stones present!

Nie Yun did a quick count. The Spirit Stones piled up in his Storage Dantian numbered well over a thousand!

A single Spirit Stone was priceless, worth more than hundreds of thousands—or even millions—of silver taels. The value of over a thousand of them was simply...

Staggering!

’Hm? There are also quite a few weapons and Secret Manuals here...’

Beside the Spirit Stones lay a pile of weapons and Secret Manuals. The weapons paled in comparison to the Spirit Stones; there were only a few of Royal Family’s Top Grade. As for the Secret Manuals, Nie Yun didn’t even bother looking. With his Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique and Nine-Turn Nirvana Skill, almost no other Secret Manual was worth his attention.

Beyond these items, a longsword caught his eye.

The sword was identical in style and appearance to the fake one he had seen in the Luoo Qu Tomb. The only difference was that this one carried an ancient, timeworn aura, giving it a more profound and heavy presence.

’This must be the real Phecda Sword!’

However, Nie Yun’s gaze didn’t linger on the Phecda Sword. Instead, it slowly drifted to an inconspicuous disc in a corner of the Storage Dantian.

The disc was pitch-black and resembled a token. It looked ancient and worn, yet it contained a special energy that made the Nameless Technique within Nie Yun’s body tremble uncontrollably.

’This is the energy! As long as I absorb it, the Nameless Technique will activate and I can derive another Dantian...’

Feeling the special energy from the disc, Nie Yun’s eyes lit up, and he clenched his fists in excitement.

The Nameless Technique was the single greatest reason he had been able to become an Ultimate Venerable Powerhouse in just three months since his rebirth.

’Without the Nameless Technique, I’d probably still be stuck with just three Dantians and a horribly slow cultivation speed. I’d only have the Pill Fire and Storage attributes. If I got injured, I’d have to rely on medicine, with no Healing Qi to help me. And I could forget about Beast Taming and Tracking!’

The Nameless Technique could derive Dantians, making his talent stronger and his cultivation faster. Its immense utility was obvious.

’It took me two full days and nights of absorbing Essence Energy to reach the Third Layer Great Success of the Spirit Rhinoceros Body Refining Technique. I still have one day left. It’s the perfect time to cultivate the Nameless Technique and push my bloodline to the absolute peak: Royal Family’s Top Grade!’

’Right now, I have seven Dantians and a Royal Family’s Top-Grade Bloodline. But the highest bloodline is nine Dantians, Royal Family’s Top Grade! I’m only two Dantians away!’

’If the Nameless Technique can derive Dantians this time, my talent will skyrocket, making me the most formidable genius in the entire Empire!’

The greater one’s talent, the faster one’s cultivation. Others cultivated with a single Dantian, but he would have nine. His cultivation speed alone would be nine times that of others. With that kind of talent, it would be a crime against heaven not to become immensely powerful.

Suppressing his excitement, Nie Yun took out the disc. As he held it in his palm, he felt that familiar energy surge forth once more, causing the Nameless Technique to tremble.

With the disc in hand, Nie Yun examined it more closely.

The disc seemed even more ancient up close than it had from a distance. It was even covered in fine cracks.

The very energy that excited him was seeping out from these cracks.

Based on its appearance, the disc looked like a special token. However, he didn’t recognize a single one of the characters inscribed on it. Each character seemed to exude the profound essence of the Great Dao, making him feel dizzy just by looking at them.

Nie Yun had seen these characters before on the flowerpot Feng Xiao had given him. So, while strange, he wasn’t shocked. He took a deep breath, and the Nameless Technique within him began to slowly revolve.

’Time to advance. I *will* achieve the Royal Family’s Top-Grade Bloodline!’

With that thought, he accelerated the Nameless Technique, which began to frantically devour the special energy within the Iron Trigram.

Nie Yun had no idea what this special energy was. He only knew that the moment the Nameless Technique came into contact with it, the technique would begin to spin wildly, causing his Qi Sea to churn.

RUMBLE!

Sure enough, under the impact of this special energy, his entire Qi Sea began to expand once more, growing at a frenzied pace.

If his Qi Sea with three Dantians was about the size of a pond, then with seven Dantians, it had already grown to the size of a small lake.

And now, his lake-sized Qi Sea was expanding wildly once more, more than doubling in size!

Doubling the size of a pond and doubling the size of a lake, while both are doublings, results in a world of difference in terms of True Qi capacity.

If his Qi Sea were a real lake and his True Qi were water, it might have previously held ten truckloads of water. Now, despite only looking like it had doubled in size, it could probably hold a hundred truckloads!

In other words, this expansion had increased his True Qi capacity by more than tenfold!

’A tenfold increase in True Qi capacity?’

The corner of Nie Yun’s mouth twitched. He didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

A lake, no matter how large, is still filled with water, not mercury. Compared to a pond, it’s merely a difference in quantity, not quality. The essence is the same.

’In other words, a larger Qi Sea only increases my True Qi capacity; it doesn’t help me advance in level at all. On the contrary, filling up a Qi Sea this massive... who knows how many years that will take!’

Of course, a larger Qi Sea had its advantages. It meant his True Qi would be far more abundant. Although an Ultimate Venerable Level powerhouse could communicate with the heavens and earth, granting them a seemingly endless supply of Spiritual Qi to the point where they wouldn’t starve even without food, having more abundant True Qi was still a huge advantage in a real battle.

For instance, in his previous fight with the Baihua Sect Master, he had exhausted all his True Qi after using a single, powerful Momentum of the Earth, leaving him unable to continue fighting. With his current Qi Sea, however, he could launch a dozen such attacks!

With the ability to launch so many consecutive strikes, it would be difficult for the Baihua Sect Master to defeat him, even without him having to recite the technique’s incantation to disrupt her focus.

It was like a sheet of bulletproof glass. A single pistol shot might not break it, but what about a barrage from a machine gun? What if every single bullet struck the exact same point?

’I was just thinking all this Primordial Essence Spirit Liquid would be enough to get me to the Ultimate Venerable Peak, no problem. Now, it looks like I’ll be lucky if it can get me to the Early-Stage Ultimate Venerable Peak...’

Seeing the current capacity of his Qi Sea, Nie Yun shook his head. He quickly pushed the thought aside, however, and continued to circulate the Nameless Technique.

’After expanding my Qi Sea, there isn’t much of this special energy left. I wonder if it’s enough to open two more Dantians...’ 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖

Feeling the special energy within the Iron Trigram dwindling, Nie Yun anxiously circulated the Nameless Technique even faster.

CRACK! CRACK!

In the midst of the circulation, the special energy was completely depleted. The disc shattered, turning into a pile of iron dust that trickled from his fingertips.

"Huh? This..."

Seeing that the Nameless Technique hadn’t completed its full cycle, Nie Yun sighed. He thought he had failed to derive new Bloodline Factors. But when he looked inside his Dantian, his eyes suddenly went wide, and he couldn’t stop himself from crying out.

"I derived three Bloodline Factors... which means... I’ll have ten Dantians! This... this... How is this possible?" (To be continued.)