Li Yuan’s wrist flicked...
Ka...
Ka ka...
Zhao Xiantong’s Blood Shirt shattered, pierced again by the tip of the spear.
Li Yuan lifted him with one hand and praised, "Not bad, not bad."
The spear had obviously been silent, yet the opponent could predict the path of his long spear and change his landing spot ahead of time. Truly a Sixth Grade.
Li Yuan drew his spear again, saying, "I’ll give you another chance."
Without a word, Zhao Xiantong moved his fingers, and blood began to flow. He raised his finger to quickly draw a strange scarlet pattern on his left arm.
Once the pattern appeared, it instantly faded, and the two wounds healed at an astonishing speed.
In the next moment, Zhao Xiantong shot out once more.
Li Yuan struck again with his spear.
This time, Zhao Xiantong moved more nimbly to the side.
Thud!
Ka ka ka!
However, he failed to escape once again, pinned to the ground by Li Yuan’s spear.
Zhao Xiantong ceased struggling, smiling bitterly, "Who exactly are you?"
Li Yuan responded, "I’m just a Martial Fool, wanting to see how the Sixth Grade Skills of other forces... But those great forces I don’t wish to provoke, and a Red Lotus thief like you escaping to the frontier is just right for my target."
Zhao Xiantong said, "I have no Cultivation Skill..."
"Just talk, talk. If you don’t, I’ll kill you."
"How can you prove that if I speak, you will spare me?"
"First of all, I’m a Martial Fool; I’m only interested in Cultivation Skills,
If you tell me the skill, why would I kill you?
I just saved you, which is proof."
"Not enough."
"Then I swear by my Heart Demon, if I kill you, I will ******" Li Yuan uttered a string of shocking curses, leaving Zhao Xiantong stunned.
"This..."
As he hesitated, Li Yuan coldly said, "My patience is limited.
Think about it, I’m a Sixth Grade myself, I have my Cultivation Skill, now I just want to compare others’.
Your use is only this much, if not spoken, I’ll kill you; I have nothing to lose."
Zhao Xiantong glanced at the mask on Li Yuan’s face, breathed a sigh of relief inwardly, then thought for a moment and said, "Let’s leave here first, then you ask, and I answer."
Li Yuan said no more, lifting Zhao Xiantong with his spear, rushing away into the distance.
As they went far, in the Mass Grave, stood a bloodied, eerie figure, staring venomously in the direction where the two left.
Yet under this figure’s feet, there was a slight trembling.
That was the Blood Scissors with seven other Social World warriors, fearfully climbing upwards.
Yet their entire bodies were covered with corpses, those corpses silent, with eyes and mouths like candle-melted black holes...
They covered Blood Scissors’ mouth, dragging him down.
Blood Scissors erupted with Seventh Grade power, his slightly flattened arms like sharp blades wildly slashing around, but they passed directly through those corpses without any impact.
Yet those corpses held him firmly...
Blood Scissors struggled with all his might, barely climbing an inch or two upward.
The others were not as strong as him, already dragged into the depths of the Mass Grave.
Blood Scissors struggled a few more times but eventually was also submerged, no longer making any sound.
The pouch hanging on his side suddenly turned into a bone-white hand, while the 50 taels of gold inside was merely blood-stained mud.
...
Deep in the mountains.
Li Yuan drew out his spear, beginning to question Zhao Xiantong about Sixth Grade.
Zhao Xiantong knew the opponent was a stronger Sixth Grade and dared not act rashly... speaking respectfully.
Li Yuan listened for a while and understood.
"Life Atlas" has many lines, but those lines have three points of note:
First is the sequence, which is to say there is a first stroke and a last stroke.
The last stroke is hidden next to the first stroke, forming a complex and strange cycle.
But this cycle is not the body’s cycle, rather the Shadow Blood’s cycle at the heart.
Second is choice, which is to say not every line is useful.
Different people see different trajectories from it, specifics needing comprehension.
Therefore, the first stroke and last stroke are not fixed.
Third is visualization, different people will see different images in those lines, only by seeing them oneself can one find one’s own trajectory. Only a fully prepared Life Atlas will reveal this image.
Besides, to enter Sixth Grade, one must first devour Demon Beast blood and flesh above Seventh Grade, then use Sixth Grade Skill to enhance one’s Shadow Blood strength, until Shadow Blood becomes as viscous as mercury following Life Atlas, cycling repeatedly around the heart.
The heart receives nourishment, then feeds back to the whole body, reinforcing the five organs and six systems, various organs, enhancing various senses.
The augmentation of these senses is divided into three steps.
The first step is the five senses;
The second step is emotions;
The third step is memory.
Once the third step is completed, the Ancestral Talisman can be seen.
The Ancestral Talisman is mysterious, drawn with one’s own blood, able to break evil or enhance one’s recovery.
Breaking evil means dispelling ghosts in the Ghost Realm or resisting ghost attacks, also the only way to escape the Ghost Realm, but the blood must be fresh, pre-drawn doesn’t work.
Enhancing recovery, even if the body is split in half, as long as not dead, the Ancestral Talisman can rejoin the halves.
Then, Zhao Xiantong sketched the Life Atlas he remembered on the ground.