Twilight

Using his will to control it, the Spirit blood that had merged into the Sacred blood demon Emperor words flew towards Zhan Shenwei together the characters imprinted on it and entered through the slit in his palm.

After entering his body, the spirit blood and divided, the part containing his blood essence merged back into his body, while the miniature god spirit split from his Primordial chaos god spirit with those ancient golden script words joined back birthing a new change.

Witnessing everything that happened in consciousness, Zhan Shenwei marvelled , " is this what it means to devour an innate ability".

He had directly seized a mandate!

The former paleness from creating a spirit blood earlier had rescinded, his complexion even rosier, in his sea of consciousness.

His Primordial Chaos god spirit now possessed the same dao mark on it's forehead as the Sacred Blood Demon Emperor.

Zhan Shenwei felt unusual closeness to certain rules, rules he had clearly not comprehended but had comprehend!

He felt a sense of increased affinity to demonic and blood qi ,even his Primordial Chaos god spirit had changed , apart from the glowing ancient character on it's forehead it had become more corporeal.

And from his Primordial God Spirit, tiny blood red demonic runes spread out from the character on his forehead to all parts of his body.

Zhan Shenwei had wide grin on his face , he had obtained his first divine ability.

And the first divine ability he had created was the Sacred blood demon transformation.

By stimulating the Sacred demon blood rules in his blood , he could excite his vital essence with demon and blood qi and his strength, vitality, regeneration would be all multiplied tremendously, he also had grasped control of blood and demon energy.

Of course this ability had it's own drawbacks , demonic energy was very destructive and violent and exciting it was moreso, moreover if the body of the person using this divine ability was not strong enough, widely increasing one's strength could lead serious injuries or even self destruction.

But Zhan Shenwei felt this divine ability was very suitable for him , not even the Sacred blood demon Emperor could maximize the potential of this divine ability as him.

How strong was his physique , could the body of any race compare to that of Primordial Gods.

His strength already massive multiplied by any amount was more tremendous.

In his body, those blood red demonic markings merged with the golden colored runes in the cells of body.

The five elemental markings in them devoured those blood red runes and merged it with themselves, condensing blood red runes on themselves.

Seeing that he fully refined this ability , Zhan Shenwei eager to try it out left the room.

leaving the residence, Zhan Shenwei quickly decided against it , although it was already late at night , guards patrolled round the imperial palace, he could even see maids and eunuch going around.

He didn't know if trying the Sacred blood demon transformation could cause any commotion but he didn't want any undue commotion especially at night.

No hurry!

Turning back , he went to bed.

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The next morning after freshening up , Zhan Shenwei once more ascended the Sky mountain.

He had no choice, according to what he knew all his meals had to be with the Imperial Family.

Even if he didn't feel like eating that morning he still had to go , he shouldn't disobey the established formalities.

Of course if not for any reason he would still go because he was hungry.

His body strength was many times other, so his energy consumption was also enormous and he was very hungry today , he had clearly exhausted himself forming his first divine ability.

And even after clearing his storage ring of anything eatable he could find he wasn't satiated.

Zhan Shenwei made a mental note to fill up his storage ring with more food, his Primordial Chaos god Cultivation was practically " growing up", but that growing up required lot of eating, devouring!

After greeting, Zhan Shenwei sat again beside Yunzi once more.

The Emperor hadn't join them yet and even though his seat was empty, he couldn't possibly sit beside the Empress.

Looking at wide variety of sumptuous clearly high tier meals he couldn't wait to dig in, but they waited for the Emperor.

Zhan Shenwei didn't really know much about food, their names or how they were made but he had always enjoyed eating, especially delicious food.

Luckily the Emperor soon joined them , and they ate.

With a belly to fill, Zhan Shenwei places his focus on the food.

After a while Zhan Shenwei felt stares at him , he had been so engrossed in eating he didn't even notice when everyone started looking at him.

Unlike the previous day one he ate relatively normal sized amount of food, today probably due to hunger he had relaxed and eat quite much much more.

Even someone as cool as Zhan Shenwei blushed in shame, subconsciously he had devoured almost everything on the large table.

Of course it was only because the rest didn't eat much too.

Raising his head in embarrassment, beside him Xia Yunzi chuckling , with both the Emperor and Empress having a look of amusement on his face.

Looking at the blushing Zhan Shenwei, Lian Yu smiled, cutting a large leg of a spirit boar put it on his plate , " Don't mind us , eat, there's always more".

At first he had wanted to decline that he was ok ,but only Zhan Shenwei knew how famished he was, he could only nod his head and take the leg munching on it.

Xia Tianming and Yunzi both erupted in laughter , Zhan Shenwei felt like his cheeks were on fire and Xia Tianming had a maid bring more food.

Zhan Shenwei felt he had to maybe ask Yunzi for advice on an alternative, it really was stressful and not pleasing stuffing himself with food in large regularly especially in public.

After breakfast, the Empress retired to her quarters , while Xia Tianming had both Zhan Wei and Yunzi follow him.

In a mediation room Zhan Shenwei sitting cross-legged on a futon together with Yunzi both faced Xia Tianming.

Looking at Zhan Shenwei, he said, "From now on you should stay behind after breakfast, although the connate spirit dew has healed your meridians it's still fragile, using spirit herbs to strengthen them is the right option but to make things better from now on, I'd also use my spirit qi to nurture your spiritual qualities".

He continued, this time to Yunzi , " From now on I'd personally guide your cultivation ".

Beside him Yunzi became tear eyed , although she knew the day would come , she tried to keep her mind of it.

With less than a month left to the start of the war , Xia Tianming was clearly trying to nurture them as much as he could before the war.

Zhan Shenwei also felt sorrow in his heart , he didn't even know if anyone would survive, unlike before when he was practically clueless he had a bit of inkling of the threat of the blood demon clan and from how terrifying their innate ability was after having refined a divine ability from the sealed demon king.

But he didn't believe the Eastern region was going down without a fight.

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Time passed by , the forces of the Great Xia empire both the imperial army and noble clans all set out with the Sects also moving with theirs forces .

From around the Eastern region except from those that had already purchased tickets by the Treasure Pavilion to leave the Eastern region and mortals with no fighting strength, even unaffiliated cultivators and small clans all gathered.

Clad in black battle armour and holding a high grade spirit broad Sword, Zhan Shenwei rode with the forces of the imperial army.

A large war carriage drawn by raging blood steeds carried both the Empress and Xia Yunzi.

In front, the Emperor clad in golden imperial armour riding an highly spirited armoured raging blood horse personally led the army , his strong aura giving a sense of security and strength to those behind.

Unlike before Zhan Shenwei now gave off spirit qi fluctuations, after constant nurturing his meridians were stable for cultivation and using all kinds of cultivation resources from the Imperial palace he had crossed the body Cleansing realm into the meridian opening realm.

Alas his cultivation talent was pitifully low , although the body cleansing sounded mighty it was just a form of transition.

it just involved using spirit qi to cleanse the body and remove impurities, it's main point was that by using spirit qi to cleanse the body, one could increase the body's affinity to spirit qi.

With enough resources, it could be done in days , some talented for example like Yunzi didn't even start from this realm , of course Yunzi wasn't ordinary and she was born with her innate sea already opened.

But for normal talents and people with good enough talent it could be completed their in few days , some talents that had been nourished with all sorts of spirit treasures from birth or genius with high spirit qi affinity and their body already cleansed simply started from the meridian opening realm.

Even with the Emperor personally using his spirit qi and all kinds of resources, it took Zhan Shenwei two weeks to cross the body cleansing realm.

He estimated that if he didn't have the assistance of an expert like Xia Tianming or access to high end resources it might have taken a few months.

Zhan Shenwei felt his talent for spirit qi cultivation was quite... due to physique cultivation he didn't have impurities in his body hence just the other focus of attuning the body to Spirit Qi was what had taken so long.

One had to know the Emperor was an expert of the Spirit Monarch realm , one that had opened his purple palace in his sea of consciousness.

With someone of that level using his qi , even pigs would have cleansed their bodies in a day.

Still Zhan Shenwei was satisfied , till recent he didn't even have a shred of qi in his body.

Now he was a bona fide Qi cultivator!

Although they could all probably die in this war, Zhan Shenwei was actually excited.

Well not about dying and he didn't want either himself or those of his loved ones and allies too, but about going to war , this was his first battle and he looked forward to it.

Having been raised in a clan with their main legacy being battle, Zhan Shenwei found war to be thrilling and his blood boiled in anticipation of it

Whilst they marched towards the black earth mountain, where the forces of the Eastern region was gathered, Zhan Shenwei contemplated.

Compared to his real battle strength, his fighting prowess using qi was pitifully low but how much could he use publicly of his Primordial Chaos God body.

Sighing, the max he could use was still his so called " innate divine strength".

Not that he had a reason to overly hide or diminish his strength, but he couldn't quite explain his Primordial chaos god Cultivation and felt it was safer to avoid exposing it if he could.

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