Twilight

Using his will to control it, the Spirit blood that had merged with the golden ancient character flew towards Zhan Wei then entered through the slit in between his brows.

After entering his sea of consciousness, the spirit blood divided.

One part the drop blood essence was assimilated back into his body , the other part was a piece of his Primordial God spirit.

Unlike before this miniature version of his Primordial God spirit had three golden ancient characters on it's forehead.

This miniature version flew towards the cross-legged Primordial Chaos God spirit and merged with it .

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

The former paleness from creating a spirit blood earlier had rescinded, his complexion was even rosier, in his sea of consciousness Primordial Chaos God spirit now possessed the same dao mark on it's forehead as the Sacred Blood Demon Emperor.

Zhan Wei felt unusual closeness to certain rules , rules he had clearly not comprehended , Zhan Wei 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.

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

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

By stimulating the demonic rules in his blood , he could excite his vital essence and blood qi and his strength, vitality, regeneration would be multiplied.

It was simply a divine ability that stimulated the potential of one's body.

If not anything the understanding of the rules of blood qi could help him better control his strength.

Of course this ability had it's own drawbacks , demonic energy was very destructive and violent, 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.

Zhan Wei 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.

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.

He had fully devoured it , Zhan eager to try it out he left the room.

leaving the residence, Zhan Wei 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 to attract unnecessary attention.

Turn back , he went to bed.

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The next morning after freshening up , Zhan Wei 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 wasn't eating he still had to go , who could refuse the Emperor.

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.

He was very hungry today , he had clearly exhausted himself forming his first divine ability , even after clearing his storage ring of anything eatable he could find he wasn't satiated.

After greeting, Zhan Wei 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 meal he couldn't wait to dig in , but they waited for the Emperor.

Luckily the Emperor soon joined them , and they ate.

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

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

Even someone as indifferent as Zhan Wei blushed in shame , subconsciously he had devoured almost everything on the large table prepared for everyone in mind.

Raising his head beside the chuckling Yunzi both, the Emperor and Empress had a look of amusement on his face.

Looking at the blushing Zhan Wei, Xiao Funji smiled , cutting a large leg of a spirit boar she put it on his plate , " Don't mind us , eat !".

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

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

Zhan Wei felt he had to ask Yunzi for an alternative , it really was stressful stuffing himself with food especially in public.

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

Sitting cross-legged on a futon together with Yunzi, they both faced Xia Tianming.

Looking at Zhan Wei, he said, "From now on you should stay behind after breakfast, although the connate spirit dew has healed your meridians it's still fragile, since there are no spirit herbs to strengthen them around , I can only nurture them using spirit qi ".

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 Wei also felt sad in his heart , he didn't even know if anyone would survive, unlike before he had a bit of inkling of the threat of the blood demon clan , from how terrifying their innate ability was.

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 , the Sects also set out 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 Wei rode with the forces of the imperial army.

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

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

Unlike before Zhan Wei 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 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, she was born with her innate sea already opened.

But for normal talents and people with good enough talent , some completed their in few days , some talents that had been nourished with all sorts of spirit treasures simply started from the meridian opening realm.

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

Zhan Wei felt his talent for spirit qi cultivation was very low, he didn't have impurities in his body yet it 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 Wei was satisfied , till recent he didn't even have a shred of qi in his body.

Although they could all probably die , Zhan Wei was actually excited.

Well not about dying but about going to war , this was his first battle and he looked forward to it.

Having been raised in a War Clan , Zhan Wei found war to be thrilling and his blood boiled in anticipation.

As they marched towards the black earth mountain, where the forces of the Eastern region was gathered, Zhan Wei 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 his so called still

" innate divine strength".

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