Demonic qi

Xue Feng spent the next day studying Zhan Wei , using his outward identity as a rogue cultivator he even performed his hunt beside him trying to gauge his strength, weakness. battle style.

slashing a wild beast in front of him, from the corner of his eye he watched as Zhan Wei poured a jar of his infamous vital broth into his mouth and continued battling.

For the past few hours he had watched , taken a break and come back , still Zhan Wei was still fighting.

" What a monstrous stamina!" Xue Feng thought to himself, although Zhan Wei had huge physical prowess , his stamina and endurance were more frightening.

As a local celebrity it wasn't that difficult to gather information about Zhan Wei but he preferred to observe by himself ,it always made his hunt more interesting watching his prey.

Still he wasn't satisfied, having developed a very cautious behavior from young, his mantra was " hope for the worst and prepare for the worst ".

And it had saved his life a lot, as for the best if it came fine if it didn't fine, he was prepared already, using his mantra he had killed so many people even those stronger than him.

Xue Feng decided to test his prey's limit , channeling his spirit qi his palm hit a wind spirit wolf sending it hurling towards Zhan Wei's direction.

In order to avoid suspicion, he had controlled his strength to leave some injuries on it

Of course although it looked bloody, Xue Feng had only left superficial injuries on it , in fact his attack had clearly pissed the already enraged demon beast.

Among the demonic beasts in the battlefield most were transformed from wild animals, while a few were from spirit beasts.

Unlike wild beast that just used brute force  spirit beasts had spiritual consciousness and could absorb the qi of heaven and earth to cultivate, some spirit beasts had even developed affinities to certain elements

After demonization both wild beasts and spirit beasts became stronger but spirit beasts became even more stronger, of course because they had spiritual consciousness, it was harder for spirit beasts to become demonized but there was still a few in the battlefield.

Only cultivators of the qi refinement realm and above could deal with these demonized spirit beast.

In the foundation stage ( body cleansing - meridian opening - innate realm - qi refinement ) only qi refinement realm cultivators could unleash strong spells , the qi of those below the qi refinement realm couldn't sustain most spells apart from basic ones.

As a result those below qi refinement handled the wild demon beast while stronger experts handled the rest.

After having been injured, the enraged beast swept it's claws at the person closest to it bringing a gust of wind with it's attack.

As a demonic beast with affinity to wind ,  the attack of the wind spirit wolf was fast and strong and with the element of surprise it was deadly.

Zhan Wei was still battling a wild demon beast when he felt a fierce wind from beside, clenching his fist he punched the wild beast in front of him and parried his broad Sword to resist the attack by his side.

But how could the attack of a spirit beast that only qi refinement realm cultivators could contend with be that simple.

Even with his timely reflex , the massive attack swept Zhan Wei a few meters backwards.

The demon beast not pleased it's attack had been blocked let out a low growl and rushed towards Zhan Wei again.

Wind spirit wolves were fast and it's affinity with the wind added sharp air pressure to it's razor claws.

Zhan Wei frowned at the demon beast rushing his way , he had clearly not gone to the area where demonized spirit beasts were.

From a bit of distance, he could see a strange middle aged man rushing towards him probably to his rescue but with his speed and the distance, he had to defend this incoming attack before the middle aged man got to him.

Even his guardian the Second Elder who was rushing towards him to help might not get here on time.

He couldn't use his true strength easily, if his whole eyes just suddenly turned gold with strange markings on them he couldn't explain it , people had instinctive warrines and sense of threat to things they didn't understand.

At times they would even destroy these things , he himself couldn't really explain it so what would he say if he was asked.

With the war already on and tension on the rise probably he would be taken for another demon race or otherworldly being.

In fact he was an otherworldly being, he was human and also Primordial God.

he couldn't just expose that side in public but he couldn't deal with this beast with just his " innate strength" and his spirit qi was pitifully low.

Zhan Wei vowed to place more emphasis on cultivating Spirit qi to at least safeguard his life when he couldn't expose himself .

Gritting his teeth Zhan Wei planned to use his first divine ability the " Sacred Blood Demon transformation".

As a divine ability that was already unique  to him , he could use it even without using the strength of his Primordial Chaos God body.

Although at it's root the Sacred Blood Demon transformation was a demonic ability and could draw attention, Zhan Wei felt using a demonic ability or technique was far better than being known as maybe a demon or otherworldly being.

Channeling the dao mark in his body, Zhan Wei felt his already powerful blood qi triple, mass demonic aura erupted from his body even with his armour covering the dense blood red demonic markings on him.

Although he could increase it by more he felt this was enough , channeling the demonic blood qi , Zhan Wei swept his large broad Sword across the wind spirit wolf running towards him.

The broad Sword unleashed a blood red blade light slashing the wind spirit wolf, almost cutting it into two.

Xue Feng who was " running" towards Zhan Wei was stunned, not just even him the Second Elder who was rushing from afar too was stunned.

The main reason Xue Feng was running towards Zhan Wei as if to help, was to paint a picture that he had swept the wind spirit wolf towards his direction by mistake.

As for the wind spirit wolf killing Zhan Wei he didn't think so , he had clearly expected him to have some experts monitoring him in case or Zhan Wei using some treasure or talisman to deflect the beast.

As the young master of the Zhan Clan and Fiance to the princess, he expected Zhan Wei to have some life saving methods.

His main purpose of sending the beast was to test his limits and see what life saving methods he had , he had even seen the Second Elder rush to help Zhan Wei.

But ... , that strike just now had heavily injured the beast , it meant Zhan Wei could erupt with strength comparable to the qi refinement realm.

The strangest part was he had clearly felt demonic qi when he erupted with that strength, as an expert and lackey of the blood demon clan he was very sensitive to demonic qi, he even practiced the blood escape art of the blood demon clan.

Reaching Zhan's side , Xue Feng swiped his sword at the heavily injured wind spirit wolf killing it.

After the strike Zhan Wei fell on the floor as if unconscious, actually he had wanted to vomit blood but not even considering the fact his blood had golden runes, as he bit his tongue it healed back, he could only pretend to be faint to show weakness.

As for why he could feel comfortable playing dead in the battlefield was he could see the Second Elder was already at arms length and the unknown middle aged man had finished the wind spirit wolf off,

although he could have killed the wind spirit wolf, he didn't see any reason to.

The Second Elder shot a murderous glare at Xue Feng, he felt it was a mistake and Xue Feng had clearly helped try save Zhan Wei but he was still angry that Zhan Wei almost died.

Carrying the unconscious Zhan Wei, he left the battlefield.

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The battlefield was very wide spanning the areas in the barren wastelands where there were demonic beasts , apart from those around Zhan Wei that had witnessed it another person had also happened to see what happened.

In the Sky covered by clouds and a qi concealing talisman, Ye Mo's attention was on both Zhan Wei and Yunzi.

Having been ordered by the Emperor to protect Xia Yunzi and Zhan Wei, his whole focus was on them he didn't even pay attention to the war.

He had seen the wind spirit wolf charge towards Zhan Wei and he had the confidence to stop it even with the distance between them.

he had only stopped to watch , when Zhan Wei had used the Sacred blood demon transformation before injuring the beast.

Sensing the demonic energy that Zhan Wei released at first he frowned, later he let go, all kind of strange techniques existed and some humans cultivated even demonic techniques, that didn't mean Zhan Wei had any relations to demons.

he could only infer that Zhan Wei cultivated a demonic body refining technique and had used a secret art to increase his strength.

In fact everyone one who felt the demonic qi thought the same thing, only Chen Hong who had a connection with the blood demon king felt otherwise.

Watching from afar , he had a strange look on his face.

As a blood Clone of the blood demon king they felt the same thing , he was like an extension of the blood demon king's body , when Zhan Wei had used the Sacred blood demon transformation earlier he had felt his blood stir.

Even the ability he used was very similar to the blood demon transformation of the blood demon clan, thinking back to when he felt a bloodline link a while ago from the capital , was Zhan Wei a blood demon.

As a blood demon, he could clearly feel Zhan Wei was human, maybe he just had the bloodline of the blood demon clan in his body still he was clearly talented to be able to use the innate ability of the blood demon clan from a mere bloodline.

As for how he got his bloodline, probably he had refined the blood essence of the blood demon clan and had successful assimilated it in his body, humans did things like that a lot, in fact it was through this he had obtained some of his lackeys.

Some people could not assimilated the blood essence they refined completely so their consciousness was contaminated by the will in it.

Some the will possessed them , some it influenced them, for some it even offered them certain things in return for their allegiance.

Maybe Zhan Wei had successful assimilated his into his body, either way he would have Xue Feng test him if he couldn't be controlled then his death would go as planned.

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