Chapter 203: Breaking Through

Lu Zheng woke up in his room. A thin blood cocoon broke around his body.

He was completely naked and faint fire Qi danced around his body. The golden divine runes of the Vermillion Blood were imprinted on his body.

~This…~

On his chest, a dazzling divine rune burnt brightly. It was azure and radiated a strong aura. When Lu Zheng gazed at it, two words formed in his mind.

"Astral thunderbolt"

Information about the astral thunderbolt filled Lu Zheng's mind but compared to the information about Lu Zheng's bloodline abilities, it was very small.

Lu Zheng digested the information and sunk his psyche into his blood vessels. Vermillion Blood flowed gently and strong heat emanated from his blood vessels. Golden runes that carried fire path profound meaning danced in the blood.

Floating with the golden runes was an azure rune. It was "Azure thunderbolt".

~The azure thunderbolt merged with my bloodline? How?~

Lu Zheng was confused. The Vermillion Bird Race's bloodline was the purest form of fire path. The Imperial Families of the Vermillion Bird Race had impure bloodlines but only the Sleid Imperial Family had pure fire path bloodline.

They were the direct descendants of Reverend Great Flame.

Now that the astral thunderbolt had merged with Lu Zheng's bloodline, his Sleid Bloodline was already impure.

Before Lu Zheng could even begin to think more about the imprint of the astral thunderbolt, another imprint shined on his body. It was one of the divine imprints of the Vermillion Blood.

When Lu Zheng gazed at the divine imprint, two words formed in his mind – Flame Absorption.

Information about the bloodline ability filled Lu Zheng's mind and he soon understood something.

"So this is why" Lu Zheng finally understood. Flame Absorption was a bloodline ability unique to the Sleid Imperial Family. He could absorb high rank cultivation materials that had strong flame presence into his body and his Vermillion Blood would refine it into an imprint.

Flame Absorption expended bloodline power greatly even more than Ignition and the bloodline power it expended was greater for higher rank cultivation materials.

The only reason the refining of the azure thunderbolt did not consume bloodline power was because of the Life Blood Crystal that Lu Zheng had consumed. The Life Blood Crystal contained strong refined fleshy energy.

The two drops of lifeblood essence in his blood vessels had transformed. They were imprinted with the divine runes of the Vermillion Blood and burnt with wisps of Vermillion True Flame. At the same time, lightning danced around the drops of lifeblood essence.

"Ya Lin Xi…" Lu Zheng shook his head and focused on his cultivation.

The one month passed with Lu Zheng cultivating throughout and even after, he would only leave his house for the Battle Arena. After that, he would inscribe formations in the Spirit Grade formation plate artifacts or cultivate. Other times, he would speak with Zuo Xiuzhen.

He never left the vicinity of the Battle Arena.

Unknown to Lu Zheng, this decision caused the Death God's Legion to run mad. They did not dare to disrupt the Gentle Mist Province's Battle Arena but they wanted to capture Lu Zheng.

Who knew that he would hole himself up in the Battle Arena?

The River of Time flowed unceasingly, nine months went by without a saying.

Inside the arena, two men fought vigorously. The spectators cheered wildly as the two men clashed.

"Swoosh!"

Three balls of fire suddenly struck one of the men without warning. Instantly, he combusted into crimson flames that seared his body, causing him to gnash his teeth in pain.

The man groaned as he tried to supress the blazing flames. He wore a rueful expression and gazed at his opponent: "Lu Zheng…"

The man's appearance was unsightly. His skin was filled with numerous burn marks and wisps of fire still licked his body. His body was covered entirely with char.

This man was Xiao Hang, an Acquisition realm expert. He cultivated fire path and was peerless among other Acquisition realm experts in terms of attainment. At least until he met Lu Zheng.

Lu Zheng did not use the Vermillion True Flames. After the astral thunderbolt merged with his Vermillion Blood, his Vermillion True Flames became exceedingly hot.

Lu Zheng wasn't sure that the yellow light would save Xiao Hang if he was burnt by the Vermillion True Flames.

"When I catch you, I'll… huh! Ice path!" Xiao Hang was stunned as an ice blade protruded from his chest. Before he could react, a yellow light enveloped him, teleporting him away.

"Ding, ding, ding~"

Lu Zheng's wristband flickered many times.