Volume 1, Chapter 451 – Bloodline

The heaven and earth of the Qiongluo Realm had already changed completely. The collapse of the Heavenly Dao’s laws had caused the rules of the entire world to cease tending toward the power of runes, and they were gradually transforming toward the most primordial spiritual qi.

As time passed, it would gradually transform in Shi Lan’s direction.

The corpses of the twelve Supremes had raised the spiritual qi of the entire Qiongluo Realm by more than one level; it was already enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with Lingyang.

The only difference was that, with Shi Lan’s current cultivation, she simply could not allow the living beings of this world to attain the Dao. The eighth rank was still the limit.

Because of the compression of the continent, the entire terrain of the Qiongluo Realm had already been completely altered. Countless corpses were piled together in one place, and the rotten stench of blood was gradually settling in.

The former Rune Divine Hall, the highest peak in the Qiongluo Realm, had also become ruins.

The surviving lifeforms of the Qiongluo Realm did not dare make any rash moves. They had gathered on a barren plain, surviving behind a temporary barrier set up by several Rune Grandmasters.

The ferocious beast race had all but vanished. Their direct clash with Reincarnation Hall’s army had cost them too dearly. Fewer than a thousand remained, most of them peak experts of the ferocious beast race, while countless clans had been wiped from existence.

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Shi Lan surveyed the surrounding world and came to a mutilated corpse.

The blood of those who had attained the Dao contained laws. It was faintly repelled by heaven and earth and did not follow the truth of returning to the earth after death, instead floating in midair.

This was the arm of a Supreme. The fingers were distinct at every joint, and the pale-gold vambrace was splashed with Supreme blood. It hung quietly in the air, the blood still unclotted and flowing slowly, crystal-clear and filled with a heavy Dao aura.

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[Discovered divine weapon fragment. Item rank: 9-star (absorbable)]

[Discovered Heavenwing Race remnant. Item rank: 9-star (absorbable)]

The moment Shi Lan reached out and touched the severed arm, the system’s notification sounded in her ear.

“Absorb.”

Nine-star energy was something one could only encounter by chance and never hope to find. After opening spacetime passages multiple times, the nine-star energy Shi Lan possessed was now almost exhausted. She had to replenish it and be prepared for anything.

[Absorption complete. Parsing energy…]

[Decomposed: 0.1 units of 9-star energy, x1 Divine Blood Gold, x1 Bloodwing Race blood essence (can be synthesized)]

Shi Lan frowned slightly. 0.1 units of energy was somewhat beyond her expectations. It was simply too little.

Judging by the ratio, even a complete Supreme body might not necessarily amount to 1 full unit of 9-star energy.

The Sword Emperor’s Dao Fruit alone had yielded 15 units of 9-star energy. She had originally thought these Supremes would at least increase her energy reserves somewhat.

With such a low conversion ratio, handing everything over to the system to absorb was not very worthwhile. A Supreme’s remnant body, combined with some rare precious medicines, was enough to refine multiple batches of immortal pills that could increase cultivation.

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Even without being refined into pills, these Supreme remains were themselves peerless immortal medicines.

Shi Lan walked through the air, stopping and moving as she went, gathering up the remnant bodies suspended in midair while the system’s notifications rang in her ear without cease.

[Decomposed: 0.15 units of 9-star energy, x1 Mysterious Nether Gold]

[Decomposed: 0.17 units of 9-star energy, x10 Azure Dragon scales, x1 Azure Dragon blood essence (can be synthesized)]

[Decomposed: 0.3 units of 9-star energy, x1 Profound Moon Treasure Silk, x1 Heaven-Saint Battle Blood (can be synthesized)]

…

Shi Lan directly stored away the remnants of six Supremes, and handed the rest over to the system. In the end, she replenished less than 4 units of 9-star energy, along with a great many immortal materials and bloodlines.

Among them, one jade mace alone had provided 1.3 units of 9-star energy, and it had also decomposed into a piece of sentient treasure jade, making for quite a rich harvest.

What disappointed Shi Lan somewhat was that all of those Supremes’ Dao Fruits had already collapsed. The system had not extracted any secret arts or inheritances from them.

In a certain sense, the insights those Supremes had gained on attaining the Dao were the most precious treasures of all. Used properly, they could completely create another Supreme.

The six Supremes absorbed by the system left behind six bloodlines for Shi Lan.

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Bloodwing Race, Heaven-Saint Battle Blood, Azure Dragon race, Frostmirror race, Moon-Gold Fox race, and Flame Leopard race.

From these bloodlines alone, it was enough to see just how complex the composition of cross-heaven powers like Reincarnation Hall and the Heavenly Dao Alliance truly was.

Among these six bloodlines, the Heaven-Saint Battle Blood and Bloodwing Race bloodlines were somewhat damaged and incomplete. The other four bloodlines were all enough to nurture Supreme descendants of peerless talent.

Shi Lan had some ideas about these bloodlines and wanted to absorb them through the Black Domain, but she was also somewhat hesitant.

These bloodlines surely contained certain traits, or perhaps bloodline secret arts. But if her bloodline became too mixed, she feared she might ultimately walk down some unknown crooked path.

Although Innate Spiritual Blood was extremely inclusive, these Supreme bloodlines were all overwhelmingly tyrannical in power, and it was hard to guarantee there would be no conflict.

Let alone these Supreme bloodlines—even the blood and qi of those eighth-rank and seventh-rank beings, Shi Lan had not touched. Having the bloodline in her body become too motley was not a good thing.

After gathering away the Supreme corpses, Shi Lan began cleaning up the battlefield. Now that the entire world was under her control, she could split seas and sever rivers with a single thought, so this kind of work was extremely easy.

Storage treasures were piled up like mountains, and there was far too much miscellaneous junk within them. Even with Shi Lan’s extremely powerful primordial spirit, she did not have the energy to sort through it all clearly. She could only scan through them roughly and confirm whether there were any items above the 9-star level.

The rest could only be set aside for the time being. Later, she would hand them over to Li Canglan for inventory. Such trivial matters were not worth her wasting time on. Altogether, it took no more than half a day.

After finishing the initial tally of her spoils, Shi Lan pulled up the system panel and entered the mission section.

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[Forced Branch Mission: As the future Empress, Reincarnation Hall’s repeated provocations have already stirred your wrath. You have decided to strike back.]

[Mission details: Kill 1 eighth-rank member of Reincarnation Hall and 100 seventh-rank members (no upper limit)]

[Mission completion reward: Reward determined by the number of Reincarnation Hall casualties.]

[Mission failure penalty: One hundred years of wall-facing confinement in the system’s virtual space.]

[Mission completion progress: 97 eighth-rank, 495 seventh-rank (ready to settle)]

To maximize the reward from this mission, when Shi Lan and Wuxu had cleaned through Qiongluo, most of Reincarnation Hall’s experts had first been struck down and grievously wounded by Wuxu, with Shi Lan then taking their lives at the end.

The reason Shi Lan had delayed settling this mission until now was because she had been hesitating. There was no time limit on this mission.

She was not going to stop moving through the many worlds just because of the great upheaval in the Qiongluo Realm. Sooner or later, she would run into people from Reincarnation Hall again, and when that time came, this mission would undoubtedly still be useful.

Shi Lan pondered for a long while, but in the end she still chose to settle it. There was no knowing how many years would pass before she encountered Reincarnation Hall again, and by then, who knew what level her cultivation would have reached.

If the system’s reward ended up being as useless as chicken ribs by then, that would only be a waste.

[Settling mission rewards…]