The Blood King

Morning.

Levi woke early and ran through the forest as exercise, climbing and jumping from trees.

Although he absorbed the bloodline of the boar, his body strength was still lacking.

Afterwards, he found a small spring and washed himself.

When he got back, everyone else was having breakfast.

Noah finally decided to stop ignoring Ava, and Ryan was happily shoveling food into his mouth.

Of course, none of this had anything to do with Levi.

He wouldn't care if they killed each other, if not for the fact that he needed them to take him to the demonic god sect.

He reflected on his past few days, and found that he was interacting with Ava and Noah quite a lot.

He realised that he was making a mistake, getting close to these people, because without strength, nothing else mattered.

He walked up and silently started to eat.

Ryan kept talking to him, but was thoroughly ignored.

After trying for a while he finally gave up. They set off after breakfast.

After a few hours, they arrived at a large city which was about 2-3 times larger than star city.

This city was called demonic city, because it was in the demonic god sect's territory.

Although the demonic god sect was a demon sect, they didn't mistreat the citizens.

At one point there was a mutated beast wave and the demonic god sect defended the city, though that might have been because the sect was in the wave's path.

On a foggy and barren piece of land, where trees were withered and grass didn't dare grow, a large sect sat, unmoving.

The demonic god sect was built on a flat piece of land.

The dirt was hard and dry after many years without moisture.

The demonic god sect was only a few miles away from demonic city, and yet while grass and vegitation surrounded demonic city, around the demonic god sect was dry and without life.

' This is exactly what i thought a demon sect would look like.' Levi thought silently.

Apparently, anyone who was not wearing the demonic god sect's robe, or with people from the demonic god sect, would be poisoned to death by this fog.

" Welcome to the demonic god sect. I'll take you guys to where you'll be staying."

After walking through the large gate, Noah led them through the sect.

Looking around, they were multiple buildings, making it look similar to a small city.

Levi didn't really feel that the demonic god sect was an amazing place.

After leaving star city, he went to heaven city, then passed through demonic city.

After seeing all of those places, any excitement he felt had already dissapeared.

After walking for a while, they walked to an almost deserted, large hill, before arriving at the front of a large wooden building with a lot of windows.

This building was about 4 stories high, with glass windows lining all 4 floors.

" This building is where the normal outter sect disciples stay."

"When you go into your rooms, change into your sect robes." After talking, Noah left with Ava in tow.

" Hey, why don't we live beside each other?" Ryan asked.

Levi didn't respond.

He was treating ryan like air the whole trip, but this guy didn't seem to get the message.

Levi walked up to a room and opened the door.

Inside was a hard bed, a small dresser and a window.

Levi closed the door and changed his clothes.

The demonic god sect robe was all black, it fit him quite well.

After changing his cloths, Levi went outside.

The pagoda had a name plate hung over the door that read 'skill library'.

Out of curiosity Levi walked in.

Inside, was spacious, with a counter to the side, and book shelfs with multiple books stood.

There were a lot of disciples reading through books or bringing them up to the old lady behind the counter.

Levi walked around and picked up a book.

It was a low grade cultivation manual.

It taught beginners how to sense and absorb qi into their bodies.

Since he had nothing better to do, along with the fact that he didn't posses any qi whatsoever, he decided to borrow the book.

" Low grade qi control manual. you do know that you only have one chance every month to borrow a manual, right? Are you sure that you want this skill?" The woman asked.

"yes." Levi said coldly.

Obviously he didn't know about that rule, but since he was a beginner at sensing qi, he decided to keep the manual in the end.

Since he had the 'blood evolution skill', he didn't really worry much about these manuals.

He could just absorb peoples skills along with their bloodlines.

He walked out of the pagoda and went in another direction.

He found himself in a hall filled with herbs that gave off a delicate scent.

These herbs were on polished wooden shelves, while multiple people were inside, some picking them up to inspect them, while others took them to the counter to buy them.

Outside the hall hung a name plate 'herb hall'.

Inside of this herb hall were also some rooms with giant cauldrons where people would go to make pills, however he wasn't interested, so he left.

He was told that because of the poison fog, trees and grass could not grow in the demonic god sect.

But for some reason, there was a patch of large trees in this area, and he didn't see anyone else coming there.

He thought nothing of it, as he sat down under one of the trees and crossed his legs.

He closed his eyes and calmed himself.

Following the instructions of the book which said to invision tiny hands reaching out from his body, then invision those hands grabbing tiny orbs of light, he tried it, but failed.

Tried again, failed.

Again and again and again, but still failing in the end.

This time, instead of doing what the manual said, he had another thought.

He decided to circulate the bit of energy that he absorbed from those people he killed, around his body.

Surprisingly, the energy moved to his command, it was almost like his blood.

He circulated the energy around his body in an attempt to draw the qi to him.

1 time

2 times

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10

At this point, he was drenched in sweat.

The energy was speeding through his body, causing it to heat up.

Finally after the tenth loop, he felt a tread of something seeping into his body.

It was neither hot nor cold, it didn't have color but wasn't colorless.

When it went into his body, he felt a weird satisfied feeling.

The thread went in trough his skin and into his dantian.

It left his dantian as went all around his body, as if looking for something.

'BOOM!' Levi's body shook as a loud boom resounded from his body.

It seemed as if the strand of qi was trying to break something in his body.

Feeling that it wasn't strong enough, the strand of qi circulated itself and drew more qi in.

The strand of qi, which was now the size of a pinky finger, after feeling like it was strong enough, attacked once more.

BOOM!

CRACK!

A loud cracking sound was heard as levi's body shook.

After the qi broke what was blocking the path to his meridians, it happily went into his meridians as if exploring new lands.

After going into his meridians, it seemed to loose it's intelligence as it just kept circulating, drawing more qi in and sending it to his dantian.

" Ughh!" Levi vomited a mouthful of black blood.

As soon as the blood left his mouth, it solidified.

It looked like some kind of glass.

" Hmmm? It seems the enlightend qi cleared your meridians of quite an amount impurities. But, how did you manage to survive cultivating here?" At this moment an aged voice rang out.

levi jumped back and looked around in shock.

He saw a man with long white hair, wearing a black robe.

Although this man had white hair, his skin was a rosy pink color.

His back was straight, with a air of supremacy, it felt like he looked down on the world.

The man had pitch black eyes and a pointed nose.

" Who are you?" Levi asked warily, as he looked at the man with caution.

" Me? That's not important. What i want to know is how you are still alive and sane after cultivating in this enlightenment forest."

"And you somehow even got it to help you purge the impurities from your meridians." The man said.

" Enlightenment forest? What is that?" Levi was confused.

" This place is called the enlightenment forest." The man said.

" It was said that this now withered land once had a huge forest of sentient trees."

" The founder of the Demonic god sect found the forest by a stroke of luck in his younger years."

" he cultivated in the forest and his cultivation skyrocketed, his understanding of different techniques was increased, and thus he called it the enlightenment forest."

" After going out into the world for a few years, he came back to the forest, but found that most of the trees were killed by the poisonous fog."

" He built the demonic god sect around this last set of trees, and set up an array to keep the poison fog away from them."

" From that point on, a lot of people, hearing how the forest could improve their cultivation speed, tried to cultivate in it, but all of them either went insane or died." The man explained.

" So that is why i asked why you are still alive." He said.

" I was just walking around the sect and found this place." Levi said.

He thought about what the man said, and a chill went down his spine.

" That isn't possible. This forest has an array set up so that people can't get in, unless..." The man paused.

" Unless the trees wanted you to come here." He continued.

" Why would they want me to come here?" Levi asked.

" Who knows."

" Maybe they think you can do something for them?"

"Or maybe they just felt bored." The man said as he turned around and walked away.

Levi followed the man with his eyes, he finally sighed in relief when the man dissapeared from from his view.

" Who was that man?" Levi mumbled, he looked down at his trembling hand.

After regaining his senses, he realised that the sun already went down, it was night time.

He left the little forest.

While walking down the street, he saw a few disciples walking with each other while flirting.

Their faces were flushed red as a smell of alcohol wafted from their mouths, l.u.s.tful gazes exposing their intentions.

He just ignored those people and went back to his room.

When he reached his door he saw ryan waiting by it.

" Hey, senior sist-" Before Ryan could finish his sentence, the sound of the door closing cut him off.

Levi sat cross-legged on his bed and closed his eyes.

He found that the qi was still circulating in his meridians and drawing in more qi.

' That man said the black blood that i spat out was blocking my meridians.'

' Is that why i was trash?'

'.... Whatever, that doesn't matter anymore....'

' fuu...I will definitely become strong...' He thought, as he mentally exhaled.