The Blood King

Morning.

Levi woke up early and while jogging through the sect, he saw Noah.

When Noah saw Levi he was slightly shocked, because yesterday Levi was devoid of any qi.

But now that he saw him, Levi was at the qi absorption's 1st level.

During these few days of exercising, levi's body went from weak and frail, to sturdy and tough.

Exercising caused his body to use the nutrients he absorbed along with the blood.

So right now he had a sturdy body for a 12 year old child.

After washing himself up, Levi walked around the sect again.

He went to the skill library to return the cultivation manual he got yesterday.

Since he couldn't use the method of cultivation in the book, added to the fact that he had the strand of qi circulating in his meridians, he no longer needed the manual.

Even while he was walking around, the qi was still circulating.

After leaving the skill library, he walked around aimlessly.

After a while, he found himself in the 'mission hall'.

As the name suggested, disciples would go to the mission hall to take missions in return for a reward, if the mission was completed successfully.

After looking around for a while, he decided to take a mission.

" Grade c mission, find a bone cleansing grass. Do you want this mission?" The old man behind the counter asked.

" Yes." Levi replied.

" Fine. Failure to complete this mission within 3 days will result in you being banned from the mission hall for 2 months. Next." The old man said.

Levi took the mission and left the mission hall.

He walked in the direction of the sect gates, where two senior disciples were guarding.

" Without a reason, you are not allowed to leave the sect! Go back!" One of them shouted.

Levi said nothing as he raised the mission in his hand for them to see.

After leaving the sect, Levi just walked around aimlessly.

He didn't worry about finding the bone clensing grass.

He was told that the bone clensing grass is a plant the thrived in poisonous environments, so there should be plenty, enough for him to find at least one.

Walking around the forest of withered trees, levi kept his head down, looking for the bone cleansing grass.

After walking a few miles out, he stumbled upon a cave.

The cave was spewing out poison gas at an alarming rate.

He tried to go in, but the poison coming out of the cave was way more concentrated than the fog outside.

Although the sect robe could keep disciples from being killed by the fog, the poison coming out of the cave was just too much.

Just as he turned around, ready to leave, he heard a slow and heavy slithering sound.

He turned back around to face the cave and what he saw shook him to his core.

' Run!' A giant scaly purple head popped out from the cave.

It slithered out while spitting it's forked tongue.

A pair of golden eyes with black slits going down the middle stared at Levi.

The first thought levi had was to run.

Run as fast as he could!

Without another thought, Levi bolted.

He turned around and ran at full speed.

But the question was, would the giant snake let it's lunch get away so easily?

Of course not!

The snake's heavy body slithered on the hard ground, causing a hard scratching sound to ring out.

The snake lashed out with its tail, sending Levi crashing through the dead trees.

"Ughhh!" Levi spat out a mouthful of blood.

He looked down and saw a long bloody line across his stomach.

The gash already began to turn purple from the snakes venom.

He tried to use his blood to filter out the poison but failed, then he had an idea.

" If i absorb the snakes bloodline, the poison might not affect me anymore!" His eyes became vicious.

He slowly pulled out the short sword and pointed it to the snake.

Seeing that it's lunch dared to resist, the snake spat out it's tongue in disdain as if saying ' An ant like you wants to fight your snake here? Dream on! Your lord snake here will definitely eat you up for lunch!'.

The snake slithered to Levi, and although he had planted his feet firmly on the ground, he was sent flying once again.

He chopped towards the snake, as nothing at all happened.

The snake looked at Levi like he was a fool, before swinging it's large tail like a whip, slamming it into Levi's side.

" Opf!" The air was knocked from Levi's lungs as he soared once more, his left hand fractured slightly.

He rolled on the ground before stopping, as blood leaked from his mouth.

The snake slithered up to Levi and used it's tongue to pull him into it's mouth.

It stared into the distance with a satisfied look on it's scaly face.

But then, all of a sudden, the snake started to thrash around while screaming in pain and anger.

' if i don't do anything...i will die...i...can't die!' Levi screamed in his head, as the snake's stomach fumes caused him to feel light headed.

He pulled out the knife that he took from the corpse in star city, and repeatedly stabbed the inside of it's stomach.

The snakes stomach acid was eating away at the skin on his arms and legs.

Because his head was above the acid, his face was still fine, except for a few blisters.

Without thinking about his skin, he stabbed continuously.

After a while of stabbing the snake, it still kept moving, causing levi to clench his teeth.

Without any thought, he used the knife to help him climb through the snake's stomach.

This was difficult because it's stomach was slippery, and with every stab, the snake would flail around, causing him to slip back down.

With a lot of difficulty, he had finally climed out of the stomach acid, and without any more thought, Levi stabbed out.

" hiss!" The sn.a.k.e.d hissed as Levi stuck his hand through the hole, finding something to grab onto so that he wouldn't slip back down again.

Afterward, he began stabbing again.

He was afraid of dying, but he was becoming rather annoyed.

' What did i do to this snake? Why is it trying to eat me?!'

' Fine! Humans and beasts alike want to kill me... I can't survive unless i fight back....'

' If anything wants to kill me, from now on, whether they are human or beast, i will kill them without hesitation...' He thought, as his grip around the knife tightened.

He stabbed and stabbed, without remembering how long he was swallowed or how many times he stabbed out.

thuump!

A slow and heavy thumping sound rang out as the large snake's body hit the ground.

Feeling the impact, Levi began cutting and stabbing more vigorously, as his vision was starting to darken.

After a few minutes, he had grudgingly cut a hole in the side of the snake and crawled out.

He was covered in foul smelling stomach acid and the skin on his arms, legs and abdomin was partially melted off.

He crawled on the ground, ignoring the pain of sharp and hard dirt digging into his unprotected flesh.

He had a feeling that if he were to fall unconscious with wounds like this, that he would most likely not wake up again, so he grudgingly crawled towards the snake's head which was a few meters away.

"..." He gritted his teeth and endured the pain, before he finally reached the head.

Puchi!

He reached up and stabbed through one of it's eyes, as a purple blood flowed out.

While he was absorbing the blood, he passed out.

While he was unconscious, the skin that had been dissolved rapidly grew back.

His body heated up, as veins on his hands and wrists bulged, only returning to normal after a while.

Evening.

" Hey, look at this giant snake! If we take the skin back with us, it could sell for a good price!"

Levi who was slowly waking up heard a voice.

He slightly opened his eyes but didn't move.

Right now, his eyes were golden with black slits down the middle.

He felt like his vision and mind were clearer than before.

He could also somehow feel a strong poison flowing through his veins along with his blood.

" But why does it look so...deflated?"

Another one asked with a weird tone.

" Hey, isn't that dead guy wearing our sect's robes?" One asked.

" Who cares? We should also check to see if he has anything valuable!"

The last one said.

Once levi heard this, his eyes became cold before he closed them again.

' They want to take my valuables...which is equivalent to trying to slow my path to strength...since that is the case...death!' Levi thought, as he listened for every step.

Step....step...step...step.

Levi waited, hearing step after step become louder before finally coming to a stop in front of him.

The unsuspecting disciple bent over, getting ready to search for valuables.

At this moment levi struck out, stabbing the disciple in his throat with the knife.

He coated the knife in his venom.

While lying on the ground, he had felt a liquid escaping his body through the pores in his hands and wrists.

At first he thought that it was sweat, but then he remembered the feeling of a strong venom flowing though his body.

It was easy for him to learn how to release it, and so he released some onto the knife which was still in his hand, before stabbing the disciple.

The disciple tried to say something but the only sound that was coming out, was that of gargling blood.

Thump!

The other two disciples heard a thump but didn't pay it any mind, they thought it was just their friend flipping the body over to search.

Levi started to walk in their direction calmly.

" Hey, did you find anything good on that dead guy?" They didn't even look around to see who was walking towards them, they just kept skinning the snake.

Crack!

A light cracking sound resounded as Levi stabbed the disciple in his head, the blade of the knife imbedded deeply in his skull.

The last one, who heard the crack looked over and saw the scene. " Yo-you! how can you kill people from the same sect?!" He shouted with a trembling voice.

" Didn't you guys want to steal my snake and take my valuables? Stealing from a dead sect member isn't wrong, but killing fellow disciples is?"

" I don't understand your reasoning." Levi spoke coldly, his golden eyes flickering with a dangerous light.

He was not the type of person to start trouble with people, but people seemed to keep finding trouble with him.

" Since you are already here, why return?" He asked, a dense killing intent spread through the air, along with levi's eyes, the disciple was shook to his core.

Levi started to walk toward the disciple.

" If-if you kill me, you won't get away with it!" The disciple tried to scare levi into letting him live.

" If i kill you here, who will know i was the one that did it? Now if i let you live, that would be the real problem." Levi coldly said.

Seeing that he didn't have a way out, the disciple attacked.

He sent out a palm strike filled with qi.

Clank!

A knife and a palm clashed, a metallic clashing sound rining out as a result.

He was actually stronger than Levi, but he felt scared for some reason.

As a second palm strike shot towards him, Levi dodged to the side, the way he dodged looked strange.

It was almost as if he didn't have bones, as if he could bend and twist his body without obstruction.

Instead of just moving his entire body to the side, he just bent his side slightly, so the the palm strike missed him.

After dodging, he stabbed out, the disciple was distracted by how Levi's body bent in such a way, not missing the chance, Levi stabbed through the disciple's c.h.e.s.t.

" It seems the bloodline of that snake not only increased my sight and gave me the ability to produce poison, but also altered my body."

" I feel more flexible than before." He mumbled.

Looking around, he found the short sword.

He then proceeded to take the clothes of all three disciples and changed out of his dirty torn up rags.

He then took their money pouches along with a strange looking ring.

He found a decent saber on one of them, and decided to keep it instead of the short sword.

It had a golden handle and a silver blade.

As he was about to leave he remembered some things.

' Since i have the bloodline of that snake i should be able to go into that cave now.'

' I'll go find the bone cleansing grass later.' He thought.

He walked into the cave and found that rather than being bothered by the poison, he was actually enjoying inhaling it.

" I guess that snake was absorbing the poison coming from this cave to make it's own venom stronger." He mumbled.

After walking for a few minutes, he found himself inside a natural dome.

Inside the dome, was a vine that was growing in the wall, with what looked like some kind of fruit.

The fruit was purple in color, with different shades of purple turning beneath it's surface, while radiating a strong poisonous aura.

" Don't tell me that an entire forest died because of one little fruit." He said doubtfully.

He thought that the poison fog that surrounded the demonic god sect was coming from this cave because of the poison fog that was spewing from the cave, but could he be wrong?

" Why didn't the snake eat it? Was the fruit to poisonous for it? Or was it waiting for the fruit to ripen?" He reached out his hand to pick the fruit.

Before he could touch it, the poisonous aura went into his fingers, causing no little amount of pain.

It felt like his fingers were going to rot off.

Luckily his venom fought it off, otherwise he would probably have to cut off his own fingers.

And although he could probably grow them back, he didn't want to take that kind of risk.

This time he took a different approach, he pulled the whole plant from the wall and was ready to take his leave.

While walking out, a spiky white thing caught his attention.

" Bone cleansing grass." He went and picked that too.

On the mission paper, there was a crude drawing of it's appearence.

This bone cleansing grass was spiky.

It had about 5-7 leaves that were long, and jagged, with black spiky lines going up the back of each leaf.

All of a sudden, both the purple fruit and the bone cleansing grass dissapeared.

" wha?!"

Levi was shocked.

He looked all around but couldn't find them.

He looked at his hands and saw that strange ring on his finger.

" Could it be this thing?" He poked the ring, when all of a sudden both items appeared.

" Is this a spatial ring?" He mumbled.

He had only heard people making jokes about how convenient it would be to have a spacial ring, but afterward they would always sigh while saying that things like spacial rings were long gone, or part of legend.

He thought for a while before putting them back in the ring along with the snake skin.

Since he didn't know how it worked, he had to fiddle with it for a while.

' Since that weird fruit keeps spewing out such a poisonous aura, a lot of people would probably want to take it from me.' He thought.

The snake skin also looked like it would be valuable, so he put it in there too.

After putting everything in the spatial ring, he decided to head back to the sect.

It was only the first day, but he didn't want to stay out of the sect any longer, remembering what happened just earlier.

He took big steps, as he didn't want it to repeat itself.