Chapter 378: Chapter 10 Hereditary Bloodline? (Day 15 and seeking monthly tickets at Yue Chu)
Ba Duan Jin was the very first and core Cultivation Technique of Wang Sheng.
At the beginning of his cultivation journey, he started with Ba Duan Jin, and based on the steps of the Inner Core Skill, he embarked on the path of cultivation.
Up to now, the role of Ba Duan Jin was extremely crucial—Wang Sheng had never neglected it.
Even before, Ba Duan Jin had almost reached Breakthrough—the complete Breakthrough would still require some time.
Witnessing the death of the village chief, Wang Sheng subconsciously practiced Ba Duan Jin, which could extend life.
It was uncertain how much time had passed, but Ba Duan Jin successfully broke its limits six times, becoming the second skill after Planting Skill to achieve this sixfold Breakthrough, and additionally, it was a Cultivation Technique.
As the earliest and longest-practiced among the Cultivation Technique skills, Ba Duan Jin’s sixfold Breakthrough has been anticipated, though this unexpected event just hastened the timing.
Of course, the timing of the Breakthrough wasn’t important, the essential aspect was the effect of breaking the limit six times.
“Planting Skill breaks the limit six times, allowing direct cultivation of Medicine King Level herbs; what about Ba Duan Jin’s sixfold Breakthrough?”
Breaking the limit of Cultivation Technique skills didn’t amplify Wang Sheng’s level; only cultivation could enhance the derivative effects and strength,
thus, only after practice could the actual effects be ascertained.
After attending the funeral, Wang Sheng returned directly to his place of secluded meditation, so he could proceed with practicing without any issue.
Soon, he felt the active pulsation of Qi-Blood within his body.
“The effect of cultivation is enhanced, the essence of Blood Qi strength is boosted. Although the progress in Blood Qi hasn’t increased significantly, with more time spent in cultivation, the power of Blood Qi should become even more formidable—indeed, each Breakthrough in Cultivation Technique skills enhances the transformative effects from previous Breakthroughs.”
Producing Qi-Blood Power was an ability from the first Breakthrough, and the power of Blood Qi was from the third Breakthrough; the enhancement of these two effects was one of the gains from the sixfold Breakthrough.
“It’s all within expectations, but the real focus is up next…”
Wang Sheng continued to practice and soon made a new discovery.
“Bloodline inheritance… why does it feel a bit strange?”
As predicted, the sixfold Breakthrough added a new term: Bloodline inheritance.
This name was decided by Wang Sheng himself.
The effect was quite apparent; “Bloodline” and “inheritance” were clearly expressed.
His bloodline had been enhanced—if he were to have offspring, they might inherit some of Wang Sheng’s extraordinary attributes, even newborns might possess incredible strength.
“So strange!”
This effect seemed to offer no improvement to him personally—this was the first time something like this occurred.
“I currently have no thoughts of having descendants.”
Perhaps in the future, he might be interested, but currently, Wang Sheng had no such thoughts, thus this Bloodline inheritance seemed somewhat useless to him.
“It feels like there should be more to it…” he felt a sixfold Breakthrough should not bring just this mediocre effect, and even suspected that Bloodline inheritance was only a side effect of the real sixfold Breakthrough impact; “Practice it a few more times and see!”
As time passed, with increasing repetitions of practice, Wang Sheng finally discovered an anomaly.
“Bloodline inheritance is indeed a secondary effect… If there is something to be inherited, then there must be something to inherit.”
With more repetitions, Wang Sheng discovered that Ba Duan Jin’s sixfold Breakthrough seemed to have spawned a “seed” within his body that might give rise to terrifying capabilities, with Bloodline inheritance likely just being an outgrowth of this “seed.”
It was called a seed because it wasn’t yet fully developed and would need more time.
“Currently, it’s unclear what it is, waiting until the germination is complete to find out the full effect … but based on Bloodline inheritance, one can guess—Divine Skills? Unique bloodlines? Or something else?”
The seed was not yet fully germinated, so he couldn’t make an accurate judgment.
However, he could be sure that the sixfold Breakthrough of Ba Duan Jin wouldn’t disappoint him; once truly germinated, it would definitely be remarkably astonishing.
“Seed in gestation: 1%”
The way the progress bar was named was based on his understanding, hence the unknown seed’s gestation progress bar followed his first thought—Wang Sheng didn’t want to correct it; he would see once it developed.
“Once fully gestated, I’ll know then; anyway, even if it only enhances the previous two transformative effects, it wouldn’t be a loss.”
Breaking the limits of Cultivation Technique skills doesn’t directly boost strength; it takes time to assimilate and convert these gains into strength.
The sixfold Breakthrough considerably enhances the first two effects, enough for the current Wang Sheng to digest.
As long as he cultivates Ba Duan Jin, which had reached its sixfold Breakthrough for some time, his power of Blood Qi would strengthen, meaning his strength would significantly enhance in the coming period.
“The duration of Ba Duan Jin’s cultivation hadn’t increased much, after all, it’s already one of the longest-practiced Cultivation Techniques; but first, let’s see how the village is handling things.”
After the village chief’s funeral, he had gone straight to cultivating Ba Duan Jin, completely unaware of how the village was being managed afterward.
Upon emerging, he subconsciously wanted to visit the village chief’s home—previously, whenever he wanted to understand village affairs, he would go there, but he hadn’t walked far when he remembered the village chief was already buried, sighed, and turned to go to Li Yongfeng’s house.
Li Yongfeng seemed to be dealing with things, his face revealing a look of surprise when he saw Wang Sheng approach.
“Yun Sheng, everything is alright now?”
After the last funeral, Wang Sheng had gone into seclusion directly, and Li Yongfeng thought it was because the death of the village chief had affected him.
“There’s nothing much, just suddenly had an insight and made a breakthrough.”
Seeing that Wang Sheng was fine, Li Yongfeng was relieved and asked, “Is there something you need?”
“I came to find out about the situation in the village, has a new village chief been chosen already?”
When Wang Sheng had gone to see the village chief for the last time, he thought the village chief would entrust him with something; under the circumstances, he would have agreed to almost anything if it wasn’t too excessive.
But the village chief only smiled at him.
Wang Sheng saw contentment in that smile, considering Qingshan Village had developed from a small mountain village into its current state, the village chief was already satisfied and sought nothing more.
Still, he decided to come and take a look.
His periods of seclusion were getting longer and longer, perhaps one day, one period of seclusion would span multiple springs and autumns; being able to see familiar faces now was indeed fortunate.
“It’s all good. The village chief had arranged everything before his death, and now I am the village chief!” Li Yongfeng pointed to something in front of him, “This is the plan left by the former village chief, and I intend to complete it.”
Wang Sheng looked, it was a plan for building up the village, clearly something the village chief… the former village chief had completed before his passing, but had no time to implement.
“Then, Brother Yongfeng, keep up the good work. If you run into any trouble you cannot solve, you can come to me.”
“Don’t worry, I can’t let down the old village chief!”
Li Yongfeng and Wang Sheng chatted for a few moments.
Before his death, the village chief had already handled the matter of the village chief election, and in the end, Li Yongfeng, who was well-acquainted with Qingshan Village and sufficiently capable, was successfully elected.
This choice was not very surprising.
Qingshan Village had changed; if one wasn’t a martial artist, one couldn’t suppress the others as village chief.
The old village chief had been able to maintain control mostly because of a transformative prestige, supported also by Wang Sheng.
Apart from the old village chief, no one else had such commanding prestige; thus, now both prestige and capability were needed.
Now a Grandmaster Level Martial Artist, Li Yongfeng was one of the first in the village to become a martial artist and had a close relationship with Wang Sheng, so it was not a surprise he became the village chief.
At the same time, Wang Sheng also learned about the general strength of the village from Li Yongfeng.
Setting aside those below Grandmaster Level, aside from a few old people, practically everyone in the village was a martial artist.
Most importantly, the Grandmaster Level Martial Artists.
“Ten people!” This was the number Li Yongfeng provided.
This didn’t even include individuals associated with Wang Sheng and spirit beasts such as Yue, Zhu Xiao, Da Bai, Yun Xiao, and the like.
This was just the count of those from the village who had gone from martial artist to grandmaster—ten people.
Of the group that included Li Yongfeng, five had become grandmasters, then from the school, four out of twelve had become grandmasters, and another was the village healer, Xu Qu.
Moreover, many others were also close to a breakthrough; it was estimated that in a few years or a decade or so, the number of Grandmaster Level Martial Artists in Qingshan Village could exceed twenty, even more.
“It looks like I don’t need to worry much!”
With such strength, as long as they didn’t act recklessly, even without Wang Sheng intervening, they could live comfortably.
Qingshan Village, after all, was cultivated by Wang Sheng and was now quite functional.
The Taiping Sect was a perfect example, as were the martial artists nearing their breakthrough to Grandmaster status—contributing significantly to the Spirit World.
Finding that the village’s development was quite satisfactory, chatting briefly, and seeing no problems, Wang Sheng then returned to continue his seclusion.
Soon, it had been half a year since the old village chief had passed away.
In seclusion, Wang Sheng opened his eyes.
“Unlimited Qiankun four times, Array level eight, seems like these two can be combined, huh!”
Skill classifications were all up to Wang Sheng himself on how to utilize them.
After improving the levels of Qiankun and Array, Wang Sheng discovered a new use—
“Is a teleportation array feasible?”
(4400+3000+2800. Day fifteen of the month, finally completed, but rest assured, I will try to maintain three posts daily unless something comes up.
ps: It’s the start of the month, as per usual, asking for monthly votes!)