"It's a god damn, Earth grade bloodline and it's almost a mid-level one at that!!" someone in the crowd shouted.
Earth-grade bloodlines are among the top-grade bloodlines in the Western Province; heck, even the whole Eastern Sun Continent matters as a fact. Anyone with an Earth Grade bloodline could gain the status of an official disciple of any top-level sect in the Eastern Sun Continent and a Core disciple in other sects.
Chi Qide looked at the black shadow floating behind his son, his face turned a slight red as he could barely contain the excitement he had at that moment. Then he laughed, and it reverberated throughout the martial hall for some time. He honestly never expected his son to have an Earth-grade bloodline.
"Good, good!"
"Very good!" Chi Qide said with a faint smile tugging at his lips. He then inhaled deeply and gathered himself, suppressing his excitement.
With eyes filled to the brim with pride for the talent his son possessed. He thought that with enough support and resources from the sect, Chi Wei, with such talent, would soon surpass him and take up the role of sect leader, with the possibility of taking the sect into a new era.
At this moment, everyone clapped their hands and shouted,
"Congratulations, Sect Leader, for producing a prodigy!"
Chi Qide, now with an indifferent face, waved his hand to indicate for them to stop, but he was full of a sense of pride on the inside. He then said,
"Enough! Others are yet to awaken their bloodline; you never know, there may be a next Earth-grade bloodline."
However, everyone who heard this knew these were words of comfort, so others wouldn't lose their confidence. Since such grade bloodlines are not common.
Chen Ying nodded in agreement; smiling amicably, he said, "Right, let's continue with the awakening ceremony."
After Chi Wei, it was Long Huang's turn. When Chen Ying spoke, the elders, citizens, and disciples could not help but turn to look at Long Huang. As he was known to be the prodigy of the sect, Chi Wei had an Earth-grade bloodline, true qualifications to be called a prodigy.
What about Long Huang, everyone thought?
With the assembled sect members watching, Long Huang calmly stepped into the light beam. But with every step he took, his heartbeats quickened. Long Huang stepped into the light beam.
Long Huang didn't stay in the light beam area for long, and unlike Chi Wei, a faint green light appeared around Long Huang's body.
Seeing this scene, the crowd stared blankly. Subsequently, a Gray light suddenly appeared with the green light; the two different lights flashed intermittently, giving a slight, ancient, and calm feeling.
Then, a green and a gray shadow appeared above Long Huang's head. Everyone saw a snake with a mixture of green and gray, with tiny horns that couldn't be easily seen.
The people around exchanged glances with each other.
A snake bloodline ?!
Within their knowledge of beast-type martial spirits, a snake was either black, brown, green, yellow, red, or blue, but this snake appeared in green and grey.
And as for a serpent, this was too small to be a serpent bloodline.
Chi Qide looked at the bloodline shadow above Long Huang, his puzzled eyes were tinted with a trace of disappointment. In his opinion, this bloodline was nothing but a mutated version of the snake bloodline, not even a serpent.
Some other sect disciples also possess mutated type bloodlines. Therefore, compared to Chi Wei's Winged Black Tiger, the difference was like heaven and earth.
"Sect Leader, what do you think?" Chief Elder Chen Ying couldn't help but refer to Chi Qide.
"A mutated snake bloodline, barely a high-level Ordinary grade bloodline." Chi Qide declared.
All Elders and everyone present in the Martial hall nodded their heads, apparently agreeing with the Old Manor Lord's judgment.
"A mutated snake, High-level Ordinary grade bloodline, huh?" Long Huang thought as he stepped out from the beam, but his face was calm because if it truly was such a level, he was as good as dead. Only he knew his bloodline wasn't as simple as a High-level Ordinary grade bloodline.
Seeing as Long Huang's bloodline was only a High-grade ordinary bloodline, Chi Wei's mouth curved into a mocking sneer, his eyes filled with arrogance as they were directed at Long Huang.
Long Huang naturally saw Chi Wei's mocking smile, but he paid him no mind in the least, for he was too lazy to play a staring game with a little kid.
One by one, more than a dozen disciples stepped into the light beam and had their bloodline awakened, followed by the children of Blossom City. Most of them possessed low-grade ordinary bloodlines, some high, and even a few variant bloodlines. There were several waste bloodlines and some without any bloodline.
In this round of the bloodline awakening ceremony, Long Huang's bloodline came in eighth place throughout the whole of Blossom City, but there was not much of a difference, as he and the rest of the children were just a sideshow, overshadowed by Chi Wei's bloodline. After the awakening ceremony ended, Chi Qide smiled and said to Huang Peng and the rest of the elders,
"I will personally be advising Chi Wei's practice from now on."
Personally advise? No one was astonished after all, he is his son and is talented to boot.
"Long Huang, your talent is somewhat decent; you just have to put more effort into your practice, and achieving the Blood tempering realm will not be difficult for you." Huang Peng turned toward Long Huang and comforted him, as he knew the grade of his bloodline affected his cultivation speed, and that meeting the Blood tempering realm was the only way to cure Long Huang's disease.
"I understand, fifth elder." Long Huang opened his mouth, wanting to tell Huang Peng and Su Yan that his bloodline shouldn't just be an ordinary grade bloodline; in the end, he didn't say anything.
Before Long Huang left, Huang Peng gave him a cultivation technique for training qi and explained the important points that Long Huang should focus on during practice. Long Huang listened attentively and memorized them in his heart.
After leaving the courtyard's main hall, Long Huang returned to his modern tiny house and began practicing his qi according to the cultivation technique the fifth elder had taught him. He sat down cross-legged on the bed and started absorbing the world's spiritual energy according to the Xuan Qi breathing technique.
As Long Huang ran the cultivation technique, a shadow of a snake with tiny horns came out of his body; the green and grey snake emerged behind Long Huang. The so-called high-grade ordinary bloodline in Chi Qide's and the others' eyes suddenly stretched its jaw wide and devoured the surrounding energy in terrifying amounts, attracting the energy around Long Huang's body.
The energy devoured by the snake suddenly disappeared before entering Long Huang's body. Long Huang panicked,
" Wtf, where did the spiritual energy go?" He continued trying to absorb the spiritual energy 10 more times, but it kept disappearing
" Fuck! am I destined to die an early death again" Long Huang lamented.
"I won't bow to this stupid fate of mine, I refuse," he roared and continued.
And on the twelfth try, 'Boom', an explosion wrong out, and Long Huang's bloodline shadow transformed.
Turning into a snake with four legs and changing from basic green and grey to an evergreen and dark grey color with larger horns and shiny scales.
At the same time, Long Huang also underwent a transformation; his previous raven black hair turned a silver-like grey, and his eyes pure emerald green, becoming even more handsome, and his body more refined. He also grew in height from 1.8 meters to 2 meters.
This sudden transformation of his bloodline shocked Long Huang; he never expected such a change, but then he noticed the change in his hair color and rushed to his mirror.
"My, my, my well hello handsome," smirked Long Huang as he looked in the mirror. Long Huang was very satisfied with this transformation (by no means was Long Huang ugly before, but now he was on a different level).
Then, thinking with such an appearance, he could easily live a good life from being a boy toy for rich, powerful women, but then he remembered that due to his disease, he only had 2 years to live.
" What a mood killer," Long Huang mumbled as he rolled his eyes at that thought. He then returned to his bed to continue cultivating.
As he sat cross-legged, the new snake bloodline shadow emerged and started to engulf the spiritual energy, but this time, the energy entered Long Huang's body, traveling along the meridians, and gradually transformed into Qi.
After a few hours, night approached slowly, and stars hung across the night sky.
A short while later, Long Huang opened his eyes. His face wore an extremely weird expression.
Earlier, he had followed the instructions from the cultivation technique the fifth elder gave him, the Xuan Qi breathing technique's first layer, to refine the spiritual energy of the world into his own Qi by running the cultivation technique to refine the spiritual energy along the meridians, and he needed to be able to manage and direct the flow of energy for one complete cycle without obstacles or difficulties.
Within these few hours, not only did he successfully convert spiritual energy into qi, but he broke through to the first stage of the Skin Tempering Realm.
" What Ordinary grade bloodline....hahaha!" Long Huang laughed crazily.
Yet Long Huang's heart was filled with a sense of disbelief as he remembered the fifth elder once mentioning that the sect leader had spent nearly two months before successfully breaking through to the first level of the Skin Tempering Realm! And he broke through in one night. This difference was immense, like heaven and earth.
Thinking about this cultivation speed, Long Huang grew excited as his hope in curing his body and curing his disease had been reignited and seemed closer than ever.