Breaking the Masked Man

With the opponent's strength, a mere wisp of soul power would be enough to erase him from this world.

"Swallow it, and don't resist."

The middle-aged man was not surprised to hear this. No one could resist the temptation of this thing. He raised his hand and handed the essence blood, which resembled a fetal egg, to Yao Yan. At the same time, his eyes showed a little excitement and anticipation.

There aren't many things in this world that can stir his emotions, but this human experiment is one of them.

He tried many races, even magical beasts and demons. Among them, the Soul Race and the Medicine Race had relatively low rejection rates, which may be related to the fact that the bloodline power of the two races mainly enhances the soul power.

Yao Yan is a descendant of the Soul Clan and the Medicine Clan, so theoretically, he should have better compatibility.

Yao Yan accepted the essence blood enveloped in black flames. These black flames were like nothingness, without any temperature, and even under the perception of his soul power, they did not fluctuate. It was as if they were integrated with the surrounding space. He took a deep breath, looked up at the other party, and asked in a deep voice, "I have not yet asked for Master's name."

"I am a venerable soul."

"Could my master be a member of the Soul Clan?"

"That's right, so was your father. Unfortunately, he fell in love with a girl from the Medicine Clan. You should have heard about the relationship between the Medicine Clan and the Soul Clan. For your mother's sake, your father chose to abandon his own surname and clan. What a ridiculous choice!"

Hun Xuzi snorted coldly, seemingly extremely dissatisfied with the matter.

Hun Xuzi, the chief alchemist of the Soul Clan, was a Seven-Star Dou Sheng in his early stage and a master of the Ninth-Rank Profound Pill alchemy. He once studied in the Pill Tower in seclusion and became a disciple of the tower master of the Little Pill Tower. Later, he colluded with the Soul Clan to ambush and kill his master, which led to a great war between the Pill Tower and the Soul Palace.

"Master, if I survive this, I will surely inherit your mantle in the future..." Yao Yan didn't even have the thought of being angry anymore. Looking at the essence blood wrapped in black flames in his hand, he made a fierce decision, put it directly into his mouth, and swallowed it.

That's life; you never know when an accident will happen!

Since we can't resist, let's just 'enjoy' it!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 5 Alchemy? Human Refining!

The essence blood wrapped in black flames showed no energy fluctuations and even felt like jelly to the touch. Similarly, the black flames enveloping it did not transmit any temperature. Yao Yan swallowed it easily without any pain.

Before Yao Yan could even express his doubts, an indescribable pain surged from his abdomen throughout his body. The battle qi vortex that he had cultivated for nearly ten years was torn apart in an instant. Every bone in his body felt as if it had been hammered. The intense pain caused his vision to go black, and he let out a cry of pain. His once rosy face turned ashen, and he was covered in cold sweat.

At this moment, he could barely stay conscious, feeling the battle qi in his body disappear completely, while the essence blood he had swallowed was like an insatiable glutton, beginning to devour the bloodline power in his body.

The pain, like having one's bones ripped out and marrow sucked, is indescribable.

"Very good, you have seized this opportunity. Life and death, the strong and the weak are all selected through repeated choices. If you can get through this, you will be a strong person in the future!"

Hun Xuzi clearly admired Yao Yan's decisiveness. Knowing the risks were extremely high, the other party only hesitated for a moment before swallowing the medicine decisively. He was very satisfied with this grasp of the opportunity. After all, over the years, he had seen too many people who were afraid of death but wanted to become stronger.

In this world, if you want to gain something, you must give something in return.

To become a strong person, you have to be more ruthless, more willing to fight, and better able to seize opportunities to fight for that sliver of hope!

Yao Yan had lost the ability to speak and could only curl up on the ground like a boiled shrimp, enduring wave after wave of pain in his body. His special soul power kept him conscious and allowed him to clearly feel all the changes and Hun Xuzi's whispers.

Damn it!!

Yao Yan's face was contorted with rage as he mentally cursed Hun Xuzi's entire family and his mother, whose fate was uncertain, venting his fear and resentment.

He had always known the cruelty of the fantasy world, but he never expected it to come so quickly.

There was absolutely no preparation.

They didn't give him a chance to develop at all.

Hun Xuzi floated in mid-air, his smile gone. With his soul power, he was fully aware of every change in Yao Yan's body. This was only the first step of the fusion. If Yao Yan couldn't even get through this step, then there was no need to continue.

The Devouring Spirit Clan's bloodline is extremely domineering, and ordinary people simply cannot withstand it. If Yao Yan did not possess the bloodline of a Dou Di, which grants him strong vitality, he would surely have died by now.

The bloodline of the Devouring Spirit Clan is very interesting.

Ordinary people cannot withstand it, and the power of bloodline is too strong to be compatible with. The only way to find a balance between the two is through continuous experimentation.

As the black flames enveloping the essence blood gradually dissipated, the essence blood that Yao Yan had swallowed completely unleashed its power, frantically devouring everything within Yao Yan's body—life force, bloodline power, battle qi… It was like a ravenous glutton, devouring everything around it that it could consume.

This is somewhat similar to the Void Devouring Flame, except that it is a naturally occurring, strange flame, while the other is a living being!

soon.

Yao Yan didn't have the strength to even greet Hun Xuzi's mother. As a six-star Dou Zhe, how much could his body possibly be devoured by the Devouring Spirit Clan's essence blood? In just a few breaths, his body had shriveled up like a deflated balloon, and his consciousness began to blur.

"The Medicine Clan's bloodline is indeed more vigorous. Compared to the Soul Clan's Dou Di bloodline, it contains more life energy and is more resilient to adversity..."

Hun Xuzi looked at Yao Yan, who had been drained of his life essence and turned into a dried-up corpse, his eyes flickering, and muttered to himself.

He had known this all along.

He had conducted many such experiments, not even sparing his own people.

Soon, Yao Yan's young body turned into a dried-up corpse, even his hair was dry and without any luster.

"The first step is done. It seems this little guy has good willpower."

Hun Xuzi watched the essence blood gradually subside and muttered to himself. Then, a terrifying soul power, enveloped by the Void Devouring Flame Earth Fire, swept towards Yao Yan. The illusory black flames covered Yao Yan's withered body in the blink of an eye.

The black flames burned fiercely, without any heat or aura escaping, formless and invisible.

As Hun Xuzi flipped his palm, the black flames on it surged, and the space in his palm began to distort. A jade bottle shrouded in black flames appeared. As it was opened, a rich bloodline power surged out, causing the surrounding天地能量 (heaven and earth energy) to tremble slightly and instinctively converge towards it.

If the Void Devouring Flame hadn't enveloped the surrounding space, the entire Medicine Clan might have erupted in chaos at this moment.

Because what was in the bottle was the bloodline of the Medicine Clan's Dou Di, and this was a special essence blood that Hun Xuzi had extracted from the corpse of a Medicine Clan Dou Sheng. The violent energy contained in it had been refined and devoured by the Void Devouring Flame, leaving only the most refined bloodline power.

Only the Void Devouring Flame, which devoured the Devouring Spirit Clan, could accomplish this in this world.

The Soul Clan is able to maintain its bloodline power through this method: continuously extracting bloodline power from the bodies of deceased clansmen and transferring it to their descendants.

It can even extract the bloodline power of other races...

Yao Yan's Dou Di bloodline concentration was ultimately too low to withstand the absorption of this drop of essence blood. This drop of essence blood came from the last Devouring Spirit King of the Devouring Spirit Clan, and it was necessary to add bloodline power of the same level to harmonize the two and maintain their balance, which might allow them to fuse perfectly.

Hun Xuzi showed no remorse and directly poured the precious essence blood into Yao Yan's body.

Even if he failed, he was confident that he could extract the essence from Yao Yan's body. As a ninth-grade Xuan Dan master, he had that much confidence. This kind of experiment would not cause him any loss. As for Yao Yan's life... the world has no shortage of the lives of the weak.

Drops of blood, as clear as jade, fell and, under the refinement of the Void Devouring Flame, transformed into wisps of mist that flowed into Yao Yan's body.

As they surged in, Yao Yan's body, which had just calmed down, convulsed again, and his consciousness, which should have been unconscious, became clear again under the support of this powerful bloodline force. Even his soul power became stronger, allowing him to clearly perceive everything around him.

At the same time, the excruciating pain swept through the depths of the soul, driving one mad.

His already withered body cracked open. If it weren't for being enveloped by the Void Devouring Flame, Yao Yan's body wouldn't have been able to maintain its human form.

Neither the bloodline of the Dou Di nor the essence of the Devouring Spirit King could withstand Yao Yan at this moment.

Hun Xuzi was indifferent to this; his attention was focused on the clash between the two bloodlines. He needed to find a balance between them and refine them into Yao Yan's body. This method was similar to alchemy, essentially reshaping Yao Yan's body.

Many of the cases in which Hun Xuzi failed were due to his inability to bear the pain and his voluntary abandonment. As for the consequences of abandoning, he was naturally refined by the Void Devouring Flame and his essence blood was extracted again. As a master alchemist, he had plenty of patience and was not afraid of failure at all.

Time passed slowly, and Yao Yan was in unbearable pain, but she couldn't even yell or curse, and could only passively endure it.

Every breath felt incredibly long.

After an unknown amount of time, Yao Yan was almost numb from the pain, and his consciousness began to blur. However, the two domineering bloodline powers within him were still vying for control, as if they were using his body as a battlefield to fight for every inch of land. In this process, his body gradually began to adapt to these two bloodline powers, especially the Dou Di bloodline power of the Yao clan, which actually began to actively integrate with him without any rejection, showing an unexpected harmony.

"kindness?"

Hun Xuzi keenly noticed this and couldn't help but mutter to himself, "Indeed, only people from our own clan are a better fit."

Over the past thousand years, the Soul Clan has devoured many other ancient families through the Void Devouring Flame and the offspring of the Devouring Spirit Clan. The bloodline power they have obtained is far less compatible than the one Yao Yan is currently integrating. It requires a lot of effort, and some of these efforts even need to start from the fetal stage.

As this immense bloodline power merged into Yao Yan's body, it rapidly repaired his damaged body, nourished his soul, and gradually cleared his consciousness. At the same time, the excruciating pain struck again, but this time, he endured it!

Because he didn't want to die, at least not in such an unclear and ambiguous way!

"The second step is complete. The next step is the final one. Whether it succeeds or not depends on your luck."

Hun Xuzi said in a completely calm tone, because he himself was not confident about this last step and could only take a gamble.

As the words fell, the boundless soul power manipulated the Void Devouring Flame's earth fire to shatter the Devouring Spirit King's essence blood into countless strands. Then, the Void Devouring Flame's earth fire enveloped each strand of bloodline power and forcibly merged it into Yao Yan's body. At this moment, Yao Yan was fusing the power of his clan's Dou Di bloodline. With the unique characteristics of the Void Devouring Flame, he could take the opportunity to refine the Devouring Spirit King's essence blood into it.

This is clearly not the first time Hun Xuzi has done this.

Almost instantly, Yao Yan's will was shattered, and at the same time, his body underwent a strange change. A violent and bloodthirsty evil aura surged out, his eyes turned bloodshot and crazed. He lost all reason and only had the instinct of a beast. He roared and howled, like a frenzied beast twisting its body wildly.

In response, Hun Xuzi's eyes flashed with a sharp light. Instead of stopping, he increased the speed of refining, because he found that Yao Yan's body actually held up and did not collapse directly as the essence blood of the Devouring Spirit King was integrated.

This is the first time in a century!

As the essence and blood were completely integrated, the evil and violent aura on Yao Yan's body became increasingly intense, until Yao Yan's brow split open, and a dark red vertical eye appeared.

The cold, emotionless, blood-red vertical pupils were filled with an indescribable aura, as if they wanted to devour everything.

The soul power that Hun Xuzi was using to envelop Yao Yan's body trembled, as if it had been spied on by some high-ranking being. However, this situation only lasted for a moment because Yao Yan was too weak to cause him any trouble.

"It's done?!"

Looking at the boy before him who resembled a member of the Devouring Spirit Clan, Hun Xuzi's tone was filled with surprise.

However, Hun Xuzi quickly discovered the problem. Yao Yan was not rational; he was just insane. His soul seemed to have been corrupted by the essence blood of the Devouring Spirit King. This was clearly not a success. He didn't want a madman. After pondering for a while, he directly used the Void Devouring Flame to distort space and took out an eighth-grade pill, the Soul Purification Pill.

This pill was prepared by him for those Heavenly Venerables in the Soul Palace who liked to devour the souls of others. It can purify the soul and eliminate the aftereffects of devouring the souls of others.

This is also a method used by the Soul Palace to train its subordinates.

Without hesitation, he manipulated the pill to float into Yao Yan's mouth, and then used the Void Devouring Flame Earth Fire to help him refine it, in order to prevent any other changes from happening to his body.

The medicine is now a rare treasure to him, its value definitely exceeding that of a ninth-grade precious pill.

He didn't want anything to happen to the other party at this final step.