Level Up in Martial World

"Eh," Lu Zhen noticed a strange thing: his skin seemed to turn into a strange silver colour after he transformed into the Volgrith form, making him frown.

"System…"

[Host, due to your constitution level increasing, your transformed state has also improved.]

Lu Zhen nodded his head when he heard this. Although he had a similar conjecture, he couldn\'t be quite sure.

However, ignoring his state, he closed his eyes as he tried to tap into the bloodline of the Volgrith, scanning his entire body to search for it.

Time passed as he searched through his body, examining every single cell. With his divine physique, controlling and inspecting his body was quite easy for him, like an additional attribute of the skill.

Finally, his facial expression seemed to relax as he sensed the greenish patches of blood in his body. The blood was strange as Lu Zhen felt that it was some kind of nuclear energy.

However, Lu Zhen didn\'t fully relax, as he separated his consciousness into two.

The moment he divided his consciousness, Lu Zhen felt like a heavy mountain was placed on his head. He couldn\'t even form coherent thoughts properly, but with difficulty, he moved one part of his consciousness into his head while the other carefully observed the green patches of blood, which seemed to multiply over time.

After the consciousness arrived at Lu Zhen\'s brain, he tapped into his mental power. The process was slow and gradual, as his thought process was significantly slowed down.

"S…o…close," Lu Zhen muttered as he focused more attention. However, before the consciousness could fully tap into his mental energy, his consciousness abruptly froze midway.

Cough! Cough!

Lu Zhen directly vomited blood as the two consciousnesses immediately became one, while his body seemed to slightly deflate again.

"I guess it didn\'t work the first time," Lu Zhen sighed as he took the book that the elf had given him to cultivate his demonic Qi and read it again.

Although he had a photographic memory, he still wanted to make sure everything was right, and it was all correct, which made Lu Zhen\'s face contort.

The name of this demonic Qi cultivation manual was "Heaven-Refining Demonic Qi." Lu Zhen had already checked with his appraisal again, making it clear that she hadn\'t done anything to the cultivation book.

That\'s why he cultivated it, although the grade of it was still "???" but he was pretty clear that it was at least about the first-stage martial realm.

The cultivation method was relatively simple; he just had to draw attributeless Qi and refine it using his bloodline in a certain rhythm.

However, the hardest part was to initiate it since, to initiate the cultivation technique, he needed mental energy to nurture his bloodline. So, this was a cultivation technique for at least a second-stage martial artist or higher. After all, usually only martial artists in these realms could open their mental energy.

Lu Zhen was a special case since he had reached the second-stage martial realm with his body instead.

However, the most difficult part was that he needed to continuously sense his bloodline while tapping into his mental energy, which was a terrifyingly taxing task.

"Sigh…" Lu Zhen sighed as he knew that the elf did him a little dirty. After all, he was a third-stage martial artist when he took the demonic cultivation technique; however, he didn\'t give up.

His eyes flashed with determination as he communicated with his system in his mind.

"What are my chances of cultivating this system?"

[Host, according to the information collected, you have a five percent chance to initiate the demonic cultivation technique.]

Lu Zhen sighed even more; however, he didn\'t give up. He had reached a bottleneck again after reaching the peak of the third-stage martial realm.

Although he only needed to condense his Qi by a little to reach the second-stage Martial realm, he still felt a shackle that weighed heavily on him, that single step.

It was at least multiple times easier for him to reach 99.99% condensed Wood Qi than to take that last step to reach the second-stage martial realm.

"Sigh, I am truly ordinary in my talent…" Even with Lu Zhen now unlocking his bloodline, he was still ordinary in his talent for cultivation.

The reason he was able to reach the second-stage martial realm so fast was because of the resources along with his skills like Devour, dual cultivation, and meditation.

He hadn\'t forgotten about his meditation skill. Although it hadn\'t improved at all after so long and seemed lacklustre with no apparent benefits, it was the subtle benefit it provided that was undoubtedly helpful for Lu Zhen, as his cultivation speed at least doubled due to its passive effect.

At this moment, a blue prompt flashed in the corner of his eyes, making Lu Zhen\'s eyes instantly light up with excitement as he looked at it.

[Quest]

[Mission: Cultivate the demonic cultivation technique to its initiation level]

[Difficulty: Medium]

[Time Limit: 4 days 23 hours 59 minutes]

[Reward: Mutation of Wood Qi]

Lu Zhen\'s eyes widened as his focus inadvertently shifted to the reward.

"Mutation of Wood Qi!" Lu Zhen exclaimed, shock apparent in his eyes.

Although the Wood Qi cultivation technique given to him by his mother was a superior cultivation technique that provided him with better Wood Qi than most other martial cultivation techniques, it was still based on one of the basic elements.

However, the mutation of Wood Qi could open up a new door for Lu Zhen.

He had heard that only first-stage martial artists were capable of mutating their Qi, but being able to do it early would undoubtedly provide him with more benefits. After all, as the saying goes, "the early bird gets the meal first."

However, his stomach rumbled loudly, reminding him of his hunger. "I guess I\'ll satisfy my hunger before trying again," Lu Zhen thought with a sense of urgency.

He left the training room, carrying all the meat of the third-stage martial realm back to his training space under the surprised gaze of little Lily, who was seriously studying the book he had given her.

Although Lu Zhen himself could likely train in formations, he didn\'t have time for it at the moment. While it was only ten kilos of meat, thanks to Lu Zhen\'s Devour skill, he could fully digest everything rapidly, wasting almost no energy. This amount was plenty for him and would last for days.

He took some bites of the meat, feeling his body refreshed as it became full of energy again.

"If the chances are so low, I will only practice this for the next five days. I don\'t believe that after trying it thousands of times, I won\'t even initiate the cultivation technique."

Lu Zhen\'s eyes glinted with determination as he adopted a military stance, standing straight like a tall heavenly tower.

Trying to separate his consciousness again.

Boom!

His mind felt heavy as he failed again, vomiting blood on the ground.

However, Lu Zhen didn\'t care. He promptly ate the meat before he continued the grind of cultivation again.

Trying again and again, no matter how he failed and how much pain he felt, without a flush, he continued his uninterrupted practice.

Just like that, Lu Zhen spent a day and a night cycle, repeating this endless cycle of cultivation, barely sleeping for four hours or so.

"Sigh," he sighed as he felt the splitting headache and the exhaustion of his body, but it has become less and less the more time he spends on splitting his consciousness, and he has gotten really close to achieving his goal.

"Looks like I will reach it soon," Lu Zhen thought with some relief as he asked the system, "How much is my chance to cultivate demonic cultivation?"

[Host, it has become fifty percent.]

The cold, mechanical voice of the system rang in Lu Zhen\'s head, prompting his excitement.

He knew why his chances increased. It was all because of his adaptability; the more he practised, the more his consciousness was strengthened, and he gradually improved himself. However, it was very subtle due to how complex one\'s consciousness was.

Lu Zhen tried to cultivate again, taking an attentive military position with his back straight as a tower before he transformed into his volgrith form again.

Sensing his bloodline, the greenish blood, which was multiplying rapidly, he sensed it and split his consciousness again.

Immediately he felt the heavy burden however it was significantly less by now so without wasting a moment he guided his other consciousness into his brain.