Jiang Chen's body was currently being battered by the violent energy of the divine blood. He swore that he really hadn't intended to swallow that drop of divine blood on purpose.
It was just that the tiny trace of divine blood energy he had tasted earlier felt far too refreshing, as if both his body and soul had been elevated.
Driven by instinct, he subconsciously swallowed the entire drop of divine blood.
By the time his consciousness caught up, it was already too late.
The vast surge of divine blood energy had erupted inside him.
It was as if a bomb had exploded within his body; his internal organs and flesh were instantly destroyed under the violent energy.
This immense divine blood energy was a terrifying bomb to Jiang Chen, yet at the same time, it was an unparalleled tonic.
With a "bang," a huge hole was blasted open in his abdomen. Looking inside, one could see his organs already reduced to bloody foam and fragments.
But under the nourishing power of the divine blood energy, his body rapidly reconstructed itself.
In no time, the massive hole in his abdomen had healed, only for other parts of his body to immediately explode again.
Explosions rang out continuously. Just as the energy was about to fully erupt, the corpse core finally moved.
The long-dormant corpse core seemed to open its maw wide, swallowing a full third of the surging energy in one gulp.
Cold sweat poured down Jiang Chen's body; this feeling was truly too perilous.
In that instant just now, he had truly thought he was going to die.
If the full energy of that drop of divine blood had erupted completely, his body might have simply torn apart.
The sensation this divine blood gave him was far more terrifying than any heavenly tribulation he had ever endured.
He felt fortunate in his heart that the corpse core had come through for him at the critical moment.
After the corpse core suddenly devoured a third of the divine blood energy, Jiang Chen didn't feel any regret.
Such an enormous amount of energy, with his current physique, he simply couldn't withstand it all.
If he tried to forcibly absorb it, there was only one outcome: his body would explode and perish.
With a third of the divine blood energy suddenly gone, the crisis eased.
Though his body still occasionally burst open with bloody holes, it was now within his tolerable range.
After all, he had endured the tempering of multiple heavenly tribulations; he had already grown somewhat numb to this kind of physical torment.
The Heavenly Corpse Art cultivation method operated frantically, allowing his body to absorb the remaining divine blood energy at an extremely rapid pace.
Suddenly, to Jiang Chen's surprise, the violent energy decreased by yet another third.
While he wondered where this newly vanished third had gone, his martial soul underwent some subtle changes.
A blood-red radiance burst from his body, instantly enveloping a twenty-meter radius around him.
Jiang Chen was astonished; this blood-red radiance had actually been released from his martial soul.
In that moment, a sudden realization dawned in his heart, allowing him to understand exactly what this blood-red radiance was.
"This… this is actually a domain, a martial soul innate domain!"
His zombie martial soul had actually given birth to a domain.
He had previously wondered why his martial soul lacked an innate domain.
Whether it was Tang San's Blue Silver Grass, Qian Renxue's Angel martial soul, or Bibi Dong's Spider martial soul, all of them possessed innate domains.
Now, after absorbing this drop of Asura God's divine blood, his martial soul had finally awakened its innate domain.
Within his zombie domain, both he and his allies' attack power increased by 10%, while enemies' attack power decreased by 10%, and their poison resistance decreased by 10%.
Furthermore, enemies within the domain would suffer from resentment erosion, causing mental confusion and boiling blood. For those with weaker blood, it would directly burst out of their bodies and be absorbed by Jiang Chen.
This innate domain skill shared many similarities with the martial soul fusion technique he had with Zhao Youyue, though its effects were somewhat weaker.
However, his innate domain could stack with the martial soul fusion technique, and as his cultivation improved, the innate domain would grow stronger as well. After all, he was currently only at the Soul Elder rank.
As far as he knew, once one reached rank seventy or higher, the innate domain would receive an enormous enhancement under the amplification of the martial soul true body.
Just one drop of blood had allowed him to awaken an innate domain; Jiang Chen felt extremely satisfied.
At this moment, the final third of the divine blood energy inside his body was nearly fully absorbed.
He could clearly feel that his physique had undergone a tremendous improvement compared to before.
Perhaps if he returned to the Slaughter City now, punching and exploding a Titled Douluo-level powerhouse wouldn't be too difficult.
His gaze turned to the system attribute interface. At this point, his zombie level had changed once again.
According to the system display, zombie ranks were divided into a total of twelve levels.
Previously, his zombie cultivation had advanced in sync with his soul master cultivation—whenever his soul master rank broke through, his zombie rank would follow.
Over the past year in Slaughter City, he had absorbed the blood of quite a few powerhouses, yet his zombie cultivation had remained stuck at level four, unable to break through to level five.
He had felt that his zombie cultivation was already on the verge of a breakthrough, but just like how soul masters required soul rings to advance, breaking through a bottleneck in zombie cultivation was not so simple.
Until now, after his body absorbed that final third of the divine blood, his zombie rank finally broke through, reaching level five.
Zombie level five was equivalent to a soul master's Soul King rank, but he knew his true combat power far exceeded that.
The advancement of his zombie level represented an all-around improvement in his physical qualities, corpse poison, and other abilities.
Once he returned to the outside world, others would still see him as a Soul Elder in terms of soul power, but his actual combat strength would definitely surpass Soul King; at the very least, he could contend with a Soul Emperor.
Exactly how far it reached, Jiang Chen couldn't determine for the moment.
"He… he actually didn't explode!"
The Asura God was somewhat dumbfounded.
Today could be said to be the day with the most emotional fluctuations in his long years of existence.
And it was all because of an eleven-year-old boy, a rank forty-four Soul Elder.
In his eyes, this was nothing more than an ant-like little fellow, yet the boy kept shocking him again and again.
After seeing a third of the divine blood energy suddenly absorbed by that pearl, the Asura God understood that things had already spiraled beyond his control.
He no longer bothered trying to stop it and instead grew even more interested in Jiang Chen.
The awakening of Jiang Chen's zombie domain lit up his eyes.
His divine sense wandered through the zombie domain, gaining a rough understanding of its abilities.
"The domain effects are fairly average, but this bloodthirsty characteristic is quite to my taste."
Bloodthirst meant slaughter, and as the Asura God who controlled the purest slaughter energy, he naturally found Jiang Chen somewhat agreeable.
"That little fellow named Tang Chen has been corrupted by Rakshasa's evil thoughts for so many years and still hasn't awakened, truly disappointing."
"Perhaps I should consider changing to a different successor."
Back then, Rakshasa God had secretly tampered with his inheritance ground. He hadn't noticed at first, only discovering the scheme after Tang Chen was corrupted by Rakshasa's evil thoughts.
He hadn't minded and had even treated it as a test for Tang Chen; if Tang Chen could overcome Rakshasa's evil thoughts with his own will, he would have held him in higher regard.
But so many years had passed, and Tang Chen remained lost in depraved evil thoughts, greatly disappointing him.
Now, with Jiang Chen's appearance, he suddenly felt tempted.
"What a greedy little brat."
The Asura God's expression suddenly changed.
After Jiang Chen finished absorbing the divine blood energy in his body, he cheerfully took out two jade bottles, actually intending to collect the last two drops of divine blood.
My thoughts are a bit messy, I need to sort them out. I only wrote one chapter this afternoon, so that's it for today. I'll try to update more tomorrow.
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