On getting to the dinning hall , Zhan Shenwei saw two seated figures , one was the Yunzi , the other was an unfamiliar beautiful woman with striking resemblance to Yunzi, from her graceful aura and royal garment, he could infer it was the Empress " Lian Yu".
Although the emperor had concubines, the former Crown Prince and Xia Yunzi were born from the empress.
Zhan Shenwei bowed in greetings to her while Lian Yu smiled at him, " no need for formality , it's a family dinner, take a seat ".
The dinner hall had been arranged with two seats on both sides along the length of the table.
Zhan Shenwei walked to the Seat beside Yunzi and sat down, with her tied into ponytails, Yunzi wore a plain white robe , with a bare face and no jewelry , Yunzi looked simple and beautiful.
Although he wasn't a vain person that didn't mean he didn't think Xia Yunzi was pretty , in fact she was extremely beautiful, with mesmerizing purple pupils and charming figure , Xia Yunzi was simply bedazzling.
He just wasn't one that based feelings towards another on only looks.
The meal was relatively quiet apart from the Empress asking Zhan Shenwei about himself, his likes, dislikes, hobbies.
Beside him , Xia Yunzi had a hidden blush on her face , how could she not know her mother's intentions.
Although this was the first time Lian Yu and Zhan Shenwei were meeting , she had already talked about him with her mother.
Since they were engaged, Xia Yunzi had opened her heart towards Zhan Shenwei.
Only when one looked for love could they find love.
She wasn't in love with Zhan Shenwei yet but she already had feelings for him.
They had spent time together, not once did she see anything in Zhan Shenwei but sincerity, he wasn't trying to force feelings between them but was genuinely trying to foster a relationship between them.
She wasn't proud but she wasn't also stupid , Xia Yunzi knew she was extremely beautiful, with her talent and background, she knew people liked her , they would compose poems of adoration , claim undying love for her, but was it really real ?.
Sure one could love beauty , love wasn't beauty.
In Zhan Shenwei, she saw appreciation of her beauty in his eyes but she also saw appreciation of herself as a person in them.
Naturally, Zhan Shenwei was very attractive with long black hair that reached his shoulders, he had broad shoulders and a tall physique, yet none of that attracted her to him as much as his character, he had a very transparent character, yet if one observed clearly, his transparency wasn't really about honesty , it was arrogance deeply ingrained in his bones , he couldn't even be bothered to hide, couldn't be bothered to fake himself.
Beneath that calm aura , was a wild dominating persona , he disdain hiding, what you saw was what it was.
Not good , not bad, just Zhan Shenwei.
The truth was, with the war close by and the survival of everyone not certain ,there was not much of a need for her to still be engaged to Zhan Wei. at first Zhan Wei was chosen casually, but now she wanted to be with him, she liked him very much.
Lian Yu smiled at the sight of her blushing daughter, although Yunzi hadn't told them of her feelings , how could her mother be oblivious to it.
Even when she hadn't meet Zhan Shenwei she felt like she knew him to some extent by listening to Yunzi talk about him, although she would complain at times about him being a bit too cool, she had clearly refused when the Emperor asked if she wanted to rescind the engagement.
Only someone like Zhan Shenwei not quite good or sensitive could be oblivious to it.
Of course, she also approved of Zhan Shenwei, if not anything he was trustworthy and she was happy Yunzi had someone she could rely on when they were gone.
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It wasn't till late at night he got back to his residence.
Shutting his door , Zhan Shenwei planned to create his first divine ability.
Taking the bottle containing the blood essence from his storage ring , he sat cross-legged.
Some races had powerful innate abilities, some had more than one , but one thing was certain, powerful innate abilities created Dao runes on their source.
Primordial Gods could devour the origin of innate abilities from their source to create their own divine abilities.
Taking a spirit dagger from his storage , Zhan Shenwei made a cut between his brows.
Normally a mortal weapon wasn't enough to hurt so he used a low grade spirit weapon to make the cut.
With his strength and purposely controlling it from healing, Zhan Shenwei made a slit in between his palms.
To create a divine ability, Zhan Shenwei had to merge his spirit blood with the dao runes within the source.
The spirit blood was blood essence that contained a part of one's consciousness.
Taking a bit of blood essence combined with a part of his Primordial chaos God spirit in his heart, he willed it to his palm.
He felt like a piece of his mind was in that blood essence, controlling the spirit blood with that part of his consciousness it flew into the bottle.
Zhan Shenwei felt a sense of weakness as that spirit blood left his body , that spirit blood contained a part of his blood essence and his consciousness which weakened both his body and mind.
Almost immediately the spirit blood submerged in the blood demon king essence.
At Zhan Shenwei had difficulty merging them as the blood essence of blood demon king kept rejecting the spirit blood but after a while the spirit blood fully submerged merged into the blood essence.
Zhan Shenwei felt his consciousness had entered another world , a large sea filled with dark blood red demonic dao markings .
Zhan Shenwei knew this dark blood sea was that drop of blood essence.
In between that sea was blood red avatar , looking closely this blood red avatar was fairly discernable, yet it seemed to be the source of the dao markings that filled the source of blood.
Zhan Shenwei knew why this avatar was a bit vague , innate abilities were simply dao rules condensed as rune in the body of a primogenitor , descendants of their lineage also carried these runes , as their descendants profilgated these dao runes became faint .
It was the similar with bloodlines but actually it was the same in a way.
Only innate abilities could be used instinctively from birth while bloodlines required awakening, understanding .
Bloodlines could be left by powerhouses , but only Supreme experts that had touched the dao could leave innate abilities.
When an innate ability devolved to a certain extent it could also became a bloodline.
Of course both innate abilities and bloodlines could devolved till it became non existent.
All this came from the instinctive memories of his Primordial chaos God spirit.
Looking at the the avatar in front of him that was only a bit vague , Zhan Shenwei frowned, even after possible long year of profilegration although the source was vague, it was still clear.
it meant the blood demon king was very strong and talented for his innate ability rune to be this compact.
How strong was the demon king now?
Zhan Shenwei didn't believe he just spent his time being sealed doing nothing, that was foolish.
Sure he was injured and weakened then, yet even if his cultivation might not have reached it's peak now, could he still contemplate the rules of world ?
Even if he couldn't , what about the rules in his own body his innate ability, because an innate ability could be used didn't meant that was all, one could still perfect them.
Cultivation wasn't the only way to increase one's strength, sure it was the foundation but one's comprehension, techniques, abilities, treasures and weapons all mattered.
Not willing to waste anytime , the spirit blood flew towards the blood avatar.
Entering the blood avatar, it was another scene, if the former place was a sea , this one was a large world of blood with countless dao markings permeating every construct within.
In the center of this blood world was a divine throne with a massive blood red sun behind it.
A towering giant hundreds of feet tall wearing a blood red imperial robe sat on the throne, with long red hair the color of blood , he emanated powerful demonic might.
On his forehead were four ancient golden script words " Sacred Blood Demon Emperor " .
These words gave the might of the dao as if the dao itself had acknowledged this title.
Looking at this figure, Zhan Wei contemplated, " is this the ancestor of the blood demon clan".
Unlike the sea of blood where the dao runes flowed randomly, the dao runes in the blood world flowed orderly as if under control.
As Zhan Shenwei approached the figure , it opened it's eyes, it's blood red pupils staring at him.
Mighty pressure erupted from those eyes , Zhan Shenwei felt like the Sacred Blood Demon Emperor was looking at him from somewhere from beyond this space time.
Gritting his teeth he flew towards the ancient words on its forehead and merged with it.
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Qingmeng Mountain , Barren wastelands
Beneath the blood red cloud , the demon king opened it's eyes and looked towards the direction of the imperial capital.
With a frown on his face " My bloodline ?" .
He had clearly felt a faint connection to his lineage from the imperial capital, worst that connection came from himself, but he had not sired an descendants in the world!
Had someone refined his essence and hence obtained his bloodline, not thinking much of it he closed his eyes back.
The bloodline connection was faint, so whoever it was, this descendant was not much, if it was he would have felt a stronger connection.
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Sacred Blood Demon Realm, Main World
A massive figure on a divine throne opened it's eyes, looking towards a certain direction .
With bloodlust on his face he smiled , " The audacity to dare defy this Sovereign!".
What an interesting descendant.
As the Primorgenator of all blood demons, The Sacred blood demon Emperor could discern all those of his lineage.
Unlike the sealed demon king under the Qingmeng Mountain that thought Zhan Shenwei bloodline to be of low level, the Sacred blood demon Emperor knew better.
It was only because Zhan Shenwei had refined his divine ability from the sealed demon king but he could feel a connection hence his lineage, but the level had already exceed the purity of his own bloodline that was why he could only discern faintly!
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