[Extraordinary Path: Godslayer]
[Sequence Seven: Blood Swordsmen△
(Peak Swordsmanship, a hundredfold increase in physical attributes, and the Ability of Blood Transformation, granting immunity to physical damage and accelerated wound healing.
Trait One: [Eye of Tempered Blade] Can see through the weaknesses of weapons and movements, possesses x-ray vision, ignores illusions, and can perceive the flow of Qi and Blood.
Trait Two: [Blood Feeding] After the sword drinks blood, its sharpness is temporarily increased. The blade can be strengthened by absorbing blood.
Trait Three: [Sword Heart Spirit Communication] A heart as still as water, a mind like a clear mirror, able to perceive an enemy’s move before it is made.
A three-foot blade is originally an inanimate object, but once Spirituality is born within it, it is like a spring sprout breaking through the earth, holding infinite potential.
Fourth Trait: [Annihilation] When swinging the sword to strike, it can unleash several times the normal destructive power and possesses a potent Power of Demon-Breaking.
Can use blood as a medium to trace and kill the source of the blood.
(Advanced Sequence Six, Dragon Slayer Master.
Advancement Ritual Requirement: Must kill a pure-blood Giant Dragon! The dragon must possess legendary characteristics that are widely known.)]
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[Modification Points: 257,667 (12%)]
He had broken through on his Godslayer Path to Seventh Rank Blood Swordsmen during his fight with Su Ta.
His various Traits also underwent some changes.
Trait One, Eye of Tempered Blade, was enhanced again, gaining the Piercing ability to see through objects.
Trait Two became Blood Feeding, allowing him to nourish his sword, Dusk, by absorbing blood.
This was very important for Dusk, as it meant the sword had gained a rudimentary ability to grow on its own, strengthening alongside Hu Qi’s power.
Trait Three didn’t change much.
The Slashing of the Fourth Trait became Annihilation, and it also gained the bizarre ability to trace a source by its blood. Furthermore, its Demon-Breaking Traits were greatly enhanced. The change from "some" to "potent" Demon-Breaking power was proof enough of this.
Beyond that,
was the physical enhancement granted by the Godslayer Extraordinary Path.
His body’s Recovery Power had increased tremendously, allowing him to easily regenerate severed limbs.
This level of Recovery Power was simply not something an ordinary Sequence Seven could possess.
Even those on the Warrior Professional Path, which specialized in a Strengthened Physique, couldn’t achieve this. They would have to reach Sequence Five at the very least.
As his Sequence advanced,
Hu Qi could clearly sense the power of the Godslayer Extraordinary Path gradually revealing itself.
But that was to be expected.
If it weren’t powerful enough, how could it give him the strength to slay a Sequence One Main God when he was only at Sequence Two?
Hu Qi had already read through this information.
Therefore, he didn’t linger, his gaze sweeping past it.
His eyes landed on the entry for Sequence Six at the very bottom.
Originally, the Godslayer Path had only been deduced up to the Seventh Rank Blood Swordsmen.
Information on the subsequent paths was missing.
But after slaughtering the numerous Transcendents in the Sea God Church and the Governor’s Mansion in Night Crow Harbor, and plundering the memories of the primary inheritors regarding the Extraordinary Sequence,
combined with the scale he obtained from Su Ta, which contained a legacy that went all the way to Sequence Five,
he had managed to fill in the Godslayer Professional Path up to Sequence Five.
Next, what he had to do was advance to Sequence Six, Dragon Slayer Master.
According to its description,
he needed to kill a pure-blood Giant Dragon that also possessed a sufficiently ancient legend.
This world was home to all sorts of legendary Extraordinary Creatures.
Naturally, creatures like Giant Dragons existed as well.
However,
the Giant Dragons here were somewhat different from the Divine Dragons of the Cangzhou Realm.
Their appearance was generally described as more like giant, winged lizards.
Based on the information Hu Qi had gathered,
these Giant Dragons were primarily active over ten thousand years ago.
As time went on and civilization developed,
sightings of these Giant Dragons became increasingly rare,
until they vanished completely in the last millennium.
This also led to the decline of a powerful and secret Professional Path known as Dragon Tamer.
This was because the very first step to embarking on this path was to form a Contract with a true Giant Dragon.
Now that not even a trace of Giant Dragons could be found, it was naturally impossible to take up this profession.
They could only try to form Contracts with members of the Sub-Dragon Race, which possessed Giant Dragon Bloodlines.
But even though Sub-Dragons had a trace of Giant Dragon Bloodline, they were ultimately no match for true Giant Dragons.
The boost they provided to a Professional was extremely limited.
The reason for the Giant Dragons’ disappearance was simple.
It was due to large-scale slaughter by Professionals.
To a Professional,
every part of an Extraordinary Creature like a Giant Dragon—whether its Dragon Horns, Dragon Bones, or Dragon Blood—was a top-tier material for conducting rituals.
You could say their entire bodies were treasures.
Added to this was the fact that it was very difficult for true pure-blood Giant Dragons to reproduce.
This led to their numbers dwindling under the constant hunting by Professionals,
until they finally disappeared entirely.
Only some of the Sub-Dragon Race with Giant Dragon bloodlines still roamed the world.
However, this didn’t mean Giant Dragons no longer existed.
The Giant Dragons of this world were long-lived among Extraordinary Creatures. Not only were they powerful, but they also had lifespans of at least ten thousand years.
Furthermore, these Giant Dragons loved to slumber. It was perfectly normal for them to sleep for decades or even centuries at a time.
It was possible that, having sensed the threat from humans, the Giant Dragons were hiding and slumbering in some unknown region.
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And Hu Qi’s purpose for coming here
was, of course, to find a Giant Dragon.
According to the memories he had plundered from the Professionals,
there was an ancient legend in Cold Rain City about a Giant Dragon, one that had been passed down for over a thousand years.
Long ago, this land was a barren desert. The scorching sun baked the cracked earth, windswept sands raged, and not a single blade of grass grew.
Until one day, a mountain-sized Giant Dragon flew in from the horizon. Exhausted, it chose to slumber here.
The Giant Dragon coiled among the dunes and fell into a long sleep. With every breath it took,
a plume would shoot from its nostrils, transforming into thick, dark clouds that blocked the searing sun.
Gradually, the clouds gathered, and rain began to nourish the arid land.
Year after year, the desert’s desolation faded. Rivers flowed once more, and lush vegetation grew, eventually forming the Cold Rain City of today.
Some say the Giant Dragon still slumbers in a mountain range outside the city, its breath continuing to influence the local climate.
Others say that if its long sleep is disturbed, drought and sandstorms will once again sweep across the land.
Because of this, the residents of Cold Rain City hold the Giant Dragon in awe, even offering sacrifices and prayers during the annual harvest festival.
To ordinary people, this was just a legend.
But for Professionals,
the legend was highly plausible.
It is very difficult to change a region’s environment.
But for a Giant Dragon that wields Extraordinary Power, it wouldn’t be difficult at all.
Even a newborn Giant Dragon’s strength was comparable to a Sequence Eight Professional.
Once it reached adulthood,
its power would be even greater, comparable to a Sequence Five or even a Sequence Four.
In the rumors, there were even legends about a Dragon God.
But no one had ever seen it.
The advantage of Giant Dragons was that they didn’t need to practice Cultivation like Professionals.
They only needed to eat and sleep.
As time passed, their strength would grow with their age.
At this thought,
Hu Qi pulled his mind back to the present.
He sat up straight and looked ahead.
The next second,
the scent of roses filled the air.
Then,
a figure sat down across from Hu Qi.
It was a stunning, cold-looking woman with curly blonde hair and a silver earring.
She wore a silver fur shawl, and her lips were as red as cherries.
She wore a pair of silver-rimmed ladies’ glasses, and beneath the lenses, her blue eyes were as deep as whirlpools, giving off an oppressive feeling.
"Here’s what you wanted!"
The blonde woman didn’t waste any words.
She took a glass bottle from her clothes.
However, she showed no intention of handing it to Hu Qi.
Hu Qi said nothing in response.
Instead, he pulled a piece of parchment from his own clothes and casually tossed it in front of her.
Seeing this, the woman picked it up, opened it, and glanced over it. After confirming its contents,
she finally placed the glass bottle on the table and gently pushed it across to Hu Qi.
Hu Qi reached out and picked it up.
He looked at it.
It was a palm-sized glass bottle, and inside lay a glob of liquid like red agate, which swirled slightly in the bottle with Hu Qi’s movement.
The blonde woman watched Hu Qi’s every move.
"What do you need this Dragon Blood for?"
she finally asked softly, unable to contain her curiosity.
It was no wonder she was so curious.
Although this Sub-Dragon Blood was precious,
it was nowhere near as valuable as an Extraordinary Path that led all the way to Sequence Six.
In response,
Hu Qi acted as if he hadn’t heard her. He glanced at the bottle of Sub-Dragon Blood before putting it away.
Only then did he raise his eyes to the blonde woman and smile.
"Miss Lilia, I don’t think we’re familiar enough to be sharing secrets, do you?"
Lilia’s expression tightened for a fleeting moment.
She nodded, the corners of her lips rising into a perfect, practiced smile.
"You’re right. That was presumptuous of me."