In March, you received a challenge from a neighboring mountain village. They made their living from farming and worshipped a mountain god: a pitch-black tiger.
The mountain village is jealous of the fishing village's gods, who can actually communicate with humans, while their own gods only eat their own worshippers. So the mountain god's servants send a challenge: to start a war between the gods.
To put it bluntly, it's like asking you to run into the tiger's lair and fight it out for dear life. It's a kind of challenge that plays you like a fool.
[But the ignorant people here just believe this. If a god refuses a challenge from another god, it means that he has lost his godhood, or is just a false god, and the other god can replace him.]
You looked at that tiger, no more than two and a half meters long, a beast no match for the Tiger King, and you slapped it to death: A tiger that has eaten humans cannot be tamed.
[That mountain village paid a large amount of grain as compensation. Now that the fishing village has the protection of a powerful god like you, its ambitions have swelled, and it has decided to initiate a war of gods against other nearby villages.]
[The challenge letter hadn't been sent out yet, but the monarch's messenger arrived.]
In this kingdom, the supreme rulers are the royal family. It's said that they understand the language of the gods and can communicate directly with them. They aren't some mediocre deity like Black Tiger, but the true gods of heaven.
Beneath the established gods are a host of lesser gods, and beneath these are thousands of registered gods (those officially recorded in a roster). Beyond these are the miscellaneous gods fabricated by various localities, also known as wild gods, who are said to number 9.99 million.
The "Sea Boat God" you're being identified as is a deity listed on the roster. While his position is ridiculously low, he's still a deity in heaven. Logically, he wouldn't descend into the world as haphazardly as that tiger.
[…Back to the topic of kingdoms. The royal family is merely a symbol in this world. Under them are numerous monarchs, similar to vassal states. Each monarch is the absolute ruler of a region, and under them are usually city-states and villages.]
The monarch's messenger was also a short man. He had come to announce an order: the "Great Wood Monarch" above the fishing village was declaring war on the hostile "Black Water Monarch." As a subordinate village, the fishing village was obliged to hand over food and young men.
The fishermen were visibly distressed. Every time they turned in their grain, it was a heavy loss. Their catch was also small, and of the young men who had gone to the battlefield, only a third of their catch would return.
The messenger ordered everyone to come forward for his selection. You were watching the excitement with your maid Xiaoye (the girl who was nearly burned to death), but you were unexpectedly chosen by him.
A divine servant, dressed in ornaments, hurriedly jumped out to explain: "You are not a young man from the village, you are a god who has descended to earth."
The messenger was completely unconvinced. Just because he was tall, he could pretend to be a god? Did he have a certificate from the royal family? He could fool these country bumpkins, but he was the monarch's messenger, so he had high standards!
He sneered and whipped a whip towards your face. You grasped the end of the whip, transmitting the energy to the palm of the messenger's hand. With a bang, several of his finger bones exploded.
The messenger howled like a pig being slaughtered. Several soldiers following him immediately put their spears to your neck. The messenger shouted, "Order the soldiers to kill you, you monster!"
[For some reason, perhaps it was the messenger's finger that exploded, but the sensation of blood caused a tinge of blood to swirl in your eyes. You thought to yourself: Just kill these guys. They provoked you first anyway.]
[You acted immediately upon your thought. You snatched a spear, enveloping it with energy, dramatically increasing its strength. Then, you swung it outwards, tearing the four soldiers' bodies apart like tofu.]
Then, the energy wrapped around your spear came into contact with their scattered flesh and blood. At this moment, the Blood Essence Fusion Technique felt a sense of thirst, and your energy became even more vibrant red, while the blood that fell to the ground decayed at an extremely fast rate.
[You approached the multiple bodies of the four people, and the energy stretched out like a large red-white hand. Wherever the hand passed, their bodies turned grayish-white, losing all nutritional functions and shrunken to the bones.]
[Your aptitude has increased by half again. This is just the flesh and blood of four people. You can't help but wonder, what if it were forty or four hundred people?]
[They're just a bunch of mortals without any martial arts skills. Even against an organized army, the weakest martial artist can easily kill thousands of them, but for mortals... it all depends on when you become exhausted.]
[Thinking of this, you feel your aptitude rise a bit. When you come to your senses, the messenger's body has been pierced through the chest by your claws and is hanging on your forearm.]
[Although you're only 15, this messenger is only about 1.4 meters tall, so you easily lifted him up by your hand.]
Your memory seems to be fragmented, as if you've lost a little bit. The five people who came to the fishing village are all dead. You notice fear in the eyes of the fishermen who respect you.
"Why are you afraid of me? Am I a really bad person?" You think you're a good person, but they don't see it that way...
Yun Shou: "No, this is mental pollution, right?"
So, you're going to kill them... No, stop, it won't happen. When did you become so murderous? You take a deep breath, and every person before you is like fine food, making your mouth dry.
You order them to proceed as usual, then turn and rush into the mountains and forests. You must first get away from the crowd and ease the situation.
Yunshou was silent for a while.
He was a little hesitant to choose the martial arts inheritance.
It's okay to simulate, but in reality you must never become a bloodthirsty madman.
However, this Blood Essence Fusion Method that can improve one's aptitude by seven times can be used as a means of breaking the impasse at times. His 2.5-fold increase in foundation has already reached the level of a Grandmaster, and if it is multiplied by seven, he might be even stronger than Zhu Baowen!
The so-called means of breaking the impasse means that if an accident occurs during the simulation of Beichen Light, Yunshou can use his grandmaster strength, which is dozens of times or even tens of times more powerful than that of an ordinary person, to kill the alien demon.
Or maybe there is some evil being guarding the entrance to ascension, causing one to be devoured as soon as one ascends. The sevenfold increase in qualifications will allow Yunshou to kill the gatekeeper in a shorter time.
Every 1% increase in qualifications can be calculated as 7%...
[You have lived quietly in the mountains for a month. For warriors who have not yet focused their martial arts will, it is best not to use the Blood Essence Fusion Method to increase their aptitude by more than one and a half times.]
"You've only increased by 11 or 12 percent at most. It's fine. Multiplying the two, your overall aptitude has increased by more than 2.7 times."
[Over the past month, you've felt like you've been cleansed of all worldly desires, your bloodlust worn away. Although you still hunt birds, deer, and rabbits in the mountains to eat or devour your blood essence, they're nowhere near as stimulating as devouring humans...and the boost in efficiency is pitifully low.]
Yunshou didn't know why, but suddenly he thought of something.
The effect of swallowing ordinary humans is so good, what if it is a relative with a closer blood relationship?
There's a saying that goes, when you don't have good qualifications, you should think carefully about your family, because you still have them...