The cave lit up and all of the qi that resided in the part of the pool that she was currently in was immediately sucked into Zhou Xinqiu's new pathways. When she opened her eyes a small divine glow flashed quickly before disappearing.
Qin Gong's illusory body materalized in front of Zhou Xinqiu who had a cheeky smile on her face.
"Ah Qi circulation feels so wonderful!"
"Little girl, you don't have any idea. You have yet to even open your pathways let alone your meridians before the Qi can truly circulate!" Qin Gong scolded.
"Eh? But then what happened when I broke-through?"
"When you reached this stage, your embryonic pathways completed being built however they are still weak and clogged up from the inside. The first three levels of Qi circulation are based on opening your Qi pathways and the last six levels are based on Opening the six fundamental Meridians." He explained. "But there's no need to worry about this now. You should instead focus on completing the bloodline awakening process." His face finally began to wrinkle and signs of strain started to show.
"Alright let's start.. what should I do?" Zhou Xinqiu awaited for instructions.
"You act like I know everything about demons haha. In reality I'm not sure I guess we will have to find out." Qin gong released his hold on the soul chains and the trapped bloodline suddenly erupted out. Zhou Xinqiu started to tremble and wasn't able to control her body. The space inside the underwater cave immediately began to glow a crimson red and the image of the dragon unfolding its wings began to show again. Shockwaves began shooting out from her core in a steady rhythm blasting the small rocks into dust. The dragon then turned into a streak of light and turned into a white halo on top of Zhou Xinqiu's head which cycled through various colors. First orange then green, blue and then stopping at the golden color but not before a small streak of purple appeared amidst the gold colored halo.
"What is this?" Zhou Xinqiu asked while her fingers played with the halo.
"That is the divine halo, it is the essence of and the tangible form of your bloodline. There is said to be 5 ranks of bloodlines in this world however I don't really know too much about them aha…" Qin Gong explained.
"You sure know a lot about demons huh.." Zhou Xinqiu said.
"The place im from specializes in knowledge and wisdom. I am from the pillar of dark arts and demonic abilities. Hence, I know more about demons than the average human." Qin Gong calmly explained before looking back at the halo. "Anyway, the final part of the awakening is the unification of the divine halo with the body and soul."
"How do I do that mr demon teacher"
"Aiya well little girl, all we can do now is begin the process, it will take about half a year for the unification to complete." Qin Gong smiled and continued, "Close your eyes and Imagine that the divine halo is not separate from you but in fact apart of you. Accept every part of it and immerse yourself into the ancient bloodline of your ancestors. Qin Gong began to instruct Zhou Xinqiu while she closed her eyes and attentively listened.
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Above the bronze qi circulation pool
A mighty aura permeated from the Qi circulation pool however if one was actually present during the ceremony, they would only feel the terrifying might of the three soul transformation stage experts facing each other with great killing intent in their eyes.
Even the other elders of the sect weren't able to interfere at this moment.
"Zhou He, we appreciate your kindness however we have agreed that under your authority the Zhou sect has slowly stopped progressing." Hei xie said with has hands behind his back.
Zhou He's face was filled with rage. It almost looked like steam was about to spew out from his ears. "You really think you two mere beginner stage soul transformation stage fools can defeat a mid stage soul transformation expert?" Zhou He laughed and his soul flared up. A huge raging bull radiating fire ran out of the soul and charged towards Hei xie and Liu huai.
Hei Xie glanced at Liu Huai before nodding and both released deadly attacks that fell into a deadlock with the raging fire bull. "As long as we can hold you off for a while who will protect your sect…? Hei Xie laughed while Liu Huai yelled, "Rebellion forces, attack!"
"Charge!"
"Destroy!
"Burn!"
The rebellion forces yelled out war cries before attacking the sect guards and attempting to enter the manor. The rebellion forces consisted of quite a few of the factions within the sect including the Golden pupil faction and the Black jade faction but also some others such as the Lightning devouring faction.
Sparks flew and the walls begun to break. Panic flooded into the eyes of all of the Allies in the manor as they stared at Zhou He waiting for his command.
"Zhou Sect, protect the sect with all you've got!" Zhou He ordered while struggling to control the raging bull in the sky. Fear was racing in his mind as he was unsure if he would be able to fix this mess.
After an hour, flames riddled the entire arena and metal pieces of scrap were scattered around, both sides were in a deadlock and any mistake could cause a chain reaction.
All of a sudden the pool began to bubble and the ground shook before the figure of a person shot out from the surface and attracted everyone's gaze. The figure's hair glistened in the light and whipped down to their back before bouncing back up after the figure in purple landed. The figure in the purple robe was naturally Hei fengjue, he had not only stabilized his cultivation at the first level of Qi Circulation but had actually just barely reached the second level.
Compared to the guards and soldiers on the battlefield, Hei fengjue's cultivation was still very insignificant. However, since all the other soldiers were already held up, it was just enough to cause a small problem and in this situation a small problem could very very easily transform into a big problem.