A sudden change occurred in the blood pool!
As Jin stood in the middle of the blood pool, the blood was already up to his waist. However, the blood in the pool started to move around as if it was alive, creeping up and down his body like vines. Seconds later, his whole body was tightly bound and covered with blood.
The red blood in the pool was like vicious snakes, untiringly wrapping around him until it formed a bloody cocoon.
A wave of intense pain spread throughout his body. Jin felt as if his brain was being sliced into pieces. It felt even worse than death. It was as if tens of millions of tiny worms were drilling into his body and squirming around in his arms, legs, bones, and viscera; eating away his blood and flesh.
Jin couldn't see anything. He wanted to scream, but couldn't make a sound, and neither could his body move.
A strange liquid started flowing slowly along his ribs like a small stream and tore open his veins wherever it passed. Then the liquid rapidly accelerated and separated into many strands, madly surging into the seven hundred and twenty meridians within his body.
He felt that his seven hundred and twenty meridians had enlarged significantly, as they interchanged between feeling scorching hot and biting cold. It felt extremely uncomfortable.
The pain in his head grew stronger, in his dazed state, Jin felt some weird changes happening within him.
A small amount of the bright red liquid infused itself into every cyclone and was swiftly absorbed into them. After absorbing the liquid, the cyclones enlarged and the process sped up.
It may be because of the intensity of the pain that was almost unbearable, in his dizzying state, Jin felt that his body was like a huge vessel, filled with the strange liquid. It was transforming him in ways he couldn't possibly imagine.
As this thought flashed through his mind, he fainted.
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After a long time, Jin awoke again.
The searing pain had disappeared, replaced by a numb pain in his meridians. The liquid had returned to its origin, and the blood pool was tranquil.
Unexpectedly, he felt a warm sensation swirling through his body. After this sensation made a complete cycle, he felt extraordinarily comfortable, and his body had increased in strength.
Ki. That was it.
It dawned on him the blood pool finally brought him some benefits! The thing flowing through his meridians was clearly the Ki, which only warriors could obtain!
Within the memory of the other Jin, he came to know that Ki was the source of power for warriors. It was the foundation for warriors to support and release powerful martial arts.
Warriors were ranked into ten realms, according to the strength of their Ki. These were elementary, innate core, deep spirit, true spirit, terra spirit, and nascent soul realms.
Warriors were the most powerful individuals in this world. Ki determines the status one would have. One could be a warrior as long as he had the slightest amount of Ki.
Most people couldn't get Ki throughout their entire life. Once obtained, they could strengthen it simply by training. Therefore, as long as a warrior possessed ki, they would always have their own place in this world.
As the weak Ki gently circulated throughout his body, Jin came to his senses. Even if he couldn't go back to his world, he wouldn't starve to death here. Just then he noticed that the blood cocoon was still tightly wrapped around him.
Jin spared no effort to struggle.
"Crack!"
A big slit cracked open on the blood cocoon, and Jin jumped out. Looking around, he found himself in that odd cave with bones everywhere.
However, the blood pool had all dried up!
In the dried-up blood pool, only a few pieces of broken bones were left, the bright red thick pool of blood had disappeared without a trace.
A huge glittering blood cocoon, as thin as a wafer, towered in the center of the empty pool. However, after Jin only glanced at it, a small flame ignited at the bottom of the cocoon. The flame grew wildly and started to burn the bones. In a few minutes, the blood cocoon and the bones were all burned to nothingness.
Suddenly, a voice rang in his head,
[Spirit devouring system awakened!]
[Host detected!]
[Bloodborne spirit awakening]
[Host: Jin Mo Chen]
[Soul stabilizing]
[Blood stabilising!]
Jin looked around, and he didn't know who or where it was coming from. And then he fell to the ground, clutching his head again. He didn't know why, but there was a piercing sensation in his head, like something was poking into him.
[Soul stabilizing!!]
Again, a metallic, robot-like female voice rang in his head. He caught his head as he writhed in pain, gritting his teeth. Soon, he started to lose his consciousness.
And just like that, he lost his vision.
[Bloodborne progression in effect!]