Chapter 251: Continuing to Fuse Bloodlines

Inside his divine soul, the Daoist Vow Spirit of the God of Joy suddenly left his body and entered the incense burner.

"This..."

Su Nan's face changed dramatically as he tried to control the Daoist Vow Spirit of the God of Joy, but he found that it was completely beyond his control.

Even if he wanted to stop it from entering the incense burner, he couldn't.

Something had gone wrong!

From condensation until now, there had been no abnormalities with the Daoist Vow Spirit of the God of Joy, but now, as he began to refine the power of incense and vows, it acted up.

Su Nan suspected that this moment might have been what he was waiting for.

Fortunately, what happened next did not take a turn for the worse.

The Daoist Vow Spirit of the God of Joy entered the incense burner and, like Su Nan's own Daoist Vow Spirit, sat cross-legged. With every breath it took, it refined a large amount of incense and vow power.

As the power of incense and vows was refined, Su Nan immediately noticed that the incense power entering his divine soul had doubled. The speed at which incense power accumulated had suddenly increased by half.

"This... the Daoist Vow Spirit of the God of Joy's refinement of incense power can also benefit me?"

Su Nan was initially surprised, but then his eyes lit up. As long as the Daoist Vow Spirit of the God of Joy could bring him benefits, he was willing to accept it, no matter what it wanted to do.

However, he soon discovered a problem.

The Daoist Vow Spirit of the God of Joy refined incense power much faster than his own Daoist Vow Spirit, almost twice as fast. However, the amount it refined and provided to him was not proportional to the total incense power it refined.

Only half!

The incense power provided by the Daoist Vow Spirit of the God of Joy was only half of the total it refined.

"What could be the reason for this? Is it because I can only absorb this much incense power at once, or is the Daoist Vow Spirit greedily keeping the rest of the incense power for itself?"

Su Nan couldn't help but speculate. The Daoist Vow Spirit of the God of Joy was too mysterious, and he had no idea about its abilities.

At this moment, he even suspected that the Daoist Vow Spirit of the God of Joy had its own thoughts and consciousness.

"Well, it's already good enough to get some incense power for free."

Su Nan sighed. There was nothing he could do about it. The Daoist Vow Spirit of the God of Joy was linked to his destiny, and even in the game, he couldn't resolve the issue, let alone in reality.

He could only hope that the Daoist Vow Spirit of the God of Joy wouldn't cause any other problems for him.

Leaving the grand hall, Su Nan looked at Eagle Gao and said, "You stay here and watch over this place. If anyone tries to touch the incense burner inside, deal with them."

Although the incense burner had already regained its power, if someone dared to touch it, their divine soul would undoubtedly be pulled into the incense burner.

However, the Daoist Vow Spirit inside the incense burner currently had no attacking capabilities. Just in case, someone had to keep an eye on it, and this task was perfect for Eagle Gao.

"Master, you can rest assured. I'll take care of it here." Eagle Gao didn't dare to ask more questions and flapped his wings, landing on an ancient tree in front of the grand hall.

Su Nan nodded, satisfied that there would be no problems, and transformed back into a black eagle before leaving.

Returning to the rental accommodation, he didn't log into the game again and instead lay down on the bed, falling into a deep sleep.

...

There was a little over a day left until the start of the third closed beta test.

Tonight was destined to be a sleepless night, as countless people were waiting.

They were waiting for the distribution of the game wristbands.

Su Nan was awakened in the early morning by a phone call. He picked up his phone and saw that it was Wang Zhong calling.

"Nan Ge, did you get the game qualification this time?" Wang Zhong asked eagerly.

Game qualification?

Su Nan immediately realized and said, "I was lucky this time, and I also got the game qualification."

With one billion players participating in this massive closed beta test, there was no need for him to continue pretending.

Moreover, with his ability to transform and change appearances, he was not worried about anyone discovering his true identity.

"That's great, Nan Ge! When you enter the game, come directly to the imperial city of Central Sky County to find me. I'm already ranked in the top two hundred now and have entered the Spirit Level. I'll fly you around when the time comes." Wang Zhong was both excited and showing off.

"You don't have to tell me; I'll come find you." Su Nan smiled and replied.

He wasn't surprised by Wang Zhong's level. As one of the first batch of closed beta players, Wang Zhong had been in the game for a month now, completed two mandatory missions, and ranked in the top one hundred players, which was normal.

After chatting with Wang Zhong for a while, they hung up the phone.

"It's already late at night, and the power of incense has accumulated so much!"

Feeling the incense and vow power in his divine soul, Su Nan was pleasantly surprised.

In his divine soul, two streams of water converged from nowhere and eventually merged into a small pool.

At this moment, the pool had a diameter of one meter, not very large but quite substantial.

At the same time, Su Nan noticed that the divine soul stone that had been incubating in his divine soul for a long time had entered the pool at some point and sunk to the bottom.

Su Nan was surprised, but he didn't worry. He had a feeling that this situation could only bring benefits.

"This stone has been incubating for a week now. After another week, it should be close to completion. I wonder what changes will occur at that time?"

After observing for a while longer, Su Nan withdrew his consciousness from his divine soul and opened a forum to check for news.

"This time, the human race in the Eastern Celestial Region successfully survived the crisis, but it came at a great cost. They lost eight counties, and in the final battle, dozens of king-level powerhouses were killed, and many emperor-level powerhouses were heavily injured, with one even dying in battle."

"And the two strongholds guarded by those two powerhouses were breached, and the divine weapons were taken by the demon race. Although the Heavenly Dome Divine Prohibition still has tremendous power, it now has two gaps due to the loss of those two strongholds. In the future, the demon race might continue to attack the human race through those two openings."

Two king-level powerhouses killed?

Two strongholds breached?

Su Nan was shocked when he read this news. After completing the mission, he had been busy collecting rewards and exchanging for the Yin Disc, so he had only just seen this information.

However, considering the formidable demon creatures that the demon race had sent this time, he thought it was quite normal.

The demon race had come with great momentum, aiming to break the Heavenly Dome Divine Prohibition. The fact that the human race had only lost two strongholds in the face of such an assault was already a remarkable feat.

"Compared to us, the situation in the other eleven provinces is even worse. Apart from us, Southern Border Province is relatively better off, while Northern Ice Province and Western Region Province have completely fallen."

"In the Eight Prohibited Zones of the Xuanjie Continent, including the Xuanjie Zone, the Yujue Zone, and the Hongjue Zone, have all fallen completely. Although the other zones have not fallen, the situation is far from optimistic."

"Even the so-called number one god from abroad, Liu Di, lost three emperor-level powerhouses in his own Tianjue Zone."

Although the twelve zones were not interconnected, players could still gather information from foreign forums.

"The number one god from abroad?"

Su Nan's eyes showed surprise. He hadn't actively sought information about players from other zones.

The reason was simple; other zone players, no matter how powerful they were, couldn't compare to his overpowered character.

And that was indeed the case.

Su Nan searched the forum for a moment and discovered that the so-called number one god from abroad, Liu Di, was now only at the peak of the Spirit level, and his fourth bloodline had not reached perfection yet.

Although Su Nan was currently only at the early Xuan level and not much higher in terms of realm, it was important to remember that the higher the realm, the greater the gap.

Raising from the Spirit level to the Xuan level required 160 points of demonic power, a hurdle that normal players would need ten days to half a month to accumulate.

Moreover, his character, Wang Nan, had already perfected the first Xuan-level bloodline.

Even if he didn't level up further, it would probably take Liu Di at least ten days to half a month to catch up with Wang Nan.

"The Great Sun Golden Body Sutra and the Divine Technique Seed from the Contribution Store have been exchanged. The Great Sun Golden Body Sutra is obviously a physique-type ancient scripture, so it must have been exchanged by Wang Nan. In that case, the Divine Technique was most likely exchanged by Zhang Yang. Maybe even the previous Divine Technique Fragments were all exchanged by Zhang Yang."

"The strong get stronger. Just this time, Zhang Yang and Wang Nan's gains have exceeded our imagination. If this continues, we will never catch up. I wonder how strong that ancient scripture and divine technique really are?"

"There's a little inside information that those who exchanged for the ancient demonic blood have gained racial talents after fusing the ancient demonic blood, and their strength has skyrocketed, even allowing them to kill enemies above their level!"

The changes in the Contribution Store naturally drew the attention of many people.

Many people were speculating how strong Zhang Yang and Wang Nan, who had obtained the ancient scriptures and divine techniques, would become.

Some even stood on a moral high ground, advocating for the sake of the human race, demanding that they disclose more information about the ancient scriptures and divine techniques so that more people could understand them.

Su Nan ignored them. Why would he reveal his cards? It was ridiculous.

Scrolling through the posts one by one, he continued reading.

Suddenly, another post caught his attention.

The poster of this post was not an ordinary player but an official!

The content of the post was simple; it hoped that he would see the post and go to a place called the Floating Fragrance Pavilion in the Great Universe Imperial City.

"Is the official looking for me?"

"Could it be about the game merging with reality tomorrow night?"

Su Nan thought of a possibility.

He had hardly had any interaction with the officials. Now, it was clear that the officials were looking for him for a specific purpose.

"It just happens that I'm going back to the imperial city, so I can see what they want to do."

He logged into the game.

Su Nan appeared where he had logged out, and with a flash, he transformed into a black eagle and flew towards the imperial city.

At the same time, controlling his avatar, the Grand Princess also returned.

After four or five hours, Su Nan finally returned to the imperial city.

He reabsorbed his avatar, and the Grand Princess was put back into the Water and Mountain Gourd.

Without immediately finding the official, Su Nan, in Zhang Yang's identity, headed straight for the Extermination Bureau.

He wanted to exchange all the demonic beasts he had hunted in Zhang Yang's name for essence blood and Extermination Points.

Soon, he obtained thirty to forty drops of Xuan-level essence blood and over ten thousand Extermination Points.

With the addition of the fifty to sixty Xuan-level demonic beasts he had obtained previously and the contribution from the White Water Demon King, his contribution had reached fifty-five thousand points!

"With your early Xuan-level realm, you can obtain over fifty thousand Extermination Points. You're the first person to achieve this since the establishment of the Extermination Bureau!" said Ma Hong, the head of the Extermination Bureau, with a smile.

"It's just luck," Su Nan shook his head and continued, "Senior, I want to enter the Treasury of the Extermination Bureau to exchange for some items. Is that possible?"

According to the plan, he would go to the abandoned place tomorrow to find a way to deal with the demonic energy. Before that, he wanted to exchange all the resources he could for items.

"Of course, it's your right."

The old man didn't ask much and had a member of the Extermination Bureau take him to the Treasury.

After wandering for a while, Su Nan arrived at the Treasury.

As the headquarters of the Extermination Bureau, the Treasury here was quite large, with rows of shelves categorized for various items, numbering in the hundreds.

There were various spiritual pills, herbs, weapons, and treasures available.

"Young man, you're in luck. Not long ago, we obtained a Xuan-level ancient demonic bloodline of the Lawful type."

The guardian of the Treasury smiled.

"This is an advanced-stage King-level powerhouse!"

"Xuan-level ancient demonic bloodline!" Su Nan's eyes lit up, but then he sighed.

In the past, if he had heard about an ancient demonic bloodline, he would definitely try to obtain it.

But now, all three of his characters had already collected the Xuan-level ancient demonic bloodlines they needed. What he needed now was not ancient demonic bloodlines but rather how to continue merging bloodlines without fully integrating his own.

Su Nan was about to shake his head in refusal.

Suddenly, he thought of something, and the words he was about to speak stopped in his throat.

"What if I don't merge regular bloodlines and use ancient demonic bloodlines instead?"

A bold idea suddenly popped into his mind.

Immediately, he remembered the previous premonition of himself merging bloodlines, and his eyes brightened.

In the previous death premonition, when he merged the bloodline of a Xuan-level demonic beast, the bloodline that was merged was not a match for his current bloodline and was swallowed up.

What if he replaced regular bloodlines with ancient demonic bloodlines?

Both the bloodlines in his body and the merged bloodlines would be ancient demonic bloodlines, and they shouldn't be easily devoured, right?

Thinking of this, Su Nan felt excited and couldn't help but want to try the premonition immediately.

Unfortunately, he had no demonic power left on him right now!

When he used the death premonition to attempt the fusion earlier, it was when he had enough demonic power. But now, he only had single-digit demonic power left, and the death premonition was of no use.

Wang Nan's bloodline was already perfected.

But Wang Nan's bloodline had been contaminated by the demonic energy. After completing daily tasks, as mentioned in the previous premonition, his bloodline had already started acting abnormally. It wasn't just about continuing to merge bloodlines; even using it frequently might cause problems.

There was no way; he had to abandon the idea of trying the premonition.

After a moment of silence, Su Nan asked, "How many contribution points are needed to exchange for that bloodline?"

Ancient demonic bloodlines were not easy to find, and once he missed this opportunity, it might not come again. Without knowing for sure whether directly merging ancient demonic bloodlines could solve his problem, he didn't want to give up.

"Not too much, exactly fifty-five thousand points!"

"Fifty-five thousand points?" Su Nan furrowed his brow.

He just happened to have fifty thousand contribution points. Now, this ancient demonic blood was worth fifty-five thousand points. If there was no connection between the two, he wouldn't believe it.

Seeing Su Nan's thoughts, the old man didn't hide anything and smiled, "You're thinking correctly. The reason this ancient demonic bloodline is priced like this is because you happen to have fifty-five thousand points. This is the intention of our Director."

"You should thank the Director and County Magistrate Ge. If they didn't know that you would need this ancient demonic blood, it would probably have been exchanged by someone else long ago."

Su Nan was surprised, "Are you saying that this bloodline was intentionally left for me?"

(End of this chapter)