Chapter 570: Demigod realm, Primeval Bloodline, and the End of Leviathan.
*Ding! Phoenix Bloodline has been unlocked
*Ding! Instant Resurrection, Celestial Flare, Flame Burst, and Eternal Flames Bloodline skills are added to the character.
*Ding! Fire attribute is added to the character, but no skills are added.
*Ding! You broke through to Rank-10
*Ding! Your life span has been extended by 1500 years.
*Ding! You received a new function, Domain.
*Ding! Phoenix Bloodline's skills are upgraded to level 10.
*Ding! Phoenix Bloodline's ultimate skill, Transformation has been unlocked
**Phoenix Transformation: Transform into an immortal Phoenix with stats+1 to your maximum stat, for 100 seconds. Note: The user is immortal in this form and has almost instant recovery rate. Cost: 9,000,000,000 EP. CD: 72 hours.
*Ding! Blizzard Pegasus Bloodline's skills are upgraded to level 10.
*Ding! Blizzard Pegasus Bloodline's ultimate skill, Transformation has been unlocked.
**Blizzard Pegasus Transformation: Transform into Blizzard Pegasus with stats+1 to your maximum stat, for 100 seconds. Note: The user has access to absolute zero ability. Cost: 9,000,000,000 EP. CD: 72 hours.**
*Ding! All system skills and elemental skills are upgraded to the next level.
*Ding! Elemental skill (Gravity attribute), Multiple Black Holes has been added to the skill list
Multiple Blackholes: Create multiple black holes with each one not greater than 10km in diameter. Note: The user isn't immune to the gravitational pull of the created black hole. Cost: 10% Ether energy per black hole. CD: 72 hours.
*Ding! Elemental skill (Space attribute): "Void Rift" has been added to the skill list.
Void Rift: Tear the space and open a temporary rift, throwing the enemies into it. The enemies that were sent away through the skill will be randomly teleported into space, a maximum of up to 1 light-year distance away. Cost: 100% Ether energy. CD: 24 hours.
*Ding! Elemental skill (Oil): "Abyssal Oil" has been added to the skill list.
Abyssal Oil: Create a pitch-black primordial oil to attack the enemies. Whatever this corrosive oil touches, it will melt it down to nothing. Note: It only works on items below Celestial grade. For people, it will work on targets that are not 2 realms more than the user. Cost: Varies. CD: Varies.
*Ding! Elemental skill (Antimatter): "Anti-matter Dimension" has been added to the skill list.
Anti-matter Dimension: Create a dimension where you can store antimatter energy or antimatter bodies for 7 days. Note: After expiry, the dimension placed at the location will release all the stored antimatter energy inside, causing annihilation. Note 2: No one but the user can enter this dimension but it could be destroyed from outside through various means. Cost: 100% Ether energy. CD: 15 days.
*Ding! Lightning is a basic attribute. No additional summons are provided.
*Ding! Rank-10, Frost Titan (Ice) has been added to the summons.
*Ding! Rank-10, Venomous Basilisk (Poison) has been added to the summons.
*Ding! You have completed the tutorial. System no longer provides any additional skills or summons for breakthroughs in the future.
*Ding! You have completed one of the five remaining Quests, Breakthrough to Rank-10. You received a Mythril-grade weapon (Helicarrier) and unlocked Primeval Bloodline as a reward.
**Primeval Bloodline: A growth-type primordial beast that has the ability to copy other beasts' abilities even by ingesting a drop of their blood. Current ability: 100**
*Ding! Your ether quality is upgraded to the purest form.
*Ding! Detected weaker quality bloodlines than the Primeval Bloodline. Automatically merging with Primeval Bloodline.
*Ding! All Bloodline skills are added under Primeval Bloodline. Their abilities are retained.
While more than a dozen notifications continuously rang inside his head, Mark opened his eyes widely; he was about 3400 meters deep inside the endless sea of lava and the temperature was about 1500 degrees Celsius and yet, he didn't feel a thing.
It merely felt like he was sleeping at the bottom of a swimming pool. It actually kinda felt more soothing.
"Well, that's enough sleep I guess. It's time for a payback."
Meanwhile, outside of the sea, Leviathan was in the midst of an intense physical battle with Yuanlong.
He saw everything that transpired a few moments ago but he didn't want to lose this opportunity to defeat Yuanlong's astral projection, now that it seemed to be at a disadvantage with its divine power got cut off by Leviathan's domain.
Bael, on the other hand, had his attention on the sea of lava. He was grinning like a fool, mumbling, "Foolish Goddess, she fell into my trap once again. Lu Zhen never died. He was perfectly fine since the beginning. The lava beneath only helped him to absorb intense heat to make the breakthrough. Now that the breakthrough happened, I get to have her divine essence.
I shall use it to change my body constitution and make the breakthrough as a half-demon/half-divine being, following Brother Lucifer's footsteps."
Suddenly, he sensed something deep inside the sea moving upwards at terrifying speeds.
Bael moved back as Mark flew out while grabbing a heavily injured Chang'e by her waist, and stopped in the mid-air.
He looked down at the demon king, "it looks like you are fine, Bael." His words echoed in Bael's ears, taking him by surprise. "There's something changed in him," the demon king couldn't help but wonder.
Bael swiftly put away his unnecessary thoughts and smiled, "welcome back, Lu Zhen."
Meanwhile, Chang'e, whose hands were wrapped around Mark's neck, stared at him in silence. Tears filled her eyes but she was trying her best not to cry or be emotional.
Mark then opened up the skill list and clicked on one.
"Summon, Thunder Dragon"
*Roar*
A blinding flash of light appeared in front of Mark, followed by a roar.
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Once the light was dismissed, a giant thunder dragon of the 9-circle realm materialized. Mark jumped high and placed the Moon Goddess on its head, as 100 million ether points were being consumed every second, although most of it was being recovered by his high-speed Ether recovery skill.
Since it was only at 9-circle, despite its significant size, it didn't attract much attention from Leviathan, as much as Mark did. But, it couldn't move and was trapped by its own domain.
"Houyi…"
His hatred ingrained deep in his bones forced him to ignore his formidable opponent who was on the brink of defeat and released the Domain as Mark flew toward him.
Leviathan disappeared and instantly appeared in front of Mark, trying to grab his throat.
However, just as it was about to succeed, Mark's eyes glowed as he unleashed the Bloodline skill.
"Absolute Freeze"
*Ding! 1,000,000,000 EP was deducted.
As if he completely mastered the skill, he merely froze Leviathan instead of the whole surrounding.
But, he wasn't done yet as he knew that it wouldn't be enough to suppress the beast.
He followed it up with a couple of skills while taking out Unnamed from his inventory, which he collected while he was swimming up earlier.
"Activate, Gravity Dome, 1000g"
"Activate, Density manipulation, 1000g"
The brocade box received an enormous boost of mass from the density manipulation, followed by the change in gravitational force in the surroundings.
"1 million times increase of weight and maintain atleast mach 80 swinging speed. Here we go…"
Due to the fact that they were contracted, Bael isn't affected by the Gravity Dome while Chang'e was lying on top of a Mark's summon and didn't get affected by it either.
However, Yuanlong and Leviathan felt the effect of gravity, increased by 1000 times. Regardless, it wasn't much of a pressure for them. So, Leviathan didn't pay much attention to it. Instead, his eyes were on the box that Mark motioned it backward.
It might have been his astral projection with the lower cultivation realm that was slammed by the box, but both of them shared the same memories. His intuition told him that the force behind the box, this time, would be far greater.
Leviathan wanted to escape this freezing. But, it was too late.
The last thing Leviathan witnessed was the black box in Mark's hand, motioning down at his chest at a blurring speed.
*Bam*
A powerful sound echoed in the surroundings; Mark was smeared with lots of blood, and blasted away hundreds of meters, as the entire upper body of Leviathan ended up gone, just like that.
Meanwhile, Mark faced a recoil from the collision; his bones are shattered, his skin peeled off, and his organs received enormous damage. But, he was prepared beforehand for this scenario too.
"Ark, Use, Scroll of Thousand Blossoms"
As Bael caught a bloodied figure in hurry, a one-time use item activated by the artificial intelligence, countless petals showered on Mark and Bael, healing his injuries instantly. He looked as good as new. However, Leviathan's blood smeared on him still stuck like glue, as they weren't considered an injury by the healing petals.
"You are too reckless, you know that?" Bael couldn't help but scold him, while inwardly screaming in surprise, 'this brat is not afraid of death anymore after resurrected once, because of Phoenix Bloodline. I like it...' he grinned in the end.
Yuanlong silently floated in the same spot, watching in a daze. "I finally get it now. That box is made of void stones. But, how did he acquire it? Which prisoner escaped the Void Dimension?"
Meanwhile, all the blood from leviathan on him slowly seeped into his skin, absorbing its blood cells from it. His bloodline, Primeval beast's spirit, automatically started replicating the blood cells at a rapid rate, extracting its bloodline faster than one would take a deep and release it.
As the rest of leviathan's body slowly disintegrated into specks of light, a holographic screen appeared before Mark's eyes, giving him the results from the ingested blood sample.
*Ding! Leviathan's Bloodline has been added under the Primeval tab.
*Ding! Abyssal Resilience, Maelstorm, Tsunami Charge, Ocean Sovereign, and Transform Bloodline skills are added to the character.
*Ding! Water attribute is added to the character, but no skills are added.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the netherworld, deep beneath the surface, a large egg was seen burning in flames for a while before it died down eventually. The egg then heavily vibrated for a couple of seconds more and became still.
At the same time, far away in the universe, a gigantic beast, dark in color, resembling a sauropod dinosaur but bigger than even planets, was seen moving across space in a leisure manner.
It abruptly stopped its path and turned its head to stare in a certain direction, "My twin has died once again. I wonder who killed him this time." It stared into the distance for a couple of seconds and started flying in that direction, changing its intended path, "Oh well, at this rate, he will never reach his peak stage.
I guess I have to go and pick him up and resume my journey." As it passes through a star that's millions of times bigger than its humongous size, the entire blue star gets enveloped by mysterious black energy, turning it into even hotter.