Chapter 46: Newborn Mysterious Vein

The moment the reddish-black blood bead entered Yun Che's body, starting from the blood seal on his chest, dozens of dark red patterns, like bloodstains, rapidly spread across his body. In an instant, they covered his entire being – his chest, hands, legs, face, ears, and even his pupils were filled with blood-colored patterns resembling demonic runes.

“Ugh… Ugh… Ugh…”

At that moment, Yun Che felt as if he was being pierced by a thousand blades. Excruciating pain surged from every corner of his body, causing him to let out a guttural scream and tremble violently. His vision suddenly blurred, eventually turning into a hazy dark red...

A devouring force agonizingly emanated from within him. Yun Che was intimately familiar with human anatomy; the part being consumed was clearly his disabled profound veins! The profound veins serve to carry profound energy. Even without them, a person can survive, but they can never cultivate even a trace of profound energy. Although profound veins are not vital for survival, they are still a part of the body. The gradual consumption of his disabled profound veins was undoubtedly like having internal organs slowly torn apart and destroyed. The degree of pain was unimaginable.

Jasmine had just said that this drop of the Undying Blood of the Evil God would devour his original profound veins and then generate new ones. Now, as his profound veins were being consumed, it at least proved she hadn't lied. If new profound veins could truly form, then what was this pain compared to that possibility!

The indescribable agony persisted. It was a pain beyond words, completely surpassing the limits of human endurance. This suffering continued, and continued... The disabled profound veins were being devoured very slowly; at this rate, it would take at least a quarter of an hour to completely consume them.

*I don't need any Evil God's power, nor do I need profound veins stronger than an ordinary person's. As long as I can have profound veins like everyone else, or even slightly weaker ones, I'll be perfectly willing! If this can be achieved, I would gladly endure ten times this pain!*

The terrible pain caused Yun Che's nerves to convulse violently, yet his heart remained calm... even exhilarated!

The moment Jasmine introduced the Evil God's Blood into Yun Che's body, a very... gleeful smile curved her lips.

From the memories she had gained from this drop of undying blood, she knew that once it entered the body, it would forcibly devour the profound veins already present. The process of consuming the profound veins, and the pain involved, was no less than having one's original profound veins slowly cut apart and pulverized with a knife... cut apart and pulverized. This was undoubtedly a cruel and inhuman torture, an extreme agony capable of making even the most peerless masters writhe and wail on the ground.

*“Did you think I would truly let you off after you defiled my body with your gaze just now?”* she thought. *“This Evil God's Blood will indeed give you new bloodlines, but it will also act on my behalf to deliver the cruelest punishment to you!”*

Jasmine smiled cruelly, watching the red demonic patterns cover his entire body, watching his eyeballs turn dark red, watching him tremble all over, watching his face twist in agony... Slowly, however, her smile congealed and vanished, replaced by an increasingly deep astonishment.

His limbs were trembling, his entire body's muscles were spasming, and his facial features were so contorted they almost squeezed together. Beads of sweat as large as beans streamed down his forehead at an alarming rate... It was unimaginable how immense the pain must be for his body to react with such shocking intensity.

Yet, apart from his initial cry of pain, Yun Che did not utter another sound of suffering, not even a whimper!

Time ticked by, minute after minute... one minute... three minutes... five minutes... Jasmine's expression finally turned to absolute shock.

Devouring profound veins... Under such horrific pain, he had not once let out a scream!

Sweat drenched Yun Che's entire body. Every inch of his flesh trembled with pain, yet astonishingly, no sound escaped his tightly clenched teeth. And within his distorted face, there was even a faint hint of... excitement!

*He should have been wishing for death, unable to bear the pain... How could this be his reaction!*

*How could a mere mortal, whose profound veins were crippled, possess such terrifying willpower!*

*No! Is this even willpower a human could possess? Such pain... even my father would never be able to endure it with such composure!*

*This mere mortal... the one bound to the Sky Poison Pearl... just who is he...?*

At this moment, Jasmine realized with shock that she had completely underestimated this person. His body was weak, his profound energy negligible, yet at this moment, he displayed a terrifying willpower that completely contradicted those facts. Before, she had been puzzled as to why the Sky Poison Pearl, a supreme Heavenly Profound Treasure, would attach itself to such an insignificant human. Now, she began to understand... It seemed the Sky Poison Pearl's sentience hadn't vanished, nor had it gone mad...

A quarter of an hour passed...

The dark red demonic patterns covering Yun Che's body suddenly flickered with a reddish glow, and his distorted facial features finally began to relax little by little.

The profound vein consumption had ended, and what followed was the generation of new profound veins.

In the place where his profound veins had been consumed, he felt the new profound veins growing, and their growth was incredibly fast, more than ten times the speed at which the old ones were devoured. The recent sensation of emptiness was quickly replaced by a completely new feeling of fullness, and the pain he endured receded rapidly like a tide.

The sweating stopped, the muscle spasms ceased, and even his complexion calmed down. Yun Che remained motionless, eyes closed. If one looked closely, they might even see a faint, peaceful smile playing on his lips.

In the quiet, Yun Che activated his inner vision, delightedly watching the profound veins rapidly grow within him. At this moment, he no longer harbored even a shred of doubt about Jasmine's words. The rebirth of profound veins, an incredible feat, was now manifesting clearly and truly within his own body.

A person's profound veins slowly grow from birth until they fully mature around the age of fourteen. However, his newly formed profound veins grew like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, fully forming in less than two minutes.

His fully formed profound veins were identical in size and shape to the human profound veins Yun Che was familiar with; at least through inner vision, no difference was discernible. Under his meticulous perception, he quickly located all fifty-four profound openings... even their distribution and sensation were no different from an ordinary person's profound veins.

At the same time, out of these fifty-four profound openings, eleven were active, placing his innate talent slightly above average. However, they contained no profound energy: he was at Profound Realm Level Zero.

There was no so-called Evil God's power, no unusual profound vein attributes; it was completely an ordinary set of profound veins. Yet, Yun Che felt not the slightest disappointment. Instead, his heart was overwhelmed with ecstatic turmoil, and his blood boiled... because this was a complete, brand-new set of profound veins without any damage!

It also meant that he would finally no longer be a cripple forever stuck at Profound Realm Level One!

Although his goal was still distant, his vow to make the entire Xiao Sect kneel within three years was no longer an impossible task!

*Grandpa, Little Aunt, I'm finally not a cripple anymore. You'll be so happy when you know... Wait for me. Within three years, I will return to your side and ensure you are never bullied again! And those who bullied you will pay a thousandfold price!*

Yun Che silently roared these words in his heart.

The dark red demonic patterns on Yun Che's body stopped flickering at this moment, then vanished completely in an instant. Yun Che finally opened his eyes.

“How do the new profound veins feel?” Jasmine narrowed her starry eyes, watching him. She had been observing him closely for quite some time. He was three years older than her, still just a half-grown boy, with nothing particularly outstanding about him apart from his decent looks... Yet, for some unknown reason, he possessed such terrifying willpower. Had he been through hell?

“It really worked!” Yun Che exclaimed, clenching his fists in excitement. Then, his tone shifted as he asked, bewildered, “But are you sure these are the so-called ‘Divine Profound Veins’? They seem no different from ordinary profound veins.”

“How many profound openings were activated?” Jasmine didn't answer him directly, instead posing a question of her own.

“Eleven,” Yun Che replied.

A fleeting look of disappointment flashed in Jasmine’s eyes. She stated indifferently, “I nearly died and had my body destroyed to acquire this, only for it to benefit you in the end. But in your body, it can only reach this extent. Do you think divine power is something just anyone is qualified to touch? To activate the special abilities of these Evil God's Profound Veins, all fifty-four profound openings must be active! If it could ‘innately’ activate twenty or more profound openings in your body, I would still have a way to help you complete it within thirty years. But with only eleven ‘innate’ profound openings, even if you gave me a hundred years, I still couldn’t achieve it.”

“All fifty-four profound openings active?”

Anyone else hearing such words would have their jaw drop. Activating all fifty-four profound openings was the legendary Heavenly Spirit Divine Veins! Not a single one had appeared in the thousand-year history of the Cangfeng Emperors! Yet, Yun Che remained remarkably calm. Instead, he looked at Jasmine with a rather odd expression. “Are you sure having all fifty-four profound openings active is enough? Hmm, let me see!”

With that, Yun Che raised his left hand, placed his palm on his chest, and whispered, “Sky Poison… Purify!”

The Sky Poison Pearl instantly released a greenish-blue light that merged into Yun Che’s body, directly reaching his newly formed profound veins...

The number of innately active profound openings largely determined the peak a profound practitioner could reach in their lifetime, because activating profound openings later on was incredibly difficult, requiring super-grade elixirs, opportunities, and luck, none of which could be lacking. Forcing open profound openings with external power carried immense risks; even a slight mishap could cause irreparable, permanent damage to the profound openings.

On the Profound Sky Continent, over ninety-nine percent of profound practitioners never had any additional profound openings activated later in life.

But what kind of existence was the Sky Poison Pearl?

With its unparalleled purification ability, clearing blocked profound openings was as easy as turning one's hand, and without any risk! When he was in Flowing Cloud City, he had used silver needles to guide the Sky Poison Pearl’s purifying energy into Xia Qingyue’s fifty-four profound openings. Not only did it activate all her closed profound openings, but it also purified her innately active ones, making her profound energy incredibly pure and free of any impurities.

However, Xia Qingyue was an outsider, so applying the Sky Poison Pearl's purification ability to her was somewhat troublesome, exhausting him each time.

But purifying his own profound veins? That was as simple as wiggling his fingers.

Under Yun Che’s guidance, the Sky Poison Pearl’s purifying power smoothly circulated through all fifty-four of his profound openings... Yun Che could almost hear the “clack-clack-clack” sound as the blocked profound openings were cleared...

In less than half a minute, all fifty-four profound openings of his new profound veins were activated.

“Alright, all fifty-four profound openings are active now. What should I do next?” Yun Che said with a relaxed expression.

After he spoke, he waited for a long time for Jasmine's reply. When he finally looked up, he found her starry eyes wide open, staring at him... as if he were some grotesque monster.