Chapter 1472: Enhancing the Bloodline

"Blood Pool?"

Zhang Jiuxiao's body trembled, and an embarrassed expression appeared on his face. "This is a place where only core family disciples can enter to activate their bloodline. My bloodline is too weak; I don't qualify." The Zhang Clan's Blood Pool was of utmost importance; one could only enter to cultivate once their bloodline reached a certain level. As a peripheral member, he was still far from meeting the requirements.

"I'll take you in!" Zhang Xuan said calmly.

To enable the other party to advance from Saint 5-dan Ethereal Core realm to being able to fight experts like Zhang Chun in a single night, conventional training was certainly out of the question. After all, he lacked the conditions to cultivate Heaven's Path techniques, and even with simplified cultivation methods, progress was relatively slow. Therefore, this was the only viable path! By utilizing the Zhang Clan's Blood Pool and altering the flow of time to increase it twelvefold overnight, the chances of success would greatly improve!

"Take me?" Zhang Jiuxiao was stunned. "Isn't this place off-limits to casual entry?" If anyone could enter the Zhang Clan's Blood Pool, it would have been chaotic long ago. How could his teacher, a newcomer and an outsider, easily enter it and even bring him along?

"Before, I indeed couldn't enter, but... now there's no problem at all!" Zhang Xuan snorted. When Zhang Wuchen had previously brought him in, he had carefully observed the sealing formation. Although it was ingenious, it was full of flaws in the eyes of the Library of Heaven's Path. He could easily exploit one of them to sneak in undetected.

"Let's go!" Without further explanation, Zhang Xuan led the way.

Soon, they arrived back at the Blood Pool. "This is it!" Taking a deep breath, Zhang Xuan walked in a small circle around the entrance, pinpointed a spot, and lightly tapped it. With a soft hum, the formation guarding the Blood Pool entrance slowly opened, revealing a gap in the doorway. "Quick, go in!" Zhang Xuan promptly stepped inside, with Zhang Jiuxiao following closely behind. The formation re-sealed, closing the entrance, leaving no trace of their entry from the outside, as if no one had been there.

"This is the Blood Pool?" Upon entering, Zhang Jiuxiao immediately felt his entire body's muscles excite and his primordial spirit pulse with energy.

"That's right. Try activating your bloodline and see if you can resonate with it..." Zhang Xuan said.

"Alright!" Nodding, Zhang Jiuxiao sat cross-legged on the ground, activating his bloodline and attempting to connect with the drifting time essence around him. However, it wasn't long before he stood up again, his face grim. At this moment, he finally understood why collateral descendants like him were not allowed into the Blood Pool. It wasn't because the family was stingy or discriminatory, but because... even if they entered, they couldn't comprehend the essence or cultivate like core disciples. Since he couldn't even do that, there was naturally no need to waste effort. "Teacher..." Zhang Jiuxiao felt a wave of guilt. His teacher had specially brought him here, only for him to be unable to achieve anything due to his own limitations. It was truly difficult to accept.

"Don't worry..." Seeing that he couldn't comprehend it, Zhang Xuan also frowned. "You continue to cultivate; I'll figure something out!"

"Yes!" Without further words, Zhang Jiuxiao sat down cross-legged.

Zhang Xuan's Eye of Insight pulsed as he surveyed his surroundings. Rainbow-like energy hovered around Zhang Jiuxiao, but like oil and water, it remained incompatible. No matter how he activated his bloodline, nothing happened. "His bloodline is indeed too weak..." Zhang Xuan's brows furrowed. The essence of time within this place was left by the Zhang family ancestors as a gift to future generations. Although Zhang Jiuxiao possessed the Zhang family bloodline, he couldn't even perform the clan's secret techniques. His bloodline level was simply too low. At best, he could make the rainbow-like energy approach, but integrating with it was impossible. This was similar to taming a beast: one could gain its favor, but being able to truly tame it was still a vast distance away. That single step felt like an insurmountable chasm.

"If only his bloodline could be purer..." He couldn't help but sigh. As he was lamenting, he suddenly felt the Library of Heaven's Path tremble. Immediately afterward, the golden book that had formed earlier shot out with a whoosh, flying straight towards Zhang Jiuxiao, who was cultivating.

"Oh no..." Zhang Xuan's pupils contracted. The Heaven's Path Divine Book could easily crush even a 9-star poison master into a pulp; Zhang Jiuxiao, with his current strength, couldn't possibly withstand it! He hadn't intended to kill anyone, so how did it just fly out? It was too late to stop it. In the blink of an eye, the book reached Zhang Jiuxiao's glabella, but instead of a bloody scene, it gently moved and burrowed in. Immediately afterward, Zhang Xuan saw the surrounding essence of time surging towards the young man sitting cross-legged on the ground, as if boiling, at maximum speed.

"This is... a bloodline enhancement?" Zhang Xuan's eyes widened in shock. Just moments ago, he had intensely wished for Zhang Jiuxiao's bloodline to be enhanced, and then the Heaven's Path Divine Book flew out. Could it be that, in addition to increasing his own mental fortitude, helping him memorize knowledge, sealing formidable foes, or even killing people, this thing could also enhance others' bloodline power? If that were true, it would be terrifying! He had studied bloodlines many times, and even with the Library's insights, it was difficult to purify them. He had never dreamed that the Heaven's Path Divine Book possessed such an ability.

"Teacher... my bloodline..." Zhang Jiuxiao, now sensing the changes within his body, trembled with excitement, bewildered.

"Your teacher helped you enhance your bloodline. These are top-grade spirit stones; quickly use them to improve your cultivation!" With a flick of his wrist, Zhang Xuan threw out his only three top-grade spirit stones. He knew that even his direct disciples should not be told about the Heaven's Path Divine Book. At this moment, he could only explain that he had helped enhance the bloodline.

"Yes!" Although he didn't know how his teacher had done it, Zhang Jiuxiao understood that this was not the time for questions. He quickly closed his eyes, grasped one of the top-grade spirit stones, and circulated his true qi, absorbing it frantically. Boom! Boom! With his bloodline enhanced, the speed at which he absorbed spiritual energy was immeasurably faster than before. All the meridians that had previously been blocked were now clear, as if all cultivation bottlenecks had disappeared. Crack! Crack! In the blink of an eye, his cultivation broke through the shackles of the Ethereal Core realm, advancing into the Domain realm, where it slowly stabilized.

Knowing that the other party lacked cultivation techniques, Zhang Xuan tapped his finger, transmitting the simplified cultivation method for the Domain realm. With his purified bloodline, the surrounding essence of time flowed into Zhang Jiuxiao's body, causing his primordial spirit to immediately enter a time flow one-twelfth its normal speed, allowing him to begin comprehending the technique. After an unknown period, he fully understood it. His primordial spirit also meticulously analyzed the cultivation method, knowing exactly how to practice. Instead of letting him break through immediately, Zhang Xuan paused, then transmitted the simplified cultivation method for Saint 7-dan Void Prying realm. Although this technique had not yet reached the Heaven's Path level, it had only one drawback: it was difficult for Zhang Xuan himself to truly master. However, for Zhang Jiuxiao, it was definitely an exquisite secret manual. Nevertheless, because it wasn't a Heaven's Path technique, it wasn't as easy to understand as simplified cultivation methods.