Immortality: Starting with the Fruit of Taiyin

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The remaining magical artifacts, elixirs, and spiritual materials were worth less than three thousand spirit stones, which seemed rather meager.

After carefully searching through the pile of materials, Wang Xuan finally found a jade box engraved with concealment array patterns in a corner.

Upon opening the jade box, a silver crystal, dotted with fine dust, lay quietly. Despite the absence of any emanating power, the surrounding air spontaneously distorted and shifted.

"Is this the item that triggered your bloodline connection?"

He asked in a low voice, and a bluebird perched on Wang Xuan's shoulder chirped softly, revealing its deep longing.

Monsters with bloodlines of Earth grade or higher possess a few inherited memories, but most of them require specific actions to trigger.

Without hesitation, Wang Xuan took a step back, letting the bluebird act according to its instincts.

"唳——"

With a flap of its wings, the bluebird landed on the jade box.

Guided by her bloodline, she first dripped a drop of blood to soak the crystal jade, and then decisively swallowed it in one gulp.

As the crystal jade entered its belly, the next moment, streaks of silver light emanated from its body, swirling around the bluebird like stars.

The power of space rippled and fluctuated, and ancient and profound bloodline patterns gradually appeared on each feather.

These are natural runes that can help observing rune masters improve their rune skills.

Unfortunately, Wang Xuan had not yet delved into the mysteries of talismanic arts, so he could only observe it as something new.

Gradually, time passed by, second by second.

The land near the Bluebird began to vanish into thin air, as if it had been swallowed up by some enormous storage device.

But soon, in the empty area around her, blurry, desolate light and shadow slowly emerged, filling the empty ground again and overlapping with the real space.

From the real to the abstract, and then from the abstract to the real.

Seeing this scene, and following the connection of his natal soul contract, a flash of understanding appeared in Wang Xuan's eyes.

This is the awakening of bloodline—the Void Shadow Sparrow, a top-tier Earth-grade bloodline, born with four innate bloodline talents: 'Escape from the Void', 'Void Shadow', 'Devouring the Universe', and 'Spirit Dwelling'.

The first two are naturally present when the chicks hatch, and are innate endowments of this species, which the Bluebird has always been able to use. However, the latter two are quite different.

Previously, Wang Xuan had always thought that the Azure Bird's strength was insufficient, and that it could only awaken once it reached a certain limit. But now it seems that an external object is needed to activate it.

Like the crystal jade obtained this time, as the Azure Bird's bloodline supernatural power awakened, knowledge about it and inherited memories also surfaced.

According to the inheritance, this is a rare ore of the lowest third rank, randomly generated at the core of various mineral veins containing spatial power.

The special mineral called Void Stone is needed for refining large-capacity storage rings used by cultivators at the Core Formation stage and above, repairing damage caused by the operation of spatial secret realms, and creating small spatial secret vaults that depend on the real space.

This item has many uses, but its production is very limited. The one Wang Xuan obtained, in particular, is of a high grade.

Its role for the Azure Bird is to provide it with pure and vast spatial power, serving as the catalyst for the awakening of the Void Shadow Sparrow's bloodline talent "Devouring the Universe" and its first "food" after awakening.

"Tunyu, as the name suggests."

"Only by consuming spiritual objects containing the power of the universe can one awaken, and subsequent growth is also inseparable from consuming void energy."

"As for the use of this talent, it is to use oneself as an anchor point to evolve a most primitive and immature 'realm prototype'."

It cannot mature; in other words, it can only grow to a certain point.

Because the inherited memories show that although the Earth-grade bloodline is noble, it is not enough to support the birth of a true prototype of a realm, let alone evolve into a complete realm.

Wang Xuan guessed that this was something only a high-ranking demon of the Void Shadow Sparrow bloodline, containing a trace of the true spirit Azure Phoenix blood, could accomplish.

However, whether it was a Heavenly Grade Bloodline or a nascent Realm, both of these touched upon areas where his knowledge was limited.

Such advanced knowledge may not be less valuable than high-level cultivation techniques in the cultivation world.

Therefore, Wang Xuan could only speculate based on the current changes, believing that a complete 'realm' was like a blessed land in the legends of immortals, which could grant the ruler some kind of blessing or authority like a 'deity'.

Of course, this refers to a fully developed and mature so-called domain.

As for what the Bluebird evolved from, don't even mention any blessed lands or grottoes.

In Wang Xuan's view, this space was at most a special kind of storage ring, bound to the bloodline of the Void Shadow Sparrow, capable of holding living things and growing some grains that did not contain spiritual energy.

As for planting spiritual plants?

That's all beyond our capabilities.

Unless Wang Xuan dares to cut off a small section of the earth vein and combine it with the origin of the spiritual vein to artificially create a spiritual land in this space, it is impossible to maintain this state for too long without being separated from the external earth veins.

Or perhaps they are so wealthy that they don't hesitate to use spirit stones to set up special planting formations.

Otherwise, without sufficient spiritual energy to nourish them, no spiritual plant can grow and will only wither and gradually die within the realm.

"Interestingly, according to the bloodline inheritance, in the Sky Shadow Sparrow clan, this kind of rudimentary realm is not intended to evolve into a true realm at all, and they do not have the bloodline foundation for it."

"The actual use of the 'Devouring the Universe' talent is for building nests."

With a strange expression, Wang Xuan hadn't expected this outcome.

"As a low-grade bloodline demon beast that controls the power of space, Kongying is homeless and easily coveted by various forces for its demon core and flesh."

"Having such a portable nest not only protects against theft and hunting targeting offspring, but also allows one to escape thousands of miles away at any time and avoid danger."

"As for the nutrients for the growth of offspring... this space is anchored in the bloodline of the parents, so it can naturally contribute its vital energy to nourish the bodies of offspring."

Shaking his head slightly, Wang Xuan sighed inwardly, "The cultivation world is indeed dangerous."

Even the great demons who have a high probability of growing to the late stage of the third tier and a low probability of stepping into the fourth tier have the talent to run away, and have no arrogance of high-level bloodlines.

Among adult Sky Shadow Sparrows, the existence of an "alternate dimension nest" is a key factor in determining whether they can find a mate.

From a certain perspective, it can be considered the demon race's version of a "wedding room" in the cultivation world.

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One day later.

The power of space gradually stabilized, and the newly opened realm began to take shape.

In terms of volume, this space is spherical with a radius of several meters.

The moment the space was fully formed, another bloodline inheritance surged into Qingniao's mind, and Wang Xuan learned of it at the same time.

If you want this space to continue to grow, besides improving your own cultivation and absorbing spiritual objects from the space, there is another way: find a "suppressing object" that is compatible with this space.

With "suppressing objects" as the core, and by infusing it with bloodline talent, one can use the power originally used to stabilize space to expand it, and there is even a possibility of converting the power of the void into a small amount of spiritual energy.

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