Chapter 435

"By the way, are you really not considered monsters?"

Aether shook his head and said softly:

"Although the people of the Abyss Order are called monsters, in essence, they are the remnants of Khaenri'ah from back then."

"After receiving the immortality curse from the gods, they indeed turned into the appearance of monsters, but in essence, they are similar to humans."

"What's more, we don't need those martial arts techniques that can cultivate internal energy."

"What we need are just some moves that can perfectly exert power, the kind of skills that can guide internal energy to explode with maximum power with minimum output."

Hearing this, Lumine was stunned and looked at Aether in surprise.

"Don't tell me you've already created your own martial arts techniques?"

Seeing Lumine like this, Aether couldn't help but feel a bit proud; it was a rare moment to show off in front of Lumine.

"This matter concerns the second thing I want to ask you to do."

"I want to ask you to help us hunt some fierce beasts."

258. Fierce beast martial arts? Why does it sound so much like the Xuanjia Liuli Beast?

"Before, we spent a lot of manpower and finally managed to solve a fierce beast at the peak of Foundation Establishment."

"Later, we found nine drops of essence blood in that fierce beast's body."

As soon as Aether finished speaking, Lumine looked at Aether suspiciously.

"Don't tell me you drank the essence blood of a peak Foundation Establishment fierce beast directly!"

"Uh... how did you know?"

"You really drank it!"

Lumine had a "you really have guts" expression and looked at Aether with admiration.

"Do you know that fierce beast essence blood is the existence that contains the most massive spiritual energy in the fierce beast's body?"

"According to Senior Sister Lady Ningguang and the others' calculations, if one doesn't cultivate martial arts, a top-tier original god would explode and die after taking one drop of fierce beast essence blood."

"What do you think spiritual energy is! That is power condensed from massive and complex spiritual energy."

"In terms of quality alone, it completely crushes all the power in this world."

"It's fortunate that it was a peak Foundation Establishment fierce beast. If it were a fierce beast at the late stage of Qi Refining, you would be blown to pieces if you drank one drop."

"You guy, your heart isn't big, but your guts are!"

Lumine scolded Aether severely, although Aether knew Lumine was worried about him and doing it for his own good.

After all, no matter how much they fought and bickered, they were each other's only relatives.

But this tone...

Still made Aether's face darken.

Lumine always felt that she could guide him after cultivating immortality.

"This kind of brain-dead operation of drinking essence blood directly, I've never even heard of it in Shushan, but it is recorded in the classics."

"A Qi Refining cultivator, overestimating their own ability, drank the essence blood of a peak Qi Refining fierce beast and directly exploded and died."

"Do you know that the innate masters in Liyue only dare to share one drop of essence blood from a late Foundation Establishment fierce beast among three people."

"And that's on the premise that they have martial arts techniques."

"You have nothing, and you drank essence blood directly. How many people died?"

Hearing this, Aether curled his lips and complained:

"I'm sorry to disappoint you, but not a single one of us died. Not only did we not die, but we also created a martial arts system that belongs exclusively to us."

"I call it Fierce Beast Martial Arts."

After saying that, Aether raised his hand into a claw shape.

A mass of scarlet blood energy condensed in his palm, and along with it, Aether's eyes also flashed with a faint blood light.

He threw it backhand, and it landed on a hill, which instantly disintegrated.

Seeing this, Lumine's eyes narrowed, and she said in surprise:

"The destructive power is actually this strong? It's much stronger than martial arts cultivators at the same stage."

Lumine wasn't talking nonsense with this sentence. Strictly speaking, this could even be called the strongest power system below immortality cultivation.

Sure enough... is there a blessing after surviving a disaster?

"The power of Fierce Beast Martial Arts is indeed very strong, much stronger than our own power."

Aether smiled and continued:

"The upper limit of Fierce Beast Martial Arts seems to be very high. At least for now, the Earth Immortal stage in Liyue is not the limit of Fierce Beast Martial Arts that I predicted."

"So, we don't need Liyue's martial arts system."

Lumine stroked her chin and observed for a moment. After analyzing with her spiritual sense, she shook her head and said:

"It's just pure destructive power that's barely enough. In terms of defensive power and comprehensive angles, it's much worse than the martial arts created by Senior Seeing Zhongli."

"The control seems a bit weak too. This is a kind of martial arts born purely for destruction."

Regarding this, Aether could only nod helplessly.

"Although I really want to refute you, this is indeed the truth. Fierce Beast Martial Arts is not as comprehensive as Liyue martial arts."

"But this is not impossible to improve, which is why I want to ask you to help exchange for some martial arts techniques that control power."

"In this way, the power of Fierce Beast Martial Arts can truly be exerted."

Lumine naturally wouldn't refuse such a small request.

She didn't even need to consume her own contribution points.

She could just take a hundred low-grade spirit stones and find Seeing Zhongli to exchange for them; anyway, they really weren't worth much.

She had plenty of spirit stones, and Jiang Yan gave her some from time to time. Now she was carrying tens of thousands of low-grade spirit stones.

That's the preferential treatment of a Divine Body genius.

"Techniques are not a problem, but I'm still very curious."

"It's not strange that you can take fierce beast essence blood. After all, although you are annoying, your strength is still very strong."

"But those Abyss people under you, how did they manage to hold on?"

"A whole drop of peak Foundation Establishment fierce beast essence blood. Don't tell me your physiques have all surpassed martial arts cultivators?"

Aether nodded slightly and said softly:

"I'm afraid so."

"While the immortality curse gave them pain, it also, under the polishing of Abyss power for hundreds of years, day after day,"

"made the physiques of Abyss people much stronger than those of Teyvat people."

"Especially the Abyss Lectors. The Abyss Lectors under me are each comparable to high-level god familiars, and the stronger ones are even comparable to top-tier god familiars."

"But even so, taking the essence blood of a peak Foundation Establishment fierce beast, they also survived by a hair's breadth."

"Finally, they achieved the status of true fierce beast martial artists."

"But for now, the number of fierce beast martial artists in our Abyss Order is still very small."

"In the final analysis, it's still because fierce beast resources are not enough."

Aether poked at Lumine, and Lumine immediately became impatient.

"Got it, don't poke me!"

"I still want to know how your Fierce Beast Martial Arts should be cultivated."

Regarding this, Aether naturally had nothing to hide.

Fierce Beast Martial Arts requires a powerful physique. In the entire Teyvat, very few can meet this standard.

To put it bluntly, Aether felt that only the Abyss had such natural conditions.

What's more, this was Lumine, and he wasn't worried that Lumine would spread this matter.

Simply put, Aether said what he had to say directly:

"The cultivation of Fierce Beast Martial Arts is the same and different from Liyue martial arts."

"The power we use, I call it blood energy."

"Blood energy is stored in the dantian, and fierce beast essence blood is used to open the dantian and condense the first wisp of blood energy."

"After that, you can refine spiritual energy to polish the flesh, and the flesh condenses blood energy, which flows into the dantian."

"You can also refine blood energy through daily eating, which is also the most convenient method."

"Fierce beast meat contains massive blood energy and is the best resource for fierce beast martial artists. If you can absorb essence blood, that's naturally the best."

"However, the body has a saturation level. The strongest fierce beast martial artist under me is currently at the level of a Grandmaster."