Chapter 955: Strength Restored! Xu Jingming

Swish—

A faint glow flashed from the space ring, and a pill the size of a grape appeared in Xu Jingming’s hand.

The pill was entirely blood-red, as if forged from blood itself.

Yet it carried no stench of blood—only a faint, pure herbal fragrance.

“It’s truly a Grade Nine Blood Healing Holy Pill!” Eva’s eyes lit up.

“Looks like we’re lucky—the Heaven’s Mandate Sect valued Li Hao highly.” Xu Jingming smiled.

“But it’s only because you’re strong enough to kill him instantly—if he’d swallowed this pill, we never would’ve gotten it.”

Su Qingli blinked her clear, large eyes, a hint of surprised joy brightening her delicate, pale oval face.

“Let’s go—find a safe place first and test the pill’s effect.”

After meticulously searching Li Hao’s body again and confirming no other loot remained, Xu Jingming led Su Qingli away.

Of course, Su Qingli was still carried on his back...

Somewhere in the forest, in a subterranean space over one hundred fifty meters below ground.

After swallowing the Blood Healing Holy Pill, Su Qingli’s strength rapidly recovered—but when her aura returned to the Ninth Stage,

she remained seated on the ground, eyes tightly closed, still unconscious.

“Eva, what’s going on?”

Though she could sense Su Qingli’s aura was stable and unharmed, Xu Jingming still frowned and asked.

“This is her opportunity.”

The little girl Eva cupped her smiling face, having anticipated this moment:

“The Hatred Blood Thorns are, in essence, concentrated Immortal Matter from a Martial Saint.

The Blood Healing Holy Pill doesn’t just remove them—it reuses these Immortal Matter fragments.

In short, your teacher is absorbing these Immortal Matter fragments.

When she awakens, her physical body will be greatly strengthened.”

“I see.” Xu Jingming understood.

After carefully observing for a moment and confirming Su Qingli’s aura hadn’t weakened, he sat down on the ground and retrieved the Molten Beast’s essence blood from his space ring once more.

That same crushing sensation from the life-tier still lingered—the crimson-gold blood cluster floated midair, radiating astonishing heat.

This was merely a cluster of blood.

Yet even this single cluster, if released in Great Xia, would instantly vaporize every citizen of a small city under tens of thousands of degrees of heat!

“Eva, how do I absorb this essence blood?”

Xu Jingming mused aloud.

“First, your physical body must be strong enough.”

Eva pondered, “According to our research, your blood qi must reach at least one million points!

Also, your Body Tempering Art must be no lower than SSR rank.

The Flame Temple’s combat library has SSR-level Body Tempering Arts—exchange an S-rank one later and retrain.”

“SSR-level Body Tempering Art...” Xu Jingming silently mused.

Since entering the Void-Piercing Tower’s eighth layer, he’d been hunting beasts and hadn’t specifically sought Void Stones—his total collection was under thirty thousand.

But the space rings from Li Hao and the others held plenty—forty-two thousand!

Combined with his original stash, his total had reached a staggering one million and one thousand!

One SSR-level Body Tempering Art from the Flame Temple cost around two million Void Stones.

If he pushed harder, after leaving the Void-Piercing Tower, he could not only replace his original SSR combat art but also exchange for a Body Tempering Art.

“Even if you truly trained an S-rank Body Tempering Art, I still don’t recommend absorbing this essence blood.”

Eva added gravely, “Your talent is unprecedented—I’m certain that if you keep training, you’ll become a top-tier powerhouse!

Even centuries from now, when the Third Civilization reaches its peak and the Molten Beast arrives, you’ll be able to defeat it.

Under these circumstances, you have no need to risk your life absorbing this essence blood.”

“Oh? You have that much faith in me.” Xu Jingming raised an eyebrow, surprised.

“Of course.” The little girl Eva proudly puffed out her tiny chest.

Her database held the life records of most supreme Qiangzhe from the First, Second, and Third Civilizations.

No one had ever achieved such combat power before turning twenty-one—like Xu Jingming.

According to her data models, Xu Jingming was indeed the one most likely to end the Molten Beast.

“You have a lot of faith in me.”

Xu Jingming smiled faintly.

For other psychics, absorbing the Molten Beast’s essence blood was extremely risky.

But for him, it wasn’t.

He could use his system to directly improve his Body Tempering Art until it could easily absorb the essence blood.

“Li Hao’s space ring might contain manuals related to this essence blood.”

With a sweep of his spiritual force, Xu Jingming indeed found numerous manuals.

Many even concerned the Molten Beast.

The manuals referred to it as the Holy Lord, detailing how to better harness its power.

Two hours later, as Xu Jingming was still deeply studying the manuals,

suddenly, an immensely powerful aura erupted violently within this underground space!

Xu Jingming instinctively looked up.

There, over ten meters ahead, Su Qingli had awakened.

Her black tresses whipped wildly behind her, her body encircled by emerald thunder.

Though her aura remained Ninth Stage Lower, she radiated an unparalleled vitality!

“Congratulations, Teacher—successfully purged the Hatred Blood Thorns, your strength has risen another level.” Xu Jingming rose to congratulate.

“It’s all thanks to you.”

Su Qingli retracted her thunder, a bright smile appearing on her pale, lovely face:

“When we return to Blue Star, I’ll hand over Thunder Martial Arts Hall to you.

Not just the position of director—but all the accumulated resources of Thunder Martial Arts Hall over the years.”

Back then, unwilling to let her father’s life’s work be seized by the Li family, she’d used an SSR-level resource to rapidly break through and assume the director’s position.

Had Hu Jinyu not colluded with the Li family, she never would’ve done that.

Now, with Xu Jingming—far superior—appearing, she naturally chose to step aside.

Of course, there was another crucial reason:

Her father had merely vanished—he hadn’t died.

She wanted to travel across the nation, to see if she could find him.

“Then thank you, Teacher.” Xu Jingming grinned, accepting without refusal.

The Thunder Martial Arts Hall’s resources were secondary—the most important thing was power!

Sakura Rin was merely the Sacred Maiden of the Heavenly Guard Dojo, yet she’d still gathered so many beasts.

Once I become director, every Thunder Martial Arts Hall across Great Xia will be under my command!

Don’t need much—just designate one district per prefecture-level city in Great Xia to stockpile beasts for me.

Then, spend some time traveling across Great Xia, slaughtering them all—I’ll easily earn over a million psychic points!