Chapter 955: Strength Restored! Xu Jingming

Swish—

The space ring glowed faintly, 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 medicinal fragrance.

"It's truly a Grade Nine Blood Healing Holy Pill!" Eva's eyes lit up.

"Looks like we're lucky—the Tianming Sect values Li Hao highly." Xu Jingming smiled.

"It's thanks to your strength that you killed him instantly; otherwise, if he swallowed this pill, we wouldn't have gotten it."

Su Qingli blinked her clear, large eyes, a hint of surprised joy on her pale, delicate 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 left with Su Qingli.

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

Somewhere in the forest, in an underground 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 he could sense her 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 Saint-grade indestructible matter.

The Blood Healing Holy Pill doesn't merely remove them—it can also reuse these indestructible materials.

In short, your teacher is absorbing these indestructible materials.

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 the space ring again.

That same crushing sensation from the biological hierarchy returned—the crimson-gold blood cluster floated in midair, radiating astonishing heat.

This was merely a cluster of blood.

Yet this single cluster, if brought to Daya, would instantly vaporize every citizen of a small city at temperatures exceeding ten thousand degrees!

"Eva, how do I absorb this essence blood?"

Xu Jingming asked thoughtfully.

"First, your physical body must be strong enough."

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

Also, your Body Tempering Art must be at least SSR rank.

The Fire God Temple's combat technique library has SSR-level Body Tempering Arts—exchange an S-rank one later and retrain."

"SSR-level Body Tempering Art..." Xu Jingming mused inwardly.

Since entering the Void Break Tower's eighth layer, he'd been hunting beasts and hadn't specifically sought Void Stones, collecting less than thirty thousand.

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

Combined with what he already had, his total now reached a staggering one million and one thousand!

One SSR-level Body Tempering Art from the Fire God Temple cost roughly two million Void Stones.

With a bit more effort, after leaving the Void Break Tower, he could not only replace his original SSR combat technique but also afford 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 solemnly, "Your talent is unprecedented—I'm certain that if you continue 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 powerhouses from the First, Second, and Third Civilizations.

Never before had anyone achieved such combat power before turning twenty-one, as Xu Jingming had.

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

"You have quite a bit of faith in me."

Xu Jingming smiled faintly.

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

But for him, it wasn't.

He could use his system to directly improve Body Tempering Arts to easily absorb essence blood.

"Li Hao's space ring might contain scrolls related to this essence blood."

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

Many of them were even about the Molten Beast.

The scrolls 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 scrolls,

Suddenly, an extremely powerful aura erupted violently within this underground space!

Xu Jingming instinctively looked up.

Just then, he saw that over ten meters ahead, Su Qingli had already awakened.

Her black hair whipped wildly behind her, and jade-green lightning coiled around her body.

Though her aura was still at the original ninth-rank lower tier, her entire being radiated an incomparable vitality!

"Congratulations, Teacher, on successfully removing the Hatred Blood Thorn and raising your strength another level." Xu Jingming rose and offered his congratulations.

"It's all thanks to you."

Su Qingli drew in the lightning around her, and a bright, radiant smile bloomed across her fair, lovely face:

"Once we return to Blue Star, I will hand over my Lei Ting Wu Guan to you.

Not only the position of Hall Master, but also all the resources my Lei Ting Wu Guan has accumulated over the years."

Back then, she couldn't bear to watch her father's life's work be seized by the Li family, so she chose to use an SSR-grade resource to break through rapidly and take up the position of Hall Master.

If Hu Jinyu hadn't colluded with the Li family back then, she wouldn't have had to make that choice.

Now that an even more outstanding Xu Jingming had appeared, she naturally chose to step down in favor of a more worthy successor.

Of course, there was another very important reason as well.

That year, her father had merely disappeared — he hadn't died.

She wanted to try traveling the whole country, to see if she could find her father and bring him back.

"Then many thanks, Teacher." Xu Jingming grinned broadly, without refusing.

The resources of Lei Ting Wu Guan were secondary; what mattered most was the authority!

Sakuragi Rin was merely the Holy Maiden of Tianyu Dojo, yet she had been able to gather so many fierce beasts back then.

Once he became Hall Master, every Lei Ting Wu Guan across all of Great Xia would be at his disposal!

He didn't need much — just have a designated area set aside in every prefecture-level city of Great Xia to stockpile fierce beasts for him.

When the time came, he'd spend a bit of time making a circuit of Great Xia, slaughter all those fierce beasts, and earn at the very least over a million Ability Points!