Chapter 962: The Strange Su Qingli! Preparing to Absorb Divine Blood!

"Give me... to him?"

Su Qingli's almond eyes suddenly widened, her cheeks flushed crimson like evening clouds; she scolded, "You wicked Eva, I never thought you'd be so improper!"

"Where am I improper?"

Eva puffed out her chest, speaking with unshakable conviction, "You're the one who asked me how to repay an S-rank."

"Besides yourself, what else do you have that could possibly be useful to an S-rank?"

Upon hearing this, Su Qingli froze.

Eva's words, strangely enough, made perfect sense.

"Think about it: S-rank possesses a Lightning-type SSS-level ability; you possess a Lightning-type S-rank ability."

"Your offspring might manifest an unprecedented, unparalleled talent in Lightning-type abilities!"

"It could even shatter the existing SSS-level ability rating system!"

Eva rubbed her tiny hands together, eyes gleaming.

In her eyes, Xu Jingming was nothing short of a treasure.

As long as a partner's ability rank exceeds S-rank, their offspring's ability rank will inevitably be exceptional.

The only pity is, S-ranks currently seem to have no intention of having offspring.

"This..."

Su Qingli listened, stunned and dazed.

Yet she was still a ninth-rank powerhouse and wasn't fully swayed; she rolled her eyes and said:

"You improper little Eva, forget it—I'll find another way to repay you."

Though she said so, she couldn't help but follow Eva's train of thought and imagine further.

Add to that the things Ling Shuang had once shared about Xu Jingming, and her fair, delicate face grew even redder...

"Alright, I've told you everything I know—can we leave now?"

On the ground, Qiao Lin, her mind completely drained of information, looked utterly lifeless.

This was the first time in her life she'd ever been interrogated like a criminal—and she couldn't even resist.

"Not yet," Xu Jingming mused.

He had spent roughly three to four minutes extracting the information he wanted from Qiao Lin.

As expected, the Lightning World of the eighth level of the Breakthrough Tower did harbor ferocious beasts.

But unlike the previous level, this level's ferocious beasts were few in number, yet each was extremely powerful.

The lowest-ranked were seventh-rank; the higher-ranked, like the just-encountered Emperor-rank ninth-rank Purple Lightning Dragon.

There were even fiercer beasts than that!

Thus, the issue of ability points was no longer a concern.

Also, we must gather more Void Stones.

"With my current strength, as long as I don't encounter those top-tier experts, I won't be in mortal danger."

After carefully considering there were no other questions he wished to ask, Xu Jingming said: "Alright, you may go now."

At these words, Lady Xina and the others clearly exhaled in relief.

"No wonder you're a Polar Level—you keep your word. But, could you give me another outfit?"

Qiao Lin hugged her chest, her expression forlorn.

The power of the Chaos Divine Thunder was too overwhelming; her SSS-level battle suit was torn in multiple places.

Large patches of her Bai Xi skin were exposed—if she left like this and was seen by other ability users, especially other core members of the Xinhuo Divine Temple, where would she save face?

Shuā—

Xu Jingming casually retrieved a battle suit from Qiao Lin's original space ring and tossed it to her.

Crimson blood qi surged violently from her body, blocking vision and spiritual sense.

Soon after, Qiao Lin reappeared before them, clad in a brand-new battle suit; her face no longer bore the earlier resentment or embarrassment.

"Xu Jingming, we've lost this time—but if there's a next time, I'll reclaim the Sky Dome Ring!"

After muttering a weak threat, Qiao Lin turned and fled without looking back, swiftly flying away with Lady Xina and the others.

"Weak strength, yet still trying to throw around threats," Xu Jingming shook his head.

He was not a killer by nature.

From the moment they met until now, Qiao Lin and the others had shown no murderous intent; in fact, they even warned him when the Purple Lightning Dragon arrived.

That's why he let them go—if not, he would have killed them all immediately after extracting the information.

"S-rank, Su Laoshi has already consumed the Red Cloud Fruit and successfully removed the side effects."

At that moment, Eva's holographic projection appeared beside him, reminding him.

"Oh? I'll go down and take a look."

Xu Jingming's eyes lit up as he leapt into the passage directly leading underground.

Bōng!

As Xu Jingming landed, he happened to see Su Qingli in a state of divine trance, her delicate face flushed crimson.

"What's wrong with Su Laoshi?" Xu Jingming asked, puzzled.

"Perhaps she's just excited because her bottleneck has been broken," Eva said, avoiding the truth with guilty hesitation.

"Is that so? It seems Su Laoshi was truly held back by that bottleneck for too long."

Xu Jingming smiled and congratulated Su Qingli: "Congratulations, Su Laoshi, on breaking your bottleneck—your future achievements are immeasurable!"

Xu Jingming smiled and congratulated Su Qingli: "Congratulations, Su Laoshi, on breaking through your bottleneck—your future achievements are immeasurable!"

"Jing... Jingming, you've come."

Su Qingli finally came to her senses, hesitant to meet Xu Jingming's eyes.

Xu Jingming merely felt that Professor Su's demeanor seemed a bit odd, but he didn't pay it much mind, smiling and asking:

"How do you feel now, Professor?"

After exhaling deeply and calming the flutter in her heart, Su Qingli smiled brightly:

"Better than ever—I'll break through to Ninth Stage Mid-Level within half a year."

She wasn't lying.

Perhaps because she'd been stuck at Ninth Stage Low-Level for so long, she felt she had already touched the bottleneck to Ninth Stage Mid-Level.

"Oh? Then congratulations, Professor Su."

Xu Jingming smiled, then ordered: "Xiao Lian, expand the underground space further—I'm going to release the giant dragon."

"Yes, Master."

The ironwire lotus vines swayed, sending out psychic fluctuations.

Immediately, the vines thrashed wildly, and within just three minutes, the entire underground space expanded to three hundred meters long, three hundred meters wide, and over thirty meters high.

"Having plant life is so convenient."

A faint glow shimmered from the space ring, and Xu Jingming withdrew the corpse of the Purple Lightning Giant Dragon from it.

The massive body, the moment it emerged, filled most of the underground space.

"Jingming, are you planning to...?" Su Qingli stared, puzzled.

"I'm going to absorb divine blood and cultivate my body art." Xu Jingming gazed hungrily at the Purple Lightning Giant Dragon before him.

Though dead, the colossal corpse still pulsed with flickering purple lightning arcs.

Even a stray spark of this lightning could easily kill a Fifth Stage adept.

This was the terror of a Beast Emperor-tier monster—even its corpse was far beyond the reach of ordinary adepts.

Of course, what drew him wasn't the lightning, but the Purple Lightning Giant Dragon's own blood.

Unlike the Essence Blood of the Molten Fire Beast, he could feel his body's desperate craving for this blood!

He had a hunch that absorbing this blood would allow his physique to break through again.

"Absorb divine blood?"

Su Qingli's cheeks, just now calmed, flushed crimson once more.

She had heard from Ling Shuang that Xu Jingming's side effects had come from absorbing divine blood.

Would the same thing happen again this time?