Chapter 397: Bloodline Forbidden Art

More than a dozen large trees coiled around the body of the Fifth Grade Lower Tier Demon Beast bear, strangling it frantically; individual tree roots even burrowed through the bear's pores, taking root and sprouting inside its body to devour its flesh and blood.

"Roar!" The bear let out an angry roar, and its already six-meter-tall, burly body surged again in the wind, transforming in the blink of an eye into a behemoth thirty meters tall with a waist seven or eight meters thick. A layer of blood-red light flickered over its body, sealing all its pores and forcing the tree roots inside its body back out.

"Open for me!" the bear bellowed. The muscles on its two arms, each over three meters thick, knotted as it erupted with the terrifying power to pull up mountains and overturn seas, grabbing a large tree wrapped around it and yanking it violently to both sides.

"Snap!" With a crisp sound, that large tree connected to the Wood-Type World Power was actually pulled apart.

One force overcomes ten techniques; this bear actually used its physical body to resist the rule power of the Wood Element World.

"Oh! It's actually a Bloodline Forbidden Art. I didn't expect this bear's ancestors to have produced a great power who, before falling, fused their own life-bound Blood Essence into the bloodlines of their descendants, allowing them to burn their Blood Essence at critical moments to skyrocket in strength and save their lives," the Secret Realm master said with some surprise.

This method of burning Blood Essence to temporarily boost strength can double one's power in a short time, but the side effects are immense; even if the bear were lucky enough to escape, it would drop at least one major realm and suffer severe injuries.

The bear's entire body was steaming with blood-red flames; this was its Blood Essence boiling and burning. In this special state, its strength increased greatly, allowing it to even fight across a major realm.

But the price was too high. Every second, the bear's Blood Essence was being burned. If the duration were too long, it might even burn its Blood Essence dry and burn itself to death.

"Snap! Snap! Snap!" Like the Overlord of Western Chu who could pull up mountains and whose power covered the world, the bear snapped three more large trees in succession, then barely broke free from the restraints and ran rapidly toward the outside.

"Haha, if this were the outside world, you might truly have a glimmer of survival. Unfortunately, this is my world; I am the master of my world, and you cannot escape."

The Secret Realm master smiled dismissively and waved his right hand casually, causing some eerie changes to the terrain near the bear.

The bear was tall with long legs, each stride covering over two hundred meters, yet it had been running for a minute. By all logic, it should have run at least ten-plus kilometers and should have long since run out of this small Valley, but eerily, it was still inside the Valley, and its position relative to Meng Shuangdao had hardly changed at all.

"How can this be?" The bear stopped running. It discovered that every time it took a step, the ground beneath its feet retreated, exactly offsetting the distance it had run. In other words, while it should have run over ten kilometers by logic, in reality, it was basically running in place.

"The surrounding rules have been altered. This is definitely the heaven-defying means of a Sixth Grade World Master Realm great power." The bear was burning with anxiety. Nearly two minutes had passed since it began burning its Blood Essence to erupt with potential, and one-third of its total Blood Essence had already been burned. If this continued, it would truly exhaust its Blood Essence and burn itself to death.

As the Blood Essence continued to burn, the bear's body also shrank continuously like a deflating balloon; it had now shrunk to only fifteen meters, becoming much thinner.

"Let's end this." The Secret Realm master waved his hand, and more than a dozen large trees as thick as two people embracing sprouted from the ground, coiling around the bear's body.

With its Blood Essence severely depleted, the bear could no longer break free. Seeing those deadly tree roots burrowing into its body again to devour its flesh and blood, the bear was terrified and hurriedly said, "Spare me, my lord, spare me! This little demon is willing to surrender."

"Little friend, do you want to take this bear as a servant?" the Secret Realm master asked.

Meng Yifan shook his head and said, "I already have enough servants; it's useless to me. Kill it."

The reason Meng Yifan said this was, on one hand, he looked down on this Fifth Grade Lower Tier Demon Beast. Because this bear had used the Blood-Burning Forbidden Art, its strength would inevitably drop afterward, likely only able to maintain the Fourth Grade realm. Now that Meng Yifan's strength had improved, he no longer looked down on Fourth Grade Demon Beast servants.

On the other hand, what Meng Yifan needed most right now was Experience Value. He was facing the crisis of being possessed and had to accumulate a large amount of Experience Value to improve his strength, only then having a chance to turn the tables in this adverse situation. Otherwise, even if he took in more servants, it would just be making wedding clothes for someone else.

"Haha, then let's kill it." With a thought from the Secret Realm master, those large trees strangled it violently, rendering the bear unable to move. Immediately after, dense tree roots grew out from the trees, burrowing into the bear's seven orifices and all its pores, frantically devouring the bear's flesh and blood essence.

These tree roots rose and fell, sounding like an old ox drinking water, with gurgling, gurgling sounds.

One second, two seconds, three seconds—in just three seconds, this Fifth Grade Lower Tier bear was sucked into a dried corpse.

During this process, streams of pure Blood Qi Power were transported through the roots spread throughout the Wood Element World into Meng Yifan's body, remodeling his body from the inside out, causing every cell, every muscle tissue, and every bone to be continuously tempered and become increasingly powerful.

The Secret Realm master had already treated Meng Yifan's body as his own, so after absorbing the bear's life essence, he did not hold back and used it to remodel Meng Yifan's body.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for hunting a Fifth Grade Lower Tier bear demon, gaining 4000 points of Experience Value." The Game Panel's notification sound rang out deep within Meng Yifan's Divine Soul.

Hiding in the Mud Pill Palace, Meng Yifan cautiously looked at the Secret Realm master and, discovering that he had not noticed anything unusual, breathed a sigh of relief.

Currently, the Secret Realm master was controlling Meng Yifan's body. If the Secret Realm master could also hear the system panel's notification sound, then Meng Yifan's plan to turn the tables would be declared a failure.

Through this test, Meng Yifan understood that the Game Panel was bound to his Spirit Core. Even if the Secret Realm master occupied his body, he could not detect the existence of the Game Panel, which gave Meng Yifan the possibility of a desperate counter-kill.

The Secret Realm master smacked his lips, savored it for a moment, and said, "Haha, it has been a long time since I tasted such delicious flesh and blood. Little friend, let us continue."

Meng Yifan was very willing and continued to browse the images quickly, soon discovering another Fifth Grade Lower Tier deer-type Demon Beast.

Following Meng Yifan's nod of confirmation, the Secret Realm master struck again. This deer demon's ancestors had no great powers and did not know Bloodline Forbidden Arts, so it was completely unable to resist the Secret Realm master's World Power and was soon sucked into dried meat.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for hunting a Fifth Grade Lower Tier bear demon, gaining 4000 points of Experience Value."

The Game Panel's notification sound rang out again, and Meng Yifan was incredibly excited.

This Experience Value came too easily; it was simply effortless.

Just by nodding, he could gain a large amount of Experience Value; it was truly too satisfying.