Chapter 29: The Core's Awakening
Lin Xuan sat cross-legged in his inn room, his crimson eyes glowing as he mastered the Blood Crystal Core Phase. His heart pulsed with crystal energy.
He summoned Liu Yue and Liu Yang to the training ground. "Today, we refine a Crimson Lance Burst variant," he announced. He demonstrated, his blood crystallizing into jagged spikes. Liu Yue's Icy Skin formed icy blood spikes. Liu Yang's blood qi surged, his sword transforming into jagged armor. Their arts clashed briefly, but Lin Xuan mediated, their qi syncing.
A Bloodshade-Hei joint probe emerged—two 6th Layer Qi Transformation cultivators. "The Scriptures are ours!" one snarled. Lin Xuan dodged the qi storm with Abyssal Lotus Step. Internal Fracture Wave repelled the attack. Vein Fortress Body hardened his skin, absorbing a retaliatory strike.
Liu Yue's icy spikes pierced a cultivator's leg, while Liu Yang's jagged armor blocked a qi blade, his sword slashing an arm. Lin Xuan closed in, Starlit Void Fist shattering a defense, followed by Crimson Lance Burst. The probe retreated, and Lin Xuan devoured their qi, nearing the 5th Layer.