Chapter 371: The Path

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

A few hours later, Jiu Han rushed back to the manor, dusty and exhausted, and found Lu Ming.

“I’ve encountered another problem.”

At this moment, Jiu Han dropped the act.

He openly admitted that he had encountered a puzzling issue and needed Lu Ming’s help.

It was as if Jiu Han had become the student seeking guidance, and Lu Ming was the teacher.

However, the anxious Jiu Han did not care about these details.

Lu Ming was not the type to joke around with his teacher.

After Lu Ming briefly highlighted the problem, Jiu Han suddenly understood the issue and disappeared without a trace again.

Lu Ming had a lot to say, but he did not manage to say it all.

‘Alright.’

With a helpless sigh, Lu Ming sat cross-legged again and returned to the void.

Lu Ming could not just wait for Jiu Han indefinitely.

Moreover, judging by Jiu Han’s busy appearance, it seemed he would not finish his tasks anytime soon.

Lu Ming decided to reevaluate his own strength.

In fact, since the creation of his divinity and the spiritualizing and nourishing of blood patterns, Lu Ming had wanted to assess his own strength system. However, his previous focus on traveling left him with no time.

At this moment, although he was in the territory of the Subversives, the overall environment was still relatively safe. This also gave Lu Ming time to sort out his strength system.

In the Void Space, Lu Ming immediately opened his attribute panel and looked at his attributes.

Name: Lu Ming

Level: Seventh level of the Physique Realm – Spirit Realm (Advancement In Progress)

Number of blood patterns: 144.

Three-dimensional Attributes:

Strength: 100 million

Physique: 100 million

Agility: 100 million.

Free attribute points: 100 million.

Divine Source Points: 2.46 million

The three-dimensional attributes were no longer important data at the moment.

The number of blood patterns had replaced the three-dimensional attributes as the benchmark for measuring Lu Ming’s physical strength.

With 144 blood patterns in the Black Mist Zone, he was definitely among the top few at the quasi-divine level.

However, with the advent of the Black Mist Harvesting Period, all these references were disrupted again.

Chaos would bring new reference points.

Not to mention that Lu Ming had already discovered a new strength system.

The focus of his gaze was on the line of words [Level: Seventh level of the Physique Realm – Spirit Realm (Advancement In Progress)].

Staring at this line of words, deeper thoughts and insights arose in Lu Ming’s mind.

“Firstly, it’s confirmed that the strength system that was originally circulated in the Black Mist Zone was flawed.”

This had been repeated many times, so there was no need to dwell on it.

The crucial point was this other inference drawn from combining this information with the system’s explanation.

“This also means that the so-called Divine Spirit Realm in the Black Mist Zone is not even considered the Spirit Realm. It’s probably just in the transformation state of the Physique Realm-Spirit Realm.”

The Physique Realm was Lu Ming’s original level—the level when he had 144 blood patterns and 3 silver patterns.

Yes, this was the Physique Realm and not the high-sounding quasi-divine level as it was initially thought.

“The process from the Physique Realm to the Spirit Realm is actually very long. During this process, transcendental beings can cultivate indefinitely to increase the number of blood patterns. However, this is only an increase in quantity.”

“To achieve a qualitative transformation, one must complete the process of the spiritualization of blood patterns.”

—That is, using divinity to nourish the blood patterns.

“This process is very time-consuming…” Muttering to himself, Lu Ming looked at the divinity in his right hand.

It could be seen that about a thousandth of the blood pattern at the core of the divinity had been rendered with colorful hues.

It was really very, very slow.

“This nourishment process is the so-called Divine Spirit Realm in the Black Mist Zone and is now considered the transformation period from the Physique Realm to the Spirit Realm in my current understanding.”

A separate transformation stage was emphasized because this transformation period brought significant improvements compared to the original Physique Realm.

Condensing the Divinity meant being able to control and manipulate the Divine Source. Although, in Lu Ming’s current understanding, transcendental beings reaching this stage still fell under the category of the Physique Realm, there was already a clear distinction in combat power from the traditional Physique Realm.

“And I’m currently at this stage, the transformation period can also be said to be the original Divine Spirit Realm.”

Considering this, Lu Ming could not help but think of another question.

“If the transformation period is already so strong, then how powerful is a true Spirit Realm expert?”

Lu Ming could not figure that out either.

Moreover, there was a high chance that he would not be able to obtain this answer from others. This was because there were no genuine Spirit Realm experts in the Black Mist Zone to begin with. The strongest were all called Spirit Realm experts, but they were actually only at the transformation stage of the Physique Realm to the Spirit Realm… transcendent beings in the Physique

Realm….

Shaking his head, Lu Ming stopped thinking about this question.

“Then the next question, how should I continue my cultivation?”

“Should 1 just wait for the spiritualization of blood patterns to be completed?”

Actually… it was not impossible.

This was because this transformation period required time to begin with, as it was a process of precipitation.

However, with Lu Ming’s intrinsic drive for improvement, even though the current environment was relatively safe, he had no intention of taking a break—his whole body felt uncomfortable without cultivating.

After some thought, Lu Ming had an idea.

“I can continue to cultivate the Body Forging Technique to increase the number of blood patterns.”

This was a simple method, but it could indeed bring about an upgrade.

However, the efficiency was terrifyingly low, and only Lu Ming could use it.

The low efficiency stemmed from the fact that even if Lu Ming immersed himself in cultivation, it would still take a month to produce one blood pattern. But the power brought by one blood pattern was negligible on Lu Ming, who already had a divinity that could mobilize the Divine Source.

The reason why only Lu Ming could use it was even simpler.

The source power in the Black Mist Zone was toxic. Lu Ming had the system’s help to filter out toxins, allowing him to continue absorbing source power to strengthen himself—Body Forging Technique also required source power… However, the others could not.

Of course, to those who were unaware, this did not matter; they had always lived like this.

It was just a matter of life and death beyond their control.

A minor issue…

However, when he considered the purification array that Jiu Han was currently setting up…

“The subversive might have already discovered something.” Lu Ming muttered. He did not want to delve deeper into it and decisively dismissed the idea of cultivating blood patterns, turning his attention back to his divinity.

A thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

“Can 1 create another divinity?”

One divinity nurtured one blood pattern.

Then, two divinities could nurture two blood patterns at the same time…

Although he was not sure of the benefits of having an additional Spiritualized Blood Pattern, he thought that there should be some improvement, right?

Otherwise, that Supreme God would not have raised so many “meat pigs”.

The more he thought about it, the more Lu Ming felt that this idea was feasible.

With a thought, the Divine Source in his Divinity automatically flowed.

It flowed into Lu Ming’s left hand and began to outline the array patterns along a fixed route.

On his chest, a blood pattern suddenly flashed and appeared out of thin air in the center of the array patterns.

With the blood patterns as the core, the divinity array began to slowly form.

This time, Lu Ming’s construction speed was more than a hundred or a thousand times faster!

Before, without the Divinity, there was no way to mobilize the Divine Source. This was once the greatest difficulty in forming the Divinity.

Now, this difficulty had vanished, and forming another divinity was as easy as eating and drinking for Lu Ming..