Lorevil could clearly feel her blood qi churning within her body, her consciousness slowly growing hazy.
Those originally wine-red eyes turned a deep scarlet, carrying a hollow, bloodthirsty look.
“Merge for me!”
The snow-haired girl sneered.
Gripping the blood-red blade in her right hand, she pressed it down hard onto the blood net!
The Blood Blade Secret Art slid into the blood net like flowing water, spreading out like veins!
The entwined blood net erupted with terrifying suction force, frantically draining the blood qi from the Swallowing Heaven Devouring Earth Python.
Thus, the python’s body deflated at a visible rate, its mournful cries growing weaker and weaker, finally turning into a feeble shriek.
In just a short while, the part of the Third Order Swallowing Heaven Devouring Earth Python, as thick as a water vat, that had been touched by the blood blade turned into a bloody hole, the flesh within gone.
Only a deflated snake skin hung on the blood net, with the blood core faintly visible inside.
The Swallowing Heaven Devouring Earth Python was dead!
But at this moment, Lorevil was already in too deep to back out.
If she forcibly stopped the Secret Art, she would suffer severe backlash, and the blood qi foundation she had painstakingly built could even collapse entirely!
Moreover, the Violent Blood Energy drawn from her own body, combined with the massive influx of pure blood qi pouring down from the blood qi vortex above her head, had thrown the snow-haired girl into an extremely frenzied, euphoric state.
Two scorching forces collided and interwove within her blood vessels, being absorbed by her. If she stopped now, the other force would have nothing to counterbalance it, and if this continued, Lorevil’s life would be in danger!
Lorevil clenched her silver teeth, pain showing on her face, the cold blood qi within her body surging relentlessly.
Seeing this, Leina intended to stop.
Just then, Jerwen’s voice rang out:
“Keep going, the Swallowing Heaven Devouring Earth Python’s most original bloodline power will also be absorbed by her.”
Fini, who had just drunk a bottle of Blood Supplement, also cast a worried gaze toward Lorevil at this moment.
No one knew how long passed, but the two sustained forces finally subsided, as if yin and yang had merged into one.
“Boom!”
A soft sound rang out within her body, and Lorevil felt the invisible lock that had been faintly binding her shattered by the surging blood qi!
The vast Blood Energy produced by advancing to Mid Third Rank rushed like a torrent, washing through the girl’s nearly depleted blood vessels.
The newborn Blood Energy was even more refined than that of the Third Order Early Stage, flowing out endlessly like a spring eye!
It covered the original mottled early-stage Blood Energy and replaced it.
This was a process of transformation.
At the moment the shackles shattered and she broke through, a layer of red light rose beneath Lorevil’s feet.
The red light flickered at first, then finally condensed into a blood seal, slowly spinning beneath her.
Blood seal!
The mark of Mid Third Rank!
As the blood seal twisted, surging Blood Energy burst outward like a shockwave, causing the surrounding grass to rustle.
Seeing this, Mentor Jerwen nodded slightly, somewhat gratified.
“Lorevil, is she alright?”
Fini asked.
“Not just alright, Lorevil has advanced from Third Order Early Stage to Mid Third Rank. How long has it even been?”
Mentor Jerwen exclaimed in amazement.
Fini blinked her lively eyes. Just last night she had advanced to Third Order Early Stage, thinking she had gotten a step closer to Lorevil. And today Lorevil advanced…
Leina, meanwhile, slowly sheathed her longsword and let out a long breath.
Just now she had slain nearly seventeen Second-rank Blood Beasts.
The blood dripping from the blade alone had already stained this clearing red.
After hearing Mentor Jerwen’s words, Leina saw the spinning blood seal beneath Lorevil’s feet, her face filled with unconcealable shock.
“A blood seal! Lorevil… she’s broken through to Mid Third Rank.”
Just recently Lorevil had advanced to Third Order and made a Bet with Laide’an.
Now she had even awakened a blood seal.
This speed was truly baffling!
The aura Lorevil emitted during her breakthrough was too astonishing.
Not only did it draw the gazes of the patrolling teachers, but it also made the surrounding Vampire Trainees turn their heads.
Although Mentor Jerwen had said before that this beast tide was an opportunity to break through, since the Academy opened, few Trainees had managed to seize it.
Now seeing Lorevil as a living example, all the Trainees felt a mix of envy and jealousy.
While everyone was admiring Lorevil’s advancement, not a single Vampire had noticed that Lorevil’s condition was off.
Having absorbed too much pure blood qi, along with a small amount of Violent Blood Energy that hadn’t been filtered out in time, the snow-haired girl’s will was being constantly eroded by blood instinct.
“Leina, Lorevil’s condition isn’t right. Take Fini and her back first. If you want to stay and train, that’s fine too.”
Mentor Jerwen was the first to notice something was wrong, so he turned to Leina and said.
Leina shook her head.
With Fini injured and Lorevil’s condition unknown, how could she possibly stay?
“No, we’re friends. I’ll take them back.”
“Alright then. When Lorevil’s blood seal retracts, immediately make her lose the ability to act before she completely loses control.”
Mentor Jerwen showed a gratified smile, thinking of his former comrades.
“Since you’re here, I’ll go patrol the area. There are other Trainees waiting for my help.”
With that, Mentor Jerwen left.
And at this moment, the light of the blood seal beneath Lorevil’s feet gradually dimmed, being withdrawn into her body.
“Sorry about this.”
A trace of reluctance appeared in Leina’s eyes, but she didn’t hesitate. A single hand-chop struck the back of Lorevil’s neck.
“Let’s go.”
Lorevil’s body went limp, her scarlet eyes closing. Leina caught her and said to Fini, whose face was pale.
“Let’s go, then.”
Lorevil slowly opened her eyes and immediately smelled a scent of herbs.
“Ugh… my head hurts so much!”
Then she realized she was lying on a soft hospital bed, surrounded by an unfamiliar environment, simple and clean in layout.
It was the medical room of the Holy Blood Academy.
But how did she end up here?
Just as Lorevil was puzzled, her gaze fell to the bedside.
A cute girl was lying by the bed, her face buried in her arms, sleeping soundly, with a trace of glistening drool at the corner of her mouth.
Fini?
Lorevil realized, then noticed that by the table not far away, Leina had placed her longsword across her slender thighs and was carefully wiping it with a cloth, treating it like a treasure.
Lorevil merely moved her fingers and felt aches all over her body, with a sharp pain coming from her chest.
The subtle movement caught Leina’s attention.
“You’re awake?”
Leina carefully set down the longsword, walked to the bedside, and asked with concern.
“Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere right now?”
“I’m fine, nothing especially painful.”
Lorevil propped herself up with her arms and sat up, naturally circulating the Blood Energy in her body.
To her surprise, she found it had become even more refined and surging at some point.
This was the power of Mid Third Rank!
Memories from before she lost consciousness began to flash through her mind.
“Was it Fini who brought me back? She must have worked hard.”
Lorevil looked down at Fini, still fast asleep, a warmth filling her heart. She asked curiously.
“It was me.”
Leina’s expression was a bit strange, pursed her lips, and said.
“Also, your condition was off after the breakthrough, so I knocked you out per Mentor Jerwen’s instructions, then brought you and the injured Fini back.”
“That Swallowing Heaven Devouring Earth Python was drained by you until only a skin and a blood core remained.”
As she spoke, Leina handed Lorevil a crystalline blood core.
“Ah? Thank you, sorry for the trouble, Sister Leina.”
Lorevil was stunned for a moment, then rubbed her nose in embarrassment, her pretty face flushing.
“So that’s what happened. I don’t even remember any of it. I didn’t think I’d drain it so thoroughly.”
Then Lorevil looked at the blood core in Leina’s hand:
“I said before, this is yours. You should take it back.”
“Then thanks. This Third Order blood core seems useless to you now, since you’ve already advanced.”
Leina didn’t refuse much.
That was just her nature—she didn’t like taking advantage of others.
“But to me, it’s very important.”
As her words fell, the atmosphere fell into a strange silence, seemingly a bit delicate.