Chapter 136: Giant Beasts and Sky Law

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The power within that stone wall had been completely consumed, and Lin had promised to help her find that material. However, it was located on a fragment world, and getting there would be somewhat troublesome.

With the timing being inconvenient for moving around freely, that matter had been set aside for now.

But recently, Frost City’s Baizhenye Academy was going to host the Recommendation Qualification Competition, so she decided to deal with that matter first.

“It could definitely help her Path of Transcendence take another step forward. She could sense that the level of it far exceeded anything Shu Yue had seen or heard before. Perhaps…”

Shu Yue pulled back her wandering thoughts and took out the Tier 3 magic beast core that Claire had given her.

The elemental affinity traits she had previously refined from magic beast cores came with some spell abilities, but those had all been Tier 1 and Tier 2 beasts.

This was a Tier 3 magic beast core—what would she get after refining it?

“A core isn’t the whole beast, so refining it shouldn’t be too taxing.”

Shu Yue looked at the crystal in her hand.

It was the size of an adult male’s fist, pale cyan in color, and upon closer inspection, faint silver threads could be seen within the core.

After asking around with Claire, she also learned what kind of magic beast this core belonged to.

It was a Windfeather Raptor from the Northern Frontier, nicknamed the Pale Shadow.

Its entire body was covered in snow-white feathers, resembling an eagle-like creature with a wingspan reaching five to six meters, and it was extremely aggressive.

It possessed powerful control over the wind element, making it exceptionally agile in the sky, and humans found it very difficult to get the better of it.

Humans could fly upon reaching Tier 3, but compared to a specialized Windfeather Raptor, their speed wasn’t even in the same league.

That made this beast extremely hard to kill through normal means.

Hunting it usually required extreme patience and a bit of luck.

The tactic was to lure the Windfeather Raptor with bait, then restrain it with a magic array.

As long as they could drag it to the ground, the advantage would be heavily on their side.

Shu Yue swallowed a mouthful of saliva, suppressing the excitement in her heart to calm her emotions down.

What could a Tier 3 magic beast core bring her?

The answer would soon be revealed…

She dispelled her Mirror Flower Water Moon Transformation, held the magic beast core with both hands, and began to施展 the Star Tempering Art.

[Fire Calling Method][Ignite][Flame Manipulation]

The flames that appeared out of thin air were much larger than before.

After her fire element affinity had risen, her Fire Calling Method had been strengthened as well.

Under Shu Yue’s manipulation, the flames transformed into countless tendrils that wrapped around the core.

[Star Tempering Art]

The orange-red instantly shifted to silver, and the outer layer of the core dissolved at lightning speed, turning into a pool of viscous liquid.

This time, it took Shu Yue five seconds to fully dissolve the core, and the spirituality consumption was much greater than those Tier 1 and Tier 2 cores.

Still, she could manage to sustain it.

Shu Yue poured all her spirituality into the Star Tempering Art while keeping her attention fixed on the changes in that pool of liquid.

That pool of liquid didn’t have much pale cyan coloring.

Instead, there was a hint of silver-gray within it, like mixed impurities.

Yet Shu Yue felt that this substance didn’t seem to be impurities at all.

At the tenth second, the liquid shrank by half, but the refinement of the Star Tempering Art wasn’t finished yet.

At the fifteenth second, the liquid was only about the size of a pinky fingernail, emitting a faint silver glow from within.

At the twentieth second, the liquid transformed into a single silver teardrop, with only a trace of pale cyan remaining inside it.

Done?

Shu Yue stared at that silver teardrop and furrowed her delicate brows.

She took out a potion bottle and stored the silver teardrop away, choosing not to absorb it right away.

Since Shu Yue wasn’t certain what it was yet, she observed it carefully and formed a hypothesis in her mind.

This substance was similar to dragon blood…

“Could this be bloodline power?”

When Shu Yue had refined those magic beast cores before, she’d only gained elemental affinity traits.

Those traits manifested in the material realm as a luminous state that could be absorbed into the soul by touching them with spirituality.

But this silver teardrop looked extremely similar to dragon blood essence.

She was hesitating whether or not to absorb it.

Shu Yue already possessed the Silver Dragon bloodline.

She wasn’t sure whether absorbing another bloodline would cause a conflict.

Besides, this was the bloodline of a magic beast—if there were any rejection reactions, that would be trouble.

After thinking for a while, Shu Yue came up with a good idea.

Why not just test it?

She could try fusing the dragon blood with this silver teardrop.

If there was a rejection reaction, she simply wouldn’t absorb it for now.

Also, didn’t she have the spirit plane bloodline?

Shu Yue took out the potion bottle containing the dragon blood, extracted a single drop, and placed it together with the silver teardrop.

The moment the golden-red dragon blood touched the silver teardrop, they began to fuse.

The authority level of the dragon’s bloodline power was clearly higher than that within the silver teardrop.

It directly devoured the silver teardrop and began radiating a shimmering precious glow—golden-red now laced with traces of cyan and silver.

This transformation made Shu Yue’s eyes widen.

She hadn’t expected the dragon blood to truly fuse with the silver teardrop.

Gulp…

Shu Yue swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

What effect would this drop of dragon blood have?

She planned to test it herself.

But before absorbing the dragon blood, she first took off her dress, and even her undergarments.

Going commando was to avoid damaging her clothes.

No one was watching here anyway—time to see what would happen.

After making all the preparations, Shu Yue swallowed that drop of dragon blood.

Almost in an instant, silver flames emerged across her body, enveloping her entire form.

Her dragon tail and dragon horns appeared as well.

On her smooth, flat lower abdomen, those three dragon scales shimmered brilliantly with a strange iridescence.

She opened her closed eyes, her golden-red diamond-shaped pupils slightly dilated.

Shu Yue’s consciousness wasn’t focused on the material realm.

The moment her bloodline manifestation completed, a wave of energy rippled outward from the Silver Dragon Princess.

Shu Yue’s soul was being bombarded by an immense flood of information.

Something was loading into her soul—knowledge originating from within that drop of dragon blood, passed down through the bloodline legacy.

The power of a bloodline lay in its ability to transmit a strong being’s knowledge through the blood itself.

At this very moment, Shu Yue’s soul seemed to detach from her physical body, ascending to the boundless heavens above.

She saw the vast, endless sky, and she also saw infinite, chaotic storms.

Within the storms, she barely made out a phantom figure—illusory yet impossibly majestic.

He seemed to have died long ago, yet traces of his power still remained…

BOOM!

Her vision tore apart in an instant.

Shu Yue’s eyes flooded with blood, and a trail of bloody tears streamed from the corners.

Her diamond-shaped pupils abruptly contracted.

Gasping heavily through her parted lips, she covered her eyes with her hand and used a healing spell to treat them.

But the tearing pain in her soul couldn’t be mended.

Was that… the source of the Windfeather Raptor’s bloodline power?

Shu Yue massaged her temples, hoping to relieve the headache.

Though it didn’t really help.

“A colossal beast similar to a giant dragon?”

It was powerful—so powerful that a single glance had injured her soul.

Her soul was far too weak right now.

No, she should call it a mortal soul.

Shu Yue hadn’t yet established her spiritual foundation or obtained her true spirit.

She couldn’t truly be considered to possess a soul yet.

Fortunately, that glance wasn’t without gain.

She had glimpsed some information from that colossal beast’s phantom.

It was incomplete, but it seemed much better than what she had.

“The laws of the sky…”