The body remodeled
As Shi Yan entered the blood pool, the blood was already up to his waist. Suddenly the blood in the pool started to move around as if it was alive, creeping up and down his body like vines. Seconds later, his whole body was covered with blood and tightly bound.
The crimson blood in the pool was like vicious snakes, untiringly wrapping around him until it formed a bloody cocoon.
A wave of intense pain spread throughout his body, Shi Yan felt as if his brain was sliced into pieces. It felt even worse than death, as if tens of millions tiny worms were drilling into his body and squirming around in his arms, legs, bones and viscera, eating away his blood and flesh.
Shi Yan couldn't see anything. He wanted to scream, but couldn't make a sound, neither his body could make a move.
A strange liquid started flowing slowly along his ribs like a small stream, and tore his veins open wherever it passed. Then the liquid accelerated rapidly and divided into numerous strands and madly surged into the seven hundred and twenty meridians within his body.
The Pain he felt in his head grew stronger, Shi Yan felt some weird changes were happening within his Meridians[1].He felt that the seven hundred and twenty meridians enlarged significantly, and as they interchanged between scorching hot and biting cold he felt extremely uncomfortable.
Soon after the meridians turned into a little cyclones and were swirling madly.
A small amount of the liquid infused itself into every cyclone and was absorbed swiftly into it.. After absorbing the liquid, the cyclones became enlarged even more and accelerated the process even faster.
The intensity of the pain was almost unbearable. He felt that his body was like a huge vessel, filled with the strange liquid, it was transformed in ways he couldn’t possibly comprehend.
*the liquid is transforming the meridians in my body…*
While this thought flashed through his mind, he fainted.
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After a long time, Shi Yan awoke again.
The searing pain had disappeared and was replaced by numb pain in his meridians. The liquid returned to its origin and blood pool was tranquil..
Unexpectedly, he felt a warm sensation flowing through body. After this sensation made a complete cycle he felt extraordinary comfortable and that his body has increased in strength.
"Profound Qi!"[2]
It dawned on him that it originated from the blood pool! That is the precious Qi which could only be obtained by warriors!
With the memory of the other Shi Yan, he came to know that Profound qi was the source of power for warriors. It was the foundation for warriors to support and release powerful martial arts.
Warriors were strictly ranked into ten grades,according to the strengh of their Profound Qi. They were Elementary, Nascent, Human, Disaster, Earth, Nirvana, Sky, Spirit, True God and King God[3], each grade containing three divisions.
Warriors were stronger than commoners. Profound Qi determines the status one would have. One could be called a warrior as long as he owned the slightest amount of profound qi.
The vast majority couldn’t obtain any profound qi throughout their whole life. Once someone obtained some,they could strengthen it simply by training. Therefore, as long as a warrior had it, they would always have a place to return to.
As the weak profound qi gently in his body, Shi Yan came to his senses. Even if he couldn't go back to his world, he would survive here. Just then he noticed that the blood cocoon still wrapped him tightly.
Shi Yan spared no effort to struggle.
"HEYA !"
The blood cocoon cracked, and Shi Yan jumped out. Looking around, he found himself in that odd cave with the bones omnipresent.
However, the blood pool had all dried up! Only a few pieces of broken bones were in it!
A huge glittering blood cocoon, as thin as a wafer, towered in the centre of the empty pool. After Shi Yan glanced it, a small flame ignited at the bottom of the cocoon. Then the flame grew wildly and started to burn the bones. In a few minutes, the blood cocoon and the bones were all burnt to nothingness. A red light sparkled in the dry pool. It was a sparkling delicate ring quietly lying there .
Shi Yan stared at the strange ring for a while and assumed this ring must have some connection with the blood pool. After seconds’ of hesitance, he stepped in again, picked the ring and wore it on the ring finger of his left hand.
The ring conveyed a warmth that made Shi Yan feel strongly connected to it, as if the ring had become a part of his body. All at once, the weak profound energy in his body lost control and rushed towards the direction of the crimson ring, yet it was blocked by the skin on his finger and failed to enter the ring.
Shi Yan was shocked and tried to take off the ring immediately, but only to find that the ring had been firmly placed onto his ring finger like an unmovable boulder. No matter how hard he tried, the ring wouldn’t move an inch.
Now that the profound energy couldn't break the skin, it went back to normal again after a while. The warmth and red gleam on the ring faded away as well.
The ring kept silent after that, thus Shi Yan started to analyze the situation.
*The blood in the pool must have pured inside my body*
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