It would certainly be the highest level allowed within this world’s restrictions.

He simply assumed, one-sidedly, that everything in this world existed to pave the way for the protagonist, and that all heavenly opportunities were meant to be delivered to her in the end.

It had to be said that Xiao Shou’s thinking had been heavily shaped by the cultivation novels he read from his previous life and he also placed far too much importance on Xiao Ran.

Thus, faced with a supreme treasure capable of awakening divine abilities, he actually shook his head and concluded that he definitely would not be able to obtain it.

After sighing, he stood up, once again cut down a blood stone pillar, and seriously engaged the blood cloud figures, absorbing and evolving his physique and cultivation.

After reaching the Golden Core stage, Xiao Shou’s attacks had become even more powerful.

With a single strike, he could annihilate blood cloud figures formed from hundreds of merged blood stone pillars.

As a result, on the outskirts, Xiao Shou moved like an unstoppable force.

He rapidly sweeping through all nearby regions of blood mist and blood clouds that his divine sense could detect and leaving behind a field of ruins as he continued pressing forward in the direction he believed was completely opposite to where Xiao Ran was.

During this process, Xiao Shou discovered something new.

In areas that had been completely cleared, where all blood stone pillars had been destroyed, his divine sense no longer felt that sticky and sinking sensation like being trapped in mud.

Instead, it became extremely smooth and easy to control.

He did not believe this was a result of advancing to the Golden Core stage.

His divine sense had already reached the early Nascent Soul level.

After breaking through to Golden Core, it only rose to the peak of Nascent Soul early stage and did not truly break through.

So this change could only be the result of repeatedly using his divine sense while enduring that sticky resistance.

It was a form of training.

Because of this possibility, Xiao Shou became even more proactive after entering uncleared areas.

Five days later, he finally slashed down the last blood colored water shadow.

Xiao Shou no longer cared about the blood colored environment and collapsed onto the ground in a somewhat disheveled state. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

The enemies in this region were far stronger than anything before.

The blood mist, blood cloud, and blood essence had all evolved into blood water entities.

Their defensive and offensive power had multiplied and each individual was comparable to a Nascent Soul late stage cultivator.

If he had not already advanced to the Golden Core stage, possessed several special magical treasures, and exhausted all his methods, he likely would not have survived to the end.

More likely, the moment he stepped into this Nascent Soul level region, he would have been killed instantly by the overwhelming number of blood water shadows.

However, the gains from killing them were also significant.

After catching his breath and recovering a bit of strength, he sensed the color of his Golden Core and tried releasing a trace of spiritual energy.

He immediately frowned and muttered to himself.

"The blood color in my spiritual energy is getting stronger. It looks like even my Golden Core has been affected. If this continues, I will start to look like a demonic cultivator. How did it come to this? My physique, cultivation, everything is constantly evolving."

"Even my Evil Breaking Eye has advanced a stage and can now release larger Evil Breaking Arrows. Everything seems to be improving. So why is the color change in my spiritual energy so strange? I cannot find the reason."

"Even after my Golden Core advanced to the third cycle and became a red cloud core, the color of my spiritual energy cannot be reversed. Instead, it has become mixed with faint blood threads. Normally, spiritual energy should change along with the Golden Core. Is this blood color going to cause some bad transformation?"

"It is not bad at all. This blood energy is actually very good. Many beings would do anything to obtain it and still fail. Haaah..."

As soon as the voice fell, a small figure flapping its wings swayed unsteadily as it flew out from the spirit pet bag while yawning lazily.

It hugged Xiao Shou’s finger and rubbed against it affectionately.

"Master is really lucky."

"Yaoyao!" Xiao Shou was startled by the sudden voice, but quickly recognized its source and relaxed.

Looking at the small Yao Heng, he noticed that its originally crystal clear wings and clothes had completely turned blood red.

He could not help but ask in shock, "Why did your wings and clothes change color? Did something happen?"

"Nothing happened, nothing happened. It is because I also gained the power of bloodline evolution, so my color changed. All thanks to Master~" Yao Heng happily spun a few circles in the air before saying joyfully, "I was originally supposed to sleep for a while before waking up. Luckily Master is so fortunate to actually encounter a Hell Flame Beast, which allowed me to wake up early. The inheritance says that Hell Flame Beasts are extremely rare. They are often specially cultivated by great families in the Immortal Realm and Spirit Realm who search small worlds to nurture them for elite disciples to awaken bloodline divine abilities."

Specially cultivated by great families in the Immortal Realm and Spirit Realm?

Xiao Shou felt a vague sense of unease.

He forcibly suppressed the unrealistic thought forming in his mind and asked uneasily, "This blood-like color and spiritual energy that looks like something from demonic cultivators, it really is fine?"

"Yes, yes!" Yao Heng nodded its little head and lifted itd hair, revealing pink strands underneath. "This color is a sign of bloodline divine ability awakening. Once the bloodline divine ability fully awakens, this blood color will be absorbed by the bloodline power and completely disappear. Then we will return to our original appearance. Master did not see this information in the inheritance?"