Chapter 659: This Little One's Strength Will Surpass Yours in a Few Days!

Along the way, Su Ming pushed the movement technique of the Like Water Art to its absolute limit, weaving through layer after layer of vine passages and rushing back to Qingyou Residence in mere dozens of breaths.

He locked the wooden door behind him and activated the soundproofing and defensive formation lines of the meditation room.

Su Ming yanked open his sleeve and inverted the spirit beast pouch.

Shadow's once soft and glossy black feathers now stood on end, every single one bristling like the spines of a hedgehog. At the edges of its wings, those few newly grown purple-gold pinions were flickering madly with blinding golden light, as if they were about to set the entire meditation room ablaze.

What was even more terrifying was that, through the sparse down between its feathers, one could clearly see dark-gold lines like spiderwebs frantically coursing and swelling across the surface of its fragile skin.

It was as if something violent within its body was about to break through its shell!

"Whoosh!"

Lin Yu's Soul Body instantly shot out from the Xuantian ring. He stared fixedly at Shadow on the stone bed, his old face, usually calm and unruffled, now filled with sheer horror.

"Bloodline awakening! This is a full-scale bloodline riot!" Lin Yu's voice had even gone shrill from tension. "The ancient star bloodline within this little thing has been forcibly activated by the spirit realm's ridiculously dense laws of life! It only widened its bloodline not long ago, and it's already awakening this quickly. This little one's strength might surpass yours in a few days!"

Su Ming rushed to the stone bed in three strides, his right hand abruptly pressing down on Shadow's violently trembling back feathers.

The instant his fingertips made contact, a violent, scorching force surged up through his palm like a red-hot blade, stabbing ruthlessly into Su Ming's meridians.

"Boom!"

It was the annihilation fluctuation produced by a fierce collision within Shadow's body, between the destructive tyranny of the force of the stars and the unending continuity of the spirit realm's laws of life.

The moment Su Ming's mid-stage Golden Core cultivation touched this force, his arm was actually numbed by the shock, and with a "pfft," a gash split open at his Tiger's Gate, bright red blood instantly seeping out.

"Cheep!!!"

Shadow let out a shrill, agonized scream. Its tiny body arched sharply, wings forced open uncontrollably.

At the junction where its wings met its body, a dazzling golden light was throbbing madly. That light was as fierce as a blazing sun trapped in a cage of flesh and blood, desperately trying to tear through every obstacle before it and break free.

"Master! How do we save it?" Su Ming's forehead was instantly covered in bean-sized beads of sweat. He pressed down hard on Shadow's back, preventing it from hurting itself in its agony. The Ruo Shui spiritual energy within his body instinctively circulated through his palm, attempting to soothe that violent force.

Lin Yu forced himself to calm down, his Soul Body spinning rapidly in midair, dark-gold lines flickering erratically.

"Don't suppress it! Absolutely do not use foreign spiritual energy to forcefully suppress it, that will directly detonate the two laws inside its body and kill it!" Lin Yu shouted. "Use your Ruo Shui spiritual energy as a medium! Don't fight that bloodline force, guide it! Have you forgotten? Water benefits all things without contending! Let that force flow naturally along its bloodline channels!"

Su Ming understood in an instant.

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the turbulence of spiritual energy within his body, and pushed the Observation of the Minute to its current absolute limit.

His divine sense spread out like an invisible net, threading through his fingertips and probing into Shadow's body.

In his microscopic vision, Shadow's body had become a volcano on the verge of eruption.

That tyrannical star bloodline had transformed into scorching golden torrents, crashing recklessly through Shadow's young, fragile meridians. Each collision tore apart cells and blood vessels along the way. Meanwhile, the laws of life continuously tried to repair the damage, only to have it instantly torn apart again, trapped in an endless loop.

Su Ming gritted his teeth and instantly transformed his surging Ruo Shui spiritual energy into the most minuscule streams, billions of times finer than a hair.

He no longer tried to block those golden torrents. Instead, like a silent spring rain moistening all things, he quietly seeped along the torn fissures of the blood vessels.

The moment the Ruo Shui spiritual energy touched the golden torrents, it transformed into layers of extremely thin lubricating film, providing a sliver of buffer for those meridians on the verge of snapping.

This was an extremely mentally taxing, delicate operation.

Within a ten-thousandth of a breath, Su Ming had to judge the trajectory of every golden torrent and, before it destroyed a meridian, use his Ruo Shui spiritual energy to lay down a smooth guiding channel for it.

As time passed, this extreme dual exertion of divine sense and spiritual energy drained Su Ming to a terrifying degree.

His Golden Core was like a reservoir with its gates thrown open. His spiritual energy was running dry at a speed visible to the naked eye.

One incense stick.

Half a shichen.

A full shichen.

The veins on Su Ming's forehead bulged. His complexion shifted from pale to an ashen iron-gray. The blood at his Tiger's Gate had already stained Shadow's back feathers red, yet the hand pressing down on it remained as steady as Mount Tai, without even the slightest tremble.

Bit by bit, he gradually straightened those recklessly collision-prone, chaotic golden torrents into an orderly circulation running along specific bloodline channels.

Lin Yu watched tensely from the side, the luster of his Soul Body flickering between bright and dim. Every ten breaths, he would call out a reminder, acting as Su Ming's navigator.

"Steady, don't rush! The main meridian on the north side is almost through..."

"Good! There's a blockage at the eastern branch, take care of that too..."

"Don't let your hand shake, kid! Once it passes this node, it'll pull through!"

Su Ming kept his eyes tightly shut. A thread of bright red blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, yet he didn't even let out a stifled groan.

However, his spiritual energy was running critically low.

After maintaining this extreme operation for a full shichen, Su Ming's mid-stage Golden Core spiritual energy finally hit bottom. Waves of dry, tearing pain came from his Dantian.

But Shadow's bloodline transformation had only just entered its most critical stage.

Those dark-gold lines coursing across its skin began to condense and take form at the base of its wings, faintly revealing an ancient, majestic rune structure carrying an aura of destruction. This was the sign that a bloodline divine ability was about to take shape. He absolutely could not cut off the Spiritual Energy Support at this moment!

Su Ming bit down hard on his tongue, using the sharp pain to stimulate his fading consciousness.

"Master, guard the formation!"

Su Ming let out a low roar and slapped his left hand onto the storage pouch at his waist.

The last batch of Void Condensation Sand scattered like gray raindrops around him and the stone bed.

He had no time to carefully set up a formation. He directly forced out three drops of Ruo Shui essence blood, drawing runes in midair and forcibly activating the core formation core of the Minor Void Spirit Attraction Formation!

"Riiiip!"

In the void of the meditation room, a spatial crack a full chi long was brutally torn open.

Violent yet pure Void spiritual energy poured down like a flood through opened gates.

Lin Yu frantically absorbed the drifting golden Source Substance at the side, stabilizing the edges of the formation. The vast majority of the pure spiritual energy, however, poured endlessly into Su Ming's rapidly depleting Dantian. After rapid conversion through the Like Water Art, it once again surged through his right hand into Shadow's body.

Another long half shichen passed.

Su Ming's gray-green robe was completely soaked through with cold sweat and bloodstains. His entire being looked as though he had been dragged out of a pool of blood. Yet his eyes remained as clear and bright as a deep, serene pool.

Finally.

In his microscopic vision, the last wild golden torrent within Shadow's body, guided by the Ruo Shui spiritual energy, flowed perfectly along the meridians and merged into that madly throbbing light at the base of its wings.

"Boom-"

There was no sound, only a massive tremor at the soul level rippling through the meditation room.

That blazing golden light suddenly converged, all of it withdrawing back into Shadow's body.

Shadow's tiny body, stiff as iron, shook violently. Then, as if a tremendous weight had been lifted, it collapsed limply into Su Ming's blood-soaked palm with immense relief.

The transformation... had begun.

Those dark-gold lines fully merged beneath its feathers. A completely different aura, carrying a heart-stopping sharpness and an ancient, majestic pressure, slowly revived within its body.