Chapter 365: Chapter 283: Absorbing the Bloodline Crystal

"Long live the Nian Race!"

"The Nian Race is eternal and undying!"

Su Ze felt like he had arrived on a battlefield, surrounded by battle cries that crashed down on him like a roaring tsunami. The words they shouted were not in any language he knew, yet he understood them.

"Nian Race warriors, charge with me!" A powerful war cry exploded in Su Ze’s ears, immediately followed by countless responding shouts from behind. The voices merged, soaring to the heavens and seeming to halt the very clouds.

Su Ze was stunned for a moment before realizing that the first war cry had come from his own mouth!

He wanted to look back, but found he had no control over his own body.

He couldn’t turn his head, couldn’t stop his mouth from shouting, and couldn’t halt his charging feet.

Su Ze led the charge, seeing countless crystal people rushing toward them from the opposite side. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

Crystal people... Su Ze recalled that the Mother Tree had called them the Crystal Race.

Su Ze was at the vanguard, plunging into the Crystal Race army like a tiger among sheep.

A glance from the corner of his eye finally allowed him to see the soldiers behind him, as well as his own current appearance.

Behind him were thousands upon thousands of purple-skinned people!

And he himself was now also purple-skinned. This was not his original body at all.

’I’ve become one of the purple-skinned people? And their general, at that?’

’So the purple-skinned people are called the Nian Race.’

In a daze, Su Ze finally understood. He was experiencing the memory of a Nian Race general from a first-person, immersive perspective.

This was an event that had already happened. He was merely an observer.

After plunging into the Crystal Race army, Su Ze was soon cornered by their generals and wounded.

He then used some unknown skill, and his entire body erupted in a bloody light.

He swung the strangely shaped greatsword in his hand, cutting down several Crystal Race soldiers. As they died, some kind of energy from within their bodies was devoured by the bloody light covering his own.

Su Ze immediately felt his wounds healing and his stamina being replenished.

With a furious roar, the bloody light on his body spread out, blanketing half the battlefield.

Within the area covered by the bloody light, every time someone fell in battle—be it a Crystal Race soldier or a Nian Race soldier—streams of energy were absorbed by the light.

After absorbing this energy, the bloody light immediately transferred it into Su Ze’s body. His aura surged, and he was filled with explosive power.

With a single move, he repelled the Crystal Race generals who had surrounded him.

As more and more soldiers died, he grew stronger and stronger. The stronger he became, the more Crystal Race soldiers he could kill. It was a cycle...

Finally, he cleaved a Crystal Race general in two with a single slash of his blade. He then led the Nian Race army in pursuit of the fleeing Crystal Race soldiers, seizing victory...

The scene shattered. Su Ze’s eyes refocused. He looked around and found himself still on the bed in the laboratory, with Liou Wenxin and Mr. Ya watching him with a hint of nervousness.

’Was that all a dream?’

’No, that must have been a memory from the originator of the Bloodline Crystal!’

’This Bloodline Crystal came from the purple-skinned people—or rather, the Nian Race. It’s the inheritance of a Divine Skill from a god-tier Nian Race expert.’

Su Ze looked down and saw that the Bloodline Crystal inserted into his arm was gone, completely absorbed by his body. The wound had already healed as well.

He closed his eyes to sense the changes within him and immediately realized he had grasped a new skill—Bloodthirsty!

It was the simplified version of the skill he had just used in the memory while possessing the body of the Nian Race general.

Bloodthirsty: Upon activation, taking a life devours its flesh-and-blood energy. This energy prioritizes self-healing. Remaining energy is stored to temporarily enhance one’s power. The skill deactivates if no new energy is devoured within ten seconds.

The Bloodthirsty skill Su Ze had obtained was clearly not as strong as the one the Nian Race general had used in the memory.

The Nian Race general could turn Bloodthirsty into a Domain Skill, allowing him to devour the flesh-and-blood energy of any life form that died within his domain. Su Ze, on the other hand, had to do the killing himself.

But this was normal. The general’s was a true Divine Skill, while what he had obtained was merely a Divine Skill Prototype.

This skill was a bit different from what Su Ze had expected. It wasn’t that it wasn’t strong, but rather that it was only strong in specific scenarios, like a battlefield.

It was a god-tier battlefield skill. The more people one killed, the more powerful one became. As long as he could keep killing, keep himself going, and not let the skill break, the power boost from the flesh-and-blood energy would continue to accumulate. Fighting opponents above his level wouldn’t be difficult.

In a one-on-one fight, however, this skill was pretty much useless.

’It doesn’t seem very helpful for my upcoming trip to the Mu Country...’ Su Ze shook his head and could only console himself. ’This skill will definitely be useful later on.’

War was destined to erupt on Blue Star in the future—between humans and xeno-beasts, between humans and aliens. A great war was inevitable. That’s when this skill would have its time to shine.

’If I combine this skill with "Expansion" and "Liquid Life," I could turn into a flood and roll across the battlefield. I’d be a literal meat grinder.’

After absorbing the Bloodline Crystal, Su Ze also noticed the clear differences between it and a regular extraction.

First, the Bloodline Crystal contained only a single skill, so there was no randomness involved. For him, this skipped the skill selection phase entirely.

Second, an extraction only allows one to absorb a skill, whereas the Bloodline Crystal was more like an inheritance.

It didn’t just give Su Ze a new skill; it also left him with an immersive memory.

This memory was not to be underestimated. It instantly gave Su Ze a deeper understanding of the new skill and the practical experience of using it proficiently.