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Chapter 386: Bloodline

Kilkov's rapid change of expression made the beauty beside him raise an eyebrow inwardly.

From a carefree, irreverent uncle to a solemn, grim-faced soldier, the transformation between these two vastly different personas took barely half a second.

"My heavens... have I arrived in paradise?!" When he reached the third underground level, a white radiance already covered over ninety percent of the ground. As far as his eyes could see, there was nothing but light, no other living beings.

The white light paid no mind to this uninvited guest, continuing its advance towards the entrance of the next level. Precisely because of this, Kilkov found himself cornered at the opening leading further underground.

"Get out of my way, all of you!" As a Super-class Mage, he unleashed his formidable output as a super artillery platform without hesitation, various spells surging like an endless torrent into that ocean of light.

In the face of such a desperate, overclocked explosion, the flood finally encountered a dam capable of obstructing it for the first time. In the narrow downward passage, he was intercepted right before the entrance to the fourth level.

"Jimoyiva, quickly!" Under immense pressure every second, Kilkov could no longer maintain his gentlemanly demeanor, frantically urging the blonde woman behind him.

"Unspoken Winter." As Jimoyiva cast her spell, the atomic vibrations of everything around them began to slow. Kilkov, being closest to her, could even feel his own thought processes seemingly decelerating.

A wave of invisible fluctuations emanated from Jimoyiva, and the pressure from the white light torrent instantly diminished by more than half. However, judging by her slightly contorted face from overexertion, such an obstruction likely wouldn't last much longer.

"Twenty seconds... white light... two corpses underground... could it be that madman?!" After Jimoyiva absorbed most of the pressure, he finally had a moment to analyze the situation at hand.

"Don't... think... run..." She conveyed these two words almost through a struggle.

Returning from thought to reality, Kilkov unleashed his signature skill—Vacuum Pulverization. This time, however, it wasn't used against an enemy, but to demolish the base structures obstructing his escape.

Large swaths of concrete and steel rebar turned to dust under his ability. With his current power intensity, anything below Mohs hardness 9.5 could be pulverized at the mere thought of ten tons. Even diamond, the hardest natural substance, could be reduced to diamond powder in a second if Kilkov concentrated.

Relying on this super road-opener, Kilkov forcibly drilled a tunnel out from nearly thirty meters underground. But just as he and Jimoyiva reached the surface, they crashed directly into the palm of a giant hand.

From the ocean of light on the surface, a giant seemingly trying to crawl out, with only the tip of its half-submerged arm exposed like an iceberg, appeared perfectly in their path of emergence.

As the two slammed into its palm, the entire arm immediately split and transformed into two cocoons of light, tightly wrapping these two unlucky little insects.

Perhaps a Spirit Energy Cultivator at the Xuanhua Stage might have struggled for a few more minutes within the giant palm, but both of them were unfortunately Super-class Mages, with high offense and low defense. Once an artillery platform was engaged at close quarters, it became relatively fragile; they were captured before they even had a chance to retaliate.

"Don't struggle. You're definitely not faster than me." Initially, deeply ensnared, they had intended to resist desperately, but upon hearing this voice, their courage to fight back suddenly dwindled.

It wasn't just because they perceived the disparity in power; more importantly, the white light had already invaded their bodies, causing certain parts to become uncontrollable...

"Excellent ability." Upon witnessing Kilkov's pulverizing ability, Bai Mo decided to take him back. He was perfectly suited for projects like moving mountains, filling seas, and digging tunnels; crushing him outright would be too wasteful.

"Welcome to Destiny System Version 1.0. Your current survival points are 100, and the number of executable missions is zero..." As the white light continued its invasion, an emotionless mechanical voice echoed within Kilkov's brain.

The same thing also happened to Jimoyiva. Like Kilkov, she too was implanted with an unknown entity called the Destiny System.

After the Destiny System was successfully installed, the white cocoons dissipated.

But even seeing the light of day again, the two still dared not make any attempts to escape. For a faint, ethereal sensation in their brains told them: they couldn't escape, and they would surely die.

"What have you implanted in us!"

Bai Mo had no intention of explaining to the two. Instead, he continued drifting to the deepest part of the base, retrieving two corpses with activated patterns on their bodies.

"What is he doing? Can he really revive the dead?" Jimoyiva floated mid-air, watching as the surrounding white light continuously surged into the two corpses she had personally created. She felt a strange sensation.

These two individuals had been killed by her own hands; there could absolutely be no lingering issues.

Ten minutes later, the white light that had enveloped the entire base vanished for the most part, but Kilkov could sense that Bai Mo, who had been as frigid as ancient ice, now had a hint of emotional fluctuation.

"Boom!!!" As if the accumulation of quantity had reached a critical point, a terrifying explosion suddenly occurred centered on the two corpses, instantly blasting everything around them away.

After the dust settled, what shocked Jimoyiva happened! The two people, whom she had personally confirmed were dead, were now observing their surroundings with bewildered expressions.

The formerly icy beauty lost her composure in the face of such a crazy event, looking at the two with an expression of disbelief.

"This must just be some kind of corpse-controlling spell; how could it be genuine resurrection of the dead! I didn't expect that madman to have such peculiar tastes, not even sparing corpses," Kilkov thought to himself.

"Is that you, Boss?" For some reason, even though the white light before them was completely shapeless, Chen Xi, upon waking, immediately assumed the entity before her was Bai Mo.

"How does it feel to have the implanted bloodline activated?" This was what he cared about most, so he directly ignored her question—or perhaps, it was an indirect answer.

From beginning to end, this was an experiment by Bai Mo. He was trying to create a true bloodline, one that could genuinely be inherited through generations, unlike the potions he had developed years ago that were only effective for the current generation.

These two artificial bloodlines, named the Phoenix of Nine Lives Bloodline, were powerful branches he had induced through life force specific differentiation, based on the Abyssal Bloodline.

"It really is you! I thought I was truly going to die." Chen Xi paid no mind to how much her torn clothes still covered, simply crying out loud, releasing all the emotions in her heart.

"It seems I truly succeeded," Bai Mo murmured after carefully scanning the two.

In a sense, this was his first completely successful bloodline creation experiment. The side effects, or rather drawbacks, of the Abyssal Bloodline were actually very troublesome; those with insufficient willpower would eventually lose their sanity and become madmen bent on destruction.

In the Nine Netherworlds, there were countless such monsters, their existence making it impossible for the Fire-Mist Warriors to kill them all.