Death... and me

Chapter 3075  Bloodline Cultivation

Several of the Charybdises joined Uruavis, following him to the Charybdis Queen's brain. They entered another blood vessel, and Rean followed with Yuan.

On the way, Yuan took the chance to ask more about the Charybdises. "Friends, I can't feel any cultivation realm from you all, but I can feel that your bodies are full of Spiritual Energy. Could it be you are mortals instead of Demon Beasts?"

Uruashu, who was also in that group, shook his head at him. "As I mentioned, we aren't exactly real Charybdis, but we all have the chance to become one as long as Mother agrees with our exit. Well, even if she does, chances are we wouldn't live to adulthood. Anyway, answering your question, we are not mortals either."

He continued. "We learned a lot about the outside beings' cultivations, like yours. That said, I can say that we are definitely different. We have no cores or dantians. However, the same goes for our mother."

Yuan was taken aback. "You telling me the Charybdis Queen has no cultivation either?"

"That's not entirely correct," Uruavis spoke from there. "Our Mother does have a cultivation, but it is different from you all. She uses Bloodline Cultivation."

Neither Rean nor Yuan had ever heard about that one. Bloodline can be strengthened, but it usually only supports one's cultivation, gives some specific abilities, or help with one's body attributes like strength, defense, etc. Kentucky's bloodline is a very good example. It gives him extreme defense and a higher control over Spatial Powers. Nonetheless, even Kentucky, with his Regal Bloodline, can't 'cultivate' his bloodline.

"We didn't even know such a cultivation method existed," Rean also got curious. "How does that even work? Of course, if it is a secret, there is no need to answer our question."

"Oh, don't worry. It is not common in this place, but back in our Mother's home, bloodline cultivation is the mainstream. It isn't really any secret," Uruavis spoke. "So, the bloodline cultivation's main difference is the lack of a core or dantian. Instead, all the cultivation energy is kept in the whole body. You can see that our bodies as full of Spiritual Energy, right? If you could envelop Mother with your Spiritual Senses, you would notice the same thing."

"Interesting..." Rean nodded. "So, how do the cultivation realms work for bloodline cultivations? Does Bloodline cultivation follow the same principle?"

"Not at all," Uruavis quickly denied. "Even up to the Divinity Realm, a Core or Dantian is necessary. Since Bloodline Cultivation does not have a Core or Dantian, the methods are also different. Back in Mother's home, we simply call it the Nine Levels of Mortal Bloodline Cultivation and the Five Levels of Divine Bloodline Cultivation."

Rean pondered a bit. "Could it be that the first level of Divine Bloodline is where you start using Spatial Powers?"

"Exactly," Uruavis confirmed. "The First Level of Divine Bloodline Cultivation would be equivalent to what you guys call Void Tempering Realm."

Yuan felt that conversation to be mind-blowing. He knew that the Void Tempering Realm was the next realm after the Transition Realm, but he had never seen anyone like that. "Then... what level of bloodline is your mother at the moment?"

"That I'm not sure," Uruavis shook his head. "I was born long after she was put into her Spiritual Prison. She can only talk to me for a few seconds every several thousands of years, so she never really said much about her cultivation since it didn't have much use at such points. I'm sure she is above the Mortal Bloodline Cultivation levels, though."

Rean agreed with him. The Charybdis Mother was obviously enormous, but the Charybdis Race was already a gigantic race by nature. Yet, she wasn't as big as some of the Demon Beasts Rean saw in the past, like the Regal Azure Dragon, for example. Let's not even talk about Hyeoumu. "In any case," Uruavis continued. "She can still provide us with enough Spiritual Energy to survive and work on keeping her body in proper condition. That is enough for us."

Rean couldn't help but wonder what other types of cultivations existed in the great void. Even the Spirits back in Lisan still had their Cores. There was also the Essence Race, which wasn't part of the Spirits, but they, too, had cores. Rean then shook his head, knowing it wasn't time to care about such things. "You said something about your Mother's home. Where is it? Is it in this Universe?"

Yuan's ears were piqued. Everything was so surreal but also extremely interesting for someone like him.

"Hum..." Uruavis thought about it for a moment. "I believe so? Mother commented a little about how her Bloodline Cultivation worked and how it was common back at her home. She never mentioned if it was in another Universe or not, though."

"Hum?" Uruavis then turned his body in another direction, feeling something. "I don't know if this would bother you two, but we just got more food in Mother's stomach. The ones who arrived are nothing but a bunch of mingled meat now, though. I say that because they are very different from the normal fish that Mother usually captures with her Natural Spatial Transfers."

Yuan felt a chill on his back. "They are probably from the Saramina Sea Demon Palace..."

Uruavis tried to be useful. "We are the ones asking you for help. If you want, I can have my guys bring their remains here instead of letting them be digested by Mother."

Rean shook his head. "No need. Now that I think about it, we still haven't told you why we even came to this place." Then, he explained about the events outside, obviously concealing the more secret parts.

"Trying to become that Tana's mate, uh?" Uruavis didn't really know what to think about that. "This concept of mating to create descendants is just too weird for us. Charybdises don't really have genders. We only use the words 'Queen' and 'Mother' because it fits your culture better. In any case, since they don't matter, I will let it go. Come on, we aren't far from the brain."