Chapter 1431: New Bloodline & Abilities: Corrupted Plunder!

But somewhere beyond Judgment had waited the opposite edge of everything he had just felt—

End!

It sat there without hostility.

Without Death. Without destruction.

The realization unsettled him far more than some violent killing ability would have.

The System continued revealing what the bloodline had awakened:

[Bloodline Ability acquired: Life Flame]

[Description:Life Flame is a sacred flame formed from pure Life Essence. Host can use Life Flame to heal and protect others from curses and corruption, purge poisons and heal damage inflicted upon the Soul. Host can also perceive curses and corruption through Life Flame.]

[The stronger the curse, corruption or Soul damage, the longer purification and healing may require. As Host grows stronger, the required time will decrease.]

A pale-gold flame appeared above Phei’s palm— it burned silently and there was no physical heat against his skin, yet concentrated life radiated from the small flame so intensely that the World Essence nearest it seemed to become clearer simply by existing nearby. Golden mist lost every faint impurity. The white-gold currents around Phei smoothed themselves as the flame moved, and somewhere inside the ability he understood its nature without needing further explanation.

Life Flame could not peacefully coexist with poison eating through a body it would heal and protect from corruption and curses attached to blood or Soul.

Most importantly, Soul damage was no longer something Phei could only endure, resist or stabilize.

He could heal it!

The flame vanished into his palm.

[Bloodline Ability acquired: Heaven Descent]

[Description:Host can create a Domain and impose your will upon the surrounding area or battlefield. Within Heaven Descent, Host’s Abilities, power and attacks are multiplied by 10x and your physical might is multiplied by 10x for the duration of Heaven Descent.]

[Current Duration: 10 seconds]

Ten seconds!

For a normal person, ten seconds sounded brief enough to be insulting.

For Phei, ten seconds was eternity!

True Void Steps could erase distance between one instant and another. His perception could process a kilometer’s wide battlefields faster as a second ordinary cultivators could barely follow, and high-level combat already occurred at speeds where entire sequences of attacks could unfold before weaker beings finished understanding the first movement.

Ten seconds multiplied by ten across nearly everything he could bring into combat was a permission to become a disaster before the enemy’s body finished realizing Heaven had descended upon it.

The System continued:

[Bloodline Ability acquired: Angelic Transformation]

[Description: Host can transform into a fully fledged Angel at will.]

[Restriction:Host cannot use Dragon powers while in a Genesis Angelic Transformation. While in a Angelic Transformation your absorption rate of World Essence is multiplied by 4x.]

[Host’s circulation and execution speed for all non-draconic energies and Essences is multiplied by 2x.]

’Well, that makes up for nerfing me, doesn’t it?’

Dragon and Angel.

The System had deliberately refused to blur them together.

Angelic Transformation would suppress his Dragon powers. Phei would sacrifice everything classified under his Dragon side in exchange for drastically increased World Essence absorption and faster circulation of nearly every non-draconic power flowing through him.

’Four times the World Essence. Twice the execution speed.’

[Core successfully fully formed!]

[Genesis Core]

The furnace beneath Phei’s chest stabilized.

That change had spread instantly!

World Essence surrounding him had turned.

Every current flowing throughout the interior of the Primordial Lotus rushed inward at once, entering Phei through skin, breath and something deeper than either. Golden radiance flooded toward the newly formed Genesis Core before emerging again with a smoothness it had not possessed before.

Phei felt the Essence Sea beneath his spiritual awareness, vast and golden.

He felt his Soul Realm. His Dragon foundations. Primordial Blood.

The newly awakened Genesis Angel Bloodline.

Now the Genesis Core beat among them with a steady rhythm, newly born and somehow already carrying a depth that made Phei deeply suspicious of what exactly the Primordial Lotus considered reasonable.

Another notification appeared.

[Bloodline Ability acquired: The Genesis’ Voice: The Genesis’ command carries the will of existence itself. Upon Host speaking a command through The Genesis’ Voice, existence will attempt to enforce Host’s declared will. Success is determined by the target’s power, willpower and Soul Rank.]

Phei stared at the words.

His expression slowly changed:

"That’s fucking ridiculous."

The statement escaped before he could stop it.

Fortunately, The Genesis’ Voice had not activated merely because he spoke, because Phei was not entirely certain what existence might have attempted to do with the command ’that’s fucking ridiculous’.

The ability itself, however, was what it was and the existence would obey his will: A command of his was a declared will.

The target’s willpower and soul rank mattered.

So it was not absolute, which was probably the only reason Phei had not immediately classified the ability as cosmic cheat with decorative wording.

Still, the possibilities were disgusting:

*Knee!*

*Stop!*

*Break!*

*Burn!*

*Fall!*

Phei’s eyes narrowed.

That ability deserved testing somewhere containing fewer friends.

The System was still not finished.

[Bloodline Ability acquired: Genesis’ Eyes:The Genesis sees no evil, for evil cannot endure before righteousness. The Genesis knows no falsehood, for every lie is an insult to the First Truth itself. Deceit, corruption, wickedness and sin are laid bare beneath the heavens before the Genesis, and all that strays from the path of creation shall be judged beneath the Genesis’ light.]

[O Genesis, behold creation. Look upon this world and bathe it in your righteousness!]

Phei nearly laughed.

The wording was so outrageously grand that some shameless collection of voices inside his head immediately agreed the System had hired a celestial poet during the previous notification and forgotten to dismiss them afterward.

[Host can now perceive spoken and heard falsehoods— perceive corruption and curses— undo petrification. Host is immune to petrification.]

That was monstrous in ways completely unrelated to combat.

Perceiving spoken lies alone could ruin family, friendships if he treated the ability carelessly. Someone saying *I’m fine* while drowning inside could reveal itself as false. Secrets hidden behind perfectly controlled expressions suddenly became vulnerable simply because someone chose the wrong sentence around him.

The rest paired almost too perfectly with Life Flame.

Curses and corruption could be seen which Life Flame could purge.

Petrification, something that could transform an enemy into a helpless statue regardless of ordinary durability if the technique was sufficiently strong, had gone from a potentially terrifying condition into something Phei could apparently undo in others while simply refusing to suffer it himself.

He was still considering the implications when the final ability appeared:

[Bloodline Ability acquired: Corrupted Plunder:All came from the First Life, the First Light and the First Blessings of Creation, and by sacred right all shall return to their origin.]

[Host can absorb a target’s Vitality, Soul Essence and Life Force and make them Host’s own.]

[Requirement: Host must maintain direct physical contact with the target while absorption occurs.]

The notification faded.

Corrupted Plunder.

Now the System finally stopped.

Phei blinked and blinked again.

"What the hell just happened?"

His voice sounded embarrassingly normal considering he was currently standing inside a celestial lotus while World Essence orbited him and a new Angelic bloodline rewrote his existence.

Something had been bothering him throughout the entire awakening— a fact his mind repeatedly pushed aside because the System had apparently decided tonight was an excellent time to throw supernatural gifts at his face without allowing him enough silence to properly panic:

Bloodlines.

He already possessed one.

The Cosmic Dragon Bloodline.

Bloodlines were not supposed to be share a single body.

Carrying one absolute powerful bloodline was already enough to define entire ancient families.

Phei now carried two!

His thoughts returned immediately to his latest Status Window.

[HOST STATUS WINDOW]

Name: Phei

Age: 17

Race: Dragon

Bloodline: Cosmic Dragon ???]

There has been question marks beside his bloodline.

Phei’s expression slowly changed.

"Wait." Greed ignited in his eyes... "If I awakened another bloodline..."

His golden-amethyst eyes sharpened. "Does that mean I can have more than two?"

Phei looked downward even though the Primordial Lotus still prevented him from perceiving the Endless Forest properly. Marcus should have been somewhere far below but he wasn’t, probably Eira had already taken him back.

Anyway, Marcus had possessed the Angel Progenitor Bloodline.

The Heaven-Stealer had stripped it.

Somewhere through the Primordial Lotus, World Essence and — although later— Habin’s Great Immortal Core and Phei’s own impossible foundation, he’d become a Genesis Angel!

Did this mean the remaining Progenitors had just become considerably more resources for him to awaken new Bloodlines?

Phei’s eyes brightened.

Danton.

The others.

Their bloodlines—

A particularly greedy part of Phei’s personality sat upright inside his thoughts and began rubbing its hands together with the spiritual enthusiasm of a thief discovering the treasury door had been left open.

Could he take theirs too?

The Heaven-Stealer would strip every Progenitor he captured; so could those bloodlines enter whatever impossible foundation the Primordial Lotus had just awakened and become new ones for him inside him?

Or would they be catalysts too to unseal some other bloodlines in him? Phei was certain he didnt get Genesis Bloodline from Marcu— he’d only been a resource!

What exactly were those question marks beside his bloodline hiding?

Phei smiled instead:

"Fuck. This is going to become addictive."

His grin lasted until another detail finally managed to claw its way through the pile of supernatural nonsense.

His cultivation.

Phei froze.

He opened his Status only far enough to find the line he wanted.

The smile vanished from his face.

He stared at the words for several seconds, then looked away and back again as though the System might have accidentally displayed someone else’s cultivation.

[Current Cultivation: Half Divine Stage]

Phei became completely motionless inside the Primordial Lotus.

Before Marcus, Phei had been a Sky Sovereign.

Now he stood halfway into Divinity itself right after becoming a DIVINE itself!