Chapter 314: Bloodline Advancement
The reason Jia Na covered the area around the magic circle with Turans Snow Lotuses for this Blood Exchange Ritual was to isolate the surrounding death energy.
Although Turans Snow Lotuses are resistant to cold and freezing, they quickly wither when encountering death energy. As the snow lotuses wither, the invading death energy is also consumed, leaving behind only a pile of snow lotus remnants.
Initially, Jia Na also considered working with the Celestial Sparrow to cast Purification Light to expel the death energy, but the extreme low temperature within the Extreme Cold Secret Realm was beyond the Celestial Sparrow's tolerance, resulting in this task ultimately having to be completed by Jia Na alone, who held the Sun Badge.
Unfortunately, Jia Na's mastery of the Purification Law Fragment was rather poor. Unless Jia Na directly cast Purification Light on Vivian herself, she had no way to dispel the death energy over a large area.
Therefore, Jia Na ultimately had to adopt Hermann-Rose's original suggestion, using the power of the Growth Law Fragment, which she was currently most proficient with, to counteract the death energy – thereby achieving the goal of preventing the death energy from contaminating the Blood Exchange Ritual magic circle.
"Whoosh—"
As the Blood Exchange Ritual officially began, a thick bloody scent also emerged from the crystal ice coffin, like a rank-smelling cold wind, causing the surrounding snow lotuses to constantly sway left and right.
"Crackle—"
While observing the movements in the crystal ice coffin, Jia Na also paid attention to the surrounding Turans Snow Lotuses.
Indeed, with the dual invasion of death energy and extreme cold energy, the Turans Snow Lotuses in the outermost circle began to show signs of Withering and breaking one after another. "Growth—"
Emerald green light continuously emerged from Jia Na's palm. The moment the first wave of snow lotuses withered, the second batch quickly grew, constantly resisting the ubiquitous death energy around them.
"Bang—" While the Blood Exchange Ritual was still underway, suddenly, the lid covering the ice coffin was directly flipped over by a bloody snake tail and fell to the ground.
"Bang bang bang bang!"
After flipping off the ice coffin lid, Vivian's snake tail continuously thrashed wildly in all directions, as if venting some extreme pain, causing Jia Na, who was nearby, to involuntarily turn her head away.
"Even if the Koshi's Serpent bloodline can offset Vivian's physical pain, the pain of soul tearing still has to be borne by her herself."
Furthermore, in addition to the pain of soul tearing, when the Blood Exchange Ritual reaches its end, one of the ritual participant's negative emotions will be infinitely amplified.
For example, jealousy, regret, irritability, loneliness – no matter which emotion it is, it will cause the ritual participant, who has already undergone dual torment of body and soul, to fall into an emotional vortex, unable to extricate themselves.
In the end, it can even cause the ritual participant to develop an addiction where they cannot distinguish between reality and illusion, sinking into eternal depravity.
It was precisely because of the various 'fatal' drawbacks of the Blood Exchange Ritual that Jia Na was particularly opposed when she learned that Vivian intended to take the Sorcerer path.
After all, in the later stages, a Sorcerer's bloodline advancement no longer relies on perseverance and resources, but rather on luck—
"Growth—"
Intentionally forcing herself to stop paying attention to the Blood Exchange Ritual, Jia Na began to focus all her attention on resisting the death energy.
As time gradually lengthened, Jia Na discovered that the Withering cycle of the Turans Snow Lotuses seemed to be slowly shortening.
"Is the death energy weakening?"
Looking at the continuous flow of death energy around her, Jia Na immediately dismissed this conjecture and turned her gaze to the snow lotus closest to her.
"It's not that the death energy has weakened, but rather that during the process of me continuously casting the power of the Growth Law Fragment, the three forces have begun to enter a relatively balanced stage—"
Upon reaching this conclusion, while surprised, Jia Na's breathing also became rapid.
Three months. Jia Na continuously comprehended in the Extreme Cold Secret Realm for three months.
Although she spent no more than an hour comprehending each day, for a Plant-based apprentice who is not resistant to freezing, this was already her limit.
During these three months, Jia Na repeatedly cast the power of the Growth Law Fragment, seeking the common frequency point where the three forces of Frost, Death, and Growth converge to become 'Withering Power'.
Even though she was close to succeeding several times, Jia Na was always just one step away from success—
Until today, looking at the increasingly harmonious energy field around the Turans Lotus, Jia Na never expected that she would stumble upon the energy field of the Wither Law just like this.
Whoosh—
Taking a long breath, Jia Na, after confirming that the Blood Exchange Ritual was still proceeding normally, immediately allocated some of her energy to cast the Mental Perception Witchcraft on the Turans Snow Lotuses.
"The sequence is Growth, Frost, Death—and the energy resonance frequency of the three is—is this the power of Withering—"
Because of the rich failure experience accumulated over the past three months, Jia Na only took less than a minute to record the energy resonance frequency and magnetic field state when the Wither Law is generated.
Jia Na believed that with a little more time, she would definitely be able to simulate the power of the Wither Law again in the Extreme Cold Secret Realm.
And at that time, it would also be the moment she successfully comprehended the Wither Law Fragment."
"Bang"
As time advanced minute by minute, after the ice coffin lid was flipped onto the ground by Vivian's snake tail, the ice coffin itself,
also exploded directly under Vivian's fierce struggle.
"Roar—"
Seeing this, Jia Na immediately cast the Floral Guardian to resist the flying ice shards around her.
Meanwhile, on the other side, a Frost-white long serpent as thick as a water bucket, with an ice-blue gem embedded in its forehead and its body covered in bloody wounds, suddenly appeared in the center of the magic circle.
"This is—Koshi's Leech Serpent? No—the gem on a Koshi's Leech Serpent's forehead wouldn't be this big, and it couldn't possibly make sounds..."
Looking at the Frost-white long serpent twisting in pain within the ritual magic circle, and Hermann-Rose, whose face was withered from excessive blood loss, a startling thought suddenly formed in Jia Na's mind.
"Could this be—Koshi's King Serpent!?"
"Roar roar—"
Painful roars continuously came from the serpent's mouth, and a large amount of Frost energy, like substance, emanated from the Koshi's King Serpent, quickly freezing the surrounding Turans Snow Lotuses into ice sculptures.
"What astonishing Frost power!"
As Turans Snow Lotuses that weren't easily frozen to death even by the extremely low temperatures at the bottom of the Extreme Cold Secret Realm canyon, they were instantly,
directly frozen to death by the Frost power emanating from the Frost-white long serpent.
And this only further confirmed Jia Na's conjecture that Vivian's bloodline had advanced to Koshi's King Serpent—
