Chapter 36: Nan Zishi Awakens the Human Clan’s Superpower
"Aqi!"
Nan Zishi ripped the vines off his body and pulled the blood-soaked Fox Qi into her arms.
All the lost bloodline returned to him, but the Beast Pattern on Fox Qi’s face suddenly vanished.
Nan Zishi didn’t know the specifics of his condition. Her heart ached with panic, and she even lost the composure of a doctor as she examined his body.
Fox Xin laughed maniacally from the side. "Nan Zishi, you’re too late! Fox Qi is ruined!!"
"So what if it’s an Ancient Bloodline? He was forced to awaken it, and his body couldn’t keep up with his bloodline. His physical body is ruined. What does it matter if the bloodline has returned? He’s ruined, completely and utterly ruined!"
"I didn’t win, but you didn’t win either! HAHAHA!"
Fox Qi had turned into a small white fox, his little paws weakly scratching at Nan Zishi.
Her heart aching, Nan Zishi gently touched Aqi’s body, using her medical knowledge to check his heart and internal organs.
He was very weak, but his little heart was quite strong. His condition was better than it looked on the surface.
"Aqi, don’t be scared. It’s okay."
"Mm..."
Although she had given birth, she had never truly been a mother.
Holding Little Fox Qi, her heart was filled with love, pain, and a sense of unfamiliarity.
There was also a feeling of being completely at a loss.
She didn’t know how to be a mother.
But before any reunion, she first had to clear away all the obstacles in front of her!
Nan Zishi raised her head, closed her eyes, and forced her tears back.
"You deserve to die!" Her eyes turned bloodshot.
However, just as she was about to charge out and pummel Fox Xin, the Array at her feet lit up again!
Nan Zishi was a cautious person. Before stepping into the Array, she had clearly confirmed that her Spring Thunder had blasted a gap in it.
She had been certain the Array was useless before she stepped inside.
’An Array with a gap in it can still be used?’
In reality, there were two Arrays where Fox Qi was: one for awakening and one for bloodline transference.
The outer bloodline transference Array was indeed broken, but the inner forced awakening Array could still be used normally.
The Array activated passively. Nan Zishi suddenly felt something was wrong with her body as a pain like being flayed and having her bones ripped out wracked her entire being.
Her slender, pale neck stretched out, covered in a fine mesh of red lines.
"Mom! Mom!!!" Fox Qi ignored his own state, crying out in grief, worry, and alarm. "What’s wrong? Mother!"
Fox Xin was helped to her feet by her male partner. She looked at Nan Zishi in confusion, then suddenly burst out laughing.
"Nan Zishi, you actually have a bloodline too?!"
Nan Zishi: "...?"
"There aren’t many females in the Beast World who possess a bloodline. And you actually have one. Wonderful, just wonderful. I’ll just help you out and force your awakening. As long as your bloodline is ruined too, I’ll consider this my revenge!"
Nan Zishi curled up in pain.
Fox Qi cried out weakly, "Village Chief, I’m begging you, please let my mom go! You can do anything you want to me, but don’t hurt my mother! Please, let my mom go!"
Hu Lie touched the Beast Pattern on his face. He looked expressionlessly at the mother and son in the Array.
He had just come into contact with a tiny bit of Fox Qi’s bloodline power and was directly promoted to a Four-striped Beast General!
He had become Stone Village’s only Four-striped Beast General—a Beast General at ten years old!
’An Ancient Bloodline... it’s really hard not to be greedy.’
"Don’t call her Village Chief! She doesn’t deserve it!" Nan Zishi gritted out through the pain, trying to carry Fox Qi out of the Array. However, after struggling for a long time, she had only moved a tiny bit.
’It hurts. It fucking hurts!’
’Did Little Aqi feel this much pain just now?’
’They even hurt my five-year-old child!! These people. They all deserve to die!!’
It was as if the dormant energy in every single one of her cells was being forcibly awakened.
’I have a bloodline? A completely normal human like me actually has a bloodline?!’
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[Why can’t a normal human have a bloodline?]
Nan Zishi felt her thoughts suddenly fall into chaos. Then, it was as if she had arrived in a pure white space.
It was an endless expanse of white, seemingly containing nothing at all.
[Nan Zishi. Welcome to the world of a god.]
Nan Zishi floated in the void and slowly turned. "Who are you?"
The voice was friendly, slowly replying: [I am the god of this world, the Beast God.]
Nan Zishi jumped in shock.
On Earth, she had read countless myths and seen gods portrayed in so many movies and cartoons. But she had never met a real one.
’I’m actually having a day where I get to meet a god?’
’This feels so surreal.’
[Feeling surreal?]
"You can hear my thoughts?"
[No, I’m just guessing.]
’And here I thought the Beast God was supposed to be all-powerful.’
"Why can’t I see you?"
[Perhaps because I cannot appear. The one speaking to you is merely my consciousness.]
Nan Zishi asked in confusion, "What do you mean?"
[I would love to tell you, but time is indeed limited right now. Nan Zishi, you need to hurry and awaken your bloodline.]
Only then did Nan Zishi remember the matter of her bloodline awakening. She asked, "I’m a human. Why would I have a Beast World bloodline to awaken?"
[Girl, you are one of the Huaxia people, a Descendant of Yan and Huang. You are a descendant of Nuwa.]
[You possess the most ancient of bloodlines.]
[In the Beast World, bloodlines are roughly divided into three types: common, advanced, and Ancient. If the bloodline of Hu Bai and his son can be called an Ancient Bloodline, then your bloodline as a human could perhaps have ’ultra’ added to it. An Ultra-Ancient Bloodline.]
"...So cringey." Nan Zishi felt like she was on fire.
[This is good, the situation is very good. Not only can you awaken your bloodline, but your superpower can awaken along with it. Let me see... Wow, not bad. You are awakening the Human Clan’s ultra-ancient superpower, Moon Attracting Starlight.]
"Moon Attracting Starlight?"
[Correct. It is a superpower well-suited for you.]
[After you awaken, you will be the Moon, and your Beast Husband will be the Star. When you and your Beast Husband are very close, your energies will resonate and echo with each other.]
[You must understand that all Beastmen are beasts who transformed into human form. Low-level Beastmen still retain their beast ears and tails. Only high-level Beastmen can hide their beast ears and tails and possess a complete human form. The Human Clan is different; you are born in human form.]
[Therefore, Moon Attracting Starlight allows you to resonate with your Beast Husband’s energy, thereby transforming from a human into a beastman form!]
[After resonating with your Beast Husband’s energy, you will transform into his race and possess that race’s qualities. For example, agility, strength, vision, and so on.]
[But Moon Attracting Starlight also has limitations. You need to be within a certain distance of him to activate the superpower. Moreover, after the resonance between you is broken, you will revert to human form within 15 minutes. In other words, if you break the resonance yourself, you can freely control when you change back. If the resonance is broken because he moves too far away from you, you will change back in about 15 minutes.]
[Girl, although I would love to continue talking with you, our time is indeed running out.]
[After the Human Clan’s exclusive ultra-ancient superpower, "Moon Attracting Starlight," is activated, countless connections will form between you, the Moon, and your Beast Husband, the Starlight. As for how to use it and how to fight, you can discover that slowly on your own.]
"Beast God, I still have so many questions!"
"Why did I return to the Beast World? Who sent me here? What am I here in the Beast World to do? Can you answer me?!"
Nan Zishi heard soft laughter from the void.
[I know, it’s because...]
Nan Zishi couldn’t hear the rest of what was said.
"What do you mean? Hey, Beast God?!!"
...
Nan Zishi’s consciousness returned. She was standing in the forced bloodline awakening Array. At this very moment, two fluffy, snow-white fox ears had sprouted from her black hair, and a large, beautiful fox tail had emerged from behind her.
Her vision became sharper, and she could feel a considerable increase in her speed and strength!
At this moment, it was as if she had become a female of the Fox Clan Beastmen?!