Chapter 317: Chapter 175: A Land of Wailing, a City of Blood; Nothing But 1 Thought to Save the People
Cold. Shivering.
The wind howled.
Wang Xiao slowly opened his eyes, feeling incredibly weak, as if he were on the verge of collapse.
It felt as if his consciousness would fade into darkness at any moment.
His whole body felt damp and sticky.
The thick, pungent stench of blood assaulted his senses.
He struggled to lift his eyelids.
The next moment.
Wang Xiao froze.
At this moment, he was lying inside the belly of a woman, covered in blood.
The umbilical cord was still attached to her.
Almost instantly, Wang Xiao understood his situation.
He had transmigrated into the body of a stillborn infant.
The infant’s mother had been disemboweled for some unknown reason.
’Besides the smell of blood, there’s the scent of char. Was this a robbery?!’
Wang Xiao’s mind raced.
However, his current situation didn’t allow him to overthink things.
He could already feel that the infant’s life force was incredibly faint.
Its organs were starting to fail!
He probably wouldn’t last much longer before dying completely.
In fact, if he hadn’t transmigrated into this infant’s body, the baby would already be dead!
’Another disastrous start. Compared to my previous transmigrations, this has to be the worst. I’m facing death right from the get-go!’
Wang Xiao let out a soft sigh.
He was used to these kinds of transmigrations, so he didn’t complain much and began to circulate the qi and blood in his body.
However, he was shocked to find that his current body was simply too weak. He couldn’t even perform the simple act of circulating his qi and blood.
Without circulating his qi and blood, he couldn’t generate any Inner Qi to improve his physical condition.
Given how weak this body was, Wang Xiao would die from organ failure in less than a quarter of an hour.
’Am I going to die right out of the gate? No, I have to find a way...’
Wang Xiao frowned, then suddenly felt a faint warmth on his body.
Only then did he realize that the infant’s mother still had her two warm hands resting on him.
It seemed that even as she died, disemboweled, she had tried desperately to protect her own flesh and blood!
’The hope of life... the Life Dao Fruit...’
Wang Xiao’s eyes narrowed. He suddenly sensed a special power within that warmth.
It was a faint aura of life!
’Hm? So the Dao Fruits have this kind of bizarre ability? Even though I’ve lost the Dao Fruits themselves, my comprehension of them remains. I can still sense certain special powers and use them!’
Relying on his comprehension of the Life Dao Fruit, Wang Xiao immediately used his Analyze All Things Talent to deduce a way to absorb the surrounding aura of life.
[Analyzing...]
[You have analyzed the aura of life and discovered the "Heaven-Born All Things Nourishing People Technique."]
In an instant, Wang Xiao felt the flowing currents of air around him become clearer.
Even though these currents were extremely faint, his current body could absorb them.
He didn’t hesitate any longer. He activated the "Heaven-Born All Things Nourishing People Technique" and drew these currents into his body.
Instantly, a surge of Vitality, even purer than Inner Qi, flooded his body. It then spread to his Five Viscera, limbs, and bones, slowly improving his body and organs.
’I never expected the Dao Fruits could be used like this. Although the Vitality I’m absorbing is minuscule, at least it’s keeping me alive and helping me survive this harsh environment.’
Wang Xiao sighed in relief.
He lay in the warm, wet blood, silently recovering his strength and waiting for rescue!
Right now, it was certain that the infant’s mother wasn’t the only one who had died.
The air was filled with the smell of char and blood.
An entire village had likely been slaughtered!
With something this major happening, as long as human society in this world was still functioning, someone was bound to come investigate.
「Day turned to night, and night to day.」
Wang Xiao silently operated the Magic Technique, absorbing Vitality.
His organs grew stronger, and they were no longer failing.
But after a full day and night without food, Wang Xiao was starting to reach his limit.
This body was still too weak.
’Even if I could circulate my qi and blood and nourish my body with Inner Qi, I could only last three days at most...’
Wang Xiao’s brow furrowed.
He had a nagging feeling that something was wrong.
Such a major incident had occurred, yet after a full day and night, no one had come to check on it.
The social order of this world was probably in a worse state than he had imagined.
’It seems the scene I saw before—humanity’s resistance against the Divine Race—most likely ended in a devastating blow, leading to the current state of misery and suffering.’
Wang Xiao fell silent.
He connected with the Book of Space-Time to check his status in this world.
In an instant, lines of text appeared before him.
[Controller of the Book of Space-Time: Wang Xiao]
[Current Realm: Tier Zero Life]
[Current Status: Consciousness Travel (Soul Projection)]
[Activated Talent: Analyze All Things]
[Dao Fruits: Destiny Dao Fruit (Pending Activation), Cause and Effect Dao Fruit (Pending Activation), Time Dao Fruit (Pending Activation), Space Dao Fruit (Pending Activation), Life Dao Fruit (Pending Activation)]
[Residency Time: 480 years]
Wang Xiao’s eyes twitched slightly as he looked at the information before him.
This time, the Book of Space-Time had actually displayed information about his Dao Fruits.
It seemed his Dao Fruits hadn’t completely vanished but were merely in a "pending activation" state.
However, to activate the Dao Fruits, he would surely first need to open his Mud Ball Palace.
In other words, he had to break through to become a Tier Five Life.
’The residency time is 480 years. That’s quite long, but the key is to survive first.’
Wang Xiao’s gaze swept over the last line, and he couldn’t help but shake his head slightly.
He had already discovered that with each transmigration, the residency time seemed to be double that of the previous one.
