Chapter 842: Update to Heavenly Tier Bloodline, Flourishing Fate (II)

As usual, after dinner around seven o’clock, Chen Hu enthusiastically went out into the courtyard and wheeled out his barbecue motorcycle.

"Mom, I’m heading out to fish!"

"Go ahead. Just be home before midnight."

"Got it!" Chen Hu rode six kilometers to the outskirts, following the riverbank to where the Wujian River met the great river. It was from this very spot that the Six-Horned Armored Beast had once entered the main river.

By now, the riverbank was already lined with fishermen, each holding alloy fishing rods and ultra-composite fiber fishing lines—strong and flexible, a hundred times tougher than steel wire.

Seeing Chen Hu ride up, a middle-aged man waved enthusiastically. "Little Hu, brought your grill again, I see!"

Hauling his barbecue rig down from the motorbike, Chen Hu greeted them with a smile. "Uncle Zhang! How’s the catch today? Big Brother Li, Big Brother Chen, good evening!"

"Not bad. Caught a hundred-jin snakehead fish."

Chen Hu immediately swallowed hard. "A hundred-jin snakehead fish? That’s more than enough for a good feast. Uncle Zhang, what bait did you use today?"

"I went with ice krill mixed with meat-scent powder. Turns out mutated fish go crazy for shrimp laced with that stuff."

"Really? I’ll have to try that next time. I brought some shredded meat from a mutated beast today."

Saying that, Chen Hu walked to a spot by the riverbank a dozen meters away. He first set up his barbecue rack, then pulled out a thick, arm-sized rod that extended to eight meters in length.

Chen Hu tore open a packet of meat-scented fish bait, poured it into a basin with some water, then added a few trimmings of leftover scraps Zhang Xiaolan had cut off from the mutated beast meat while cooking, and began mixing them together.

Ever since Chen Chu became a king, the mutated beast meat supplied to the Chen Family had been of even higher level—specifically, a special type of level 6 colossal beast meat. The energy it contained was gentle and easy to absorb, suitable even for someone like Zhang Xiaolan to eat.

Using such high-level mutated beast meat as bait naturally had an irresistible allure for the mutated fish in the river. This was also Chen Hu’s secret weapon that ensured he never returned empty-handed.

Very quickly, the bait was ready. Chen Hu hooked a chunk of the mixed meat larger than his palm onto an alloy fishing hook and hurled it out with a powerful swing.

Boom!

A splash exploded across the surface of the river, more than a hundred meters away.

Several middle-aged men nearby exclaimed in admiration, "What an arm! That throw went over a hundred meters. Little Hu, your strength is getting insane."

"Hehe, probably because I’ve been eating more lately, so I’m getting stronger too." Chen Hu replied with a sheepish grin, but his expression soon grew serious; his fishing rod had begun to tremble slightly.

Though the pull wasn’t strong and the float hadn’t even sunk, Chen Hu could sense with his acute perception that mutated fish were already circling. These were likely small fish, weighing just a few or a dozen kilograms—too small to bite through the bait or tear at mutated beast meat.

Just then, a surging undercurrent rolled across the river in the distance. In the next instant, Chen Hu felt a powerful tug on his rod. His eyes lit up with excitement. "It’s here!"

Boom!

A tremendous force yanked the line taut in a flash, causing the alloy rod to bend sharply, and the earth beneath Chen Hu’s feet exploded from the sheer force transmitting through the rod. Chen Hu’s excitement spiked. "It’s a big one. Feels like at least three hundred jin."

"Damn, a three-hundred-plus jin monster? Little Hu, can you handle it?" Three men nearby were startled and quickly gathered around.

"No problem. Once it’s done struggling, it’s my turn."

𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

Normally, a fish’s strength in water was three times its body weight. Mutated fish, after transformation, could exert force over ten times their weight. However, even with the fish thrashing in the water with explosive power, it couldn’t shake Chen Hu’s arms in the slightest. His bulging muscles looked like alloy castings, containing immense power. In fact, the only reason Chen Hu wasn’t pulling full-force already was to avoid tearing the fish’s mouth while it was still struggling.

"It’s ready." The moment he sensed the fish’s momentum fade, Chen Hu’s arms exploded with strength, and he yanked back hard on the rod. With a tremendous burst of force, the river’s surface two hundred meters away erupted. A massive golden fish, four meters long, shot hundreds of meters high into the air.

Boom!

Before the three-hundred-plus jin fish could even react, Chen Hu flung it straight onto the road behind him. The impact shook the concrete. The mutated fish, however, wasn’t dead; its lifeforce was formidable. It started to twitch, but before it could leap again, a massive fist crashed down from above.

Crack!

Half of its head, tougher than metal, caved in. Blood and some other fluids sprayed out, staining the pavement red.

A middle-aged man watching the scene shook his head. "Tsk... still as violent as ever, Little Hu."

Chen Hu chuckled and dragged the four-meter-long golden fish back down to the riverbank. Now standing over two meters tall, his brawny figure radiated an overwhelming presence.

Having caught a big fish, the next step was naturally to grill and eat it. He hauled the grass-carp-shaped fish onto a large stone and, with practiced hands, tore off its palm-sized scales one by one. Within minutes, he was done.

Then he pulled out a half-meter-long alloy knife and began gutting it. The fish would still need to be chopped into smaller pieces to fit the grill.

With a swift motion, Chen Hu stabbed into the golden fish’s belly, dragging the blade along its centerline to split it open. A two-meter-long gash tore open, spilling its guts and blood across the riverside.

"Huh?" Chen Hu let out a curious sound. Amid the steaming entrails that stained the riverbank red, he noticed a golden gleam in the fish’s half-meter-wide belly.

"Could there be another treasure?" Chen Hu grew excited. Ever since the world’s transformation, his luck had drastically improved, and he had picked up many valuable resources lately. Naturally, he immediately thought he’d found another good thing.

Splurt!

Chen Hu plunged the knife into the belly again and pried it open. Out spilled the half-digested remains of another fish, and alongside it, a golden stone that looked like jade. It emitted a faint glow, but beyond that, it didn’t seem particularly special.

However, the moment Chen Hu laid eyes on it, a strong, instinctual urge to absorb it surged through his body. The power of his Innate Tyrant Body flared up on its own, radiating a black-and-gold brilliance, but he quickly suppressed it. Zhang Tai and the other two men were walking over, curiously eyeing the glowing stone in the blood-soaked grass.

"Little Hu’s luck really is something. That mutated fish had a treasure in its belly. Looks like a low-level transcendent ore."

Anyone fishing for mutant fish at the riverbank wasn’t an ordinary person. Though none of the three men were particularly powerful, they were all cultivators at the Second or Third Heavenly Realm.

The golden stone didn’t emit any notable energy fluctuations, so they assumed it was just a basic transcendent ore. Still, they couldn’t help feeling a bit envious. Of course, it was only mild envy. After all, it was just a low-level ore—not enough for grown men to harbor ill intentions toward a middle schooler.

"

Hehe!

Looks like today’s haul is pretty good, but I’ll study this thing later. Right now, the most important thing is eating." Chen Hu grinned, washed the stone clean, and stuffed it into his backpack before returning to his preparations.

Though the mutated beast meat supplied at home was more than enough to fill him daily, Chen Hu had already formed a habit—he always went fishing at night to enjoy a grilled snack before bed.

***

After flying for a full day, the orbital battleship carrying Chen Chu suddenly shuddered as it burst out of the azure, gale-swept forbidden zone. The terrain stretched into endless mountains and forests under red sunlight. Towering ancient trees, each hundreds to over a thousand meters tall, blanketed the earth in every direction.

A savage roar, violent enough to shake the heavens, suddenly erupted, sending countless mutated beasts into a frenzy within several hundred kilometers. Atop a mountain dozens of kilometers away stood a quasi-mythical colossal beast, over two hundred meters tall and three hundred meters long. Glaring at the orbital battleship that had trespassed into its territory, it let out a deafening warning roar.

However, before it could launch an attack, the underside of the battleship split open, revealing a fifty-meter-wide cannon barrel brimming with dazzling white light.

Boom!

The atmosphere exploded as a thunderous beam, fifty meters in diameter, shot forth. Blazing with brilliance, it pierced the heavens and descended upon the ten-thousand-meter-tall mountain in an instant.

The mountain collapsed in a blinding flash. In a single blast from the battleship's secondary cannon, it was utterly annihilated. However, the quasi-mythical beast reacted swiftly. At the very moment the energy beam exploded, it vanished and reappeared dozens of kilometers away at terrifying speed.

From behind came another sonic boom—another black battleship, over ten kilometers long, flew out, followed by a third and fourth...

When the colossal beast saw the massive fleet spanning over two hundred kilometers across the sky, blocking out the sun, it shrank back into the forest, no longer daring to show itself.

"We’ve exited the forbidden zone, huh?" Chen Chu said as he slowly opened his eyes aboard Battleship 1. In his gaze, a towering phantom with three faces and eight arms loomed, exuding an aura capable of suppressing the heavens.

After burning 20,000 attribute points in succession and meditating for a full day, Chen Chu had used his War God Body as the core and completed the theoretical foundation reconstruction of the Divine Battle Scripture.

A few months ago, after condensing the true form of the Innate Demon God, the division of his soul ability had unleashed his once-suppressed comprehension ability in full. Innate lifeforms were naturally attuned to the world, and coupled with his formidable soul, Chen Chu’s comprehension talent even surpassed that of other Innate Awakeners like Li Daoyi.

With the epiphany state triggered by burning attribute points, his cultivation speed had become utterly monstrous. At his current pace, he was confident he could complete the Divine Battle Scripture in half a month, and then go on to reconstruct his true form and break through to the peak of the mythical level, perhaps even reach the heavenly king level in one go.

Before that, however, there was one more thing he needed to do. With that thought, Chen Chu slowly stood up and looked toward a major stationed nearby to prevent any disturbances. "I have something to take care of. You don’t need to follow me. I’ll catch up later."

The major paused for a moment, then bowed respectfully. "Yes, my lord."

Chen Chu gave a slight nod, and the space around him distorted. In the blink of an eye, he appeared dozens of kilometers away, and then vanished into the horizon.

***

At that same moment, in the Chaotic Region, the Destructive Dragon Emperor had just finished tempering the ancient titan’s remains. The massive skeleton had been refined into several purple crystal-like chunks of semi-energy material, each several hundred meters long.

Having waited a full day, the Single-Horned Kunpeng could no longer hold back and flew over, eagerly squeaking,

Thunder Fiery, can we go now?

Hold on. One last thing.

Before the Kunpeng’s startled gaze, the Dragon Emperor extended its massive right claw. A sharp, black-and-red talon pierced toward its own chest.

Boom!

A massive energy shockwave erupted as the thick claw met the heavily armored black-and-red chest, bursting with blinding sparks. With its monstrous defense, even piercing itself was no easy task. The Dragon Emperor let out a low growl as its claw forcefully stabbed into its chest.

Ao Tian, what are you doing?! Why are you stabbing yourself?!

From afar, the Silver Colossal Dragon and Golden-Blue Colossal Dragon were shocked.

The black-and-red colossal beast’s enormous head swayed slightly, letting out a deep rumble.

It’s nothing. I’m just extracting a drop of essence.

Before Chen Chu could reconstruct his True Demon God Form, he needed to update the power of his bloodline. Otherwise, once the reconstruction was complete, absorbing anything new would no longer integrate perfectly.

The six great laws, his mighty physique, and the strength of his draconic bloodline formed the three core pillars of Chen Chu’s monstrous power. Supplemented by innate abilities like the Void Death Pupils and his three divine abilities, even at the middle stage of the mythical level, he could already unleash strength comparable to a peak heavenly king.

However, his current foundation was still not enough to truly ascend to the heavenly king level and have the power to clash with, or even slay, demon gods. After all, any demon god who had reached such heights was an extraordinary monster. Whether it was his laws, his cultivation arts, or his bloodline strength, everything needed to be elevated comprehensively.