All Gods: Starting with Two Families

Chapter 17 Totem VoidA sense of impending doom instantly gripped Zhou Zheng.

What were the Farming Gods plotting in the shadows?

Where did this knowledge of ’Water Veins’ come from?

The unknown brought a sense of crisis. He had to increase his strength faster!

Suppressing the surging thoughts in his heart, Zhou Zheng no longer hesitated.

His Divine Thought surged like a torrent, imprinting the complete information of the [Orc Basic Blood Qi Condensation Method] directly into the depths of the consciousness of all adult Serpent-man Warriors and Eagle People warriors in the tribe!

Increasing the overall strength of his vassals and condensing Blood Gems was a matter of extreme urgency!

As the command was issued, the entire oasis was instantly ignited by the passion for cultivation.

In the open spaces, under the shade of trees, and even on the crudely built eagle nest platforms, vassals could be seen everywhere sitting cross-legged or assuming strange body-tempering postures.

Their breathing became long and rhythmic, the blood vessels under their skin bulged slightly, and wisps of pale red blood qi seeped from their pores, slowly condensing and outlining on the surface of their bodies under the guidance of a certain power.

At first, they were blurry patterns, like red marks under the skin.

As the cultivation deepened, those with firm will and strong physiques began to show clear, stable dark red lines on their skin—Blood Patterns!

These Blood Patterns throbbed slightly like living things, and with each throb, they brought an increase in strength and combat instinct.

At the same time, the feathered serpent totem on Zhou Zheng’s forehead also emitted a gentle cyan-gold light.

He could clearly ’see’ that inside the energy-based body of the totem spirit, three deep, vortex-like apertures had quietly emerged!

The apertures rotated slowly, emitting a hungry aura, waiting to be ’filled’.

“Three apertures... as expected, it corresponds to the potential of an A-rank totem!”

Zhou Zheng understood. Totem abilities were like skill points on a talent tree, and apertures were the ’slots’ that held the skills.

B-rank totems usually only had 1-2 apertures, while S-rank ones only existed in legends.

The more apertures there were, the stronger and more diverse the abilities the totem could master in the future.

But at the same time, this meant that the amount of Blood Gems required would be massive!

Lighting up each aperture and activating or upgrading an ability required Blood Gems as fuel!

Time passed amidst the sweat of cultivation and the evaporation of blood qi.

The vassals’ Blood Patterns became clearer and clearer, and the feathered serpent totem’s absorption of the escaping blood qi became smoother. The prototype of the first Blood Gem, the size of a grain of rice and dim in color, had slowly condensed at the core of the totem spirit.

However, crisis always descends when least expected.

Perhaps the eight years of nourishment from the Spring of Life had made the oasis’s water source too abundant, or perhaps the Life aura brought by the surge in the number of vassals was too vigorous, or perhaps the newly expanded Cloud Mist Barrier ultimately failed to perfectly conceal all fluctuations...

That terrifying existence hidden deep beneath the sea of sand, possessing a fatal thirst for water—the Sandworm—finally captured the incredibly alluring ’sweet spring’ aura at the core of the oasis!

Rumble—!!!

Without any warning!

Beneath a relatively weak part of the Cloud Mist Barrier at the edge of the oasis, the earth surged and collapsed violently as if it were boiling!

Yellow sand was kicked up by a violent force, forming a sandstorm that blotted out the sun!

A terrifying giant maw covered in thick chitinous carapace, over ten meters in diameter, burst out of the ground like the gates of Hell!

“Wooo—!!!”

The Sandworm’s hiss, filled with the desire for destruction, made the entire oasis tremble!

It completely ignored the cloud mist that had protected the vassals for years. Its huge mouth opened, and a terrifying suction force instantly erupted!

Several Serpent-man Warriors who were cultivating at the edge and caught off guard, along with an Eagle People scout circling low on guard, didn’t even have time to scream before they were pulled by that peerless suction, along with large patches of sand and vegetation, into that bottomless giant maw!