WDQK I Will Not Be The Protagonist Stepping Stone!

Chapter 2: The Nine Netherbird

The sudden change left Lin Langtian's mind in a state of confusion and shock. 

However, when he received the information transmitted by the energy fluctuations, his eyes immediately filled with joy!

The Nine Netherworld Bird!

As someone who had been reborn, how could he not know what this Nine Netherworld Bird represented?

In the Great Thousand World, there is a record called the Myriad Beast Record, which lists countless beast races. 

Any race that made it into the Myriad Beast Record was a formidable existence.

Among them, the Nine Netherbird is ranked eleventh on the Myriad Beast Record.

The Nine Netherbird is born in the Northern Underworld. Its wings can cover mountains, and its Netherworld Light can swallow the sun and moon.

The Nine Netherworld Bird, on the other hand, has made it to the Heavenly List of the Myriad Beast Record—a divine beast surpassing the Nine Netherbird!

From the information Lin Langtian received, he saw a vast continent in the distant void of the Great Thousand World. 

At that moment, deep within the endless continent, an enormous crimson bird was screeching towards the sky. 

Crimson light swept out from its body, covering the sky as it fiercely battled against a gigantic black eagle.

The battle between these two peak divine beasts seemed capable of shattering the surrounding space and land.

The battle continued for an unknown amount of time until the land itself was on the verge of collapse. 

The crimson bird’s eyes hardened, and its body suddenly emitted an immensely terrifying crimson light.

As the crimson light grew more intense, it eventually transformed into crimson flames, enveloping the bird. 

Its screech grew increasingly tragic as it, along with the black eagle, was engulfed in the crimson flames.

The scene shifted. 

The massive body of the crimson bird rapidly shrank within the dense crimson flames. 

In a final cry, it transformed into a crimson essence that, by coincidence, fused with Lin Lang’s soul, taking over the original body.

“So it was by chance that I merged with the essence of the Nine Netherworld Bird. No wonder it ended up in the East Xuan Continent,” Lin Langtian murmured softly.

As a noble bloodline within the Nine Netherworld Bird clan, the Nine Netherworld Bird wouldn’t usually lower itself to descend to a lower plane, even in the Great Thousand World.

This Nine Netherworld Bird chose mutual destruction with an opponent of equal strength. 

As a result, only its essence remained, which eventually fused with Lin Lang’s soul, bringing them both to the East Xuan Continent.

Understanding this, Lin Langtian began to contemplate. 

The Nine Netherworld Bird held tremendous significance for him, much like how Yao Chen was to Xiao Yan or Lin Diao to Lin Dong—a key to his rise.

With the Nine Netherworld Bird, he might not need to seize Lin Dong’s opportunities to compete with these favored children of heaven!

He, Lin Langtian, would not play the supporting role!

As Lin Langtian pondered, the Nine Netherworld Bird’s essence suddenly emitted a weak signal, entering his mind.

Receiving this information, Lin Langtian was momentarily stunned, but then his face lit up with joy.

A bloodline link!

The Nine Netherworld Bird wanted to establish a bloodline link with him.

Lin Langtian was no stranger to the concept of a bloodline link. 

He knew it was a method only those with ancient divine beast bloodlines could utilize.

Simply put, it was a special technique that connected the bloodlines of a human and a divine beast.

The advantage of this was that it would allow Lin Langtian to possess the abilities of the Nine Netherworld Bird, a far superior method to simply refining the beast essence.

However, there was a downside: the host and the divine beast would become closely linked. 

If one died, the other would not survive.

Lin Langtian didn’t care about this. 

Risk and reward go hand in hand. 

Compared to the reward, what did this risk matter?

Besides, he was just a weakling from a lower plane. 

Forming a bloodline link with a Nine Netherworld Bird from the Great Thousand World was an unbelievable fortune!

With this in mind, Lin Langtian no longer hesitated. 

Following the instructions from the Nine Netherworld Bird’s message, he pricked his finger, releasing a drop of crimson blood.

At the same time, the essence of the Nine Netherworld Bird emitted a black pattern.

This pattern burned with black flames, giving off an extremely mysterious aura, as if it could communicate with the deepest secrets of the human body, absorbing Lin Langtian’s blood.

Seeing that the Nine Netherworld Bird was emitting black flames instead of crimson ones, Lin Langtian was momentarily surprised but quickly realized.

The Nine Netherworld Bird had suffered severe damage during that ancient battle, seemingly dropping from the Nine Netherworld Bird to the Nine Netherbird.

But even so, Lin Langtian didn’t mind. 

The Nine Netherbird was still an invincible existence in the East Xuan Continent, and a bloodline degradation wasn’t beyond recovery.

Hiss. Hiss.

The blood soaked the black flame pattern, emitting white mist. 

However, it wasn’t burned away but instead fused into the pattern, slowly flowing until it occupied half of it.

At this moment, the Nine Netherworld Bird slowly opened its eyes, gazing at Lin Langtian with a complex expression. 

Then, black light flickered between its brows.

A drop of dark black blood shot out, with tiny black flames seemingly burning within it.

This drop of dark black blood also merged into the black pattern, occupying the other half.

Buzz

The two bloods each occupied half of the black flame pattern, and then the pattern began to rotate slowly. 

The two bloods, guided by the pattern’s rotation, made contact.

Boom!

As soon as the two made contact, both Lin Langtian and the Nine Netherbird trembled violently, but their gazes remained fixed on the rotating black flame pattern.

Buzz! Buzz!

As the two drops of essence blood completely merged, the black flame pattern burst into a dazzling light.

Then, the black flame surged, igniting the pattern entirely.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Two streams of dark red essence blood shot out from the black flames, directly into Lin Langtian’s forehead and the Nine Netherworld Bird’s brow.

The black flames surged, and it seemed as though a black flame mark appeared, eventually merging into the depths of their bodies.

When the black flame mark merged into their bodies, a strange sensation filled their hearts, a feeling of shared life and death.

After the bloodline link was completed, the Nine Netherbird seemed to sense something and suddenly let out a clear cry. 

A surge of black flames flooded towards a certain part of Lin Langtian’s body.

“No, don’t!”

As the black flames approached, a scream echoed from within Lin Langtian’s body, but the Nine Netherworld Bird remained unmoved, directly devouring it.

In just a few moments, after swallowing this soul, the previously weakened Nine Netherbird’s aura began to recover, and Lin Langtian also benefited.

His cultivation, originally at the pinnacle of the Yuan Dan stage, began to stir. His aura surged rapidly, like a rollercoaster.

In just a few moments, he had reached the first stage of the Three Stages of Creation, the Form Creation Stage!