# 722
Chapter 723: The Truth of King's Blood
As this eerie cross of light vanished, savage bloodstains appeared on the Snow Woman's body. She took a weak step forward, and the life in her eyes faded visibly.
Thud!
Her body crashed heavily to the ground.
The blizzard filling the sky began to dissipate. Lin Qiye slowly sheathed both Magatsu Blades and let out a long breath.
Bud after bud blossomed on the Snow Woman's body, nearly drowning her entirely. As the妖艳 flowers bloomed, the Snow Woman's corpse withered rapidly.
A pure, concentrated power surged through the Forbidden Ruins into Lin Qiye's body.
He could clearly feel that with this infusion of power, his realm began to rise again, shooting straight to the peak of "Sea" realm, already touching the bottleneck of entering "Measureless."
If it weren't for the [Eternal Secret Garden] absorbing the vast majority of the power, Lin Qiye felt he could have entered the "Measureless" realm right now. After all, he had killed a "Klein" realm mystery and dozens of weaker demons.
Lin Qiye sensed his own realm state, about to turn back, when a warm, soft figure rushed at him from behind and embraced him.
Lin Qiye froze.
"Jialan?" Lin Qiye turned his head to see Jialan tightly embracing him from behind, puzzled. "What's wrong?"
"Don't speak."
Jialan rested her head against Lin Qiye's back, her arms tightening around him. She closed her eyes, as if savoring something, and softly said, "Let me hold you a little longer..."
Lin Qiye was at a loss, but he didn't push Jialan away. Instead, he stood there quietly, a gentle look appearing in his eyes beneath the mask.
Wu Xiangnan and the knight, having basically finished dealing with the other demons, walked over. Seeing this scene, their expressions immediately became strange.
"What's... this situation?" Wu Xiangnan glanced at Jialan, who was tightly holding onto Lin Qiye, unable to let go, and couldn't help but ask.
Jialan still didn't let go.
Lin Qiye awkwardly rubbed his head, removed the Sun Wukong mask, and said with a smile, "Vice Captain, long time no see."
"Lin Qiye?!"
Wu Xiangnan saw that familiar face, was stunned for a moment, then exclaimed in surprise, "So it was you... Oh, I shouldn't call you Lin Qiye anymore. I should call you Captain Lin."
The current Lin Qiye was no longer the newcomer from Cangnan City's Team 136. He was the captain of the Great Xia Night Watch's Fifth Special Team, the [Nightfall] Squad, a new generation Night Watch leader carrying an important mission.
Lin Qiye smiled helplessly. "Vice Captain, just keep calling me Lin Qiye. I wouldn't dare call myself 'Captain' in front of you..."
In Lin Qiye's heart, the only person worthy of hearing Wu Xiangnan call out "Captain" was Team 136's former captain, Chen Muye.
Without Chen Muye, there would be no Lin Qiye today.
Wu Xiangnan studied Lin Qiye carefully for a long while, a look of approval appearing on his face. He patted Lin Qiye's shoulder and said, "Well done, kid. You didn't disgrace our Team 136. If Hongying and the others could see your achievements now, they'd definitely be thrilled too."
The knight sheathed his western longsword and walked up to the two of them, asking curiously, "And this is..."
"Great Xia Night Watch Fifth Special Team, [Nightfall] Squad Captain, Lin Qiye." Lin Qiye shook hands with the knight and said, "And you must be the 'Sentinel' of the Oath Society?"
Hearing these last words, the knight sensed something immediately. "You know my identity? You've met the 'Paratrooper'?"
Lin Qiye nodded. "He's at the entrance over there."
Lin Qiye briefly recounted what had happened, only deliberately glossing over the meeting with the "Paratrooper." After all, if this knight learned that he had once sent people to beat up Wei Dong, it would be somewhat embarrassing...
It wasn't until hearing Lin Qiye's description that the knight understood why Wei Dong hadn't been waiting directly at the "Gap." He nodded. "Alright, let's go merge with him first, then exchange intelligence together."
The knight and the others possessed intelligence about the outside of the Human Enclosure, while Lin Qiye and Wei Dong possessed intelligence about the inside. As long as the two sides compared notes, they could immediately make a preliminary assessment of the Human Enclosure's destruction plan.
Lin Qiye hummed in agreement, took two steps forward, and his gaze was immediately drawn to the black temple standing atop the ruins.
During the battle earlier, he hadn't been paying attention to it. Now, seeing the silver orb held in the hands of the deity statue, he suddenly felt a strange sense of familiarity...
"That's..." Lin Qiye frowned slightly.
Wu Xiangnan followed his gaze and understanding appeared in his eyes. He explained, "That's the statue of Amaterasu Ōmikami from Japanese mythology."
In fact, Lin Qiye wasn't asking about the stone statue itself, but the silver orb in its hands. He stared at the orb for a long time, until he finally remembered where he had felt this familiar aura before.
It was "Origin"!
Before Nyx left, she had left Lin Qiye with the Origin of Night. It was precisely this Origin of Night that gave Lin Qiye the possibility to nurture his own laws—the most precious gift Nyx had given him.
And the silver orb before him also radiated the aura of "Origin," though it was different from Lin Qiye's Origin of Night.
Was this the "Origin" of another law?
At this moment, inspiration struck Lin Qiye's mind. Many questions that had been troubling him became clear the instant he saw this silver orb.
In his mind, he recalled Amemiya Haruki's words: "King's Blood is an extremely rare constitution... one involuntarily radiates an imperial aura in every gesture... exceptionally handsome features, extremely high intelligence, able to wield the power of Magatsu Blades without their recognition... King's Blood can be acquired later... Yuzuri Kurotetsu went to some ruins once, and after coming out, he had King's Blood..."
Could it be that what they called "King's Blood" was actually "Origin"?
When Yuzuri Kurotetsu entered these ruins, he inadvertently touched this "Origin." Moreover, his physical constitution was highly compatible with this "Origin," so instead of dying from the "Origin's" erosion, he had nurtured a trace of "Origin" power within his bloodline...
As for why it was only a trace, Lin Qiye had an idea about that too. Yuzuri Kurotetsu wasn't Lin Qiye—he didn't have Nyx to help him absorb the "Origin." Before that, he also hadn't obtained God's Ruins compatible with "Origin" through the Asylum of the Gods. So he couldn't fully absorb the entire "Origin."
But just this single thread of "Origin" power was enough to transform his physique, granting him what they called "King's Blood."
And this was the beginning of everything that followed.