Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Blood of the Ancestor

The blade cut through the air with a shriek, its vicious strike wrapped in formidable spiritual power. It landed on the vampire queen’s slender shoulder and swept downward, cleaving her entire body in two.

A great gush of blood burst from her like a fountain. Such an exaggerated loss of blood would have sent an ordinary person into shock long ago. Yet her face still wore that intoxicated smile. With a flick of her long fingers, countless blood arrows rained toward Su Cheng like a storm.

Slash, slash, slash.

The blood arrows poured down upon Su Cheng, and in an instant they punched dense holes of blood through his body.

The next second, that figure burst apart like a bubble. Su Cheng appeared in a corner of the room, gazing solemnly at the vampire queen, thinking to himself that it had been a close call.

If he had not used a mirror image to confuse her just now, he would likely have been turned into a hedgehog already.

This vampire’s combat style was similar to a game’s spell-tank. Not only could she control blood, she could also elementalize her body and render all physical attacks ineffective. Against a close-combat class like Su Cheng, one that relied mainly on physical offense, such a special ability made her virtually invincible and extremely difficult to kill.

Even spiritual attacks could injure her, but not kill the vampire queen outright.

At that moment, Su Cheng drew a deep breath and suddenly relaxed, ceasing all resistance, like a salted fish that had given up on its dreams...

“Ha. Giving up already? You really are disappointing me, my queen.” The wounds on the vampire queen’s body vanished. She smiled seductively at Su Cheng and pointed toward the inviting large bed. “Little man, don’t say I didn’t give you a chance. Lie down on that bed obediently, and after I taste your blood, I may show mercy and spare your life.”

Spare Su Cheng’s life was impossible. The vampire queen merely wanted to humiliate him a little; if she could provoke him into losing his composure, that would be even better.

“Fine.”

But what she did not expect was that Su Cheng not only failed to anger, he sprang onto the bed and lay down, wearing an expression that seemed to say, “Come ravage me!”

Seeing this, the vampire queen was instantly stunned. She had assumed Su Cheng would fight her to the bitter end in fury, which would have fallen neatly into her trap. Instead, he had actually cooperated and lain down on the bed?

“What, is my choice really that hard to understand? There’s an old saying: when you can’t resist, close your eyes and enjoy it. Since I have no way to kill you, continuing to fight will only get me killed by you. If I’m going to die anyway, I might as well enjoy myself before the end. At the very least, dying beneath the queen’s skirt would not be a loss.”

Su Cheng lay spread-eagled on the bed and said this with utmost seriousness.

The vampire queen’s expression shifted several times. Su Cheng’s words sounded strangely reasonable, and she was actually left speechless.

Still, she felt that something was off. This man had just been brutally slicing her into more than a dozen pieces moments ago, and now he had abruptly stopped resisting. No matter how she thought about it, it was not normal.

Yet the vampire queen was very confident in her own power. No matter what trick this man played, once his blood was drained, he would die without question.

A flash of cruelty passed through the vampire queen’s eyes. Batlike crimson wings grew from her back, and she lunged at Su Cheng, who was lying on the bed.

The enormous blood wings enveloped him, forming a cocoon. Above him appeared the vampire queen’s exquisitely beautiful face, delicate as white jade.

At that moment, the crimson in her eyes had grown so intense it seemed ready to spill over their edges. Her red lips parted, revealing four pointed fangs lined with grooves of blood.

But just as those fangs were about to sink into Su Cheng’s neck, she suddenly felt a fierce sense of danger.

“I’ve got you.”

Su Cheng’s voice, like the knell of hell, rang in the vampire queen’s ear.

A terrifying aura surged in like a tide. Su Cheng’s eyes turned dark and profound at that moment, like a hellish asura filled with boundless slaughter.

“I’ve been had!”

The vampire queen’s heart jolted. Realizing something was wrong, she tried to pull away, but it was already too late.

Before her eyes, a black hand shot out like lightning and clamped around her snow-white, slender throat.

With Su Cheng’s current strength, a mere squeeze would crush the vampire queen’s throat as easily as tofu.

A trace of fear surfaced involuntarily in the deepest part of the vampire queen’s eyes, though her face still forced itself into calmness. “It’s useless. Even if you crush my throat, you still cannot kill me.”

Seeing the vampire queen pretending to be composed, Su Cheng’s mouth curved into a mocking line.

“From the beginning, I’ve been thinking about one thing: whether you can revive endlessly.”

At those words, the vampire queen’s face drained suddenly white, and her seductive features twisted into something ferocious.

Dark red blood dripped from her face.

Drop by drop.

It stained the bedsheets a vivid crimson.

“Looks like I was right. Neither your elementalization nor your resurrection can be used without conditions or limits.” From the expression on the vampire queen’s face, Su Cheng knew his guess had been correct.

“Your power over blood and resurrection can’t be used indefinitely. I noticed that every time you revived, a wave of energy would ripple from your body. That power is very similar to the spiritual power I use. In fantasy terms, from your side of the world, it could also be called magic.”

“So once that power in your body is exhausted, you should no longer be able to revive.”

Su Cheng had originally thought this vampire was also a player in the horror game, but after the battle just now, that did not seem to be the case. Still, even if she was not a player, she must have known about the existence of professional players.

A cold smile bloomed on his face.

The vampire queen’s pupils contracted sharply. The breath of death enveloped her, and she struggled desperately.

Then black mist rose from Su Cheng’s hand of demons and gods.

With a soft tearing sound, black fingers pierced into the vampire queen’s tender neck.

Blood flowed along his fingers and dripped onto his eye.

His pupils were dyed red by blood, and the world before him turned scarlet.

Yet Su Cheng did not let go. A faint smile touched the corner of his mouth as he looked indifferently into the vampire queen’s eyes.

After his fingers pierced her body, it was clearly visible that the delicate skin on her body withered rapidly, like flower petals losing their moisture. Her plump figure shrank and hollowed out, becoming like those corpses she had once drained dry.

This was the first time Su Cheng had used Devouring Spirit, and the effect was unexpectedly good.

Feeling the pleasure of spiritual power being devoured from the vampire queen’s body, Su Cheng’s eyes revealed a trace of intoxication.

This feeling was simply exhilarating.

“Let go!”

The vampire queen screamed in terror and fury, then clenched her fist and slammed it hard into Su Cheng’s chest.

Though she looked as gentle and fragile as a blooming peony, her strength far surpassed that of ordinary people. In her prime, one punch could have punched a blood hole through Su Cheng.

But now her strength was rapidly leaking away, and that blow was no different from lovers fooling around; it carried no force at all.

Regret rose in the vampire queen’s heart.

If she had not been so overconfident, certain that Su Cheng could not harm her, she would never have been so easily deceived and placed herself in danger.

Who could have imagined that Su Cheng could actually devour her power?

Unfortunately, there was no medicine for regret in this world.

The blood-red hue in the room gradually faded. After gorging himself, Su Cheng kicked the vampire queen off the bed.

He was like a heartless scoundrel who had finished and left without a backward glance.

By now the vampire queen had changed from a proud, cool young lady into a withered old crone. In truth, her real age already exceeded a hundred years; the reason she had been able to maintain her youthful appearance was entirely due to the sustenance of magic.

“I curse you to fall forever into hell. The blood clan will not let you go!”

Two lines of blood tears flowed from the vampire queen’s dried-up eyes, and she glared at Su Cheng with venomous hatred, hurling out a vicious curse.

But a curse like eternal damnation held less killing power for Su Cheng than a curse that he would never find a girlfriend, or that every packet of instant noodles he ate would forever be missing its seasoning.

Before long, the vampire queen’s withered body turned into a pool of blood.

Only Su Cheng failed to notice that, at the instant of her death, a blood-colored mark appeared behind his neck.

At that very moment, Su Cheng noticed a sparkling gem within the pool of blood.

“A gemstone?”

He bent down, picked up the crimson gem, and studied it carefully beneath the lamp.

To his surprise, the crimson gem was teardrop-shaped, as if formed from freshly congealed blood.

Out of curiosity, Su Cheng activated the horror game’s scan-and-identify function and aimed his phone’s camera at the crimson gem. A few seconds later, a line of information popped up.

Primordial Vampire Blood

Type: Mystic Item

Rarity: Legacy

Effect: Unknown

Su Cheng’s expression changed. This crimson gem was actually the blood left behind by the primordial vampire.

If an ordinary human absorbed the blood of the primordial vampire, they could instantly inherit the power of the first blood kin and become a high-ranking member of the vampire race.

If that vampire had absorbed the power of the primordial vampire before fighting Su Cheng, ten of him would not have been enough to kill her.

After his shock faded, Su Cheng gradually calmed and suppressed the urge to absorb the vampire’s power.

The power of the primordial vampire was indeed formidable, but its flaw was equally obvious.

To gain how much power, one had to pay an equivalent price.

After becoming a vampire, Su Cheng would likely be forced to live on blood alone, eventually degenerating into a bloodthirsty monster like the vampire queen.

After hesitating for a moment, Su Cheng still put away the primordial vampire’s blood.

Pushing open the door, a thick stench of blood drifted toward him.

The banquet hall below had already turned into a feast of blood, with dozens of dried corpses lying on the floor, drained of every drop.

Seeing Su Cheng emerge, the vampires in the banquet hall who were chasing the humans flashed with bloodlust in their eyes and lunged toward him.

Su Cheng’s brows relaxed. He drew the black longsword in his hand and met them head-on.