The purple moon hung in the air, sprinkling wisps of purple moonlight, but it was obscured by the dense foliage in the woods in early spring.

The woods were pitch black, and occasionally there was a strange sound, which was an active nocturnal animal, frolicking and hunting.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Eight figures shuttled quickly through the pitch-black woods, with only sporadic moonlight flickers, and the darkness in the woods seemed to have no effect on them, and they were like ghosts blending into the night.

The moonlight that shone from the leaves occasionally fell on them, and they could see that their clothes and trousers were more or less torn, accompanied by dried blood.

They were the Assassins of the escaped Serpent of Shadows, and they were evacuating the Marquis of Sidney under the cover of dense woods in the dark night.

This time, there were more than fifty members of the Shadow Serpent in the Marquis of Sidney, but at this time, there were only eight of them, and the others were either captured alive or killed.

"Damn the Oliver family!"

One of the three captains, a woman with an eyepatch on her left eye, gritted her teeth.

With the usual caution and caution of the members of the Shadow Serpent, it should be unlikely that the news will leak out, and the news must have leaked from the Oliver family.

"It's dead!"

Another captain-level figure, the short-haired brown-haired man, shrugged.

In order to avoid being tracked by the Sidneys, they did not dare to enter the town to find out the news, so they did not know what was going on outside, but he could imagine it.

Now that the Shadow Serpent has been besieged, the relationship between the Oliver family and the Shadow Serpent must have been exposed, and in this case, the end of the Oliver family can be imagined.

"It's not normal."

The purple-haired man, who was also a captain-level figure, frowned.

"When it comes to their own interests, the Oliver family should be extremely careful, and they shouldn't leak the news."

"It's a bit abnormal."

The short brown man nodded.

"After evacuating the Marquis of Sidney, you need to check carefully to see how the news leaked and which family notified the Sidney family!"

"Hmph, it's better not for us to find out!"

The woman in the blindfold snorted coldly, her eyes full of cold and bone-chilling killing intent.

……

Half a year later, the training ground south of Fergus Castle.

Gray maintained the cultivation of the fourth cultivation posture of the blood method "Wind Wolf", "Looking up to the sky".

Drops of sweat slid down between his temples, from the tip of his nose, and onto the stone slabs, spreading rapidly into a large exaggerated wet mark.

This was already the fifth time that he had cultivated the Blood Method, and he was trembling slightly, almost unable to maintain his cultivation posture of "looking up to the sky".

Smack!

Finally, he couldn't hold on any longer, and staggered backwards, breaking away from the cultivation posture of "looking up to the sky".

He looked sideways at the hourglass next to him, and saw that there was about 1/10 of the sand left in the hourglass.

"Whew, whew!"

With a few exhales, Gray got up from the ground and patted the dust off his buttocks.

"It's a bottleneck!"

In a situation like today, where there is still 1/10 of the grain of sand left, but it can no longer be held on, it has been two days in a row, and it is obvious that he is stuck in a bottleneck.

Just one step further, his body will undergo a huge metamorphosis, from a high-ranking blood warrior to a fierce blood warrior, and he is now stuck at this critical point.

"Looking at this, it should take half a month to break through the bottleneck."

Because he was already a high-ranking blood warrior, Viscount Fergus explained to him a lot of things about the bottleneck from a high-ranking blood warrior to a fierce blood warrior.

Under normal circumstances, this bottleneck of advancing from a high-ranking blood warrior to a fierce blood warrior is extremely solid.

Those with better qualifications will be stuck for a few months, while those with worse qualifications may be stuck for several years.

However, his own situation is special, his body is in the "second transformation" after swallowing the blood of the blood beast, and the increase speed is more than ten times faster than that of ordinary people.

That's why he came to the guess that it would take about half a month to break through the bottleneck, and this kind of speed to break through the bottleneck is unimaginable to others.

"But this is just a normal situation, if there is a foreign object to help, the situation is different."

He couldn't help but think of the bottle of concentrated potion, and now was the perfect time to use it.

The bottle of concentrated potion that Viscount Fergus rewarded him was originally intended for him to use when he was at the bottleneck of the middle blood warrior to the upper blood warrior, but he didn't use it at the time, thinking it was too wasteful, and now he can use it.

"Young master, over there in the bathroom, I have already asked people to prepare hot water."

Leaving the open space south of the castle, Barbara, the maid who followed behind Gray, said.

"Hmm."

Gray nodded, thought for a moment, and then said.

"You go and tell the servant in charge of the bathroom, keep the water warm, and before I go to the bathroom, I want to go back to the bedroom!"

"Yes, young master!"

Barbara, the maid, respectfully answered.

Back in the bedroom, from the compartment under the coffee table, took out the bronze vial containing the concentrated potion.

Gray's hand reached for the cork, but retracted, placing the bronze vial in his coat pocket, pulling the door open and leaving the bedroom.

He was going to go to the bathroom and soak in the bath, so that even if he sweated a lot, he wouldn't feel bad.

When he got to the bathroom, he waved off the servant and closed the bathroom door, and Gray stepped into the bath.

The bath of the Fergus family is made of a very delicate stone with a white jade color, which is one meter wide and more than two meters long.

Crash!

Undressed, bronze vial in hand, Gray stepped inside, and sat down on one of them.

Then he uncorked the bronze vial and poured it into his mouth in one gulp, a slightly bitter taste that permeated his mouth.

Then, a hot sensation appeared from the stomach and quickly spread throughout the body.

Because lying in the bathtub, he could clearly see that his skin had turned crimson, as if he had rubbed a woman's fat powder.

Then, a strong tingling sensation suddenly appeared, covering every skin and muscle all over the body......

He is like steel baked and pounded on a fire, removing impurities and refining essences.

The strength of his body was rapidly increasing, and among the pores of his body, black stains gradually oozed out, and the originally clear water in the bathtub slowly took on some black.

These black stains are the tissues in his body, the impurities produced in the process of his body becoming stronger.

It is like a thousand years of steel, in the process of repeated folding and beating, the impurities are expelled from it.

This went on for half an hour, and finally, at some point, the heat and numbness of his body disappeared, and his body no longer excreted black impurities.

"Blood Warrior!"

Click!

With a slight clench of his fist, the joints crackled, and a feeling of power arose in his heart.

He knew that he should be a blood warrior by now!