Yes, I became a god just by exercising.

Chapter 22 Extraordinary Descendants?

pat!

The snow demon's enormous body split in two and crashed to the ground.

The moment it landed, the white frost on the ground within a radius of about fifty meters immediately contracted towards its body.

Immediately following, the swirling snow, the howling winds, and even the thick, circular ice wall used to trap Xiafa... all simultaneously contracted into the snow demon's body.

Nearly transparent, gelatinous, blue-white blood slowly flowed from its body.

Looking at the vertical section, the tangled, dark organs inside its abdominal cavity were still trembling slightly.

Suddenly, from the thick, blue-white blood on the ground, a hexagonal ice crystal rose up and began to rapidly grow larger and condense.

Shafa held Baal's Blade in his hand, watching this scene unfold.

Without a doubt, this hexahedral-shaped ice crystal is the extraordinary essence of the snow demon that went out of control twice.

But now, that's no longer the key issue.

The real key issue right now is...

What exactly happened to me just now?
He was just an ordinary person who hadn't even signed a secret contract, yet he wielded the Baal Blade and cleaved this elephant-level snow demon in two with a single strike?
The burning sensation in my body had already disappeared the moment I unleashed that strike.

To be precise, with that one strike, everything was released, and there was an indescribable sense of exhilaration.

The ferocity that Baal's Blade had instilled in him dissipated with that single strike, and by the time Shafa landed, his mind had returned to normal.

But the more this happened, the more confused he became. What exactly had just happened to him?
bang-

A sudden sound rang out, sounding particularly jarring in the deathly silence of the entire hall.

Everyone turned around and saw that it was Governor Ellis.

This middle-aged man, with his noble spirit and the strongest man in Rum City, was now unable to hold his rapier, which fell to the ground.

Governor Ellis's eyes remained fixed on the snow demon's corpse, which had been split in two on the ground.

After a long while, he finally managed to turn his neck and look at Xia Fa, his throat feeling dry.
"Young man... how... how did you do that?"

I'd like to know how I did it too...

Xia Fa felt somewhat helpless and didn't know how to answer for a moment.

He had experienced this state of intense heartbeat and feeling like his whole body was on fire when he encountered the bizarre appearance of the crocodile before.

At the time, because the flow of time slowed down, he thought it was a kind of "bullet time" cheat for him.

But now it seems that it's much more than that...

His mind was already racing, trying to come up with a reason to avoid exposing his secret.

There was no other way; the Snow Demon's arrival was too sudden, and his actions were not entirely under our control. Now, we had to come up with a reason that everyone could believe!
Otherwise, in this extraordinary world, although you might not be taken away for dissection and research, you will definitely be subjected to various investigations and surveillance!

Chestnut was equally stunned, its big, dark eyes staring blankly at Xiafa. After a long while, its furry, round ears suddenly twitched, as if it had come to its senses.

But her tone was still full of amazement:

"Xia Fa, how... how are you so amazing?"

Governor Ellis finally learned the young man's name and silently memorized it.

Regardless of the circumstances, someone capable of killing a bizarre elephant-level being that went out of control twice with a single strike is definitely a figure of importance in Rum City.

To exaggerate a bit, he's even better than him!
Archbishop Glenn had been in a daze ever since Xiafa killed the snow demon with a single blow, as if his mind had been shaken by that earth-shattering attack.

But at that moment, upon hearing their questions, a thought suddenly struck him, as if he had remembered something.

When he was a child, he was browsing through books in his family's library, which was only about 30,000 square meters, when he came across an ancient scroll containing ancient knowledge.

That knowledge had long been vague, and was almost completely forgotten after more than a decade, but now it has emerged so clearly.

"hiss……"

Archbishop Glenn hissed softly, glancing at Xia Fa with a bright look in his eyes, tinged with envy:

"Could it be that, Xia Fa, you... are actually a descendant of extraordinary beings?"

Upon hearing this, Chestnut's eyes flickered, revealing a thoughtful expression.

Governor Ellis asked curiously:
"A descendant of extraordinary beings?"

Xia Fa was also quite surprised. A descendant of extraordinary beings?
Does such a thing even exist in this world?
He was just wondering what good reason to give, so he simply pretended to look blankly at Archbishop Glenn, revealing a look of curiosity.

Archbishop Glenn spoke slowly, his blue eyes filled with reminiscence and contemplation.

"That's the occult knowledge I saw in the Adoni Scrolls when I was a child."

"Legend has it that in the first ten thousand years after the creation of the universe, there was a supernatural being of the cosmic level named Baal who roamed the universe."

"Whenever it arrives at a habitable planet, it transforms into a handsome man, seeks out a woman it admires, meets her, falls in love, marries her, and spends the rest of its life with her." "Until its wife dies of old age, it will transform back into a giant beast, wander to the next habitable planet, and begin another unforgettable love story."

“If it were just like that, the nine great gods wouldn’t have bothered with it.”

"But one day, the Baal beast suddenly went mad. When it wandered to the outside of a certain inhabited planet, instead of turning back into a human, it devoured a large part of that planet. And it didn't stop after it finished eating it."

"On that planet, the surviving people cried out and wailed, praying to the nine true gods."

"In the end, the supreme, powerful, and virtuous [Silver Universe] made a move and killed the Baal Beast. You all know what happened after that."

Although he was the archbishop of the Church of Nature, he used unusually reverent language when referring to the deity worshipped by the Church of the Silver, perhaps because he was right outside the church.

Chestnut was quite pleased, as if it had solved a major problem, and excitedly said:
“Yes, I remember now! It is recorded in our church’s scriptures that after God killed the Baal, He used its flesh and blood to repair the life-bearing planet, extracted its spine to forge the legendary Broken and Decayed Spear, and took its ribs to forge twelve battle blades, which were placed in twelve churches as sacred objects.”

Alice pondered and said:
"Hmm... Come to think of it, I seem to have heard historians mention that its eyeballs were also crafted into sacred objects and are now kept in the Earthly Divine Kingdom of the [Silver Universe]?"

Chestnut confirmed:
"That's right, that's the Baal Demon Eye, which is on par with the Broken and Decaying Spear!"

At this point, her eyes sparkled with surprise as she looked at Xia Fa and said:
"So, Shafa, you... are actually an extraordinary descendant of the Baal behemoth?"

Ellis was still somewhat confused, mainly because he didn't understand what a descendant of the extraordinary was, or rather, what characteristics they had.

Clearly, as a governor appointed by the royal family and a superhuman who grew up in the army, his knowledge of mysticism was far less extensive than that of the two archbishops.

Archbishop Glenn stated with great certainty:
"That's the only possibility. After all, Xia Fa can't be a monster, otherwise he wouldn't be able to enter the St. Vivian's Church. Nor can he be a physical entity, otherwise even if the Snow Demon lost control three times, it wouldn't dare to approach him. So..."

He paused, as if remembering something:
"According to the same Adoni Scroll, after the Silver Universe killed the Baal Beast, it promised to treat its descendants well in the face of its awakened soul. Only the extraordinary descendants of the Baal Beast can use the sacred Baal Blade when they are just ordinary people without their bodies collapsing."

The chestnut suddenly hissed softly.
"Now that you mention it, I seem to recall reading about it in church texts before. A few hundred years ago, there was a transcendent descendant of the Baal behemoth. Everyone, wait a minute..."

She was speaking when she suddenly turned and ran towards the church. To everyone's astonishment, she quickly came out again, carrying an old book and flipping through it.

"Yes, this is it, look!"

Chestnut pointed to a page in the ancient book with her fair, white fingers and read it aloud.

"The extraordinary descendants of Baal, like other extraordinary descendants, are randomly born from its bloodline and cannot be stably inherited."

"The most prominent characteristic of the extraordinary descendants left behind by Baal is that their mental stability far exceeds that of ordinary people."

"After all, the Baal is not an ordinary cosmic-level supernatural creature, but a being close to being a god."

"Secondly, if its extraordinary descendants encounter danger and are within the range of Baal's Warblade's sensing range, Baal's Warblade will step forward, transforming into the descendants' weapon, and temporarily enhancing their combat power by infusing power into the extraordinary descendants' bodies."

But immediately, her petite body trembled:
"However, according to the records in this ancient book, even the extraordinary descendants of the Baal behemoth cannot use the Baal Blade more than seven times. On the seventh use, they will be unable to withstand the pre-death violence left in the Baal Blade and will completely lose control..."

Chestnut looked at Xia Fa with considerable worry and said:
"Shafa, you need to be careful about this. If that's the case, you can only use Baal's Blade five more times."

Xia Fa smiled:
"Okay, no problem. But don't worry, I can't possibly get entangled with this powerful and bizarre thing that goes out of control every time, can I?"

To be honest, when Glenn and Chestnut first told him about the secrets of the Baal, he really thought he was a superhuman descendant of that Baal.

But just now, he clearly sensed that when the Baal Blade flew into his palm, it did try to infuse a strange but powerful force into his body, but it triggered a reaction in his body and was expelled by his body.

In other words, he could not possibly be a descendant of the Baal behemoth.
Because... the power that allowed him to cleave the snow demon originated from within his own body!

Rather, it originated from Baal's Blade.

However, Xia Fa decided to accept this identity first, since at first glance there seemed to be no problem.

Most importantly, he no longer needs to go to the trouble of making up excuses to cover up his many secrets.

"Wait, is this what they mean by having a great Confucian scholar debate the classics for me?"

Suddenly realizing this, Xia Fa felt a mix of amusement and exasperation.

Don’t say that, don’t say that!

With extremely high mental stability, he can wield the Baal Warblade, a sacred artifact-level sealed item... From other people's perspectives, he truly is an undisputed extraordinary descendant of the Baal behemoth!

At this moment, Governor Ellis and the other two all turned their gazes toward Xia Fa, seemingly confirming his identity as a descendant of the extraordinary, their expressions differing.

Governor Ellis and Archbishop Glenn were more envious than surprised, while Chestnut was simply happy for him.

"I never expected you to be a descendant of an extraordinary being, Xia Fa. Are you really unwilling to join our Church of Nature? Think about it."

Archbishop Glenn smiled and spoke, once again trying to win over Xiafa.

pat!

Suddenly, a crisp sound, like an ice cube hitting the ground, reached everyone's ears.

Everyone turned to look and saw that the extraordinary essence on the snow demon that had lost control for the second time had been fully condensed.

"Wait, what is this...!"

But immediately, Governor Ellis's expression changed, and his gaze toward the extraordinary primordial substance suddenly became filled with surprise and uncertainty!
(End of this chapter)