Both of these cultivation arts could refine the "essence of the sun."
"Blood qi... Yang-Soul Immortal Garment."
Wei Tu activated the power of his spirit body, gathering strand after strand of the blood qi overflowing and constantly evaporating from his body due to his breakthrough into fifth-tier body refinement, then weaving it into a "feathered garment" that covered his Dharma body.
This step was crucial.
The reason breaking through to fifth-tier body refinement was several, even dozens of times more dangerous than breaking through to the Spirit Transformation realm was that, during the breakthrough, one's body became like a blazing sun. Blood qi within the body constantly burned and evaporated. If it could not be restrained, it would burn its owner completely away, leaving nothing but ashes.
One major function of the Yang-Soul Immortal Garment was to catch the blood qi evaporating from the bodies of fifth-tier body refiners, allowing the cultivator's body to form an internal cycle and preventing it from burning itself to nothing.
Therefore, only by condensing the "Yang-Soul Immortal Garment" could a body-refining cultivator be considered to have truly succeeded in breaking through to fifth-tier body refinement.
The three pieces of Buddha bone from Sacred Buddha Temple, as well as the Snow-Treading Rhinoceros heart meat gifted by Jianglingzi, did not merely allow Wei Tu to cross the threshold of fifth-tier body refinement. More importantly, they ensured that his blood qi would be greater and richer than that of other cultivators during his breakthrough!
Only then could his blood qi evaporate for longer, giving him more time to weave the "Yang-Soul Dharma Garment" with the power of his spirit body and greatly increasing his chances of success.
"Moreover, even without the Buddha bones from Sacred Buddha Temple and the Snow-Treading Rhinoceros heart meat, my body-refining foundation is