Over the past few days, Gu Yi had consolidated his cultivation, especially taking the opportunity to replenish the vital blood he had expended.
During his battle with Tang Hao, Gu Yi had continuously activated skills such as Blood Ignition and Blood Escape, consuming a considerable amount of vital blood.
A large part of Gu Yi's strength could be said to rest upon this vital blood.
Using vital blood to unleash Blood Ignition, Blood Escape, Blood Burst, and Blood Flame produced effects far beyond those of ordinary true qi and blood.
Gu Yi also used Blood Refinement and alchemy to refine the corpses of the soul beasts whose soul rings Ghost Tiger and Qing Lin had absorbed into pure Blood Pellets brimming with life force and energy.
—This was how Gu Yi had developed his Blood Refinement soul skill over the years. He had progressed from merely condensing his own blood and Soul Power into vital blood to condensing the blood and energy of other living beings into Blood Pellets.
However, Blood Pellets directly refined through Blood Refinement contained many impurities.
Eating them directly would not only fail to strengthen Gu Yi, but would instead contaminate his power.
Thus, they had to be placed into a pill cauldron like medicinal ingredients and refined once more through alchemy to remove those impurities.
With the two methods combined, Gu Yi would only need to absorb and refine these pure Blood Pellets one by one to convert them into his own vital blood.
Besides that, there was a Lake of Life in the core region of the Star Dou Great Forest. The faint life energy it emitted was immensely helpful in condensing vital blood.
On a rock protruding above the lake's surface, Gu Yi slowly exhaled after finishing his cultivation. His breath condensed like