Blood Replacement Mercury Paste

As mentioned before, in the Profound Desolate Great World, one tael of gold could be exchanged for a hundred taels of silver, one tael of silver for a thousand copper coins, and one copper coin was worth roughly a little over one yuan on Earth.

For several consecutive days, Chaoyun Manor's workshop had earned a net profit of over a hundred taels of silver. Even after deducting the shares given to the apprentices and workers, Song Ankang could still receive nearly a hundred taels of silver.

Earning a hundred taels a day meant more than a hundred thousand yuan!

Back on Earth, let alone earning a hundred thousand a day, Song Ankang could not even make ten thousand yuan in a month. Yet only about a month after transmigrating, he had become a big shot earning a hundred thousand a day.

He had long since repaid the money he owed Ma Jingang, and Song Ankang still had ample silver to buy medicinal herbs and pills. His cultivation realm was rising at an unimaginable speed.

With sufficient medicinal herbs and pills, coupled with the aid of demonic arts and the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance, Song Ankang's strength soon reached the pinnacle of the Marrow Refining Realm. He was about to charge into the Blood Replacement Realm.

His marrow, refined to the limit, gleamed silver, complementing his golden bones refined to the limit and creating the strange sight of golden bones and silver marrow.

Looking at those glittering golden bones and shimmering silver marrow, Song Ankang's face was full of smiles. This was the mark of bones and marrow reaching their current limits. Generally, only warriors with foundations solid to a certain extent could cultivate such outstanding bones and marrow.

After restoring his essence, qi, and spirit to their peak, Song Ankang took a deep breath, mentally prepared himself, and then threw six punches in rapid succession.

"You have executed the Seven Injuries Demonic Scripture. You have suffered the backlash of the Seven Injuries Demonic Scripture. The marrow throughout your body has sustained severe damage... The Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance is taking effect, absorbing external energy and about to transform the backlash. Please wait!"

After many days of bitter cultivation, and with his mental will having strengthened considerably, Zhu Wuyang was already able to unleash six Marrow Injury Fists in one breath and withstand their backlash for a short time, until the backlash struck.

It might not have sounded like much, but every Marrow Injury Fist could unleash roughly two hundred percent of Song Ankang's combat power. Even a Blood Replacement Realm warrior might be blown apart by a single punch. That showed just how terrifying these six Marrow Injury Fists were.

Looking across the entire Xia Kingdom, few Second-rate Warriors could withstand Song Ankang's six Marrow Injury Fists. Even many first-rate warriors could not endure six of them.

From the Skin Injury Fist to the Marrow Injury Fist, there were seven punches in total, collectively forming the Seven Injuries Fist. The further one progressed, the more Seven Injuries Qi and Blood could be mobilized, and the more terrifying its power became.

With Song Ankang's current strength, even the weakest Skin Injury Fist could blow apart a warrior of the same realm with one punch, let alone the most powerful Marrow Injury Fist.

Moreover, after cultivating for so long, and with each breakthrough indirectly further improving his skin and flesh, Song Ankang could now unleash more than a dozen Skin Injury Fists in one breath.

As for the other Flesh Injury Fist, Tendon Injury Fist, Bone Injury Fist, and the like, he could also unleash differing numbers of them according to the toughness of those body parts and Song Ankang's mastery.

Of course, in sparring or life-and-death combat, Song Ankang would not stubbornly keep using a single move and throw punches with all his might. He would instead use different techniques according to the actual situation.

Taken together, Song Ankang could unleash at least dozens of Seven Injuries Demonic Scripture techniques in a single battle, each targeting different parts of the body.

To injure others, one must first injure oneself. This backlash was no ordinary terror, and with the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance transforming it, it was truly Song Ankang's great fortune.

"The Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance has accumulated sufficient energy and is beginning to take effect... Your injuries have been healed. Your qi and blood are increasing. Your marrow is strengthening!"

Several hours later, the backlash from the six Marrow Injury Fists had been completely transformed by the Heavenly Book of Fate Defiance into enormous benefits that surged into Song Ankang's body.

The injuries in his marrow rapidly healed at a visible pace. Vast amounts of pure, powerful Seven Injuries Qi and Blood emerged within his body, while his marrow, which had already reached a certain limit, began to slowly strengthen again, faintly showing signs of breaking through its limits.

Once the Seven Injuries Qi and Blood within him reached a certain level, it stopped growing. Song Ankang knew that the Seven Injuries Qi and Blood in his body had reached its current limit. If he wanted to improve further, he had to condense and compress it, causing it to undergo transformation.

This was blood replacement—replacing the ordinary qi and blood throughout one's body, tempering it and transforming it into stronger qi and blood.

Following the techniques and methods in the Seven Injuries Demonic Scripture, Song Ankang began compressing and condensing this ordinary qi and blood.

As Song Ankang compressed and condensed it, strand after strand of Seven Injuries Qi and Blood began to churn, erupting with fierce resistance that caused his body to slowly swell.

Feeling the pain throughout his body, Song Ankang had long been mentally prepared. He ignored the abnormalities in his body and focused on compressing and condensing the Seven Injuries Qi and Blood.

As a result, Song Ankang's body swelled even more severely. Gradually, he turned into a fat man, then into a huge ball of skin, as though he would explode the next moment. The pain was imaginable.

Had Song Ankang not greatly strengthened his mental will during this period, and repeatedly endured the pain brought by the Seven Injuries Demonic Scripture's techniques, he likely would not have been able to hold on.

After an unknown amount of time, a glint flashed through Song Ankang's eyes, and he suddenly threw three punches.

"Skin Tempering Fist! Muscle Tempering Fist! Sinew Tempering Fist!"

These three punches were all cultivation techniques from the Seven Injuries Demonic Scripture. The three punches merged into one and were unleashed in an instant, immediately compressing the Seven Injuries Qi and Blood, which had already been compressed to a certain extreme, even further. It underwent an unprecedented transformation, forming a strand of qi and blood utterly different from the rest of his Qi and Blood Power.

This strand of qi and blood was viscous and heavy, weighing several times more than ordinary qi and blood, while its power was roughly three times greater. This was what Blood Replacement Mercury Paste meant.

More precisely, only this strand of Qi and Blood Power was qualified to be called Seven Injuries Qi and Blood. Those other ordinary strands of Qi and Blood Power could only be called pseudo-Seven Injuries Qi and Blood.

Three Fists Combined could replace the blood. With the appearance of the first strand of true Seven Injuries Qi and Blood, Song Ankang's strength had crossed the bottleneck and shackles of the Marrow Refining Realm, entering the Blood Replacement Realm.

A smile crossed Song Ankang's face as he once again performed the cultivation techniques of the Seven Injuries Demonic Scripture. It was still Three Fists Combined; only in this way could he extract true Seven Injuries Qi and Blood.

"Skin Tempering Fist! Muscle Tempering Fist! Sinew Tempering Fist..."

Song Ankang repeatedly performed the cultivation techniques of the Seven Injuries Demonic Scripture, tempering the ordinary qi and blood within his body bit by bit into true Seven Injuries Qi and Blood. As more and more ordinary Qi and Blood Power was tempered, Song Ankang's body gradually deflated.

By the time Song Ankang's body had returned to normal, around ten percent of the ordinary qi and blood within him had transformed into Seven Injuries Qi and Blood, and he had stabilized his strength at the Blood Replacement Realm.

What Song Ankang needed to do next was slowly transform all the ordinary qi and blood within his body into Seven Injuries Qi and Blood, while replenishing the Qi and Blood Power lost through compression and condensation.

And during the process of blood replacement, Song Ankang could obtain some enormous benefits as well.