Tattered Blood Letter, Cultivating the Dragon Grasp

However, when Shen Fan flipped to the tenth layer of the Nine Nether Corpse Refinement Art, where the method for refining oneself into a corpse puppet was recorded, he forcefully suppressed the eager thought in his heart.

It wasn't that he didn't want to try, but the refining method was simply too demanding.

To refine oneself into a corpse puppet, the first step was to slowly immerse the body with nine hundred eighty-one thousand strands of corpse puppet energy.

What did this mean?

It meant you had to find eight hundred and ten thousand corpse puppets to assist in cultivation.

But where could he find so many people to act as corpse puppets!

Secondly, he needed to use refined metal to absorb Geng metal energy, melt his own body, scorch his blood vessels, and temper his bones.

And the final step was even more cruel, requiring the blood of three thousand virgins to be completely fused with his own body before he could achieve the great path of corpse puppets.

Unbeknownst to Shen Fan, he wasn't the only one who wanted to reach the heavens in a single bound and directly become a corpse puppet king.

In the Nine Nether Corpse Puppet Sect, any disciple who could access the complete content of the Nine Nether Corpse Refinement Art wanted to achieve this step.

Because of this, three hundred years ago, the disciples of the Nine Nether Corpse Puppet Sect wreaked havoc in the mortal world, wantonly slaughtering mortals.

In those years, the Great Li Kingdom was like a living hell, and the people suffered unspeakably.

Villages, towns, and county cities, wherever there were gatherings of people, countless individuals were brutally slaughtered and refined into corpse puppets.

This inhumane chaos ultimately triggered the grand act of the Four Great Immortal Sects joining forces to attack.

The content of the Nine Nether Corpse Refinement Art was too shocking, and it took Shen Fan a long time to recover from his shock.

At noon, after Shen Fan had lunch, he began to clean up the trash in the Waste Elixir Chamber.

According to the rules, it had to be cleaned every three days, and today was the day.

"Huh? What's this?"

Just then, Shen Fan's eyes suddenly lit up.

He took a closer look and saw a piece of dirty white cloth, half-burnt, hidden in the dirt among the residue and waste.

Shen Fan took it out and gently shook off the dust. Upon closer inspection, several blood-red characters caught his eye.

Shen Fan's pupils suddenly contracted, and he saw the shockingly written words:

Warning!

Elixir Forging Peak uses humans to refine... elixirs.

Do not enter, do not enter, do not enter!

Heavenly Xuan Sect is the... path of righteousness!

The content was incomplete and difficult to decipher in its entirety. But the blood-red characters made one feel a chill down their spine.

This was clearly a blood letter written by someone with their own blood.

"What is this writing about!"

Shen Fan was full of doubts and put away the torn cloth.

It had to be said that he could occasionally find some strange things in this Waste Elixir Chamber.

One day, Shen Fan even found a fish bladder!

It was just that the fish bladder was too small.

After cleaning up, Shen Fan picked up a few more waste pills, put them away, went out, and opened the gate of the incinerator.

All the accumulated waste residue was poured down and completely burned by the Core Earth Fire.

Afterward, Shen Fan opened the torn cloth with the blood-red characters again and studied it carefully.

Driven by curiosity, he couldn't help but feel curious about the content.

"What exactly is written on this?"

Especially since this thing came from Elixir Forging Peak.

The peak of Elixir Forging Peak was used by Inner Sect disciples;

The mountainside was used by Outer Sect disciples.

All the waste materials were dumped from the mountain gully and processed uniformly in the Waste Elixir Chamber.

The person who wrote this blood letter must be hiding some shocking resentment!

But the content was incomplete, how could he see the whole picture!

"I've got it!"

Shen Fan's eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately placed it into the Treasure Gathering Universe Bowl.

This Treasure Gathering Universe Bowl can even complete incomplete cultivation methods, so naturally, this tattered blood scroll is no problem!

It will take a day to repair this item.

Next, Shen Fan took out another body refinement technique he had obtained from Baishitong and began to study it.

"Dragon Grasp?"

This looks like a mundane martial art.

But it's clearly marked as a first-order, mid-grade spell.

Now that Shen Fan has the Blood Spirit Unification Art and the Polar Ice-Fire Body Forging Art to cultivate his physical body, his strength and defense have been greatly improved.

He does indeed need a body refinement attack technique.

This Dragon Grasp is just right.

Shen Fan saw it clearly when he refined Baishitong into a corpse puppet; that one move of Dragon Grasp directly pierced Zhao Erhu's heart.

Its power is not to be underestimated.

But after examining it, Shen Fan was shocked to discover that Baishitong had only mastered the superficial aspects of this technique.

He had only become proficient in the close-quarters combat benefits of the first half, but he had not learned the telekinetic object retrieval technique of the second half.

The Dragon Grasp is advantageous for close-quarters combat in the first half; when cultivated to the great perfection stage in the second half, it can retrieve objects from a distance. Combined with the power of the first half, it can even take a person's head from a hundred meters away.

It is truly a body refinement technique that excels at both long and short ranges.

"Good, good, good!"

Shen Fan looked at the Dragon Grasp with satisfaction and couldn't wait to start cultivating it.

The Dragon Grasp seems to have evolved from mundane martial arts.

The initial cultivation method is quite ordinary, resembling iron palm and other methods for practicing the hands.

"The early practice of this Dragon Grasp requires training the hands to be indestructible, with five claws like eagle talons, possessing the sharpness of knives and swords, to achieve the effect of breaking the enemy!"

But currently, there are no auxiliary cultivation items, such as iron sand.

Thinking of this, Shen Fan was immediately troubled.

"That's right!"

After a moment of thought, Shen Fan immediately had an idea.

"The Polar Ice-Fire Body Forging Art can temper the entire body, providing an absolute defense effect. Wouldn't using this technique to temper the hands have the same effect?"

Thinking of this, Shen Fan immediately activated the Profound Water Freezing Art, temporarily converting his water Spirit Root into an ice Spirit Root.

Then, he circulated the Polar Ice-Fire Body Forging Art, gathering the power of ice and fire on his hands to achieve the cultivation effect.

As the fire spiritual energy circulated to his hands, the scorching pain even made Shen Fan feel like he smelled roasted chicken wings.

As the temperature reached the mark, the ice spiritual energy swept in.

Shen Fan felt as if he had returned to his childhood, when his hands were frostbitten because he didn't have cotton clothes to wear.

After the alternating ice and fire, the meridians of his hands were clear, and his blood surged.

His strength and defense were greatly improved.

After repeatedly tempering them in this way, Shen Fan clearly felt the power and defense coming from his hands, as if they could tear apart a fierce tiger.

"So strong!"

Shen Fan sighed inwardly.

"I didn't expect that using the Polar Ice-Fire Body Forging Art to temper a specific body part individually would have such an amazing effect!"

Previously, the cultivation was aimed at the whole body; but now, targeting a specific body part has such a significant effect.

Thinking of this, Shen Fan couldn't help but look down, then shivered and shook his head.

That thing has a double ice and fire effect, but it's not used that way; it'll break!