Heaven Mending Operation

Amid the days of celebration throughout the sect, Li Qing remained within his own cave dwelling.

He had only just achieved a breakthrough, and the step he had taken this time was enormous. He needed to properly consolidate his cultivation and allow his somewhat unstable aura to settle.

After meditating and regulating his breath for seven consecutive days, Li Qing's aura gradually stabilized and no longer seemed so unsteady.

"There are still some ancient devil remains left. Keeping them serves no purpose; I might as well refine them all."

Saying this, Li Qing returned to the secret chamber and refined the remaining dozen or so ancient devil corpses in his Storage Bag into blood essence, then poured it all into the blood pool.

He sat cross-legged once more at the center of the blood lotus as its petals wrapped around him, nourishing him.

The life essence within his body gradually replenished itself to fullness, while his cultivation also slowly increased by a small amount.

By the time the blood essence in the pool had been depleted once again, his cultivation had increased by only an almost imperceptible amount.

Compared to when he had been at the Nascent Soul Middle Stage, this degree of cultivation growth was truly far too small.

"Cultivating at the Nascent Soul Late Stage is actually this difficult. The blood essence refined from so many ancient devil corpses can only increase my cultivation by this tiny bit!"

"If one followed the usual path of meditating and cultivating step by step, I fear reaching the perfected Nascent Soul Realm would take time measured in thousands of years."

"No wonder Spirit Transformation stage cultivators are so scarce in the Human Realm. Every great region has only a handful of them at most."

Li Qing sighed. The trace of joy