Bloodletting

After putting away the Shore Flower, Old Ancestor Styx stopped dawdling. He took out the Twelve-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus, sat cross-legged before the Forbidden Stone Tablet, and began sorting through the insights he had gained from traveling through the Blood Sea. On this journey, he had first obtained two High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, then refined the Forbidden Stone Tablet of the Nether Blood Sea, and even acquired a High-grade Innate Spiritual Root.

All innate objects contained Dao Resonance. By refining these Spiritual Treasures, Spiritual Roots, and Formation cores, Old Ancestor Styx had gained a great deal of insight. His realm rose rapidly, easily breaking through the barrier between Profound Immortal and Golden Immortal, reaching Mid Golden Immortal before he had fully absorbed the gains from this journey. This also meant that if not for the Heaven and Earth Shackles, Old Ancestor Styx could swiftly raise his cultivation to the Golden Immortal realm without worrying about an unstable foundation!

After his realm broke through, Old Ancestor Styx began advancing his cultivation. By the time he emerged from seclusion, his cultivation had reached Late True Immortal, another breakthrough across two minor realms in succession. In truth, under the pressure of the Great Dao and Great God Pangu, the limit cultivators should have been able to reach ought to have been Mid True Immortal. Perhaps because of his Pangu bloodline, coupled with his earlier creation of the Acquired Dao and the merits of the Blood Scripture, the Great Dao and Great God Pangu seemed to have shown Old Ancestor Styx some favor. After breaking through to Mid True Immortal, Old Ancestor Styx felt that he could still advance, so he naturally broke through to Late True Immortal before he once again sensed the shackles.

Old Ancestor Styx simply ended his seclusion. Perhaps due to his breakthrough in cultivation and his refinement of the Nether Blood Sea Formation, Styx felt that he could now begin refining Blood God Son Avatars. As long as the Blood Sea did not dry up, Styx would not die! It was time to put that on the agenda! Once the Blood God Sons were refined, he could take a trip around the Great Wilderness! Old Ancestor Styx thought.

Returning to the place where he had been nurtured, Old Ancestor Styx first took out the Nascent Soul that had been nourished within the Ghost Soul Treasure Tree. After being nurtured for nearly one Tribulation, this portion of his Nascent Soul had recovered until its origin was full. If it continued to be nurtured, it would likely merge into the origin of the Ghost Soul Treasure Tree! He drew the Nascent Soul back into his sea of consciousness and used his original Nascent Soul to clear away the foreign traces clinging to it, restoring it to a pure state!

He then took out the Blood Scripture and carefully contemplated the avatar method contained within it. In the original Space-Time, Old Ancestor Styx had refined the entire Blood Sea into his body. Every drop of blood within the Blood Sea could become an avatar of Old Ancestor Styx. In the current Old Ancestor Styx's view, although avatars refined in this manner could achieve As long as the Blood Sea did not dry up, Styx would not die!, they would be of little use once they left the Blood Sea. Moreover, whatever realm they were refined at would remain their realm forever. They could never improve again! If he refined them according to this method, his future outcome would most likely not differ much from that of Old Ancestor Styx in the original Space-Time!

Old Ancestor Styx could not help but ponder how he should refine Blood God Avatars. Then, he suddenly recalled the scene of refining the Three Thousand Chaos Demon God Avatars! Combined with Old Ancestor Styx's method for refining Blood God Son Avatars, it seemed quite promising!

Thus, after carefully working through the details, he no longer hesitated. He first took out the first batch of fruit from the Blood God Fruit Tree, then selected a large batch of Spiritual Roots that replenished Qi and Blood. Taking out the Alchemy Furnace, he began refining pills. After using up all the fruit, Jade Bottles piled like a small mountain before Old Ancestor Styx. Most contained Blood Replenishing Pills that greatly nourished Qi and Blood, though a small portion contained Spirit Replenishing Pills. After all, essence, qi, and spirit were interconnected; none could be lacking!

Once everything was prepared, Old Ancestor Styx took out a jade basin and began letting blood. He first squeezed out four drops of Essence Blood. The instant the Essence Blood appeared, Old Ancestor Styx's face turned deathly pale, and he hurriedly poured a bottle of Blood Replenishing Pills into his mouth. Essence Blood was the condensation of a cultivator's essence, qi, and spirit. Every cultivator possessed only a limited amount, and once lost, it was extremely difficult to replenish. Fortunately, Old Ancestor Styx's realm was still low, and the pills refined from the first batch of fruit of a High-grade Innate Spiritual Root were already excessively potent for him! Without that safeguard, he would not have dared to do this.

After recovering somewhat, Old Ancestor Styx began letting more blood from himself. Of course, this time it was no longer Essence Blood, merely ordinary blood. During the bloodletting process, he occasionally tossed several pills that replenished blood and spirit into his mouth. After recovering during this period, Old Ancestor Styx extracted Essence Blood twice more.

Time passed swiftly, and ten Eons went by in the blink of an eye. Before Old Ancestor Styx appeared 1.296 billion drops of blood that occasionally flickered with faint light. Above these blood drops floated twelve drops of Essence Blood like red gemstones...

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