Greatly Improved Strength

After familiar skin and flesh wriggled, his cultivation realm did not improve.

But the changes in his body were still present, proving that the Blood Essence was effective for Li Tieniu, who was at the Mid Golden Core stage.

So Mo Yunxuan used another portion of Blood Essence. Finally, a familiar surge of energy struck again.

Li Tieniu completed his realm advancement, officially becoming a Body Cultivator at the Late Golden Core stage.

Mo Yunxuan pondered, two portions... not too many, still bearable. The key was what came next.

After Li Tieniu recovered from his advancement, Mo Yunxuan began to use Blood Essence on him again.

One portion... two portions... three portions!

After using the third portion of Blood Essence, the familiar surge of energy struck again.

Looking at Li Tieniu again, he had already broken through to Peak Golden Core.

Mo Yunxuan's lips curved upwards, but he didn't say much. After Li Tieniu recovered, he continued to use Blood Essence, one portion, two portions...

It wasn't until all ten portions of Level Three Blood Essence were used that Li Tieniu's body showed new changes.

His muscles and skin no longer wriggled drastically as they did during the Golden Core stage.

Instead, they vibrated slightly, with each muscle unit trembling independently.

After about ten minutes, Li Tieniu's body gradually recovered, but he did not open his eyes.

Mo Yunxuan did not continue to use Blood Essence. Instead, he opened his Data Panel.

Looking at the Strength column, the words "Peak Golden Core" had changed to "Early Nascent Soul,"

but there was still a parenthesis behind it, which read "Metamorphosing."

Mo Yunxuan could do nothing to speed up the metamorphosis process. He could only find a clean spot to sit and wait.

After waiting for about half an hour, a cracking sound suddenly came from within Li Tieniu's body.

A flicker of worry flashed in Mo Yunxuan's eyes, and he immediately opened his Data Panel:

[Name: Li Tieniu]
[Cultivation: Early Nascent Soul]

Seeing that the parenthesis behind his cultivation had disappeared, the heavy stone in his heart finally lifted.

Mo Yunxuan secretly calculated:

To advance from Early Golden Core to Mid Golden Core required 1 portion of Level Three Blood Essence.

To advance from Mid Golden Core to Late Golden Core required 2 portions of Level Three Blood Essence.

To advance from Late Golden Core to Peak Golden Core required 3 portions of Level Three Blood Essence.

To advance from Peak Golden Core to Early Nascent Soul required 10 portions of Level Three Blood Essence.

In total, to advance from Early Golden Core to Early Nascent Soul required 16 portions of Level Three Blood Essence.

With 200 Elite Vanguard Soldiers annually, that would require 3200 portions of Level Three Blood Essence.

Each portion of Blood Essence required a Fierce Beast of the corresponding level. Currently, the Golden Core stage was manageable.

However, after reaching the Spirit Transformation stage, the number of high-level Fierce Beasts would greatly decrease, making it impossible to satisfy the advancement of all Elite Vanguard Soldiers.

Therefore, it was still necessary to organize teams, divide them into ranks, and focus on advancing a small number of soldiers to ensure high-level combat power.

However, it was too early to discuss this now. He only had less than 600 portions of Blood Essence in total.

It wasn't even enough for everyone to advance to the Nascent Soul stage. Thinking too much would be self-defeating and meaningless.

Mo Yunxuan first advanced the remaining 199 soldiers to Mid Golden Core, consuming 199 portions of Level Three Blood Essence.

There were 385 portions of Blood Essence left. After that, Mo Yunxuan did not conduct any further overall enhancements.

Mo Yunxuan knew that the most important thing at this stage was to accumulate the quantity of Blood Essence.

Since extracting Blood Essence required the corpses of Fierce Beasts, not live ones.

Then, besides slightly lowering the conditions when purchasing to save costs, he could also first cultivate a batch of Early Nascent Soul cultivators and then send them out to hunt Level Three Fierce Beasts, or even Level Four Fierce Beasts, in large numbers.

Mo Yunxuan acted on his thoughts and used the remaining 385 portions of Blood Essence one by one.

With the last 25 portions of Blood Essence, another 24 Elite Vanguard Soldiers were promoted to Early Nascent Soul.

Adding Li Tieniu from before, there were a total of 25 Early Nascent Soul cultivators, and the remaining 175 Elite Vanguard Soldiers were at Mid Golden Core.

Mo Yunxuan nodded with satisfaction. He was very much looking forward to the future of the Elite Vanguard!

But now it was his turn. Mo Yunxuan opened the System and chose to use Blood Essence on himself.

As Li Tieniu had said, there was no pain at all. Instead, it felt like a warm spring flowing over his body, though it was a bit itchy.

When the sensation stopped, Mo Yunxuan used another 10 portions of Blood Essence.

His own strength directly broke through to Early Nascent Soul. In terms of cultivation, he could barely match a General of the Great Gan's ordinary ten-thousand-man legion.

Although not yet worthy of his status as Duke of Wei, Mo Yunxuan was quite satisfied.

At his age of 18, possessing such strength was enough to be called a genius.

Besides, who was he, Mo Yunxuan? The Duke of Wei!

Did he need to personally fight?

Was that a joke?

However, since the reinforcement was complete, there was no need to stay in the training ground any longer.

After all, it was a closed space, and with so many people, it was quite stuffy.

As soon as Mo Yunxuan walked out of the training ground gate, Wang Yuan, who was not far away, came to greet him.

"Master, dinner is ready. Shall we eat now?"

Hearing Wang Yuan's words, Mo Yunxuan also felt a bit hungry. "Let's go, then. Time to eat."

After taking two steps, Mo Yunxuan suddenly remembered the matter of collecting fierce beasts and turned to look at Wang Yuan:

"Uncle Wang, change the plan for collecting fierce beasts. Focus on collecting the corpses of level three and above fierce beasts."

"For each level of fierce beast, we only need to collect a maximum of 3200 per year. The number of high-level fierce beasts is not strictly enforced."

"Also, we can purchase those less valuable corpses. On one hand, it saves money, and on the other hand, it prevents our people from encountering danger while hunting fierce beasts."

"Understood, Master. I will relay the orders immediately."

After Wang Yuan finished speaking, he made a few gestures in the air. A bloody spiritual energy with a murderous aura surged.

When he stopped gesturing, the spiritual energy returned to calm.

"Master, the matter has been explained. Someone will convey your orders later."

Mo Yunxuan nodded upon receiving the reply and walked straight towards the dining room.

Early the next morning, Mo Yunxuan was woken up by a group of maids.

Looking at their pitiful expressions, Mo Yunxuan's mouth twitched.

In the end, he did not take out his morning grumpiness on them.

After a simple wash, he only ate half a breakfast before being urged by Wang Yuan to get into the carriage early and head towards the Imperial Palace.

When they arrived at the entrance of the Imperial Court, he realized that not many people had arrived yet. Mo Yunxuan's eyes immediately became resentful.

He complained in a low voice, "Uncle Wang, you were too hasty today. Look, there's hardly anyone here!"

Wang Yuan's expression did not change at all. He calmly replied, "In at most a quarter hour, everyone will be here."

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