Joy stirred in Chen Ye's heart, and he immediately sank his mind inward.
He saw several strands of brilliant golden light flowing slowly through his blood. Wherever they passed, the minute impurities hidden within it were stripped away, thread by thread.
His blood grew clear and translucent at a speed visible to the naked eye, glimmering with flecks of gold.
At that moment, Chen Ye began renewing his blood and refining its truth, undergoing his tenth mortal shedding and setting foot on a new path no one had ever walked!
His sinews and bones trembled and surged within the golden light. Countless golden threads appeared and coursed through his body, filled with wondrous power.
Chen Ye opened his eyes and saw a red, misty glow rising from his skin.
A heavy smell of blood spread through the tent.
This was the phenomenon produced as impurities were expelled from his blood.
As it continued, many useful substances in his blood were expelled as well, and an intense weakness swiftly swept through his entire body.
Chen Ye knew that the path to the tenth mortal shedding he had worked out was flawed, far from perfect.
Yet he did not stop. Instead, his resolve hardened, and he determined to push through this path in one uninterrupted effort.
He took out the pill he had prepared earlier and swallowed it.
The instant the pill entered his stomach, Chen Ye felt a streak of icy coolness pass from his throat to his dantian. Then that coolness burst apart, transforming into rolling currents of heat that flooded his body.
Chen Ye sensed the immense essence contained within the pill. He hurriedly circulated the Daoist Canon's cultivation method, refining every stream of essence into his blood to replenish what its refinement had depleted.
With these essential substances