Blood Refining Ancestral Return

"If there is no method of cultivation, then I shall create one myself. That is what the Creation Jade Disk is for."

Thinking of the functions of the Creation Jade Disk, Jiang Yuan felt his spirits lift once more. Was this not the perfect time to test the capabilities of the Creation Jade Disk?

If there is no method of cultivation, then create one. Insufficient comprehension? Lacking wisdom? Simple—just use the Creation Jade Disk to add points.

"Deep Blue—no, Creation Jade Disk, add points for me!"

Taking a deep breath, Jiang Yuan channeled the Creation Jade Disk, attempting to leverage its power to resolve his current predicament.

It was not just about creating a cultivation method; he also needed to escape from the belly of the fish and regain his freedom.

As for having no mana to activate the Creation Jade Disk? Simple: if mana is insufficient, use essence blood and lifespan to make up for it.

A living person wouldn't just sit there and wait for death; the Post-Heaven Realm was merely equivalent to a mortal, not a true mortal, so he still possessed a sliver of mana.

Though this bit of mana was minuscule, it was more than enough to burn as essence blood.

As long as one was willing to consume essence blood and didn't fear shortening their lifespan, mana was the kind of thing that could be multiplied tenfold in a matter of minutes.

Of course, with Jiang Yuan's meager mana, even a tenfold increase was still not worth mentioning. But to activate the Creation Jade Disk, it was at least enough to awaken a bit more of its power.

Do not underestimate this small improvement; Jiang Yuan was not trying to use the Creation Jade Disk to break through to a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal. He only wanted to create the most basic method of cultivation, so he did not need to fully awaken the Creation Jade Disk.

Therefore, this slight boost was perfectly sufficient for his needs.

BOOM!

As his essence blood burned, Jiang Yuan's lifespan plummeted. Correspondingly, his mana began to surge, pouring endlessly into the Creation Jade Disk.

The next moment, the Creation Jade Disk began to glow. The runes upon it seemed to come alive, twisting slightly and emitting an extremely faint, profound aura.

Immediately, Jiang Yuan fell into a state of epiphany. His spiritual perception skyrocketed, his thinking became more active, and matters he could not comprehend before were now clear in their cause and effect with just a moment's reflection.

"What is this sound?"

In the state of epiphany, Jiang Yuan felt his mind fall into absolute silence, and then, he heard sounds he could not normally perceive.

It was like the sound of a heartbeat, like a giant beating a drum. It was also like the sound of breathing, like the rhythmic pulling of a bellows.

At first, Jiang Yuan thought it was his own heartbeat and breath. But he soon realized he was mistaken; this was the breathing and heartbeat of the Kun Fish that had swallowed him.

Upon realizing this, almost instinctively, Jiang Yuan began to adjust his own breathing rhythm, slowly synchronizing it with that of the Kun Fish.

He did not know how much time had passed, but at a certain moment, Jiang Yuan suddenly felt as if he had merged with the Kun Fish, becoming a part of it.

With a mere thought, the Kun Fish's physical structure—every single detail of its entire body—was presented in his mind with absolute clarity.

At the same time, with his breathing, a portion of the Innate Spiritual Qi that the Kun Fish inhaled and refined flowed into his own body, replenishing the vitality he had lost from burning his essence blood.

This Kun Fish possessed the cultivation of a half-immortal; the Innate Spiritual Qi it refined could be called Immortal Origin, a type of Innate Vitality. To Jiang Yuan, this was the most potent of tonics.

Taking just a single breath replenished his lost essence blood and caused his cultivation to rise, his mana becoming increasingly thick and substantial.

Noticing the changes in his body, Jiang Yuan did not stop burning his essence blood. Instead, with no more worries, he burned it even more vigorously.

Consuming all his essence blood would kill him, but under the reinforcement of the Kun Fish's Immortal Origin, the speed at which Jiang Yuan burned his essence blood could not even keep up with the speed at which it was restored.

Thus, he burned with increasing fervor, his mana growing more and more formidable, far exceeding his own realm and reaching a level comparable to a Void Refinement cultivator.

One must know that Jiang Yuan was currently only in the Post-Heaven Realm. Above the Post-Heaven Realm was the Pre-Heaven Realm, and only above that was the Void Refinement Realm. From this, one could see just how great the reinforcement from the Kun Fish's Immortal Origin was.

As his mana grew stronger, the profound aura released by the Creation Jade Disk became even more intense. Jiang Yuan felt his consciousness transcending, slowly merging with heaven and earth to become one.

Merging with heaven and earth, all things following the heart—this was the realm of the Unity of Heaven and Man.

At this moment, Jiang Yuan felt as if he had become the master of heaven and earth; everything around him was subject to his control, including the Kun Fish that had swallowed him.

With a single thought, this Kun Fish would obediently spit him out, or explode entirely into a pile of minced meat.

"Unity of Heaven and Man—this is the realm of a Heavenly Immortal. Have I reached it so easily?"

Jiang Yuan was inexplicably shocked. He had heard his elders say that the greatest ability of a Heavenly Immortal was the Unity of Heaven and Man.

What is the Unity of Heaven and Man? It is merging with heaven and earth, turning the great power of heaven and earth into one's own, and forming a domain that belongs solely to oneself. Within this domain, a Heavenly Immortal is a creator, nearly omnipotent.

"It is indeed the Unity of Heaven and Man, but the domain is too small. It must be because my cultivation is too low."

After sensing it carefully for a moment, Jiang Yuan discovered the difference. His domain was too small, only a hundred feet in radius.

Although he had never seen the domain of a Heavenly Immortal, he knew it could not be merely a hundred feet; it should at least cover tens of thousands of miles.

This was the result of low cultivation. Even though he had grasped an ability that only a Heavenly Immortal possessed, constrained by his cultivation, the result was merely a weakened version, not even one-ten-thousandth of the original's power.

Yet, even so, it was perfectly enough for Jiang Yuan, sufficient to resolve his current predicament.

"I will raise my cultivation to the Pre-Heaven Realm first. I don't know where this Kun Fish has carried me; if there is danger, wouldn't leaving now be seeking my own death?"

In the state of the Unity of Heaven and Man, Jiang Yuan could escape from the fish's belly whenever he wished, but he did not do so.

The situation outside was unknown; if he left now, he would have no ability to mitigate risks. On the contrary, remaining in the fish's belly was not only safe but provided sufficient resources for him to improve his strength.

Under such circumstances, how could Jiang Yuan be willing to leave before squeezing the Kun Fish dry of its value?

"At this time, Saint Taiqing has not yet passed down the Qi Refining Method, so the current method of cultivation is still the ancient Blood Refining Ancestral Return Method."

Inside the fish's belly, Jiang Yuan could clearly sense his realm rising. Soon, he reached the limit of the Post-Heaven Realm and began to advance toward the Pre-Heaven Realm.

Speaking of breaking through realms, one had to mention the current cultivation system: the Blood Refining Ancestral Return Method.

As the name suggests, the cultivation method of this system focuses on strengthening the Primordial Bloodline within one's body, step by step, to return to one's ancestral state.

As for which ancestor one returns to, it varies for every race, but the process is always a transformation toward the source of their own bloodline.

It is not difficult to see from this that this cultivation system has significant drawbacks.

A cultivator's future achievements have nothing to do with their own efforts; it all depends on whether their progenitor is strong enough. The stronger the progenitor, the higher the upper limit, and vice versa.

The descendants of a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal remain Zenith Heaven; the descendants of a Primordial Unity Golden Immortal remain Primordial Unity. This is the Blood Refining Ancestral Return Method, where birth is greater than effort.