The Peach Garden Poetry Gathering was ten days away.
Chen Jing could focus on his cultivation in peace.
With pills and other resources to aid him, his progress was advancing a thousand miles a day.
Though he had spent the past five days busy with interrogations, he had not stopped cultivating at night.
Three Blood-Qi Pills and three Qi-Condensing Pills a day raised his blood-qi and internal arts proficiency by 1,500 points each.
Over five days, each had climbed by 7,500 points.
Earthly Fiend Five Elements Blood-Refining Method (Earthly Fiend: 50000/200000) Yin-Yang Demon-Sweeping True Exposition (Xiantian: 39260/150000)
With his blood-refining proficiency at 50,000 points, he had completed the tempering of his heart with fire qi.
Chen Jing's heart was now like a massive pump. Once he drove it with blood-qi, its beat sounded like Thunder God pounding a drum.
In an instant, it could unleash an overwhelming surge of Blood-Qi Fire Force.
In terms of blood-qi alone, Chen Jing's strength could now rival that of a Xiantian Expert who cultivated internal arts and had condensed a Lesser Celestial Circuit.
But practically every expert who reached the Xiantian realm cultivated essence, qi, and spirit.
Some simply progressed faster than others.
Judging by Chen Jing's encounters with Xiantian Experts,
whether they came from the Fire-Worship Sect of the Western Regions or the Yu Dynasty of the Central Land,
most placed greater emphasis on Qi Refining and Spirit Refining.
Qi Refining came first, Spirit Refining second, and Essence Refining last.
The reason was simple: tempering blood-qi was the hardest path, its bottlenecks rising like mountain ranges, ridge after ridge.
Even at the Acquired Realm stage, tempering blood-qi meant stance work and punching drills, all sweat and blood.
At the Earthly Fiend stage, drawing fire qi into the body to temper the