Formless Qi Weapon Body-Tempering Art

Moonshadow Tower's rooftop was dimly lit.

At this moment, waves of melodious zither music drifted through the air, carrying a faint fragrance. The atmosphere was refined and pristine.

At first glance, it looked like a secluded and elegant residence for reclusive scholars!

Yet in truth, this was the most renowned pleasure house in all Azure Province.

At the end of the felt tent stood a lounging bed, upon which a woman reclined sideways.

She was a petite young girl with breathtakingly beautiful features.

She lay sprawled across the bed, poking her head out as her delicate little hands curled into cat paws and swayed gently from side to side, looking lively and adorably naive.

She lacked the deliberate seductiveness of ordinary courtesans. Instead, she possessed an innocent charm, though a trace of unconscious allure hid within her brows and eyes.

But at that very moment!

Beside the lounging bed, two figures knelt.

One was a black-clad man like a shadow, prostrated on the ground, not daring to raise his head for even a glimpse of the cute girl.

The other looked like a scholar—the very "Sixth Prince" Song Long had escorted. His entire body was stained with blood, his face blackened and blue, clearly poisoned beyond measure.

"Hehe, Shadow, your mission failed!" the petite girl said with a giggle. "What, Ruthless didn't come back? Did he accidentally die?"

Shadow knelt on the ground, drenched in cold sweat, not daring to give any response.

No one would have imagined that this petite girl, so innocent and adorably naive, occupying the position of a top courtesan, was actually a Crescent Moon-ranked assassin of Lovesickness Tower.

With such a romantic facade, who could say whether it was a preference or a twisted amusement?

Seeing that Shadow did not answer, Hua Xiaomeng propped up her delicate body. Her pair of jade-white bare feet lightly descended, stepping on Shadow's head. Her little mouth pouted slightly, carrying a touch of grievance and dissatisfaction.

"Why aren't you answering? It's not like I'm going to eat you."

She sighed softly several times, her voice faint and mournful. "Sigh, what are we supposed to do now? I heard the person who issued the assassination mission had a direct line to the Tower Master."

"Though it wasn't a compulsory mission, if we fail, it'll be terribly embarrassing before the Tower Master."

"Sigh, sigh, sigh, sigh, sigh! Why are you all so useless?"

Hua Xiaomeng sighed repeatedly, looking utterly adorable and captivating, making one feel as if they had fallen into a land of tenderness.

The scholar beside her widened his eyes, gazing at Hua Xiaomeng in infatuation as an inexplicable desire rose within him.

He almost instinctively began imagining pinning her to the ground, viciously tearing apart her clothes, and wantonly humiliating that soft, pink, delicate body.

Hua Xiaomeng glanced at the scholar. Then, with her jade foot resting atop Shadow's head to steady her petite body, she asked the scholar in an adorably naive tone.

"Hey! Hey! Sixth Prince! Are you the Sixth Prince they were talking about?"

With one glance from her, the scholar lost his senses and spilled everything without holding anything back.

"No, I'm not. I merely heard that the Abyss Kingdom manor was secretly searching for the lost Sixth Prince, so I impersonated him and deliberately let myself be discovered."

"I only wanted to try and see whether I could muddle through. I thought that if I succeeded, I'd enjoy inexhaustible glory and wealth in the future."

Learning that he was merely an impostor greedy for power and wealth, Hua Xiaomeng shot the scholar a disappointed glare and reached out with her jade hand to pinch his cheek.

"Sigh, failure means punishment."

"Tell me, how should I punish you?"

Two days later.

Beside a clear blue lake, Liu Qingni sliced off the tender belly meat of the bluefish she had caught. She set up a fire from dry branches and roasted the fish over it.

At the same time, she took a small bottle from her robes and sprinkled its seasoning over the fish.

At once, the fragrance wafted out, making the two horses beside her turn to look, practically drooling with desire.

Liu Qingni gave them a faint glance and casually tossed them two plump live fish.

At the sight, the Dragon Horses opened their blood-filled maws and bit down. With a few crunching sounds, they swallowed the live fish whole.

Liu Qingni immersed her jade-white feet in the lake, letting the clear ripples wash over her ankles. She merely raised her chin, resting it on her knees as she looked toward the stone chamber carved out in the distance.

She truly could not imagine just how terrifying a level a Grandmaster could reach by entering seclusion once more to make another breakthrough.

No matter what was happening outside!

At this moment!

Inside the stone chamber!

Boundless vitality surged forth wildly. With a thunderous burst, that speck of qi and blood like a red sun slowly condensed, finally gathering into a point of pure golden radiance that governed all the vitality in his body.

All traces of aura were drawn in and transformed into pure vitality.

Swish!

Su Qingyang opened his eyes. The entire stone chamber flashed, his gaze like lightning, illuminating everything for an instant.

Formless Qi Weapon Body-Tempering Art, after his deductions, emphasized embracing all rivers into the sea, for tolerance makes greatness. It represented an ultimate body-tempering art.

"Blood is the foundation of all things. The vast sea shares one source; thus, no matter what secret art it is, it is often connected to blood."

"Especially a martial artist's qi and blood—it is the foundation for ascending beyond the ordinary. With insufficient qi and blood, breakthroughs are often impossible, leaving one stranded in place."

Su Qingyang's heart stirred.

Mercury blood!

Qi and blood like mercury referred to blood so incomparably heavy that, like liquid silver, it carried an immensely profound foundation as it flowed.

At that moment, Su Qingyang flipped his hand and took out a Vajra Bodhi Fruit, placing it in his mouth.

The instant its medicinal power entered his body, the blood throughout him began to flow, producing a rushing sound like a mighty river.

A second one!

A third one!

Before long, every Vajra Bodhi Fruit had been swallowed into his stomach.

At that moment, Su Qingyang's heart beat powerfully, while the blood throughout his body became as heavy as mercury and flowed into his limbs and bones.

"What tremendous power."

Su Qingyang raised his hand and heard his qi and blood circulating madly, roaring like an engine as it drove his blood onward.

Qi and blood like mercury placed extraordinarily high demands on the body's limits of endurance.

Without the Blood Refining Grandmaster physique forged through four qi-and-blood breakthroughs, an ordinary martial artist simply could not withstand the washing force of such vast quantities of essence blood. They would have been torn apart alive long ago.

"The Mercury-Blood Realm has been achieved. It is time to begin condensing the Formless Qi Weapon!"

Su Qingyang flipped his hand again, and a superior-grade Scarlet Blood Grass fell into his palm. He opened his mouth and swallowed it.

His qi and blood surfaced once more. That vitality accumulated for so long grew again, becoming dazzling as that point of gold merged into his qi and blood!!

It instantly transformed into a boundless crimson ocean, circulating endlessly through his body, vast and inexhaustible.

With only a thought from Su Qingyang, all the vitality stored throughout his body surged into his flesh, pouring into both his arms.

Mercury-like qi and blood gathered in his arms, absorbing endless vitality like all rivers flowing into the sea.

Boom!

The two Formless Qi Weapons emerged, their aura swelling wildly as they instantly transformed into two invisible blade qi streams twelve or thirteen meters long.

With every pulse of blade qi, the slightest movement nearly sliced the entire stone chamber in two!

The Formless Qi Weapon had taken initial form!

Su Qingyang was satisfied, yet he did not stop. The heavy mercury blood throughout his body poured entirely into the two qi weapons.

With a boom,

The two Formless Qi Weapons directly solidified. Amid ringing metallic cries, they transformed into two incomparably condensed crimson long blades.

Su Qingyang swung the crimson qi weapon, its edge lightly brushing the stone wall. In an instant, half the stone chamber melted away as blazing blood flames burned madly along the blade mark.

"Indeed, it is profound. Formless Qi Weapon Body-Tempering Art forges weapons from one's own aura, then uses weapon-forging to nourish the body in return."

"The stronger one's qi and blood, the sharper the qi weapon's edge. As the qi weapon is tempered again and again, the body's foundation will rise layer by layer. The two complement each other, without end."

Su Qingyang was greatly satisfied. He slowly rose to his feet, and with a thought, the two Formless Qi Weapons withdrew into his qi and blood at his command.

The next instant, they emerged from his right arm again, rising and falling with his arm as his heart desired, unleashed and withdrawn at will without the slightest sluggishness.

Su Qingyang raised his hand and slashed!

The twelve- or thirteen-meter crimson long blade transformed into blade qi like a scarlet ribbon, directly tearing open the earth and cleaving the lake waters more than ten meters deep.

Azure waves surged violently to either side, unable to close again for a long while.