Blessing in Disaster, Devouring Balefulness to Temper the Body

"Profound Grade Low-Tier! Yin Extremity Profound Baleful Art?"

Rapidly absorbing the insights flooding his mind, Chen Mu's eyes blazed with light.

He had never expected Rampaging Bull Force and Black Tiger Baleful Heart Art to fuse into a Profound Grade Low-Tier internal art!

In all of Everlasting Prosperity Town, perhaps only Liu Qingcang could produce such a profound and wondrous technique!

One could cultivate it straight to the Innate Realm!

Ordinary martial men could spend their entire lives without ever touching such a thing. Even if they obtained it, they would most likely be unable to enter its gates.

With Chen Mu's Rampaging Bull Force already having entered the hall, plus 130 points of Karmic Slaughter, he had only managed to gain an initial glimpse of this technique.

That showed just how difficult it was to cultivate.

Yet Chen Mu was not discouraged in the slightest. Instead, he was indescribably exhilarated.

"This is... devouring the Baleful Poison to temper my body?!"

The Blood Essence within Chen Mu's body began circulating on its own, roaring madly through his meridians.

Its circulation was astonishingly fast, completing a full cycle in barely a dozen breaths.

What shocked Chen Mu most was that the Baleful Poison Rakshasa Old Ghost had struck into his chest was actually being drawn out by the aura of the Yin Extremity Profound Baleful Art, merging into the torrent of Blood Essence within him.

The Yin Extremity Profound Baleful Art actually intended to refine that hard-to-eradicate Baleful Poison as well, using it to strengthen his Blood Essence.

But Rakshasa's methods were no trifling matter. The moment that sinister Baleful Intent entered Chen Mu's body, it immediately erupted!

In an instant, Chen Mu felt half his body turn icy cold while the other half boiled.

The scorching heat of his Blood Essence and the chilling cold of the Baleful Poison violently collided within him, nearly shattering his internal organs.

"Damn it..."

Chen Mu had no time to digest the vast and tangled insights in his mind. With trembling hands, he grabbed a bottle of Bone-Strengthening Pills and shoved them down his throat.

Boom!!

Several Bone-Strengthening Pills entered his stomach and immediately transformed into a surging torrent of heat, swept into the clashing tides of Blood Essence within him.

This time, Chen Mu felt as though he had been struck by lightning. The meridians throughout his body were sliced apart as if by blades, while his flesh, bones, and muscles seemed to have been crushed in a millstone.

The agony pierced deep into his marrow. Even with Chen Mu's resilience, he could not help letting out a hoarse roar.

"Urrrghhh—!!"

Beads of sweat the size of beans covered his forehead, while veins bulged one after another like black snakes slithering beneath his skin, savage beyond measure.

Yet the light in Chen Mu's eyes only grew brighter and brighter!

"Submit!"

He suddenly roared, forcing himself through the pain to sit cross-legged. Following the insights in his mind, he began circulating the Yin Extremity Profound Baleful Art!

In an instant, Killing Intent gathered around his body into rolling black smoke, condensing into a ferocious ghostly shadow behind him.

Whenever that ghostly shadow tried to pounce on Chen Mu and kill him, it was forced back by his surging Blood Essence, letting out wails like ghosts crying and wolves howling.

"Shriek, shriek, shriek—!!"

Piercing shrieks rang beside Chen Mu's ears as the ghostly shadows formed from Killing Intent began to collapse.

At the same time, the Yin Extremity Profound Baleful Art completed its first full circulation.

Boom!!

A storm churned within Chen Mu's body. His boiling Blood Essence abruptly surged upward, sweeping away and extinguishing all Yin energy before devouring it in one gulp.

[ Ding! Refined "Mysterious Yin Corpse Balefulness." Yin Extremity Profound Baleful Art has broken through to the second layer! ]

[ Internal Art: Yin Extremity Profound Baleful Art · Initial Glimpse (Second Layer: 0/2000) ]

[ Realm: Martial Master · Body Tempering Third Tier → Body Tempering Fourth Tier (Silver Skin) ]

[ Blood Essence: 2400 → 2800 → 3000/4000 ]

The Slaughter Register's notification rang out in Chen Mu's mind.

"I actually broke through directly?! Mysterious Yin Corpse Balefulness? Good! Good!"

Chen Mu could not help throwing back his head in laughter as he watched his Blood Essence soar, breaking through to the Body Tempering Fourth Tier in the blink of an eye!

"Not enough! Again!"

A vicious gleam flashed through his eyes. He grabbed the last of the Bone-Strengthening Pills and swallowed them all in one go.

Including what he had taken before, Chen Mu had forcefully swallowed nearly ten pills this time!

In an instant, the surging medicinal power spread through his body, transforming into an endless supply of vast Blood Essence.

The remnants of Baleful Poison still lingering in his body were swept up by that mighty torrent of Blood Essence, completely worn away and assimilated.

As Chen Mu circulated the Yin Extremity Profound Baleful Art, all the Yin energy transformed into Blood Essence, feeding back into his cultivation.

In the blink of an eye, his bones cracked explosively and his muscles swelled in waves.

The aura leaking from his body actually formed a cloud of crimson Killing Intent, blasting through the room and sending all its furniture flying.

Meanwhile, his Blood Essence surged higher and higher, and his cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds!

3600!

3800!

4500!

"Break for me!"

Chen Mu suddenly bellowed, driving the Yin Extremity Profound Baleful Art to its utmost limit. The Blood Essence within him churned like a rolling river.

Boom!!

It was as though he heard the roaring of the Yellow River pouring into the sea within his mind.

At that instant, the Blood Essence throughout his body broke through the obstructions of his acupoints, converging into his dantian from every direction. It swirled and steamed there, condensing into pitch-black True Qi.

Relying on this Profound Grade Low-Tier Yin Extremity Profound Baleful Art, he had actually produced True Qi while still in the Body Tempering Realm!

At that same instant, Chen Mu's Blood Essence completely smashed through the 5000 mark.

[ Internal Art: Yin Extremity Profound Baleful Art · Initial Glimpse (Second Layer: 500/2000) ]

[ Realm: Martial Master · Body Tempering Fourth Tier → Body Tempering Sixth Tier (Silver Skin) ]

[ Blood Essence: 4900 → 5200/6000 ]

The surging medicinal power and the Blood Essence returned by refining Baleful Intent stacked together.

They had actually allowed Chen Mu to break through realms in succession and leap to the Body Tempering Sixth Tier!

He immediately felt a bursting sensation from his dantian. He quickly pressed a palm against his abdomen and circulated his qi, suppressing the surging Blood Essence.

"Disperse!"

Amid his thunderous shout, Chen Mu violently shook his body, and his robes billowed.

Every pore across his body opened at the same instant, spraying out steaming blood mist.

The impurities and filth left behind after refining the Baleful Intent shot out like arrows, piercing two feet away with repeated pops.

That single act of expelling waste qi had actually punched several rows of holes into the plastered wall.

It was simply like a concentrated volley from powerful crossbows. If anyone had been standing here, they would likely have been shot into a sieve on the spot.

"Yin Extremity Profound Baleful Art truly deserves to be a Profound Grade internal art! It is genuinely tyrannical!"

Chen Mu let out a long breath, finally stabilizing his inner qi.

He looked at the dark, mysterious currents flowing beneath the muscles of his body, his eyes filled with shock.

By now, he had absorbed all the martial insights in his mind and finally understood the true terror of this technique.

So-called Yin Extremity Profound Balefulness specialized in absorbing the Yin ghosts and Killing Intent that ordinary martial artists avoided like the plague.

Then, using powerful Blood Essence to grind it down and devour it, turning it into nourishment to nurture oneself.

And that was not all.

This Baleful Intent could also be compressed and condensed within the body to an extreme degree.

After impurities were removed, it would become pure Profound Yin True Qi, to be used against enemies!

This gave Chen Mu methods far beyond those of ordinary martial men at the Qi Accumulation Initial Stage, despite still being in the Body Tempering Realm.

The Mysterious Yin Corpse Balefulness that Rakshasa Old Ghost had struck into his body was precisely one of the finest grades of Baleful Poison.

Chen Mu had suffered under it before, but after cultivating the Yin Extremity Profound Baleful Art, disaster had instead become a blessing.

He absorbed and refined all of it, using it to break through three tiers of cultivation in one stroke and greatly increase his strength.

But now was not the time to relax.

After breaking through several times in succession, the slightest instability could cause his Blood Essence to surge backward.

Suppressing the boundless joy and agitation in his heart, Chen Mu continued circulating his Blood Essence.

After following the Yin Extremity Profound Baleful Art's route for more than a dozen full cycles, his restless Blood Essence finally settled.

"Hoo..."

Chen Mu abruptly withdrew his technique and exhaled a mouthful of turbid air.

With a hiss, that turbid air shot forth like a flying sword condensed from Blood Essence.

In the blink of an eye, it streaked more than thirty feet away, piercing through the wall and flying into the courtyard, where it punched a thumb-sized hole through the bluestone old well.

Chen Mu sprang to his feet and strode outside, standing in the courtyard to inspect it.

Such power was simply horrifying beyond belief.

Back then, if Yan Rong had unexpectedly taken this qi arrow, his head would likely have exploded on the spot, and he would have died a violent death.

"So this is the Exhaling Qi into a Sword the storytellers speak of?"

Excitement flashed through Chen Mu's eyes before turning into endless icy light.

"Good. I'll use the Red Whale Gang's blood to test my Profound Yin True Qi."

"A-Ning, you must wait for me."

After murmuring those words, Chen Mu suddenly tightened his grip on his blade. His figure flashed like a ghost, shooting skyward in an instant as he flew toward Rubble Ward to kill.