To break through to the Primordial Unity Realm with the Essence Reaping Art, however, one needed to drink the fresh blood of a Primordial Unity Realm martial artist and use it as a catalyst to form the first strand of Inner Force.
"This cultivation method..."
By the time Zhao Er reached the end, he hardly knew what to say about it.
If you called this cultivation method difficult, it required neither the grueling practice and vast Martial Resources of Orthodox Martial Arts nor the various agonies of unorthodox martial arts. One only needed to drink martial artists' blood and extract its vital essence to temper oneself.
Although it carried Blood-Baleful Energy, that was both a toxin that restricted the practitioner and a means of defeating enemies. It was hard to call it good or bad.
But if you called this cultivation method simple...
Breaking through to the Primordial Unity Realm required consuming the blood of a Primordial Unity Realm martial artist. This did not mean drinking a little blood, but draining a living Primordial Unity Realm martial artist dry.
For a martial artist in the third realm, the Sinew Transformation Realm, that was as difficult as ascending to heaven.
"Unless a martial artist breaks through to Primordial Unity first, then captures another Primordial Unity martial artist, allowing the one who broke through first to help an Essence Reaping Art practitioner break through afterward... uh... I'd better stop thinking about this."
Zhao Er cut off those dangerous thoughts.
"But... this breakthrough method seems like it could work for my Five Poisons Returning to Origin Body. If the Essence Reaping Art can consume a Primordial Unity martial artist's blood, could my Five Poisons Returning to Origin Body also break through by consuming toxins from the five poisons at the Primordial Unity Realm?"