"Damn humans..."
The Jie Race expert glared at Lin Ke through gritted teeth.
Yet Lin Ke had his eyes closed, already immersed in a certain state.
Enlightenment!
After learning Jie Power, and especially after seeing the Lord of Weiyang City arrive, Lin Ke had immediately entered a state of enlightenment right where he stood.
"Whoosh-whoosh-"
To his surprise, the surging roar of rushing currents echoed through his body.
The Daoist School's Heavenly Prodigies watching the battle noticed it too.
"Blood renewal?!"
The Sword Cultivator was the first to speak, astonished. "Fourth Realm blood renewal? Isn't Lin Ke only in the Third Realm?"
"He must be about to break through." The boy riding the wooden horse sighed in admiration. "How can the canal be so clear? For the source brings living water. It makes sense that this poem could renew his blood."
"So this poem doesn't just speed up Literary Qi recovery, but can renew blood too?" The young man practicing dual Confucian-Daoist cultivation exclaimed, "No poem has ever achieved that before."
The First Realm nurtured qi, the Second Realm cultivated Tongue-and-Sword Combat, the Third Realm condensed intent, the Fourth Realm renewed blood, the Fifth Realm formed the heart, the Sixth Realm gathered bones, and the Seventh Realm purified the soul.
Of course, these abilities did not always emerge in the early stage of a realm. Some people only developed them in the late stage.
Blood renewal and condensing a Dao Heart or Confucian heart were examples of this; they generally succeeded only in the late stage.
From the beginning of the Fourth Realm, one had to infuse all the organs, blood, flesh, and skin in the body with Literary Qi, True Qi, or some other form of "qi," while also infusing them with one's own principles.
This process generally lasted