On the path of cultivation, the first major realm was the qi refining stage, divided into nine layers.
Once all nine layers were perfected, a cultivator could attempt foundation establishment.
Put plainly, the whole process of qi refinement was about laying the groundwork for foundation establishment.
Only with that foundation could one qualify to enter the next realm, the foundation establishment realm.
Foundation establishment, in turn, forged a Dao foundation within the body, laying a solid base capable of bearing greater power and preparing for a future breakthrough to the golden core stage.
Yet what Chun Xiaobai was attempting now was not the next realm, but the tenth layer beyond his ninth layer of blood refining!
It was like other cultivators having only nine layers of qi refinement, while he insisted on cultivating a tenth.
He had even made a point of asking around before. No one in the Cultivation World had ever heard of anyone reaching a tenth layer of qi refining.
He had no idea what this "tenth layer of blood refining" would look like. Would it directly refine all his mortal blood into precious blood?
After all, its color had already turned gold.
Before this, however, he had deliberately compared and studied the Martial God Art alongside ordinary qi refining cultivation methods, arriving at a conclusion.
His blood refining realm and the ordinary qi refining realm were largely alike, taking different roads to the same destination.
Blood was the source of human life.
Whether thinking, moving, or casting spells, every expenditure drew upon the blood flowing within the body.
His first realm, "Blood refining," was actually stockpiling fuel for opening his body's divine treasuries in the future.
If his blood was not pure enough and he ran out of power halfway through opening a divine treasury, what