Blood Refining Secret Art

Outside the stone house, Xiao Yu executed the Aura Concealment Technique and cautiously made his way toward the outer periphery of the Forbidden Grounds.

Along the way, in order to avoid trouble, Xiao Yu hid whenever he encountered disciples from various sects or Demon Beasts from the Forbidden Grounds. When he truly could not avoid them, he would flash his high-grade magic tools and use thunderous methods to decapitate the Demon Beasts or startle the accidental encounters into retreating.

Three hours later, Xiao Yu arrived without incident at a barren small hill on the outer periphery of the Forbidden Grounds.

The spiritual Qi near here was thin, lacking even ordinary grass and trees, let alone any Spirit Medicine and Demon Beasts. He figured that nobody would wander over here for no reason.

After observing his surroundings for a circle, Xiao Yu selected a spot at the base of the hill, brought out a magic tool, and began hacking away.

Before long, a pit two people wide, one person tall, and a zhang deep had formed.

Xiao Yu crawled into the pit, then used a large rock he had found to block the cave entrance, sealing it up seamlessly.

He did not worry about being suffocated inside, because he had opened up a few ventilation holes in several hidden locations.

Afterward, Xiao Yu settled down here, planning to hunker down and peacefully wait for the Forbidden Grounds to open.

After installing a few Moonlight Stones on the cave walls, Xiao Yu sat cross-legged. Composing his mind for a moment, he retrieved four storage bags from his bosom, all of which had been plundered from the corpses of Zhang He and that youth from the Blade Transforming Dock.

He channeled a trace of magic power into the bags, then tipped them out onto the ground.

Immediately, a large pile of items appeared on the ground. Aside from some sundries, there were Spirit Stones, various jars and bottles, jade boxes and wooden boxes, and all kinds of magic tools.

Xiao Yu made a detailed inventory of these items, discovering that the Spirit Stones added up to five or six hundred pieces, with five being medium-grade Spirit Stones.

There were three top-tier magic tools: a flying fork, a Prismatic Shield, and an iron-slice magic tool that could transform into an iron plate.

There were also some other middle and high-grade magic tools, but unfortunately none with special uses were found; they could only be taken out later to trade for Spirit Stones.

Then, opening those boxes one by one, he discovered a total of seven mature, high-value Spirit Medicines inside. This brought Xiao Yu's count to nearly thirty mature Spirit Medicines, which was truly an unexpected windfall!

Xiao Yu stroked his chin with one hand and thought for a moment, then a slight smile suddenly curved his lips. As his palm touched the Spirit Medicine on the ground, his spiritual sense gently brushed against the speck of light within his Sea of Consciousness.

In an instant, Xiao Yu arrived within the Mysterious Space, and simultaneously those Spirit Medicines were brought in by Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu doing this was naturally to make the surplus Spirit Medicines his own.

He only planned to hand over ten Spirit Medicines, which would be enough to exchange for a single Foundation Establishment Pill. The extra ones would be left in this space for his own use, so that after going out he would need to artificially ripen fewer Spirit Medicines, thereby saving some time.

This Mysterious Space could be said to be absolutely safe, with no need to worry about being discovered by anyone. Putting the Spirit Medicine here, not the slightest aura would leak out, so there was fundamentally no worry about being sniffed out by any Spirit-Sensing Rats.

Afterward, Xiao Yu took several trips to put all the items that should be put away into the space. He then destroyed some sundries that were of no use, finally leaving himself with two items in hand: a talisman and a jade slip.

The talisman held in his right hand had a small, gleaming golden brick painted on it; it was precisely the Golden Brick Talisman Treasure that Zhang He had activated previously.

This talisman treasure was the kind focused on offensive power, and its might was truly formidable. Ordinary top-tier magic tools were simply vulnerable to a single blow before it.

That youth from the Blade Transforming Dock had only managed to block it for a moment after self-destructing two top-tier magic tools. He figured that after a peak Qi Refining Stage cultivator activated this talisman treasure, its power could briefly rival that of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

In the original book, Han the Old Devil also obtained a Golden Brick Talisman Treasure five years later. Xiao Yu guessed that the one in his own hands should share the same origin, both coming from the same magic treasure. Because an ordinary magic treasure could be produced as two to three talisman treasures, the possibility that two talisman treasures originated from the same root did exist.

Touching the talisman treasure and carefully sensing it, Xiao Yu felt that this talisman treasure could be used at least two more times.

"Hahahaha, I struck it big!" Xiao Yu laughed inwardly. Being able to obtain such a high-might talisman treasure made his mood extremely joyful; this trump card was strong enough!

Carefully putting the talisman treasure into his storage bag, Xiao Yu looked toward the jade slip held in his left hand. He had briefly looked at it before, and he was very interested in the contents inside.

Pressing the jade slip against his forehead and letting his spiritual sense invade it, Xiao Yu carefully read through the contents.

Before long, Xiao Yu's expression gradually turned to pleasant surprise.

As it turned out, this jade slip recorded a Blood Refining Secret Art. Through this secret art, one could use one's own vital blood to conduct a blood-refining on magic tools.

Magic tools that had undergone blood-refining could not only be controlled and driven much more smoothly and handily, but their might would also be enhanced significantly.

The most crucial point was that a blood-refined magic tool could be driven to self-destruct. The might of the self-destruction was related to the inherent might of the magic tool itself as well as the user's cultivation level.

To summarize, the more formidable the magic tool itself, the higher the user's cultivation level, and the stronger the final self-destruction might would be.

According to the records above, if a thirteenth-layer Qi Refining cultivator self-destructed the finest top-tier magic tool, it was even possible to make a Foundation Establishment cultivator suffer a heavy loss.

Although it might be exaggerated rhetoric, he had witnessed the actual effect with his own eyes not long ago, and that power was indeed quite good.

Presumably once he reached Foundation Establishment in the future and then conducted blood-refining on his magic tools, that power would inevitably become even more formidable.

Of course, this secret art was not without flaws. First of all, magic tools that had undergone blood-refining could no longer be driven by anyone else, meaning they could no longer be taken out for trade.

Secondly, blood-refining was an affair that consumed a great deal of vital blood. A single blood-refining required quite a bit of vital blood, and cultivators needed to recuperate for a long time or take medicines that restored vital blood before their bodies could recover.

Even so, Xiao Yu decided that he must learn this secret art, and then blood-refine his magic tools to strengthen his strength.

Once he learned it, he would see whether the Heavenly Book could improve and optimize it. If it could, then he would be made.

As for the flaws, they were nothing more than costing Spirit Stones and costing vital blood. With his current talisman-making skill, earning Spirit Stones was not too difficult a matter.

As for vital blood, he had the Purple Gourd in hand. By that time, he would gather some Spirit Medicine that replenished Qi and blood, ripen them further, and refine them into pills. This fundamentally would not be any problem at all.

For the time that followed, Xiao Yu began slowly comprehending this Blood Refining Secret Art...

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, it was the fifth afternoon of entering the Forbidden Grounds.

The people of various sects who had waited for a long time outside the Forbidden Grounds finally made their move. The seven Core Formation Stage cultivators once again deployed their methods to jointly open the entrance to the Forbidden Grounds passageway.

Breaking the restriction through spellcasting this time was much easier than five days ago; the seven Core Formation cultivators broke through it with ease and comfort.

Clearly, this was because the restriction had weakened to the extreme limit. After today, the restriction in this place would suddenly grow stronger, and by that time, no one would be able to open it.

The ingress-egress passageway, once it appeared, did not immediately vanish, but instead stood firmly in the air.

The seven Core Formation cultivators withdrew their magic treasures, then gazed at the pitch-black passageway, their expressions calm as they waited for the first person to emerge.

Behind the seven of them, the dozen-plus other Foundation Establishment Stage team leaders all wore expressions that were slightly tense.

The abundance or scarcity of Spirit Medicine brought back by the various sects from the Forbidden Grounds related to the allocation quotas of Foundation Establishment Pills for the various sects next time, and this was intimately connected to these managers of theirs.

Finally, half an hour after the passageway opened, a middle-aged man in yellow tumbled out from the passageway with a thud.

His face was covered in blood and filth, and his body was plastered with a dozen large and small wounds. The oozing fresh blood dyed the yellow robe he wore in patches of red and yellow.

Clearly, this person had encountered a fierce battle when leaving the Forbidden Grounds, and he did not know what methods he had used to hazardously walk out. Yet judging from his joyful expression, despite suffering severe injuries, he was still extremely happy; after all, he was still alive.

Li Huayuan, the Core Formation cultivator of Yellow Maple Valley, saw this, and his expression immediately sank as he shouted:

"Why aren't you rolling over here quickly! Do you still feel that you haven't made a shameful enough spectacle of yourself over there!"

Enduring his pain with difficulty, the middle-aged man in yellow struggled to his feet and bowed to Li Huayuan, then walked over to the side to sit cross-legged. He pulled out healing medicines and began meditating.