The Immortal-Piercing Whip floated right before his eyes!
That was right—what Fairy Hongxia, Xiao Mao, and Li Zongbao saw was all real!
Xiao Hua was using the Demon Realm's Blood Fusion Method to refine a spiritual artifact for Li Zongbao!!!
In fact, Li Zongbao's earlier words had already reminded Xiao Hua. Although Seven Spirit Mountain's secret art of forging Artifact Spirits was incomplete, what it lacked was precisely the most fundamental Blood Fusion Method! And in this world, who understood Blood Fusion better than the demonic beings of the Demon Realm?
Moreover, refining an Artifact Spirit at Seven Spirit Mountain required a blood sacrifice—tens of thousands of vital essences and souls. But did the Demon Realm's Blood Shadow Technique not extract souls from essence blood? Use the Blood Fusion Method to condense Li Zongbao's eighty-one drops of essence blood together, then use the Blood Shadow Technique to extract the soul within. Next, use the Blood Shadow Technique to send that soul into the Immortal-Piercing Whip, then plant it using Seven Spirit Mountain's method of tempering Artifact Spirits, and finally awaken it. Was that not the complete method for refining an Artifact Spirit at Seven Spirit Mountain?
The hardest part, however, was that the Demon Realm's Blood Fusion Method could not use spiritual power! There were no hand seals involved at all; one could only rely on demonic fire and demonic blood, even heavenly lightning!
Xiao Hua had used the power of heavenly lightning in Myriad Thunder Valley to temper the As-You-Wish Staff and Qiu Yin Liu. Yet he could not possibly use heavenly lightning so brazenly now. The wisp of spiritual fire within the Buddha Sarira was perfectly suited for the task!
It was simply that controlling spiritual fire consumed far too much true essence. Even with Xiao Hua's early