Condensing Bloodline Power

Su Yu took the booklet and read it with great care.

Whenever he came across an unusual theory or an explanation of a practical technique, he stopped to think it through carefully.

He considered which of these techniques and theories corresponded to changes in the inner landscape.

How could he draw his spiritual power into the inner landscape?

He studied and explored it bit by bit.

Time flew by. Three hours later, only after discussing it with Du Busi and gaining a deeper understanding of the secret art's principles did he stop his research.

Du Busi left, leaving Su Yu sitting cross-legged alone in the quiet chamber.

Being able to freely send spiritual power into the inner landscape is an enormous improvement for me.

With spiritual power bolstering me, I can unearth the hidden treasures of my body much faster.

Not to mention that the Second Awakening of my three Martial Souls greatly expanded the range my consciousness itself can explore.

It's not just spiritual power. I also need to find a way to bring Soul Power and Bloodline Power into this space.

Su Yu pondered inwardly.

The true significance of spiritual power entering the inner landscape lay not in exploration, but in cultivation.

His Sea of Consciousness had its limits, but this boundless inner landscape represented the human body's ultimate limit.

Countless undiscovered treasures of the human body lay within it.

In a sense, transferring his essence, energy, and spirit into the inner landscape and cultivating there would be equivalent to cultivating in a body whose full potential had been unlocked, free of limitations.

It would be worlds apart from cultivating in his physical body outside.

Could I do it?

I had to!

This would not merely improve his cultivation efficiency. It would also truly unlock the tenfold flow of time within Su Yu's inner landscape.

At present, only his thoughts operated ten times faster. Directing his Soul Power with thoughts moving at tenfold speed could indeed give him a chance to make his Soul Power circulate ten times faster.

But his meridians simply could not withstand it.

If he could cultivate within the inner landscape, things would be entirely different.

Sitting alone in the quiet chamber, Su Yu kept experimenting with various methods from the secret art.

Over the next few days, he devoted himself to studying how to expand the secret art's effects, starting by letting Soul Power seep into the inner landscape.

He researched for an entire month without making any substantial progress.

He did, however, grow increasingly adept at sending spiritual power into the inner landscape, until it had almost become instinctive.

Each time he entered the inner landscape, he now did so in the form of a spiritual body.

As he saw it, entering the inner landscape required the fusion of essence, energy, and spirit. If he brought his spiritual body here, perhaps it would gradually affect his Soul Power and Bloodline Power. Even if it only brought along a thread of Soul Power, he could use that to find a clue.

Unfortunately, a month of observation yielded nothing.

"I should go back to cultivating normally for now."

Su Yu finally set aside his research into the secret art and redirected his efforts toward uncovering the Golden Giant Ape's bloodline.

As he absorbed the Golden Giant Ape's Bloodline Source Essence again, a sudden flash of inspiration struck him.

Bloodline Source Essence itself corresponds to bloodline strength, which is a portion of the strength associated with Bloodline Power.

If I use Bloodline Source Essence as a guide, could I draw in Bloodline Power?

Right! Bloodline Source Essence also comes from the Soul Ring, which corresponds to my Lower Dantian.

An idea suddenly came to Su Yu.

He wrapped his spiritual power around a clump of Bloodline Source Essence.

"It really works!"

He had not absorbed this clump of Bloodline Source Essence directly. He had merely isolated it, as though grasping it with his spiritual power.

Carrying this clump of Bloodline Source Essence, he swiftly moved to the region corresponding to his Lower Dantian.

Only then did he begin trying to absorb it.

As the Bloodline Source Essence was absorbed, Su Yu felt his Lower Dantian grow faintly hot.

The strength of the Bloodline Source Essence spread outward along the meridians surrounding his Lower Dantian.

His perception followed that strength outward, searching for traces of its passage.

In particular, he repeatedly sensed the process by which it passed through his Lower Dantian and radiated from the inner landscape into his physical body outside.

Once the strength of the Bloodline Source Essence had been expended, he moved another portion over, absorbing and sensing it again and again.

Another three days passed. This time, Su Yu brought over another batch of Bloodline Source Essence.

This time, he merged all of it at once.

As rolling waves of heat surged from the inner landscape into his Lower Dantian, Su Yu finally caught hold of that door.

The doorway connecting his Lower Dantian to the inner landscape.

His spiritual power returned from this side to his physical body once more.

It followed the strength of the bloodline essence into his blood and vital energy, seemingly seized something out of thin air, and swiftly withdrew.

Back in the inner landscape, a clump of blood-red light appeared before Su Yu.

That dense blood energy was none other than Su Yu's own blood and vital energy, though it had yet to be fully condensed into a truly supernatural power.

Su Yu was ecstatic.

"It worked!"

He had finally succeeded in bringing one of the two powers other than spiritual power into the inner landscape!

After this portion of his blood and vital energy entered the inner landscape, Su Yu immediately collected a large amount of bloodline essence once his initial elation passed.

He gathered not only bloodline essence, but also the mysterious golden and red substances.

He fed the bloodline essence directly to this portion of blood and vital energy, rather than to his physical body outside.

At the same time, the mysterious golden and red substances merged into it as well.

In a fleeting instant, this initially loose clump of blood and vital energy broke free of some kind of restraint.

After merging with the bloodline essence, it swelled considerably. Then, spurred on by the golden substance, it erupted again. By absorbing the reserves nurtured by the red substance, it actually managed to retain this state out of nowhere.

If he had merged this portion of bloodline essence and the golden and red substances into his body outside, they would certainly have strengthened his overall blood and vital energy, but their effects would have been limited.

When they acted on this single thread of blood and vital energy alone, however, the improvement was visible to the naked eye.

Su Yu continued feeding it.

At last, this thread of blood and vital energy broke through some kind of barrier and, guided by Su Yu's spiritual power, condensed into a force.

Bloodline Power!

The instant this Bloodline Power took shape, Su Yu wrapped it in his spiritual power, carried it through the inner landscape's restrictions, and returned to his physical body.

Upon returning to his physical body, the Bloodline Power swiftly flowed into the blood and vital energy throughout him, becoming a core that drove all of it into circulation.

"Absorb the Bloodline Source Essence!"

"It's time to absorb the red substance too."

As his blood and vital energy transformed, Su Yu relied on the tenfold difference in time to race back and forth throughout the inner landscape.

He kept searching for Bloodline Source Essence and the red substance.

He replenished the deficiencies in his blood and vital energy to meet the demands of condensing Bloodline Power.

The entire transformation lasted a full three days.

After those three days, Su Yu had become almost unrecognizable.

His body was withered, his flesh somewhat shrunken. He looked like skin stretched over bones, as though all his essence, energy, and spirit had been drained away.

Yet only Su Yu knew how condensed his essence, energy, and spirit had become.

Of course, their total amount had not changed, but their quality had undergone a tremendous leap, leaving them unable to fill his entire body.

It would not be wrong to say that he was depleted.

Du Busi and the other sect elders had noticed something unusual on the very first day of his breakthrough.

Now, as his breakthrough ended and he opened his eyes, the first person he saw was Du Busi.