The Best Way to Stay Alive

Even discovering only a small fraction of its uses had already proven immensely useful to Su Yu.

The boost to his cultivation speed alone was what Su Yu needed most urgently at present.

Beyond that, although Su Yu had yet to uncover its life-preserving functions, he already had some ideas of his own.

"My essence, energy, and spirit can all enter the inner landscape. I wonder whether drawing all of them into it could allow a different kind of rebirth."

Essence, energy, and spirit were broad concepts, not merely Bloodline Power, Soul Power, and spiritual power.

Drawing these three powers entirely into the inner landscape would not disturb Su Yu's physical body or his Sea of Consciousness.

His physical body would still remain outside.

What he actually gathered inside were only these three refined powers.

They were merely representations of essence, energy, and spirit-supernatural powers derived from them, rather than their true foundations.

Su Yu did not think he could truly extract the entirety of those foundations and merge them into the inner landscape, vanishing completely from the outside world to enter it.

What he was considering now was whether he could unite the three powers into a single root.

A seed for rebirth.

As long as he preserved that seed, he would have a chance to reconstruct his physical body and Sea of Consciousness, achieving rebirth.

Of course, to accomplish this, he would first need a Soul Skill capable of something akin to rebirth.

That was why, in Su Yu's plans for his future cultivation, obtaining the Blue Silver Emperor within the Sun Moon Empire, whose cultivation was approaching two hundred thousand years, was a must.

The Blue Silver Emperor's ultimate secret held tremendous significance for Su Yu.

Not only could it grant rebirth, but it might also serve as a catalyst to help Su Yu develop this means of preserving his life.

Accomplishing rebirth or resurrection alone beneath a God King's very nose would still be far too difficult.

But what if he added the inner landscape to the equation?

Without a doubt, that would be an entirely different matter!

Su Yu gathered his thoughts, drew a deep breath, and returned his attention to exploring the inner landscape.

"Preserving my life is only a means of safeguarding my path. Cultivation itself is the true foundation."

"Tang San poses too great a threat to me, so I have to consider ways to stay alive."

"In truth, even without Tang San, I would still need to consider my own safety. Staying alive comes first; everything else comes after."

"Staying alive is the first consideration, but the best means of doing so will never be something like resurrection. It's becoming powerful myself."

"Sweeping aside every enemy, past, present, and future-that is the best way to stay alive."

Su Yu drew in his essence, energy, and spirit, reconstructing his body within the inner landscape.

This time, he did not rush to cultivate.

"I'll obtain my Second Soul Ring in the deep sea, probably from a whale-type Soul Beast. That way, I might find some mysterious substances related to space and total Soul Power capacity."

Su Yu gazed out at the gray, silent world beyond, quietly wondering what benefits the mysterious substances within his body related to those aspects might offer.

"Also, I need to test a conjecture I had earlier."

With a thought, Su Yu shifted his position, arriving in the region where the Golden Giant Ape bloodline source essence from his First Soul Ring resided.

Large quantities of bloodline source essence were scattered here. Even after more than a month of exploration, Su Yu had only uncovered the tip of the iceberg.

He quickly searched for something. Once he found the corresponding bloodline source essence, he wrapped that mass in spiritual power and returned to the territory corresponding to his lower dantian.

"If my Bloodline Power wraps around this portion of bloodline source essence and returns to the outside world through my dantian Martial Soul, can it bring the bloodline source essence out?"

Su Yu stared at the mass of bloodline source essence in his hand, the question rising in his mind once more.

It was a question he had had for a long time.

Were these hidden treasures within the human body mysterious substances concealed inside it, or potential deeply bound to the body?

If it was the former, then in theory, these mysterious substances could all be extracted from someone's body and used by others.

Thinking of the evil abilities possessed by various Evil Soul Masters' Martial Souls, Su Yu leaned toward the former.

He began experimenting, using this bloodline source essence as his test subject.

His Bloodline Power slowly enveloped the golden ball of light. Then, through the connection between his Martial Soul and the inner landscape, it slowly appeared in his lower dantian.

Opening his eyes, Su Yu lowered his head to look at his lower abdomen.

His gaze seemed to penetrate his body, allowing him to look inward at the scene within his lower dantian.

Bloodline Power intertwined there, and wrapped within it was a ball of golden light.

This ball of golden light was extremely small, too small to see with the naked eye, and even spiritual perception could easily overlook it.

But because he had locked onto this golden bloodline source essence within the inner landscape, and his Bloodline Power was faintly linked to it, Su Yu could sense its presence.

"It came out!"

Without a doubt, this result matched Su Yu's prediction.

His consciousness delved into the inner landscape once more.

"Bloodline source essence originally comes from a Soul Ring's power. It's external."

"Bringing out bloodline source essence alone doesn't prove anything. Next, I need to test other substances."

He found a mass of red substance and prepared to bring it out.

Once again, it entered his lower dantian.

His Bloodline Power enveloped it.

He looked inward at his dantian.

When he sensed that red substance, brimming with scorching heat, Su Yu was finally certain.

"I can bring it out!"

What did this mean?

It meant Su Yu could use the mysterious substances within his own body to help others cultivate.

In practice, that held little significance.

After all, Su Yu was no bleeding-heart saint.

When it came to others, even people on his own side in the Body Sect such as Du Busi, he had no intention of using his own mysterious substances to help them cultivate.

Who knew whether these mysterious substances involved the very foundation of his life? Recklessly handing that foundation to someone else was unacceptable, even if vast quantities of mysterious substances still remained within his body.

The risks involved were far too great.

Still, the fact that mysterious substances could be extracted was itself a major discovery.

"For instance, right now, I want to know how using the red substance inside the inner landscape differs from using it outside."

Su Yu drove his Bloodline Power forward and began absorbing the mass of red substance.

It was no different from absorbing it within the inner landscape.

But he did not stop his tests. He transported another mass of red substance out of the inner landscape. This time, rather than activating his Bloodline Power to absorb it, he sent the red substance into his lower dantian.

As the red substance merged with his lower dantian, Su Yu felt it begin to grow scorching hot.

There was none of that sensation of his entire body being nourished, nor did his whole body burn with heat.

This time, only his lower dantian grew hot, and the sensation was strongest in the area where the red substance had merged directly.

Su Yu closed his eyes, enduring the searing pain in his dantian as he waited for the relief that would come once all the heat faded.

But the wait was painful.

Compared with when his entire body benefited, the red substance being consumed exclusively by part of his dantian lasted an exceptionally long time.