Red Substance

Biodata

Discovery and Early Use

Su Yu discovered the substance while exploring the Inner Landscape for the first time. He could not grasp it with his manifested hand, but contact caused it to merge directly into his consciousness-formed body. His physical body immediately became scorching hot and expelled black impurities. Although the initial transformation lasted only seconds, residual red substance continued to merge with his circulating soul power during subsequent meditation 1 2.

Over three months, Su Yu combined red and blue substances with whale rubber and the Vital Energy Secret Method, dramatically improving his physique. Before absorbing his first soul ring, he memorized the locations of ten clusters of each substance. He continuously absorbed these reserves during the five-hour absorption of the 2,600-year Golden Giant Ape’s ring, assisting the ring’s transformation of his body 5.

Appearance

• Within the Inner Landscape: Appears as a mass or cluster emitting a dazzling crimson glow 1 4.
• After extraction: A cluster’s physical equivalent is far smaller than a grain of sand and can ordinarily escape Su Yu’s spiritual perception. Its apparent size within the Inner Landscape does not reflect its external scale 20.

Properties and Applications

Bodily Nourishment

The red substance strengthens the body through intense nourishment rather than destructive tempering. Its characteristic burning sensation results from the intensity of that nourishment 4.

• Ordinary absorption distributes its effects throughout the flesh and meridians, producing whole-body heat that lasts only seconds or a few breaths 2 20.
• Repeated absorption provides cumulative physical improvement 2 21.
• Early absorption expels black impurities from the body 2.

Vital Energy Secret Method Support

Red substance replenishes the body while the Vital Energy Secret Method subjects it to the strain of heaven-and-earth vital energy 4.

• Simultaneous use produces alternating sensations of cold and heat while sharply increasing body-tempering efficiency 4.
• After one combined session, Su Yu’s meridians showed none of the stinging he expected from reaching his training limit 4.
• Blue substance provides complementary support by eliminating fatigue; its purification function is distinct from the red substance’s nourishment 4 9 21.

Bloodline Power Condensation

Red substance helped Su Yu convert an isolated portion of blood and vital energy into Bloodline Power inside the Inner Landscape 15.

• Golden Giant Ape Bloodline Source Essence enlarged the isolated portion, while native golden substance triggered a burst of power. Reserves nourished by red substance allowed it to retain that heightened state 15.
• Concentrating these substances on a single portion produced a much greater improvement than distributing them throughout his physical body 15.
• During the ensuing three-day transformation, Su Yu repeatedly absorbed red substance and Bloodline Source Essence to replenish his blood and vital energy 15.

Targeted Dantian Tempering

Directly merging extracted red substance into the lower dantian concentrates its nourishment on the point of contact rather than distributing it throughout the body 19.

• A minute cluster subjected one small area to hours of searing heat. Afterward, Su Yu judged that area’s toughness to have risen by at least an entire tier 20.
• His subsequent routine used ten clusters to temper ten small areas simultaneously, with three hours devoted to dantian tempering each day 21.
• He theorized that a tougher dantian could facilitate soul-core formation, withstand a stronger soul core, or hold soul power of soul-core quality without forming one. These remained proposed benefits 20.

Sea of Consciousness Reinforcement

Su Yu also transported red substance into his Sea of Consciousness, nourishing and strengthening its barriers 21.

• This offered an alternative to relying solely on spiritual-power growth when preparing to withstand a ten-thousand-year soul ring’s Soul Shock 21.
• His plan was to keep his consciousness and spiritual power inside the Inner Landscape while the reinforced Sea of Consciousness endured the shock. The approach depended on its barriers remaining intact 21.

Extraction and Limitations

• Extraction method: Su Yu enveloped the substance in Bloodline Power and brought it through the connection between his dantian Martial Soul and the Inner Landscape into his lower dantian 19.
• Absorption location: Absorbing an extracted portion through Bloodline Power produced no apparent difference from ordinary absorption inside the Inner Landscape. Directly merging it into the dantian instead produced localized nourishment 19.
• Meridian damage: Targeted application burned through a tested section of meridian through excessive nourishment. Su Yu limited the test area and used Bloodline Power to carry away the excess energy 21.
• Uncertain compatibility: Su Yu could not determine whether his dantian tolerated concentrated nourishment because dantians were inherently special or because his were Martial Souls 21.
• Unproven transfer to others: Extraction suggested that the substance might help other people cultivate, but Su Yu did not test this. He refused to give away his reserves because they might involve the foundation of his own life 19.

Proposed Further Use

• Su Yu considered stockpiling red substance, wrapping it in soul power through the Vital Energy Secret Method, and circulating it during soul-ring absorption. He hoped its nourishment and the ring’s feedback could together raise his physique to the peak supported by his current soul-power level, reducing the need for separate tempering before every new ring. This remained an untested proposal 25.