An hour later, the sky turned completely dark.
Qin Tiexin and Duan Xuan have already left the scope of the trial hall.
When the two left, the people around them were still digesting the battle. One of the three besiegers was pierced in the shoulder by a javelin, and two were knocked away by the blade of the sword. No one of the monks who were watching dared to stop them, and no one followed them.
Qin Tiexin took Duan Xuan and drove straight to the northwest.
He didn't walk fast, but his direction was clear. When Demon Beast encountered someone blocking the road, he directly opened the way without stopping. Duan Xuan followed him without asking where he was going.
After an hour, the two of them walked around the entire mountain. Looking up from the foot of the mountain, they saw that there were still the remains of several buildings on the mountainside, like an independent mountain peak belonging to an elder. Qin Tiexin had no intention of going up to search in detail, and Duan Xuan didn't mention it either.
Seeing that the sky had completely darkened, Duan Xuan's spiritual power had not yet fully recovered, and Qin Tiexin took the initiative to stop at the foot of a leeward cliff.
"Let's rest here." Qin Tiexin said.
Duan Xuan found a dry corner and sat down cross-legged, took out Spirit Stone and the elixir and began to restore her spiritual power. Her consumption was much greater than that of Qin Tiexin - she endured a round of heavy pressure and high temperature in the corridor, and was drained of most of her spiritual power by a beam of light in the hall. When she came out, she was surrounded by three people and burned a stick of incense. The spiritual power in her body had reached its bottom.
Qin Tiexin took out the big cauldron from the storage ring, and then dragged out the remaining pieces of meat of Dark Savage Spirit Ox from Storage Bag. This cow was brought in by him and Duan Xuan The ruins were hunted on the first day, and some were eaten in the previous two days. The remaining meat was enough to last for a long time. He cut the beef into fist-sized pieces, filled it into the cauldron, added water and a few herbs, placed Spirit Rune on the body of the cauldron with his palm, and began to stew.
The large pieces of beef tumbled in the boiling water, the color of the meat changed from dark red to light brown, and the fascia became transparent under the high temperature. The lid of the cauldron was lightly beating due to the steam, and the aroma overflowed from the gaps and spread along the stone wall under the cliff.
"Okay." Qin Tiexin opened the tripod lid.
Duan Xuan opened her eyes, regardless of the image, fished out a piece of bone-in beef from the cauldron, held it with both hands and brought it directly to her mouth. She took a bite, and the meat was firm, and the meat juice mixed with the salty aroma of coarse salt and the spicy taste of medicinal herbs exploded in her mouth. After she swallowed it, a warm essence rose from her abdomen and spread to her limbs. The battle just now had reduced her physical strength, and this piece of meat came at the right time.
Qin Tiexin was also eating. But his mind was half on the beef and half on the article "True Fire Furnace Scripture" that was slowly emerging in his mind.
After this period of translation and reading, most of the complete Cultivation Method of the Qi and Blood Realm has emerged from Illustrated Catalog of Ten Thousand Artifacts, although he does not intend to make a breakthrough for the time being - General outline It is clear that the more energy accumulated, the stronger the initial combustion of Fire of Life. He wanted to accumulate more - but there was an article in it that Body Refining Realm could use, which caught his attention.
This is an article on how to accumulate energy in the body.
The core of "Cauldron Eating Art" is to improve the efficiency of eating and digestion, extracting the essence in food to the maximum extent, integrating it into flesh and blood, and converting it into strength. This process is very efficient, but there is a bottleneck - there is an upper limit to the amount of essence that the body can absorb. The part that exceeds the upper limit will only accumulate in the intestines and stomach no matter how much you eat, and cannot be transformed.
This technique in "True Fire Furnace Scripture" solves this problem. It does not improve the absorption efficiency, but opens up additional "storage space" in the body - compressing and storing excess essence in muscle gaps, bone marrow cavities, and even blood, and then releasing it when needed. The amount of storage depends on the solidity of the Body Tempering foundation. The thicker the foundation, the more it can be stored.
Qin Tiexin Try this technique while eating.
Normally, after eating two tripods of meat, he would feel his entire body being filled with essence, and his skin would be swollen, like a filled water bladder. This time, he guided the excess essence according to the method, and pressed it into the muscle gaps and deep into the bone marrow one by one. The feeling of fullness soon subsided, replaced by a deeper sense of fullness.
He ate a third tripod.
He picked up, chewed, and swallowed the beef in the cauldron piece by piece. After the essence of the beef was refined by Cauldron Eating Art, it was pressed into every corner of the body by the storage method. The third cauldron bottomed out, and he filled the fourth and fifth cauldrons.
He had eaten nearly half of the remaining part of the entire Dark Savage Spirit Ox, and it wasn't until the last piece of meat from the fifth cauldron was eaten that he felt the familiar feeling of fullness reappear.
He put down his bones, exhaled a long breath, and felt the accumulated essence reserves in his body. These reserves will become the first and most critical wave of fuel when it impacts Qi and Blood Realm and ignites Fire of Life.
Duan Xuan had finished refining the essence of two pieces of beef, and sat cross-legged next to him, looking at him without blinking.
"Qin Tiexin."
"Huh?"
"How come you go in and your appetite becomes bigger again?"
She thought it was outrageous before Qin Tiexin ate two cauldrons, but now he ate five cauldrons. He ate half a cow in one meal, which was Foundation Establishment Middle Stage's spiritual cow. Ordinary Qi Refining monks would not be able to bear it after one bite.
Qin Tiexin scratched his head. "I found a door inside that Body Refining Cultivation Method, Cultivation Method requested."
Duan Xuan glanced at him and did not ask any more questions. Body Refining Cultivation Method is a core secret for monk Body Refining. She just shook her head, with a hint of admiration in her tone. "I will form a team with you in the future and hunt Demon Beast. I can only eat bits and pieces."
The two of them then briefly pressed down and meditated to recover.
Duan Xuan thoroughly refined the essence of the two pieces of beef, restoring his physical and spiritual strength to about 80%. Qin Tiexin also used the storage method to compress the essence that he had just eaten, allowing it to settle deeper and more stably in the body.
Duan Xuan opened his eyes from meditating, stood up and stretched his muscles, took out a bunch of things from the storage ring, held it in his hand and handed it to Qin Tiexin.
"Look at this."
It was a ball of silk thread as big as a fist, each one as thin as a spider's silk, with a Lava-like dark red luster flowing on the surface. The silk thread slowly squirmed in her palm, as if it were alive. Qin Tiexin stretched out her hand and hung on it for a moment, and could feel the faint heat coming from the silk thread and an extremely obscure Qi and Blood fluctuation.
"Blood Silkworm Gold Silk." Duan Xuan's expression was very proud, "Treasure level, it can absorb the enemy's blood to enhance one's own toughness and spirituality. It is most suitable to be added to my whip."
Qin Tiexin nodded. "Congratulations. Your whip can be stronger."
Duan Xuan carefully took back Blood Silkworm Gold Silk's storage ring and sat cross-legged opposite Qin Tiexin: "Why did you stay in there for so long? What did you take?"
Qin Tiexin was silent for a moment and briefly told the story about the woman in black.
From the moment she stepped out of the corridor and the sword was held on her neck, to when she asked him to activate the beam of light for her to take out the dagger, to the moment she relaxed when she took the dagger and he caught her, and finally to the two of them fighting. When it came to her ankle being broken, she turned into a black shadow and ran into the corridor without looking back. Duan Xuan's expression changed from angry at the beginning to thoughtful.
"Is that woman very tall, about eight feet tall? She wears a black leather armor? She has a nice face?"
Qin Tiexin recalled, "He is indeed about eight feet five tall. He is wearing black leather armor. He is thin. He has a mask on his face, so I can't see his appearance clearly."
Duan Xuan sighed, "That's right, it should be Jiang Li of the Fleeting Shadow Sect."
"Fleeting Shadow Sect?"
"Azure Xuan Region is a small sect that specializes in speed-based physical training. The entire sect follows the extremely fast route from top to bottom." Duan Xuan said, "Speaking of which, Fleeting Shadow Sect is a friendly sect with your Flowing Cloud Sect, and her temperament is well-known among the Fleeting Shadow Sect. She will do whatever it takes to get what she wants, but she will not kill her."
"You know her?"
"We met once, at a Golden Sun Sect sect exchange meeting." Duan Xuan shook his head, "But if she treats you like that, it's not too much for you to break one of her ankles. The most valuable thing for a Fleeting Shadow Sect person is her feet. She will have to take care of her for a while when she goes back this time."
She did not continue, and the two of them were not very familiar with each other, so she changed the question she had been holding back all the way, "Where are you going in the northwest direction?"
Qin Tiexin didn't answer immediately. He raised his head and looked in the northwest direction, and after a while he spoke.
"I found a secret door in the main hall." He said, "Behind the secret door is an underground square. On the square is a large formation. On the large formation, there are 578 Iron Spine Sect disciples sitting, and there are only corpses."
He briefly described what he saw in the underground palace, omitting only the part about the ring's guidance, and only said that he discovered something in the ashes.
"I collected their remains." Qin Tiexin's voice was a little deep. "There are five hundred and seventy-eight of them in total, and they are put in this Storage Bag."
Duan Xuan didn't speak. She just listened quietly without moving her eyes from Qin Tiexin's face.
Qin Tiexin pointed to the northwest. "Across the mountain in front is the place where Iron Spine Sect buried his ancestors. I plan to bury these bones there."
Duan Xuan followed his finger and glanced toward the northwest. Nothing could be seen clearly in the night, only the outline of the ridge undulating in the dark blue sky.
"This ruins can still be explored for two days." Qin Tiexin said to Duan Xuan, "The two giant hammers of True Person Iron Bone, at least the Spirit Artifact level, fell under the high tower of the main peak of the sect. There are also some elders cave abode who were less affected by the formation. There should be something inside. I have written down the locations."
He picked up a piece of gravel from the ground, drew a few simple directions on the ground, and marked the locations where the two giant hammers fell and several relatively intact elders cave abode.
"I don't have time to go to these locations. There is no need for you to follow me here. Let's separate here. You go get these fortuitous opportunity and meet at the entrance of the ruins in two days."
Duan Xuan lowered his head and glanced at the markings painted on the ground, then raised his head again and looked straight into Qin Tiexin's eyes.
"Wherever you go, I will go."