"No need for now."
Qin Tiexin answered in his mind and moved his consciousness away from his arm.
This arm is his last resort, but not now.
His current condition is too bad, his spiritual power is blocked, his body is weak, and he cannot exert 10% of his strength. Storage Bag and Edgeless were all taken away, leaving only the black iron ring and the severed arm in the palm of his body. Even if he leaves this blood pool early, he does not have enough strength to return to Wind and Snow Pass under unknown circumstances. Waiting here, there may be a chance.
What's more, Duan Xuan is still here.
There was still a persistent burning sensation from the place where his right leg was in contact with the blood pool, but the stinging pain did not spread. He lowered his head and glanced at his legs and feet under the water. There was a layer of light red marks floating on the skin, but there was no corroded wound.
Compared with the monk whose soles were only bones, his body's resistance to the blood pool was significantly stronger. Body Tempering Peak later absorbed a large amount of Demon Beast's blood food. The density of his body and The recovery power has exceeded that of physical cultivation of the same level. Coupled with the years of accumulation of Cauldron Eating Art, although the surface of the skin has been burned red, the muscles and bones underneath have not been substantially damaged yet.
Qin Tiexin shifted his center of gravity from his right leg to his left leg, allowing his left leg to bear more weight. The burning sensation in his right leg was slightly relieved. Duan Xuan stepped on his shoulders, and the corrosion patterns on the soles of his feet temporarily stopped spreading. Her weight was nothing to him. Even when his body was sore and weak, carrying another person on his shoulders would not make him unstable.
He adjusted his breathing to keep his body as stable as possible, and then began to carefully sense the blood pool liquid in contact with his calf.
It's very hot, and the temperature is much higher than body temperature. But what's more obvious is the feeling of weight. This pool of blood is much more viscous and "heavy" than ordinary water. Every drop of liquid seems to be compressed with some kind of thick power.
He had swallowed a lot of Demon Beast flesh and blood during the Body Tempering stage, and his perception of Demon Beast Qi and Blood was sharper than that of ordinary monks. The power in the pool that was so thick and almost stagnant at this moment was clearly the compressed and refined Demon Beast Essence Blood, as well as the more advanced Devil Race Qi and Blood is inside. All the spiritual herbs and medicinal materials that were thrown in have been dissolved, and the medicinal power and the power of flesh and blood are mixed together, pushing the energy concentration of this pool of blood water to an extremely exaggerated level.
Energy?
Qin Tiexin suddenly flashed a ridiculous idea in his mind - can it be absorbed?
Inside are the high-level Demon Beast and Devil Race flesh and blood collected by Golden Core monks. One Devil Marshal corpse is worth a hundred Ironback Pig. If he can absorb the energy here, even a small part, it will be enough for him to do many things.
It's just that there is no way to process it here. Directly quoting the things in the blood pool is courting death.
Even if the Golden Core monk uses the flesh and blood to make elixirs, he must first extract the Essence Blood from the flesh and blood, and then combine it with other spirit medicine. If he, a Body Refining Realm monk, swallows it directly, the violent Essence Blood energy will burst his meridians and body within a few breaths.
Besides, this pool of blood was also mixed with many unknown things. The reason why those people's soles were corroded was definitely not just because of Essence Blood's burning.
He was about to suppress this thought completely when he suddenly remembered "True Fire Furnace Scripture".
After Illustrated Catalog of Ten Thousand Artifacts translated the entire article of the Qi and Blood Realm, it also attached several articles Method Formula about assisting cultivation during the transition from the Body Refining Realm to the Qi and Blood Realm. The core of one of them, Method Formula, is to extract and dissolve medicinal herbs or spiritual materials, and use the pores of the whole body instead of swallowing them to absorb energy.
This method takes longer and is slightly less efficient than swallowing it directly, but it is safer and more stable and will not overwhelm the meridians ladder with a one-time burst of energy.
Method Formula specifically mentioned that this method is suitable for liquid environments with high energy concentration but many impurities. To describe it in one word, it is "filtration", which automatically intercepts impurities and toxins and only allows purified energy to penetrate into the body.
The temperature of the blood pool is rising, the environment is liquid, the energy concentration is high enough, and all three conditions are met.
Qin Tiexin looked at the thick slurry at his feet, where even the flesh and blood had not yet completely melted, and gritted his teeth. No matter what, he couldn't find a way out for the time being, so instead of standing here and waiting, he might as well give it a try.
He closed his eyes, sinking his consciousness into his body to look for those few strands of spiritual power sealed in his meridians.
Those dark red sealing powers blocked the exits of every spiritual cyclone, and were as sticky as coagulated blood clots. It would be meaningless if he didn't try to break through the seals. Golden Core monk's seal was not something he could shake now.
He used his consciousness to guide the spiritual power to penetrate extremely slowly into the gaps in the seal, extracting a tiny bit of power that could be mobilized from every spiritual power cyclone. It wasn't much, but it was enough.
Following the method of Method Formula in "True Fire Furnace Scripture", he introduced spiritual power into the surface layer of the skin and built an extremely thin spiritual power filter inside the pores. This step required extremely high precision in the spiritual power. But Qin Tiexin found that although his spiritual power was Most of it is sealed, but the level of control is even higher than before. While [Illustrated Catalog of Ten Thousand Artifacts] is translating and reading Cultivation Method, he is also subtly adjusting his understanding of spiritual power, which is the same principle as his Spirit Rune achievement improvement.
It took him less than half a stick of incense to complete the arrangement of the filter membrane, then removed his consciousness from the inside and allowed his body to enter the "absorption state" described by Method Formula.
The pores opened slightly, and the energy liquid in the blood pool naturally seeped into the pores driven by temperature and pressure. The moment the first wave of energy entered, Qin Tiexin felt a stinging pain in his calf. The energy was too strong, and it would also irritate the surrounding tissue when it passed through the pore filter. But after the sting, a warm current began to spread in the muscle tissue under the skin. Wherever the warm current passed, the lingering soreness and softness was alleviated.
Useful.
The blocked spiritual power still couldn't be used much, but he could feel that as the energy entered his body, his strength was slowly recovering. The burning and stinging sensation on his legs was not as strong as before, and the red marks on the surface of the skin began to fade little by little under the influence of spiritual power.
Qin Tiexin Close your eyes and focus all your attention on absorption.
Behind him, on the dry arm in his palm, the dark golden runes flickered very slightly. A vague thought floated deep in the arm, Qin Tiexin did not hear any sound, and even Illustrated Catalog of Ten Thousand Artifacts did not catch this thought.
[This is Zhurong... No, it's too weak.]
Then it fell into silence again.
The situation in the blood pool gradually stabilized.
Ge Qing's method worked. The defensive and strength-type physiques stepped on the thick bones of Devil Race and Demon Beast to disperse the pressure. The speed-type physiques stood on their shoulders to reduce the direct contact area with the blood pool.
Although everyone's lower limbs have been corroded to varying degrees. Some people's calves are covered with red corrosion marks, and the skin on the soles of some people's feet has begun to peel off, exposing the dark red dermis underneath. But at least no one has completely lost the ability to move like the previous monk and was completely melted away. The degree of tempering of the defensive and strength-type body cultivation body is still better.
"Change the person at the bottom! If you can't step on it, say, don't hold on, take turns!" Ge Qing's voice was a little hoarse. He was carrying an unconscious monk in the middle of the ladder, and at the same time, he was constantly adjusting the positions of the monks around him. Occasionally, someone would accidentally fall down due to melted bones under his feet, and the monks around him would immediately reach out to pull him up. Everyone knows that if there is one less person, everyone's hope of survival will be reduced.
Jiang Ci has been here a few more times.
Every time he came, he poured spirit medicine into the pool, sometimes a few Purple Leaf Grass, sometimes a large handful of Blood Coagulation Flower, and sometimes a whole bag of unknown black seeds. He stood next to the feeding port and looked at the monks struggling to maintain balance in the blood pool below. The expression on his face was very light, without ridicule or pity, as if he was looking at a pot of medicinal materials being boiled.
As a bag of blue-green medicinal powder dissolved into the pool water, the color of the blood pool began to change from dark red to deeper, and the light Spirit Rune at the bottom of the pool began to beat more and more frequently.
Jiang Ci didn't respond to the shouts and curses that came from the pool from time to time. When he turned around and left, his pace was as steady as when he came.
Qin Tiexin did not look up. He focused all his attention on the energy movement in his body. The energy was still pouring in, and it was a little gentler than at first. He felt that the strength of his legs had returned to about 20%, and the dark red corrosion lines on his calves began to fade under the wash of energy.
Another half an hour later, in the stone chamber at the deepest point of the cave, True Person Xueying slowly opened his eyes.
He looked down at his empty left sleeve. The golden threads that were stubbornly attached to the broken flesh and blood had all disappeared at this moment. The remaining divine light from Gu Dan's punch was rubbed away bit by bit with his own Qi and Blood.
The flesh and blood inside the wound is growing slowly, and you can vaguely see a few extremely thin blood threads growing out of the center of the section, trying to extend in the direction of the fracture. If the arm wants to grow back, it will need a larger Essence Blood. But as long as the remaining divine light in the body is cleared away, the rest is only a matter of time.
It is not a problem to hit the Nascent Soul bottleneck in this state.
And he can't stay here for too long. Tomorrow is the seventh day that he agreed with Devil Race to attack Wind and Snow Pass. The task given to him by Sheng Xiao'er is to cooperate with Devil Race to attack Wind and Snow Pass from the west. E, draw out Nascent Soul Cultivator inside Wind and Snow Pass and hold it back. If he can successfully break through to Nascent Soul before setting off, this battle will be more than just a cooperation, but a real dominance.
He stood up, brushed off the non-existent dust on his robe, and walked out of the stone room.
Jiang Ci was already waiting in the corridor at the entrance of the cave. When he heard the footsteps, he turned around, folded his hands on his chest, leaned down deeply, his forehead touched the ground, his posture was impeccable and respectful.
"Congratulations, Master, for breaking through Nascent Soul!!"
True Person Xueying glanced down at him. "Get up. Are the blood pools ready?"
Jiang Ci straightened up and said in a steady voice, "Master, all the materials have been put into the blood pool. The height of the blood pool is currently over eight feet. The fusion degree of the medicinal properties has reached 90%. After one more time of burning incense, the fusion of the medicinal properties in the pool and Qi and Blood will reach the most perfect state, and the refining can start at that time."
"Well done." True Person Xueying walked towards the blood pool, Jiang Ci followed three steps behind him, "When I break through Nascent Soul, I will help you Core Formation as soon as possible."
Jiang Ci's steps stagnated slightly, then returned to normal. He lowered his head again. "Thank you, Master."
When he raised his head, his eyes were full of excitement and expectation.
True Person Xueying glanced at him, said nothing, just nodded slightly, walked past him, and walked towards the blood pool.