Above the blood pool, Jiang Ci stood on the edge of the rock, his fingers clenching his cuffs unconsciously. He had been practicing the inheritance of True Person Xueying for nearly a hundred years and had seen all kinds of bloody scenes, but the scene in front of him still exceeded his expectations.
It had only been a few dozen breaths since the holy blood dripped in. The blood pool below was eerily calm. The struggling figures, voices calling for help, curses, and cries on the pool surface all disappeared. More than three hundred monks, defensive, strength, speed, Body Refining Realm, Qi and Blood Realm, all sank to the bottom of the pool. Only a few dark red bubbles occasionally floated on the surface of the pool, and popped open.
He thought these monks could survive for a while.
The operation of Refining Grand Array requires the fusion of the medicinal properties of the pool and Qi and Blood to reach the most perfect state. According to his previous calculations, at least one stick of incense is needed to activate it. Now this process has been advanced by the holy blood, which is too fast.
Jiang Ci turned to look at the master beside him.
True Person Xueying stood on the edge of the rock, leaning forward slightly and staring at the blood pool below.
Excited, a Golden Core Peak monk, who has killed more people than a single plague in the world, is as excited as a Devil Soldier who has seen blood food for the first time. His shoulders are shaking slightly, the blood mist on the broken arm is surging several times faster than usual, and even the broken left sleeve is making a hunting sound.
"Hahahahaha!" True Person Xueying's laughter exploded in the cave. The sound bounced back and forth against the walls, causing the gravel above his head to fall. "It is indeed the holy blood!"
The moment Sheng Xiao'er handed him the small jade bottle, he still had a trace of doubt in his heart. If this drop of holy blood was fake, and Sheng Xiao'er just needed a discard to fight Wind and Snow Pass's Nascent Soul Cultivator, then all his preparations would turn into a joke.
The Essence Blood of hundreds of monks, the lives of sixty-eight disciples, one of my own left arms, and this identity that I have managed for hundreds of years will all turn into a huge failure.
Therefore, he must keep an escape route while refining Holy Blood Pill. Once he discovers something is wrong, he must withdraw immediately, abandon everything here, and start all over again in another place.
No need now.
That drop of blood was able to refine hundreds of monks in such a short period of time. Such power and purity are definitely not fake. When I think that I will soon break through Nascent Soul and become Nascent Soul True Lord, True Person Xueying, my whole body is trembling.
Nascent Soul! True Person Xueying has been stuck in Golden Core Peak for long enough. He has prepared hundreds of solutions for this bottleneck and tried countless times, but every time he only missed the last step.
Now the holy blood is in the pool, the medicine has been activated, and all the materials are in place. Holy Blood Pill can be condensed in two hours at most. After taking Holy Blood Pill and impacting Nascent Soul, he can overlook the world from a new height. Wind and Snow Pass is nothing, Azure Xuan Region is nothing, he can even leave here and go to a wider world.
"Refining Grand Array, up!"
True Person Xueying slapped his right palm against the rock under his feet. The moment his palm touched the stone surface, a core pattern that had already been carved into the stone lit up from under his feet. Dark golden light exploded outward from under both palms, rapidly extending in all directions along the lines that had been carved in advance.
The walls of the entire blood pool Spirit Rune also responded at the same moment. The dark red lines that were originally just flowing slowly exploded into a dazzling bright white. The Spirit Rune at the bottom of the pool lit up at the same time from every inch of the bottom of the blood pool. The lines jumped so fast that they joined together, lighting up the entire pool from the bottom.
The water in the pool began to boil in a completely different way than before. The entire pool of blood was rolling at the same time. From the bottom of the pool to the surface, every drop of liquid was trembling violently. The blood-red steam transpired rapidly from the surface of the pool, condensed into a mist-like cloud on the dome of the cave, and then turned into a fine blood rain and sprinkled again into the pool.
Jiang Ci watched the height of the blood pool decrease at a speed visible to the naked eye. He silently took three steps back and stood outside Refining Grand Array.
The master did not let him participate in the refining, and he would not take the initiative to speak. After staying with True Person Xueying for so long, the most important rule he learned was to do what you should do, and don't touch what you shouldn't touch. If the master is willing to give him, he will give it to him. If the master is not willing to give it, reaching out is seeking death.
At this moment, at the bottom of the blood pool.
Qin Tiexin was lying at the bottom of the pool, his back pressed against the rock that was burned hot by Spirit Rune. His eyes were open, his pupils were dilated, and his vision was unfocused, without any focus. Blood filled his mouth and nose, and he was like a body that had been stripped of all consciousness, sinking there quietly, lying with the melting bone fragments at the bottom of the pool.
His right hand tightly grasped the five-foot-long severed arm. The halo of golden runes on the broken arm was very faint, only enough to illuminate a few feet around him. In the environment where the bottom of the pool was brightly illuminated by Spirit Rune, this halo appeared darker.
Inside the shell, Qin Tiexin's body is undergoing a change that even he himself doesn't know about.
All the pores on his body were opened, and every pore seemed to be swallowing in big mouthfuls. The Essence Blood energy squeezed out by Refining Grand Array in the blood pool was instantly purified when flowing through the golden shell membrane on the surface of his skin. Impurities, toxins, and the remaining charming power in the drop of holy blood were all intercepted by the shell membrane, and only the purest Essence Blood power was sucked into the pores.
Hot. Too hot.
Qin Tiexin felt like he was being placed in the middle of a huge furnace, surrounded by endless dark red Flame, Flame licking his skin, drilling into his muscles, and seeping into his bone marrow.
He wanted to open his eyes, but there was a heavy weight on his eyelids. He wanted to move his fingers, but his consciousness could not be transmitted to any part of his body. He was like a prisoner trapped deep in his body. He could feel all the external stimulation, but could do nothing.
What's even more frightening is that his consciousness itself is also becoming blurred.
What he didn't know was that the pink power came from the Sheng Xiao'er's charming talent in the holy blood. All the Body Refining monks couldn't even resist for a breath and fell into the blood pool one after another.
Although that power was blocked from the body by the golden shell, the small part that had penetrated into his sea of consciousness before the shell was formed was still there, slowly and continuously pulling his consciousness downward. It was like a piece of quicksand, not in a hurry to swallow you, but just pulling you down inch by inch.
That feeling couldn't even be called pain, but rather had a strange sense of comfort.
Give up, don't struggle anymore, just sink like this, it's good. When you sink to the deepest point, there will be no pain, no Duan Xuan, no pool of blood, no Fleeting Shadow Sect female cultivator who was crushed in front of you, nothing.
There is only a warm, quiet pink deep sea.
Qin Tiexin's consciousness is being swallowed inch by inch by the pink deep sea.
No.
Qin Tiexin's consciousness caught an extremely weak thought in a blur. He could not sink, otherwise he would never come back. He needed to find something, something that would never be submerged in the pink deep sea, an anchor point that would allow him to fix his consciousness in the depths of the sea of consciousness.
The first thing he thought of was a knife.
Edgeless.
The blade was jet black, and the rope on the handle was polished by his hands until it shined. He held Edgeless and split the tiger's spine, split the pig's fangs, split Blood Devil's neck, and split the Qi and Blood Realm monk's twin halberds.
But his knife has disappeared.
Then he thought of a hand.
Duan Xuan's hand.
I walked through several strong men in the blood pool and touched him, grabbed his clothes under the water, and didn't look away when he said, "It's okay, I have a way."
The hand was finally stretched out toward him, with its fingers half-opened.
Don't think about these things, thinking about them will make you sink faster.
Qin Tiexin forced himself to withdraw his consciousness from all specific scenes. He pushed out Duan Xuan's last look back from his mind, and pushed out the touch of her soles that was still on his palms.
He emptied the sea of consciousness and put in only one thing.
True Fire Furnace Scripture.
The first sentence of the chapter Qi and Blood: Ignite Fire of Life.
fire.
He broke the sentence into the most basic text units and read it word by word in the sea of consciousness. He read it word by word in the lowest and most mechanical way, starting over after reading a sentence, and starting over after reading it again. Like a child who has just begun to learn to read in a private school in the world, he does not ask for a deep understanding or deep meaning, but just stays awake during repeated readings.
Once, twice, ten times, a hundred times. Time lost its measure. Qin Tiexin didn't know how many times he had circulated True Fire Furnace Scripture in the sea of consciousness. He only knew that he would start over immediately after reciting it once. Several times in the middle of reciting it, he suddenly found that he had paused for an unknown period of time, and his consciousness drifted far away in a blur. He quickly dragged it back and started reciting it again from the beginning.
What he didn't notice was that as he recited it over and over again in the sea of consciousness, his body was changing simultaneously.
The movement circuit of "True Fire Furnace Scripture" started on its own in his meridians, just like this Cultivation Method itself was buried deep in his body, just waiting for an opportunity to be awakened.
Although the spiritual power in his body is sealed, the Essence Blood energy sucked in from the pores does not need the guidance of spiritual power at all, and starts to flow directly along the movement circuit of "True Fire Furnace Scripture". It penetrates from the surface of the skin, passes through the muscle fascia, and converges into the place where all the energy gathers in the meridians, and then begins to circulate along a fixed path. One circle, two circles, ten circles, one hundred circles. It is exactly the same as the frequency he recited in the sea of consciousness.
The heart beats slower and slower. From once for one breath, to once for two breaths, to once for five breaths. But every time it beats, it becomes extremely powerful, the chest is shaken slightly, and the water in the pool is shaken half an inch outside the heart, causing weak ripples. The amount of blood pumped out each time is more than five times that of the previous one, and the color of the blood is also changing from the normal dark red to an almost golden-red luster.
Fire of Life is not burning, but the furnace is already burning.
He does not need a beating heart to maintain life. Every pore in his body is absorbing energy from the blood pool instead of the heart.
The water level in the blood pool is slowly dropping. From one foot to nine feet and five to nine feet.
True Person Xueying stood above the blood pool, watching every inch the pool surface dropped, the smile on his face getting thicker. The drop in the height of the blood pool meant that the Essence Blood in the pool was condensing and concentrating, and was condensing into a pill with the holy blood as the core. This speed and amplitude were almost exactly the same as the condensation process of Holy Blood Pill from his previous Deduction.
"Add one more gear."
He slapped a raised Spirit Rune node on the ground with his right palm, injecting more spiritual power into Refining Grand Array. The brightness of Spirit Rune at the bottom of the pool once again increased by a notch, and the boiling of the blood pool became more intense. Steam surged up from the surface of the pool, and the blood cloud condensed on the dome became thicker and thicker, and the density of the blood rain became more and more intense.
He looked up at the dome, then at the height of the blood pool, and silently estimated the time in his mind.
At this rate, Holy Blood Pill will be able to condense in at most one hour.
This was faster than he expected.
Gu Dan The few rays of natal divine light remaining in his body have been completely eliminated. Although his left arm has not grown back yet, it is not a problem to take Holy Blood Pill after the pill is completed and break through Nascent Soul and regenerate the broken arm at the same time.
As for Sheng Xiao'er, he sneered in his heart. After Nascent Soul, he was no longer a chess piece for Devil Race. Azure Xuan Region is so big, a Nascent Soul True Lord can go anywhere, and there are plenty of places to start over, so why should he be a dog for Devil Race?
Jiang Ci stood in the shadow behind the master, looking past the master's empty left sleeve and falling on the pool of blood below.
He always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell where it was specifically. The reaction of the blood pool was completely consistent with the Blood Refining technique he had learned. Essence Blood concentration, medicinal fusion, and Spirit Rune refining, every step was in line with the principles of alchemy.
The only thing that's not quite right is that the blood pool decreases at a somewhat different speed than expected, but this is within the allowable error range.
He withdrew his gaze, stood with his head bowed, and unconsciously caressed the storage ring with his right hand.
Master's breakthrough Nascent Soul is a good thing.