Body Casting Extreme Realm, Blood Qi Beacon Smoke! (Please Vote!~) (Revised)

The ancestral hall's stone chamber.

Qingyang Jue threw all the beast blood and precious herbs into the enormous bronze cauldron. Blood flames burned beneath it, fueled by Divine Treasure Realm beast bones. The flames burned for three days and three nights without stopping; only Qingyang's accumulated reserves could sustain this.

The blood medicine in the great cauldron was already as thick as mercury, constantly boiling and radiating scorching heat. Then he crushed a small piece of Taotie bone and tossed it in.

Chirp!

When he crushed the Qique's claw, a soft cry rang out. Within the bursting beast claw, a blurred silhouette with the head of a great bird and a pair of tiger claws vaguely appeared, erupting with a trace of frenzy. But it was promptly crushed and thrown into the medicinal cauldron.

Over these three days, Qingyang Huan had been regulating his body, preparing for the coming onslaught of the blood medicine, to break through to the peak of Body Forging in one stroke.

The method for refining this cauldron of blood medicine had come from the Stone Spear. Of course, if he could not withstand it, he would become a cripple outright.

At this moment, outside Qingyang Mountain, a young man dressed in gray beast robes dragged a blood-drenched giant python over his shoulder, panting as he headed toward the ancestral hall. His Blood Qi was dense, and his torn, disheveled beast robes showed that he had run a very long way.

"Dad, Xiao Huanzi, I caught the fierce beast you wanted!"

Dragging the giant python into the stone chamber, Qingyang Hao shouted.

"Second Brother." Seeing who had arrived, Qingyang Huan turned with a beaming smile. Having an older brother was rather nice at a time like this. He had caught a Divine Treasure Realm fierce beast and brought it back in just three days!

"I really must owe you, brat. Why didn't you make our eldest brother go? Your second brother was hunting down other races a thousand li beyond Qingyang Mountain, and you dragged me all the way back for this Divine Repository fierce beast."

His words seemed somewhat dissatisfied, but the next moment, curiosity filled the young man's eyes as he looked at the blood medicine in the great cauldron. After a while, unable to make anything out, he waved casually and left the stone chamber.

"Let's begin!"

Hearing Qingyang Huan's words, Qingyang Jue looked at him again.

"Brat, you'd better think this through."

He could feel the power boiling within this cauldron of blood medicine. It was nothing to him, but for Qingyang Huan, it was enough to overwhelm him completely!

Without speaking, Qingyang Huan nodded. His father was just like this: clearly worried, yet still wearing a fierce expression.

Splat!

The next instant, Qingyang Jue seized the Divine Treasure Realm giant python with his great hand, shattered its entire body, extracted its purest Blood Qi, and hurled it into the blood cauldron!

Boom!

Like dry kindling meeting a blazing fire, the already boiling blood medicine erupted with dense blood-colored light the instant fresh beast blood poured into it, filling the entire stone chamber.

Without the slightest hesitation, Qingyang Huan looked at the blood flames burning within the cauldron. A fierce gleam flashed through his eyes, and he jumped in!

"Aah...!"

Even though he had prepared himself, the instant he entered the blood medicine, his entire body began convulsing, his features twisting together.

Outside the great cauldron, a rare trace of worry appeared on Qingyang Jue's face, but it quickly vanished. Then, with the rumble of the stone door, only Qingyang Huan remained in the stone chamber, immersed in the blood medicine.

But after leaving the stone chamber, Qingyang Jue did not go away. Instead, he sat cross-legged directly outside.

Blended from the bones of several unusual beasts and thirty-six precious herbs, with a Divine Treasure Realm fierce beast serving as its blood catalyst, the blood medicine contained an unimaginable amount of essence. Naturally, its ferocity was unimaginable as well.

Qingyang Huan lay still within the medicinal cauldron. Boundless, ferocious medicinal potency rushed through the pores all over his body like a great river, surging mightily into him.

The blood medicine had simmered for three days and three nights. Blended with the bones of mighty fierce beasts, its Blood Qi was all the more violent amid its purity. Every strand of Blood Qi was like a blood needle, piercing every inch of his flesh, even stabbing into his battle bones and heading toward the blood marrow deeper within.

As though ten thousand ants were gnawing at his entire body, Qingyang Huan continued gritting his teeth and enduring. The blood medicine, thick as mercury, scoured his whole body. The bones that had not previously been tempered to the extreme realm now underwent another transformation.

Bones were the framework supporting the human body. Stronger bones naturally brought a stronger body, and the power it could unleash would multiply.

Under the onslaught of surging Blood Qi, the incompleteness of his Bone Tempering was soon washed away. Rough patterns vaguely began to develop upon his white-jade-like bones.

These patterns developing upon his bones followed no rules whatsoever. Yet as they appeared, he could feel his body's strength constantly increasing.

The essence of the blood medicine pierced his flesh and penetrated his bones like blood needles, forcibly pushing him into the final step of Body Casting: Marrow Cleansing.

Immersed in the blood medicine, Qingyang Huan did not notice a flash of purple light from the Stone Spear outside the bronze cauldron, followed by the manifestation of an illusory human outline.

The blurred purple figure manifested and looked toward Qingyang Huan, who was being eroded by the blood medicine.

Watching Qingyang Huan's twisted face and tightly clenched teeth, the blurred figure finally stirred.

"That place is too far away. Without sufficient Blood Qi to replenish me, I cannot keep going."

"I give you opportunities, and you supply me with Blood Qi. If you die, you can only blame your own meager fortune. There are countless heavenly geniuses in the Great Wilderness. I can find another then. Even after ten thousand ages, that place..."

"Which one is this? The seventeenth, or the eighteenth? I hope he lasts a little longer. At the very least, he must leave this desolate place and reach the lands where the Human Race flourishes. Only there will there be stronger heavenly geniuses of the Human Race..."

The voice was faint, without the slightest emotion. Soon, the figure sank back into the Stone Spear, as though it had never appeared. Even Qingyang Jue, separated by only a single wall, noticed nothing.

At this moment, Qingyang Huan sat cross-legged within the great cauldron. He felt all the Blood Qi in his body turn to mercury, brimming with indescribable vitality, while rough patterns were branded upon each of his bones.

Deep within his bones, the blood marrow boiled, driving the blood in his entire body like a mighty surging river, coursing through his whole body again and again, cleansing his flesh, skin, and membranes. At this moment, his entire body became one complete circuit, every part set into motion!

The pain of ten thousand ants gnawing at him continued for days. By the sixth day, only a thin layer of blood crust clinging to the cauldron's inner walls remained of the blood medicine that had been as thick as mercury. He had absorbed it all!

Yet Qingyang Huan did not move in the slightest. Another three days passed before the bronze cauldron shook violently, drawing the attention of Qingyang Jue, who sat cross-legged outside the stone chamber. He rushed inside and stared fixedly at Qingyang Huan.

Inside the bronze cauldron, a layer of blood crust covered Qingyang Huan's entire body. In an instant, however, blood-colored radiance burst from within him, completely tearing apart the crust clinging to his body. Bright-red Blood Qi even pierced the cauldron walls, bathing the entire stone chamber in blood-colored rays of dawn, while surging vitality washed through it like a great river!

Boom!

Then the bronze cauldron exploded. Astonishing Blood Qi erupted from Qingyang Huan's body, forming a column of Blood Qi beacon smoke. Even the ancestral hall could not conceal it; it pierced straight through the stone walls and soared into the heavens.

Roar!

At this moment, Qingyang Huan threw back his head and let out a long howl. Having broken free of the blood crust, his body shone with the faint luster of patterns, and surging Blood Qi wreathed him.

"Body Casting Extreme Realm! I finally reached it!"

"Body Casting Extreme Realm, and you're satisfied already?"

Yet just as Qingyang Huan roared out the surging excitement in his heart, a cold snort rang out in his mind.