Yang Zhen was overjoyed!
This unknown blood refining method is excellent.
It was actually able to activate the Heaven and Earth Qi and Blood Seed within his body.
Moreover, Yang Zhen had a feeling that if he cultivated this Cultivation Method to perfection, it might be able to completely refine his body, unify the various powers within him, and truly form a unique power that belonged only to him.
That's pretty Niu Bi.
But let's focus on overcoming this tribulation first.
Yang Zhen looked up at the terrifying sea of blood in mid-air. This was Heavenly Punishment caused by the Heaven and Earth Qi and Blood. It seemed that he had accidentally gone too far again, detonating the Heaven and Earth Qi and Blood Seed within his body, which attracted the attention of the Principle of Heaven and Earth.
Damn it, isn't it annoying to have these kinds of Heavenly Punishment every other day?
Yang Zhen took out the Great Deficiency Sword, glanced at Zhou Tong who looked completely bewildered, and decided to disperse the Heavenly Punishment first.
"Kid, what do you want?"
Zhou Tong looked surprised and stared at Yang Zhen, saying, "With your current strength, it will be dangerous if you try to withstand this Heavenly Punishment head-on."
Yang Zhen exclaimed in surprise, noticing a look of worry on Zhou Tong's face. She couldn't tell if the old man was afraid that if Zhou Tong got hurt or died, there would be no one to help him show off, or if he was genuinely worried that Zhou Tong might have been injured.
Regardless of the reason, Yang Zhen was extremely grateful to the old man, so he readily put away the Great Deficiency Sword and decided not to confront the divine Heavenly Punishment head-on.
"Alright, I won't try to tough it out..." Yang Zhen said to Zhou Tong with a grateful expression.
Zhou Tong was taken aback, then breathed a sigh of relief. Before he could speak, he saw Yang Zhen rush towards the Heavenly Punishment Thundercloud with a whoosh.
"I'll try to see if I can refine it directly!"
"I... you... you little bastard!" Zhou Tong jumped up.
You can't even withstand it by brute force, and you want to refine it directly?
Throughout history, who has ever heard of someone being able to directly refine the Heavenly Punishment Thundercloud?
This is all the Heaven and Earth Qi and Blood; it's something that can kill people.
Just as Zhou Tong jumped up and before he reached his highest point, Yang Zhen had already entered the Heavenly Punishment Thundercloud.
Zhou Tong opened his mouth, stomped his foot, cursed a couple of times, and the large gourd appeared in his hand. He hesitated for a moment, looked at his thumb, and then bit it hard, as if he were treating his thumb as Yang Zhen, grimacing as he bit it.
"Hiss!"
A gasp rang out, and Zhou Tong shook his hand, hurriedly forming an intricate array on the gourd. The gourd immediately swelled in the wind, growing to about ten zhang in the blink of an eye.
Buzz--!
A towering wave of energy burst forth from the gourd, instantly plunging into the Heavenly Punishment Thunderclouds.
"Young man, this is a treasure I've kept for many years. This kind of lightning punishment can trigger my own heavenly Heavenly Tribulation. This is all I can do to help you."
Looking at the raging, Heaven and Earth Qi and Blood, Zhou Tong shouted at the sky with a pained expression.
Amidst the Heavenly Punishment thunderclouds, Yang Zhen, who was grimacing, suddenly felt a warmth emanating from him. It was as if all the billions of cells in his body had come alive, becoming exceptionally active. Terrifying power surged into his body from this warm aura and then surged out wildly. After several such surges, Yang Zhen's condition reached the best state he could achieve.
Wow, this old man is really willing to spend a fortune!
Just how terrifying is that Pure Yang Sacred Root that Zhou Tong would go to such lengths to bring Yang Zhen to the Three Gates Grand Gathering?
There was no time for Yang Zhen to let his mind wander. The warm aura that Zhou Tong had brought in didn't seem to last long. Taking advantage of the fact that his body wasn't in so much pain, Yang Zhen sat cross-legged right in the center of the Heavenly Punishment Thundercloud.
At the same time, an unknown blood refining technique within his body suddenly began operating at full speed, forming a strange phenomenon of nine stars aligned above Yang Zhen's head.
Nine fist-sized beads of Qi and Blood shone brightly above Yang Zhen's head, looking exceptionally mysterious.
An unknown blood refining method, when practiced to its extreme, can form a nine-star alignment above the head, devouring the heavens and the earth, even absorbing the Heaven and Earth Qi and Blood for its own use.
This is the real reason why Yang Zhen ultimately did not use the Great Deficiency Sword to shatter the Heavenly Punishment Thundercloud, but instead attempted to refine and absorb it.
"Blood Refinement, activate!"
With a furious shout, Yang Zhen's eyes flashed with blood-red light, and the nine-star-connected Qi and Blood bead above his head suddenly shone brightly and began to spin rapidly.
Within the terrifying Heavenly Punishment thunderclouds, lightning raged, and bolts of lightning, like long dragons, fell towards Yang Zhen, but were all blocked by Yang Zhen's Nine Stars Alignment.
A terrifying suction force erupted from the Nine Stars Alignment, and the boundless Blood Qi surged wildly towards the Nine Stars Alignment at an alarming speed like a vortex.
Zhou Tong, who was pacing anxiously and cursing the bastard not far away, felt the influence of the energy of heaven and earth and stared wide-eyed at Yang Zhen with disbelief.
Even after Yang Zhen had absorbed the last bit of the Heaven and Earth Qi and Blood, and only the dry, struggling thunder dragons remained amidst the swirling dark clouds in the sky, Zhou Tong didn't blink once, his mouth agape as if he could swallow his own fist.
"What... what's going on?"
Zhou Tong muttered to himself, his eyes filled with absurdity, then angrily cursed, "You damned brat, since you possess such a powerful blood refining technique, why do you still want my unknown blood refining technique? You're too greedy!"
Yang Zhen leaped up and landed in front of Zhou Tong, calming the raging Blood Qi within him. He grinned and said, "Old man, you have to keep your word. I promised you'd give me another Cultivation Method or martial skill after I perfected the unknown blood refining method. Now you're trying to renege on your promise? Have you no shame?"
"What?" Zhou Tong's beard bristled as he glared at Yang Zhen and said, "You brat, do you think I haven't practiced some unknown blood refining technique? What you just used wasn't even..."
"Ha, now you admit it?" Yang Zhen glared at Zhou Tong and said, "You old rascal, you're wicked, not a word of truth comes out of your mouth. Luckily, I, the Sage of Saunter, am known as the Honest and Reliable Young Master, and I really can't stand associating with a faithless fellow like you."
"You?" Zhou Tong sized Yang Zhen up and down, then said, "If you're known as the honest and reliable young man, then I'm the old man who never lies. Bah! Kid, tell me the truth, what Cultivation Method did you just use? It does resemble some unknown blood refining method."
"Give me a martial art worthy of my status as Sage of Saunter!" Yang Zhen stretched out his hand.
Zhou Tong glared, about to speak, when Yang Zhen suddenly grinned, winked at Zhou Tong, and said, "Don't you think there are a few strange things about this unknown blood refining method? It seems like it's completely wrong?"
"Nonsense, if you can sense it, how could I... What did you say?" Zhou Tong's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets as he looked at the slowly dissipating Heavenly Punishment clouds in mid-air, then suddenly cried out, "This is impossible!"
"Nothing is impossible. You give it to me or not!" Yang Zhen turned and left.
Zhou Tong hurriedly chased after him, staring at the back of Yang Zhen's head with a look of disbelief and a face full of absurdity. Then, as if remembering something, he grinned, looking just like a two-hundred-pound fat old man.