Arc 22Blood Dao Ascendant

Li Fan established the Venerable Blood Palace, traveled to the Academy Star System, and entered the Heavenly River Dao Lineage. After winning Hot Spring Mountain, he began developing a method to refine spirit treasures and strengthen the Blood Qi Dao.

  • Li Fan completed a fifty-mu Blood Qi Dao spirit land and became Tianniu University's first Blood Qi Dao doctoral graduate.
  • Li Fan created the Innate True Blood Deficiency-Mending Codex, gathered materials for his fourth innate embryonic reversion, and slept inside a blood cocoon.
  • Li Fan claimed the Heavenly Light Cloud Fire Imagery Dao Fruit in the Fire Ox Secret Land and traded it for Dao Foundation demonic beast spirit blood.
  • Li Fan formed the Venerable Blood Palace, declared himself Buzhen, and examined its abilities before seeking a richer cultivation environment.
  • Li Fan's Blood Space Spiritual Qi spacecraft research passed Earth-grade Class B certification, and Perfected One Yuanlian escorted Li Fan and Xu Xuan to the Academy Star System.
  • Li Fan defeated Li Mingxi in the Dreamlike True and False Realm, then accepted Great Perfected One Xuanzhen's offer to join the Heavenly River Dao Lineage as an outer disciple.
  • Li Fan developed an inner landscape method, helped Xu Xuan, Zhang Longhu, and Jiang Wendao prepare for the Hundred Mountains Contest, and won Hot Spring Mountain.
  • Li Fan anchored his Venerable Blood Palace at Hot Spring Mountain, transformed its lake and willow with Blood Qi, and entered seclusion to devise a spirit-treasure refining art.
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Ch. 527Blood Qi Dao Spirit Land Transformation Technology

Li Fan pursued doctoral research into transforming an experimental spirit land into a Blood Qi Dao spirit land, developing a method that succeeded after six years. He passed his dissertation defense and became Tianniu University's first doctoral graduate in the Blood Qi Dao.

  • Li Fan chose to research artificial spirit lands for the Blood Qi Dao and submitted his proposal to the doctoral research group.
  • Three days later, his requested resources, including a natural spirit land and three demon-blood-producing spirit objects, were approved.
  • Li Fan studied the land and developed a way to integrate Blood Qi Dao spirit objects, law runes, and an Earth Master Grand Array into its earth veins.
  • Six years later, Li Fan reached Qi Refining Ninth Layer and presented his completed fifty-mu Blood Qi Dao spirit land at his dissertation defense.
  • The professors inspected the spirit land, confirmed the transformation had succeeded, and congratulated Li Fan on becoming Tianniu University's first Blood Qi Dao doctoral graduate.

Ch. 528First Tier Mid-Grade Cyan, [Innate Dao Deduction], Activate! Dao Foundation

Li Fan remained at Tianniu University and used [Innate Dao Deduction] to create a powerful Dao Foundation cultivation codex. After gathering the materials for his fourth innate embryonic reversion, he entered a blood cocoon to begin the transformation.

  • Li Fan chose to work at Tianniu University and stay in the Tianniu star system until he established his Dao Foundation.
  • His Qi Destiny rose to First Tier Mid-Grade Cyan, and he used [Innate Dao Deduction] to create the [Innate True Blood Deficiency-Mending Codex].
  • Li Fan studied the codex, which offered methods for returning to the innate state, surviving through true blood, mending deficiencies, and forming either the [Blood Transformation Light] or [Venerable Blood Palace] Dao Foundation.
  • He searched online auctions and, with help from the university's purchasing channels, gathered the spiritual objects and demonic beast blood needed for his fourth innate embryonic reversion.
  • Li Fan activated his blood formation and entered a deep primordial sleep inside the resulting blood cocoon.

Ch. 529Innate True Image, [Venerable Blood Palace], Secret Land

After nine years of cultivating his Blood Star Space, Li Fan reached Innate True Image comprehension and prepared to pursue the [Venerable Blood Palace] Dao Foundation. He joined Tianniu University's expedition into the Fire Ox Secret Land and raced toward its heart, with two competitors close behind.

  • Li Fan awakened from his blood cocoon with Innate True Image comprehension and judged that he could now pursue the 33 imagery types needed for the [Venerable Blood Palace].
  • Li Fan developed his Blood Star Space for nine years before learning that the Fire Ox Secret Land was about to open.
  • Li Fan joined Tianniu University's professors and teachers, and the university's two vice presidents took them to the secret land.
  • The Fire Ox Secret Land opened beneath a mountain, and Li Fan rushed through its entrance ahead of the other Qi Refining cultivators.
  • Li Fan flew toward the secret land's heart as streaks of fire and lightning pursued him.

Ch. 530[Qi Transformation Blood Radiance Void Escape Technique] [True Power Supreme Yang Transformation Technique] "Heavenly Light Cloud Fire"

Li Fan raced through the Fire Ox Secret Land, defeated a powerful fire qi giant ox with his transformed Blood Qi true power, and claimed the Heavenly Light Cloud Fire [Imagery Dao Fruit]. After gathering more spiritual items, he and the other cultivators were expelled when the secret land closed.

  • Li Fan reflected on the strengths of the Blood Qi Dao while traveling with a Fire Phase cultivator from the Heavenly Fire Xiao Clan and a Thunder Qi Dao cultivator.
  • The Xiao Clan cultivator demanded the others let him claim the Fire Phase imagery, and the Thunder Qi Dao cultivator attacked him, sparking a fight as they continued after Li Fan.
  • Li Fan found the [Imagery Dao Fruit] beneath a fire tree guarded by a giant ox, then used the [True Power Supreme Yang Transformation Technique] to form a massive black thread of true power.
  • Li Fan pierced through and annihilated the fire qi giant ox, then took the fruit and identified its imagery as Heavenly Light Cloud Fire.
  • Li Fan continued collecting spiritual items for the Blood Star Space, and three days later the secret land expelled everyone and closed.

Ch. 531Auctioning the Fruit for Resources, Preparing to Break Through to Dao Foundation

Li Fan auctioned the Heavenly Light Cloud Fire Imagery Dao Fruit for the spirit blood of a Later Realm Dao Foundation demonic beast, completing his preparations to break through. A year later, as he prepared to attempt Dao Foundation, Xu Xuan and Li Mingyue arrived to witness him.

  • Li Fan refused the Xiao Clan's offer for the Imagery Dao Fruit and announced that it would be auctioned to the highest bidder for Dao Foundation demonic beast spirit blood.
  • Li Fan studied the fruit, then sold it through the Thousand Oxen Auction and received the buyer's spirit blood three months later.
  • Li Fan placed the spirit blood in the Blood Star Space, where it sank into the blood lake and came to rest against the Blood Star's core.
  • After another year, Li Fan announced that he would attempt to break through to Dao Foundation, drawing attention across the Altair Star System.
  • Xu Xuan arrived at Tianniu University and saw Li Fan preparing atop the blood-red mountain, while Li Mingyue also arrived to witness the breakthrough.

Ch. 532Venerable Blood Palace

Li Fan completed his Blood Qi Dao Foundation, the [Venerable Blood Palace], and overcame the demonic trial that followed. After announcing himself as Buzhen and receiving congratulations from cultivators across the region, he examined his new Foundation’s six profundities and their powers.

  • Li Fan formed the [Venerable Blood Palace], gained an extraordinary First Tier station, and extended his lifespan to 800 years.
  • Li Fan overcame the five-colored demonic qi trial with the Blood Star’s aid and returned to himself.
  • Li Fan declared himself Buzhen and announced that Blood Qi Dao cultivators would acknowledge him as their teacher; Tianniu University disciples and other cultivators paid their respects.
  • Tianniu University’s president and vice presidents, followed by Dao Foundation cultivators from across the region, congratulated Li Fan.
  • Li Fan returned to his residence and examined the six profundities of the [Venerable Blood Palace], including its defensive, blood-gathering, avatar, and control abilities.

Ch. 533Establish Blood Life and the Chaos Faint Red Star, Dao Foundation Cultivators Struggle to Leave Their Star Systems

Li Fan discovered that his [Chaos Faint Red Star] could grow by helping others along their paths, then planned to travel to the [Academy Star System] to advance his cultivation. Unable to afford a spacecraft or find a timely direct flight, he began considering how the Blood Space Spiritual Qi in Blood Star Space might help him build one.

  • Li Fan examined his [Chaos Faint Red Star] and realized that guiding others along the same path could nourish his Qi Destiny.
  • He learned that his blood peak would take at least a hundred years to become a first-tier spiritual land and chose to seek a richer cultivation environment.
  • His personal AI agent recommended that he travel to the [Academy Star System] before moving on to more challenging regions.
  • Li Fan found that spacecraft were far beyond his means and that no direct flight to the [Academy Star System] would leave for fifty years.
  • He decided to investigate building a spacecraft from purchased components and turned his attention to the Blood Space Spiritual Qi in Blood Star Space.

Ch. 534My Dao Is About to Be Fulfilled, the Value of Blood Space Spiritual Qi, Earth-grade Class A

Li Fan discovered that Blood Space Spiritual Qi could greatly improve spacecraft engines and submitted it to the Federation's Black Iron Academy for certification, despite fearing it might expose him to danger. The academy certified his discovery as Earth-grade Class B, with a possible upgrade to Class A, and arranged for Perfected Yuanlian to escort him.

  • Li Fan modified a light-speed spacecraft design with Blood Space Spiritual Qi and found that a three-phase engine ran 50% faster while using 30% less energy.
  • Li Fan decided to apply to the Black Iron Academy's discovery recommendation program and submitted his findings with a Qi Destiny formation inspection request.
  • A vast presence examined Li Fan and his Blood Star Space, then withdrew without harming him.
  • Heavenly River True Lord watched a blood-red thread in the Federation's information network and said his Dao was nearing fulfillment; Primordial Lady Tianxin asked why he was happy.
  • After a month, the academy informed Li Fan that his discovery had passed certification at Earth-grade Class B and could rise to Earth-grade Class A after verification.
  • The academy told Li Fan that Perfected Yuanlian would escort him and warned him to observe proper etiquette.

Ch. 535Heavenly Radiance Light Yang Fire, Spirit-Concealing Moon Yin Light, Thunderclap, Heavenly Gleam, Tribulation Punishment

After confirming he would be taken to the Academy Star System, Li Fan met Li Mingyue and Xu Xuan, helping each with a different request. Xu Xuan left to prepare for a Dao Foundation breakthrough and a possible journey to the Academy Star System, taking Li Fan’s Blood Qi spiritual wine with him.

  • Li Fan welcomed Li Mingyue and Xu Xuan to the Blood Palace three days after receiving their messages.
  • Li Mingyue offered Li Fan two Dao Foundation-level spiritual items in exchange for a lower-grade Blood Qi Dao Foundation inheritance, and he agreed to prepare one in three days.
  • Li Mingyue asked Li Fan to look after Li Mingxi, then departed after handing over the spiritual items.
  • Xu Xuan explained the Thunder Qi Dao’s Thunderclap, Heavenly Gleam, and Tribulation Punishment paths, and told Li Fan he planned to attempt forming his Dao Foundation.
  • Xu Xuan asked Li Fan to arrange a spiritual ground at Tianniu University for his breakthrough, and Li Fan agreed.
  • Li Fan told Xu Xuan about his coming trip to the Academy Star System and offered to help bring him along; Xu Xuan left to prepare, taking the pot of Blood Qi spiritual wine.

Ch. 536Xu Xuan's Dao Foundation, Daoist Pijie, Tribulation Lightning Punishment, Departure

Xu Xuan condensed the Thunder Qi Dao Foundation Tribulation Lightning Punishment and took the title Daoist Pijie. After Perfected One Yuanlian agreed to take both him and Li Fan to the Academy Star System, they departed for the Equatorial Starport.

  • News spread that Xiao Huoyu and Xu Xuan would attempt to break through to the Dao Foundation realm at Tianniu University.
  • Xu Xuan condensed the Tribulation Lightning Punishment Dao Foundation and declared himself Pijie, opening another path for the Thunder Qi Dao.
  • Li Fan congratulated Xu Xuan, and the two celebrated together at Blood Spirit Peak.
  • Li Fan asked Perfected One Yuanlian to let Xu Xuan accompany them to the Academy Star System, and Yuanlian agreed to take them both.
  • Li Fan and Xu Xuan left for the Equatorial Starport while Li Fan sent farewell messages to his friends.
  • A ten-kilometer black-and-red warship arrived near Longhorn Beetle Star's starport, astonishing the cultivators there.

Ch. 537Huolian the Fire Spirit, Arrival, Dao Cheng, Yuan Yi

Li Fan and Xu Xuan traveled aboard Perfected Person Yuanlian’s warship to Black Iron Academy, where they saw the academy’s prosperous planetary system. They arrived at the central starport and were greeted by Dao Cheng and Yuan Yi.

  • Huolian introduced himself to Li Fan and Xu Xuan aboard the warship and praised their unusual talents and Dao Foundations.
  • Perfected Person Yuanlian examined the two cultivators, recognized their Blood Qi and thunder talents, and ordered Huolian to arrange their accommodations for the month-long voyage.
  • Li Fan and Xu Xuan spent the voyage exploring the warship before it emerged near Black Iron Academy’s thirty-six life-bearing planets and Chaos blessed lands.
  • Yuanlian told Li Fan and Xu Xuan to disembark, and they bowed in thanks before leaving the warship.
  • Dao Cheng and Yuan Yi greeted Li Fan and Xu Xuan at the academy’s central starport, and Dao Cheng introduced their lineages.

Ch. 538Each Has Their Own Destination, Inviting Great Immortal Official Spirit Radiance, Overseer and Witness of Oaths

Daoist Dao Cheng brought Li Fan to the Earth Immortal Star, where the Black Iron Academy’s Perfected Persons gathered to begin researching his spatial discovery. They summoned Great Immortal Official Spirit Radiance, whose immortal qi formed a Golden Edict of Supervision as the project began.

  • Daoist Yuan Yi took Xu Xuan to the Heavenly Immortal Star, while Daoist Dao Cheng brought Li Fan to the Earth Immortal Star.
  • Daoist Dao Cheng explained the Earth Immortal Star’s role in supporting Inner Scene Earth Immortal cultivators and described the Perfected Persons who would attend the research meeting.
  • Li Fan and Daoist Dao Cheng entered the Earth Immortal Palace, where more than twenty Purple Mansion Perfected Persons examined Li Fan’s Blood Qi Dao force field.
  • Yuan Zhen, Yuan Hua, and Jinglian welcomed Li Fan and summoned Great Immortal Official Spirit Radiance to oversee the Earth-grade, Class A research project.
  • Great Immortal Official Spirit Radiance’s pressure and gaze descended, and immortal qi gathered into an Immortal Official’s Golden Edict of Supervision.

Ch. 539"Blood, Space, Spirit: Beginning, Earth, Change, Achievement, Inquiry," the Dreamlike True and False Realm

Li Fan presented his Blood Space Primordial Qi to the Earth Immortal Palace, where Purple Mansion Perfected Persons named it and began a major research project. He then traveled to Heavenly Immortal Star with Fairy Yuanyi, who introduced him to the Dreamlike True and False Realm and the story of Patriarch Heavenly River.

  • Li Fan released his Blood Space Primordial Qi for the Purple Mansion Perfected Persons to examine, and they identified its properties and settled on the project name “Blood, Space, Spirit: Beginning, Earth, Change, Achievement, Inquiry.”
  • Li Fan left one hundred Blood Space Spirit Crystals for Heavenly Immortal Star and learned he would need Dao Foundation Perfection before joining the secret realm’s construction.
  • Daoist Daocheng took Li Fan to Heavenly Immortal Star and explained its open admissions, which judged cultivators by comprehension, Dao attainment, or battle prowess.
  • Li Fan met Fairy Yuanyi near the lake and followed her toward a five-colored palace as she explained the lake’s Dreamlike True and False Realm.
  • Fairy Yuanyi said the realm had been refined from the Dreamlike Labyrinth Realm and recounted how Patriarch Heavenly River killed five experts who had ambushed him before he attained the Dao.

Ch. 540The Heavenly River True Lord's past, a combat trial, and a heaven-sent opportunity

Fairy Yuanyi explained the Dreamlike True and False Realm and offered Li Fan a chance to join the Heavenly River Dao Lineage by winning combat trials. Li Fan accepted and was matched against his old acquaintance Li Mingxi on Longhorn Beetle Star.

  • Fairy Yuanyi described how the Heavenly River True Lord created the Dreamlike Labyrinth Realm and explained that students could fight or study Divine Ability portraits in the five-colored palace.
  • Li Fan chose combat, and Fairy Yuanyi arranged for him to face three Dao Foundation cultivators for a chance at her recommendation to Great Perfected One Xuanzhen.
  • Li Mingxi, Zhang Longhu, and Jiang Wendao arrived, and Li Fan recognized Li Mingxi as an old acquaintance who had become a Supreme Yang sword immortal.
  • Li Fan and the three cultivators entered the Dreamlike True and False Realm, where Fairy Yuanyi warned them that Great Perfected One Xuanzhen would watch their matches.
  • Fairy Yuanyi selected Longhorn Beetle Star as the battlefield for Li Fan's first match against Li Mingxi, and the two were teleported there.

Ch. 541Supreme Yang Sword Intent, Supreme Yang Dao, Three Transformations of True Power, Unstoppable

Li Fan and Li Mingxi fought on Longhorn Beetle Star, testing their powerful Blood Qi and Supreme Yang Dao Foundations. Li Mingxi unleashed his strongest sword strike against Li Fan’s third-transformed Bloodless True Power, and his body disintegrated.

  • Jiang Wendao said a person's ability mattered more than where they were born and admired the purity and Spirituality of Li Fan's Blood Qi.
  • Li Fan and Li Mingxi returned to Longhorn Beetle Star and began their sparring match, with Li Mingxi attacking using the Great Radiance Manifesting in the World Light-Breaking Sword.
  • Li Fan's Black Blood True Power blocked Li Mingxi's attack, but Li Mingxi's transformed Supreme Yang Sword Intent pierced the force field and struck Li Fan, who emerged unharmed through Nurture Blood Body.
  • Li Fan's Venerable Blood Palace drained Li Mingxi's vitality, but Li Mingxi used Dawning Light to recover and countered with the Light of the Blazing Yang Destroying the World.
  • Li Fan transformed his Black Blood True Power into Bloodless True Power, while Li Mingxi combined his three world-illuminating divine lights into a sword and charged into the attack.
  • Li Fan's Bloodless True Power crushed Li Mingxi's Supreme Yang force field and turned his Dao Foundation body to dust.

Ch. 542Shocking Revelation: The Supreme Dao Foundation and the Four Paths of the Sword Dao

Li Fan defeated Li Mingxi by sustaining his Dao Foundation with the Blood Star's inner-world space, impressing the spectators and ending the planned fights. Fairy Yuan Yi then took Li Fan and Xu Xuan to meet her master, Xuanzhen, while explaining the four branches of the sword Dao.

  • Li Fan used the Blood Star's Blood Qi to sustain his colorless life force and withstood Li Mingxi's sword attack, winning their battle.
  • Li Mingxi accepted his defeat, while Zhang Longhu and Jiang Wendao considered asking Li Fan for guidance on creating inner-world spaces.
  • Fairy Yuan Yi ended the fights and took Li Fan and Xu Xuan to meet her master, warning them to answer Xuanzhen truthfully.
  • Fairy Yuan Yi explained the sword Dao's history and its four branches: Sword Qi, sword intent, the Sword Principle, and sword arts.

Ch. 543Mysterious Cold Sword Mountain and Mysterious Simplicity Five True Great Origin Heaven: Paying Respects at the Ancestral Hall

Fairy Yuanyi brought Li Fan and Xu Xuan to Mysterious Cold Sword Mountain, where Great Perfected One Xuanzhen invited them to join the Heavenly River Dao Lineage. They accepted, paid respects in the ancestral hall of Mysterious Simplicity Five True Great Origin Heaven, and received outer disciple identity tokens.

  • Fairy Yuanyi took Li Fan and Xu Xuan to Mysterious Cold Sword Mountain and warned them that its sword-true spiritual qi was unsuitable for cultivators who did not practice the sword Dao.
  • Fairy Yuanyi introduced Li Fan and Xu Xuan to her master, Great Perfected One Xuanzhen, who offered them places as outer disciples of the Heavenly River Dao Lineage.
  • Li Fan and Xu Xuan accepted Xuanzhen's offer, and she opened a gate with her pure-white longsword to lead them to the ancestral hall.
  • Xuanzhen brought Li Fan and Xu Xuan before Great Immortal Official Spirit Radiance and asked the patriarchs to witness their entry into the lineage.
  • Li Fan and Xu Xuan offered incense and performed the ancestral rites, then received outer disciple identity tokens engraved with their true names.

Ch. 544Disciple Tokens, the Difficulty of Obtaining a Cave Abode, and a Request for the Inner Landscape Construction Method

Xu Xuan and Li Fan became outer disciples of the Heavenly River Dao Lineage, learned about their new access to knowledge and cultivation resources, and began looking for cave abodes. At a meal with Li Mingxi, Zhang Longhu, and Jiang Wendao, Li Fan agreed to develop a general version of his inner landscape construction method, while the group learned that Dao Foundation cultivators should avoid attending the upcoming attainment in person.

  • Great Perfected One Xuanzhen explained that the disciple tokens could provide access to a grotto-heaven or block one fatal blow, and Fairy Yuanyi told Xu Xuan and Li Fan that the True Lords had examined their karma and backgrounds.
  • Xu Xuan and Li Fan refined their tokens and discovered that they could consult Dao Foundation knowledge, limited information about higher tiers, and news from across human star domains.
  • Fairy Yuanyi sent Xu Xuan and Li Fan to find Li Mingxi and the others and choose their cave abodes; Xu Xuan explained the options and why wealthy students could not simply rent the best spirit mountains.
  • Xu Xuan and Li Fan met Li Mingxi, Zhang Longhu, and Jiang Wendao at Taotie Spirit Cuisine Hall, where Zhang Longhu asked Li Fan about his inner landscape construction method.
  • Li Fan agreed to work out a general method, and Li Mingxi advised that cultivators below the Purple Mansion should avoid attending the upcoming attainment in person and watch a broadcast instead.

Ch. 545Deduce It for Me! The Landscape-Refining Blood Abyss World-Birthing Divine Ability

Li Fan used his growing Qi Destiny and knowledge to deduce a complete Dao Foundation cultivation method, then began acquiring the resources needed to practice it. The chapter ended when an emergency alert showed him a crowded ceremony at Rain Star, attended by hundreds of Purple Mansion Divine Abilities.

  • Li Fan checked his Qi Destiny and found it had risen enough for him to attempt a Purple Mansion breakthrough.
  • After studying cultivation treatises for two months, Li Fan used Innate Dao Deduction to create the Innate True Blood Deficiency-Mending Dao-Shaping Cultivation Codex.
  • Li Fan discovered the Landscape-Refining Blood Abyss World-Birthing Divine Ability and began buying the spirit materials needed for his cultivation.
  • Li Fan completed his first Innate Return to the Fetus at the Dao Foundation realm and condensed a speck of true blood.
  • Li Fan received an emergency alert and saw hundreds of Purple Mansion Divine Abilities gathered at Rain Star to watch a ceremony.

Ch. 546[Long Flowing] Attainment, [Immortal-Manifesting, Far-Enduring Long Flowing True Lord Tianping]

Li Fan watched Great Perfected Person Tianping prove the Long Flowing attainment, becoming a Golden Core True Lord and establishing the Dao of Long Flowing Primordial Qi. After his attainment healed and advanced cultivators across the worlds, Tianping entered the chaos of the Great Void.

  • Li Fan learned that the figure at the source of Rain Star’s longest river was Great Perfected Person Tianping, who had reincarnated and cultivated anew.
  • Tianping manifested five water-based Divine Abilities, using the river’s source, momentum, natural course, veins, and cleansing power to form the Long Flowing attainment.
  • Tianping drew on the Mysterious Billows Heavenly River and the Heavenly River Water attainment to complete his proof of the Dao.
  • Tianping declared himself the Immortal-Manifesting Yang Spirit Long Flowing Heavenly Immortal Attainment and established the Dao of Long Flowing Primordial Qi.
  • The new Primordial Qi baptized cultivators across the worlds, healing injuries and strengthening their cultivation, including Li Fan and his companions.
  • Tianping received the cultivators’ salute, then tore through space and vanished into the chaos of the Great Void.

Ch. 547The Immortal Opens the Azure Light Great Stream Tianli Primordial Lord; Blood River Force-Wielding Mountain-Breaking Spell

Tianli attained the Dao as a Primordial Lord immediately after another True Lord, and their successive ascensions stirred excitement throughout humanity. Li Fan mastered a powerful new spell and arrived with his companions for the Hundred Mountains Contest, where he shared his inner landscape construction theories.

  • Tianli borrowed the influence of the Dao-attainment phenomenon to prove the [Immortal-Opening Azure Light Great Stream Tianli Primordial Lord] attainment and ascend as a Primordial Lord.
  • Cultivators and humans across the star domains celebrated the two successive Dao attainments, and Li Fan's fellow disciples shared their excitement.
  • Li Fan mastered the First Tier [Blood River Force-Wielding Mountain-Breaking Spell] and learned that the Hundred Mountains Contest would begin the next day.
  • Li Fan, Xu Xuan, and their companions gathered near the Dreamlike True and False Realm, where Li Mingxi regretted being unable to compete for a spirit mountain.
  • Li Fan gave his companions a limited-read book containing the theories behind his special inner landscape space construction method.

Ch. 548Supreme Yang Manifest Purity Bright Sun Spirit Fire, Purple Firmament Swift-Traveling Blameless Divine Lightning, Hot Spring Mountain

Li Fan exchanged inner landscape construction methods for rare spirit objects from Li Mingxi, Xu Xuan, Zhang Longhu, and Jiang Wendao, then joined the mountain-seizing contest. He chose Hot Spring Mountain for its high-grade Spirit Origin Crystal Vein.

  • Li Fan explained that his Blood Refining method was needed to build the special inner landscape spaces and promised to help the others design theirs.
  • Li Mingxi gave Li Fan Supreme Yang Manifest Purity Bright Sun Spirit Fire, while Xu Xuan presented Purple Firmament Swift-Traveling Blameless Divine Lightning.
  • Zhang Longhu and Jiang Wendao gave Li Fan their path-specific spirit objects, and Li Fan offered them wine brewed from a First Tier Blood Qi Dao spirit plant.
  • A Perfected One announced the start of the hundred-mountain contest, and Li Fan and the others entered the Dreamlike True and False Realm.
  • Li Fan surveyed the available spirit mountains and chose Hot Spring Mountain for its first-tier high-grade Spirit Origin Crystal Vein.

Ch. 549Instantly Crushing the Light-Breaking Fire Divine Spear, His Name Spread Far and Wide

Li Fan challenged a Later Realm Dao Foundation defender at Hot Spring Mountain and defeated him with one strike, causing his name as a Blood Qi Dao cultivator to spread among the academy students. As the Hundred Great Bouts continued, rankings highlighted Li Fan and three other Initial Realm cultivators who practiced new cultivation paths.

  • Li Fan entered the Hot Spring Mountain arena and instantly overwhelmed the defender's Light-Breaking Fire Divine Spear with his Blood River Force-Wielding Mountain-Breaking Spell.
  • The defeated defender returned to the Star River in shock, and Wang Laoliu and another cultivator were also swiftly beaten after entering the arena.
  • News spread that an Initial Realm Blood Qi Dao cultivator was defeating stronger opponents in one move, prompting students to search for his origins and discuss him on the academy forum.
  • The Hundred Great Bouts continued, and rankings named Li Fan, Xu Xuan, Zhang Longhu, and Jiang Wendao as the most powerful Initial Realm cultivators.
  • Students noticed that all four ranked cultivators followed new cultivation paths and wondered why no practitioners of established Dao lineages appeared.

Ch. 550Thunder Calamity Mountain, Tiger Roar Mountain, Three Pure Ones Mountain, and the Blood Palace Descends

The Hundred Mountains Grand Competition ended, and Li Fan and his companions claimed their spirit mountain cave abodes. Li Fan settled at Hot Spring Mountain and transformed its summit and resources with his Blood Qi Dao, leaving himself to wonder about the unsettling appearance of his cultivation.

  • The competition concluded, and the victorious arena holders received the right to develop their spirit mountains at the Dao Mechanism realm.
  • Li Fan, Xu Xuan, Zhang Longhu, and Jiang Wendao shared the names and features of their new mountains, and Li Fan offered to help design their inner landscapes.
  • Li Fan arrived at Hot Spring Mountain, connected to its protective formation, and surveyed its spirit vein and Warm Blossom Warm Spring Jade resource site.
  • Li Fan summoned his Venerable Blood Palace and used the existing residence to anchor it at the mountain’s summit.
  • The Blood Qi Dao transformed the hot spring lake into a Blood Qi lake and the willow into a blood willow, prompting Li Fan to wonder whether his cultivation made him seem like a murderous fiend.

Ch. 551The Uses of Four Spirit Treasures, Personal Deduction, Blood Property

Li Fan studied spirit-treasure refining methods and devised a framework for strengthening his Blood Qi by giving it Blood Properties. He used Innate Dao Deduction to refine his idea into a secret art, leaving him amazed by its search through countless possibilities.

  • Li Fan decided to preserve the four top-grade spirit treasures for long-term use by refining them into his Blood Qi, and began gathering methods for Innate Dao Deduction.
  • After reading more than a hundred refining methods, Li Fan conceived of using the treasures to shape Blood Properties and strengthen his Sole True Source Linghua Blood Qi.
  • Li Fan dissolved the blood willow’s forming wooden heart core, strengthened the plant with Blood Qi, and urged it to follow its own bloodline path.
  • Li Fan entered seclusion and asked Innate Dao Deduction to devise a secret art for refining spirit treasures and increasing the Blood Qi Dao’s fundamental strength.
  • Li Fan watched the deduction process and realized that Innate Dao Deduction tested countless possibilities to find the best solution.
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