novelzi Chapter 342: Refining Blood Essence
Chapter 342: Refining Blood Essence
Chapter 342: Refining Blood Essence
A fragmented land shrouded in swirling cold mist continued to travel through the bizarre mist.
In the ruins of Frozen Thunder, Qi Qingsong nourished his divine soul with blood essence from the meat of a Vicious Beast looted from Fang Boxuan of the Blood Moon Sect.
"Wu Yuan, once we return to the Abyss..." Qi Qingsong said with a sideways glance. "If the people from the Demon Sect ask, you were the cause of Chen Lushi's death."
Wu Yuan frowned. "Feeling uneasy about me?"
"Just a little," Qi Qingsong replied with a smile.
"I have no loyalty to the Demon Sect. I only seek the path to godhood," Wu Yuan said, expression as cold as a soulless statue. "The Demon Sect is merely a place that invests resources in me and offers secret techniques that suit me.
"I already wanted to leave before, but now even more so."
Wu Yuan glanced at the peak of a distant glacier.
"Pang Jian is already ahead of all of us. Instead of wasting your time questioning me, you're better off focusing on your cultivation. Try not to fall too far behind him."
Wu Yuan, the genius of the Demon Sect, had made Pang Jian his goal.
"He's also in the Spirit Condensation Realm. He just has a few strange artifacts, that's all," Zhao Yuanqi muttered.
Wu Yuan shook his head in silence.
Zhuang Yuyan chuckled softly. "You're still too naive. Little Junior Brother didn't care when we collected divine essence from those stone statues and wooden carvings. That alone proves one thing."
"What does it prove?"
"It means he already reached the maximum number of divine senses one could have in the Profound Abode Realm!" Zhuang Yuyan said, eyes gleaming. "I've always been curious about the exact number of divine senses he refined in the Profound Abode Realm."
"A few hundred, at most?" Qi Qingsong speculated.
Zhuang Yuyan shook her head, unconvinced. "He won't say. I suppose it'll always be a mystery."
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Pang Jian immersed himself in refining his blood and tirelessly tempering his body inside the cave.
The meat of exotic beasts obtained from the Ice Armor Eel Dragon and the Ice Race became his daily sustenance.
Drops of his blood were refined in his Providence Mystic Reservoir Acupoint, repeatedly tempered until its strength increased a hundredfold.
Gurgle! Gurgle!
Pang Jian directed the refined blood to his left arm and felt his blood boil with an extraordinary surge of power.
Boom!
He swung his arm at a nearby wall, and the stone crumbled under the impact.
Pang Jian then repeated the action without any refined blood for comparison.
The stone wall held firm.
Blood flows through every part of one's body. It's also the first to spill from one's injuries.
Blood is the easiest source of power to mobilize and the quickest to unleash.
Pang Jian buried himself in his cultivation.
Advancing to the Vital Blood Realm involved perseverance like water slowly wearing down the stone. Refining every drop of blood in his body in the Providence Mystic Reservoir Acupoint was not a task that could be rushed. It required relentless persistence to chip away at it night and day.
With every piece of exotic beast meat that Pang Jian consumed, the amount of blood essence in his body grew.
His physical strength surged as more blood essence coursed through his body, and soon, he was confident he could engage in close combat with Vicious Beast of the same level using only his physical body.
In ancient times, the human race regarded body tempering as paramount. They had the strength to tear apart Vicious Beasts of the same level with their bare hands.
Now that a new era has arrived, those ancient body tempering techniques will surely regain their brilliance. Pang Jian sighed inwardly.
One day, Pang Jian's divine soul entered the Thunder Pool, intending to comprehend the mysteries of the Lightning Dao Seals once again, when he sensed a being through the Thunder Pool.
However, it was like an insect crashing into a stone wall, unable to even shake the boundary wall.
It recklessly squandered its divine power and the lightning in its hollow eye sockets gradually weakened.
It soon exhausted itself with its futile attempts.
As soon as Pang Jian placed the Thunder Pool back in his spiritual sea, the mysterious creature became dazed as if it had lost its pillar of faith.
It lingered in the area for a long time, making repeated vain attempts to break through the boundary wall before finally deciding to leave.
"No Outer God can break through the boundary wall of the Abyss. It both imprisons and protects the inhabitants of the Abyss," Pang Jian muttered softly.
Pang Jian stayed in the area for a while longer, patiently waiting to see if the lion-tiger hybrid would reappear, but it seemed to have truly given up.
The World God...
Reaching out, he gently placed his palm on the boundary wall that enveloped the Abyss.
It felt like touching the taut, bulging hide of a beast.
The Gate of the Abyss on his chest became scorching hot, so much so that he worried his skin would be burned.
The feeling of the boundary wall under his palm changed!
His hand sank into the wall, easily passing through it like water.
I really can cross the boundary wall with the Gate of the Abyss! The power to break through the boundary wall—this is what it means to be a World God!
Pang Jian's emotions surged.
The boundary wall was impossible for the inhabitants of the Abyss to touch—let alone break through—but he could pass through it with the aid of the bronze pendant!
This meant he did not need to ascend to godhood and reach the True God Realm to leave the Abyss!
He also had a reasonable explanation for how the Nether Abyss Spirit Bees appeared in the Abyss.
A World God had entered the Nether Abyss with the bronze pendant and dragged a beehive of Nether Abyss Spirit Bees into the Solitary Mountain Range!
Should I take a look outside?
The thought alone made Pang Jian's heart race and his entire body covered in goosebumps.
His eyes gleamed with anticipation as he stared into the depths of the bizarre mist beyond the boundary wall.
Crossing the boundary wall doesn't seem like the proper path forward. Breaking through the restrictions as a True God and soaring through the depths of the starry skies seems like the true path to ultimate freedom.
Not to mention, there may be Outer Gods lying in wait outside.
Pang Jian shook his head and sighed. After much deliberation, he ultimately abandoned the idea of exploring beyond the boundary wall for the moment.
I'm still too weak. If I cross the boundary wall into the bizarre mist, I could encounter terrifying beings like that one before.
I should first return to the Abyss and increase my strength. I can always revisit this idea later.
With his thoughts settled, Pang Jian returned to Frozen Thunder.
Time passed, and Frozen Thunder eventually reached the last golden bee.
Pang Jian knew it would not be long before they broke through the bizarre mist and returned to the Abyss.
Rising into the air, he yelled, "Everyone, get ready! We're about to leave the bizarre mist!"
Qi Qingsong and the others had spent their time focusing on body refinement techniques to strengthen their bodies and nourish their divine souls. At Pang Jian's announcement, they all sprang to their feet, faces filled with excitement.
"The Abyss!"
"Once we return to the Abyss, we can get complete body refinement techniques and pills for tempering our physical body from our sects."
"Finally, we're leaving this cursed place."
They could not help but feel relieved.