Chapter 4 Blood Burning Technique

———Burning Blood Technique!

This was the first-order Qi cultivation technique issued by the Reverse Spirit Blood Sect. Even though Wang Yu had mentally prepared himself to pay any price, he was still shocked by it.

It is an absolutely pure shortcut-type demonic technique.

The burning of a cultivator's essence and blood transforms into the initial burning blood spiritual power. Essence represents the vitality and origin of the human body, while blood and blood are closely related to physical strength and health.

Deficiency of Qi and blood can lead to premature graying of hair, premature aging of the face, and poor health.

Depletion of essence can lead to organ failure, loose skin, age spots, shortened lifespan, and loss of sperm count.

In other words, it's exchanging lifespan for cultivation level.

With a lifespan of three years, regardless of aptitude, a cultivator can break through to the first level of Qi Refining in just one month, and from then on, they will be a qualified spirit slave.

It seems that sacrificing three years of one's lifespan to achieve the goal is a one-time transaction, and one can grit one's teeth and move on. The problem is that condensing spiritual sand will reduce one's cultivation level.

A drop in cultivation level means having to rebuild it from scratch, which implies a continuous and prolonged burning of one's lifespan.

The real problem is the requirement of one or two ounces of spirit sand per month.

Can it be condensed...?

After reading through the entire "Burning Blood Technique," Wang Yu pondered for a moment before selecting it and placing it in his only personal cheat item, the [Placement Slot].

[Placement Slot 1: Blood Burning Skill]

"Blood Burning Technique (0/100): Practice forty-eight times a day, and you can master it in a year."

Wang Yu: "???"

This is the first time such a change has appeared in the placement bar; it has never happened before, and it is very likely related to cultivation techniques.

But this is a demonic art that burns away one's lifespan, requiring forty-eight repetitions a day?

If he practices for half an hour every day on average, won't that drain him dry?!

Just as Wang Yu was about to take it out, his mind wavered again. This was his only chance to turn things around.

"Try it once, wait half an hour to see what changes, and then make a decision."

Half an hour passed quickly.

Wang Yu did not feel anything unusual in his body. Instead, he had a lot of experience and feelings about cultivating the "Burning Blood Technique" in his mind. A warm current suddenly appeared in his body and disappeared after about three breaths.

He neither shortened his lifespan nor enjoyed the effects of quickly acquiring demonic powers.

This situation confused him even more.

Based on the patterns and usages he had figured out over the past sixteen years, Wang Yu flipped through the booklet that recorded common knowledge in the cultivation world, and a sudden flash of inspiration struck him.

The ability to quickly increase lifespan is a special effect of the Blood Burning Technique. It does not mean that every practitioner is forced to undergo this special effect; spiritual energy can also be refined and absorbed normally.

The sudden appearance of the warm current within my body was likely a manifestation of the Blood Burning Technique circulating once within the placement area.

If the exercise bar never tires and never rests, practicing forty-eight times a day, it will seem normal.

A cultivator's aptitude has a great impact on the early stages of cultivation. Spiritual roots not only represent the affinity with spiritual energy, but are also closely related to the conversion rate of spiritual energy.

Normally, those with a Heavenly Spiritual Root aptitude are naturally attracted to spiritual energy of the same attribute. When cultivating techniques, spiritual energy of the same attribute will spontaneously flow into their bodies and be gently refined, becoming the cultivator's spiritual power.

They absorb as much as they refine, which is why their cultivation progresses so rapidly.

Wang Yu's useless spiritual root aptitude has all five elements, but the affinity is not good. He has to spend his energy to capture it himself, and he will feel the spiritual energy is violent and difficult to refine.

The conversion rate is terrifyingly low. If you can refine one out of ten strands of spiritual energy, you're considered successful. More often than not, you can't even refine one strand of spiritual energy. This is why it's difficult for a useless spiritual root to break through to the fourth level of Qi Refining.

The Reverse Spirit Blood Sect is built on multiple fourth-order spiritual veins. Even though most of the spiritual energy is concentrated on the Nine Peaks, the Stone House area still has a spiritual energy volume comparable to a first-order high-grade spiritual vein.

The environment for cultivation is quite good.

Spiritual root aptitude and spiritual vein environment are two of the three factors that determine the speed of a cultivator's early cultivation. There is also another factor related to the cultivator's meridians and spirit.

Cultivation techniques involve circulating energy throughout the body, which is extremely taxing on one's energy levels.

It requires complete concentration to perform. Only after breaking through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining, when the divine sense breaks through the body, and the operation of the technique becomes instinctive, will the impact be reduced.

The mortal body's meridians are weak, and even a heavenly spiritual root cannot withstand twelve hours of full-day cultivation. Initially, being able to circulate four major cycles each day is considered quite good.

In this respect, everyone starts from the same point, except for those born with a spiritual essence.

As one's cultivation level increases, one's meridians become stronger and stronger, and the amount of spiritual energy one can withstand also increases. This process is how those with outstanding aptitude widen the gap between themselves and others.

The faster you cultivate a Heavenly Spiritual Root, the faster you can cultivate it; the slower you cultivate a Waste Spiritual Root, the more you can cultivate it. In less than a year, the difference will be enormous!

Once you break through the Foundation Establishment stage, all these limitations and difficulties in cultivation will completely disappear.

The placement of the equipment forty-eight times a day could give Wang Yu a significant advantage during the Qi Refining stage, but his aptitude was also too poor.

The placement bar cannot change his aptitude. Whatever the conditions, circulating the technique forty-eight times a day is the same, which is why the warm current he felt earlier only lasted for three breaths.

Even so, Wang Yu was overjoyed.

Having something is better than nothing. As long as you can embark on the path of cultivation and resolve your current predicament, there is hope for improving your aptitude in the future. With a higher base value, the multiplier that the placement slot can increase will rise sharply.

In fact, even without rare and precious medicines that can improve one's aptitude, a cultivator's aptitude will improve when they break through to a higher realm.

However, those with four or five spiritual roots often die of old age before reaching this level, while only those with three or five level mid-grade spiritual roots have a chance to enjoy it.

"Furthermore, the placement area and the main body do not affect each other, like a pendant, and the main body can also be cultivated."

Next, Wang Yu continued to study the technique. Every half hour, a passage of his understanding and experience of the "Burning Blood Technique" would appear in his mind.

This greatly helped him to break through the current situation. The spiritual energy that appeared in his body from time to time, even if he couldn't refine it, could still bring many benefits.

The body is nourished by spiritual energy, and it is always different.

While experiencing all aspects of the placement bar's effects, Wang Yu made another astonishing discovery: the placement bar not only did not affect the main body, but also had no interaction with the outside world, including spiritual energy.

In other words, the spiritual energy that the cultivation technique in the placement area brought to Wang Yu appeared out of thin air; who knows where it came from?

This means that even in places without spiritual veins, he can enjoy a continuous supply of spiritual energy for twelve hours a day, with no drawbacks except for the relatively small amount.

The convenience provided by the placement bar, although they are all minor auxiliary functions, can be of great help when combined!

And so another day passed.

Wang Yu was passively cultivating while sleeping at night, receiving feedback and benefits from the placement panel. His experience with the "Burning Blood Technique" was completely transformed, reaching a new level.

No need for painstaking research and contemplation, a breakthrough may be just around the corner.

(End of this chapter)