Chapter 78 Chapter 78 Blood Pool
After hearing Yun Miao's intention, Fu Tu expressed her concern. She was very concerned. But on the one hand, she was afraid that Yun Miao would really blow it up, but on the other hand, she was moved by Yun Miao's proposal.
If it is really as Yun Miao said, when the Changsheng Sect and the Demon Sect start fighting, the two Mahayana cultivators from the Changsheng Sect will have no time to care about her, and she can take the opportunity to escape!
Fu Tu longed for freedom, just like trees naturally longed for sunlight and rain. So she immediately pointed out another place to Yun Miao.
Each immortal molt can only provide one stupa fruit. The immortal molts in the cave were just put in this year. Because the souls stuffed into the stupa fruits have not yet completely merged with the stupa fruits, they are in an unstable state.
Because these pagoda fruits all come from the pagoda tree, even though the fruits have left the tree, she still has some perception of them.
She knew that only a small portion of these souls belonged to monks; the majority were from newborn babies. These infant souls were like blank sheets of paper, extremely fragile and would collapse at the slightest disturbance.
So those gray-robed people forced her to use her roots to deliver nutrients to the immortal shell. The power would be gentler after being filtered by both the mother tree and the immortal shell.
After about fifty years, these souls will completely merge with their respective Buddha Fruits. At this time, the gray-robed man will appear and take away the immortal sloughs containing the Buddha Fruits, and then send a new batch of immortal sloughs.
At first, the pagoda tree had no idea where the immortal molts that rotated every fifty years were taken, until a hundred years ago, when her roots struggled to drill into another underground cave covered by numerous formations.
There was a huge pool there, which was filled not with water but with bright red blood. Countless immortal remains floated in it, which at first glance looked like countless floating corpses that had turned white and swollen.
Fu Tu Shu was very familiar with this blood; the gray-robed men had always used it to nourish her. And her inherited memories told her that it was no ordinary blood, but... dragon blood.
Although dragon blood contains terrifyingly huge power, this power is extremely violent. One drop is a great tonic for a cultivator, but an excessive amount will directly burst the cultivator.
The pool of blood had no clear origins; it seemed impure, its energy highly complex. It was like a pot of boiling oil, ready to explode if a few drops of water were added.
In addition, a group of butterflies were flying above the Dragon Blood Pool. Not long after the roots of the pagoda tree penetrated into it, they began to grow rapidly and uncontrollably, as if they had experienced several cycles of the four seasons in the blink of an eye.
She was so frightened that she retracted her roots and never dared to go in again.
"Dragon blood? There are no dragons in this world anymore. Where did they get the dragon blood? Wait, it can't be a four-clawed dragon, right?"
Yun Miao was shocked and thought of Mo Aotian's mother at the first moment, but then she felt something was wrong. Ning Yu and Mo Aotian both mentioned that the bad guys who attacked Mo Chi only dug out her inner elixir and did not draw her blood.
Fu Tu Shu had never been to the outside world, so she didn't know whether there were still dragons there. She only knew that the smell of that blood was very similar to the dragon blood in the inherited memory, but it was a bit more complicated and turbid than the dragon blood in the inherited memory.
In short, something was very wrong, but her own experience was too shallow, and she really couldn't tell what was wrong.
Yun Miao could only put the matter aside for the time being and asked about the appearance of those butterflies. When she heard that the wings of those butterflies had patterns that looked like eyes, she immediately confirmed that the butterflies Futu Shu was talking about were Tianmu butterflies.
Dragon Blood Pool, Immortal Mud, Sky Eye Butterfly... Yun Miao recalled how he had used Sky Eye Butterfly to quickly ripen high-level spiritual plants before, and immediately guessed what the Changsheng Sect was doing. They were using Sky Eye Butterfly to ripen those Immortal Mud,
To be precise, it should be to ripen the Buddha fruit in the immortal shell so that the "immortal" inside can be born as soon as possible.
The Buddha Tree is over a thousand years old. It was also ripened by the Changsheng Cult, and it began to bear fruit as soon as it turned a hundred years old. It has been almost a thousand years now. Every fifty years, a new batch of immortals are replaced here. If so many immortals gave birth to "immortals", the number of "immortals" would definitely be very impressive.
So where did all these "immortals" go? They couldn't have truly ascended to immortality en masse, could they?
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Yun Miao used the Five Elements Escape Technique and moved forward in the direction indicated by the pagoda tree.
The Five Elements Escape Technique is an ancient secret technique that can only be learned by those with the five spiritual roots, and it requires extremely high levels of comprehension. Yun Miao happened to possess both of these qualities, allowing her to successfully master it. It was also thanks to her mastery of this secret technique that she was able to move freely within the heavily guarded Changsheng Sect.
However, the long-term use of the Five Elements Escape Technique also made Yun Miao eat up all the Soul-Restoring Pills. Time was urgent, and she had no time to stop and refine the Soul-Restoring Pills. She could only indulge herself by directly eating spiritual plants to replenish her mana bar.
As she got closer to her destination, the aura of the surrounding guards became increasingly powerful and dangerous. Most of the guards had reached the Out-of-Body Stage, and the small leaders among them had even reached the Spiritual Transformation Stage.
Yun Miao knew she was only at the peak of the Spiritual Transformation Stage. If she were surrounded by such a group of guards in this narrow, winding corridor, she would be completely trapped. So, she didn't dare to look any further, instead speeding up and diving headfirst into the wall ahead. The formation meticulously set up by the two Mahayana-stage masters of the Changsheng Sect didn't react at all.
Although the entire Changsheng Sect was aware of the existence of a small rat due to the prison incident, they were also overconfident, just like the Demon Sect. They never imagined that a small rat could circumvent numerous checkpoints and sneak into the core area of Changsheng Sect without triggering any formations.
The originally narrow corridor was left behind, and Yun Miao fell into darkness again. She took out the lotus lamp filled with mermaid oil with one hand, and pointed the other hand directly at the sky based on her feeling.
The moment the pale cold light illuminated the cave, countless causal threads quickly wove into a vast net, enveloping the dancing Sky-Eye Butterflies. As she clenched her hand into a fist, the net quickly tightened, and then both the net and the Sky-Eye Butterflies vanished into thin air.
After making sure that none of them were missed and that his body was no longer growing rapidly, Yun Miao breathed a sigh of relief and began to look at the cave that was obviously dug by humans.
The area of this cave is also very large, but the height is very low. A huge rectangular blood pool occupies four-fifths of the area of the cave. Countless pink and white fat meat clumps float in the crimson blood, and a bloody smell with the stench of wild beasts mixed with a mixed energy breath hits you in the face.
Is this dragon blood?
Yun Miao reached her hand into the dragon blood pool, and indeed felt a violent and complex force quickly penetrate into her body. It was soon swallowed up by the spiritual power in her dantian, and her blue bar, which had originally dropped by half, immediately jumped up a little.
Such abundant power, if she could absorb all of this power...
Yun Miao's heart couldn't help but move. This was a good thing. It would be a pity to blow it all up. Her plan was just to blow a big hole in the island to attract the attention of the Demon Cult. She didn't want to sink the entire island, so she didn't need so much dragon blood.
If she could absorb some of it, even if it was just a breakthrough to the Void Refinement Stage, it would be a help in the subsequent battles. Combined with the power of the causal line, she might even be able to fight against the Mahayana Stage.
Yun Miao first thought of collecting some dragon blood into the secret realm, detonating the dragon blood pool first, causing a war between the Demon Cult and the Changsheng Cult, and she took this opportunity to hide in the secret realm and start absorbing dragon blood.
But when her peripheral vision touched the stone wall, she gave up the idea. The sudden decrease in dragon blood might trigger the formation here, which would be troublesome. The safest way was to imitate those immortals and soak in it directly. This way, it would not easily disturb the formation here.
Yun Miao took a look at the dragon blood pool full of "floating corpses". Although he felt a little disgusted, he still walked in decisively for his own plan.
As her body sank into the dragon blood, a powerful and violent force immediately surged into her from all directions, washing over her veins. In a trance, Yun Miao seemed to hear the shrill roar of a dragon, the crashing of waves on the shore, and the low roar of a giant whale.
The five balls of spiritual power in the dantian began to spin rapidly like a whipped top, and they spun faster and faster, trying their best to absorb the external power.
Yun Miao felt no pain, but she could sense her body being torn apart and then rapidly healed by the violent force. Her aura rose steadily, and soon she broke through to the Void Refinement Stage.
The first level of the Void Refinement Stage, the second level of the Void Refinement Stage, the third level of the Void Refinement Stage...
boom!
The entire blood pool seemed to be boiling, bubbling. The white-clothed female cultivator who was sitting cross-legged in the blood pool had her eyes closed, and a blood-colored vortex gradually appeared with her as the center.
Yun Miao's eyelashes trembled twice. She then remembered that her breakthroughs always came naturally after sudden enlightenment. Although other cultivators with natural spiritual roots could absorb spiritual energy quickly, they would reach a bottleneck and could not make any further progress no matter how much spiritual energy they absorbed.
Although she usually absorbs spiritual energy very slowly, she has never encountered a bottleneck. In other words... as long as she has enough energy, her realm will continue to rise!
This kind of talent would be a dream come true for other cultivators, but it wasn't the case for Yun Miao right now. This body was just a clone constructed from materials like the Buddha Fruit. The energy it could store only reached the Mahayana stage. If it continued to absorb energy endlessly, it would burst!
Yun Miao wanted to get up and leave the Dragon Blood Pool, but found that he could not move at all at this moment and could only passively endure the impact of the violent energy!
It turns out that one should not be too greedy!
Yun Miao was internally frustrated. She had finally gotten this far, and she really didn't want to go back to the past. As her mind raced, she quickly realized something. Xiao Hei was also Chu Beiliang's clone, created from various materials. She and his clones were essentially the same, only the materials she used were higher quality.
Chu Beiliang had told her long ago that he could transfer the power of his original body to his clone. Her original body was too weak, and her clone too strong, so even though she knew of this method, she had never considered sharing power. Now, thinking about it, could the clone actually feed back to the original body?
He did what he said. Yun Miao, who had unknowingly reached the seventh level of the Void Refinement Stage, immediately calmed his mind and began to try to transfer the power on his side to the main body.
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On the other hand, because Elder You and others speculated that the female cultivator in white had followed Poison Lady and others to the island, they suspected that the traitor who passed the message to the female cultivator in white was probably among Poison Lady and others.
Even Yan Hai was secretly wondering in his heart whether the female cultivator in white was related to Yan Wuguang, and whether his eldest son had grown up and wanted to seize power and usurp the throne?
Based on various suspicions, Poison Lady and others were called to the temple for interrogation again, so Yun Miao was the only one left in the water dungeon at this moment.
She sat cross-legged on the narrow platform. Just as she released the Heavenly Ladder and used the Breath-Concealing Barrier to conceal her breath, she was swept by the terrifying force that rushed in like a flood bursting through a dam. She trembled and spat out a mouthful of blood.
Her health bar immediately dropped, but soon filled up again. At that moment, her realm also broke through to the ninth level of the Foundation Establishment Stage!
The ball of spiritual energy in the dantian seemed to be compressed by some invisible force and was gradually being forced into a golden elixir. This process was extremely painful for other cultivators, but Yun Miao did not feel any pain, so she was still in the mood to look inward at her dantian.
The scene of refining the elixir before flashed through her mind: melting the essence, removing impurities, blending and fusing...
The voices of Master and Huo Xin seemed to reach his ears again: "... Understand the principle of the mutual generation and mutual restraint of the Five Elements, and allow the originally five distinct magical powers in your body to merge into the true power of the Five Elements, achieving the legendary Five Elements Dao Body... Water generates wood, wood generates fire... From now on, there will be endless life!"
"This Heaven and Earth Cauldron is no simple matter. It belongs to the ancestor... The Heavenly Dao uses the heaven and earth as a cauldron to refine all living things. Alchemists use metal and wood as cauldrons to refine the five elements. Cultivators use themselves as a cauldron to refine the Dao heart..."
"The Heavenly Dao uses the heaven and earth as its cauldron, refining all living things. Alchemists use metal and wood as their cauldrons, refining the five elements. Cultivators use themselves as their cauldrons, refining their Dao hearts..."
"The Way of Heaven uses the heavens and the earth as its cauldron, refining all living things...refining...refining..."
Refining...
A flash of enlightenment flashed through Yun Miao's mind. The next second, the golden elixir that was about to take shape suddenly dispersed, and a larger and stronger ball of spiritual power rotated in Yun Miao's dantian. This time, she no longer needed to divide the external spiritual energy into five attributes and return them to her dantian. Instead, she accepted everything like a greedy glutton and swallowed it all.
Every time the huge ball of spiritual power rotated, a heavier and more powerful force gently flowed through the tendons and veins in Yun Miao's body that were torn apart by the violent power of dragon blood. The tendons and veins healed instantly and became tougher and wider.
Streams of black mud were discharged from the body through the pores. Yun Miao's low-grade five spiritual roots grew rapidly like seedlings that had been thirsty for a long time and finally received a downpour. Her roots and bones were also tempered to become more crystal clear!
Suddenly, a demon cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage strode towards the water prison. He was ordered to take over from Poison Lady to interrogate the good disciple of the leader of Xuantian Sect. He was thinking about how to torture this prisoner so as to pry more secrets out of her mouth.
However, as the door of the dungeon opened, he immediately realized that something was wrong.
The green-clad female cultivator on the platform looked to be in her twenties, in the prime of her life, yet her clothes were stained with blood, her body was covered in mud, and she smelled terrible. Meanwhile, a small jade ball was spinning around above her head, shedding a hazy green light.
The demon cultivator knew that the Poison Lady always liked to use the Longevity Spider to scare criminals, so he was not surprised by the change in Yun Miao's age. He just looked at the small ball on her head in astonishment.
"Magic weapon? You can actually use spiritual power?"
Didn't Poison Lady already feed her the Corruption Pill? What was going on?
The demon cultivator subconsciously raised his palm and struck out, instantly breaking the barrier that held Yun Miao's breath. The violent fluctuations in Yun Miao's aura were instantly exposed. The demon cultivator had originally thought that Yun Miao was trying to use a magic weapon to detoxify or escape, but when he suddenly noticed the change in her, his pupils shrank in shock.
The peak of the Golden Core Stage, the first stage of the Nascent Soul Stage, the second stage of the Nascent Soul Stage... The green-clothed female cultivator's realm was constantly climbing at a terrifying speed. In just a few breaths, she broke through from the peak of the Golden Core Stage to the Out-of-Body Stage!
This counterintuitive scene sent the demon cultivator's mind into a state of confusion. How could this be possible? Wasn't this Xuantian Sect disciple only at the Foundation Establishment stage? Why was he seeing someone at the peak of the Golden Core stage? Why did her realm keep changing? This didn't make sense!
Could it be that Poison Lady and the others had captured the wrong person, or was this actually a conspiracy by the Xuantian Sect, using some special secret method to have an elder or peak master disguised as a weak disciple and deliberately allowed to be captured by them, in order to find the location of the demon sect and wipe them out in one fell swoop?!
The evil cultivator didn't know that Yun Miao was in a fragile period of realm breakthrough. He was frightened by his own guess and immediately turned around and ran away. He could only bully the disciples of Xuantian Sect in the foundation-building stage, but he couldn't beat those brutal peak masters.
He must report this matter immediately so that the leader can make plans early!
Yun Miao didn't even notice that anyone had come in. More and more impurities were squeezed out of her body, turning her into a black clay figure.
Even though the healing power of the Five Elements was very strong, it could not withstand such rapid growth. Yun Miao soon began to bleed from all seven orifices, and then every pore began to bleed. Strands of blood soon mixed into the black mud.
She immediately opened her storage bag and stuffed handfuls of pills into her mouth. The whole bottle of Dead Tree Rejuvenation Pills that Old Tian gave her temporarily stabilized her body that was about to collapse and explode.
But with the endless flow of power, she soon broke through to the Spirit Transformation Stage. This time, her skin was cracked and cracks appeared. Blood had dyed the entire platform red and began to flow into the pool filled with black and poisonous water.
Nascent Soul Stage... Out-of-Body Stage... Spirit Transformation Stage... Yun Miao felt like a runaway train, about to crash and kill everyone on board. Just when she was about to collapse, she suddenly felt the force that was about to burst her body being taken away by something, and an unprecedented sense of lightness came over her.
She opened her eyes, as if realizing something, and suddenly saw a shadowy figure emitting a cyan light. It wasn't a ladder to heaven, but... a bronze sundial?
Yun Miao was too familiar with this thing. It appeared in every animation when logging into the game, and also in the Death Space and Causal Space. She had always regarded it as the logo of "Asking the Three Thousand Questions" and the background picture of the Death Space and Causal Space.
Why did this bronze sundial appear so suddenly in front of her?
Is this wrong? Is there a bug in the game?
Or is this some hidden content in the game?
Yun Miao didn't have time to think about it. The vest was still under tremendous pressure. Seeing that there was an additional breakthrough here, she immediately calmed down and tried hard to maintain the fragile balance of transportation.
Time seemed to pass very slowly, but in reality, it was just a blink of an eye. When the demon cultivator quickly rushed to the temple and told the guards that he had something important to report to the leader, Yun Miao's out-of-control train finally slowly came to a stop.
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In the dragon blood pool, the female cultivator in white suddenly opened her eyes, and the pressure of the Mahayana period was leaked for only a moment before she quickly retracted it.
She stood up and looked down, only to see that there was only a shallow layer of dragon blood left in the pool, not even enough to cover the back of her feet. All the immortal sloughs that had been floating in the pool were stranded at the bottom.
Without the dragon blood covering it, the relief carving at the bottom of the pool finally revealed itself. A five-clawed dragon coiled in the water. The giant dragon head in the center had wide-open eyes and a gaping mouth. A trickle of crimson water flowed from it.
At first glance, it looks like a five-clawed dragon covered in blood and vomiting blood. The picture looks very grotesque.
If you look closely, you can see that the five-clawed dragon and the surrounding cloud reliefs form some kind of formation. The formation is full of grooves, on which are placed ninety-nine and eighty-one dull round beads.
Yun Miao didn’t know much about formations, but she quickly recognized those round beads. They were golden elixirs... No, they were demon elixirs.
She had a sudden flash of inspiration and instantly guessed the purpose of this formation. Although there were no dragons in this world, due to the dragon's inherent lustful nature, many monsters in the world had inherited the dragon's bloodline. Among them, the aquatic monsters were the most numerous.
These should all be demon pills with dragon blood. The Changsheng Sect used formations to purify the dragon blood in the demon pills, and it became this pool of dragon blood. Due to inadequate purification technology and mixed energy, normal cultivators cannot use it in large quantities.
She had originally thought that since she had five spiritual roots and could absorb the power of all attributes in the world, there shouldn't be any problems, but in the end, she almost got herself hurt. Fortunately, it was a blessing in disguise.
Yun Miao originally wanted to detonate the dragon blood pool by blowing up the furnace, but now she is already a master of the sixth level of the Mahayana period, so naturally she no longer needs to use such a troublesome method.
She quickly collected the demon pills and immortal molts scattered all over the ground into the secret realm, then raised her hand towards the cave and used her magic power.
In the Demon Cult's temple, Yan Hai was sitting high on the cult leader's throne, with the Left Elder and the Right Elder sitting below Yan Hai on his left and right. Poison Lady and others were standing in the center of the hall, and the atmosphere was very solemn.
At this moment, a demon cultivator quickly walked into the temple and, with an anxious look on his face, bowed to the leader Yan Hai, who was standing at the top of the group. "Leader, I have something important to report..."
Boom!
He had barely opened his mouth when a terrifying explosion drowned out his voice, and the entire island shook several times because of the blast.
Poison Lady quickly dodged to the side. When she stood firm and looked back, she saw that the center of the hall had collapsed, forming a terrifying pit that led straight to deep underground.
The demon cultivator who had just reported the incident and the other two who were unable to dodge were all affected by the aftermath of the terrifying power. One of them was knocked away and fell in the corner, vomiting blood, while the other two fell directly into a big pit, and their life or death was unknown.
A foul smell of blood was rushing out from the pit. Poison Lady was standing at the edge of the pit. She immediately lowered her head and used her spiritual sense to probe downwards.
The explosion blew away the stone walls and ceiling surrounding the cave, leaving the previously airtight cave open on all sides. This allowed Poison Lady's spiritual sense to penetrate deep underground unimpeded, where it collided with the Immortal Cult guards who, upon hearing the commotion, had instinctively rushed into the cave to investigate.
Her pupils shrank and her face was horrified: "What...what is this?"
Why are there people deep underground in the Demon Cult?
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The author has something to say: The members of the Demon Cult were terrified and raised their insecticides: There are so many cockroaches!
After discovering a cockroach nest underground, the demon cult members said: I dare not open my eyes, I hope it is my hallucination.
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