Da Xuan Martial Saint
Chapter 917 - 475: Blood Refinement Perfection (6k2)_3

"Alright."

Yin Heng and Qin Mengjun each responded, their gazes still fixed on the Primordial Chart.

Qin Mengjun forcibly moved her gaze away, looking towards Chen Mu's back, and reminded him, "Strength leads to breaking, the path of Blood Exchange is full of uncertainties and difficulties, do not force it if you can't manage that."

Now, she too had practiced Blood Exchange cultivation to a decent level. She had also attempted to further refine Martial Blood, but it was extremely difficult, with almost no progress. Any tiny improvement could take tens of years, making it less worthwhile compared to comprehending Artistic Conception and cultivating Unity of Heaven and Man.

It seemed that Chen Mu intended to forcibly pile resources, which naturally comes with certain risks. She worried that Chen Mu might push too hard and absorb too much of the medicinal power of spiritual objects, overwhelming his physical body.

"Rest assured, Master, I can handle it."

Chen Mu replied softly, and his figure quickly disappeared into the tunnel within the Forbidden Valley.

Hearing Chen Mu's response, Qin Mengjun slightly nodded. She knew that Chen Mu had far surpassed her in Body Tempering Martial Arts cultivation, having gone much further. Since he said so, he must be confident, so she didn't offer further reminders but turned back to continue gazing at the floating Primordial Chart, joining Yin Heng in comprehension.

...

Inside the cave of the Forbidden Land.

This place was also an important node of the Qiankun Lock Dragon Formation.

The Qiankun Lock Dragon, the words Qiankun naturally imply a Qiankun node. In the valley, centered around the Qiankun Dragon Locking Pillar, was the Qian position, while the cave was the Kun position. However, the Qiankun Lock Dragon Formation placed more emphasis on Qian Heaven, making the Kun position secondary.

Upon reaching the deepest part of the cave, Chen Mu saw a formation base built of Mysterious Jade at the center of the cave, firmly embedded into the ground of the cave, connecting with the Earth's veins, giving off a faint yellowish glow.

Nowadays, Chen Mu, who had observed all sorts of formations across the millennia-long heritage of the Da Xuan Dynasty, found the Qiankun Lock Dragon Formation no longer fascinating. He merely glanced at it before withdrawing his gaze, calmly continuing to the innermost area, finding a vacant spot to sit cross-legged, then summoned the system panel with a thought.

[Physique: Blood Refinement (Major Achievement)]

[Experience: 1337 points]

Unlike in the Artistic Conception aspect, where experience had gradually accumulated recently, he had not accumulated any experience points in the Physique aspect. Clearly, reaching this step without sufficient resource piling was impossible, relying solely on personal cultivation might bring little change even over several decades, perhaps raising two or three hundred points on the system panel at most.

But now, he didn't need to slowly cultivate by absorbing the Heaven and Earth's Yuan Qi himself. In his Qiankun Bottle, he had stored the Demon Blood of Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Black Tortoise, forming three vast resources!

"Let's begin then."

Chen Mu took a deep breath, a spark glinting in his eyes, then waved his right hand to take out the Qiankun Bottle. With a flick of his sleeve, the Qiankun Bottle hovered above his head, pouring downwards.

In an instant, crimson blood cascaded down from above his head, submerging his entire body. Accompanied by surges of potent demonic power, each droplet of demon blood pierced towards Chen Mu's skin like sharp steel needles.

Fizz!

Chen Mu did not resist the scrubbing and tempering from the demon blood; rather, he released all restraints in his body, actively absorbing every droplet of demon blood through his skin.

As each droplet of demon blood entered his body, it immediately transformed into scorching heat, wildly coursing through his body.

For an average martial artist, even those at the Blood Exchange Realm, refining the blood of a Heavenly Demon, especially the unparalleled Heavenly Demon Black Tortoise blood at the Tenth Rank, would require cautious refinement, piece by piece.

Chen Mu, however, directly submerged himself in demon blood, as if swallowing a whale, extracting the essence of demon blood to temper his Martial Body. In all the world, there was likely no second person daring enough to do this!

Doing this could not only fail to refine the Martial Body but could also cause immense damage to the physical body.

However.

For Chen Mu, the demon blood's power entering his body could only continually temper his Martial Body and refine his Martial Blood, unable to inflict any harm on his Martial Body.

Even though his entire body was immersed in demon blood and demonic power surged through his flesh, Chen Mu's physique remained like an unshakable rock, unmoved by the battered waves!

This differed from the evil methods of the Sky Demon Sect.

The evil methods of the Sky Demon Sect involved devouring demonic power, pushing the body to a half-human, half-demon state. In contrast, Chen Mu used the power within demon blood as 'fuel' to hone and refine his Martial Body and Martial Blood, not to devour and absorb but to consume.

During this process, the demonic power tempering the Martial Body was continuously converted into experience on the system panel.

[Experience: 1378 points]

[Experience: 1399 points]

[Experience: 1413 points]

...

The experience on the system panel crawled upward at a slow pace.

Chen Mu sat with his eyes closed, immersed in demon blood. As the burning demon blood was exhausted, more demon blood poured from the Qiankun Bottle to replenish it, keeping him thoroughly submerged in demon blood, with his Martial Body constantly being tempered.