“Finally reached Body Refinement Level Six.”
Su Yuan, who had successfully broken through to Body Refinement Level Six, slowly stood up.
A hint of a relieved smile appeared on his face.
However, after feeling it for a while, he calmed down.
“The blood energy required by this Blood Demon Body Refinement Art is truly terrifying.
The blood energy from that Blood煞古尸 at the late stage of Qi Refinement has already been completely absorbed.
I don’t know how much blood energy I’ll need to break through to Body Refinement Level Seven.
However, I still have the blood煞 energy in the Blood Pool that I haven’t absorbed.
I wonder if absorbing all the blood煞 energy from the Blood Pool can help me break through to Body Refinement Level Seven.”
The group had come to the Blood煞 Cave to clean up the Blood煞古尸 as a side task.
The Blood Pool was their ultimate goal.
The blood in the Blood Pool contained a rich and violent blood煞 force.
It was extremely beneficial for any Demon Cultivator.
Even just soaking in it casually could strengthen the body.
However, Su Yuan, who practiced the Blood Demon Body Refinement Art, could benefit even more from the Blood Pool than others.
However, Su Yuan was puzzled. At least an hour had passed since they entered the cave.
He hadn’t even smelled the strong bloody smell, let alone the Blood Pool.
Su Yuan took out the Luoji Spirit Map that Master Zheng had given him from his System Backpack.
This spirit map detailed the terrain of the Blood煞 Cave and the locations of various important places.
He carefully examined the spirit map and realized that the passage he was taking was the furthest from the Blood Pool.
“Ugh, troublesome!”
Su Yuan said helplessly, but he didn’t get discouraged.
Since he had chosen this path, he could only continue walking until the end.
He put away the spirit map, took a deep breath, and continued towards the Blood Pool.
What Su Yuan didn’t know was that his passage was the furthest from the Blood Pool.
But he was actually the closest to the Blood Pool out of the seven people who entered the cave.
Reason?
Simple.
These Blood煞古尸 had thick skin and tough flesh, and ordinary attacks couldn’t cause substantial damage to them.
However, Su Yuan possessed the Blood Refinement Art, which could directly absorb blood煞 energy.
This directly caused the Blood煞古尸 to die.
With this advantage, Su Yuan’s speed at killing Blood煞古尸 was several times faster than the others.
The others could only completely kill the Blood煞古尸 by smashing their bodies.
After another hour or so.
After killing dozens of Blood煞古尸 in a row.
Su Yuan finally reached the Blood Pool.
The view suddenly opened up.
Emerging from the passage was a vast cave.
Stalactites hanging from above were dripping blood.
Making a dripping sound.
In the center of the cave was a Blood Pool the size of a swimming pool.
It was filled with blood that was red to the point of being black.
The blood energy solidified into substance, turning into blood clots that floated on the surface.
However, the Blood Pool already had a ‘master’.
Three Blood煞古尸 with powerful auras were absorbing blood煞 energy from the Blood Pool.
They emitted powerful auras, far stronger than the late-stage Qi Refinement Blood煞古尸 Su Yuan had killed earlier.
But their strength didn’t make Su Yuan feel intimidated.
This meant that the three Blood煞古尸 were at the Half-Step Foundation Establishment stage.
Su Yuan’s eyes narrowed slightly, and he furrowed his brows.
If he had to deal with any one of them, he wouldn’t be afraid.
But now there were three of them.
This made things difficult.
Because his Blood Refinement Art was not yet powerful enough to absorb the blood energy of all three at the same time.
Even if the Blood煞古尸 stood still and allowed Su Yuan to focus all his attention on absorbing their blood energy, it would still take him an hour or so.
And there was no way the Blood煞古尸 would stand there and let Su Yuan absorb their energy.
The only solution was to defeat them one by one.
The only good news was that Su Yuan’s cultivation was too low, and the blood煞 energy in his body perfectly blended with the environment here.
The three Blood煞古尸 hadn’t awakened and were quietly absorbing blood煞 energy in the Blood Pool.
Su Yuan slowly retreated.
He retreated back into the passage.
After retreating nearly a hundred meters, Su Yuan took out the Wan Soul Banner.
He summoned Jin Yi’s soul.
As soon as Jin Yi came out, he immediately flattered Su Yuan, “What does Lord Su Yuan need your humble servant for?”
Su Yuan smiled, “Of course I need you for something. I’m having some trouble now and need your help.”
Jin Yi immediately pledged his loyalty, “Please tell me, Lord Su Yuan. I’m willing to die for you.”
Su Yuan chuckled, “Okay, if you mess this up, I’ll let you experience what it means to die a thousand deaths!”
Jin Yi was frightened and quickly said, “Don’t worry, I definitely won’t mess this up.”
“Don’t just talk the talk.”
Su Yuan took out a Blood煞古尸 corpse at the early stage of Qi Refinement and a tiger-shaped jade pendant from his System Backpack.
Su Yuan pointed towards the Blood Pool and said, “I accepted a mission to clear the Blood煞 Cave.
There are three Half-Step Foundation Establishment Blood煞古尸 soaking in the Blood Pool ahead.
I need you to get inside this corpse and activate the 庚金灵虎 with your soul power.
I will give you a lot of spirit stones to help you maintain the 庚金灵虎. Your job is to stall one of them.”
Jin Yi looked in the direction of the Blood Pool and indeed felt three powerful auras.
He nodded, “Guaranteed to complete the mission!”
He then entered the Blood煞古尸’s body with his soul.
After a while, Jin Yi adapted to the Blood煞古尸’s body and could move.
Su Yuan handed him the tiger-shaped jade pendant.
He then asked, “How many spirit stones do you need to summon a Foundation Establishment 庚金灵虎?”
Jin Yi’s soul emerged from the Blood煞古尸 and said, “It requires 2000 low-grade spirit stones, and maintaining the existence of the 庚金灵虎 costs 500 low-grade spirit stones per minute.”
Su Yuan was astonished, “That’s so damn expensive.”
But he still handed him 3000 low-grade spirit stones.
He then took out 10 mid-grade spirit stones.
One mid-grade spirit stone contained the energy of 1000 low-grade spirit stones.
This amount of spirit stones was enough to sustain a Foundation Establishment 庚金灵虎 for 22 minutes.
Su Yuan had to kill a Half-Step Foundation Establishment Blood煞古尸 within eight minutes.
Otherwise, he would be facing three Blood煞古尸.
Su Yuan continued, “It’s best to destroy a Blood煞古尸’s body first and render it immobile.”
Jin Yi nodded, “Understood.”
The two, prepared, arrived at the Blood Pool.
By the Blood Pool.
Su Yuan’s face was stern, and he held the 幽影青霜剑.
As he poured a large amount of mana into the blade.
A bone-chilling frost instantly rose from the blade of the 幽影青霜剑.
He swung his sword.
A giant ice sword energy completely froze one of the Blood煞古尸.
Sensing the mana fluctuations.
The other two Blood煞古尸 in the Blood Pool were immediately alerted. They leaped out of the Blood Pool, causing a spray of blood flowers.
The two Blood煞古尸 let out deep, terrifying roars from their mouths.
They sounded like they came from the abyss of hell, making people’s hair stand on end.
Their figures were like two black bolts of lightning, rushing towards Su Yuan and Jin Yi with endless killing intent!
Faced with such a dangerous situation, Jin Yi quickly pulled out the mysterious tiger-shaped jade pendant from his pocket.
And at the same time, he poured countless spirit stones containing rich spiritual energy into the jade pendant.
In an instant, a dazzling golden light burst forth!
The jade pendant transformed into a huge, majestic 庚金灵虎 that appeared before everyone!
This 庚金灵虎 was enormous. It was much more robust than the one summoned on the flying boat to deal with Su Yuan earlier!
Its entire body shimmered with an extremely dazzling golden light.
It was like a golden sun hanging in the sky, emitting an unparalleled majestic aura.
It was like the true king of beasts had arrived in the world!