Cultivation Starts with Rejuvenation

The Blood Spirit Saintess continuously poured her precious blood essence into the Dragon-Suppressing Stone, making her physique increasingly frail.

She regretted underestimating this person.

Even more so, she shouldn’t have deliberately avoided Lin Xiuzhu and the Yin Ghost Saint Child’s sensing with her Blood Spirit Secret Technique.

At this moment, truly neither heaven nor earth was answering her cries.

Yet, even now, she still couldn’t fathom how such a great entity could exist in the mere Cangyun State.

The only possibility that came to mind was the chance that the True Monarch of Ten Thousand Laws had hijacked this body.

However, even if the True Monarch of Ten Thousand Laws had done so, it wouldn’t really be related to his Tier Three Body Cultivation.

As time slipped away, nearly sixty percent of her essence blood had been infused into the Dragon-Suppressing Stone, leaving the Blood Spirit Saintess nearly in despair.

Once blood loss exceeds seventy percent, her future in Blood Evil Technique would be almost entirely severed.

The thought of her path being cut off, with no hope for a bright future, stirred her impulse to explode her Dantian several times.

"Buzz~" Just then, she suddenly jerked, her blood essence was no longer being drawn out.

In an instant, she looked up at Li Ji’an beside her with tears of joy, a hint of gratitude instinctively rising in her eyes.

"Thank... Thank you, Master. This humble servant will definitely repay your great kindness and virtue in the future."

Li Ji’an lowered his gaze, glancing at her: "Cut the nonsense, immediately swear the Great Heart Demon Oath, that for this life and the next, you shall be a servant, not to defy."

Not that he truly lacked a servant, but because the three of them brought him here and the Three Sects knew of their presence; if all three perished here, he would have to leave the Celestial Cyan Domain and flee again.

Now, as he had just begun the Early Golden Core Stage, the Tier Three Spirit Vein of the Biyun Sect was sufficient for him to cultivate safely and allow Ning Sujin to cultivate together in the open.

Additionally, as a Tier Three Body Cultivator, he needed Earth Element Spirit Charm to nourish him; Xiaoqiao’s integration of Earth Spirit Master benefits him incredibly now and he is unwilling to give up easily.

More crucially, if he ran away now, it might bring catastrophe upon the Biyun Sect because of him.

If crushed by great power, he may be helpless; but if his actions harm Biyun Sect, his conscience wouldn’t be at rest, potentially nourishing a Heart Demon.

Furthermore, fleeing to the Outer Domain now would only lead to the Central Ten Domains, facing those at their peak, and currently he doesn’t have the full confidence to protect himself.

Keeping the Blood Spirit Saintess, using both the Blood Curse and Great Heart Demon Oath for insurance, would spare him many troubles.

"Yes, yes, this humble servant shall swear the Great Heart Demon Oath now." The Blood Spirit Saintess, like one on the verge of drowning who caught a lifeline, had no reason left to refuse.

She immediately set her Sea of Consciousness as the foundation, Divine Soul as the lead, solemnly swearing the Great Heart Demon Oath. If her heart dared to think of defying Li Ji’an, she would be warned by the Heart Demon Oath, and should she actually act against him, the Heart Demon would enter her soul, causing her death instantly.

Compared to the active control of the Blood Curse, the passive control of the Heart Demon better supervised her intentions.

Once the oath was formed within her Sea of Consciousness, Li Ji’an paid her no further heed, and resumed pouring his own blood essence into the Dragon-Suppressing Stone.

With the Blood Spirit Saintess having infused sixty percent, he only used half a part of his physique’s blood essence to fill the Dragon-Suppressing Stone completely.

"Creak~" soon the sound of an axle twisting came from within the stone wall.

The Blood Spirit Saintess knelt on the ground, witnessing this moment, and was expectant while her heart was even more shocked by the thickness of Li Ji’an’s blood essence.

"No wonder he is a Tier Three Body Cultivator! With his dense blood essence, the Holy Mother might struggle to fully suppress him."

The Blood Spirit Sect Leader practices Blood Evil Technique but is not a Body Refiner; it is still magical power, where attack techniques take Blood Fiend as an important tactic. If encountering someone with thick blood essence, the attack effects are greatly reduced.

Li Ji’an’s Tier Three Body Cultivation, his blood essence is several times thicker than the Blood Spirit Holy Mother’s, which severely cuts down her Blood Evil attack techniques.

"Boom~" In the next moment, a smear of blood-red light suddenly appeared from the stone wall’s edge, then the stone wall slowly opened.

Within, a bloody stench spread instantly, with a blood essence density several times thicker than Li Ji’an’s.

The Blood Spirit Saintess was overjoyed, immediately operating Blood Evil Technique, attempting to absorb some of the blood essence dispersed in the air. This was True Dragon Essence Blood evaporated in the air, not only making up for her previous blood essence deficit but also greatly benefiting her Blood Fiend.

"Presumptuous!" However, Li Ji’an’s cold snort came the next moment.

The Blood Spirit Saintess hurriedly knelt even more respectfully, rapidly dispersing the Blood Evil Technique absorbing the essence in the air.

Li Ji’an then proceeded to take out a Jade Bottle, using Thousand Mechanisms Blood Attraction to draw in the dispersed blood essence, wasting none.

The Blood Spirit Saintess was filled with loss on her face, simultaneously secretly annoyed, she should have first reminded the master.

Soon, no more blood essence overflowed within, Li Ji’an put away the Jade Bottle.

"Enter." He then commanded the Blood Spirit Saintess to take the lead in exploring.

The Blood Spirit Saintess hurriedly stood up, not daring to disobey, and walked toward the inside of the stone wall.

Li Ji’an stood behind her, gazing far into the blood cave within the stone wall.

Everywhere in sight was blood-red; his Divine Sense penetrated the blood-red mist, only then discerning the full view inside.

The blood cave was less than ten feet around, with ancient runes branded on all the stone walls. Now the runes had dimmed.

Right at the center of the blood cave, a square stone platform was enveloped by an array, with nine rusty chains extending from the edges to the stone platform’s center, tightly securing a fist-sized blood-red phantom on the platform.

The blood-red phantom, bound by nine chains, lay flat on the stone platform, motionless, without a single sound.