196: Chapter 195 The Heart Blade Helps Me!

That was his body's self-preservation instinct.

Crimson-gold flames surged wildly from deep within his Dantian, circulating frantically along his Meridians, rushing toward the Dragon Blood Baleful Qi that was eroding his body!

Two forces collided violently within him!

Lihuo True Flame was his body-protecting fire, repeatedly tempered with earth vein baleful fire and constantly nurtured with Pure Yang True Intent; it was blazing and overbearing, capable of incinerating all things.

Dragon Blood Baleful Qi was the violent power contained within the jiaolong's blood, carrying the inherent pressure of the Dragon Clan, eroding, tearing, and assimilating everything.

When the two met—

Boom!!!

Within his body, it felt as if countless bombs had exploded simultaneously!

The Evil Qi that had been eroding his flesh was surrounded by Lihuo True Flame, being scorched, refined, and expelled.

The Evil Qi that was tearing his Meridians was firmly suppressed and dismantled by the Lihuo True Flame.

The Evil Qi that was dissolving his flesh was swallowed by the Lihuo True Flame's frantic counterattack.

The Evil Qi that was gnawing at his bones was surrounded and suppressed layer by layer by the Lihuo True Flame.

The two forces engaged in a frantic slaughter within his body!

What that slaughter brought was even more intense pain.

Every inch of skin, every Meridian, every piece of flesh, every bone, and every drop of marrow simultaneously endured the impact of the two forces.

That pain had surpassed the scope of what language could describe.

Jiang Hanzhou's body was trembling violently, his face was as pale as paper, and his lips were bitten bloody.

But he still didn't make a sound.

He just desperately circulated his Cultivation Technique, guiding the Lihuo True Flame to contend with the incoming Dragon Blood Baleful Qi.

Deep within his Dantian, that crimson-gold blood core was pulsing violently!

The frequency of that pulsing far exceeded the usual—ten times per breath, twenty times, thirty times!

With every pulse, a strand of crimson-gold light surged from the blood core, merging into the fighting Lihuo True Flame to strengthen their power.

With every pulse, a strand of Dragon Blood Baleful Qi was forcibly sucked into the blood core, merging, entangling, and fighting with the blood core's own crimson-gold light.

The color of the blood core began to change.

The originally pure crimson-gold now had a faint layer of dark red.

That dark red was extremely faint, almost invisible, but Jiang Hanzhou sensed it.

That was the sign that the Dragon Blood Baleful Qi was beginning to merge into his blood and Qi.

It was also the key step of the fifth level of the Li Huo Golden Body Art, "Blood Burning"—

Using Dragon Blood Power to temper one's blood and Qi, letting the blood and Qi take on the hue of dragon blood and possess the power of dragon blood.

But this step was too difficult.

The Dragon Blood Baleful Qi surging into the blood core erupted with an even more violent backlash at the moment of Fusion!

They were unwilling to be refined or merged, struggling and resisting frantically, tearing at the internal structure of the blood core!

Countless fine cracks appeared on the surface of the blood core!

From those cracks, dark red light surged—the Dragon Blood Baleful Qi was trying to burst this blood core!

Jiang Hanzhou let out a muffled groan, a trail of blood leaking from the corner of his mouth.

As soon as the blood seeped out, it was washed away by the surrounding pool water.

His aura began to turn chaotic.

Under the impact of that violent Dragon Blood Baleful Qi, the Lihuo True Flame within his body began to retreat step by step.

The Evil Qi that had been suppressed took the opportunity to counterattack, once again eroding his skin, Meridians, flesh, bones, and marrow!

The intense pain escalated again!

This time, it was even more severe than before.

Because those wisps of Evil Qi had invaded deeper and were more tightly entangled with his flesh. Every erosion was like tearing away a part of his body.

His consciousness began to blur.

Countless chaotic images appeared before his eyes—

On Black Stone Island, Blood Bone Venerable stood atop the jiaolong remains, that hideous face.

In the Dragon Slaying Cave Mansion, Dragon Slaying True Person stood before the stone coffin, those eyes as cold as frost.

Beneath the Lijian Cliff, that brilliant golden sword mark and the endless sharp edge contained within it.

Those images flashed and spun frantically, making him unable to distinguish between reality and illusion.

Just then—

A voice suddenly rang out deep within his Sea of Consciousness!

"The power of Blood Burning is the foundation of your killer move."

The voice was very light, yet it exploded in his Sea of Consciousness like a clap of thunder!

It was Master Xue Mu!

It was what Master Xue Mu had said to him in the Lihuo Hall!

"If you want to condense a true killer move, you need to do three things. First, enter the Dragon Blood Pool and completely achieve a Breakthrough in the fifth level of the Li Huo Golden Body Art. The power of Blood Burning is the foundation of this killer move."

Jiang Hanzhou suddenly snapped his eyes open!

Those eyes were as crimson as blood, yet they burned with an indescribable determination!

Foundation.

This is the foundation.

If even the foundation isn't solid, what killer move is there to talk about? What Dragon Gate Trial? What talk of not letting anyone control his own destiny?

He gritted his teeth and desperately circulated his Cultivation Technique!

Deep within his Sea of Consciousness, the Heart Blade trembled slightly!

On the dark golden blade, those dragon-like winding patterns suddenly lit up!

In the next instant—

The Heart Blade transformed into a dark golden stream of light, streaking out from the depths of his Sea of Consciousness and stabbing straight into the intense pain that was tearing at his consciousness!

Yes, the intense pain itself was also a kind of "existence."

An "existence" on the level of the Divine Soul.

And the Heart Blade slashes all things of the Divine Soul.

Including intense pain.

The moment that blade slashed down—

All the pain completely disappeared.

It didn't truly disappear, but rather the perception was temporarily "severed" by the Heart Blade.

That feeling was incredibly wonderful.

He could clearly perceive his body being eroded by the Dragon Blood Baleful Qi, clearly perceive his skin tearing, his Meridians trembling, his flesh dissolving, his bones being gnawed, and his marrow being scraped—

But he couldn't feel the pain.

Under the suppression of the Heart Blade, those pains were isolated from his perception.

His consciousness was completely clear.

His mind was completely focused.

He lowered his head and looked at the violently pulsing blood core deep within his Dantian.

The cracks on the surface of the blood core became more and more numerous and larger, and the dark red light became more and more intense, as if it would explode at any moment.

But he knew it wouldn't explode.

Because those cracks were the "destruction before creation" that must be experienced when the Dragon Blood Baleful Qi merged into the blood core.

Every time a crack appeared, it was the shattering of an old structure.

Every time light surged out, it was the injection of a new power.

Shattering and Rebirth, destruction and creation, death and new life—

This was the true essence of Dragon Blood Body Tempering.

He took a deep breath and activated the Lihuo True Flame with all his might!

Those crimson-gold flames that were originally retreating step by step exploded at this moment!

They no longer tried to suppress the Dragon Blood Baleful Qi but actively met them, actively merged with them, and actively wrapped, entangled, and swallowed them!

Using Lihuo as the furnace and dragon blood as the material.

Refine!