75: Moving to a smaller courtyard to prepare for the Blood War.

At this moment, Qin Tai was in utter despair, but he still chose to bite his tongue.

As soon as Qin Tai bit his tongue, Jiang Yan quickly took out a gold needle and pierced his Tianling Acupoint. Immediately after, he took out a green Talisman and stuck it to the center of Qin Tai's brow.

As the green Talisman paper gradually turned black, a deep smile appeared on the corners of Jiang Yan's mouth.

'As expected, practice brings true knowledge!'

Initially, when Li Yi spoke about this conversion process, Jiang Yan was somewhat skeptical. But seeing Qin Tai's soul body corroding the green Talisman, he understood that Li Yi's method was indeed extraordinary.

When Yin Duo returned and saw the scene before her, she was more or less frightened, because Jiang Yan was raising evil spirits!

"Master, should we report this? If something really goes wrong, I'm afraid we'll all be finished," Yin Duo advised.

"It's fine. If I don't make it out of the Blood Spirit Secret Realm, just burn these two coffins," Jiang Yan said nonchalantly.

In his view, if such a thing still needed to be reported to the Sect, it wouldn't be called the Blood Cloud Sect.

After all, everything he did was under the surveillance of the Four Great Peak Masters. If there were truly any issues, the Four Great Peak Masters would have come out to stop him long ago.

Jiang Yan had obtained quite a bit of useful information from Fang Yu. He knew that the things they did in the Sect could not escape the eyes of the Peak Masters at all, so he had his own reasons for doing this.

Just as Jiang Yan finished these matters, the neighboring small courtyard also welcomed a new owner.

Guo Jingan was dead, and the person who killed him was Gu Mingfeng, who stood before him.

"Greetings, Blood Disciple Su. I am Gu Mingfeng," Gu Mingfeng said, cupping his fists.

Jiang Yan nodded and asked curiously, "Whose Blood Son's Servant are you?"

"I am the Servant of the Eighth Victory Blood Disciple, Yu Kejiao," Gu Mingfeng replied, cupping his fists.

"Oh, so you're from Blood Spirit Peak." Jiang Yan nodded and pointed to the central courtyard behind him. "This was the Four-Victory Blood Son's residence; it's yours now."

Gu Mingfeng was stunned for a moment upon hearing this. He had asked around, and this was supposed to be Guo Jingan's residence. Could he have made a mistake?

Also, why did this Su Chen place two coffins at the entrance of his own courtyard?

Noticing the strange expression on Gu Mingfeng's face, Jiang Yan quickly waved his hand. "Don't misunderstand. Inside these are my two Servants. The reason they're placed here is that I was just using your courtyard entrance to handle some matters."

Hearing Su Chen's explanation, the corners of Gu Mingfeng's eyes twitched.

Good grief, do you handle your Servants at other people's doorsteps?

However, Gu Mingfeng didn't dare to provoke Su Chen. After all, the person in front of him had strength close to an Eighth Victory Blood Disciple, and he was also entering the Blood Spirit Secret Realm tomorrow. If he truly offended him, he would likely be targeted by Su Chen tomorrow.

"Oh, I see." Gu Mingfeng cupped his fists with a smile. "In that case, I'll head inside."

"Sure, bye-bye." Jiang Yan waved with a smile, as if saying goodbye to a friend.

This left Yin Duo completely dazed. This large courtyard clearly belonged to Su Chen, so why did Su Chen give away the central courtyard?

Jiang Yan ignored Yin Duo's thoughts, picked up the two coffins, and walked toward Guo Jingan's small courtyard.

When the two coffins were set upright in the small courtyard, Jiang Yan beckoned to Yin Duo and whispered in her ear, "Go inside and clear out all of Guo Jingan's things. You'll stay in the west room, and I'll stay in the east one."

Yin Duo nodded her small head and asked her question in a low voice, "Master, why did you want to change courtyards?"

"That courtyard has some bad luck attached to it; I don't want to live there anymore," Jiang Yan replied.

Hearing Su Chen say this, Yin Duo understood somewhat.

Jiang Yan sat on a coffin, looking at the neighboring courtyard pensively.

He had thought Guo Jingan would be able to return, but looking at it now, the Blood Sons below Four-Victory status were constantly being replaced.

In fact, he had guessed correctly. After all, Blood Sons below Four-Victory were all in the Qi Blood Realm; only those at the Foundation Establishment Realm with Five Victories or more had true authority.

"Master, I've finished tidying up," Yin Duo reported.

"Mm." Jiang Yan nodded. "Go to the Spiritual Object Hall and get me a list of the participants for tomorrow's Blood Son Battle."

"Yes, Master."

Yin Duo was now very well-adjusted to her role as a Servant; after all, she was truly afraid of Su Chen.

After a short while, Yin Duo ran back with the list.

Jiang Yan unfurled the list and saw that besides him, there were fifteen other Blood Sons participating in the Blood Son Battle. He was instantly speechless.

'Damn, how am I supposed to help Ye Qingfeng keep the first place?'

Although Ye Qingfeng was the strongest, the Eleven-Victory Blood Son and the two Ten Victories Blood Disciples were no pushovers either.

Meanwhile, the Eighth and Ninth-Victory ones were another echelon, with the Four and Five-Victory ones being the support for the Eighth and Ninth echelon. Six was the support for Eleven, and he was the only one supporting Twelve, while the two Seven-Victory Blood Sons were clearly neutral.

'Oh, Old Ye, can I defect now?'

Jiang Yan was a bit worried because this Blood Son combat power ranking already explained many problems.

Ye Qingfeng would have no problem in a duel against the Eleven-Victory Blood Son, but adding two Ten Victories Blood Disciples made it exponentially harder.

And he could at most go toe-to-toe with the two Six-Victory Blood Sons; as for the Eighth and Ninth-Victory ones, they had nothing to do with him.

'Forget it, if things look bad, I'll just run. Ensuring I stay alive is what matters.'

In truth, if the variable of Jiang Yan hadn't appeared in this year's Blood Son Battle, Ye Qingfeng likely wouldn't have been confident either. After all, every victory meant the road ahead would be even more difficult.

And Nineteen or Twenty Victories basically meant facing all the other Blood Sons alone!

Jiang Yan closed the list and thought for a while with his eyes closed. He decisively chose to increase his strength, as tomorrow's battle truly would result in deaths.

"Get some rest early, and don't go running around for no reason," Jiang Yan instructed before heading into the room.

Yin Duo nodded, not daring to hesitate, and decisively ran back to the west room.

Jiang Yan sat on the bed and immediately began to dump his lifespan.

'To be safe, I'll reach the tenth layer first! If an accident happens, I'll just force a Foundation Establishment.'

As eighteen thousand points of lifespan were poured into the Qi Blood Realm, his cultivation instantly reached the Tenth Layer of Qi-Blood.

However, even so, he didn't intend to stop. Since he was on the Dual Cultivation track, his Qi Refining also had to keep up.

As his Qi aura shifted, he instantly switched from the Tenth Layer of Qi-Blood to the Qi Refining Seventh Layer Realm.

'Dump it!'

With that single command, eighteen thousand points of lifespan immediately vanished, subsequently transforming into countless strands of Spiritual Qi that surged into his body.

The moment Jiang Yan opened his eyes, his pupils were like the sun and moon.

'Whoa, there are even special effects?'

Jiang Yan looked at the furnishings before him and felt it was incredibly strange, as if he could see the essence of Qi itself.

But the moment he blinked, those things returned to their original appearance.

Jiang Yan couldn't figure it out, and no matter how much he blinked, the effect from before never reappeared.

'Temporary?'

After shaking off those irrelevant matters, he switched back to the Tenth Layer of Qi-Blood.

In the Blood Cloud Sect, Jiang Yan wasn't worried at all that his cultivation increase would be exposed; after all, there were several others whose cultivation increased faster than his.

For instance, that candidate—I heard he reached Foundation Establishment in a month. Ye Qingfeng reached it in a month and a half, while it took him over five months just to reach the Tenth Layer of Qi-Blood, so there was no need to worry at all.

'Next, I need to upgrade my Martial Skills and Spells.'

Regarding Martial Skills, he certainly wouldn't upgrade his Legacy Martial Skills. After all, if a killing move like the Nine Dragons Sword were exposed in this godforsaken place, he would surely be taken away to be sliced into pieces. Thus, he could only upgrade the Qi Blood Fiend Source Art.

This Cultivation Technique was obtained by plundering Qin Qingluan. Initially, he thought it was just an ordinary Martial Skill, but upon closer inspection, he realized it was a Canon-grade Martial Skill.

Although it was only a completed introductory chapter at first, after upgrading, this Martial Skill was no longer the original Qi Blood Fiend Source Art but had become the Qi Blood Fiend Source Scripture. Though there was only a one-word difference, the power was ten thousand times greater.

Of course, no matter how awesome this Canon-grade Martial Skill was, it couldn't compare to a Legacy one; this was something he felt deeply.

As fifteen thousand years of lifespan were poured in, this Qi Blood Fiend Source Scripture finally reached the level of being grasped.

Looking at the remaining twenty-one thousand years of lifespan, the corners of Jiang Yan's eyes began to twitch uncontrollably.

'Good grief, this is taking me back to the pre-liberation days.'

However, he was now very confident, as his strength had indeed been enhanced.

'I should prepare a dozen or so more Life-Burning Talismans and Escape Talismans.'

He felt that if he couldn't win even when fighting for his life, he could only run, so these things were essential items for home and travel.

As he took out the Talisman paper and spirit brush, he began his path of drawing Talismans late into the night.