153: Blood Martial Realm

Although these sequence disciples did not succeed this time, Xiao Shi has already realized that he is no longer unnoticed as before; he has been targeted.

If Fifth Elder had not intervened, he would most likely have had to abandon the identity of Nie Jie this time.

This also made him realize that he needed to extract the Blood Source of the Blood Beast as soon as possible.

As long as the Blood Beast was still present, he would always be in the spotlight.

Even with Fifth Elder's deterrence, these people would not dare to come to Tree Shadow City to snatch his Blood Beast, but they would still keep an eye on him.

Xiao Shi disliked the feeling of being watched.

According to his usual style of action, for enemies who threatened him, he would find a way to eliminate them directly.

However, the current situation was a bit different.

It was impossible for him to annihilate all the sequence disciples who were targeting him.

This was unrealistic.

The best method was to extract the Blood Source of the Blood Beast as soon as possible and step into the Blood Martial Realm.

That day, Xiao Shi arrived inside the Azure Calamity Ancient Tree, preparing to extract the Blood Source within the Azure Calamity Ancient Tree.

His Blood Beast was different from other Blood Beasts in terms of Blood Source; after all, his Blood Beast's Blood Source was the unique Crimson Tiger Blood Source.

To avoid attracting the attention of others, Xiao Shi felt that extracting the Blood Source inside the Azure Calamity Ancient Tree was the safest option.

However, when he brought the Blood Beast to the Azure Calamity Ancient Tree, a buzzing sound emanated from the Crimson Tiger Totem, which was being nourished by the crystal formation in the distance.

Xiao Shi's heart stirred.

He approached and examined it carefully.

He immediately noticed that the entire Crimson Tiger Totem had undergone significant changes.

When Xiao Shi transferred the Crimson Tiger Totem from his body into the crystal formation, the Crimson Tiger Totem within the crystal formation appeared as an illusory Crimson Tiger.

Now, after a period of nourishment, the originally illusory Crimson Tiger had solidified considerably.

It was no longer just an illusory form.

This made Xiao Shi realize that although the Crimson Tiger Totem, after being nourished for a period, was still far from fully recovering, it had recovered quite a bit from its original state.

And when the Crimson Tiger Totem recovered to this extent, a dazzling light suddenly erupted from it, accompanied by a powerful suction force.

This suction force was not directed at Xiao Shi, but rather at the Crimson Tiger Blood Beast by his side.

Swish! Under this suction force, the entire Crimson Tiger Blood Beast instantly transformed into a streak of blood-red light and was directly absorbed by the Crimson Tiger Totem.

This sudden turn of events completely exceeded Xiao Shi's expectations.

He had not expected that the recovered Crimson Tiger Totem would absorb the Blood Beast.

And the Crimson Tiger Totem, after absorbing the Blood Beast, had clearly grown to a certain extent on its original foundation.

Moreover, the entire Crimson Tiger Totem seemed to have come alive, as if it was no longer merely an inanimate object, but possessed a newfound vitality.

Xiao Shi immediately and impatiently retrieved the Crimson Tiger Totem back to his body.

Upon careful sensation, the moment the Crimson Tiger Totem returned to his back, Xiao Shi clearly felt that the Crimson Tiger Totem already contained the Blood Source of the Blood Beast!

Now, he didn't even need to specifically extract the Blood Source.

When the Crimson Tiger Totem appeared on him, he successfully inherited this Blood Source.

This made Xiao Shi's eyes light up.

As long as he didn't extract the Blood Source, the Blood Beast would not dissipate and could continue to exist.

Although the Blood Beast had now been absorbed by the Crimson Tiger Totem, it did not dissipate but continued to exist in another form.

Although it was different from a typical Blood Beast, Xiao Shi could still nurture it as he would a Blood Beast, and could still nurture it to a stage beyond maturity.

Of course, the most crucial thing now was that Xiao Shi could use the inherited Blood Source to assault the Blood Martial Realm.

“Then…”

“Let’s begin!”

Xiao Shi no longer hesitated.

He began his breakthrough according to the method for breaking through to the Blood Martial Realm.

Usually, stepping into the Blood Martial Realm with True Blood involves extracting the Blood Source and then refining it into one's Natal Martial Blood.

That is to say, breaking through from the Qi Martial Realm to the Blood Martial Realm requires two steps.

The first step is to extract the Blood Source.

The second step is to refine the blood!

However, Xiao Shi's situation was somewhat special.

He no longer needed to extract the Blood Source.

He only needed to refine the inherited Crimson Tiger Blood Source into his Natal Martial Blood.

Usually, refining blood is not a simple or easy task.

Many Qi Martial Realm martial artists, even with a Blood Source, need a certain amount of time to refine it into Natal Martial Blood.

Moreover, there is also the issue of purity in blood refining.

Even with the same Blood Source, different martial artists will refine Natal Martial Blood of varying purities.

The higher the purity of the Natal Martial Blood, the more powerful it tends to be.

However, there seemed to be no secret to refining blood; it all depended on individual comprehension and ability.

Just as Xiao Shi was about to refine his blood according to the information he had learned, he suddenly discovered with surprise that he didn't seem to need to refine the Blood Source like ordinary people.

Because the Crimson Tiger Totem already possessed the function of refining blood.

With a thought in his mind, the Crimson Tiger Totem on his back began to operate on its own, step by step refining the Crimson Tiger Blood Source into Natal Martial Blood!

This greatly shook Xiao Shi's heart.

Although he had known for a long time that the Crimson Tiger Totem was extraordinary, he hadn't expected it to be able to automatically refine blood!

One must know that refining blood is also a major challenge for many Qi Martial Realm martial artists.

Some Qi Martial Realm martial artists might spend several years, or even more than ten years, to complete the refining of blood.

And the Natal Martial Blood refined would not be of very high purity.

The more powerful the Blood Source, the more difficult it is to refine it into Natal Martial Blood.

However, Xiao Shi now didn't need to refine the blood himself at all.

He could just leave it to the Crimson Tiger Totem.

The Crimson Tiger Totem took only half a day to successfully refine the Crimson Tiger Blood Source into Xiao Shi's Natal Martial Blood.

In terms of purity, it even reached one hundred percent!!

This made Xiao Shi sigh with emotion.

He felt as if he had a cheat code with the Crimson Tiger Totem.

His breakthrough to the Qi Martial Realm was not only incredibly easy but also achieved in the optimal way.

One must know that, according to Xiao Shi's understanding of other Blood Martial Realm martial artists, most people's Natal Martial Blood only had a purity of sixty to seventy percent.

Those whose purity exceeded seventy percent were already extremely rare Natal Martial Blood.

And Natal Martial Blood with one hundred percent purity was even rarer in the world.

Boom! As the entire Natal Martial Blood appeared within Xiao Shi's body, instantly becoming a part of him, his entire being, from inside out, began to vibrate.

In this immense vibration, his aura, his flesh and blood, everything about him... all began to transform!

Even his life level underwent a tremendous leap.

The Crimson Tiger, formed by numerous Qi Vortexes within him, let out a mighty roar.

And faintly, an ancient aura permeated from his body, filled with scorching heat that spread throughout Xiao Shi's entire being, making his body instantly scalding hot, even turning his clothes into ashes at that moment.

An astonishing heat permeated the surroundings.

This scorching power emanated from the Crimson Tiger.

But very quickly, streaks of black Tai Yin Power also diffused from his body.

As he opened and closed his eyes, the scorching power and Tai Yin Power permeating around him intermingled and intertwined, forming an extremely peculiar scene.

Within his body, a special blood mass was continuously wriggling.

This blood mass was his Natal Martial Blood.

With this Natal Martial Blood, Xiao Shi successfully broke through the Qi Martial Realm and stepped into... the Blood Martial Realm!!

Xiao Shi sensed the changes within himself.

The improvement he experienced during this breakthrough was far greater than when he broke through from the Entering Martial Realm to the Qi Martial Realm.

At the same time, he clearly felt that his Natal Martial Blood within his body had not yet completely stabilized.

Although he had already broken through to the Blood Martial Realm, this current state was not yet stable, and there was still a risk of falling back to the Qi Martial Realm.

This required him to gradually stabilize his Natal Martial Blood in the coming time.

Only when he had completely stabilized his Natal Martial Blood would he be able to wield the power belonging to the Blood Martial Realm.

Xiao Shi was not in a hurry about this.

Compared to others, he had already skipped the steps of extracting the Blood Source and refining the blood.

His progress was already much faster than others.

At the same time, his Blood Source was also a brand new Crimson Tiger Blood Source, different from the Crimson Tiger Blood Source previously found in the Red Tiger Sect.

Xiao Shi pondered that when Cen Qingci and the others broke through to the Blood Martial Realm, he might be able to provide them with Blood Source.

If they were to assault the Blood Martial Realm through his Blood Source, even if it wasn't True Blood, in terms of generations, they would be among the first few generations.

Far superior to the Crimson Tiger Blood Source of the Red Tiger Sect in the past.

“Blood Martial Realm!”

Xiao Shi's heart was greatly excited.

He had finally stepped into this realm.

In the former Seven Stars Province, the Blood Martial Realm was already the highest martial arts realm.

The Blood Martial Realm martial artists Xiao Shi had encountered before were all high and mighty figures in his mind, feeling very distant.

Yet, he hadn't expected to reach this realm so quickly.

The only regret was that the power of the Blood Martial Realm could only be used after the Natal Martial Blood had stabilized.

This was a problem that every martial artist who broke through to the Blood Martial Realm would encounter.

Even if Xiao Shi had the Crimson Tiger Totem to refine his Natal Martial Blood, he still needed time to allow the Natal Martial Blood to stabilize.

At the same time, with his successful breakthrough to the Blood Martial Realm, Xiao Shi also began to plan his future cultivation.

Although he could not yet use the power of the Natal Martial Blood, Xiao Shi knew that the difference between the Blood Martial Realm and the Qi Martial Realm lay in the fact that what the Blood Martial Realm cultivated was blood.

And different system routes had different cultivation directions.

Since Xiao Shi was following the Crimson Tiger route, his cultivation in the Blood Martial Realm also required the subsequent cultivation methods of the Crimson Tiger.

For this, Xiao Shi planned to ask Guo Chengdao and the others later about how they cultivated in the Blood Martial Realm.

And in addition to the cultivation of the Crimson Tiger, body refining also had to continue and not stagnate.

However, Xiao Shi did not drop any Blood Martial Realm body refining techniques in the Qi Martial Realm, which caused a halt in his body refining progress.

He was quite helpless about this.

To obtain Blood Martial Realm body refining techniques, he needed to kill Blood Martial Realm martial artists as much as possible in the coming time to drop them.

At the same time, Xiao Shi could also feel that with his attainment of the Blood Martial Realm, he could utilize more functions of the Crimson Tiger Totem.

These functions, even if the Crimson Tiger Totem was fully recovered, he could not use before his cultivation was sufficient.

He had to wait until he possessed a certain level of strength and cultivation before these functions could be activated.

Just like this blood refining, before he possessed the Blood Source, he could not use this function no matter what.

Apparently, different levels of strength and cultivation corresponded to different functions of the Crimson Tiger Totem.

This also made Xiao Shi even more curious about the origin of the Crimson Tiger Totem.

Although he knew that the Crimson Tiger Totem was the most important sacred object of the Red Tiger Sect, a sacred object with such powerful functions, let alone a small sect like the Red Tiger Sect, even the Rapid Shadow Palace did not possess one.

Xiao Shi thus realized that the Red Tiger Sect... was by no means as simple as it appeared on the surface.

Behind it, there must be a great secret.

After all, a sacred object like the Crimson Tiger Totem... apart from the Martial Emperor Regalia on him, there was nothing else that could compare to the Crimson Tiger Totem.

Xiao Shi believed that as his cultivation improved and as he continued to nurture the Crimson Tiger Totem, its mysterious veil would eventually be gradually unveiled by him.

Thinking of this, Xiao Shi immediately began to transmit a message to Guo Chengdao, asking about their cultivation methods in the Blood Martial Realm.

According to Guo Chengdao's explanation, their cultivation in the Blood Martial Realm primarily focused on strengthening the Natal Martial Blood within their bodies, and there were no other cultivation methods beyond that.

This made Xiao Shi frown.

Guo Chengdao and the others' cultivation method could at most cultivate the Natal Martial Blood within their bodies to its extreme, but it could not achieve greater progress.

This was also the main reason why they always stagnated in the Blood Martial Realm and could not advance further.

“That is to say…”

“The Red Tiger Sect’s cultivation has been cut off, with no subsequent cultivation methods…”

“The Blood Martial Realm is already the end.”

Xiao Shi was thoughtful.

This was consistent with the reality of a small sect.

But after learning that the Red Tiger Sect was by no means as simple as it appeared on the surface, this situation became unusual.

According to the information Xiao Shi learned about the Blood Martial Realm from Meng Que and the others, he knew that breaking through to the Blood Martial Realm and possessing Natal Martial Blood was merely the First Blood Realm within the Blood Martial Realm.

After that, there would be the Second Blood Realm, Third Blood Realm... And according to Guo Chengdao, their cultivation could only strengthen the first Natal Martial Blood.

That could at most cultivate to the extreme of the First Blood Realm.

There was no way to enter the Second Blood Realm.

And even in the First Blood Realm, with their method of enhancement, it would be difficult to reach the extreme of the First Blood Realm.

This was very strange!