11: Condensed Blood Yuan Pearl, Fifth Level Qingfeng Sword Technique

【Soul Devouring Method (Yellow)】

【Introduction: Created by the Joyful Buddha, a foreign monk from the Western Regions. Practitioners must be eunuchs by birth.

During cultivation, one must drink the menstrual blood of virgins for a hundred days to achieve getting Started.】

“Born eunuch… drinking virgin menstrual blood… truly a perverse taste.”

Unlike the previous Animal Husbandry Method or Lame Foot Technique, the cultivation methods were cruel and dangerous.

One wrong move, and one's life would be hard to preserve.

The Soul Devouring Method had very high Aptitude requirements.

Being a born eunuch was an Innate defect.

They were as hard to find as people born with six fingers or three kidneys.

Gu Changsheng’s gaze fell upon the “+” sign on the panel.

【Do you wish to consume ten years of Lifespan to achieve getting Started in the Soul Devouring Method?】

Confirm!

After a year, Gu Changsheng had accumulated over a thousand years of Lifespan and had no fear.

He clicked three times in a row, going straight to the third-stage limit.

As Lifespan was consumed like flowing water, insights into the Soul Devouring Method appeared in his mind.

It turned out that the Soul Devouring Method was a visualization technique for harvesting essence Qi.

The harvesting targets were virgins who had not yet married.

By plundering the essence Qi of virgins, a blood essence pearl could be condensed to accelerate cultivation.

Of course, women who lost their essence Qi would age rapidly and their Lifespan would greatly diminish.

According to the description, they would not live for more than a year at most.

“A blood essence pearl can accelerate the cultivation of visualization techniques and spell techniques… that’s quite a temptation.

However, this Chen Huanzhi seems to be a fake, with mediocre strength.

Could it be that the blood essence pearls were all offered to the mastermind behind the scenes?

Guo Ju?

Wait, according to the description of the Soul Devouring Method, refining one blood essence pearl also takes a lot of time.

If I were Guo Ju, I would probably collect them once a year.

Thinking about it this way, Chen Huanzhi should still have quite a bit of stock left.”

Gu Changsheng secretly speculated.

His figure flickered, and he rushed into the room.

After a search, under the Spirit Eye Technique, he finally found a porcelain bottle in a hidden compartment on the desk.

The bottle was smooth and warm. When he opened the stopper, a trace of blood-red light emerged.

Looking inside, several thumb-sized blood essence pearls rolled around at the bottom of the bottle.

“Appearance, color, smell… no mistake.”

Gu Changsheng counted them; there were eight blood essence pearls in total.

Within the rich life aura, wisps of resentment were intertwined.

It was the resentment of the plundered maidens before their deaths.

He crushed one, and the blood-red light flowed into his body through the pores of his palm.

Changes immediately appeared on the panel.

【Unattributed experience +50】 (Can be invested in spell techniques, visualization techniques)

With a thought, fifty points of experience were invested into Qingfeng Swordplay.

Subtle insights into swordplay emerged in his heart.

Although the insights were much less than directly consuming Lifespan to improve visualization techniques, this was Gu Changsheng's first time finding a way to quickly improve spell techniques.

Suddenly, a black Qi separated from the blood-colored energy that had just entered through his pores, forming a ferocious face that appeared in his heart space.

Immediately after, it transformed into a wisp of black smoke covering the Fox Spirit.

For some reason, Gu Changsheng felt as if a layer of gray had covered him.

A hint of violent emotion inexplicably surged in his mind.

The Fox Spirit trembled, and wisps of black smoke dissipated, but a lot still clung to its body.

It could only be removed over time through gradual attrition.

“This thing is evil.

It seems to be able to quickly raise the rank of spell techniques, but in reality, the resentment contained within it constantly corrodes the mind.

Consuming it in large quantities carries the risk of falling into depravity and becoming a demon.”

Gu Changsheng immediately sealed the bottle, dismissing the idea of continuing to consume it.

After throwing Chen Huanzhi’s remains into a deep well, he left as a streak of blood-red light.

【Blood Escape Technique】

Burning Qi and blood can greatly increase speed.

This was a spell technique born when the Soul Devouring Method reached its third-stage limit.

Even at only the first stage, it boosted Gu Changsheng's speed by more than three times.

Returning home.

Gu Changsheng looked at the blood essence pearl in his palm, feeling an itch in his heart.

He had a treasure in hand, but he could only look at it and not use it.

It was frustrating.

“The blood essence pearl’s manufacturing method harms the natural order.

Absorbing it in large quantities has too many drawbacks.

While it does enhance strength in the early stages, it also defiles the mind, greatly increasing the risk of Qi Deviation in future cultivation.

In the long run, it’s not cost-effective.”

The blood essence pearl was condensed from plundered virgin essence and Lifespan.

This process would naturally be mixed with the resentment of the plundered, which was unavoidable.

However, if the Lifespan and essence came from himself, could the mixture of Impurities be avoided?

Gu Changsheng thought about it and felt it was very possible.

However, the first step in cultivating and condensing blood essence pearls was to improve the Soul Devouring Method.

The original Soul Devouring Method used a blood spirit to seize others' Lifespan and essence, but now it had to be replaced with his own, and the operational methods were quite different.

Fortunately, Gu Changsheng had already raised the Soul Devouring Method to its third-stage limit, and combined with his previous cultivation of various visualization techniques, his Foundation was solid.

Creating a new visualization technique might not be easy, but improving an existing one was not a problem.

An hour later, the Soul Devouring Method was improved.

“Let’s try the effect.”

In the heart space, the blood spirit, shrunken into a ball, traveled throughout his body along the blood vessels.

A sensation of bone-deep extraction came over him.

Gu Changsheng knew this was a sign of the blood spirit heavily absorbing Lifespan and essence.

After ten breaths, the blood spirit completed a cycle through the blood circulation and returned to the heart space.

Gu Changsheng flipped his palm, and a blood essence pearl appeared in his palm.

Its color was vibrant red, grand and imposing, without a hint of ghostly Qi.

“Good, it’s just as I expected.

Let’s test the effect.”

Gu Changsheng crushed the blood essence pearl, and the blood essence spread along his blood vessels, causing changes on the panel.

【Unattributed experience +100】

The effect was even stronger than the original version of the blood essence pearl.

Gu Changsheng estimated that condensing one blood essence pearl cost about one year of Lifespan.

His remaining Lifespan now exceeded a thousand years.

Enough to condense a thousand blood essence pearls.

Converted into experience points, that was over a hundred thousand!

For ordinary cultivators, consuming Lifespan to improve spell techniques was suicidal.

However, for Gu Changsheng, this deal was very cost-effective.

Lifespan, wasn't it something he could obtain by simply raising his hand and drawing?

Gu Changsheng was full of vigor.

One blood essence pearl.

Ten blood essence pearls.

A hundred blood essence pearls.

Soon, the porcelain bottle that originally contained the blood essence pearls was filled.

Gu Changsheng's face was a little pale, but a smile played on his lips.

Condensing blood essence pearls not only consumed Lifespan but also essence Qi and blood.

Gu Changsheng’s current appearance was as if he had been drained by a dozen girls from Baihua Garden.

However, as he looked at the blood-red light emanating from the porcelain bottle, he was still not satisfied.

“I… want… more…”

Three hours later, Gu Changsheng’s face was pale, his eyes hollow and lifeless, looking completely drained.

On the desk in front of him, ten porcelain bottles were stacked.

Each blood essence pearl shone like a ruby, making the oil-lamp-lit room appear particularly eerie.

A full thousand of them!

“Time to enjoy.”

Gu Changsheng directly grabbed a handful and stuffed them into his mouth.

As soon as they entered his mouth, the blood essence pearls turned into sweet liquid and flowed down his throat, and a surging aura coursed through his limbs and meridians.

【Unattributed experience +1000】

He invested all of it into Qingfeng Swordplay.

Gu Changsheng did not hesitate in the slightest.

Although Qingfeng Swordplay was not a spell technique, it was an effective means of combat.

Instantly, the third stage Broke through to the fourth stage.

It was as if he had practiced swordsmanship for decades, countless insights into sword usage impacting his mind.

Still not enough!

Another handful of blood essence pearls went down his stomach.

【Unattributed experience +800】

He invested it again into Qingfeng Swordplay.

Unfortunately, having just Broke through to the fourth stage, he was still quite far from the twenty thousand experience points needed for the fifth stage.

It didn’t matter, he still had many blood essence pearls.

A moment later, blood-red light surged around Gu Changsheng, and a smile appeared on his lips.

He Broke through!

Qingfeng Swordplay successfully Broke through to the fifth stage.

It even gave birth to Qingfeng Sword Intent.

He could use the wind to control his sword in the void, possessing a hint of the profundity of spell techniques.

This only consumed over two hundred blood essence pearls; Gu Changsheng still had about eight hundred left.