BXBX NOVEL Chapter 342: Refining Blood Essence
Chapter 342: Refining Blood Essence
"Wu Yuan, once we return to the Abyss..." Qi Qingsong said with a sideways glance. "If the people from the Demon Sect ask, you were the cause of Chen Lushi\'s death."
Wu Yuan frowned. "Feeling uneasy about me?"
"Just a little," Qi Qingsong replied with a smile.
"I have no loyalty to the Demon Sect. I only seek the path to godhood," Wu Yuan said, expression as cold as a soulless statue. "The Demon Sect is merely a place that invests resources in me and offers secret techniques that suit me.
"I already wanted to leave before, but now even more so."
Wu Yuan glanced at the peak of a distant glacier.
"Pang Jian is already ahead of all of us. Instead of wasting your time questioning me, you\'re better off focusing on your cultivation. Try not to fall too far behind him."
Wu Yuan, the genius of the Demon Sect, had made Pang Jian his goal.
"He\'s also in the Spirit Condensation Realm. He just has a few strange artifacts, that\'s all," Zhao Yuanqi muttered.
Wu Yuan shook his head in silence.
Zhuang Yuyan chuckled softly. "You\'re still too naive. Little Junior Brother didn\'t care when we collected divine essence from those stone statues and wooden carvings. That alone proves one thing."
"What does it prove?"
"It means he already reached the maximum number of divine senses one could have in the Profound Abode Realm!" Zhuang Yuyan said, eyes gleaming. "I\'ve always been curious about the exact number of divine senses he refined in the Profound Abode Realm."
"A few hundred, at most?" Qi Qingsong speculated.
Zhuang Yuyan shook her head, unconvinced. "He won\'t say. I suppose it\'ll always be a mystery."
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Pang Jian immersed himself in refining his blood and tirelessly tempering his body inside the cave.
The meat of exotic beasts obtained from the Ice Armor Eel Dragon and the Ice Race became his daily sustenance.
Drops of his blood were refined in his Providence Mystic Reservoir Acupoint, repeatedly tempered until its strength increased a hundredfold.
Gurgle! Gurgle!
Pang Jian directed the refined blood to his left arm and felt his blood boil with an extraordinary surge of power.
Boom!
He swung his arm at a nearby wall, and the stone crumbled under the impact.
Pang Jian then repeated the action without any refined blood for comparison.
The stone wall held firm.
Blood flows through every part of one\'s body. It\'s also the first to spill from one\'s injuries.
Blood is the easiest source of power to mobilize and the quickest to unleash.
Pang Jian buried himself in his cultivation.
Advancing to the Vital Blood Realm involved perseverance like water slowly wearing down the stone. Refining every drop of blood in his body in the Providence Mystic Reservoir Acupoint was not a task that could be rushed. It required relentless persistence to chip away at it night and day.
With every piece of exotic beast meat that Pang Jian consumed, the amount of blood essence in his body grew.
His physical strength surged as more blood essence coursed through his body, and soon, he was confident he could engage in close combat with Vicious Beast of the same level using only his physical body.
In ancient times, the human race regarded body tempering as paramount. They had the strength to tear apart Vicious Beasts of the same level with their bare hands.
Now that a new era has arrived, those ancient body tempering techniques will surely regain their brilliance. Pang Jian sighed inwardly.
One day, Pang Jian\'s divine soul entered the Thunder Pool, intending to comprehend the mysteries of the Lightning Dao Seals once again, when he sensed a being through the Thunder Pool.
This being was far away, deep within the bizarre mist.
Pang Jian could not see the being through the Thunder Pool but could sense a terrifying swell of lightning.
The intensity of the lightning far exceeded that of the Thunderveil Godbeast, causing the Thunder Pool to tremble in response.
Could it be another Thunder God? Pang Jian wondered.
He sent a bee to investigate the source of the lightning.
The perception range between him, the Bee Sovereign in Absolute Heaven, and each of the bees had expanded more than tenfold since breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm and refining his unique divine soul.
Previously, when bees were sent to distant areas, the scenes they transmitted would become increasingly blurry and disjointed, until eventually, the connection between Pang Jian and the bees was severed.
After advancing to the Spirit Condensation Realm, such disruptions occurred far less frequently.
Pang Jian knew it would take time for the bee to reach the mysterious being, so he resumed refining his blood in his Providence Mystic Reservoir Acupoint while waiting.
After some time, the bee finally reached the location sensed through the Thunder Pool.
Pang Jian was shaken to his core.
Whoosh!
He summoned his protective shield and teleported to the bee.
A colossal golden skeleton with a pair of massive wings floated in the dense bizarre mist before him.
Its hollow eye sockets stared blankly ahead.
The golden skeleton was a lion-tiger hybrid and appeared to be the same one Pang Jian saw through a void rift in Cloud Lightning—the one that had comprehended the Dao of Lightning!
It was also a Thunder God!
The golden skeleton was as enormous as the Fire God and resembled a mountain of golden bones that stretched thousands of zhang high.
Its aura caused Pang Jian\'s temples to throb from the pressure.
Boom! Crackle!
A vast sea of golden lightning surged from each of its wings like two worlds of lightning.
It crashed down toward Pang Jian. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
A chill ran down Pang Jian\'s spine, and his first instinct was to teleport back to Frozen Thunder.
Boom! Boom!
An invisible barrier blocked the sea of lightning crashing toward Pang Jian. Not a single lightning bolt could pass through.
As Pang Jian stood before the colossal Outer God\'s body, feeling utterly insignificant, he came to a realization.
The boundary wall!
Between Pang Jian and the Outer God lay the boundary wall of the Abyss!
No matter how much power this creature unleashed, it could not break through the boundary wall and enter the Abyss.
Pang Jian breathed a quiet sigh of relief.
Carefully observing the creature, he soon confirmed that the Outer God could not see him.
The Outer God before Pang Jian appeared to have drifted its way to the boundary wall of the Abyss, and not because it had sensed the Thunder Pool.
I found you and not the other way around. That means the Thunder Pool can sense you, but you can\'t detect it.
Pang Jian then retrieved the Thunder Pool from his spiritual sea and placed it beneath his feet.
Howl!
When it sensed the Thunder Pool, the powerful being went into a frenzied rage, wildly clawing and beating its wings against the boundary wall in a desperate attempt to break through.
However, it was like an insect crashing into a stone wall, unable to even shake the boundary wall.
It recklessly squandered its divine power and the lightning in its hollow eye sockets gradually weakened.
It soon exhausted itself with its futile attempts.
As soon as Pang Jian placed the Thunder Pool back in his spiritual sea, the mysterious creature became dazed as if it had lost its pillar of faith.
It lingered in the area for a long time, making repeated vain attempts to break through the boundary wall before finally deciding to leave.
"No Outer God can break through the boundary wall of the Abyss. It both imprisons and protects the inhabitants of the Abyss," Pang Jian muttered softly.
Pang Jian stayed in the area for a while longer, patiently waiting to see if the lion-tiger hybrid would reappear, but it seemed to have truly given up.
The World God...
Reaching out, he gently placed his palm on the boundary wall that enveloped the Abyss.
It felt like touching the taut, bulging hide of a beast.
The Gate of the Abyss on his chest became scorching hot, so much so that he worried his skin would be burned.
The feeling of the boundary wall under his palm changed!
His hand sank into the wall, easily passing through it like water.
I really can cross the boundary wall with the Gate of the Abyss! The power to break through the boundary wall—this is what it means to be a World God!
Pang Jian\'s emotions surged.
The boundary wall was impossible for the inhabitants of the Abyss to touch—let alone break through—but he could pass through it with the aid of the bronze pendant!
This meant he did not need to ascend to godhood and reach the True God Realm to leave the Abyss!
He also had a reasonable explanation for how the Nether Abyss Spirit Bees appeared in the Abyss.
A World God had entered the Nether Abyss with the bronze pendant and dragged a beehive of Nether Abyss Spirit Bees into the Solitary Mountain Range!
Should I take a look outside?
The thought alone made Pang Jian\'s heart race and his entire body covered in goosebumps.
His eyes gleamed with anticipation as he stared into the depths of the bizarre mist beyond the boundary wall.
Crossing the boundary wall doesn\'t seem like the proper path forward. Breaking through the restrictions as a True God and soaring through the depths of the starry skies seems like the true path to ultimate freedom.
Not to mention, there may be Outer Gods lying in wait outside.
Pang Jian shook his head and sighed. After much deliberation, he ultimately abandoned the idea of exploring beyond the boundary wall for the moment.
I\'m still too weak. If I cross the boundary wall into the bizarre mist, I could encounter terrifying beings like that one before.
I should first return to the Abyss and increase my strength. I can always revisit this idea later.
With his thoughts settled, Pang Jian returned to Frozen Thunder.
Time passed, and Frozen Thunder eventually reached the last golden bee.
Pang Jian knew it would not be long before they broke through the bizarre mist and returned to the Abyss.
Rising into the air, he yelled, "Everyone, get ready! We\'re about to leave the bizarre mist!"
Qi Qingsong and the others had spent their time focusing on body refinement techniques to strengthen their bodies and nourish their divine souls. At Pang Jian\'s announcement, they all sprang to their feet, faces filled with excitement.
"The Abyss!"
"Once we return to the Abyss, we can get complete body refinement techniques and pills for tempering our physical body from our sects."
"Finally, we\'re leaving this cursed place."
They could not help but feel relieved.