Born with immortal seed

Chapter 191 Blood Essence Core

The investigation into the Blood Path Demon Cultivator had already yielded a reward of two thousand sect contribution points.

After Senior Brother Ni was brutally murdered, his contribution points were increased by another three thousand.

Given Mo Changzhi's identity, after escaping from Black Mountain during the operation to wipe out the Mo family, the Qingfeng Sect also included killing him in their sect mission.

The two amounts together resulted in an additional 5,000 sect contribution points, which, after being divided equally among the three, left them with 1,600 to 1,700 points.

After learning that the sect's secret hall contained treasures left behind by past Core Formation cultivators, and even secret treasures that could aid in Core Formation, Bai Zichen became even more concerned about the sect's contribution points.

One must serve as the Supervising Elder for a full sixty years before being eligible to choose one item. Before reaching the Core Formation stage, one can spend sect contribution points to exchange for another secret treasure for peace of mind.

"It really is the Rainbow Feather Robe..."

In the quiet room of Baiyu Tower, Bai Zichen spent several days refining the Rainbow Feather Robe and obtained information about this spiritual artifact.

As a top-grade spiritual artifact, the Rainbow Feather Robe is very famous throughout the entire Black Mountain.

Firstly, it is a treasure passed down through the Mo clan of the Fire Phoenix, and has always been worn by the clan patriarch as a symbol of status.

Secondly, the Rainbow Feather Robe can exempt one from most of the Five Elements spells, and wearing it also has other wonderful uses, making it extraordinary among top-grade spiritual artifacts.

"During the refining process, three Azure Phoenix feathers and one hundred Tier 3 Firebird feathers were used. This makes the body as light as a feather and impervious to strong winds... It can also exempt more than 70% of Tier 2 spell damage. Only a physical spirit artifact can cause full damage."

Bai Zichen played with the Rainbow Feather Robe; it was smooth and delicate, with a sensation like water flowing through his fingers.

"But with such materials, it was only refined into a top-grade spiritual weapon? And it can even ward off strong winds, a capability only magical treasures possess..."

The main materials used for refining the treasure are not commensurate with its rank, and even its abilities are mismatched.

With a hundred third-tier firebird feathers and a few more spiritual materials, one could refine a low-grade magic weapon.

Even if the crafting technique is crude, or if the user stops due to limitations in their cultivation level, it is still enough to forge a top-grade spiritual weapon.

Not to mention, three more Azure Phoenix feathers were added!

If he remembered correctly, Qingluan, as a descendant of a branch of the Fire Phoenix, had the potential to grow into a fourth-order transformed demon.

Since it is called True Feather, it must be a fourth-tier Azure Phoenix formed by condensing true blood.

Each true feather represents the primordial power of a great avian demon; losing even one will affect its strength.

Using this as the main ingredient, it wouldn't be surprising to create a top-grade magic weapon; how could it have become a mere top-grade spiritual artifact?

However, there has always been a limit to the altitude that cultivators can fly.

For example, Bai Zichen's sword flight could only reach a height of a thousand feet.

Further up, the air thins, spiritual energy disappears, and there are strong winds and torrential rains, making it unsuitable for flying.

Even if they force their way in, they won't be able to hold out for long before they have to withdraw.

The sky, however, became a true forbidden zone.

There are endless gales here; any one of them could turn a Core Formation cultivator into pieces.

Under the endless rays of the Great Sun's Fire, the heat is scorching and venomous. Even cultivators who have reached the Core Formation stage can only withstand it for a short while before their skin is burned and ulcerated, and their bodies spontaneously combust.

Only extremely powerful defensive magical artifacts can survive at altitudes of tens of thousands of feet.

Even so, one must proceed with extreme caution, as if walking on thin ice.

Once the gale gathers and the heavenly fire erupts, even a Core Formation cultivator activating their defensive magic treasures won't be able to withstand it for long.

However, the information conveyed by the Rainbow Feather Robe included the ability to withstand strong winds, which could not help but alarm Bai Zichen.

This information about the refined spiritual artifact was engraved into it at the very beginning of its creation, so that every cultivator who refines the artifact can master it.

The possibility that the content is false is extremely low.

"If three Azure Phoenix feathers were indeed added during the refining process, then it would make sense for it to withstand the gale... but it's strange that it only reached the level of a top-grade spiritual weapon."

The colorful robes and feathers swirled and transformed into a shimmering ribbon, which tied to Bai Zichen's wrist.

It is not limited to the form of feather robes; as long as it is not activated at full power, it can transform into various garments.

Since he couldn't solve the mystery of the Rainbow Feather Robe right now, Bai Zichen didn't dwell on it and turned his gaze to the remaining blood-red crystal.

After concentrating for a long time, he flipped his wrist, and another very similar crystal appeared in his palm.

Except for being larger and not emitting a bloody stench, they were exactly the same.

It is also a piece of mineral with veins and meridians growing on its surface, like a living thing.

The blood-red crystal in his storage bag had a long history. He obtained it from the belongings of a pair of brothers who had been killed before he joined the Qingfeng Sect.

I couldn't tell at the time, but I thought it was very likely a third-tier mineral, so I kept it in my storage bag.

"Both must originate from the same source, except that the one on Mo Changzhi's body has been refined..."

Bai Zichen held one in each hand and compared them to confirm this.

The blood-red crystal that fell from Mo Changzhi's body was covered with blood vessels and meridians, and there were also several blood-red runes of unknown meaning that were faintly visible on it.

I tried to inject some magic power, but it only went around the meridians in the crystal once before being sent back out the same way.

"Perhaps, we need to follow the correct operating route and circulate it through the crystal to solve the problem?"

The more Bai Zichen thought about it, the more likely his guess seemed.

It's just a small piece of blood-red crystal. The meridians that have grown on it are not as complete as those on a human body, but the number of pathways that can be derived from it is in the billions.

He closed his eyes and began to recall the images he had obtained from Mo Changzhi's mind through the Etheric Soul-Searching and Soul-Severing Technique.

The reason this soul-searching spell requires the user to have a strong spiritual sense and cannot be used on those with spiritual senses close to that of a cultivator is to prevent the residual images of the soul-searcher from affecting the caster.

In severe cases, they may even lose their sense of priorities and become confused about which part of their life truly represents their reality.

Therefore, the full name of the spell is Taiwu Soul Searching and Soul Severing Technique, which also includes the word "soul severing," meaning to cut off redundant and useless images to prevent them from affecting oneself.

The crimson crystal was carefully hidden between Mo Changzhi's sternum, and it would not have fallen out unless his already battered body collided with it during movement.

Such important things will definitely leave a mark on your memory.

It depends on whether it was selected by the soul-searching spell and captured as an image.

After all, the Taiwu Soul Searching and Soul Severing Technique can only obtain one-third to one-half of the other party's memories, so it's possible to miss it.

However, for important events, multiple images will generally form in one's mind.

If you skip all of them, the probability of not being found by Taiwu's Soul Searching and Soul Severing Technique is very low.

"I've got it, this is the moment..."

Mo Changzhi's memories are like a long river, which has been accelerated and is moving forward at high speed.

With a thought from Bai Zichen, the long river stopped, and a scene was extracted.

“The Blood Essence Core is hard to come by. It can only be gathered from the corpses of countless cultivators and soaked in layers of blood in an ancient battlefield over thousands of years... I’m not at too much of a loss to exchange it with my third senior brother for the Yin Iron of Wrongful Souls hidden in my clan.”

Mo Changzhi sat in a pool of filthy blood, holding a blood-red crystal in his hand, feeling both joy and reluctance.

So this thing is called the Blood Essence Core. I wonder what the Vengeful Spirit Yin Iron is... Bai Zichen watched from the sidelines, thinking silently.

"Finally, I've successfully refined it and can place it inside my body. Once I reach the Core stage, the Blood Essence Core will automatically upgrade to something similar to a storage magic treasure without needing a spatial artifact. Moreover, spiritual energy will rise, and even spirit beasts can survive... Given time, it might be possible to develop it into a small world, just like the realm of a Nascent Soul True Monarch."

Mo Changzhi looked frantic, his entire body merging into the blood pool. His hands rose from the pool, now transformed into two streams of condensed blood.

Bai Zichen stared wide-eyed as a thin line of blood moved across the core of the blood essence. Then, with a crack, the crystal split open, and Mo Changzhi placed two items inside. When the magic power was withdrawn, it returned to its original state.

His divine sense was being rapidly depleted, and he barely managed to watch the entire scene before it shattered into countless fragments.

A wave of weariness surged from the depths of his consciousness, and his head throbbed with pain. With great experience, Bai Zichen held two pieces of spiritual tea in his mouth, clearing his mind to restore his consciousness.

This extreme fatigue felt like I had been consuming the Five Crystal Divine Iron three times in a row.

Fortunately, he cultivated the Five Crystal Glazed Body and the God Forging Technique, which gave him the ability to adapt to this kind of situation.

About an hour later, the symptoms lessened and he recovered most of his strength.

"No wonder they say you shouldn't expect the Taiwu Soul Searching and Severing Technique to replicate the content of the technique from memory... I almost exhausted my divine sense and couldn't sustain it just by recording a section of the mana circulation route. Even if I drained my sea of ​​consciousness, I couldn't do a complete technique that is hundreds of times more complex."

Bai Zichen took the blood essence core he obtained from Mo Changzhi, and his magic power flowed along the route he remembered, like a very rudimentary cultivation technique.

pat!

The Blood Essence Core opened, revealing a dark space inside, where a roll of animal hide and a jade bottle floated.

"Instead of putting it in a storage bag, it's being carefully hidden in the Blood Essence Core space... Could it be...?"

Bai Zichen's heart beat slightly faster. He took a deep breath and gently waved his hand, and the two items were moved out.

As soon as he withdrew his hand and stopped injecting magic, the Blood Essence Core closed up again, leaving no gap.

The jade bottle was opened, and inside was a drop of spiritual liquid, round like a pearl, rolling as the bottle was shaken.

It is as clear as water, but reflects a jade-like luster under the sunlight, and from another angle, it becomes a thick jade liquid.

Just one sniff made me feel refreshed and invigorated, equivalent to several days of cultivation.

He quickly put the cap back on the jade bottle to prevent the spiritual energy from dissipating and reducing its effectiveness.

"No wonder this jade bottle is covered with multiple restrictions that can isolate the inside from the outside... It really is a Core Formation spiritual object, Pure Spirit Jade Marrow!"

Bai Zichen had accompanied Elder Yang to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect to purchase the Pure Spirit Jade Marrow, had seen the Pure Spirit Jade Marrow at the auction in Zengguang Immortal City, and had heard of it from every cultivator who intended to break through to the Core Formation stage.

The knowledge about this Core Formation spiritual object is already very familiar.

With the actual object in front of you, comparing the two, you can immediately tell that the pure jade marrow in the jade bottle is genuine.

The drop of pure jade marrow that the Ghost Spirit Gate sent to the Fire Phoenix Mo Clan eventually returned to Bai Zichen's hands after the Mo Clan's destruction and Mo Changzhi's death.

"I wonder how long after this drop of Pure Spirit Jade Essence was delivered to the Mo family was it delivered... Once sixty years have passed, the spiritual energy dissipates, and the Pure Spirit Jade Essence loses its effect."

However, Core Formation spiritual items are rare everywhere, and the Ghost Spirit Sect is unlikely to have any in stock.

The drop of pure jade marrow delivered to the Mo family must have been purchased from the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect not long ago.

(End of this chapter)