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Chapter 78 77. Exchange Meeting, Blood Melting Technique (4.1K words - please subscribe)
Although the Puppet Sect was in chaos, the market town of Hantan Valley was still bustling with people.

Many cultivators from the three kingdoms gathered here, and the few powerful men at the Crimson Palace level who got the news had no intention of disrupting the atmosphere here for the time being.

Because for both the Puppet Sect and the Southern Wu Jianmen, the Hantan Valley Market is not only a symbol of "alliance between the two sides", but also has unprecedented profound significance.

That is unity.

The opportunity to unify all the cultivators of the Three Kingdoms lies in this Hantan Valley market.

Let me ask you, if this market continues to develop for a long time, wouldn’t the person who controls the market be able to catch all the cultivators in one fell swoop and bring them into his sect?
The most difficult thing in the world is "from zero to one".

Hantan Valley Market is this “one”.

Therefore, neither Gu Huangzi nor the Great Elder wanted any accidents to happen during the opening of the market.

Besides, the appearance of Grandma Fox in the evil land has nothing to do with the market in Hantan Valley.

Just recruit all the experts and send them to support the Puppet Sect.

Almost everyone here was kept in the dark, except for a very few people who got the news.

Indochina is one of them.

At this time, he had already taken Song Yan to stay in a restaurant in the city. Although there were only two rooms, his confidants were still watching outside the building to prevent Song Yan from escaping.

Song Yan tried several times and found out that as long as he wanted to go out, Yin Wutai would definitely find an excuse to go with him.

But if he let Cao Yuzhuang go out, no one would care.

Song Yan couldn't help but become curious.

However, no matter how quick-witted he was, he could never have imagined that "Grandma Fox actually played a trick and took advantage of people's absence to rob the house."

Therefore, he focused his test on whether the negotiations between the Puppet Sect and the Southern Wu Jianmen had broken down.

After all, he is a spy from the Jianmen Sect of Southern Wu, and the purpose of his coming here is to act as a "lubricant between good and evil". However, if the talks between the two sects fail, the Puppet Sect will inevitably worry that he will escape.

Yin Wutai was also a smart man, so he naturally guessed what Song Yan was thinking. So he laughed and agreed with his junior brother's idea, saying in a cold voice: "You must remember that you are my junior brother now. Even if you return to Jianmen, how can you compare to the glory in my Puppet Sect?"

After that, he patted Song Yan's shoulder with a "heartfelt" gesture, his somewhat nervous bloodshot pupils drooped slightly, and he lowered his voice and said: "Brother, I have to admit that there are indeed some decent idiots in Nanwu Jianmen, but there are more hypocrites. You, make more plans for yourself, don't be stupid and stand on the wrong side."

When Song Yan saw that Senior Brother Yin cared about him so much, he immediately realized that the talks definitely didn't break down.

So. What is it?
He couldn't guess it for a moment.

At this time, others were in the restaurant's side room, but the deformed soul and its shadow puppet were still moving around outside.

In the evening, the puppet finally found an "exchange meeting".

This "exchange meeting" was set up temporarily, and its members all seemed to be cultivators who were interested in the "Jiang Palace Realm". Among them were independent cultivators, but also disciples of the Nanwu Sword Sect and the Puppet Sect.

There were 7 people in total including him at the exchange meeting.

There are two disciples of Jianmen.

Two disciples of the Puppet Sect.

One was from the Blood Corpse Peak, and behind him was a large, tightly wrapped man. From the gaps in the cloth, one could vaguely see a stiff purple color. This was a purple corpse with a strength comparable to that of a Profound Realm cultivator.

The other one was wearing heavy armor with a strange aura floating around. Song Yan recognized at a glance that this was the talented disciple directly taught by an elder on Paper Man Peak, who had already entered the ninth level of Lianxuan.

Two others, like him, were wearing "anonymous suits."

The opening of the Hantan Valley Market is under the banner of "It doesn't matter where you come from, it doesn't matter your identity, as long as you are human, you are welcome", so as long as you can pass the entry test, then when you arrive at the market, no one will care no matter how hidden you are.

The disciples of Jianmen glanced at the disciples of Puppet Sect, and both sides snorted coldly and stood away from each other.

Then the seven people each raised their own questions, and if someone could take the question, they would talk in pairs and make deals privately.

What the disciples of Jianmen and Puppet Sect are concerned about are basically "Which kind of high-level monster blood is suitable as the foundation-building blood for the entry of Crimson Palace Realm, and what is the effect", "Where are the high-level monster hideouts", "Apart from Grandma Fox, is there any news about monsters or demons in the Crimson Palace Realm?" and so on.
The other two who were hiding their identities were asking questions like "How to break through the Crimson Palace Realm" and "Are there any Crimson Palace Realm skills or spells that can be exchanged?"
Obviously, these two, like Song Yan, have "reached the top, but there is no way forward."

So, Song Yan also asked the same question as the two of them.

After the question was raised, it was private conversation and transaction between the two parties.

What surprised Song Yan was that the two wandering cultivators seemed to have had some adventures and took away many treasures.

After a disciple from the Blood Corpse Peak finished a transaction with a casual cultivator, he looked at Song Yan. The two exchanged glances and walked aside.

The disciple of Blood Corpse Peak said directly: "I have a fragment of the Crimson Palace Realm cultivation, which is guaranteed to at least allow one to enter the realm, but it is not from my Puppet Sect. What can you exchange for it?"

Song Yan said: "Xuan Yu."

"Nothing else?" The disciple from Blood Corpse Peak frowned.

Song Yan said: "You can't use anything else."

The disciple of Blood Corpse Peak thought about it. It was just a copy anyway. It would make no difference if it was given to one more person or one less person. It could only be sold to those casual cultivators without inheritance. So he said, "One price. Two hundred small black jades, or two black crystals."

Song Yan was a little hesitant.

The disciple of Blood Corpse Peak said, “It’s a bit expensive, but I’m from the Puppet Sect, and this market was also run by our sect. Since I dare to sell it here with my face exposed, it can’t be fake.”

Song Yan said: "Then you have to tell me where you got it."

He is quite out of touch with the news.

He had no idea how fellow cultivators of the same level came across opportunities and collected treasures outside.

Take for example this disciple from Blood Corpse Peak. Where did he get the fragments of his cultivation?
The Puppet Sect doesn't have this thing for exchange.

The Blood Corpse Peak disciple thought for a moment and said, "Okay."

Immediately, Song Yan took out two slightly broken pieces of black crystal.

The Blood Corpse Peak disciple was stunned and asked, "Why is it bad?"

Song Yan said: "It's not as good as your big sect, but it's not lacking in weight."

The disciple from Blood Corpse Peak weighed it twice, then took out a copy with fairly new pages from his pocket and handed it over.

There are three words written on the manuscript: "Blood Melting Secret".

Song Yan quickly flipped through the pages.

It would be troublesome and time-consuming for him to deduce this thing himself, so it would be much better to have a ready-made one.

The Blood Corpse Peak disciple said, "Don't worry, I've shown this technique to my Peak Master, and there's nothing wrong with it."

After saying this, he laughed and said, "Hantan Valley Market will be our signature shop from now on, so I don't dare to destroy it."

Song Yan flipped through it hastily and asked, "Why is there no visualization method?"

The disciple of Blood Corpse Peak said, "If there is a visualization diagram, the price will not be this high."

Song Yan had no choice but to put it away, but fortunately this technique did contain a lot of important information, and he planned to study it carefully later.

The disciple of Blood Corpse Peak continued, "I got this "Blood Fusion Art" in a secret place called 'Giant Elephant Plain'. The location of 'Giant Elephant Plain' is no secret. It is about six or seven hundred miles west of here. There is a restriction at the entrance. It will be opened in summer and closed again in autumn. You need to enter and exit quickly.

When the time comes, you will meet people of the same faith and then you can form a team."

Giant Elephant Plain?
Secret realm?

Prohibition?

Song Yan suddenly thought of the secret realm of the Demon Swamp in the Snake Corpse Market, so he asked again: "Will this secret realm change its location?"

The disciple of Blood Corpse Peak asked: "You don't know this?"

Song Yan said: "Please teach me."

The disciple of Blood Corpse Peak said: "Of course the secret realm will not change its location."

After saying that, he waved his hand, and the deal was done.

Song Yan frowned. He remembered that the secret realm of the Demonic Swamp in the "Snake Corpse Market" moved along with the market. What was going on now?

Guan Wu and his two disciples Song Yan came to the restaurant after shopping. They wanted to find Master Song to return together, but they were stopped.

Yin Wutai stepped forward and said rather arrogantly: "If you want to go back to the sect, you go first, Junior Brother Song has to come with me."

Guan Wu wanted to ask more questions, but Yin Wutai waved his hand and went back directly.

In the attic, Song Yan watched this scene quietly, and his doubts grew stronger.

It was obvious that Yinwutai was going to imprison him here and let him die.

But what is he waiting for?
Hua Hua Hua.
The pages of "Blood Melting Art" were turned over.

The handwriting was neat and beautiful, and the smell of ink was still there. It looked like it had been recently copied by a servant.

Thinking of the words of the disciple from Blood Corpse Peak, Song Yan suddenly realized: This might not be released intentionally by the Puppet Sect to enhance the status of the "Hantan Valley Market". After all, after this incident, all the cultivators outside knew that this market even sold "Crimson Palace Level Kung Fu".

The influence is naturally very different.

As for the content of the technique, it is rather long-winded, but this is exactly suitable for someone like Song Yan who knows nothing about the "Jiang Palace Realm".

After a careful reading.

Song Yan probably understood.

The essence of the Crimson Palace Realm should be "using powerful external blood to improve one's own life level."

For human beings, the "foundation-building blood" is extremely important.

The foundation-building blood is the first blood taken into the body.

This blood will occupy the core position of the "Three Palaces in the Crimson Palace" in the initial stage of the Crimson Palace. Once confirmed, it cannot be changed unless the realm is abolished and started over again.

In order to ensure safe consumption, each flavor of blood needs to be refined by an "alchemist" with the aid of the magical medicine Xuanhua to remove the toxins and increase its efficacy, so that it becomes the "Jianggong Pill" suitable for consumption by cultivators of the ninth level of Xuan practice.

The higher the level of the external blood, the more complicated the process of refining the Crimson Palace Pill is, and some alchemists have never seen it before, so they can only cross the river by feeling the stones.

Therefore, for the cultivators of the Three Kingdoms, using some "common blood of monsters" to build a foundation is a more stable approach.

But for demons, there are not so many problems.

Because demons don't need blood to build their foundation.

They have their own.

The blood they are born with is the blood of foundation building.

Therefore, there is no distinction between high and low among people, but demons are naturally divided into different levels.

The strength of the life level will naturally make the flesh and blood extremely strong. If one still needs Xuan Qi to maintain invulnerability at the Lianxuan level, then when one reaches the Jianggong level, one will not need Xuan Qi at all and will be able to burst out with powerful strength on his own.

This state is a state of improving "physical strength".

Xuanqi mainly plays a supporting role.

But the effects brought about by different "foreign blood" are also varied.

The "Blood Melting Art" also gives several common examples.

For example, the "Silver-Armored Elephant" is a high-level monster comparable to the ninth level of the Xuan realm. If you use its blood as the blood for building the foundation, you can make your skin extremely hard. If you practice the body-refining techniques of the Jiang Palace level, then it can be said that your entire body is a defensive Xuan treasure.

The tools used for practicing Xuan level are called Xuan tools.

The one at the Crimson Palace level is called Xuanbao.

Another example is "Feng Xuanhe", which uses its foundation-building blood to occupy the core palace, making itself extremely agile. When combined with the ability to hide and be clever, it can come and go without a trace, just like a ghost.

After considering that he was still wearing the "Hanyu Fusheng Bracelet" on his wrist, Song Yan carefully searched for information about "soul" in "Rongxue Jue".

Although there are no visualization diagrams in this booklet, there are indeed instructions.

The exercises say that "the flesh and the soul complement and restrain each other."

Mutual assistance naturally means that strong flesh and blood will also feed back to the soul, making the soul of the existence in the Crimson Palace realm gradually change from "vague and invisible gaseous state" to "liquid state".

However, this transformation does not happen automatically, but requires a "visualization picture" and external objects that can nourish the soul.

Mutual restraint means that a powerful spirit can directly harm a person with weak flesh and blood, and a strong flesh and blood can also directly burn a weak spirit.

The word "evil spirit" is also used as an example here.

Even if a cultivator at the Xuan level enters a "place with dense evil spirit", he still needs to use Xuan Qi to resist the evil spirit at all times, but this is not necessary at all in the Jiang Palace realm.

Seeing this, Song Yan narrowed his eyes slightly.

If the description in the book is correct, the "Hanyu Fusheng Bracelet" is the kind of external object that "nourishes the soul", but this external object was given to him by the old demon Guhuangzi, so there is obviously a big problem.
The reason why the problem has not broken out is simply because he has not triggered the "mechanism".

If we deduce according to the description in the book, strong flesh and blood can burn the weak soul, so, in all likelihood, strong flesh and blood is the "mechanism".

When the blood and flesh reach a certain "threshold", the trap on the "Hanyu Fusheng Bracelet" will erupt, and the old demon Guhuangzi will discover it at the first time.

If he had not died in the trap, the old demon Guhuangzi would have come to "finish the job" immediately as long as he was nearby, putting him in an irretrievable situation.

However, the old demon Guhuangzi gave him this not for the purpose of finishing off the enemy.

Because his apparent level is only the seventh level of Lianxuan.

Song Yan narrowed his eyes and thought for a while. The iron rod he saw after the fog dissipated that day and the soul trapped in the "cage" in the "Hanyu Fusheng Bracelet" flashed through his mind.

Suddenly, he had a rather terrifying guess in his heart: if the "cage" was pyramid-shaped, the "cage" he saw was at the bottom layer to provide him with spiritual nourishment, while he was in the middle layer.
At a certain moment, the fog in the middle layer will dissipate, and he will find himself in a cage. Just like the struggling souls at the bottom, he continuously provides nourishment for the soul of the one at the top.

That person
I'm afraid it's Gu Huangzi.

And that moment.
I’m afraid it will be after I return to the sect this time.

(End of this chapter)