After 100 years of leatherworking, I have become a giant in the magic sect.

Chapter 80 79. Breaking the Boundary, Breaking the Cage (4.6K words - please subscribe)
Hantan Valley Market Square, Restaurant
Song Yan sat upright in the formation, concentrating on comprehending.

During the life span calculation, the message of "death" kept "flooding the screen".

The shortest duration may be a few breaths of life, the longest may be an hour.

But as the number of successes increased, the essence and blood of the "Tiger King Clan" was also being absorbed rapidly.

After consuming a full year of his life and dying nearly ten thousand times, Song Yan finally absorbed the essence and blood of the "tiger clan".

This is still based on his foundation of the ninth level of the Xuan realm. It is conceivable that if an ordinary ninth level Xuan realm encounters this kind of essence and blood, he will probably die as soon as he touches it.

The "Jiang Palace Pill" is also a must-have pill for every ordinary human cultivator who wants to enter the "Jiang Palace Realm".

Who can die tens of thousands of times like him?

[After absorbing the blood essence of the Tiger King, you feel the blood in your body boiling. You quickly practice the remaining chapters of the Blood Fusion Technique, absorbing the profound energy from the surroundings while stirring up the profound energy in your Dantian.]

[The profound energy in Dantian was like a meteor falling, and the profound energy surged into the sky. Every strand of it rushed towards the foreign essence and blood, trying to absorb and digest it.]

[However, the accumulation of Xuan Qi at the ninth level of Lian Xuan is not enough to complete such a task. You have no choice but to continue to absorb Xuan Qi from the outside world. At this time, you find that your body, which was originally unable to accumulate any Xuan Qi, can now do so.]

[You sensed that the concentration of Xuan Qi in the market of Hantan Valley was several times less than that of Zhiren Peak, but considering that you might have to escape this time, you did not use the 59 Xuan crystals in your storage bag. However, you took out some of the remaining Daxuan Lingdan as consumption for this practice.]

[Even though it is a fragment of the "Blood Fusion Art", the efficiency of absorbing the profound energy is far better than the exercises at the profound level. You absorb the profound energy quickly, and then repeat the boring capture of external blood essence, and according to the "Blood Fusion Art", practice the method to gather it in the center of the Crimson Palace.]

[The center palace of the Crimson Palace is the core of the heart. The essence and blood of a person are pumped out from here and gathered here.]

[In the first year, you absorbed 30 strands of profound energy and successfully digested a strand of blood essence from the Tiger Clan]

[In the first hundred years, you absorbed a total of 3000 strands of profound energy, and the essence and blood of the 'Tiger King Clan' were completely integrated into your body, located in the center of the Crimson Palace, and merged with your essence and blood.

As your heart beats, your strengthened blood and essence rapidly transform your body. Although this process has already occurred during your previous training, it was not orderly. Now you need time to sort out your blood and essence and readapt to your new body.

You can feel that this is very different from the blood transfusion at the Lianxuan level. At that time, the blood transfusion was still shackled by the human race itself, and it was just the purification of the bloodline. But now. Your life level has been improved.]

[In the 101st year, you feel as if you were reborn, and your flesh and blood body has undergone earth-shaking changes]

[You have entered the early stage of the Crimson Palace Realm]

[In the early stage of the Crimson Palace, you need to use external blood to fill the three palaces in the Crimson Palace. After they are complete, you can move forward. After you fill the center palace at the core, you also need the left and right palaces.]

Song Yan slowly opened his eyes.

He recalled some information he had heard at the previous "Exchange Meeting". Most of the cultivators in the Three Kingdoms used the blood of high-level monsters at the Lianxuan level to fill the "three palaces of the early stage of the Crimson Palace".

He could do that, after all, there was still a place in Hantan Valley Market that sold high-level monster blood.

And as long as he did this, he could immediately fill up the "Early Stage of the Crimson Palace".

It’s just like “it doesn’t matter what kind of water you fill the bottle with, just fill it up.”

As for what happens later, the seller is not responsible at all.

The central palace requires essence and blood, while the left and right palaces only need ordinary blood. Even if essence and blood are put in, it will only have the effect of "ordinary blood". This is called "the assistant of the monarch and his ministers".

But even if it was the left and right palaces, he didn't want to be so casual.

As for the training time
If he had the "Small Mysterious Liquid Pill" which was more advanced than the "Big Mysterious Spirit Pill", and had the sect's Crimson Palace Realm cultivation method which was more advanced than the remaining fragments of "Blood Melting Art", and he was practicing in the core of the Ghostly Land, no, even in the Paper Man Peak Cave, it would be ten times faster than it is now, and it is not impossible that he would be more than ten times faster.

Coupled with the desperate use of the "Confucian Mysterious Jade", a hundred years may only take less than ten years.

'But the conditions are not met'

Song Yan sighed softly.

It was impossible for him to run to the evil land or Paper Man Peak to make another breakthrough now.

However, being able to make up for the lack of external conditions with "lifespan" is also his greatest advantage.

Song Yan no longer dwelled on these things. He quickly realized the changes around him and quickly understood the "Jiang Palace Realm" from his own physical condition.

First is the soul.

Although the soul cannot leave the body, Song Yan has practiced many spells related to the soul, so he can still feel it.

That is a ball of energy, the "weak princess" hiding behind the "castle of flesh and blood".

The essence of "Soul Searching" is to break through the "enemy's castle of flesh and blood", then use one's own soul to enter the opponent's "castle of flesh and blood", and directly capture the "weak princess" for interrogation.

But this "princess" is too weak. She will be completely confused if she is hit a few times. Therefore, ordinary people will become demented if their souls are searched.

It's not so bad for those at the Lianxuan level, as long as the "soul searcher" is careful, the soul will be damaged but not necessarily become dementia.

As for "Ghost Returns", the method is to use evil spirit to attack the opponent's body, then abduct the opponent's soul back to one's side, and then add new information and send it back.

But once you enter the Crimson Palace Realm, your spirit becomes stronger and more solid, just like changing from a gas to a liquid. You can stir it, but you can't blow it away easily. If you want to use the Soul Searching Technique on a cultivator in the Crimson Palace Realm, you must be prepared to be counterattacked before death.

A cultivator in the Crimson Palace Realm can mobilize his own spirit and soul to stab you fiercely. In serious cases, it will make you demented, and in minor cases, it will cause you a soul wound.

So, if nothing unexpected happens, in the fight in "Crimson Palace Realm", this series of spells based on "Soul Searching" is half useless.
The second is the body.

The powerful force of flesh and blood brought about a terrifying burning blood energy.

Song Yan mobilized his essence and blood and gathered them in his palm, which suddenly turned red, like a furnace molten iron.

His eyes turned and fell on a small copper stove in the inn's wing.

He took it quickly and held the copper furnace with his five fingers.

All of a sudden, there was a continuous hissing sound, high temperature rose, and a pungent smell dissipated, but fortunately it was restrained in the formation.

The patterns on the surface of the copper furnace soon became blurred, and the hard copper surface melted into liquid like ice meeting a soldering iron, leaving behind several sticky, wire-like fingerprints.

Immediately afterwards, a drop of molten copper metal rolled down Song Yan's fingers to the back of his hand.

Song Yan clasped his hands together and rubbed them.

In the blink of an eye, the copper furnace had turned into a ball of molten metal.

Song Yan shaped it at will, then collected his Qi and blood, and the copper furnace turned into the shape of a flying knife made by a "novice blacksmith".

Song Yan looked at the flying knife he had made and immediately understood.

'The Crimson Palace realm exists. Once the Qi and blood are mobilized, the temperature of a certain part of the body surface can be as high as a furnace, and then you can rub weapons with your hands. However, the initial stage of the Crimson Palace is obviously just ordinary fire, and what can be rubbed are only ordinary weapons.'

After casually putting away the flying knife, Song Yan began to test other strengths of his body.

He remembered that different "foreign blood" brought about various effects.

So what effect does this "blood of the tiger clan" have?
Although he has not yet mastered any magic in the Crimson Palace Realm, he can still understand the basic effect of the "Blood of the Tiger King".

With a thought, the essence and blood in the body moved with the mysterious energy and gathered in the arms. Black stripes suddenly appeared on the arms, interspersed on the body surface, like the stripes of a white tiger, or like strange chains.

This reminded him of the mysterious colorful black shadow he saw in Grandma Fox's "treasure room" that day.

The black stripes on his body at this moment were just like the colorful patterns on the black shadow's body.

But the difference is that the texture of the black shadow seems to be moving, like a cursed ghost crawling.

But his is static.

Song Yan couldn't help but think about it.

This new level of life makes him feel like “a newborn baby taking its first steps and figuring out what it can do.”

Bang!
Bang!
Bang bang!

Song Yan was thinking, he could feel that these patterns should be "soul-binding", and they had a terrifying inhibitory effect on souls that had lost the protection of flesh and blood, especially ghosts like ghosts.

The demons of the "Tiger King Clan", no matter how young they are, should be a natural nemesis to the soul.

But his thoughts were interrupted by an indescribable sense of danger. His heart suddenly jumped.

Although he was not wearing the "Cold Prison Life Bracelet" on his hand, he could still feel extremely cold.

The coldness was like a dead man's hand clasping his wrist, getting tighter and tighter.

"Sure enough, the strengthening of flesh and blood will stimulate the 'Cold Prison Floating Life Bracelet', thus causing backlash."

Although Song Yan's heart beat faster, he was not nervous because he had expected this scene.

He had to face it!

The next moment, his eyes suddenly blurred, and a trace of cold and gloomy energy rose from below.

In the cages at his feet, men, women, young and old, all with their faces raised in hideous expressions, twisted and painful, stretching out their hands to call for help.

The surrounding environment was filled with a vast gray fog that made people feel extremely uncomfortable.

The increase in his blood energy was like casting a flame into the dark and hazy ice fog. In an instant, the ice fog condensed and his vision became clear.
Song Yan saw the environment around him.

The many men, women, old and young under his feet also saw him as the fog dissipated. They all showed a look of shock, and then screamed hysterically with resentment, and then floated into the air. The dark fog and iron bars that had originally served as an obstacle seemed to have lost their effect.

The ghost stared at Song Yan, as if wanting to tear him to pieces!
Around him, there were extremely thick iron bars forming a square cage, which bound him inside the cage. He was lying on his back, facing a pair of ferocious and greedy faces looking down at him.

Gu Huangzi flew towards Hantan Valley market again.

He has already notified the senior members of the sect who are still in Hantan Valley to start the formation in time and defend Hantan Valley.

Along the way, he saw many bodies of people who had died tragically, including monks, ordinary people, and many people who were trembling in fear but managed to survive.

After a casual check, Gu Huangzi was stunned.

Grandma Fox's surprise attack was very unexpected, but as time went on, its purpose gradually became known.

"We must dig three feet deep to find Song Yan!"

"Where is Song Yan?!"

“Song Yan!!!”

"Sly little thief!"

Gu Huangzi was really shocked as he felt the information he got from searching souls one by one.

Why did Grandma Fox kill Shi Zuoweng first and then look for Song Yan?
And you seem to be in such a hurry?

What is going on here?

Although Gu Huangzi didn't understand, he felt more and more the importance of Song Yan. Fortunately, he had asked Yin Wutai to keep an eye on the boy and retreat in advance, while Grandma Hu would be attracted by the opening of the large formation in Hantan Valley Market.

When he returns to Paper Man Peak this time, he will imprison that kid completely.

As for that kid running away, that's impossible.

He placed two tracking bans and also tied the boy up and put him into the "Ice Hell" in advance.

The famous "Ice Hell" was the masterpiece of a leader of the Puppet Sect who was good at refining treasures. With the help of the "Ice Hell", the leader killed many people in the sect, dominated the Three Kingdoms, occupied the Xuanmai, and established the core position of the Puppet Sect as the overlord of the Three Kingdoms.

It’s a pity that “Ice Hell” was destroyed in an accident.

The later leader of the Machinery Peak used the damaged "Ice Hell" as the base material and worked on it for a long time before repairing it, or it could be said to be a high-quality imitation.

This fake fell into the hands of his master.

Ice Hell, four items in one set, which are four bracelets.

The lower three bracelets are named "Cold Prison Floating Life Bracelet". Each bracelet is made of souls and can imprison many souls inside, constantly nourishing the soul of the person holding the bracelet.

Most of these souls are the souls of disciples at the Lianxuan level, either from independent cultivators, from other sects, or from their own sect.
Above the three bracelets, there is a main bracelet named “Ice Hell Bracelet”, which is exactly the bracelet that his master held back then.

The three lower bracelets are used to imprison the soul and nourish the body, but everything they absorb must be offered to the holder of the main bracelet.

Gu Huangzi saw through this and knew that if he didn't fight back, he would become food for his master.

So he took the opportunity to betray his teacher and ancestors.

Now, the situation has changed, and it is his turn to bestow the "Hanyu Fusheng Bracelet", and one of them was given to Song Yan.

As the former owner of the "Hanyu Fusheng Bracelet", Gu Huangzi naturally knew the horror of this bracelet and had absolute confidence in it.

Back then, he tried to kill his master, but after finding a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, he still managed to succeed after surviving many dangers.

How could Song Yan have the ability to break the impasse?

Even if he escaped thousands of miles away, as long as he was still in the "Ice Hell", he would be his Gu Huangzi's person in life and his Gu Huangzi's ghost in death.

Just as he was thinking about it, Gu Huangzi suddenly felt a burning sensation on his wrist.

He peered inside his soul and looked into the icy hell, only to see that something was wrong with the cage where "Song Yan" was.

The dark fog was dispelled by the burning blood, revealing a bright path that could be seen from top to bottom.

"Jiang Palace?"

The expression on Gu Huangzi's face suddenly froze.

And in the other place where his shadow puppet boat appeared was the great elder of Nanwu Jianmen who was escaping in the light.

He said sternly, "Great Elder, let's get on board and have a chat."

The rainbow light swirled and landed on the empty boat.

The elder frowned and said: "If we don't hurry on now, what else can we do?"

Before he finished speaking, he saw Gu Huangzi's expression change drastically.

In that icy hell, the upper and lower cages were opened at the same time, and the rumbling and whistling sound made people's souls ache. It was as if a vortex was formed in the ground, and all of them went towards the cage on the third floor.

The ghosts at the bottom flew away one by one, their faces no longer full of resentment, but fear, like a centipede seeing a rooster, or a rabbit seeing a tiger, it was a natural fear.
Gu Huangzi was also so frightened that he suddenly withdrew the wisp of his soul stationed in the "Ice Hell Bracelet", then stood in the distance in doubt, and looked into the bracelet again, only to see that Song Yan's cage was empty, and the hundreds of wronged souls under Song Yan's cage that provided nourishment for his soul were also gone.

He looked at the elder angrily and asked sternly, "Who is Song Yan?"

The Great Elder was a little confused by the question.

Seeing his appearance, Gu Huangzi said coldly: "He broke into the Crimson Palace and also broke my restriction!"

Great Elder: ? ? ?

The top cultivators from both the good and evil sects of the three kingdoms looked at each other, and then thought of the fox lady who was looking for Song Yan like crazy, and their hearts were all moved.

The elder said in a deep voice: "You must have watched him to death, right?"

Gu Huangzi did not hide it at this time and said directly: "I asked one of my disciples to watch him, and then evacuated the market of Hantan Valley in advance. But since he broke through the Jiang Palace Realm, my disciple must have died. Now, I don't know where he is."

The elder pondered for a moment and said, "To be honest, it was because you accepted him as a disciple and said that he was a spy from my Nanwu Sword Sect that we went to investigate him. In fact, there is no file of this person in my sect's records. I thought he was a hidden man."

Gu Huangzi was stunned for a moment, his face full of uncertainty, and then he said in a cold voice: "Then find him first!"

huh~~~
It seemed as if Song Yan took a deep breath, and the cage of horrible ghosts were swallowed up one after another.

Looking at the arms, the dark patterns had turned into blurry spots, and each pattern seemed to be wriggling like a crawling evil spirit.

His mind moved and his qi and blood mobilized.

Under his left arm, the last tracking restriction left by Gu Huangzi disappeared instantly after being burned.

(End of this chapter)