Eternal madness

Chapter 206 Advancement to Half-Saint
"defect?"

Xiao Li asked in confusion, "What defect does he have? He's in good health and doesn't have any terminal illness."

"I can see that you've consumed a lot of pills to reach your current level, right? These pills, which you refined yourself, have the greatest effect on your own improvement."

However, taking too many pills can also cause problems. Perhaps your talent has not yet reached its limit, but after reaching the Dou Sheng level, the bottleneck will become more and more solid.

The Medicine Clan is like this; because they consume too many pills, their cultivation level reaches a certain point and they can no longer break through, unless they consume higher-grade ninth-rank pills. But what about the bottleneck after consuming pills?
For example, if there were no changes in the patriarch of the Medicine Clan, he would still be Yao Dan, right? Yao Dan's cultivation level would definitely not exceed that of an eight-star Dou Sheng, because he has consumed too many pills.

Unless he finds the Bodhi Heart or refines a ninth-grade golden elixir, he will never be a nine-star Dou Sheng in this lifetime.

Therefore, your current deficiency is the same. I suggest you undergo a blood transfusion to inherit the Dou Di bloodline of our Xiao clan. Although it is not much, with your nurturing, this Dou Di bloodline is equivalent to a divine bloodline.

It can help you quickly cultivate to the Nine-Star Dou Sheng level.

Xiao Xuan pointed out Xiao Li's shortcomings and then offered his own suggestions.

Xiao Li fell into deep thought; he had indeed considered this question.

"Isn't there any other solution? After I advance to the Dou Sheng realm, can't I improve by taking ninth-grade pills?" Xiao Li asked.

"Ninth-grade pills are certainly possible, but how long can you consume them? With your talent, you could probably become a ninth-grade Xuan Dan master, but ninth-grade Xuan Dan can only be consumed up to the level of an eight-star Dou Sheng, after which it becomes less useful."

To advance from an eight-star Dou Sheng to a nine-star Dou Sheng, one needs a ninth-grade golden core, but a ninth-grade golden core has not appeared for thousands of years.

To refine a ninth-grade golden pill, one must be a ninth-grade golden pill master, but such a level of alchemist has not appeared for thousands of years; at least, there was no ninth-grade golden pill master in my time.

Do you know about the Pill Tower? Back then, the Pill Tower's experts, who were on par with me, Gu Yuan, and the Soul Emperor, were only half-step Golden Core Grandmasters, capable of refining Profound Pills that were close to Golden Core level.

Xiao Xuan meant that unless one reaches the level of a ninth-grade Golden Core Grandmaster, it is impossible to reach the level of a nine-star Dou Sheng by taking pills.

"Ancestor, do you know the prerequisites for refining a ninth-grade golden pill?"

Faced with Xiao Li's question, Xiao Xuan was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "It seems you are already prepared. To refine a ninth-grade golden pill, you need to reach the level of a high-level Dou Sheng, that is, a seven-star Dou Sheng. This is the minimum requirement!"

At the same time, one's soul power must reach the Emperor Realm level. Only an Emperor Realm soul can summon the Nine Profound Golden Thunder. After summoning the Nine Profound Golden Thunder, the alchemist needs to use their own physical body as a hub to transfer the thunderous energy of the Nine Profound Golden Thunder into the pill, drawing the profound into gold!

However, taking the Nine Profound Golden Lightning head-on is far too dangerous. Even the old monster Dan was defeated at this very moment; despite being a nine-star Dou Sheng, he couldn't withstand the violent energy of the Nine Profound Golden Lightning.

Xiao Li suddenly realized that refining a ninth-grade golden pill was like courting death. The eighth-grade nine-colored pill lightning was already so outrageous, and there was also the Black Demon Lightning. The Nine Profound Golden Lightning was no less than the Pure Lotus Demon Flame and the Void Devouring Flame.

Trying to withstand the Nine Profound Golden Thunder with one's own body is just courting death, isn't it?
"I understand, but I still refuse to inherit the Dou Di bloodline. Let's leave it to a more outstanding successor. It would be a waste to keep it on me," Xiao Li said, still refusing.

From Xiao Li's perspective, Xiao Yan and Yao Lao are now a complete pair. He was even worried that Yao Lao might perish due to some unforeseen event, so he prepared a Spirit Fusion Pill for Yao Lao in advance to stabilize his soul.

The combination of anti-inflammatory drugs is about to begin. In just over thirty years, Xiao Li will be completely free. For him, he only needs to endure another thirty years before he can be free.

Xiao Li had already died once, so he cherished his life even more. Therefore, he was unwilling to take that risk. He planned to return to the Xiao family and train Xiao Yan to make him stronger than in the original timeline!

"Who said there's only one Dou Di bloodline?" Xiao Xuan said with a faint smile. Then, a drop of red blood suddenly appeared in Xiao Li's hand. Xiao Xuan pointed his finger and injected the drop of blood into Xiao Li's body.

This drop of blood contained considerable energy, and upon entering Xiao Li's body, it went straight to his heart. Boom—

Xiao Li felt his blood burning, responding to that drop of blood.

"Ancestor, this is it!" Xiao Li felt his blood boiling.

"Of course it's the Dou Di bloodline. Since you don't accept the complete Dou Di bloodline inheritance, I naturally respect your choice, but I never said that the Dou Di bloodline inheritance is only for one person."

Xiao Xuan smiled, then pointed his finger, and a strange soul power entered Xiao Li's mind.

"This is a secret technique I created. Using this drop of Dou Di bloodline as the foundation, it gradually activates the Dou Di bloodline within your body. You can use Dou Qi to nurture it or use different flames to nurture it. This drop of Dou Di bloodline will become stronger and stronger over time."

"Once it reaches a certain point, it will activate the Dou Di bloodline within you. Unfortunately, this is a method I only thought of after my death. If I had thought of it earlier, I might not have had to take this risk."

Xiao Xuan sighed and said that he had studied the Dou Di bloodline back then, but he had always failed. However, he had still achieved some results, using a drop of divine-grade bloodline as a foundation to completely activate the Dou Di bloodline in his body.

This process is not particularly risky; the worst-case scenario is simply losing a single drop of divine-grade blood.

Xiao Li had some secret techniques about blood circulation in his mind. He quickly formed hand seals and used his internal fighting spirit to guide the drop of blood. Then he used his fighting spirit to guide his heart, causing a special fluctuation that made the blood in his whole body resonate.

"Ancestor, do you have any more advanced energy cores?" Xiao Li asked anxiously, opening his eyes. He had just experienced some special insights.

"Here are the energy cores from those two Soul Clan bastards." Xiao Xuan tossed two fist-sized energy cores to Xiao Li.

Xiao Li held it in his hand, then took out a cold jade box from his storage ring, opened it, and inside lay a sleeping squirrel.

With a flick of his hand, Xiao Li transformed the squirrel into a pill. He then swallowed the pill and focused on two things at once: circulating his cultivation technique to absorb the energy from the energy core, and using a bloodline secret technique to resonate the Dou Di bloodline with his own bloodline.

"This is the Bodhi Pill? This little guy is actually going to break through to the Half-Saint realm at this time?" Xiao Xuan asked in surprise.

"Breaking through to the Half-Saint realm?" Pei Yuhan, Pei Yurou, and Xiao Ting all came over, watching Xiao Li enter into deep cultivation.

"Ancestor, what's going on? Why is Xiao Li about to break through to the Half-Saint realm? Isn't he only a Fourth-Rank Dou Zun?" Pei Yurou asked.

Xiao Xuan pondered for a moment: "Perhaps this Dou Di bloodline contains a trace of my power. He comprehended the Saint Realm through this trace of power. In fact, the path of becoming a Saint through nine revolutions is a process of quantitative change leading to qualitative change."

If one has enough luck, one can advance directly from the peak of Dou Zun to Half-Saint without compressing Dou Qi nine times. That's how I did it back then. There are even those who directly skipped the Half-Saint level and advanced to Dou Sheng in one fell swoop.

Have you ever heard of the Heavenly Crippled Sword Saint? He received a great opportunity back then, directly advancing from the peak of Dou Zun to Dou Sheng, skipping the Half-Saint level.

Everyone nodded. Simply put, Xiao Li comprehended the Saint Realm through that drop of Dou Di bloodline. This kind of comprehension is rare and hard to come by. Many peak-stage Nine-Turn Dou Zun are just one level short of this level of comprehension.

Xiao Xuan clasped his hands in a fist and then looked at the other three: "Xiao Li will probably need to go into seclusion for a while. I will guide your cultivation from now on and teach you some Xiao Clan fighting techniques. You can ask me anything you don't understand."

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)