Junior sister, I really need to control you

Ultimately, the foundation of body cultivation lies in qi and blood.

Other approaches often involve first strengthening one or several parts of the body, and then replenishing and strengthening the body's Qi and blood.

The Blood Refining School, on the other hand, directly strengthens the Qi and blood, which then nourishes the entire body, including tendons, bones, skin, organs, and meridians. Every part of the body benefits, and even the hair becomes stronger and more resilient than others.

While the path of bone refining also includes tempering bone marrow to strengthen qi and blood, it ultimately cannot compare to the true blood refining school.

Of course, blood refining is therefore the most difficult and slowest to progress among all body refining styles, and thus it is not the mainstream.

Of the many cultivation techniques he had just reviewed, only the "Five Chariots and Three Ascensions to Life Technique" was a technique that focused on refining blood. In terms of both its purpose and power, it was subtly a level stronger than the techniques of other schools.

Unfortunately, it can only be studied as a main practice, not as a secondary practice, and it is clearly stated that the cultivation process is slow and practitioners need perseverance.

"This True Blood Secret Manual is in no way inferior to the Five Chariots and Three Transformations Life-Sustaining Technique, it just seems to be a bit slower to cultivate..."

"However, this True Blood Manual can refine essence blood into true blood in addition to tempering qi and blood, so it can be considered a double benefit."

According to the description, one drop of true blood can be as beneficial to one's own qi and blood as three drops of essence blood. Moreover, when it is necessary to consume essence blood, using true blood as a substitute is not only more effective but also causes less damage to the body, and even recovery is faster.

"And most importantly, when this technique is practiced to a high level, it can even increase the upper limit of one's essence blood... no, it should be called the upper limit of one's true blood." Li Yinsheng nodded in satisfaction.

Essence and blood are the foundation of a person's vital energy. Generally speaking, a cultivator who does not cultivate his body has only a dozen or so drops of essence and blood in his body. Losing even one drop will severely damage his vital energy, and losing more will shorten his lifespan.

Unless the right rare and precious materials are found, it will be difficult to make up for it in this lifetime.

Body cultivators will have significantly more essence and blood, but it's usually only a few hundred drops, and it's equally precious, as it relates to their strength, lifespan, and foundation.

The true blood cultivated from the True Blood Secret Manual is not only more useful than essence blood, but also easier to recover, and even more abundant than the essence blood of ordinary body cultivators.

According to the cultivation manual, the True Blood Secret Manual has twelve levels. Cultivating to the third level yields nearly a thousand drops of true blood, while cultivators at the ninth level can have true blood accounting for up to 10% of their total blood and qi.

For ordinary cultivators, burning their essence blood is a life-threatening act, but for cultivators who have cultivated the True Blood Scripture to a high level, burning it occasionally for fun is not unacceptable.

However, this technique has both significant advantages and major disadvantages.

The True Blood Manual repeatedly emphasizes that one must use "pure" blood and qi to refine essence and blood. This means that many medicinal herbs and pills commonly used by body cultivators to aid in body tempering cannot be used in the True Blood Manual.

Because true blood is purer than semen, it allows almost no impurities.

Body cultivators are already slow to cultivate, and if they are not allowed to use medicinal herbs to help them, it will only make matters worse.

Of course, it's not completely unusable—

The cultivation method specifically lists some precious medicinal herbs and rare treasures that can be used, but even the cheapest of these listed items costs tens of thousands of talismans.

If I had to put it into words, this method is "either don't use any medicine, or use expensive medicine"; cheap medicine is absolutely out of the question.

Under these circumstances, practicing this skill becomes exceptionally slow.

As for slow... so be it. In that dilapidated place, time was the one thing he had no shortage of.

Having chosen his cultivation method, Li Yinsheng simply sat down cross-legged on the spot, carefully read through the introductory chapter of the "True Blood Secret Manual" several times, and then began to cultivate in meditation.

This cultivation was even more difficult than when he had just tried to use the Blood Refining Pivot to assist in tempering his Qi and blood.

At that time, he only needed to cultivate the Pure Profound Scripture while enduring the burning pain. It couldn't even be considered multitasking; it was just a test of his endurance and tranquility.

But now he has to practice the Pure Profound Scripture while guiding his refined blood and qi to circulate using the methods of the True Blood Secret Manual, which is truly multitasking.

Moreover, while doing two things at once, he still had to endure the burning pain.

Just two hours later, Li Yinsheng opened his somewhat tired eyes.

With his current level of cultivation, although he cannot go without sleep forever, he can certainly stay refreshed for several days without sleep.

But after only two hours of practice, he felt physically and mentally exhausted.

This was only because he had honed his tranquility for countless years in that broken cave where he received the reward; otherwise, he certainly wouldn't have been able to endure even an hour.

However, all this trouble was worthwhile.

His "True Blood Manual" has truly reached the first level, and he has already refined a drop of essence blood into true blood.

Although the Blood Refining Technique is slow to cultivate, he has the foundation laid by the first three levels of the Pure Profound Scripture, with abundant vital energy and vigorous blood. Therefore, it is only a matter of time before he can complete the first level. Two hours will be enough.

However, at the same time, he couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

Although the first three levels of the Qingxuan True Scripture are not all about tempering the body and refining qi and blood, the foundation accumulated in these three levels is only enough for him to officially complete the first level of the True Blood Secret Scripture.

This True Blood Manual is indeed quite difficult to master.

Moreover, after this training, the foundation accumulated by the Qingxuan True Scripture has been completely transformed into the True Blood Secret Manual, so subsequent training will proceed at a normal pace.

It would be quite optimistic to think that the second level could be completed within five years.

Li Yinsheng scratched his head.

He felt a tingling and itchy sensation on his scalp.

He knew why; the opening of the True Blood Manual reminded cultivators that "hair is the remainder of blood."

Once the first level of the True Blood Manual is completed and the first drop of true blood is obtained, the qi and blood will undergo a preliminary qualitative change. This will be reflected in the body by making the hair thicker, darker, and stronger.

That's why he had this tingling sensation on his scalp.

The True Blood Manual also says that there is no need to panic in this situation. You will get used to it after a few hours or days and will not feel anything anymore.

"Hmm... I'm a little tired now, but not really sleepy... and my hair is itchy, so I can't fall asleep even if I want to."

Li Yinsheng scratched his head and glanced at the sky, which was beginning to lighten with the first hint of dawn.

"Forget it, it's almost dawn. I can't sleep anyway, so I'll go wake my junior sister up and guide her in her cultivation!" Li Yinsheng got up from his cross-legged position and stretched.

"She just started using the Qi Refining Lock, so she needs to practice a lot to get used to it as quickly as possible!"

He didn't know when the next task would be issued by the cheat system. If he didn't have any new aspirations for cultivation, he would have to start thinking about earning money from talismans.

The next tier of 30,000 talisman coins corresponds to a reward of twenty years of cultivation.

If he cultivates for another twenty years, he will definitely be able to break through to the ninth level of the Pure Profound True Scripture, and the True Blood Secret Manual can also reach the third or even the fourth level.

……

Meanwhile, in Mu Xiaoyu's bedroom.

Mu Xiaoyu, who was fast asleep with her blanket in her arms, suddenly shivered in her dream for no reason.

Then he sneezed loudly again.

Still asleep, she rubbed her nose and drifted back into a sweet, warm dream.

In her dream, her cultivation soared to the heavens, rising from a nominal disciple to a formal disciple. She was then accepted as a true disciple by a reclusive master in the temple, becoming the senior sister revered by all the disciples. Finally, after overcoming numerous hardships, she became the abbot of Xuanzhen Temple.

Then, as the abbot, she ordered that strict and bad senior brother to cultivate for six hours every day!

Six hours!

Hahahaha!

Chapter 14 A New Ambition in Cultivation: Becoming the Abbot!

At noon, the sun was blazing overhead.

"Huff...ha...huff..."

As Mu Xiaoyu panted heavily, she threw a punch, a few drops of hot sweat flicking from her sweat-soaked sleeves.

She had never felt so tired.

Yesterday, the Quenching Yuan Lock weighed only 70 jin, but today the bad senior brother adjusted it to 80 jin.

After being woken from her sweet dream in the morning, she had only practiced for a little over half an hour when she was already drenched in sweat.

Li Yinsheng even used his magic to move a large vat filled with cool well water so that Mu Xiaoyu, who sweats a lot, could drink water at any time.

Unfortunately, this thoughtfulness did not earn Mu Xiaoyu's gratitude, but only her despairing glare.

"Alright, take a Nourishing Essence Pill and rest for a bit. Junior Sister, your breathing is a little disordered."

Li Yinsheng, who was meditating on a futon, opened his eyes and spoke.

There was also a thin layer of sweat on his forehead.

With his current cultivation level, he was naturally not afraid of the scorching sun. However, when he cultivated, his Blood Refining Pivot tempered his blood and qi. The heat and burning pain that filled his body was not an illusion, but rather the influence of the Bing Fire Qi. Naturally, he would sweat.

Mu Xiaoyu immediately sat down on the ground, panting heavily, completely ignoring the dirt and dust on the ground.

Li Yinsheng raised his hand, and a futon flew to Mu Xiaoyu's side and landed.

Mu Xiaoyu struggled to climb onto the prayer mat and continued to sit slumped down.

"Junior sister, would you like some snacks?" Li Yinsheng asked, his eyes closed as he rested.

"Um, senior brother, I want to eat dried dates," Mu Xiaoyu said, panting.

Li Yinsheng took out a few dried jujubes from his Qiankun bag and made them float in front of Mu Xiaoyu, who reached out and took them.

Magical artifacts all require magical power to control, and the Qiankun Bag is no exception.

Although Li Yinsheng had already had Mu Xiaoyu bind her Qiankun Bag to him with her blood, even with the binding, it still couldn't be opened without magic power.

Therefore, apart from keeping some of her snacks in her own room, most of them were still stored with Li Yinsheng, and she would ask Li Yinsheng for them when she wanted to eat them.

This is also one of the reasons why Mu Xiaoyu is still cultivating quite diligently at this moment.

If she breaks through to the second level of the Qingxuan True Scripture as soon as possible, she will not only be able to control the Quenching Yuan Lock within her body, which constantly burdens her, but she will also be able to take out snacks from her Qiankun Bag at any time.

While chewing on dried dates, Mu Xiaoyu glared at Li Yinsheng, who was resting with his eyes closed.

Damn it! Why can my senior brother meditate and cultivate, but she has to stand in a stance and practice boxing every day!

Parents, you tricked me! You sent me up the mountain not so I could cultivate immortality, but I've been practicing martial arts all day!

"Junior sister, why are you staring at me like that?" Li Yinsheng, who had been resting with his eyes closed, suddenly spoke up.

If her body hadn't been still sore and weak, Mu Xiaoyu would have almost jumped off the futon.

The dried jujube she had swallowed halfway got stuck in her throat, causing her to cough. She patted her chest twice, then got up and went to the water tank to drink a big mouthful of water before it finally went down.

"Senior...Senior brother, weren't your eyes closed?" Mu Xiaoyu, who was leaning on the edge of the water vat, looked at Li Yinsheng and asked timidly.

“Cultivators who possess magical power also possess divine sense, allowing them to perceive the things around them.”

"That's amazing?" Mu Xiaoyu stuffed another dried date into her mouth and mumbled, "If I had divine sense, I wouldn't have been caught so often when I skipped school as a child. Divine sense is so convenient."

“Divine sense is indeed convenient,” Li Yinsheng laughed. “For example, if you want to slack off while cultivating, I can detect it immediately.”