The Path to Immortality: Starting with the Growth of Bubble Fruits from the Ground

That night, Zhou Mu took out a thin booklet from his storage bag.

"I've been eating blood-tooth rice every day for the past two months; it's time to start practicing this technique."

What Zhou Mu held in his hand was the body-refining technique he had exchanged from Steward Liu, the "Ancient Wood True Body".

This first-tier superior body-refining technique is the best one Zhou Mu could obtain; currently, he only has the first three levels.

The cultivation method is simple: use qi and blood as fuel to repeatedly temper the physical body. Each time you break through a level, your qi and blood will transform, and the strength of your physical body will increase accordingly.

When one reaches the ninth level of perfection, their physical body will surpass the limits of the human body, becoming immune to all poisons, possessing immense strength, and indestructible. They will be able to withstand magical artifacts with their bare body and even have certain magical debuff-repelling properties.

"Tsk tsk, as expected of a top-tier technique. Not only can it withstand magical artifacts, but it can also ward off magical attacks!"

After reviewing the general outline, Zhou Mu was repeatedly amazed by the power of this technique.

Zhou Mu's cultivation of body-refining techniques was not only for increasing his combat power, but also for the purpose of establishing his foundation in the future.

For Zhou Mu to establish his foundation, essence, energy, and spirit are all indispensable. With his aptitude, any weakness in any one of them would significantly increase the difficulty of his foundation establishment.

Those single-spiritual-root prodigies and dual-spiritual-root geniuses don't need to go through the trouble that Zhou Mu did. They can easily establish their foundation even without body training.

"Good heavens, this is a bottomless pit! No wonder body-refining cultivators are all rich."

When Zhou Mu rolled to the back, he couldn't help but gasp.

To put it simply, this technique requires transforming one's Qi and blood, and then tempering the physical body. However, to achieve this transformation, one needs to consume spiritual materials from heaven and earth that can increase Qi and blood, and these materials must be of a certain grade, the higher the better.

After reviewing it twice, Zhou Mu estimated in his mind that the resource consumption for body refinement was more than twice that of Qi refinement.

"With my aptitude, if I don't lay a solid foundation, how will I build a foundation in the future? I must learn this technique."

After making up his mind, Zhou Mu immediately stood up and ran to the next room to start a fire and steam rice.

A short while later, Zhou Mu returned to the room carrying a full pot of blood rice and placed it on the table.

Lifting the lid, the aroma of the red and white blood-stained rice filled the air, and even after eating it for two months, Zhou Mu still couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Zhou Mu immediately began to eat heartily, enjoying his meal immensely, and soon finished the entire pot of rice.

"boom……"

After finishing a pot of rice, the energy and blood that had been accumulating for two months suddenly erupted, and a fiery torrent surged through his body.

Zhou Mu quickly sat down cross-legged and began circulating his qi and blood according to the "Ancient Wood True Body".

As the cultivation technique was activated, Zhou Mu's skin gradually turned redder and redder, and his whole body became hotter and hotter. A faint grayish-red blood mist even rose from the surface of his body.

This is a sign that impurities in the body are being eliminated and that the body's Qi and blood are about to undergo their first transformation.

After an incense stick had burned, Zhou Mu's entire body turned bright red and burning hot, with fine blackish-red blood droplets constantly seeping from under his skin, making him look like a blood-soaked figure.

"Not enough, still a little short..."

Zhou Mu gritted his teeth, and with a thought, two 'weak blood and qi' fruits exploded in his dantian.

"boom…"

A massive surge of qi and blood rushed in like a tidal wave, and Zhou Mu felt as if he had fallen into a sea of ​​fire, letting out a painful cry from his throat.

At the same time, Zhou Mu's internal energy and blood began to transform, flowing continuously within his body.

The waste blood discharged from his body surface forms a scab, enveloping his entire body.

Zhou Mu seemed to have transformed into a human-shaped blood jade statue.

"Knock knock knock..."

Zhou Mu's heartbeat began to slow and become muffled, and within the thick scab, a bloody light flickered between light and shadow in rhythm with his heartbeat.

After a night, dawn will break.

"Bang..."

The dark red blood jade statue suddenly exploded, scattering large and small fragments all over the ground.

Zhou Mu opened his eyes and stood up, a series of soft crackling sounds coming from inside his body.

"Luckily, we have the fruit, otherwise it wouldn't have been so easy to break through the first level."

After two months of accumulation and the consumption of two white fruits, Zhou Mu finally broke through the first level of the 'Ancient Wood True Body', and his blood and qi also completed their first transformation.

At this moment, his entire body, inside and out, his internal organs, his skin, muscles, and bones, had been strengthened like never before.

Zhou Mu felt that he was full of power, and even if his magic power was completely exhausted, he would not lose his fighting ability.

Her skin, which was originally rough and dark from years of working in the fields, has become smoother and fairer.

Zhou Mu channeled his magic power and forcefully scratched his forearm with his fingernail, leaving only a thin white mark that disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"Is this the prototype of the ancient tree bark?"

Upon closer inspection, one can see that Zhou Mu has an extra layer of fine, transparent stratum corneum on his skin.

This is the bark of the ancient tree in the first stage of the "True Body of the Ancient Tree". It only needs to be cultivated to the third level to be fully formed.

This technique has two more stages: the roots of the ancient tree and the heart of the ancient tree.

"Go out and give it a try."

Zhou Mu went to a corner of the courtyard and stood next to a blue stone. He clenched his fist and smashed it hard against the stone.

"boom……"

The entire piece of bluestone exploded under Zhou Mu's fist, and the fragments flew everywhere, the largest of which was no bigger than a fist.

"Good, these resources were well spent."

Zhou Mu was overjoyed. Even without using his magic power, he could easily beat someone who was only at the first level of Qi Refining.

In the days that followed, Zhou Mu took care of the spiritual field, and in his spare time, apart from occasionally getting together with Lao Wang and Zhang Ge and his wife, he devoted himself entirely to cultivation.

After absorbing and refining the remaining magic fruit, the magic power required to break through to the fourth level of Qi Refining reached 50%.

Zhou Mu didn't leave the remaining two "weak blood essences" behind; he refined and absorbed them all, along with the assistance of the Blood Fang Rice.

Zhou Mu's speed in body refinement far exceeded that of Qi refinement. Although physical cultivation also requires aptitude, it is not as demanding as Qi refinement.

With sufficient resources, the cultivation speed is exceptionally fast.

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In the blink of an eye, another two months have passed, and it is now the end of the year. Zhou Mu has also spent a full year at the Myriad Paths Sect.

"Wow, time flies! I'm already seventeen in the blink of an eye..."

Looking at the heavy snowfall, Zhou Mu felt a surge of emotion.

"What are you lamenting about? I'm already seventy-seven..."

At this moment, Old Wang's thin face came closer and he said slowly.

"What an old geezer..."

Zhou Mu smiled and shook his head, then turned and walked into the house. A large round table was filled with delicious food, with a copper pot in the middle containing stewed spirit beast meat, the aroma of which filled the entire room.

Zhou Mu, Lao Wang, Wang Ping, Aunt Liu, Brother Zhang, and their daughter Zhang Guanlan sat in a circle.

Zhang Guanlan's eyebrows and eyes look about five-tenths like Aunt Liu's, but her temperament is completely different. She is gentle and elegant, not at all like a ten-year-old girl.

The group sat in a circle, chatting, eating meat and drinking wine, having a great time.

"Come on, tomorrow is the last harvest day of the year. Let's raise a glass together and wish for a bumper harvest every year to come."

Amidst Old Wang's smiling face, six porcelain cups collided in mid-air, exuding joyful bubbles.