Junior sister, I really need to control you.

Inside the grotto.

Li Yinsheng sat cross-legged on the white jade platform, slowly opened his eyes, and two divine lights flashed in his eyes.

This period of seclusion is nearing its end. He has gained a total of ninety-four years of cultivation and has completed the deduction of more than ten kinds of formations recorded in the Yin-Yang Cave Profound Formation.

He now possesses three hundred years of cultivation.

Li Yinsheng rubbed his temples—as his cultivation level improved, it seemed he was facing more and more problems.

Before this seclusion, Qingxuan Zhenjing had already reached the limit of twelve levels and could no longer advance to the next level.

Although it does not currently affect the improvement of cultivation level and the growth of magical power, once further breakthroughs are impossible, the qualitative change in magical power brought about by breakthroughs in cultivation techniques will be lost.

Although his magical power is much stronger than before his seclusion, its quality has only increased slightly, and the improvement is not significant.

With his current cultivation level, the Qingxuan True Scripture, while not yet hindering his cultivation, is already somewhat lagging behind.

Fortunately, the power of the Qingxuan True Scripture is neutral and peaceful. If the Baozhao Scripture can be found in the future, or other better Qi-refining techniques can be obtained, it will not be difficult to switch to it.

Moreover, although the Qingxuan True Scripture has reached its peak, the True Blood Secret Manual has not yet reached its limit.

The True Blood Secret Scripture, like the Pure Profound True Scripture, has twelve levels, but each level has much higher requirements for cultivation.

Before he went into seclusion, his True Blood Scripture was at the eighth level, close to the ninth level.

After improving his cultivation for less than five years, he naturally reached the ninth level of the True Blood Scripture.

However, after ninety years of cultivation, he only managed to push the True Blood Scripture to the eleventh level.

This was only because he had a strong foundation in cultivation, which indirectly reduced the difficulty of breaking through the True Blood Scripture; otherwise, he would probably still be stuck at the tenth level.

No wonder body cultivators are rare in the cultivation world, even fewer than sword cultivators.

For a body cultivator, not being as handsome as a sword cultivator is just a minor drawback; the real fatal flaw is that cultivation is too slow.

Even if body cultivation has many advantages, the sheer difficulty of cultivation is enough to deter most cultivators.

On the other hand, even though cultivation is so difficult, the fact that body cultivators have not fallen to the bottom tier of cultivators like ancient cultivators is enough to prove their strength.

Li Yinsheng formed a sword with his fingers and lightly drew it across the surface of the lake in front of him.

It was not a sword technique, but a strike from a body cultivator who had activated his qi and blood. The lake surface was cleaved open by the overwhelming force of the qi, creating a waterway over a hundred feet long and nearly ten feet deep that remained open for a long time.

Li Yinsheng nodded in satisfaction.

Although he wasn't a sword cultivator, he did look somewhat like one.

The True Blood Secret Manual states that a human body contains 129,600 drops of mortal blood, which equals the number of Yuanhui (a unit of time in Chinese astrology).

When the True Blood Secret Manual reaches the ninth level, one-tenth of the cultivator's mortal blood is transformed into true blood.

After that, with each advancement to the next level, one-tenth of the mortal blood will be transformed into true blood.

Now, 30% of Li Yinsheng's mortal blood has been transformed into true blood, and his muscles, bones, skin, flesh, internal organs, and other organs have undergone several transformations.

Moreover, the True Blood Scripture gains an additional miraculous effect at the ninth level.

At the cost of consuming an enormous amount of essence and blood in one breath, cultivators condense their true blood into precious armor and weapons, which are extremely powerful.

According to the True Blood Manual, weapons formed from true blood are far more powerful than ordinary magical treasures, and armor formed from true blood is also indestructible.

In a sense, although Li Yinsheng did not yet possess any magical artifacts, he had the means to deal with them when necessary.

However, such a secret technique greatly depletes one's true blood, so it is not a method that can be used casually.

However, compared to the secret technique itself, Li Yinsheng was more concerned that after using 30% of the true blood, the effect of the Blood Refining Pivot seemed somewhat insufficient.

The Blood Refining Sect uses the Qi of Bing Fire to temper the Qi and blood when cultivators circulate their energy.

However, for Li Yinsheng at this moment, with 30% of his true blood already in his body, the tempering of the Bing Fire Qi is no longer so effective.

If a better cultivation artifact than the Blood Refining Pivot cannot be used, the already slow cultivation of the True Blood Scripture will likely become even slower in the future.

Li Yinsheng immediately decided that once the matter of Huangzhu Temple was over, he would go to Zhulu Temple to ask if there were any better cultivation tools.

I bought the Blood Refining Pivot from a shop in the Forging Furnace Temple. If I want a better magic weapon of the same kind, it's unlikely I'll be able to find one in a shop that only sells ordinary items. I'll have to go directly to the Forging Furnace Temple.

Moreover, he also wanted to refine his junior sister's black stone into a high-grade magic weapon.

To commission a high-quality ritual implement, one must visit the casting furnace.

It's a good opportunity to take care of both things in one trip.

After making up his mind, Li Yinsheng remembered that once the True Blood Secret Manual reached the ninth level, the quality of his Qi and blood would change, which would once again cause some changes in his body.

This time it seems to be reflected on the skin, making the cultivator's skin "radiant and flawless like jade."

He raised his hand to look at it, and his skin did indeed seem to be much better than before.

He closed his eyes slightly, focused his mind inward, and observed the changes in his skin.

After this arduous training, the Heart Seal Sutra was upgraded from the third level to the sixth level. Not only did his sea of ​​consciousness expand significantly again, but his already solidified soul became even more solid, no longer transparent at all, and almost indistinguishable from his physical body.

With such changes in the soul and consciousness, the divine sense naturally also greatly increased, surpassing its previous level by several times.

Even under such divine introspection, he could not find the slightest flaw in his skin, as if he had truly become a flawless white jade statue, only still possessing a rosy complexion.

"If I completely suppress my vital energy and remain motionless, will I really be mistaken for a lifelike jade sculpture? Maybe I can even use that trick to scare people..."

Li Yinsheng thought to himself with a rather wicked sense of amusement.

But he soon lost interest in the changes in his physical body.

He had been cultivating without using his divine sense, but now he was curious about the changes in his body. He carefully examined himself with his divine sense, and after activating most of it, he felt something was wrong.

As his divine sense was activated, his soul, which was firmly located in the center of his sea of ​​consciousness, suddenly had a strange feeling.

He felt that one could "leave" the sea of ​​consciousness.

This feeling came from nowhere, as if it were purely instinctive, like a baby being born knowing how to crawl.

Li Yinsheng had never thought of letting his soul leave his sea of ​​consciousness before, but now that he had this feeling, he couldn't help but become curious.

What happens when the soul leaves the sea of ​​consciousness?

He didn't rashly try to let his entire soul leave his sea of ​​consciousness directly following this feeling, but instead started with the index finger of his left hand.

In the sea of ​​consciousness, the soul, as solid as a physical body, slowly faded away from the left index finger, leaving only a faint outline of the index finger where it once was.

From the outside, on Li Yinsheng's left index finger, an identical index finger slowly rose, the two index fingers going from overlapping to separating, one above the other.

Although both index fingers appeared to be solid, Li Yinsheng knew very well that the extra one was merely a solidified soul.

Moreover, he could clearly feel that as the spirit finger detached from his body, some of his magical power flowed into the spirit finger.

He then tried to bring the index finger of his soul back to his sea of ​​consciousness. The finger instantly disappeared from the outside world and returned to his sea of ​​consciousness.

The magical power that was incorporated into the index finger when it appeared in the outside world also returned to the dantian.

Then he cautiously began to try to let more parts of his body leave his sea of ​​consciousness and appear in the outside world.

From one finger to five fingers, then to the whole hand, the whole arm, and even both arms and the entire upper body...

During this time, he also discovered that the more part of his soul appeared in the outside world, the more magical power flowed into his soul, and even the Pure Mysterious Divine Light would flow into his soul along with it.

A moment later, an identical figure stood up from the seated Li Yinsheng.

One "Li Yinsheng" remained seated, while the other Li Yinsheng, who had stood up, moved with a thought and instantly appeared in the air.

In an instant, Li Yinsheng, who was suspended in the air in his soul form, felt more relaxed than ever before. Although the range of his divine sense did not become larger, it suddenly became many times clearer.

The moonlight shone on his soul, and he even had a tactile sensation as if he could "touch" the moonlight.

It was as if there had always been a thick veil separating him from the world, which was his physical body.

At this moment, as the soul leaves the body, this veil is pulled open without reservation.