Chapter 102: True Gang Projection, Physical Body Foundation Establishment

A few moments later.

Qin Ming collected two buckets of royal jelly from the beehive.

It weighed a full eighty-plus jin.

However, the color of this royal jelly was slightly off, resembling blood-red amber, crystal clear and translucent.

Yet, even from a great distance, Qin Ming could sense the spiritual energy contained within it.

It was said that graded royal jelly had many uses.

Adding a small amount of royal jelly during pill refinement could neutralize the medicinal properties, increasing the pill formation rate by about ten to twenty percent, and there was a certain probability it could improve the quality of the formed pill.

If consumed directly, it had beautifying effects, and furthermore, this substance was one of the main ingredients for refining Face-Preserving Pills.

Finally, it was also a supreme remedy for detoxification, capable of curing almost all poisons.

In short, it offered numerous benefits.

Qin Ming casually took some royal jelly from the bucket and placed it in his mouth to taste.

Boom! In an instant, a surging force of qi and blood poured down like a toppling mountain and overturning sea.

Qin Ming stood frozen on the spot in astonishment.

This blood-red royal jelly could actually greatly amplify the force of qi and blood!

Its effect was even better than that of top-grade Xue Huang Mi.

Perhaps it was related to that eerie skeleton demon flower.

Suddenly.

The name of a pill subconsciously appeared in Qin Ming's mind.

It was one of several extremely obscure pill formulas found in Su Yuqing's notes.

Its main ingredient required a nectar rich in qi and blood for refinement.

This pill was named 'Blood River Pill,' a first-grade top-tier pill, extremely difficult to refine, and a legendary sacred treasure for body tempering.

Its main ingredient was royal jelly containing the force of qi and blood, something rare and hard to come by in the Immortal Realm.

Coincidentally, Qin Ming possessed several spiritual materials needed to refine this pill.

He acted immediately.

He made another trip to the Chu Tianhe Market to purchase the remaining auxiliary ingredients.

Qin Ming found Aunt Long at the Mirror Snow Pavilion and spent a few days gathering all the necessary materials.

Several days later.

Qin Ming returned to his cave dwelling on Wangyue Island.

He began extracting the medicinal embryo, proceeding step by step with familiar ease.

He released the Spirit-Devouring Poison Flame to heat the pill furnace.

Time passed little by little.

After experiencing several failures.

Qin Ming finally succeeded in refining a furnace of 'Blood River Pills.'

Ever since mastering the Spirit-Devouring Poison Flame, his success rate in pill refinement had grown higher and higher.

Even for a top-tier spiritual pill like the Blood River Pill, and on his first attempt, he still succeeded.

He raised his hand and grabbed, pulling eight crimson spiritual pills radiating astonishing qi and blood force into his palm.

"So this is the legendary Blood River Pill?" Qin Ming picked one up and examined it carefully for a while.

A strong scent of blood rushed into his nose.

Without hesitation, Qin Ming immediately stuffed a Blood River Pill into his mouth and swallowed it.

A massive force of qi and blood surged through his limbs and hundred meridians like raging waves.

He circulated the 'Hundred Treasures Glazed Sutra' to refine this medicinal power.

Gradually.

Layers of blood scabs oozed out from the surface of Qin Ming's body, wrapping him entirely.

He resembled a giant blood cocoon.

Crimson light flickered dimly within it.

This continued for two double-hours.

The true gang of qi and blood within Qin Ming's body had accumulated to its limit.

Crack! The blood cocoon broke open layer by layer, revealing Qin Ming's figure.

The ninth layer of the 'Hundred Treasures Glazed Sutra' broke through! A sharp and unmatched innate gang qi gathered within his body; his physical strength improved once again, nearly breaking its limits.

Now, he resembled a Foundation Establishment great demon.

Explosive power surged within Qin Ming's body.

The glazed precious armor condensed from his true gang of qi and blood outside his body appeared as solid as reality.

More critically, having reached this stage, he could now project his true gang outward.

The power of his innate gang qi possessed attacking power comparable to that of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Qin Ming stood up and walked out of the cave dwelling.

In a few breaths, his form moved like a phantom, arriving at the cliff edge behind the mountain peak.

Then he circulated his true gang of qi and blood and waved his hand, slashing a crimson ribbon toward a huge rock in the distance! Boom! The true gang of qi and blood shot out from his body, slicing through the sky like a crescent moon, cutting the dozen-zhang-sized giant rock into countless fragments, with cuts smoother than smooth.

Qin Ming switched to another method, causing the true gang of qi and blood around his body to surge outward.

In an instant.

Centered on him, countless fine rays condensed from innate gang qi erupted, shooting out in all directions.

Pu! Pu! Pu! Any object struck by the fine rays was instantly riddled with a thousand holes, its power terrifying.

This was a method comparable to Foundation Establishment.

It made Qin Ming ecstatic; he threw another punch, and a blood-colored fist ray shot forth from his body, turning whatever it hit instantly into flying ash.

Speaking of strength.

The power of a Foundation Establishment great demon was considerably greater than that of an ordinary human cultivator.

Demonic beasts cultivated through their bloodlines; not only did they possess terrifying racial talents and inherited divine abilities, but their physical bodies were also incredibly formidable.

Therefore, the difficulty for a demonic beast to cultivate to Foundation Establishment was often several times greater than for a human.

If he were to encounter a newly advanced Foundation Establishment cultivator at this moment, someone like Elder Gu, for instance.

He could crush and kill them with an overwhelming force.

However, upon meeting Lin Zixiao, who had now inherited a demonic path legacy and was a late-stage Foundation Establishment expert, one still had to act cowardly if necessary.

"The Dao of Immortality values life; why must there be fighting and killing all day long?"

"If I can't provoke them, can't I at least hide?"

After Qin Ming took this step, it meant he could barely establish a foothold in the Immortal Realm.

However, the world outside remained very chaotic.

He still needed to find a way to raise his magic power cultivation to the Foundation Establishment realm.

No one knew how the situation between the Lingyu Sect and Lei Yuanzong would develop.

However, conflicts arising from the struggle over resources were inevitable.

After all, the cake that was the State of Wei was only so big, with too many wolves and too little meat.

Therefore.

In collisions between forces of this level, it was quite normal for Foundation Establishment cultivators to fall.

Although Qin Ming's strength had already improved by a tier.

Under such external circumstances.

He still felt a sense of urgent pressure; thus, this was not yet safe enough, and he needed to raise his magic power cultivation as well.

With double insurance, the more trump cards one held in this cruel Immortal Realm, the greater the possibility of achieving immortality.

No matter how chaotic the outside world became, Qin Ming had already made his decision.

In the future, he would put down roots on Wangyue Island to farm and cultivate, staying out of external conflicts.

His Wangyue Island was located at the extreme northern edge of the Lingxi Archipelago.

It was neither a major contested region nor a strategic fortress pass.

For most of the year, not a single soul could be seen; it was practically isolated from the world.

It was perfectly suited for his steady development.

Of course, now that Qin Ming possessed strength slightly higher than that of an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator, he would no longer need to act with restraint when acquiring resources in the future and could act freely.

"I wonder what would happen if I cultivated the 'Hundred Treasures Glazed Sutra' to the first layer of its Foundation Establishment chapter?"

Qin Ming grew increasingly expectant regarding the subsequent stages of cultivation.

The Foundation Establishment chapter of this body-refining technique consisted of only three layers.

They corresponded to the early, middle, and late stages respectively; once mastered, one's strength would far exceed that of cultivators at the same realm.

After mastering the first layer of the Foundation Establishment chapter, one would enter the realm of 'True Qi Manifestation'.

According to the sutra, this meant completing the first transformation of one's blood and vital True Qi.

However, to achieve such a realm, relying solely on consuming blood and vital spiritual materials was far from sufficient.

Pills could only serve an auxiliary role.

There were two prerequisites for entering the first transformation of True Qi Manifestation.

First, one needed to refine the essence blood of demonic beasts; the higher their strength and grade, the better, as this determined the future power and potential of the technique.

Second, one had to activate the Hundred Beasts Visualization Diagrams on the beast-hide sutra, which required sufficiently formidable blood and vital True Qi; similarly, activating higher-grade demonic beast visualization diagrams yielded greater power.

Given Qin Ming's current reserve of blood and vital True Qi, he was still far from being able to activate the diagrams.

As for high-grade demonic beast essence blood, he could ask Gu Qingzhao to keep an eye out, since Canghai Xiancheng backed onto the Beast Roaring Mountain Range.

High-grade demonic beast essence blood was also frequently auctioned off at auctions within the Xiancheng.

Next, Qin Ming planned to go to the Chu Tianhe Market to inquire about news regarding the Jade Marrow Ganoderma.

But just at this moment.

Qin Ming's message talisman received information.

He opened it to see that it was from Wu Jiang.

"Fellow Daoist Qin, I have discovered the whereabouts of another spiritual material; the situation is urgent, please come quickly to the vicinity of Dragon Scale Island."

(End of Chapter)