Chapter 146: 146. Chapter 146: Consolidating Killing Qi

146. Chapter 146: Consolidating Killing Qi

After closing his eyes to rest his spirit for a while, Li Xuan felt his condition was already quite good, and only then did he slowly control his soul power to flow along a specific route.

As Li Xuan cultivated, the Blood Pool slowly released strands of blood‑red energy that pierced into his body.

After these blood‑red energies entered his body, they began to circulate in his meridians together with his soul power.

After one Zhou Tian, the blood‑red energy turned a pallid white, then slowly gathered at Li Xuan's forehead.

Suddenly, Li Xuan felt a stabbing pain at his forehead, and a cold, sinister aura instantly enveloped him.

Even more terrifying, the aura reached straight into his soul, evoking a fear that emanated from the soul itself.

This fear was not of any concrete object but an indescribable dread, which made Li Xuan feel even more terrified.

Anyone who encounters such soul‑piercing horror cannot face it calmly at all.

Li Xuan's complexion turned pale in an instant, cold sweat formed on his forehead, and his body began to tremble slightly.

As the cold aura gradually eroded him, the deepest fear in Li Xuan's heart was amplified, and his condition worsened.

Li Xuan couldn't explain what exactly he feared; the current scene seemed merely to magnify a single emotion.

Suddenly, Li Xuan felt that this cold aura was somewhat similar to the Burning Heart Divine Flame, only it stirred inner emotions.

Suddenly, Li Xuan recalled something, snapped his eyes open, thrust out his palm, and in the next second a ball of Burning Heart Divine Flame appeared above his hand.

"Hey!"

Li Xuan roared, slapping the fireball in his palm into his own body.

Li Xuan also knew that if he could not face the fear directly, it would become a heart demon here, and such a heart demon could not be eliminated, even by abandoning his soul power.

Therefore, Li Xuan intended to push himself into extreme fury, using anger to lessen his fear.

Although igniting Heart Fire is dangerous, Li Xuan now had no other choice.

The Burning Heart Divine Flame poured directly into Li Xuan's meridians, swiftly converging in his heart, instantly igniting his Heart Fire.

The scorching Heart Fire instantly sparked Li Xuan's anger, and the extreme fury made him feel fearless at that moment.

The extreme fury made Li Xuan feel his whole body burning, to the point that he could no longer sense the cold aura brought by the pallid white energy.

"Ah!" Li Xuan's eyes turned blood‑red as he crawled up from the ground.

His gaze filled with anger, he swung his hand sharply, and dozens of fireballs coalesced behind him; under normal circumstances Li Xuan could only release a dozen fireballs at once, but the extreme fury let him exceed his usual limits.

The massive fireballs, bearing tremendous force, slammed around; although Li Xuan had entered a mad‑demon state, he was still only at the Great Soul Master Realm, so the fireballs at most splashed a few droplets on the Blood Pool and could not cause serious damage.

"Ah!!"

"Boom!!"

"Ah!!"

Li Xuan shouted wildly while crazily hurling fireballs at the Blood Pool.

As anger fully seized Li Xuan's heart, the originally cold pallid white energy gradually turned into normal silver‑white energy.

Although Li Xuan's method was a shortcut, he nevertheless successfully mastered this special Killing Qi.

The silver‑white energy roamed to Li Xuan's forehead, forming a silver‑white linear pattern. With the cold aura gone, his Heart Fire reached its limit.

"Puff!"

Because his heart meridian was damaged, Li Xuan spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, his vision turning blood‑red, and he tilted his head, collapsing unconscious on the Lotus Platform.

As Li Xuan fell unconscious, the medicinal power of the Immortal Grade spirit plant stored in his body began rapidly restoring his Heart Fire and injuries.

These energies were Li Xuan's backup, able to replenish his body's energy while he was unconscious.

Half an hour later, Li Xuan groggily crawled up from the ground.

"Pah..." Li Xuan spat out the remaining blood foam from his mouth, rubbing his swollen head.

"I knew it, Killing Qi isn't that easy to train! If it weren't for the Burning Heart Divine Flame, I would have easily gone mad," Li Xuan said, his complexion pale as he sat on the Lotus Platform, panting heavily and speaking resentfully.

Then Li Xuan took several pieces of qi‑and‑blood‑nourishing herbs and shoved them straight into his mouth.

The bitter herbal juice fully sobered Li Xuan up.

"Let me see what effect this Killing Qi actually has," Li Xuan smiled faintly, having paid such a great price, hoping this Killing Qi would not disappoint him.

As Li Xuan manipulated the Killing Qi at his forehead, a strand of special energy was released, but it was too weak, affecting only the aura within half a meter around him.

Although the quantity was small, its quality was extremely high; this was not a great force but a Killing Qi that existed solely to kill.

Only this clean, pure Killing Qi can evoke the deepest terror within a person.

But there was no one here, and Li Xuan did not know what effect this Killing Qi truly had.

"It seems I still need to condense more Killing Qi; a single strand's lethal power is limited, and as I cultivate, Killing Qi turns into Killing Intent, and finally into a Killing Domain—that's the proper method," Li Xuan thought of the Killing Domain recorded in the Shura Killing Codex.

However, this technique is truly sinister; even simply training Killing Qi almost drove me to madness, so beginning to cultivate the Killing Domain would have unimaginable consequences.

Nevertheless, seeking wealth through risk, Li Xuan also wanted a domain‑type soul skill with some killing power.

With that in mind, Li Xuan made up his mind, sat cross‑legged on the Lotus Platform, and continued cultivating.

Just as Li Xuan was about to enter the cultivation state, he suddenly sensed Tang Chen flying in the sky searching for him.

"Grand Priest, I'm here!" Li Xuan waved his hand at Tang Chen and shouted loudly.

Tang Chen shifted his form, arrived before Li Xuan, hovering above the Blood Pool, watching him.

"It's fine, I'm just cultivating a technique that requires this Blood Pool," Li Xuan said with a smile.

"Xuan Ge'er, you seem to be in pretty good shape," Tang Chen asked Li Xuan with a smile.

"Of course. By the way, Grand Priest, how are the Dark‑Gold San Tou Bat and the Ten‑Headed Blazing Sun Snake? Have you dealt with them?" Li Xuan asked Tang Chen again.

"The big snake is already dead, but the Dark‑Gold San Tou Bat is troublesome; it has merged with this Blood Pool. After I completely shattered its body it didn't die, instead it became this golden little bat. If it weren't for its relatively high spirit power I wouldn't have even noticed it, and as long as you kill this golden little bat, the other fragments will turn into a new body, continuously spawning, never ending, so I captured it and plan to take it to the Shura Divine Temple to find a way to wear it out," Tang Chen said, extending his hand to reveal a blood‑colored cage formed of soul power, inside which was a golden little bat.

Looking at the golden bat in the cage, Li Xuan suddenly had a strange idea.

"How about you give it to me to try?" Li Xuan blinked his eyes and said that to Tang Chen.

(End of chapter)