Chapter 171

Cheng Xinzhan landed on Furnace Island.

Furnace Island was full of brown rocks and yellow soil, with no vegetation, only a strange kind of green tree growing sparsely here and there. The leaves were piece by piece, fat and thick, like palms, but covered with thorns.

Sanmei was undoubtedly the happiest, sucking in the sulfur gas and leaping in the air. Finally, she brought Cheng Xinzhan to a huge cave at the top of the mountain. The cave was like a well, and the sulfur gas rose like wolf smoke.

Sanmei signaled that she would make her home here, and then she darted into the yellow smoke to play on her own.

Cheng Xinzhan looked around and picked the largest green-palm tree—let's call it that for now. Then he casually chopped down a few huge rocks and simply stacked them into a doorless stone house, placing it under this green-palm tree.

Although he had long since ceased to fear wind and sun, some things were carved into his bones—he was only accustomed to having something for shelter.

After using wind arts to sweep through the stone house, he walked in and sat on the ground.

He closed his eyes and meditated.

This first hurdle, blending into the interior of the overseas demonic sect, should have been passed.

The location of the Great Belly Sea was very good. It was just outside the near seas, adjacent to the Sea of Ten Thousand Corpses, on the east side of the Sea of Ten Thousand Corpses. In the future, there would definitely be friction with the Sea of Ten Thousand Corpses, which would allow him to fish in troubled waters.

Further east was the deeper sea area, but it was still far from the dojos of those few Fifth-Realm cultivators. Going north was the coast of Jin Ling and Qilu, where there were basically no demonic forces; if something really happened, he could run in that direction.

The most critical thing was the master of the Great Belly Sea, the Great Belly Turtle King, who was always sleeping and didn't care much about affairs. As long as his subordinates offered blood food on time, he basically let the several leaders under him fight.

This made it convenient for Cheng Xinzhan; he didn't have to worry about being slapped to death by a Fourth-Realm cultivator one day.

As for the fighting between the several leaders, this was exactly what Cheng Xinzhan wanted to see. Next, he had to make this sea area even more chaotic.

Now that he had settled down, Cheng Xinzhan decided to rest a little and continue to devote himself to refining the Bai Gu Flying Sword.

His own Bai Gu Flying Sword.

Impersonating a disciple of the Blood God Sect was something Cheng Xinzhan had thought of when he set sail. The Blood God Sect was a sudden rise, with few connections to other demonic sects. Few people in the interior knew about this sect, let alone overseas, so it was not easy to reveal his flaws.

Moreover, Cheng Xinzhan had stayed in Western Kunlun for half a year; if anyone were familiar with the Blood God Sect, he could truly count as one.

Even his set of rhetoric to Old Immortal Huang was not made up; it came from the mouth of a demon who died under his sword—that time, he just wanted to escape, but was bumped into and killed by Cheng Xinzhan.

He had spent half a year slaughtering demons in Western Kunlun; he was not playing house. The Blood Bead Bone Sword was so powerful that he couldn't ignore it. Not only did he seize many Blood Bead Bone Swords, but he even forced out the refining methods and sword scriptures.

The righteous sect supervisor of the Western Kunlun war was Jian Bingru of Emei, so Jian Bingru was also in charge of the command and logistics camp. At first, he handed over all the seized Blood Bead Bone Swords in exchange for other things. Later, he found that the gains did not outweigh the losses, so he intercepted the subsequent seizures himself, and felt that this thing indeed had unique features, thinking of studying it privately.

Later, he did indeed study it, and even had an idea that he himself felt was novel. However, because he was too busy and had too many affairs, he always picked it up and put it down, intermittently. It wasn't until he decided to set sail and thought about concealing his identity that he moved this idea again.

He studied it carefully and discovered that this Blood Bead Bai Gu had many special features.

First, the blood and bone are separated but mutually beneficial.

This blood bead can turn into blood mist, and then other poisons can be refined into it, thus becoming blood miasma, which then has toxicity. The further back you go, the more poisons are refined in, the stronger the toxicity, and the more turbid and chaotic it becomes, but there is no antidote later on.

At the same time, after the blood miasma condenses into blood beads, it is also very hard and can be used to attack strong and blunt objects.

The Bai Gu Flying Sword is not in the Five Elements; it is not water or fire, not earth or wood, and not metal or stone. Not being in the Five Elements, it is not easily captured or seized, and not easily countered by Daoist arts or magic treasures. It only seeks to be indestructible and peerlessly sharp.

Viewed separately, both are powerful treasures. In addition, the Bai Gu Flying Sword is usually raised in the blood bead; the toxicity and vitality of the blood bead can be used to nourish the flying sword, and the sword light and malevolence of the flying sword can conversely enhance the toxicity of the blood miasma. Viewed together, this is a set of magic treasures.

Second, this blood and bone are taken from the sword master himself, so they can be commanded like an arm, so they can be nourished at all times, and so they can become sharper with the growth of the sword master's own realm. This is actually a kind of thing similar to the demon race's life-bound magic treasure, taken from oneself.

Third, this treasure is a demonic refining method. Whether it is blood miasma eroding people or bone swords killing people, they can automatically absorb the essence, blood, and bone marrow of the killed to strengthen themselves.

Fourth, this treasure can be retracted into the sword master's body, using the essence absorbed from the outside world to feed back into the sword master's flesh.

At the same time, it is also based on these special features that if this treasure is taken by someone else and re-refined, then the benefit of feeding back into the flesh is gone.

In addition, because it is someone else's bone and blood, using it oneself will always have a sense of lag. This is a flying sword magic treasure; if there is a sense of lag, then it doesn't need to be called a flying sword. When Li Yingqiong of Emei drove "Taodu," there was a sense of lag, and she couldn't even exert one-tenth of "Taodu's" power.

Therefore, what Cheng Xinzhan wanted and wanted to do was not to use the seized Blood Bead Bone Sword; he wanted to refine it himself, take its essence, remove its dross, and at the same time find another way.

The "Principles of Taiyi Golden Flower" says that one must refine away all the yin dross of the whole body to complete pure yang.

And Cheng Xinzhan believes that the human body has both yin and yang natures, and neither can be missing. Now, can he take the opportunity of picking bone and blood to refine the sword to simultaneously strip away the yin nature of the flesh and melt it into this magic treasure?

When the Blood Bead Bone Sword remains in the body, as part of the body, the Blood Bead Bone Sword is the yin pole, and the rest of the flesh and blood is the yang pole, with yin and yang coexisting in the flesh. When the flying sword is unleashed, the yin pole leaves the body, and the flesh is pure yang.

This is Cheng Xinzhan's whimsical idea, and also a method of killing many birds with one stone.

After the flesh is pure yang, the yin soul is also easy to handle. The yin soul is not like bone and blood, rooted and flowing throughout the body. Although the yin soul controls the whole body, it is concentrated and settled in the Purple Palace. Now, with his long-term practice of the "Secret Decree of the Immortal Fetus Manifesting Spirit," the seven souls are already full of spirituality. He thought that after opening the Purple Palace in the future, he could conceive a Purple Palace divine ability, or find a Purple Palace magic treasure to cover the aura of the seven souls, which should not be too difficult.

In this way, completing pure yang, he could practice the pure yang secret arts in the "Principles of Taiyi Golden Flower."

Another thing is that he uses "Taodu" as the yang sword, nourishing and refining it with the yang palace of his left eye. He still lacks a yin sword. Taking this opportunity, he will raise the bone sword into a yin sword, which not only completes the pure yang of the flesh but also completes the yin and yang of the flying sword.

He is not a hesitant or ambiguous person. He had this idea very early on. Blending into the overseas demonic sect to conceal his identity was just an opportunity. After all, before this, he still had five Five-Element magic swords that had not been fully refined, and he didn't have time to do this.

Since the opportunity had arrived, he did what he thought of.

Pulling bones and removing blood.

And the yin and yang of human bone and blood have always been a matter of opinion.

Some say that a hundred years after a person dies, there is only a handful of yellow soil, and only white bones remain, so bones have the meaning of metal nature and immortality. Among the Five Elements, metal belongs to yang, so bones are yang. In addition, in the human body, bones are hard, and flesh and blood are soft. From the perspective of hardness and softness, hardness is yang, so bones are yang. And the medical book "Suwen" says: Bones are the palace of strange constancy, storing bone marrow inside, relying on bone marrow for nourishment. And the kidneys govern bones and produce bone marrow. Kidneys belong to water in the Five Elements and yin in the two rituals, so it is also said that bones are yin.

As for blood, it is the same. From the perspective of qi and blood, qi is void, and blood is solid, the so-called yang qi and yin blood. From the perspective of bone and blood, bones have form, and blood has no form, so bones are yang and blood is yin. But from the perspective of essence and blood, it is heart blood that is yang and kidney essence that is yin.

None of these are wrong. The so-called yin and yang are originally one thing with two natures, presenting yang nature at some times and yin nature at other times.

If you want Cheng Xinzhan to pick a yin bone and a pool of yin blood from his whole body, he can't do it either.

However, he has a shortcut. There is a secret art in the "Principles of Taiyi Golden Flower" called "The Red Child Rides the Dragon to Chase the Green Tiger." The so-called red child is the life soul fetus light, the so-called riding the dragon is driving the pure yang intent fire, and the green tiger is the yin dross in the flesh.

This secret art uses the life soul fetus light to drive the pure yang intent fire to travel all over the body, scanning inch by inch, driving away the yin dross in the bone and blood, until it is all forced out of the body, achieving pure yang.

Cheng Xinzhan had never practiced this secret art before, thinking it was too extreme, but if this art is not practiced, many secret arts later cannot be practiced. However, it can be used at this time, driving all the yin dross in the bones to a certain bone, and then refining this bone into a yin sword.

As for which bone to choose, he didn't struggle too much. He chose the lowest rib, because he had already opened the Jianggong, and the Jianggong could protect the internal organs and support the body. Borrowing a rib from himself was a trivial matter.

And yin blood is even simpler. He forced all the yin dross in the blood to his right ear, and then cut his ear, and he got a pool of purple-vermilion thick yin blood.

The materials were ready.

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At the same time, his flesh could also be called a pure yang bright and clean body.

As for refining, it was even simpler for him. Those unknown demonic disciples could refine it, and he had practiced refining methods in White Tiger Mountain for so many years, and followed Master Jiang to refine five magic swords. Since it was his own bone and blood, there was no reason he couldn't refine it.

In fact, referring to the refining methods forced out of the mouths of Blood God Sect disciples, he spent five days on an island in the near seas to refine his own Blood Bead Bone Sword.

However, he did not refine the prohibition of absorbing essence, blood, and bone marrow after killing. He believed that his own bone and blood were the best, and others' would only make his own bone and blood mixed. And a more important reason was that killing to refine weapons was a real demonic act, and he would never allow himself to do so.

As for refining poisons into blood to turn into blood miasma to harm people, he retained this prohibition, but it was not used to refine poisons. He wanted to refine yin-attribute malevolence into it to temper the yin sword, and also to improve the adaptability of his own bone and blood to malevolence, preparing for Core Formation.

However, it was his own bone and blood after all, not an ordinary object, and malevolence was the most violent spiritual object in the world, so he was very, very careful when refining the sword with malevolence.

It couldn't be compared with "Taodu," which was an immortal's legacy sword and a supreme treasure material, so he dared to directly use "Yangming Cloud Hall Malevolence" to refine it. For the bone and blood he had just taken off, he was extremely cautious. Even for the "Purple Fire Rotten Peach Malevolence" that had already passed through his flesh once, he refined it into the blood bead bit by bit, and then used the blood bead to soak the yin sword, so he hadn't raised any sword malevolence yet.

However, refining the sword is fast, and raising the sword is slow. This is originally a water-grinding effort, and he is not in a hurry at all.

For his needle-shaped Bai Gu Flying Sword, he named it,

"Youdu."

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After raising the sword and feeding it malevolence for three days, someone came to the door.

"Hahahaha, Brother Brother Bie Lu, are you accustomed to living on Furnace Island?"

The person hadn't arrived, but the voice came first. Cheng Xinzhan knew it was Huang Yunying.

His heart moved, and the blood bead wrapped around the Bai Gu Flying Sword, spun around, and quickly shrank, dripping into his right eye like water.

He got up and walked out of the stone house, saw Huang Yunying stopping outside Furnace Island, and frowned,

"Brother Ying, what is the matter?"

Huang Yunying came up with a hot face against a cold butt, but he was not annoyed. He scanned Furnace Island and found that there were no footprints here, no changes, only a stone house that could be called sloppy at the top of the mountain.

He is really a bitter cultivator!

He thought so in his heart, but said with his mouth,

"If there was nothing, I wouldn't dare to disturb Brother Bie Lu. My subordinates heard that Old Fourth Qing's whaling team left the island and went to the neighboring Shark Kingdom. They must have discovered a whale pod, so I dare not let him succeed!"

Cheng Xinzhan asked, "What kind of place is the Shark Kingdom?"

Huang Yunying replied,

"The Shark Kingdom is the Shark Sea, right on the southwest side of our Great Belly Sea. That sea area is even larger than our Great Belly Sea. Basically, all the sharks of the entire East Sea are there."

Cheng Xinzhan was a little puzzled,

"Old Fourth Qing still dares to send people to other seas to hunt whales? Is he not afraid of not being able to return?"

"The Shark Kingdom is so big. If no one bumps into them, they hunt if they hunt. If someone bumps into them, if they can beat them, they catch them together. If they can't beat them, they run. If they can't run, then there is no way."

Huang Yunying gave a 'hehe' laugh and continued,

"Now Old Fourth Qing has no choice. He must take a risk. I heard that the Turtle King's snoring is getting smaller and smaller. It seems he is really about to wake up. In previous years, his whaling team was in the limelight and offered a lot of blood food to the Turtle King, so he has become more and more arrogant in recent years."

"But the whales in the sea are very smart. One passes to ten, ten to a hundred. Later, whether in the sky or in the sea, they all go around the Great Belly Sea. Where can he find whales? The Turtle King is about to wake up. If the blood food he offers is less, let's see how he can be arrogant."

Cheng Xinzhan understood, "So what do Brother Ying or the Immortal Master want Brother Bie Lu to do?"

Huang Yunying laughed and said, "The Immortal Master wants Brother Bie Lu to take a trip. The requirement is not high; just let them return empty-handed. When Brother Bie Lu returns, the Immortal Master will have rewards."

Cheng Xinzhan nodded and asked, "Are there any Third-Realm cultivators in Old Fourth Qing's whaling team?"

Huang Yunying laughed upon hearing this, "Brother Bie Lu, the sea is not like the land. Above the Fourth-Realm kings are only the Fifth-Realm Great Sages, and above the Third-Realm Immortal Masters are only the Fourth-Realm kings. Having survived nine deaths to become an Immortal Master, it is impossible to bow one's head and call another Third-Realm cultivator an Immortal Master."

Cheng Xinzhan nodded, "Then Brother Bie Lu accepts this errand."

(End of chapter)