Chapter 30: Blood Spirit Body Tempering Art

They had all been busy with Dual-Cultivation Techniques lately. Su Cheng had taken up a Body Tempering Technique, and he already felt it was incredibly hard — Body Tempering Techniques required an extra round of medicinal baths, and it hurt so much. Three Techniques cultivated together… he felt this little goal he'd set was a bit too ambitious.

Su Wuji was currently Dual-Cultivating a Spirit Refining Technique.

Every day, aside from normal cultivation, he spent the whole day in a foggy-headed daze Studying the Technique, draining his mind and spirit enormously, making him endlessly doubt whether he really was the top-tier genius his grandfather always talked about?!

A top-tier genius finds it this troublesome just to study and comprehend a Spirit Refining Technique?

What's more, he still had a Body Tempering Technique to continue comprehending!!

He wanted to cry!

"Three Techniques cultivated together really is too hard." Su Cheng complained outright. "Every day I feel like there's not enough time. I've even compressed my sleep down to two hours. I have to review my lessons every day, do normal cultivation, and also Study the Body Tempering Technique and take an extra round of medicinal baths. The key is the Body Tempering medicinal bath hurts too much. Every time I'm tormented by the medicinal bath, I feel like I'm dying and coming back to life."

The moment medicinal bath pain came up, Su Cheng's face went white.

"What Body Tempering Technique are you cultivating? Not every Body Tempering Technique requires an extra round of medicinal baths, and one that hurts that badly at that." Su Wuji hurriedly said. "My grandfather found me a 'Blood Spirit Body Tempering Art' — you only need to absorb one beast-type Blood Spirit, and after that you just have to absorb some related beast blood every few months."

"What thingummy is a Blood Spirit?" Su Cheng asked, puzzled.

"A Blood Spirit is a variant Yao Spirit cultivated using the spiritual blood of Yao Beasts, Yao Birds, and the like. You know what a Yao Spirit is, right?" Su Wuji countered.

"I know what a Yao Spirit is — it's a special soul body refined through sacrificial tempering using the soul of a Yao Beast." Su Cheng said.

"That's good enough that you know. A Blood Spirit is the second sacrificial refinement of a Yao Spirit." Su Wuji nodded. "A Blood Spirit can automatically cooperate with the Cultivation Technique to help us temper our bones and refine our bodies. The 'Blood Spirit Body Tempering Art' counts as quite an outstanding one among Body Tempering Techniques." Su Wuji repeated what his grandfather had told him.

"I know this. My dad also got one back for me. My dad told me, the most crucial part of the 'Blood Spirit Body Tempering Art' is the Blood Spirit. The better the Blood Spirit, the better the Body Tempering Art can perform.

The worse the Blood Spirit, the less impressive the effect of the Body Tempering Art.

Of course, even the worst 'Blood Spirit Body Tempering Art' is still far more powerful than an ordinary Body Tempering Art.

The 'Blood Spirit Body Tempering Art' can only be exchanged at a sect. For forces outside the sects and loose cultivators, getting even an incomplete copy is already considered pretty good.

The most powerful thing about the Blood Spirit Body Tempering Art is refining a True Spirit-grade Blood Spirit. If one really had a Blood Spirit of that grade assisting, then this Body Tempering Technique is said to be able to let a person's physical body ascend." Su Yunhu said with great conviction.

A few days ago, when Father had brought back that 'Blood Spirit Body Tempering Art', he had been even more imposing than what he was saying now.

"True Spirits went extinct long ago. In this world nowadays, there aren't any left at all." Su Wuji said helplessly. "Let's be more practical — just find a kind of Blood Spirit that can roughly assist cultivation. Personally, I think Yao Tiger-type and Yao Roc-type Blood Spirits would both work. My grandfather plans to choose these two types of Blood Spirits for me."

Su Yunhu burst out laughing upon hearing this. "My dad said, if there were still a large number of True Spirits in this world, then a Cultivation Technique that could let a person's physical body ascend would absolutely never fall into our hands. Your grandfather is really something — Yao Tiger-type and Yao Roc-type Blood Spirits aren't cheap at all. My dad only plans to find Yao Dog-type or Yao Ox-type Blood Spirits for me."

Pfft, pfft — Su Cheng and Su Jin, hearing the two of them talk, laughed along together as well.

What Su Yunhu said also made sense.

They had only just begun cultivating, sitting at the very bottom of the cultivator ranks. If there really were such powerful Cultivation Techniques, no matter what, it wouldn't be their turn.

"I'll go ask my aunt too, see if she can let me switch to cultivating the 'Blood Spirit Body Tempering Art'." Su Cheng said.

"As long as it suits you, who cares what Cultivation Technique it is." Su Jin said.

"The problem is the medicinal bath hurts too much. I really can't take it anymore." Su Cheng's face scrunched up in agony, almost crumpling into a chrysanthemum.

"You're still so young — why would your aunt make you take a medicinal bath that hurts that much? Although we've taken medicinal baths since we were little, the medicinal baths we've taken have never hurt at all. All the medicinal ingredients were mild and nourishing.

Even after we entered the clan school, look — do the medicinal bath packets the clan school issues us hurt when you soak in them?

They don't.

I heard my grandfather say, the more painful the medicinal bath, the more forcefully it can stimulate your body's potential.

But you're still so young — do you need to forcefully stimulate your body's potential? Your body is still growing. Is forcefully stimulating your body's potential a good thing for you? Could it drain your body's potential?

I thought only adults needed to forcefully stimulate their body's potential.

I think if your aunt doesn't agree to let you switch techniques, you should just communicate directly with your family." Su Wuji couldn't help but say.

Su Cheng fell into thought upon hearing this.

"Also, Su Yunhu — weren't you planning to Dual-Cultivate a Spirit Refining Technique? How did your family find you a 'Blood Spirit Body Tempering Art'? That's a Body Tempering Technique?" Su Wuji asked, puzzled.

"Don't even mention it. The moment my dad heard me come back and say that Su Jin and Su Cheng were also descendants of the Wu Clan, and both planned to Triple-Cultivate, he forced me to Triple-Cultivate too. He's out right now looking for a Spirit Refining Technique suited for me!

I really want to cry. I really can't Triple-Cultivate." Su Yunhu's face was full of misery.

He was having too hard a time.

Su Jin and the other two, hearing this, all laughed gleefully and mischievously.

Su Yunhu grew even more aggrieved: "You guys are going too far."

When everyone began cultivating, Su Jin directly picked a spot relatively far from everyone else, then took out her formation disk, inserted three spirit stones, and adjusted it to a First-Grade mid-grade spirit-gathering effect. She then ducked into the barrier and began Triple-Cultivating.

She split her mind into three, simultaneously running three kinds of Cultivation Techniques.

When running two Cultivation Techniques, she had already noticed her meridians' tolerance limit — every three days, it would increase by one point. Now that she was Triple-Cultivating, she could just see what the benefits of Triple-Cultivation actually were.

Cultivating three Techniques together required a total amount of spiritual energy far exceeding that of two Techniques. Surprisingly, from the very start, Triple-Cultivation could slightly increase the cultivation speed of all three Techniques.

And it wasn't just a slight increase in cultivation speed — her skin and membrane were being polished by the Body Tempering Technique, her Qi Refining Technique kept absorbing spiritual energy from the outside to hammer her magic power within, and her Spirit Refining Technique was also running automatically on its own. It seemed that with every cycle, it could grant her soul force a sliver of growth.

These three Cultivation Techniques were even faintly promoting each other, complementing and achieving one another. Even though this mutual promotion was quite weak, as her cultivation continued to grow, who knew what they might eventually promote each other into?

This was way too interesting.

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