Chapter 161: Ruins Realm of the Blood Sea, Divine Treasury Realm

Chen Mo sat cross-legged in the cultivation chamber; he did not rush to inventory his spoils immediately, but instead smoothly entered the state of fetal respiration.

Previously, to finish off the Prince of Pingxi, he had further stimulated his own energy and blood, erupting with 1.6 million jin of force.

This already exceeded his normal state and the limits his physical body could bear; since Chen Mo had used such a lethal move, it was impossible for him not to have sustained hidden injuries.

On the surface, it did not look like there was any major problem, and it did not even affect his subsequent actions.

Only he himself knew that his internal organs had indeed suffered some slight, minor tremors.

If he had unleashed another hundred or so strikes with that kind of power at the time, the hidden injuries he suffered would undoubtedly have been much more severe, even directly affecting his own combat strength.

Fortunately, the Prince of Pingxi's strength was not high and could only withstand one of his strikes; if his strength had been a few points higher, Chen Mo would likely have been injured while killing him.

Chen Mo's physical body entered the state of fetal respiration, his Qi and Blood circulating as one, just like a fetus.

All of this was but a trance; when he regained his focus, his physical body had already returned to a perfect state.

After conditioning his body, Chen Mo finally began to tally his gains from this time.

He had killed quite a few people this time; besides the Prince of Pingxi, an Innate Martial Artist, there were six other Post-Heaven Martial Artists and a large number of Meridian-Opening Martial Artists.

And because they were preparing to flee, even though time was rushed, those Post-Heaven and Meridian-Opening Martial Artists had actually carried quite a bit of gold, silver, and valuables.

Chen Mo naturally did not care much for these gold and silver notes; with his current status and position, he was not lacking in such things.

However, he still sorted them out separately, preparing to go back and exchange them for Mirage Spirits, Blood Essence Stones, or cultivation pills.

These things could of course be bought with silver, but the prices were unstable, and the quantity one could buy was limited.

At the end of the day, these things were cultivation resources; only those Martial Artists who, limited by their talent, could no longer improve would exchange these items for gold and silver to enjoy.

Still, a mosquito's leg is still meat; having more is always better than having none.

Besides this, he harvested a total of 237 Blood Essence Stones, 271 Mirage Spirits of various kinds, and two Storage Bags.

There were three weapons of various types, each of excellent material, and their value was definitely not low.

As for the Dharma Artifacts used by cultivators, there were none, which was normal; most of the Martial Artists he killed this time came from the Imperial Court.

They were not like Demonic Path Martial Artists who had trouble finding places to sell Dharma Artifacts after obtaining them; they could easily exchange these items for cultivation resources.

In addition, there was one more weapon; this weapon was found by Chen Mo inside the Prince of Pingxi's storage bag.

Its style was unique, only a little over a foot long, and it was a small sword with a peculiar design.

Chen Mo channeled his True Qi into it, and in the darkness, he could feel a sense of summoning.

This small sword was like a compass, pointing toward a very distant location; as long as he followed its direction, he could reach that place.

Chen Mo's current speculation was that the place this small sword pointed to was very likely the Ruins Realm where the Prince of Pingxi obtained his power.

This was only his speculation, but as he searched through the miscellaneous items found in the Prince of Pingxi's storage bag, he found a map that recorded in detail the location of that Ruins Realm.

Situated between the passes of the Imperial Court and the Alien Races, this Ruins Realm was named by the Prince of Pingxi as the Blood Sea.

Chen Mo searched through all of the Prince of Pingxi's miscellaneous items and finally found a thin little booklet.

Most of what was recorded inside were miscellaneous talks and such information, with a small portion roughly recording the situation of the Blood Sea.

As a Ruins Realm, the Blood Sea looked like a small pool from the outside; only by sinking to the bottom of the pool could one reach the Blood Sea.

Leaving was also very simple: follow the direction from which one entered and walk through the air upward to depart.

It was just that without Post-Heaven cultivation, one could only stay in the Blood Sea forever, unable to leave, and eventually be gradually converted into a creature of the Blood Sea.

The Blood Sea had an extremely strong assimilative nature; all creatures that stepped into it would be continuously converted, and only the strong could remain unharmed for a short time.

As for the weak, they would unconsciously be converted into creatures of the Blood Sea, becoming a part of the Blood Sea.

The Blood Sea was extremely vast, spanning over a thousand miles in length and width; it truly deserved the name "Sea."

The Blood Sea birthed ten thousand creatures; aside from being entirely composed of blood, it was not much different from the outside world.

Furthermore, there was a powerful creature within the Blood Sea, revered as the Lord of the Blood Sea.

According to the Prince of Pingxi's records, the Lord of the Blood Sea was extremely powerful, far exceeding any peak Innate expert he had ever seen.

Moreover, the other party could mobilize the terrifyingly vast power of the Blood Sea; while within the Blood Sea, it could be said to be an invincible existence.

In addition to the geographical location and a general introduction to the situation of the Blood Sea.

The Prince of Pingxi also roughly recorded the rules of this Ruins Realm; the first point was that one must never mention the Blood Sea while there.

The creatures within the Blood Sea also possessed intelligence; they did not believe they lived in a Ruins Realm or the Blood Sea, but still believed they lived within the Great Gan.

There were even relatively stable cities, government offices, and common people there.

When the Prince of Pingxi stepped inside and revealed his identity, he was even welcomed by the officials there.

But when he asked one person about the situation there, that person suddenly went mad.

The Prince of Pingxi pondered it over and over; everything else was perfectly normal, but only when he mentioned the surrounding environment and the vast Blood Sea did that person suddenly become deranged and start attacking him.

Not only could one not mention the words "Blood Sea," but one must also not mention the surrounding situation, and one must remember that everything seen before one's eyes was normal and absolutely not composed of blood.

Furthermore, all situations occurring within the Blood Sea must be treated as normal.

One should try one's best to treat it as a normal world; only in this way could one avoid alarming other creatures of the Blood Sea.

The booklet also mentioned that the Prince of Pingxi had reached some kind of cooperation with the Lord of the Blood Sea; as for what the specific cooperation was, it was not written in detail.

Chen Mo could roughly guess some of this, and he could even guess the method by which the Prince of Pingxi allowed the Blood Sea to envelop the world and let the common people of the world survive.

That was to turn everyone into creatures of the Blood Sea, so they could live within the Blood Sea; although they were no longer human, they would at least have a breath of life remaining.

It was just that as for the specific situation of surviving in this way, Chen Mo did not know.

Furthermore, the two rules above were only the rules that had already been discovered.

There were many other more bizarre situations that the Prince of Pingxi was still unclear about.

Therefore, no matter what kind of situation one saw inside, one had to treat it as commonplace, otherwise, it might invite disaster.

Additionally, he mentioned that there was a spiritual object in the Blood Sea called the Xuelin Guo, which contained extremely pure Blood Qi power, allowing Martial Artists to nourish their physical bodies upon consumption.

This was all of the Prince of Pingxi's records regarding the Blood Sea; there were inevitably many details, but he did not specifically mention them.

As for his transaction with that Lord of the Blood Sea, Chen Mo could only roughly guess that it should have been an exchange of certain things for the power of the Blood Sea.

From that wisp of dark red aura, one could discern a few clues.

He put the map, the short sword, and those books recording the Xue Hai Xu Jing into his Storage Bag.

Chen Mo then took out that wisp of dark red Blood Qi; it had been completely suppressed, yet it had never been extinguished.

The power contained within this wisp of dark red aura was incomparably pure and vigorous.

If he could refine it, he would certainly be able to replenish a great deal of Qi and Blood for the Transformation Pearl.

Since the general location of the Xue Hai Xu Jing had already been determined, the purpose of keeping this wisp of aura was not significant.

Moreover, the Lord of the Blood Sea had made a deal with the Prince of Pingxi; if he were to carry this wisp of aura to meet the Lord of the Blood Sea, there might instead be a certain risk, so it was better to refine it into his own resources as soon as possible.

Chen Mo immediately took action, drawing this aura into his body.

Just as he was about to send it into the Transformation Pearl, he felt in the dark that this aura had a great attraction to his physical body.

For his current physical body to produce such a reaction could only mean that this aura was of great help to his own cultivation.

However, absorbing it rashly might be dangerous.

Chen Mo pondered slightly and still decided to first try refining it with the phantom of the Heaven and Earth Furnace within his Mysterious Aperture.

Compared to charging the Transformation Pearl, it was more important now to let his physical cultivation break through into the Shencang Realm.

He would try to absorb it himself first, and if that did not work, he would then use the Transformation Pearl to refine it.

Chen Mo carefully sent that wisp of aura into his own Mysterious Aperture; the phantom of the Heaven and Earth Furnace, formed by Blood Qi, was instantly mobilized by him, and the boundless power of Qi and Blood converged, beginning to suppress and refine that wisp of aura.

The Blood Qi was like a river, surging within Chen Mo's body and constantly gathering toward the Mysterious Aperture.

That wisp of dark red aura was still struggling constantly, wanting to escape from this place.

Yet, Chen Mo's Blood Qi was vigorous, even surpassing that of a top-tier Innate Martial Artist.

That aura dashed left and right, but it was always suppressed within the Mysterious Aperture.

This wisp of aura not only contained extremely pure Blood Qi power but also carried a trace of power similar to the Heaven and Earth Mechanism.

The Heaven and Earth Mechanism could be said to be the aura emitted by the Heavenly Law.

And this aura was the same; it should have been a gift from the Lord of the Blood Sea, containing a wisp of Blood Sea law, which was later absorbed into the body by the Prince of Pingxi, and fusing with it could briefly increase one's combat power.

It was just that his physical Qi and Blood were too weak, and he did not have a Heaven and Earth Furnace, so he could only use it but could not completely refine it.

Or rather, it was not just him; apart from Chen Mo, other Innate Martial Artists could not do this.

Even if there were Innate Martial Artists who also practiced the Xuanhuang Indestructible Body, their physical foundation was definitely not as strong as Chen Mo's, and they could not mobilize sufficiently powerful Blood Qi to suppress this wisp of aura.

The power contained within the dark red aura began to be constantly worn away under the scouring of the vast, wave-like Blood Qi, dissolving into the Heaven and Earth Furnace.

The phantom of the Heaven and Earth Furnace within the Mysterious Aperture became increasingly solid, with streaks of blood-colored Divine Patterns covering it, emitting a brilliant treasure light.

Countless Divine Patterns constructed several mysterious symbols; these symbols could be said to be formed by the combination of the Heavenly Law and Chen Mo's physical Blood Qi, and they were symbols unique to him alone.

The mysterious symbols intertwined, and the phantom of the Heaven and Earth Furnace began to truly solidify, swallowing Heaven and Earth Power into his body from between heaven and earth at a speed like a storm.

The Mysterious Aperture transformed into a Shencang; this Shencang was named the Heaven and Earth Furnace, capable of containing boundless Heaven and Earth Power and turning it into resources for his own cultivation.

The Shencang Realm was an extremely mysterious realm where a Martial Artist further excavated their physical body inward, stimulating their physical potential to the limit.

It was different from a Qi Refiner who observed the flow of the Dao of heaven and earth and grasped the Heaven and Earth Power, and it was also different from an Innate Martial Artist who accommodated the Heaven and Earth Mechanism into their body to then borrow the Heaven and Earth Trend.

The Shencang Realm was a way of seizing the essence from the Da Tiandi in a nearly brutal manner to enter the body, thoroughly turning the power of heaven and earth into one's own use.

As the Heaven and Earth Furnace operated, the Heaven and Earth Power within the entire Inner City was being constantly pulled and absorbed by Chen Mo.

This naturally caused countless people to be shocked, constantly casting side-glances at this place.

Some Martial Artists who were in a state of cultivation were even suddenly interrupted by this vibration.

Just as they wanted to curse out loud, they sensed that it was Chen Mo's mansion that was absorbing the Heaven and Earth Power, so they only dared to grumble in their hearts.

Chu Tianxiu had an even greater reaction; he knew that for the Heaven and Earth Power to have such a reaction, it could only mean that Chen Mo was breaking through his cultivation again.

But Chen Mo had clearly just broken through to the Innate Realm, and it had not even been a few months by any calculation.

Now he had broken through again; even if it was only a minor realm, this cultivation speed was a bit too fast.

He really wanted to catch Chen Mo now to see what kind of freak he was to be able to cultivate so quickly.

But in the current situation, no matter how anxious he was, he could not leave the Wanfa Tower at will.

He could only wait for Chen Mo to finish his seclusion and then find a way to have someone pass a message to him, asking him to come to the Wanfa Tower for a talk.

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The Mysterious Aperture was the location of the human body's essence and Qi; its sublimation and transformation naturally drove the overall change of Chen Mo's physical body.

The power of Qi and Blood surged and churned, beginning to further improve; although this time it was an improvement purely brought about by the cultivation technique.

But this kind of improvement was also a physical transformation and sublimation, so his physical foundation also became further strengthened in this process.

Chen Mo could now perceive very carefully that his own Qi and Blood power was 83,783 jin.

This number was extremely accurate because he could now perfectly control his physical body.

The boundless Heaven and Earth Power was still constantly entering his body, and Chen Mo frantically absorbed these powers to supplement the Heaven and Earth Furnace he had just formed.

The Mysterious Aperture transformed into a true Heaven and Earth Furnace; his current speed of absorbing Heaven and Earth Power from the outside was sixteen or seventeen times greater than before.

And this was only the initial sublimation; with the subsequent cultivation, Chen Mo could further excavate the potential of the Mysterious Aperture, allowing it to display more miraculous aspects.

Having opened the Mysterious Aperture Shencang and feeling the Heaven and Earth Power filling his body at every moment, Chen Mo could not help but reveal a smile.

Next, he still had two choices: one was to let these Heaven and Earth Powers replenish the Qi and Blood power for the Transformation Pearl.

The second was to send these Heaven and Earth Powers into other parts of his physical body to excavate the next Shencang; he could choose this location himself.

Hands, legs, eyes, and ears were all possible.

Every time a Shencang was excavated, his own combat power would go up another level.

However, Chen Mo did not hesitate on this point and still sent these refined Heaven and Earth powers into the Transformation Pearl.

Bringing transformation to himself first, and after the transformation, he could improve his cultivation faster; this was the choice with the highest cost-effectiveness.

It was just that this wisp of dark red aura within the Blood Sea could bring such a great benefit to himself; looking at it this way, he had to make a trip to this Blood Sea.

See if he could strike a deal with the Lord of the Blood Sea and exchange for more of this aura from it.

With a decision made in his heart, Chen Mo took out those Blood Essence Stones and the Mirage Spirit, continuously refining them to replenish the Qi and Blood for the Transformation Pearl.

(End of chapter)