Chapter 80

In the stone cave, Hua Xiajiu was naturally unaware of everything that had happened on the moon.

The blood soul that the middle-aged man had implanted in his brow was silently divided between his soul form and the blood-colored light on the Altar of the Nether God when it entered the sea of souls. Hua Xiajiu was completely unaware of this.

After a moment, Hua Xiajiu slowly opened his bloodshot eyes, his expression exhausted, but the joy in his heart was hard to hide.

Hard work pays off. After enduring the excruciating pain of tearing the scripture and splitting the soul, Hua Xiajiu finally succeeded in refining the most important part of the *Nether God Sutra*—the casting of the Altar of the Nether God. Unexpectedly, he also used the faint power of faith to form a weak divine soul.

According to the *Nether God Sutra*, one should wait until the soul form becomes more powerful and solid after forming a pill in the true essence lake before daring to split the soul and cast the Altar of the Nether God. However, Hua Xiajiu's soul form was far stronger than that of others at the same realm, even not weaker than that of ordinary middle-stage Pill Formation Realm cultivators, which is why he succeeded.

Additionally, this action brought two changes to Hua Xiajiu.

First, the total soul energy of his soul form decreased by one percent, but the refinement and density unexpectedly skyrocketed after the soul split, already not weaker than that of the late-stage Pill Formation Realm. This was naturally due to the soul form absorbing half of the blood soul's energy.

This was of no less importance to Hua Xiajiu than successfully forming a pill. It was known that with Hua Xiajiu's ability to easily increase soul energy, the volume and total amount were not difficult, but making it more refined and dense was a very troublesome and laborious task.

The second change was that the five meridians from his neck up to his entire head, due to repeated ruptures and regenerations, had become several times more resilient and flexible. Although this situation did not seem to have any immediate benefits, it might bring unexpected benefits to Hua Xiajiu in future cultivation.

What excited Hua Xiajiu the most was that according to the *Nether God Sutra*, as long as the Altar of the Nether God was cast in the sea of souls, he could perform a derived mystical technique.

This mystical technique was called Sacrifice, extremely vicious and evil. Specifically, it involved extracting the life force of others and using it to refine and nourish the Altar of the Nether God. Although the purpose seemed to be to refine one's own altar, it caused extremely terrifying damage to the enemy.

However, in Hua Xiajiu's view, the Sacrifice technique did not feel at all vicious or evil. He only knew that this mystical technique was a powerful and hard-to-defend skill.

The Sacrifice technique was the first mystical technique Hua Xiajiu learned, and it was an extremely powerful one. This was also the main reason why Hua Xiajiu was willing to take great risks and cultivate the Altar of the Nether God without being fully confident.

At this moment, Hua Xiajiu felt physically weak, or rather, extremely weak, but his soul and spirit were full.

The physical weakness and frailty were naturally due to the true essence lake in his dantian being completely empty, with no true essence at all. The fullness of his soul and spirit was due to the refinement of his soul form and the excitement of his mental state.

Hua Xiajiu suppressed his excitement. Feeling the empty dantian, he prepared to immediately begin cultivating the *Netherworld Sutra*.

In the stone cave, Hua Xiajiu flipped his hand, and thousands of spirit stones appeared around his body, casually piled up around him.

In the next moment, he casually picked up a spirit stone in each hand, closed his eyes again, and his soul consciousness spread out in all directions. The soul consciousness, equivalent to that of a late-stage Pill Formation Realm cultivator, quickly detected from his cave and covered several miles around, then sensed the spiritual energy in the world and began to absorb it according to the *Netherworld Divine Technique* through his seven orifices and pores.

With a loud boom, it was as if a spiritual energy storm had erupted, and countless spiritual forces and energies surged into Hua Xiajiu's seven orifices.

Hua Xiajiu's whole body trembled, and he was startled. Fortunately, his mind was extremely resolute, and he quickly began to circulate the *Netherworld Divine Technique*.

Although the *Netherworld Divine Technique* was not as profound as the *Nether God Sutra*, it was much deeper than the *Heavenly One Soul Refining Technique* that Hua Xiajiu had previously cultivated, so the speed of absorbing spiritual energy was much faster.

However, the sudden surge of so much spiritual energy into his body and the rapid absorption speed were intentional on Hua Xiajiu's part. Hua Xiajiu, who had thoroughly comprehended the *Netherworld Divine Technique*, knew that this was precisely the reason for the upper, middle, and lower grades of true essence, and the fundamental basis for achieving the quality of true essence.

As a profound cultivation technique practiced by the Netherworld lineage of the Purple Nether Sect, the *Netherworld Divine Technique* had, over ten thousand years, seen the quality of true essence formed in the Spirit Condensation Realm greatly influenced by one's talent and opportunities.

Talent, apart from the soul form, mainly referred to the meridians.

According to the *Netherworld Divine Technique*, the more spiritual energy the body's meridians could withstand at once, the more refined and higher quality the true essence formed after circulation and compression. The amount of spiritual energy the meridians could withstand was naturally related to their resilience and flexibility.

Opportunities, on the other hand, referred to external forces. The true essence formed by the *Netherworld Divine Technique* tended to be cold and yin. If one could absorb the legendary Netherworld Qi while absorbing spiritual energy, it would be half the effort for double the result, easily forming high-quality true essence, and even the legendary supreme-quality true essence. However, since the Netherworld Qi was listed as a legendary substance, it was extremely rare and precious.

The Netherworld Qi was naturally very difficult to obtain, but yin energy, which had some similar properties, was relatively abundant in the human world. Although yin energy was also considered precious in the human world, with the Purple Nether Sect's thousand-year foundation, they used some yin-attribute heavenly treasures and yin stones to set up a great yin-gathering array, making the Netherworld Mountain filled with absorbable yin energy. This was also why the area behind the stone door on Netherworld Mountain was always shrouded in a yin mist.

Netherworld lineage inner disciples cultivating the *Netherworld Divine Technique* in the great yin-gathering array had many benefits, one of which was that regardless of the quality of their meridians, they could at least form middle-grade black true essence in the Spirit Condensation Realm.

However, Hua Xiajiu was completely unaware of the great yin-gathering array and the absorption of yin energy. His master, Yougui, was an anomaly on Netherworld Mountain and had not cultivated the *Netherworld Divine Technique* before reaching the Dao Inquiry Realm, so there was no process of condensing spirit and absorbing yin. Therefore, in the vast cultivation information passed down to Hua Xiajiu, this matter was not mentioned.

After Hua Xiajiu came to Netherworld Mountain, the only two people he had met and interacted with, Bai Xiangzhu and Ma Dao, did not think of this matter, or perhaps they thought it should be mentioned by his master, so they did not think to tell Hua Xiajiu.

As a result, during the cultivation of the *Netherworld Divine Technique*, Hua Xiajiu did not absorb any yin energy. Fortunately, the resilience and flexibility of his meridians far exceeded that of the Spirit Condensation Realm, so for now, it only slowed down his cultivation speed.

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