Chapter 6

Li Xiangdong opened the few bottles and poured all the beast blood into the jade gourd. This jade gourd was no larger than a pendant, but those glass bottles were all one-liter bottles, each filled with beast blood. Logically, this jade gourd should not be able to hold so much beast blood.

However, as he poured it in, Li Xiangdong realized that this gourd was like a bottomless pit, capable of holding as much as he poured in, without any refusal. After all the beast blood was poured in, the space inside the gourd seemed to still have room to spare.

There was no time to figure out how much space was left in the jade gourd. He directly took the soul-capturing talismans that had absorbed the beast souls and threw them into the jade gourd, then closed the lid.

Li Xiangdong locked the door, returned to the bed, and tightly gripped the jade gourd. He closed his eyes and focused, following the memory left by the Pillar of the Sea in his mind to activate the gourd and begin the alchemy process.

He muttered incantations, chanting the talisman spells. At the end, he suddenly opened his eyes, bit his tongue, and spat a mouthful of blood onto the gourd. The gourd, which had already gradually turned from emerald green to blood red, suddenly turned purplish red, and its size increased by more than double. It then slowly floated up from the bed into the air.

Li Xiangdong opened his eyes wide, staring at the jade gourd without letting go, his mind racing, and he did not dare to stop chanting the talisman spells.

The heavy rain continued for a whole day and night before it finally stopped. When the rain outside ceased, the surrounding forests echoed with bird calls. Li Xiangdong opened his eyes. This was his first time refining pills, and he had spent a whole day and night on it.

He stood up, stretched his limbs, and looked at the bed. On the bed were a few items. The jade gourd was no longer as large as before but had become smaller, only the size of a pendant, and it was still emerald green, with an additional blood-red thread.

Li Xiangdong opened the gourd and poured its contents into his palm. In his palm were four pills, each the size of a mung bean. They were yellow, green, blue, and white, four different colors, and they carried a strange medicinal fragrance. Li Xiangdong smiled inwardly, it was done. These were the key to enhancing his physical constitution, the Beast Pills!

Li Xiangdong couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva. Without much thought, he swallowed the Beast Pills and returned to the bed to continue meditating.

Soon, the power of the pills began to circulate and refine within his body. Li Xiangdong felt his entire body become hot. The power of the pills grew stronger, carrying the strength of several beast souls, and began to surge wildly within his body.

Li Xiangdong knew he had entered a critical breakthrough. A set of cultivation techniques left by the Pillar of the Sea suddenly flashed in his mind: the Supreme Self Cultivation Technique!

Now was the time to strive to improve himself and enter the realm of cultivation. At this crucial moment, he must keep his mind clear, grit his teeth, and not lose his composure.

Otherwise, a single misstep could lead to a disastrous outcome, such as going astray and being irreversibly damaged.

The incantations of the Supreme Self Cultivation Technique flashed through Li Xiangdong's mind. He guarded his mind, ensuring it remained clear and empty, and then ignored the strange forces colliding and surging within his body.

His body became increasingly hot, and the strange forces within him surged wildly. Li Xiangdong endured the intense pain, maintaining his mental clarity.

At some point, he suddenly entered a mysterious state. A stream of heat suddenly arose in his dantian and naturally began to circulate along the small heavenly cycle path within his body. A diagram suddenly flashed in his mind, showing the meridians of a person sitting cross-legged.

In this person's body, five different colors of qi were circulating. One red stream was moving along a regular path, while the other four were surging wildly.

The white stream of qi traveled throughout his body, surging wildly and most dominantly, eventually forcefully breaking through many meridians and acupoints that had not been previously opened.

According to normal theory, this was already a state of going astray. Although the meridians and acupoints were opened, they were not naturally opened but forcibly broken through.

Even if the meridians were opened, they would inevitably be damaged, and there was a possibility that they would be re-blocked due to muscle tissue damage.

However, after the white qi broke through the meridians, a blue qi immediately followed to consolidate and repair the broken meridians and acupoints, apparently doing consolidation and expansion work. With the repair and expansion by this blue qi, the intense pain caused by the violent breakthrough seemed to ease significantly.

When the blue qi finished repairing the newly opened meridians throughout his body, it, like the white qi, dispersed into his meridians and acupoints.

The last two streams of yellow and green qi then used the channels opened and reinforced by the white and blue qi to directly surge up to his forehead, one heading straight to his eyes and the other to his ears and nose.

After a series of tingling sensations, there came an indescribable sense of comfort.

Li Xiangdong suddenly woke up, realizing that the power of the four Beast Pills had helped him open seventy-two major meridians and acupoints, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

He hadn't expected the power of the Beast Pills to be so dominant. No wonder the Pillar of the Sea had repeatedly emphasized that to cultivate the family's ancestral techniques, one must use such Beast Pills to enhance physical constitution, originally to open the major heavenly cycle!

Li Xiangdong slowly opened his eyes. It was still a sunny day outside, but he knew that it had been a whole day and night since he had taken the Beast Pills!

In just two days and nights, he had transformed from a completely clueless ordinary person into a master who had broken through the major heavenly cycle. Truly, this was a shortcut to cultivation!

Li Xiangdong couldn't contain his joy. According to his understanding, if a martial cultivator wanted to reach the major heavenly cycle realm, it would take several decades of cultivation, and even then, they might not achieve the same effect.

Thinking of his newly achieved divine skill, Li Xiangdong couldn't suppress his joy and suddenly stood up from the bed. However, upon standing up, he noticed the changes in his body.

Originally, he had worn a simple set of undergarments while practicing on the bed, but now those undergarments were completely torn to shreds, and his body was covered in a thick, foul-smelling layer of black oil.

It seemed that during the cultivation process, his body had been re-tempered by the qi of the Beast Pills, forcing out all the harmful impurities from his body.