Chapter 54 The second rebirth

Leaving the back mountain of Xuanyuan Sect.

Li Zhi was satisfied and very happy.

I actually got three drops of the emperor's blood from Yan Ruyu. It was an unexpected gain.

He even hummed a little tune happily along the way.

"The sun winked at me, and the Taoist priest took me to see the fairies, a group of little fairies."

After happily following Duan Defei for hundreds of miles, Li Zhi suddenly stopped humming the tune.

Because Duan De didn't ask him for the emperor's blood along the way, it was really strange, so Li Zhi asked: "Uncle Taoist, do you want a drop of the emperor's blood?"

Duan De glared at him and said, "When did I ever need your filial piety? You should keep those three drops of Emperor's Blood for yourself. According to your physical strength, those three drops of blood are probably only enough for your body to undergo a complete transformation, and may not even be enough."

"What, three drops of the emperor's blood are only enough for me to transform once?" Li Zhi couldn't believe it.

That was the blood of the Great Emperor, how come it didn't look like it had much divine power? According to his understanding, just one drop would be enough for him to transform.

Could it be that the so-called great emperor's blood is not the great emperor's blood at all, but ordinary emperor's blood?

But even ordinary imperial blood can’t have just this little effect, right?

In fact, what Li Zhi didn't know was that the blood essence Yan Ruyu gave him was just the blood energy that drifted out of the Emperor's Heart and condensed again to form the Emperor's Blood. It was not the real blood essence of the Great Emperor that they squeezed directly from the Emperor's Heart.

Otherwise, even if the murderous aura had been completely wiped out, the blood of the emperor was not something that people of their level of cultivation could directly touch.

Duan De seemed to know the true effect of the three drops of Emperor's blood, but he did not explain it to Li Zhi. Instead, he said, "Who told you to eat a semi-divine medicine to build your foundation? You opened up the sea of ​​suffering larger than mine. I felt it was amazing that you did not explode and die."

A trace of confusion flashed across Li Zhi's eyes, and he asked, "Uncle Taoist, could this be a disease?"

Duan De smiled and said, "It's not a disease, it's just that you accidentally embarked on a single secret realm road that only the ancient great powers would choose. And it's not that after cultivating a secret realm, you continue to cultivate the secret realm road through life and death transformation.

Your current cultivation has just reached the Life Spring level, so the resources you need to consume are not many. When you form the Divine Bridge and reach the other side, the resources you need to consume for each transformation will be huge.

I don't know if you can collect enough cultivation resources to achieve nine consecutive transformations at the other shore level. According to my estimation, you need to collect at least three million jin worth of cultivation resources to achieve nine transformations at the other shore level."

"Do we really need so many sources?" Li Zhi asked in shock.

"No more, no less." Duan De said with certainty, "But don't be discouraged, boy. People in our line of work cannot be trapped by a few source stones. When you cultivate to the Divine Bridge realm and can truly fly long distances on the rainbow, you will find that in this vast East Wilderness, there are opportunities everywhere, almost countless. It is easy to gather three million kilograms of source stones."

Then, Li Zhi asked, "Uncle Taoist, are you leaving now?"

Duan De laughed and said, "You kid are still reluctant to leave me? Unfortunately, I am used to being alone, and I will not always keep a little burden like you by my side."

Li Zhi said, "I want to ask you to help me protect the law. I am planning to use up the three drops of the Great Emperor's blood now. If I get robbed, I will suffer a great loss. It is better to use it up early so that I can be more assured."

Duan De said, "Good boy, you know the principle of not showing off your wealth. That's fine, I will reluctantly protect you a little."

Li Zhi seemed to remember something, so he asked, "Uncle Taoist, do you have a good alchemy furnace? I have a prescription here that seems to be able to be tried with the three drops of the emperor's blood."

The prescription in his hand was what he obtained together with the Wanyu Furnace in the secret realm of Baixiantai in Qinling Mountains.

Another method of practicing the Changsheng Gong is to refine the essence and blood of all spirits, and then enhance one's own vitality through a blood bath, which is naturally assisted by prescriptions.

Duan De's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said, "Take out the prescription and let me see it."

Then, Li Zhi handed the prescription directly to him.

After studying it carefully for a while, Duan De said, "It's a very exquisite recipe. When used with the Great Emperor's blood essence, it can exert its greatest effect. It can not only transform you, but also strengthen your original vitality."

Li Zhi said embarrassedly: "Uncle Taoist priest, you see I have no money now, can I use this prescription to exchange for some medicinal materials with you?"

Duan De's eyes twitched a few times, and then he said, "So you are waiting for me here."

"Hehe, don't you know that you, Uncle Taoist, are extremely rich?" Li Zhi took advantage of his small stature and begged while hugging Duan De's thigh.

Duan De, who was hugged by the thigh, looked at Li Zhi's pretentious face and laughed, "You little brat, you actually plotted against me."

Li Zhitian said shamelessly: "It was all because of the Taoist uncle's teaching."

Then Duan De said, "Since the prescription is also useful to me, I will not do it again."

"Thank you, Uncle Taoist." Li Zhi immediately let go of Duan De's thigh and said with a smile.

"This is not a good place for retreat. Let's go to another place." Duan De said after looking at the surrounding environment.

After flying eastward for hundreds of miles, the two stopped in front of a huge lake.

The lake is broad, with boundless blue waves and mist as far as the eye can see, like a gem inlaid in the earth.

There is a lush forest around the lake, and the environment is very beautiful.

However, after landing, Duan De did not let Li Zhi practice directly. Instead, he looked at the flat terrain around him, a strange look appeared on his face, and he kept calculating something with his hands.

Seeing this, Li Zhi asked, "Uncle Taoist, did you find anything?"

Duan De's eyes flashed with doubt, and he said, "This place is ordinary, but I vaguely feel that it is quite extraordinary. It seems that there is a kind of immortal potential hidden in the ordinary. But after counting carefully, I can't find the slightest clue."

Li Zhi also looked at the surrounding terrain and said nonchalantly, "Master, you must be dazzled. There is no magical mountain here except for a lake."

Duan De nodded and said, "What you said makes sense. This place is only two days away from Taixuan Sect. Even if there are any hidden treasures, they have long been dug up by the monks of Taixuan Sect."

Afterwards, Duan De took out a purple-gold alchemy furnace and said, "This alchemy furnace is enough for you to refine your body."

Li Zhi said: "Uncle Taoist priest, I will trouble you from now on."

Then, he took out all the elixirs he had collected.

Since coming to Beidou, Li Zhi would pick the medicinal herbs recorded in the prescriptions whenever he came across them.

Most of the medicinal herbs were picked by him in the ancient forest.

Of course, those two hundred-year-old purple ginsengs were taken from someone else's medicinal field.

Seeing the herbs prepared by Li Zhi, Duan De showed a trace of relief and said, "You little brat has prepared a lot. In that case, I won't have to bleed so much."

Afterwards, Duan De also took out a dozen kinds of elixirs that Li Zhi was missing.

Then start the furnace to refine the medicine.

If Li Zhi were allowed to cook the medicine himself, it would be a rare achievement if he could only develop 30% of its medicinal power.

Once in Duan De's hands, at least 80% of its medicinal power could be developed.

When the pot of medicine liquid was boiled into a dark color, Duan De said to Li Zhi: "Now throw in those three drops of the emperor's blood." Li Zhi did as he pleased and directly threw the three crystals that sealed the emperor's blood into the furnace.

The medicine liquid in the furnace instantly turned scarlet, and a faint chaotic energy was visible in the furnace.

When the liquid medicine turned green, Duan De said, "Stinky boy, now is the time, jump in directly."

"Okay." Li Zhi jumped up and took off all his clothes in the air, then jumped into the furnace.

Upon seeing this, Duan De smiled slightly, then sealed the furnace lid to ensure that the medicinal power in the furnace would not leak out.

Afterwards, he sat in meditation and practiced Qi, looking at the lake next to him from time to time.

Duan De always felt that there was something in the lake, but at the same time, he felt that that thing was visible but untouchable, which made him feel very conflicted.

Li Zhi's transformation has also entered a critical period.

The emerald green medicinal liquid carries infinite vitality and seems to be mixed with chaotic essence.

At first, Li Zhi felt a joy that came from his soul.

But before long, he felt as if countless steel needles were pricking him.

It seems like it needs to be pierced from the inside out with a needle, just like pricking the meat with a needle before grilling it to allow the seasoning to absorb better.

This is how Li Zhi feels now.

The medicine was like the seasoning, and he was the pickled meat.

The piercing pain and the soul-touching pleasure intertwined with each other, making Li Zhi feel both painful and happy.

However, this alternating torture caused his body to begin to escape unconsciously and instinctively.

His body kept churning in the medicinal liquid, occasionally hitting the alchemy furnace.

Outside, after hearing the heavy banging sound coming from the alchemy furnace, Duan De quickly sent out a divine power to protect the alchemy furnace from being smashed by Li Zhi.

Then he said, "Keep your mind focused, practice the profound skills silently, and don't be anxious or impatient."

Duan De's voice was like a huge bell, and it went directly into Li Zhi's mind through the alchemy furnace.

Then Li Zhi immediately sat cross-legged in the medicine liquid, and subconsciously began to practice the breathing method recorded in the book Stealing Heaven's Secret.

The reason why he did not practice the Xiantian Longevity Skill was that he subconsciously felt that practicing the breathing method at this time could bring out the effect of the medicine liquid to the extreme.

Sure enough, after he began to practice the Far-rotation Breathing Method, his body no longer instinctively avoided the erosion of the medicinal liquid.

Instead, it felt like it was filled with a hunger that came from within, and it began to continuously absorb the powerful medicinal power from the liquid medicine.

Soon, Li Zhi seemed to be wrapped in a emerald green cocoon of life.

Seeing that Li Zhi in the alchemy furnace had fallen into calm, Duan De curiously used his spiritual sense to observe Li Zhi's changes.

He was surprised to find that most of the medicinal liquid was not used by Li Zhi to improve his cultivation. Instead, more than 90% of the medicinal power was transforming his body.

I don’t know how much time had passed, but as the emerald green liquid turned gray-black, almost all of the medicinal power was absorbed by Li Zhi.

His body also changed from a muscular child of eight or nine years old to a fair and tender chubby boy of five or six years old with some baby fat on his face.

The eight abdominal muscles that were originally developed through 10,000-mile weighted long-distance running have all disappeared.

Even the flesh on her face is bouncy and bouncy when pinched.

However, hidden within this small body of just over one meter, he possesses a terrifying power of over 80,000 kilograms of divine strength in a single arm.

And from the outside, he doesn't look strong at all.

It seemed that all the qi and blood in the body had been condensed to the extreme, and no more excess qi and blood was leaking out.

Moreover, all the essence and blood in his body had transformed into half red and half silver.

The whole person exudes a strong vitality, like an enlarged version of a ginseng doll.

Afterwards, the Changsheng Locking Body Technique in Li Zhi's body began to operate autonomously, and then broke through several levels and directly ascended to the third level of Locking the God.

The first layer locks the qi, the second layer locks the blood, and the third layer locks the soul.

Even if one used divine sense to scan his body, one could not discover the tremendous energy, blood and divine power hidden in Li Zhi.

During this process, the Life Spring passively moved down a distance of dozens of meters.

It has almost reached the middle stage of Life Spring.

Li Zhi took out his Taoist robe and put it on, then he opened the stove lid and jumped out.

Jumped directly into the lake to clean up.

Duan De saw the reborn Li Zhi and said with a smile: "You look so festive now, plump and white. You have some of the charm I had when I was a child."

Li Zhi only then noticed his change and said with a wailing look on his face: "Will I never grow up?"

Duan De laughed and scolded, "Rejuvenation is an opportunity that many people would wish for, yet you are showing disdain for it. If those old men heard about it, they would probably peel off your skin."

Li Zhi came out of the lake and used his divine power to evaporate the moisture on his Taoist robe. He then said, "Uncle Taoist priest, shall we go and do something big?"

Duan De said: "What do you think?"

Li Zhi said: "This place is not far from Taixuan Gate. I heard that one of the nine secrets, the word 'Jie', is engraved on the Zhuofeng Peak of Taixuan Gate. Let's go there and steal it."

Duan De said, "Good boy, you may not be big, but you are very brave. Do you think I have never been there? When I first climbed up the Zhuo Peak, I was almost discovered by the old monk on the mountain. If you want to go, go by yourself. I will not accompany you."

Li Zhi said, "Uncle Taoist priest, are you leaving?"

Duan De said: "I have already spent five months protecting you. If I don't leave now, when will I go?"

After saying that, Duan De put away the alchemy furnace and turned into a rainbow and left.

Li Zhi was left standing on the shore, staring at the sky in a daze.

Just go when you want, how free and easy.

When will he be able to travel around the world freely like Duan De without fear of any danger?

(End of this chapter)