The only drawback of this Cultivation Technique is that while Cultivation speed is incredibly fast when nourished by Qi and blood, it becomes slow without such nourishment, and there's even a tendency for it to regress.
Over the past three days, Changqing, Cultivating in Liu Lu's Dan Room, has already begun to feel this.
He even subtly developed a craving for absorbing fresh blood and plundering life.
This couldn't help but make him a little worried.
The side effects from Cultivating the Love Bond that Liu Lu taught him earlier still lingered; he occasionally felt consumed by lust.
At such times, only by continuing to Cultivate the Love Bond could he suppress this pain.
And the more he continued to Cultivate the Love Bond, the more frequently the feeling of being consumed by lust would come.
He had heard more than once that any Cultivator could only focus on Cultivating one Cultivation Technique; if they simultaneously Cultivated other Cultivation Techniques, at best they would interfere with each other and their Cultivation would regress, and at worst, they would suffer Qi Deviation and explode.
But these two Cultivation Techniques were like competing flowers within his body, both invisibly forcing Changqing to Cultivate them simultaneously.
The Blood Sea Other Shore was like sailing against the current—if you don't advance, you retreat—on one hand, it enticed people to continuously absorb Qi and blood for Cultivation with its incredibly fast Cultivation speed, and on the other hand, if you didn't absorb Qi and blood, your Cultivation would be difficult to advance, or even regress.
Changqing could imagine the chaotic times of ancient antiquity, how those Evil Path Blood Arts cultivators who practiced Blood Law gradually descended into depravity, becoming bloodthirsty Asura demons.
And the Love Bond, in an almost addictive way, forced him to continuously Cultivate.
Fortunately, at least for now, these two Cultivation Techniques had no direct conflict within his body.
"Then I'll just Cultivate them both for now," Changqing thought.
Cultivating the Blood Sea Other Shore would eventually turn one into a killer, and Cultivating the Love Bond would eventually turn one into a lust demon; neither of these were good things.
But for now, he couldn't get rid of either of them.
The most urgent task was how to escape; once out, he could find a solution. Hadn't Dan Ji mentioned something about Soul Cleansing Dew that could erase a Cultivator's acupoints and residual Cultivation Techniques, allowing one to start Cultivating from scratch?
Three days passed in a flash. After Liu Lu returned for a visit, Changqing took the opportunity to enter the Immortal Cave again.
During this time, Luo Hongyan came to find him, but Changqing didn't tell her much about his situation, only asking her not to worry and that he would naturally share the method to restrain the Blood Demon Spirit with her once he obtained it.
Although Hongyan was worried, she could only do as he said.
Entering the fleshy cavern within the Immortal Cave where the Ling Embryo was kept, the Ling Embryo seemed very excited to see Changqing, its many snake eyes darting around, its surrounding "tentacles" wriggling happily, and it called out, "Mom, Mom."
Changqing guessed that the Ling Embryo could probably sense the Bone Spike Spirit in his body, and since it was a Blood Law Spirit like the Blood Demon Spirit in Liu Lu's body, it mistook him for Liu Lu.
As before, he had the Ling Embryo open its mouth wide, then he entered, arriving before the Blood Pool where Dan Ji was imprisoned.
"Greetings, Master," Changqing said respectfully, removing his clothes and stepping into the Blood Pool.
The scene was somewhat comical, but after three days of Cultivation, he had grown accustomed to it.
Although Dan Ji was a half-naked, extremely alluring beauty, with his Heart-Nature, aside from occasionally glancing at her more than usual when the side effects of Cultivating the Love Bond flared up, he only regarded her as an old monster.
"Not bad. It seems your Cultivation has not been slacking these past three days. I thought you would at least fall to the Suddenly Eight Revolutions Realm, but I didn't expect you to maintain your original Cultivation. Rare, rare. Then today you can attempt to break through to the Chana Realm."
Changqing sat cross-legged, his body immersed in the Blood Pool, and an indescribable sense of pleasure instantly surged through his entire being.
He felt as if his body was a greedy sponge, continuously absorbing the Qi and blood from the pool.
"Master, I've been diligently practicing these past few days, but I still haven't been able to sense the formation of the Human Sea, Underworld, and Heavenly Palace within my body."
"No rush. I have my own methods. You just need to Cultivate according to the methods I've taught you. Once you advance to the Chana Realm, I will teach you how to Cultivate the six viscera and eight bowels."
After Dan Ji finished speaking, a bloody light flickered around her, and drops of extremely crimson vital blood slowly flowed from countless wounds on her body, trickling down her form.
"Come, sit beneath me and absorb this vital blood to help you break through your acupoints."
Changqing didn't waste words; Dan Ji, as a Venerable, specially releasing her vital blood would naturally be of immense benefit to his Cultivation.
Because she was suspended in mid-air, Changqing happened to sit between her legs, his shoulders propping up Dan Ji's feet.
A drop of blood, like a ruby, slid down Dan Ji's fair and slender thigh onto his shoulder.
Changqing initially thought it would be absorbed into his body like the fresh blood in the Blood Pool, but unexpectedly, that drop of blood was like a red-hot steel ball falling into ice, instantly melting a bloody hole in his flesh, and then falling into his body.
The blood drop that entered his body was not immediately absorbed; instead, it surged violently like a bullet shot into his body, churning his entire body's flesh and organs, causing immense pain.
He couldn't help but frown, but he gritted his teeth and endured, not uttering a sound.
But the next moment, another drop of blood slid from Dan Ji's body.
Immediately following, drop after drop of blood slid down, each one melting a bloody hole in Changqing's flesh upon contact. Before long, his head, shoulders, back, and legs—every place touched by a blood drop—were like a honeycomb, looking exceptionally terrifying.
What followed was a surge of Qi and blood and spiritual power within his body.
He was already at the Shuhua Nine Revolutions Cultivation, and after absorbing this vital blood, he directly reached the Peak of the Shuhua Nine Revolutions, just half a step away from the Chana Cultivation.
Next was breaking through the acupoints.
Breaking through acupoints was not exclusive to Blood Arts cultivators; all Cultivators needed to undergo this process during their Cultivation.
When one's Cultivation reached the Peak of the Ninth Turn of a certain Realm, it was necessary to break through acupoints for a Breakthrough.
The so-called breaking through acupoints is to use the abundant spiritual power within the body to break through the body's restraints, to break and then establish, allowing the body to accommodate more acupoints.
This process of breaking and then establishing was naturally excruciatingly painful, but at this moment, Changqing felt nothing special.
This was only because absorbing Dan Ji's vital blood was simply too painful, far exceeding the pain brought by breaking through acupoints.
The violent Qi and blood and spiritual power continuously scoured his entire body, and countless blood drops churned and stirred within him. He could only grit his teeth and absorb them, allowing these rapidly moving blood drops to slowly shrink until they disappeared.
If he had to describe this feeling, Changqing felt as if he was being repeatedly bombed by a fragmentation grenade inside his body, which was the most apt description.
Unconsciously, the last drop of vital blood also flowed into his body, and his body also became riddled with holes.
He gritted his teeth and persevered, his teeth almost shattered, yet he still didn't utter a sound.
It wasn't until all the blood drops within his body were absorbed that Changqing felt a warm current rise from below, rushing straight to his Heavenly Spirit, and the acupoints in his body turned from milky white to light blue.
Chana One Turn, success!
It wasn't over yet; the violent Qi and blood and spiritual power within his body still remained, once again impacting his acupoints.
Second Level of the Moment Realm, Breakthrough!