When Changqing slowly woke up, he clearly felt the difference in his body.
Inside him, there seemed to be something new, and his breathing, coordination, and senses had all changed from before.
"You're awake. You're quite lucky to have Cultivated the Earth Palace Viscera in one go, meeting my requirements. You've officially entered the sect."
Dan Ji's voice came from above. Changqing quickly got up.
"It's all thanks to Master's guidance."
"No need for pleasantries. Time is short. Now that you've Cultivated the Earth Palace Viscera, quickly take an oath with the Blood Oath Spirit."
After Dan Ji finished speaking, a deep purple light emanated from her chest. Changqing reached out and pulled a worm with a deep purple glow from Dan Ji's chest.
The worm was slender, only as thick as a noodle, and covered in dense red tentacles, looking like a centipede.
The deep purple glow proved that this Blood Oath Spirit was actually an Earth Spirit. Earth Spirits are already quite valuable, and considering this Blood Oath Spirit can only be used once to bind one person to an oath, and their numbers are extremely scarce, it's no wonder even Dan Ji said it was precious.
"This Blood Oath Spirit requires you to inject your Spirit Power and essence blood into it, and then take an oath. It will dissipate once the oath is fulfilled, but remember not to violate the oath. You can't even entertain the thought of violating it, or you will turn into a puddle of blood. Do you understand?"
"Master, there's no need to say more. We agreed on this long ago. This Disciple will not have second thoughts."
"Good Disciple, then take the oath."
Changqing nodded, injecting Spirit Power into the Blood Oath Spirit in his hand, then pricked his finger and dripped a drop of essence blood.
"I, Lingyu Changqing, swear that as long as I obtain the Hundred Flowers Token and help Luo Hongyan leave the Hundred Flowers Cave, I will first free Master Dan Ji before leaving the Hundred Flowers Cave. If I do not release Master, I am willing to turn into a puddle of blood."
The Blood Oath Spirit shook a few times, then quickly escaped Changqing's control and drilled into his ear.
Dan Ji said with great satisfaction, "It seems, Disciple, that your heart is truly sincere. Since that's the case, I will teach you the method to restrain the Blood Demon Spirit."
With that, a light blue glow once again lit up on her chest. Changqing reached out and took out an Imperial Spirit.
This Imperial Spirit was another Blood Law Spirit, because beneath the glow, it was a fleshy mass shaped like a stomach.
"This Spirit is called the Blood Storage Spirit. It can store a portion of Blood Qi. The one I've given you is already filled with my Blood Qi. This Spirit is a Medium Grade Mystic Spirit, requiring over fifty acupoints to bear. You need to place it within your Earth Palace Viscera to control it."
Seeing its appearance, Changqing recalled how he had refined the Blood Healing Spirit before, so he opened his mouth and swallowed it. The Blood Storage Spirit indeed went down his esophagus and eventually settled in his chest and abdomen, within an unfamiliar organ.
Changqing speculated that this was likely the Earth Palace Viscera he had newly refined.
Just like with the Blood Healing Spirit and Flying Whirlwind Spirit, Changqing didn't need to refine it. He merely injected some Spirit Power and could already sense the Blood Storage Spirit within him, waiting for his command.
"Do you know why I insisted you Cultivate the Earth Palace Viscera before I taught you the method to restrain the Blood Demon Spirit?"
"This Disciple understands. Because this Blood Storage Spirit is the key to restraining the Blood Demon Spirit. This Disciple's cultivation is low; if not for refining the Earth Palace Viscera, I would have to Cultivate to the Sixth Revolution of an Instant or above to use it."
"Hmm, you are quite clever. My efforts for you were not in vain."
Pah, Changqing cursed inwardly. If he hadn't sworn with the Blood Oath Spirit, Dan Ji would never have told him how to restrain the Blood Demon Spirit. Now that she was satisfied after he swore, she was back to being sanctimonious.
"Do you know what the Blood Demon Spirit is?"
Changqing shook his head.
"The Blood Demon Spirit is an extremely dangerous Earth Spirit. If its drawbacks are not considered, the Blood Demon Spirit's power is even comparable to most Heavenly Spirits."
"The Blood Demon Spirit can help a Cultivator control all of their Blood Qi and flesh, allowing for free transformation between Blood Qi, flesh, and Spirit Power, changing appearance, and regenerating severed limbs, all with ease."
"But it is also an extremely greedy Imperial Spirit, unusable by non-Blood Arts cultivators. When used, the Blood Demon Spirit will continuously erode all of the host Cultivator's acupoints until all acupoints are completely filled."
"Except for Blood Arts cultivators, once other Cultivators use it, the Blood Demon Spirit will slowly parasitize all of their acupoints, and finally erode all of their flesh, unable to be withdrawn, until it consumes the Cultivator into an empty shell."
"Only Blood Arts cultivators, who can control their own Blood Qi, can retract their Blood Qi after use and calm the Blood Demon Spirit."
Changqing thought of Liu Lu in his previous life, after her resurrection, her body was filled with those red filamentous worms, which perfectly matched what Dan Ji said.
"The biggest drawback of the Blood Demon Spirit is that it rapidly occupies all of a Cultivator's acupoints, so when using the Blood Demon Spirit, other Imperial Spirits cannot be used simultaneously. For most Cultivators, this is a weakening of their combat power."
"So if that little snake were to use the Blood Demon Spirit, it would definitely be in an extremely critical situation, or even when on the verge of death, passively using it to save her life."
"If a Blood Arts cultivator uses the Blood Demon Spirit, it's a bit tricky, but if it's a half-baked one like her, it's very simple. You just need to, after killing her, inject my Blood Qi from the Blood Storage Spirit into her body. The Blood Demon Spirit will not be attracted by her own acupoints and flesh immediately, but will instead turn to absorb my pure Blood Qi."
"Before absorbing all of my pure Blood Qi, the Blood Demon Spirit will not be usable by that little snake. You can take advantage of this time to take the Hundred Flowers Token, safely escort that little girl you're so fond of away, and then release me."
Dan Ji paused, then smiled confidently.
"I suspect you've gained that little snake's trust, and you intend to tamper with the Soul Exchange and Body Seizure method I concocted, causing her to make a mistake in her Cultivation and eliminate her without shedding blood, right?"
As expected of an old monster who had Cultivated for hundreds of years, she saw through Changqing's plan at a glance.
Changqing generously admitted it. Anyway, now they were both in the same boat. Dan Ji had expended a lot of effort, so there was no reason for her to betray him.
"Now there's just one thing. I don't know what method Liu Lu used to Seal Master. How should this Disciple release you then?"
He asked as subtly as possible, but this was actually the question he truly cared about.
How to release Dan Ji? He estimated that even if he didn't ask, Dan Ji would tell him. What he cared about, of course, wasn't that, but how to Seal Dan Ji back.
"That little snake is too cunning."
Dan Ji's voice carried a hint of hatred.
"I never took her seriously, but I didn't expect this little snake to have a unique Spirit that can Seal all of a Cultivator's acupoints. If it were other Spell Cultivators, they wouldn't fear her Imperial Spirit so much, but unfortunately, we Blood Arts cultivators fight with blood, and that little snake easily mixed the venom produced by that Imperial Spirit into my blood."
"After the venom enters the blood, it immediately invades the acupoints, sealing them."
"From then on, she locked me here, regularly injecting me with venom, which continued for decades."
"If not for the three Imperial Spirits in my Earth Palace Viscera, Heavenly Spirit Viscera, and Blood Sea Organ that can regenerate Blood Qi and heal injuries, I probably wouldn't have survived."
She gritted her teeth and said.
"To detoxify, it's quite simple. This poison is incurable for other Cultivators, but for me, it only requires a little help from you, Disciple."
Dan Ji was slightly smug.
"All the venom is concentrated in the acupoints in my brain. She Sealed my five senses because she was afraid I would expel the toxins through them, but she also needed me to be able to speak to interrogate me about the secrets of Soul Exchange and Body Seizure."
"You just need to cut off my head. With my cultivation, I can regenerate my head in just a moment. By then, that little snake won't be able to do anything to me."
Changqing understood.