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After cleaning up the battlefield, Wang Liang and the others prepared to return to White Ridge City. Zhou Qing thought for a moment and still refused their invitation.

After bidding farewell to the three of them, Zhou Qing also quickly left.

The thirty-six drops of demon essence blood had already been collected. He wanted to quickly refine his strange acupoints and attempt to break through.

At the same time, in a stone room within the Heavy Sword Sect.

A tall, middle-aged man dressed in a black robe. His long hair was scattered about, and his eyes were bloodshot.

On the stone table in front of him was a shattered piece of Spirit Communication Jade.

"Who killed my Ping'er?"

Bang.

The middle-aged man roared angrily as a violent aura of peak Spirit Condensation Stage swept out from his body. His palm descended, bringing with it a fierce Spiritual Energy. The stone table in front of him instantly exploded and shattered into pieces.

The head of the Heavy Sword Sect, Gu Canghai!

Behind Gu Canghai, there was a middle-aged beautiful woman who was crying. It was the Sect Leader's wife, Hua Ling.

"I, Gu Canghai swear that even if I have to sacrifice my life for the Yellow Springs, I will capture you alive and torture you to death!"

Gu Canghai suddenly stood up and left the stone room after saying those words with a sinister expression.

In the vast expanse of Ancient Forest, Zhou Qing's figure flashed as he flew. Moments later, a short mountain covered with trees appeared in his line of sight.

His face lit up. He walked two steps along the short mountain and saw a dilapidated cave.

He looked around and did not find anything wrong. Zhou Qing thought for a moment and folded some more leaves. He then entered the cave and sealed the entrance with leaves.

Sitting cross-legged, Zhou Qing waved his hand, and a jade box the size of an arm appeared on the ground in front of him.

This item was specially made by him in White Ridge City. There were thirty-six small boxes inside, and each one of them contained a type of demon essence blood.

After dropping the blood into the jade box, Zhou Qing immediately closed his eyes and started to recover his spirit energy.

Half a day passed by in a flash.

As night fell, Zhou Qing finally opened his eyes. A bright light shone as a powerful aura emanated from his body.

After resting and reorganizing, his spirit, energy, and divine had reached their peak state, and the spirit energy he had used in the previous battle had been completely restored.

"You can begin."

Zhou Qing muttered to himself. After reciting the methods of tempering the strange acupoints and the Soul Concentrating Pills recorded in the Ten Thousand Spirit Curse, he began to circulate his spirit energy.

Within his body, all 361 vortexes of spiritual energy started spinning at the same time, bursting out with a terrifying suction force, and started devouring the spiritual energy in the surroundings.

At the same time, the crashing sounds of a large river could be heard from within Zhou Qing's body. All of the Spiritual Energy in his body was circulating through his meridians.

Gulp.

Zhou Qing gulped down the first drop of demon essence blood.

Blood essence was formed by the gathering of life essence. It contained boundless power, and the Demon's blood essence was even more so.

The Spirit Opening Realm cultivators used demonic blood to refine their muscles and bones, but they only dripped it into the water and then bathed it in their bodies. No one dared to directly swallow it, and if there was an accident, their body would explode and they would die.

However, Zhou Qing directly drank it all!

Boom!

The instant the demon blood essence entered his body, a huge amount of life essence exploded forth. Zhou Qing's face instantly turned red, the veins on his forehead bulging, and a swelling feeling spread throughout his body.

The demon essence blood and the spiritual energy in his body quickly fused together, crazily surging through his meridians. After circulating three times, under Zhou Qing's control, he began to temper the forty-eight unique acupoints in his body!

Pain, a needle-like pain!

At the moment when the Qi point was being washed away by the spiritual energy that contained the demonic blood essence, Zhou Qing's body suddenly trembled, and beads of sweat instantly dripped down.

Gritting his teeth, although he was in incomparable pain, Zhou Qing did not stop. He continued to control his spiritual power to wash away the strange acupoints again and again.

At the same time, he could feel that his forty-eight acupoints had become tougher with the refinement of the demonic blood essence.

Buzz.

The Fate Stone and spirit bone trembled, emitting a faint light. Zhou Qing raised his brow, and then a deep sense of joy immediately appeared on his face.

In order to cultivate in the Soul Condensation stage, one needed to open eight extraordinary meridians and condense the seven spirits that were stored inside the flesh and blood, waiting for the seven souls to form before they could give birth to their Spiritual Awareness.

Zhou Qing's eight meridians had long since been opened, but his upper dantian and soul were both crippled. Thus, his Spiritual Sense had completely collapsed and disappeared without a trace.

But at this moment, he could feel that as the mysterious acupoints were continuously refined, a speck of dust suddenly appeared where his dantian had been. A faint fluctuation came from the dust.

It was Spiritual Sense!

The Soul Condensation Realm cultivation method of the [Allspirit Curse] was completely different from the [Immortal Cultivation Ceremony]. It didn't cultivate the seven souls, but instead cultivated 48 unique acupoints to condense the soul pill.

Cultivators who cultivated the "Great Ceremony of Cultivation" could only condense seven souls, and only when they reached the Spirit Realm could they open up three dantians, manifest three souls, and then merge with the seven souls in order to condense a life and soul. This required a lot of time.

But Zhou Qing was different.

A soul pill was equivalent to the birth of his life and soul!

Cultivating the [Incantation of Ten Thousand Spirits] meant that in the Soul Condensation Realm, every acupoint that was opened would become stronger and stronger, and a lifeblood soul would be born within it.

Once he broke through to the Spirit Realm, his spirit pill would shatter and his spirit soul would be released!

Zhou Qing knew very well that the speck of dust in his upper dantian was the pill he had formed. However, it was still too small at this moment, so he needed to continue refining his mysterious acupoint to increase it.

As he pondered, the power of the demon essence blood gradually weakened until it was completely used up. Zhou Qing didn't hesitate and directly swallowed the second drop of demon essence blood!

Boom!

The powerful life force erupted once more, and a great pain followed right after. Zhou Qing did not hesitate, immediately continuing his tempering …

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

After three days of hard work, the thirty-five boxes in front of Zhou Qing were all devoured by him, devoured by him, and used to temper his acupuncture points.

Forcefully absorbing the demon blood essence was a great burden on his body. Zhou Qing and the others had suffered endless pain, and their bodies were covered in frozen blood stains. It was as if they had just been fished out of a pool of blood.

But there were sacrifices to make, and there were rewards to be reaped!

In addition to the completion of the refining process, the barrier around the first acupoint had also become much weaker. As the spirit energy circulated, a lot of the devouring demonic essence was absorbed by the body.

The body of Zhou Qing, who trained in the Allspirit Curse, was already stronger than that of an ordinary cultivator. In these three days, he had also absorbed a large amount of demonic blood, so the strength of his body was incomparable to before.

Feeling the power of the thirty-fifth drop of Demon's Blood gradually dissipate, Zhou Qing's eyes suddenly opened. He immediately took out a drop of the Green Winged Dragon Eagle's blood essence and swallowed it.

Boom!

As soon as this drop of blood essence entered his body, Zhou Qing felt a strong impact on his limbs and bones. His entire body swelled up, and blood began to flow out from the surface of his body.

Veins popped out on Zhou Qing's forehead. With a low growl, his spiritual power surged out, engulfing the blood essence of the Winged Dragon Eagle and starting the final refinement of the strange acupoints in his body!

Rumble rumble rumble!

His spirit energy surged like a tide, and the sound of a great river could be heard. It crazily surged towards all the acupoints, continuously tempering them while simultaneously assaulting the first acupoint's barrier.

After three days had passed, the soul pill in his upper dantian was now the size of half a fingernail. It was round in appearance and had a golden body with spirit energy circulating on it.

At this point, as the first acupoint's barrier was being continuously attacked, the soul pill started to spin again, slowly expanding at an undetectable speed.

After the time it took for an incense stick to burn, the refining of the strange cave was almost complete. The first strange cave's barrier could already be broken through by the blowing wind, and the strength of the Green Winged Dragon Eagle's demon blood essence had become increasingly thin.

Puff.

Suddenly, a light sound rang out. Under the fierce tempering of the spirit energy, the barrier finally broke into a small opening.

Immediately afterwards, the surging spirit energy rushed in like a flood bursting through a dike, and was now completely linked up.

At the same time, Zhou Qing's body trembled, and a joyous look appeared on his face.

Forty-eight unique acupoints, completed!

As the first acupoint was pierced through, the pitch black Fate Stone Spirit Bone in front of Zhou Qing's forehead began to glow slightly. An extremely powerful suction force suddenly surged out from within his body!

The surrounding spiritual energy rushed into his body like crazy. Zhou Qing didn't dare to be careless as he quickly used his cultivation technique to control the sudden surge of spiritual energy.

Very quickly, he was pleasantly surprised to discover that when his spiritual energy passed through the first acupoint, it seemed as if it was removing some impurities and becoming purer.

An hour later.

The Life Stone Spirit Bone's suction force gradually weakened, finally disappearing. Zhou Qing's eyes suddenly opened, an expression of surprise and joy instantly spread across his face.

Standing up, Zhou Qing stretched lazily. The muscles and bones throughout his body immediately began to emit crackling sounds as an extremely powerful aura slowly spread out from his body.

The early stage of the Soul Condensation Realm!

"My physical body has also received quite a bit of enhancement …"

Zhou Qing muttered and shook his hand.

He could clearly feel that his physical body was stronger than before, as if it contained the power of a dragon and tiger. Now that he was up against Zhao Zhangkong, Zhou Qing was confident that they would not be at a disadvantage!

After circulating his spirit energy to shake off the tainted blood on the surface of his body, Zhou Qing tried to communicate with the soul pill. At this point, the soul pill was already the size of a fingernail and completely golden in color.

In the next moment, the soul pill rotated and the Spiritual Awareness was released from it. It rapidly extended and covered an area of 300 meters in an instant.

Within a three hundred meter radius, even Zhou Qing could feel the grass swaying gently in the wind.

"Three hundred meters …"

Even Zhou Qing was stunned by such a large area.

He remembered very clearly that when he had broken through to the early stage of the Soul Condensation stage, his Spiritual Sense was only able to cover a range of one hundred meters. This was all thanks to his amazing talent.

An ordinary cultivator, at the early stage of the Soul Condensation stage, could only sense a radius of fifty meters.

The wider the area one's spirit sense covered, the faster one would be able to sense danger and the more powerful the battle would be.

Feeling the tyrannical power within his body, Zhou Qing was overjoyed.

He had a feeling that he was stronger than before, when he had just broken through to the early stage of the Soul Condensation Realm.

He was more than just a little bit strong!

The benefits of breaking through were far more than just these. Zhou Qing was now qualified to use magic tools, talismans, etc.

Ordinary early stage Soul Condensation cultivators, when using low grade magic tools and exhausting all of their spiritual power, might not be able to display the power of a magic tool's inscription. However, Zhou Qing's spiritual power was far purer and more vigorous than theirs, and he had used magic tool inscriptions far more than once.

This breakthrough had brought him an overall improvement!

"The Spirit Realm isn't far …"

Clenching his hands into fists, Zhou Qing's lips twisted into a smile.

Upon reaching the Spirit Realm, one would no longer rely solely on martial arts. There was an essential difference between that and the Awakening Realm and the Soul Formation stage.

A powerful Mage was able to communicate with the heavens and earth. Their strength was limitless, and they could form techniques with their attacks. Once the powerful skill was used, it would be easy to split mountains and split mountains!

"Zhou Xuelang, Profound Heaven Sect, Great Sun …"

Zhou Qing mumbled to himself, his eyes gradually turning cold as an ice-cold killing intent emanated from him.

"Just you wait, I will take back everything I lost with my own hands!"