Gou cultivates martial arts and seeks immortality in the world of cultivation.

Chapter 89 Refining Demon Blood
Lu Lin's reason for wanting to follow along wasn't because he coveted the "Heaven and Earth Profound Qi," but rather because he wanted to take advantage of the chaos and see if he could make some gains.

He always remembered his principle: if there was danger, turn around and leave.

Lu Lin moved swiftly through the dense forest, moving like the wind, and soon found the trail.

The nine second-tier demons fought and fought their way through, leaving a trail of devastation in their wake. Broken trees, cracked earth, and stained with demon blood left obvious traces that required almost no deliberate searching.

We followed these shocking traces all the way.

After running for more than a hundred miles, a strong smell of blood hit them.

After walking several hundred meters further, the ground and vegetation around them were stained with dark red demon blood, and the air was filled with a chilling and malevolent aura.

Huff... Huff...

Immediately afterwards, a series of heavy, intermittent breathing sounds reached my ears.

"There's a demonic beast!" Lu Lin's heart skipped a beat, and his blood energy instantly circulated throughout his body, putting him on high alert.

However, the anticipated attack did not occur.

"That sound... was barely audible, like the last gasp of a dying beast." Lu Lin's mind stirred slightly, and he lightly touched the ground with his toes, his figure silently darting towards the source of the sound.

After passing through a patch of fallen bushes, the view suddenly opened up before me.

Large swathes of trees were either broken or crushed, and in an open area, a monster resembling a giant bull and over ten meters long lay in a pool of blood.

Its body was covered with wounds of varying depths, but the fatal wound was on its forehead.

A bloody hole, pierced by some unknown sharp weapon, was clearly visible, with red and white substances gushing out and soaking the ground beneath them.

"It's it!" Lu Lin recognized it; it was one of the nine great demons that had previously fought for the Heavenly Profound Qi.

Unexpectedly, in just a short while, he had already met such a miserable end.

This scene set off alarm bells in his mind, reminding him once again that even the best opportunities require a certain lifespan to enjoy them.

The bull demon sensed Lu Lin approaching, and his huge eyes reflected Lu Lin's image, revealing intense despair and resentment.

"Seeing you in so much pain, I'll give you a quick death." Lu Lin muttered, his body suddenly accelerating, and his palm struck the bull demon's thick neck with lightning speed.

Click!

A crisp cracking sound rang out, the bull's head slumped to the side, and its breath ceased completely.

Lu Lin's palm flashed with a bloody light, and the Blood Pattern Steel Sword was already in his hand. He accurately pierced the bull demon's heart, and with a slight movement, he picked out a crystal core containing immense demonic power.

"That saved me a lot of trouble." Lu Lin chuckled self-deprecatingly and put away the demon core.

His gaze fell on the still-flowing demon blood, and he couldn't help but feel a pang of heartache.

This is the blood of a second-tier great demon. If combined with other materials, it is enough to refine many precious Qi and Blood Pills.

"I wonder if I can use it directly..." His eyes flashed, and he immediately activated his Blood Qi, making a grabbing motion towards the bull demon's corpse in mid-air.

In an instant, the crimson demon blood, as if drawn by an invisible force, detached from the body and transformed into streams of blood, converging towards Lu Lin's palm.

A moment later, a huge, rolling, dark red blood sphere floated in his palm.

"We need to find a place to try."

Lu Lin quickly left this bloody place and found a secluded corner.

With his left hand, he swung the Blood-Patterned Steel Sword, easily digging a large pit in the ground. Then, he activated his Blood Qi to repeatedly crush the pit walls, making them hard and smooth like stone.

Then, he poured all the bull demon's blood into the pit.

thump!
Lu Lin removed his clothes and jumped into the pit, immersing himself completely in the thick, warm demon blood.

"Cultivation time, infuse!"

Driven by his thoughts, the reserved cultivation time began to flow rapidly towards the "Demon Ape Blood Qi Technique".

[You intend to directly absorb demon blood to aid your cultivation and condense your blood essence. However, demon blood contains concentrated demonic power, which is almost poisonous to martial artists. Ordinary martial artists can only absorb it by combining it with spiritual herbs to remove the demonic power and impurities, and then refining it into a Qi and Blood Pill.]

[Unwilling to let so much demon blood go to waste, you took a trace of it and integrated it into your body, repeatedly refining and tempering it with your own blood essence. This method actually worked; through tireless effort, you successfully removed the demonic power from this wisp of blood and absorbed it.]

[However, this method is extremely inefficient, and the refining process is exceptionally slow, far inferior to directly refining Qi and Blood Pills or Blood Crystals, and it is extremely time-consuming!] Several prompts appeared in his mind in succession.

Lu Lin was not surprised but rather pleased.

Inefficient? Time-consuming?
The one thing he has no shortage of is time!
If it's more efficient than directly spending time cultivating to accumulate cultivation level, then it's worthwhile.

Directly channeling cultivation time would only allow one to draw meager energy from food or the natural world, making the process utterly inefficient. Unless he had so much cultivation time that he had nowhere else to use it, he would never consider it.

"Continue the infusion!"

[You are incredibly patient and focused, refining the demon blood bit by bit. Time flies, and thirty years later, your Demonic Ape Blood Qi has advanced further, successfully condensing the twentieth blood rune.]

The prompt reappeared.

“Thirty years to improve one bloodline pattern… I’m very satisfied with this speed,” Lu Lin said with certainty.

Although it cannot compare to directly refining blood crystals and qi and blood pills, it is nearly ten times faster than simply spending cultivation time to accumulate them.

It should be understood that after entering the late stage of the Innate Realm, condensing each blood rune is extremely difficult. If one tries to force it, it would take more than three hundred years.

At the same time, the amount of demon blood in the pit visibly decreased.

"continue!"

Time passed continuously during the cultivation process, and ninety years went by in the blink of an eye.

[Your Demonic Ape Blood Qi has successfully advanced to the 23rd level.]

At this point, the demon blood in the pit had been completely consumed.

The energy contained in the blood of a second-tier great demon is far more than enough to support the enhancement of the "four patterns".

However, if a martial artist directly refines it, he can only absorb a portion of its essence, while most of the energy is wasted.

Even if alchemists use demon blood to refine pills, they only extract the essence.

"The blood of a second-tier great demon has increased my Demon Ape Blood Qi by four patterns... If I could obtain another one, wouldn't I have a chance to break through to the Perfect Innate Realm?"

Thinking of this, Lu Lin's heart couldn't help but burn with excitement.

The allure of this demonic blood instantly surpassed that of the ethereal "Heaven and Earth Profound Qi".

After all, he still doesn't know what the specific effects of the latter are.

With a flash, Lu Lin once again followed the trail left by the battle between the great demons.

This time, after chasing for only a few dozen miles, they saw another great demon's corpse lying on the ground.

The great demon had completely lost its aura and was clearly dead. Its demon blood had almost all drained away, turning a large area of ​​land dark red.

Lu Lin hurriedly stepped forward, activated his Blood Qi, and tried his best to gather the demon blood that had seeped into the soil and remained in the corpse, finally managing to form a blood sphere the size of a water vat.

"Unfortunately, I arrived a step too late... Most of my demonic blood has been lost, and what remains is probably not enough to raise my Demonic Ape Blood Qi to twenty-seven patterns." Lu Lin was somewhat frustrated.

Immediately, he followed suit, finding another secluded spot to dig a pit, compact it, and inject demon blood. He then immersed himself in the pit again, drawing upon his cultivation time to infuse the "Demon Ape Blood Qi Technique".

This time, it took ninety years to upgrade the Demon Ape Blood Qi to twenty-six patterns.

With just one more bloodline mark remaining, I can attempt to break through to the Innate Perfection stage!

"The great demons are still fighting ahead, there's still a chance..."

Lu Lin composed himself and continued to follow the increasingly brutal traces of the battle.

Roar! Screech! Howl...!
This time, after chasing for only a few dozen miles, bursts of violent roars, shrieks, and howls came from afar, interspersed with terrifying booms from the collision of various demonic arts, causing the earth to tremble slightly.

Lu Lin completely concealed his aura, leaping and darting among the giant trees like a nimble ape. He finally found a secluded spot with high ground and dense forest, hid himself, and parted the branches to look ahead.

Upon looking at it, his pupils suddenly contracted.

"Eight more powerful demons?!"

There were clearly nine before, but he has already encountered and confirmed that two of them are dead, so there should be seven left.

But right now, seven powerful demons are frantically attacking one!
(End of this chapter)