Alien Science Cultivation

After a moment's hesitation, Zhang Qiang resolutely pressed the button. The drop of black soul blood was transmitted through the channel and hovered in the center of the seal. He was not surprised by the black soul blood. However, the figure of the black girl appeared faintly on the soul blood. Her movements and clothing were exactly the same as those of the black-gold girl in the seal, as if it were a surveillance camera. This puzzled Zhang Qiang.

"Well... After all, my companions and I have many secrets... When we grow up, or after a thousand years, I will let you leave on your own..."

"Thank you, Master... Hei Jin is willing to follow you forever..."

Zhang Qiang no longer hesitated. His consciousness enveloped Hei Jin's soul blood, and his black and white spiritual energy moved together, instantly refining that drop of soul blood. Inside the sealed container, Hei Jin suddenly spat out a mouthful of black blood and looked at Zhang Qiang with horror.

"Oh my god... What's going on? Did I refine it wrong? Heijin, are you okay... Chen Ying, please save her!"

Zhang Qiang was refining soul blood for the first time, and the scene before him made him panic instantly. He didn't want his newly recruited subordinate to die, but he didn't know where he went wrong. After all, the Burning Heaven Bamboo Leaf could be refined in the same way, so why couldn't the soul blood be refined?

"Wait... she seems to be fine... seems to be frightened by something..." Chen Ying responded after observing for a moment.

"Scared? What could scare her to the point of bleeding?" Zhang Qiang was full of doubts and couldn't help but turn his head to look at Heijin.

Heijin just looked at Zhang Qiang in horror, but didn't dare to explain. She knew very well that once she said it, both she and Chen Ying would be in great danger.

Seeing that Hei Jin didn't seem to be in danger, Zhang Qiang slowly calmed down. He sensed Hei Jin's figure in his sea of consciousness. That figure was also terrified, staring intently at his black and gold sea of consciousness.

"So that's how it is..." Zhang Qiang spoke word by word, his right hand unconsciously making grabbing movements repeatedly, but finally letting go.

"Practice well, don't let me down..." With these words, Zhang Qiang's figure vanished from her sea of consciousness. Hei Jin collapsed helplessly, well aware that she had just been on the brink of death several times. Fortunately, she hadn't said anything, or no one would have been able to save her today. A moment later, her expression shifted from fear to surprise as she discovered her "powerful" soul had instantly expanded dozens of times its original size. At that moment, she truly understood the immense power of Zhang Qiang's soul. While his consciousness was only about twenty thousand feet, the influence of her soul blood had intensified it dozens of times, reaching approximately one hundred thousand feet. She didn't understand the reason, but she didn't dare to delve into it. Hei Jin shook her head, trying to adjust to this sudden surge of soul power. She knew that if she were injured by her soul again, Zhang Qiang would likely kill her. After all, no one wanted to have a useless subordinate. This presented both a tremendous opportunity and a formidable challenge.

After retrieving the sealer, Zhang Qiang quickly searched his golden finger for all relevant information, trying to understand the reason. He discovered that his own spirit could actually influence his mind beast, and that his spirit seemed to have grown stronger, as if his spirit and the mind beast's spirit could somehow overlap. However, no matter how he searched, he could not find any definitive information. The power of Zhang Qiang's spirit lies not only in the vastness of macroscopic space, but also in the extreme compression of microscopic space. When he first treated Ni Fang, he fully mobilized his spiritual consciousness. Although the range of this materialized consciousness was not very wide, it truly shocked Ni Fang for the whole night. The cause of all this was his third dantian.

After half a day, Zhang Qiang finally found some seemingly relevant information. The mind beast and its master indeed had a soul-to-soul superposition effect. While the mind beast's soul could be fully superimposed on the master's, the master's soul only superimposed on the mind beast's proportion of the refined soul blood within the master's sea of consciousness. In other words, if the master's sea of consciousness had 100 units and the refined mind beast's soul blood represented one unit, the soul the master superimposed on the mind beast would be one percent of the master's soul.

With abundant cultivation resources, Zhang Qiang and Chen Ying threw themselves into a frantic practice mode. They continuously absorbed the spiritual energy from various beast pills. However, the originally huge spiritual energy in these beast pills could only be converted into their own spiritual power.

Zhang Qiang felt this was a complete waste. "This is such a waste! It would be more economical to bring it back to the sect and exchange it for contribution points, which can then be redeemed for elixirs. This beast pill can be used for alchemy, refining equipment, or as a magic array energy source, but using it for cultivation is not worth the effort." Just as Zhang Qiang was lost in thought, Chen Ying's voice echoed from the cave.

"Yes, it was after absorbing more than a dozen beast cores of the Tribulation Realm that my cultivation level broke through to the middle stage of the Golden Core Realm." Zhang Qiang responded.

"Tribulation Realm? Haha, forget it. I need to calm down. Otherwise, if I stay with you for too long, my Dao heart will be broken by you sooner or later. I thought it was abnormal enough for me, at the late Foundation Establishment stage, to absorb a Nascent Soul Realm beast pill, but I didn't expect you to directly absorb a Tribulation Realm beast pill. How did you suppress that violent energy? Don't lose control of the energy in the beast pill and cause it to explode."

Although Zhang Qiang understood this principle, the level of beast pills a cultivator could directly absorb couldn't be higher than their own cultivation level. After all, higher-level beast pills contained more ferocious energy. If one's cultivation level was insufficient, it would be difficult to suppress the beast pill's violent energy, potentially resulting in a pill explosion and fatality. Choosing a beast pill from the Tribulation Realm was a conservative decision. After all, even though his third dantian was at the Core Formation stage, he could easily defeat an ordinary Tribulation Realm cultivator. He was eager to absorb beast pills to cultivate, hoping to further enhance his third dantian. After all, his black beast pill couldn't be used, so he had to absorb it. The golden pill in Zhang Qiang's third dantian was black and gold, more like the beginning of Tai Chi giving birth to two yin and yang than a golden pill. Later, after the Dulong pupated, he cultivated in the cave at the entrance to Hell, allowing the black and gold fish on the sphere to rotate at a speed that reached the stage of two yin and yang giving birth to four symbols. From then on, his progress continued unabated, with the black and gold fish's speed reaching the stage of four symbols giving birth to eight trigrams. In the five years leading up to Dulong's tribulation, his frantic absorption of Guixu Qi and spiritual energy reached a critical point of qualitative change. He twice visited the underground river beneath the forest, absorbing Guixu Qi and a black elixir from the Tribulation Realm. At this point, the black and goldfish in his third dantian reached the speed of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.