In the world of "Covering the Sky," one can refine Gu (a type of poison) to become an immo

The day after the breakthrough was completed, Pang Bo and Ye Fan were dragged out of bed early in the morning by Sha Xiao to clean up the corpses scattered all over the mountain.

"I'm so sorry, I didn't notice how awful it was yesterday. I can't take it anymore, yum!"

"Ye Zi, what about the monkeys? Can't we let them handle it?"

Wearing a mask, Pang Bo cleaned vigorously while complaining.

Ye Fan rolled his eyes, picked up a bamboo basket, still dripping blood and as tall as a small mountain, and walked towards the entrance of the cave halfway up the mountain:

"You killed off all the wild beasts and Gu worms in the entire mountain yesterday, except for a few that had gained intelligence and the young ones. Where are there any left to work?"

"Let's hurry up and get things done while the people of Lingxu Cave Heaven haven't noticed us yet."

"Why......"

Pang Bo sighed, covered his nose, and began the arduous task of cleaning the entire mountain.

Ye Fan carried two large bamboo baskets on his back and walked as if on flat ground through the dark, slippery, and extremely cold cave.

The deeper you go into the cave, the stronger the smell of blood becomes in the air.

Ye Fan finally arrived at his destination after crossing a winding cave.

A vast lake of blood, glowing crimson in the darkness, occasionally ignited with blue flames.

He tossed the resources from the bamboo basket into the target location, then walked over and sat down next to Sha Xiao, who was sitting with his eyes closed at the edge of the sea of ​​blood, refining a skull. He looked at the blood lake before him with some worry.

"Old Sha, when did such a large blood lake appear at the foot of this mountain? Could it be used for refining Gu poison?"

Sha Xiao opened his eyes, saw Ye Fan's concerned gaze, and smiled kindly:

"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."

As he spoke, he handed the skull, which had now completely turned into crystal, to Ye Fan:

"But you guessed right, everything has its own way, and everything can be used to refine Gu."

"Before me, the world did not communicate with the Gu Dao, but it would unconsciously create secret realms like the Ancient Forbidden Land. These secret realms can assist in the refining of Gu."

"This blood lake is a secret realm I specially created to help you refine this Gu."

"Thanks to Pang Bo's tribulation yesterday, which stimulated the spirit beasts to revert to their ancestral state and improved their quality, otherwise it would still be difficult for Qingmao Mountain to refine the fifth-level Blood Skull Gu."

Ye Fan tossed the crystal skull in his hand, suppressing the inexplicable flutter in his heart, and asked curiously:

"Blood Skull Gu? Why does it look so much like a Mayan crystal skull? What use is it? To help us contact aliens? Oh wait, we are aliens now."

Sha Xiao was taken aback for a moment, then burst into laughter: "That's really true."

After laughing for a while, Sha Xiao, who had been refining the Gu worm all night, smiled wearily as she explained its effects:

"Its original function was very simple: to consume its own direct bloodline to enhance the aptitude of its clansmen."

There's a joke that goes like this: when you feel like you're not good enough, think about your people.

Ye Fan immediately gripped the skull tightly, his brows furrowing into a frown.

Killing one's own kind to practice martial arts—isn't that clearly a demonic cultivation method?

Sha Xiao stood up, supporting himself on his cracking old bones:

"Ye Zi, do you know what? I discovered something interesting while testing this Gu worm."

Sha Xiao gazed coldly at the earth, and said in a low, eerie tone:

"Every grain of sand and every drop of blood on this land can make this poison work on us."

Upon hearing this, Ye Fan was startled and quickly patted his bottom as he stood up and looked at the ground.

After a long while, he looked at Sha Xiao in disbelief, his throat dry as he said:

"Are you saying that the land beneath our feet is related to us by blood? That we are standing on the corpse of some powerful ancestor? That everyone on this planet shares the same origin as us?"

In an instant, Ye Fan felt an overwhelming fear rising in his heart, and a chilling coldness surged through him.

Out of the corner of her eye, Sha Xiao glanced at Ye Fan, who looked terrified. Thinking that Ye Fan was frightened by the fact that the planet was nothing but a corpse, she secretly laughed to herself.

The Chaos Body is the true chosen one of heaven and earth. Since all the physiques in the world originate from Chaos, it can naturally be used to enhance all physiques.

Sha Xiao continued:

"Yes, but that was many years ago."

"Now, it is extremely difficult to extract the Dao principles from plants and the earth. It is much more effective to irrigate with the blood and energy of fresh living beings."

Seeing Ye Fan's apparent reluctance, Sha Xiao advised:

"Don't worry, the Gu worms are on your body. You can decide for yourself who to use and who not to use them."

"I also do not support indiscriminate killing of living beings. Compared with the blood of these monsters or enemies of various physical types, it is far too inefficient."

"We're bound to encounter these enemies on our path of cultivation. You won't be unable to adapt, will you, Yezi?"

Ye Fan clenched the Gu worm in his hand, shook his head, and smiled:

"You know me, I'm never afraid of these things. There must be a reason for your arrangement, so of course I'll follow it."

"I'm just worried that if we get caught, we'll be labeled as demons."

Sha Xiao managed to suppress his smile with great difficulty. He patted Ye Fan's shoulder forcefully and took the Blood Skull Gu.

"Don't worry, that day will never come."

Ye Fan nodded, picked up the empty bamboo basket, and strode uphill with great speed.

Watching Ye Fan walk away, Sha Xiao couldn't help but squat down, clutching her stomach and chuckling to herself.

The Demonic Path? What kind of lowly trash is that?

You, Ye Fan, are a true successor of the Ruthless Great Emperor, a genuine disciple of the Ancient Forbidden Zone!

Even the Holy Land of Yaoguang would have to kneel down and call them ancestors if they saw this!

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Less than a week after Pompeo's breakthrough.

With Sha Xiao's daily assistance in tapping into his bloodline potential using the Blood Skull Gu, Ye Fan's strength increased by leaps and bounds, growing at a rate of almost 10,000 jin of force per day.

However, after Ye Fan broke through the barrier of 90,000 jin of force with a single arm swing, his strength growth came to an abrupt halt.

No matter what methods Sha Xiao used, even if he used power-enhancing Gu such as the White Jade Gu, Bear Power Gu, and Wolf Power Gu, it was all in vain.

Ye Fan's power did not increase in the slightest, as if he had encountered an invisible barrier.

Sitting on the ground, Sha Xiao looked at Ye Fan, who was shirtless and sweating profusely as he trained, with a puzzled expression:

"How could this be? It shouldn't be like this..."

"call--"

Ye Fan gently put away the long staff, which weighed 500,000 jin under the influence of Gu worms such as the fourth-level strength-boosting Gu, the third-level gravity Gu, and the fourth-level mountain-carrying Gu, and exhaled a breath of heat enough to ignite the air.

With one hand, Ye Fan lifted the icy spring water that the new generation of spirit apes had brought up and poured it over his body. The high temperature on Ye Fan's skin surface collided with the icy spring water, instantly forming a layer of air film.

As the heat subsided, Ye Fan's muscles twitched, and ice shards fell off his body.

He put on his clothes, placed the stick in the dent in the ground, sat down, and patted Sha Xiao:

"Old Sha, it's alright. Pang Bo is only at 30,000 jin now. 90,000 jin would be quite good."

"Besides, didn't Weiwei say that a great upheaval had occurred in the world? Perhaps the world is limiting the cultivation of the Sacred Body to this level?"

Ye Fan turned his head, his eyes filled with worry:

"Enough about me, Lao Sha. What about you? Pang Bo has already verified that two paths can be cultivated simultaneously, why haven't you started cultivating yet?"

Sha Xiao plucked a foxtail grass, held it in his mouth, and pointed at Qingmao Mountain with a grin, saying:

"Who says I haven't cultivated? This mountain is the result of my cultivation. The core of Gu Dao is nurturing, refining, and using."

"I have created this world. Every blade of grass, every tree, every insect, every beast, every breeze, and every stream here is a result of my cultivation and practice."

Ye Fan was also startled upon hearing this, and the details of Gu Dao cultivation that Sha Xiao had told them before came to mind.

He gazed at the vibrant and spiritually rich Qingmao Mountain, and only then did he realize what kind of cultivation Sha Xiao was engaging in.

This is different from their situation, where they are limited to themselves and the few Gu worms within their bodies.

Sha Xiao has already begun cultivating by borrowing the power of heaven and earth.

As long as this mountain exists, he can continuously acquire new Dao traces and improve his Gu Dao cultivation.

"Refining heaven and earth, letting heaven and earth nurture the Gu, and then having people use the Gu—the process of nurturing, refining, and using them can actually be so grand?!"

Ye Fan let out a long breath, and while surprised, he also sighed.

Sha Xiao shook her head and sighed:

"It's not that simple. I'm just an apprentice when it comes to raising and using [the plants]."

He patted Ye Fan on the shoulder and laughed:

"Don't feel guilty because I'm serving you."

"Actually, the process of preparing the Gu worms for you is also a process of me refining my skills in this area."

"Only with sufficient demand can I develop more uses."

"To put it bluntly, you and Pang Bo are the seeds that helped me experiment with the use of Gu worms."

"Battles are inevitable on the path of cultivation. What kind of talk would it make for a beast-taming mage like me to engage in hand-to-hand combat?"

"You and Pang Bo, one a warrior and the other a tank, how can I dare to go out and explore if I don't take good care of you?"

Ye Fan hugged Sha Xiao and laughed viciously:

"Fine, so you've finally spoken your mind, haven't you? You're a Beastmaster Hunter, and we're just your baby beasts?"

Sha Xiao grinned, revealing her large teeth, her face crinkling with wrinkles as she smiled:

"Yes, my old buddy, Ye Yeboar, from now on I'll be counting on you to charge into battle."

Looking at Sha Xiao's old face, Ye Fan suddenly realized that Sha Xiao had once again fooled him about his problem.

He tightened his grip on Sha Xiao and asked:

"Wait a minute, I almost let you get away with this. I was asking why you don't practice the secret realm technique."

Sha Xiao coughed, then suddenly seemed to realize something and slammed his fist on the ground. He broke free from Ye Fan's grasp, and ran away, his old leg trembling.

"The world has changed drastically, I know! Ye Zi, today you have Pang Bo accompany you to use the Blood Skull Gu, I'm going to refine a Gu worm."

As she ran, Sha Xiao glanced back at Ye Fan, who hadn't caught up, and sighed helplessly.

How could he not have tried to cultivate himself?

He wanted to travel like a rainbow, riding the wind through the air, radiating divine light!

The problem is that his sea of ​​suffering has long been enveloped by emptiness.

Once he reaches the sixth level of immortality and has his own small world, as long as his Gu Dao cultivation improves quickly enough, he will be able to contain the Sea of ​​Bitterness.

However, if he rashly begins his cultivation now, the expansion of the sea of ​​suffering will only accelerate the shattering of his spiritual core.

However, the best way to repair the void is to reshape the body and directly separate the sea of ​​suffering from the void, thus removing the restrictions.

Secondly, there's the second void-aperture immortal Gu, and finally, there's the refinement of the top of the human aperture for a period of time.

If he wants to achieve something in the future, his worst option must be the Second Void Aperture Immortal Gu.

The refining of Immortal Gu is not that simple.

He never liked to lose face in front of his brothers, and it was fine to just drag things out until he was sure of success.

"Wow, how come Old Sha is so strong?"

Watching Sha Xiao walk away, Ye Fan pinched his arm in surprise.

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Early the next morning.

With heavy dark circles under her eyes, Sha Xiao yawned as she walked down from the mountaintop.

Seeing Ye Fan approaching with a worried expression, he perked up and pulled Ye Fan towards the training ground:

"I have a solution to your limit problem."

Upon arriving at the training ground, Pang Bo and Ye Fan both looked at Sha Xiao curiously, wanting to know what method it was.

Last night, Ye Fan's words awakened Sha Xiao, and the world changed.

After experiencing the three eras of Heavenly Will, Myth, Primordial Era, and Desolate Era, this world is now vastly different from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths.

The Great Dao of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths is complete and abundant in resources. In the past, Huang only needed to soak in the precious blood and absorb divine energy to reach the pinnacle of physical strength.

However, the universe is now very different. Although Sha Xiao used the Blood Skull Gu to indirectly make Ye Fan soak in the precious blood, causing golden threads to appear in his blood.

However, there is one point that Sha Xiao overlooked before.

In the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, even the wild beasts of the Eight Desolations naturally carry many unique physical training marks in their precious blood.

For someone with exceptional comprehension like the Desolate Emperor, these subtle traces, when gathered together, formed a variety of different approaches to body tempering in his eyes.

The little one was taking this opportunity to observe various methods of body tempering, the results of body tempering, and to gather the essence of all races.

Only then was he able to break through the blood-moving limit in the lower realm, a feat that many geniuses in the upper realm could not achieve.

Although the Holy Body is powerful, it is ultimately just a manifestation of physical constitution and has its own limitations.

To break through the limits, Ye Fan needs to find more divine beasts and great demon bloodlines so that he can fully understand and master them and make further progress.

But how could such a small place as Yan possibly have any divine beasts or great demons?

Even if they did, Sha Xiao and his group wouldn't be able to get the blood.

Unless, of course, a powerful demon is willing to offer itself up.

After explaining these principles to the two of them, Sha Xiao looked at Pang Bo and chuckled maliciously:

"Pang Bo, you don't want to see Ye Zi stuck and unable to progress, do you?"

Pang Bo's heart skipped a beat, and he said guiltily:

"Wait a minute, what does this have to do with me? Am I some kind of monster?"

Sha Xiao coughed:

"Don't you want to know why those spirit beasts spared no effort in searching for you during your tribulation, and why eating a little of your flesh and blood allowed them to revert to their ancestral state and evolve?"

Pang Bo's head was spinning. He clutched his head in his hands, staring at Sha Xiao in disbelief.

"Wait a minute, my dad doesn't seem like a monster either. Could it be my mom...?"

"Snapped!"

Sha Xiao slapped Pang Bo on the back of the head in annoyance:

"Don't talk nonsense! Your uncle and aunt are perfectly fine. How can you guess about your own parents like that? Let me be blunt, someone in your ancestry was Xu Xian, and you've reverted to your ancestral ways."

Pang Bo immediately relaxed, scratched his head, and laughed heartily:

"That's good, that's good. So what if they're transvestites, ptooey ptooey ptooey, descendants of the dragon? It's fine, hahaha."

Sha Xiao and Ye Fan looked at the carefree Pang Bo and smiled helplessly.

Pang Bo is like that—rough on the outside but meticulous on the inside. But when he gets excited, he talks big and doesn't hold back. He's only good because he's one of our own brothers; otherwise, he would have been beaten to death long ago.

After a while, Pang Bo realized what was happening and pointed to himself:

"Wait a minute, Old Sha, you don't mean you're going to bleed me out, do you?"

Sha Xiao nodded and then shook her head:

"We need to drain your blood, but you only have one kind of demon blood, so draining it won't do any good."

As he spoke, he spread out his hands and displayed the Gu worms he had refined overnight.

Transformation Gu, Ancestral Reversion Gu, Blood Splitting Gu, Blood Observation Gu...

Sha Xiao introduced the dozen or so different blood-path and transformation-path Gu worms to the two of them.

After listening, Pang Bo suddenly realized:

"So there's no need to drain my blood. All I need to do is keep reverting to my ancestral ways and bring out the divine beasts my ancestors ate to take a little blood."

Sha Xiao nodded:

"With your current level of cultivation, if it weren't for the demonic blood in your body and the fact that you are indeed suited for the Dao of Transformation, you would absolutely not be able to transform into those divine beasts."

"To be honest, I always thought you would combine your bloodline to follow the path of transformation, but you ended up following the esophagus. You're something else."

"Alright, let's do it!" Pang Bo was eager to try. "I also want to see what I can conjure up."

As a result, over the next week, the newborn animals on Qingmao Mountain could frequently sense various oppressive auras that made their blood vessels tremble.

Pang Bo transformed all sorts of races, from the Star-Dragging Ape and the Greedy Wolf to the Qilin, the Divine Phoenix, the Flood Dragon, and the Mighty Divine Ox, regardless of whether they possessed any divine essence.

With Pang Bo's selfless dedication and Bodhi's silent help, Ye Fan's strength finally reached the point where he could swing one arm and feel 108,000 jin a week later.

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After Ye Fan had stabilized his condition for a week, he was finally ready to open his mind and break free from the sea of ​​suffering, officially embarking on the path of cultivation.

"Old Sha, I hope Ye Zi won't do the same thing as me last time. I've really gone all out."

Pang Bo tore at a roasted lamb leg, asking with some concern.

"Don't worry, I'm experienced this time, I guarantee nothing will go wrong."

Sha Xiao glanced at the hollow that had cracked further downwards, then looked at Qingmao Mountain, which had just regained some vitality, and said with heartache but certainty.

To ensure that Ye Fan's breakthrough would not spread, he meticulously set up a grand formation centered on the Blinding Immortal Gu, specifically designed to confine the calamity's fluctuations within Qingmao Mountain.

This way, it won't affect Ye Fan's connection with the Great Dao, allowing him to generate a unique Gu worm that is most suitable for him.

It won't have such a huge impact that it would lead to an uncontrollable disaster.

Down the mountain, Ye Fan, who had been prepared, nodded to Sha Xiao and the others, and put a large piece of pure source into his mouth and chewed it up.

Before the surging spiritual energy could even erupt, it was swallowed by Ye Fan and guided to crash into the thin black membrane on the surface of the Bitter Sea.

With the familiar fluctuations of the Great Dao, Sha Xiao and Pang Bo both knew that Ye Fan had begun his final breakthrough.

Why isn't anything happening?

Pang Bo looked at Ye Fan, who was standing motionless, and asked with some confusion.

"Tsk, this is troublesome. Ye Zi is facing the Great Dao directly. If she doesn't wake up, she'll just turn into a Dao cultivator. Luckily, I was able to forcibly interrupt this. Neither of you are easy to deal with."

Sha Xiao stared intently at Ye Fan, not daring to blink, ready to interrupt him at any moment.

The moment Ye Fan's Void Aperture and Sea of ​​Bitterness opened, he felt his vision blur and then everything went black as he entered the void of the universe.

In the endless darkness, he had no idea how much time had passed.

The only thing that can be perceived is the various kinds of forces.

Gravity, leverage, strong force, weak force, magnetic force, earth force, firepower, mental force.

All concepts related to power were presented to him. These were both treasures studied by the lineage of the Holy Body and the invisible calamities of the Great Dao.

Once one becomes addicted to it, moral decay will be the inevitable end.

Just as Ye Fan was immersed in the essence of countless Great Daos, the Bodhi Seed in his arms suddenly erupted with intense heat.

As Ye Fan was experiencing the profound truths of the Great Dao in the darkness, a sudden burst of light appeared before his eyes, forcibly interrupting his process of transforming into the Dao.

Ye Fan opened his eyes, and his sea of ​​suffering suddenly erupted with a tsunami-like sound, bursting forth with endless divine light, a golden expanse, accompanied by lightning and thunder.

Divine light shone in countless rays, dazzling like a rainbow, and golden waves surged forth, accompanied by bursts of lightning and thunder. A violent tsunami was taking place there, with waves crashing to the sky!

"My God? Is this the Holy Body? The vision of opening the sea of ​​suffering can actually pass through it?"

Compared to his own unremarkable journey through the sea of ​​suffering, Pang Bo's eyes widened in astonishment.

Sha Xiao breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this:

"Phew—it's good to begin opening up the sea of ​​suffering. Next, let's see what kind of Gu worms the leaves can condense."

Ye Fan opened his eyes and looked at his perfectly rounded, flawless acupoint, which was completely covered by the sea of ​​bitterness and filled with true essence.

"Hmm, it's more than 98% of Pang Bo's, it should be 100% as Sha Xiao said. I wonder what kind of body I will be?"

As he pondered, an ordinary-looking golden ant gradually materialized in the center of the hollow.

The moment the tiny ant emerged, Ye Fan's acupoint was instantly split open by half.

The powerful pressure bypassed the opening and pressed directly onto the sea of ​​bitterness, instantly smoothing the boiling sea of ​​bitterness like a mirror.

The oppressive aura emanated from Ye Fan's body and was completely exposed on Qingmao Mountain. The bamboo forest and even the grass within a 300-meter radius around Ye Fan all collapsed to the ground with a "plop".

Blood trickled from the corner of Ye Fan's mouth. He raised his finger, looked at the ant-shaped immortal Gu on it, and smiled.

"Sixth-Rank Immortal Gu - Heavenly Horn Extreme Gu!"