Ringing the Bell for a Hundred Years, I Became the Sect’s Ancestor – Chapter 90

Chapter 90: Blood and Qi Sanctuary

When Master Zhou Buping returned from the inner sect, Li Qian hurriedly went up to him and inquired about the situation.

“There will definitely be a big fight next, and the Jade Capital Imperial Clan has sent a Celestial Being over to supervise.”

Zhou Buping briefly explained the reason, “You, just focus on your cultivation and strive to improve your strength. Don’t think too much for now. You youngsters probably won’t be needed at this stage, but it might be different later on.”

Once the fighting starts, the battle will definitely be very fierce.

Therefore, the early stage will mainly involve the veteran martial artists of the Divine Sword Sect.

Elite young martial artists like Li Qian are precious seeds and cannot be casually consumed in a major battle.

“Okay, Master.”

Li Qian nodded, he naturally understood this reasoning.

Inner sect missions are completely different from war, the danger level is many times higher.

Being at the Time Bell Pavilion, Li Qian did not feel much tension in the atmosphere.

He entered into a peaceful life of bell-ringing cultivation again.

However, the Divine Sword Sect at this moment had already begun to prepare for a full-scale war.

Not to mention the lost Xuan Province Smelting City must be recaptured, the imperial clan also requested the Divine Sword Sect to cooperate with Prince Ye’s Residence and eliminate the rebellious Prince Luo’s Residence.

The reason for the crusade is very simple.

Prince Luo’s Residence is one of the masterminds behind the Jade Capital rebellion, and in addition, it annexed the Hundred Flowers Palace and wantonly expanded its power.

Time passed day by day.

Li Qian was not completely cut off from news.

Master Zhou Buping was very concerned about the situation and would run to the inner sect every day. He was almost neglecting his fields.

Now that a major battle was imminent for the Divine Sword Sect, it wouldn’t be appropriate for him, a retired elder, to still be leisurely farming.

Moreover, as a retired elder who had recovered some of his combat strength, if the battle situation became a stalemate, Master might be re-enlisted by the sect.

Just like that, more than a month passed.

Master Zhou Buping brought back another piece of news.

“I just received news that the fighting at Smelting City has begun.”

The reason why it took so long to start the war was mainly because it took time for Prince Ye’s rebellion suppression Martial Arts Legion to arrive in Xuan Province, plus various strategic arrangements.

In fact, tentative skirmishes between the Divine Sword Sect and Prince Luo’s Residence had never stopped.

More than a month passed again.

The war had been in a state of tug-of-war.

Prince Luo’s Residence had deployed heavy troops in the area of Xuan Province Smelting City, with a large number of high-level martial artists.

It was said that even Celestial Beings had fought several times.

As for large-scale Martial Arts Legion battles, they never stopped.

Moreover, both sides would send small groups of high-level martial artists to infiltrate each other’s territory and attack logistical supplies and such.

Screech.

A dark shadow flapped its wide wings and descended from the sky.

It was Little Black.

Li Qian casually gave the black hawk a name.

This black hawk often ate Nourishing Pills, and he had trained it using the beast taming methods from the Exotic Beast Breeding Ground, so it was very intelligent and could understand many commands.

Swoosh!

The black hawk landed on the rack beside him.

Li Qian flicked out a Nourishing Pill.

The black hawk immediately caught it, swallowed it, and narrowed its eyes in satisfaction.

“It seems that Little Black’s size has reached its limit.”

Li Qian looked at the black hawk. Although it was much larger than an ordinary hawk, it hadn’t grown much in recent months.

It had a racial limit after all.

It was not an Exotic Bird, and it couldn’t continue to grow.

Of course, Li Qian couldn’t infuse it with the energy from the Demon Stone.

After an animal mutates, it becomes uncontrollable.

“I wonder if those Demonic Pills can be fed to Little Black?”

Li Qian’s heart stirred, he thought of the large number of Demonic Pills hidden in the black iron ring, which he hadn’t had time to deal with.

The lifespan of a hawk is only twenty or thirty years.

It’s very difficult to break this limit without becoming an Exotic Bird.

He decided to do an experiment.

Of course, he couldn’t just feed it to Little Black directly.

So he gave Little Black a command to catch a rat and bring it back.

The beast taming method he learned from the Exotic Beast Breeding Ground was a combination of sound, gestures, and spirit, which could enhance the interaction between humans and hawks.

This method could make hawks more intelligent and spiritual, and able to understand many commands.

Moreover, Little Black itself was very intelligent and knew how to repay kindness. When it first learned to hunt, it would often catch rats, pheasants, wild rabbits and the like and bring them back to Li Qian.

In the end, they all became delicacies on the table.

The rats in the wild in this world grew particularly large, the big ones weighed two or three pounds each, and they were free of any pollution, their meat was very delicious.

Little Black thought Li Qian wanted to eat wild game, it immediately screeched and flew away.

In less than half an hour, Little Black caught a large rat that was still alive and kicking.

“Senior Brother Li, braised or spicy?”

Liu Ming, who had just finished cultivating, walked over.

Usually when Little Black caught wild game, he was the one who dealt with it.

“This is not for eating.”

Li Qian laughed.

He lifted the big rat by its tail, it weighed about two and a half pounds, so fat.

The big rat didn’t move at all, because a trace of aura released by Li Qian was enough to make it behave itself.

“Little Black, go catch a few more.”

Li Qian touched Little Black’s head and gave another command.

Little Black swayed around on the ground for a while before flying away.

Li Qian carried the big rat into the house, took a rusty iron cage from the utility room, and threw the rat into it.

The rat still didn’t move, its small eyes looking pitiful.

“Don’t worry, I won’t eat you.”

Li Qian smiled, felt around on his body, and a dark green pill appeared.

A very unique medicinal fragrance emanated from it.

He tried to touch this medicinal fragrance with his Immaculate Holy Body, and it didn’t have any harmful effects.

But he didn’t know what effect this pill actually had.

So he planned to use the big rat as an experiment to test the efficacy of these Demonic Pills.

He scraped off a little bit of powder and sprinkled it in the cage.

The reason why he didn’t force-feed it was to see the big rat’s reaction.

The big rat sniffed with its nose, seemed to be interested in the powder, but looked at Li Qian warily, not daring to move at all.

Li Qian smiled and immediately turned to walk out, but his spiritual perception was always focused on the big rat.

The big rat was still wary and observing its surroundings at first, then slowly crawled towards the powder.

In Li Qian’s surprised gaze, the big rat actually licked the powder, finally licked it clean, and even seemed to have a feeling of wanting more.

After eating it, the big rat suddenly became a little restless.

Li Qian’s spirit could also keenly perceive the amazing changes in the big rat’s life state, it seemed that the intensity of Qi and Blood in its body was soaring.

Not long after, the big rat squeaked and violently slammed into the cage, hitting its head until it was bloody, but it seemed to feel no pain.

Suddenly, the big rat’s body exploded with a bang, its flesh and blood splattering everywhere.

The cage was covered in flesh and blood inside and out.

“This”

Li Qian was speechless when he saw this scene.

He understood that the medicinal properties of the pill were too strong, it directly caused the intensity of Qi and Blood in the big rat’s body to surge, its fragile body couldn’t bear it at all, so it directly exploded and died.

“Fortunately, I didn’t feed it to Little Black directly, otherwise Little Black would probably have met the same fate.”

Li Qian was filled with emotion.

He guessed that this pill should have been taken by that Wolf Demon.

This Wolf Demon was at least a Martial Saint level demon. How could the pills it took not be high-grade?

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He even doubted whether he would have problems if he took it.

Of course, it was impossible for his body to explode, after all, his body strength was already very terrifying.

But compared to that Wolf Demon, it was definitely far behind.

He wouldn’t take this Demonic Pill before he figured out its true effects and drawbacks.

For a period of time after that, in addition to his bell-ringing cultivation, Li Qian added another project, which was to conduct experiments on lab rats.

One big rat after another became a sacrifice.

Although he reduced the dosage again and again, the pill was still too terrifying for the big rats.

In the end, he had no choice but to dissolve it in water to dilute the medicinal properties. Finally, one big rat survived.

Moreover, this big rat actually grew again in a very short time.

“It seems that this pill can not only greatly increase Qi and Blood, but also break the limits of the original creature’s body size.”

Li Qian recorded the data.

Next, he changed to other experimental subjects, such as birds, insects and the like.

For this purpose, he specially built a wooden house next to it as an experimental base.

He also asked the Odd-Job Hall to customize a batch of cages.

Several more months passed like this.

The fighting at the front line was very fierce and had been in a stalemate.

Smelting City had not been retaken.

Prince Luo’s Residence had a very tight defensive deployment along the Qishui River.

Although they had broken through many times, they were always surrounded and eventually had to retreat.

The losses on both sides were extremely heavy.

It was said that not only was the Taixing Circuit in turmoil, but many other parts of the Great Chang also experienced large-scale rebellions.

Night.

The moon in the sky was bright, casting a silver glow that made the earth seem to be covered in a hazy light.

Li Qian sat cross-legged in the wooden house.

Since the wooden house was built, he had moved his evening cultivation here, and he could also observe the condition of those lab rats.

At this moment, he held the Demon Stone in his hand, circulated the Immaculate Holy Body method, and absorbed the demonic energy.

As traces of demonic energy flowed in, the Qi and Blood in his body, which had basically transformed into gold, became active again.

However, compared to the intense reaction before, it was much milder now.

This meant that his body’s adaptability to demonic energy had been greatly improved.

After a round of cultivation, Li Qian slowly opened his eyes, then summoned the system interface to check the latest information.

Time Bell （ Law 4638/10000 ）.

Innate True Elixir （ Early Stage 31/100 ）.

Immaculate Holy Body （ Major Completion 99/100 ）.

Heartless Sword Intent （ True Image Level 46/100 ）.

“The Immaculate Holy Body is finally about to reach perfection.”

Li Qian finally smiled after seeing the progress of the Immaculate Holy Body.

Moreover, he had a feeling that he could reach perfection whenever he wanted.

Because he didn’t have the feeling of the Immaculate Holy Body being stuck at 99 points progress like last time.

As for his cultivation level, it had reached 31 points progress in the Early Stage of the True Elixir Realm.

Now it took less than four days on average to increase his cultivation level by one point.

When he was at the Late Stage of the True Essence Realm, it took five or six days to increase by one point.

Although he had entered the True Elixir Realm, his cultivation speed had not slowed down, but had become even faster.

This was inseparable from the improvement of the Immaculate Holy Body.

As for the Heartless Sword Intent, although it was improving slowly, it was already over halfway there.

It was still quite something to look forward to.

“The Immaculate Holy Body is about to reach perfection, I can find other places to try and break through.”

Li Qian’s heart stirred and he made a decision. He immediately changed into a black cloak and left the Time Bell Pavilion, heading outside the Divine Sword Sect.

He didn’t know if there would be any abnormalities when he broke through the Immaculate Holy Body.

To be on the safe side, it was better to go further away.

According to the information he had, there were Celestial Beings within the Divine Sword Sect now.

Although the Celestial Beings of the Divine Sword Sect and the imperial clan were all at the front line, the Celestial Being from the Hundred Flowers Palace had been recuperating within the Divine Sword Sect.

In a deep mountain a hundred miles away from the Divine Sword Sect.

Li Qian deliberately found a stone cave.

There were probably fierce beasts living in it, but it had been abandoned for a long time.

The space wasn’t small, it was still good for cultivation.

Li Qian sat cross-legged and took out the fist-sized Demon Stone from the black iron ring he wore on his finger.

Although he absorbed demonic essence every day, the color of the Demon Stone hadn’t changed much, it was still pitch black, obviously it could still be used by him for a long time.

“Since I want to break through, I have to absorb a larger amount and complete the breakthrough through a stronger stimulation.”

Li Qian’s eyes flashed with determination, then he closed his eyes, circulated the Immaculate Holy Body method again, and began to absorb the pure demonic essence from the Demon Stone.

As a surge of violent demonic essence entered his body, even though his body was strong enough.

He still couldn’t help but gasp, feeling as if his whole body was on fire, the painful taste of absorbing demonic energy for the first time reappeared.

He had absorbed too much demonic energy this time.

But if he didn’t absorb more, how could he break through?

Li Qian endured the pain that felt like being cut by a knife, struggling to maintain the circulation of the Immaculate Holy Body, mobilizing his Qi and Blood to frantically refine the demonic essence.

It felt so uncomfortable.

He felt like his whole body was about to explode.

Rolling Qi and Blood washed over his body.

Cracks appeared on the surface of his body, golden blood seeped out, then evaporated, turning into a strange red mist that filled the air around him.

When the Qi and Blood in Li Qian’s body reached a certain limit, the transformation finally appeared.

His body seemed to begin to melt, every cell was breaking down, then recombining under the influence of the powerful Qi and Blood, and finally recovering. The hair on his skin also fell off completely, then grew back.

Especially his hair, it grew wildly as if there was no end.

After an unknown amount of time, an invisible force suddenly released from Li Qian as the center.

The entire cave was shaking, and finally it couldn’t withstand this fluctuation and collapsed with a bang.

Completely burying Li Qian inside.

After an unknown amount of time, a rumbling sound was followed by a large hole blasting open in the earth and rocks, a figure shot out from it, and actually just floated in the air like that.

His whole body was enveloped in a strange light.

It wasn’t True Qi.

Swoosh!

He landed on the ground, the light subsided, revealing a face that was still ordinary, yet felt extremely charismatic.

His eyes were as deep as the starry sky.

His entire body seemed to be perfect to the extreme.

“I didn’t expect that after the Immaculate Holy Body reached perfection, such a change would occur.”

Li Qian looked up at the night sky and muttered to himself.

The next moment, a system panel appeared in his mind, displaying the latest information.

Host: Li Qian.

Cultivation Level: Innate True Elixir （ Early Stage 35/100 ）.

Sacrificial Instrument: Time Bell （ Law 4638/10000 ）.

Martial Arts: Sword-Piercing Fist （ Perfection ）, Heartless Sword Manual （ Perfection ）, Immaculate Holy Body （ Perfection ）, Soul-Chasing Sword Technique （ Perfection ）.

Martial Intent: Heartless Sword Intent （ True Image 46/100 ）.

Divine Ability: Blood and Qi Sanctuary （ Rudimentary Form 1/100 ）.

Secret Techniques: Myriad Transforming Sword Qi, Blood Burning Technique.

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