Chapter 97: Secret Realm of Dry Blood

The Law Enforcement Hall investigated the Corpse-Dissolving Cave for three days and found nothing, so they evacuated the Corpse-Dissolving Cave.

As for whether there was anyone investigating secretly, Song Wen didn't know.

He went to the market every day these days and didn't find the law enforcement team investigating in the market.

However, he still didn't sell the blood essence in large quantities, but sold it sporadically in bottles or two.

A month later, it was confirmed that no one was investigating the matter, and Song Wen was the same as before.

However, every time he sold the blood essence, he was more cautious. Every time he sold the blood essence, he had to go to several shops, change his aura and disguise himself in different appearances.

Time passed, and it was the sixth year that Song Wen came to the Corpse Demon Sect.

In the past few years, Song Wen basically did not leave the scope of the sect.

For the annual sect missions, he took those that could be solved with spirit stones.

Last year, he had a chance to change his job, but he chose to stay in the Corpse-Dissolving Cave.

On this day, Song Wen left the cave early in the morning, but he did not go to the corpse cave, but to the square outside the main hall of the sect on the top of the Corpse Demon Mountain.

This was the first time Song Wen came to the main hall of the sect.

The main hall is the facade of the Corpse Demon Sect, and it is naturally magnificent. As an outer disciple, Song Wen is not qualified to go to the main hall on the top of the mountain.

Today, he came to the square outside the main hall because the withered blood secret realm located in the southwest of the Tuocang Mountains is about to open.

The withered blood secret realm is jointly controlled by the Corpse Demon Sect, Xuanyin Sect, and Red Blood Sect, and is opened every thirty years.

The withered blood secret realm only allows Qi training monks to enter, and the spiritual medicines grown in it are mostly first-level spiritual medicines required by Qi training monks, but there are also a small number of extremely rare second-level spiritual medicines.

For example, two of the three main medicines needed to refine the foundation-building pill, the Heavenly Spirit Fruit and the Jade Marrow Ganoderma, grow in the withered blood secret realm.

It is precisely because of the existence of the Heavenly Spirit Fruit and the Jade Marrow that every time the Dry Blood Secret Realm is opened, the three major sects attach great importance to it. After all, the foundation-building cultivators are the cornerstone of each sect.

The Dry Blood Secret Realm does not limit the number of cultivators who enter, but considering the sustainability of the spiritual medicine from the Dry Blood Secret Realm, it is necessary to prevent the spiritual herbs from being exhausted due to excessive collection. The three major sects agreed that each sect can only send a maximum of 100 people to enter each time it is opened.

Song Wen wanted to enter the Dry Blood Secret Realm in order to obtain the Heavenly Spirit Fruit.

In order to deal with the danger from Shi Shou, Song Wen has been frantically stealing blood from the Corpse-Dissolving Cave in recent years in exchange for a large amount of cultivation resources to enhance his own cultivation.

Half a year ago, after swallowing a large number of free residual souls in the Corpse-Dissolving Cave, and Song Wen went to the market from time to time to buy the souls of cultivators, he practiced the "Divine Forbidden Technique".

To his great surprise, his mental power actually broke through, and the shackles of the Qi Refining Period that trapped him for a year were directly transformed into the spiritual consciousness that only foundation-building cultivators can have.

His cultivation level also made rapid progress due to the abundant spiritual stones, elixirs, corpse evil spirits, and his own abundant blood and essence.

Eight months ago, Song Wen took the snake scale fruit obtained from the underground cave of the ancient battlefield, and his cultivation level successfully broke through to the ninth level of Qi training. After eight months of tempering, his cultivation level has reached the peak of the ninth level of Qi training, which is the so-called Qi training perfection, and is only one step away from building a foundation.

But this step is a natural chasm, and it is not so easy to cross.

In order to survive under the threat of Shi Shou, Song Wen must build a foundation as soon as possible.

Song Wen now has the spiritual consciousness of a foundation-building cultivator, but his cultivation level has not yet broken through, which is equivalent to half a foundation-building cultivator. Obviously, he cannot be Shi Shou's opponent.

If you want to build a foundation as soon as possible, the easiest way is naturally to take a foundation-building pill.

Generally speaking, for a Qi training perfection cultivator like Song Wen, who is only twenty years old and whose spirit and spirit are at the peak of the human body, the probability of successfully building a foundation after taking a foundation-building pill is very high, at least more than 50%.

As people age, their spirit and energy will gradually weaken, especially after they are over 40, when the weakening is particularly obvious, and the possibility of successfully building a foundation will decrease a lot.

The consensus in the cultivation world is that after the age of 60, it is almost impossible to build a foundation.

This is also the reason why major sects are looking for talented disciples everywhere. The younger they are when they reach the perfection of Qi training, the greater the possibility of building a foundation.

As early as a year ago, Song Wen began to inquire about the whereabouts of the foundation-building pill.

With his identity as an outer sect disciple and his cultivation level of only the fifth level of Qi training, it is impossible for him to get the foundation-building pill in the sect.

After his inquiry, the only place nearby that sells foundation-building pills is in Zhaoshan Market, thousands of miles away.

There is a large chamber of commerce called "Kundi Merchant Alliance" there. Every once in a while, Kundi Merchant Alliance sells foundation-building pills at its large auctions.

But there are only two or three foundation-building pills auctioned each time, and there are too many monks and too little porridge. Every auction will attract a large number of cultivators to scramble for it, including some small family sects.

The transaction price of the foundation-building pill is basically more than 30,000 spirit stones.

Not to mention this huge amount of spirit stones, it is difficult for Song Wen to collect them all. Even if he barely collects them all, it is difficult for him to bring them back alive after bidding for the foundation-building pill.

With his weak strength, he can never be the opponent of those families and sects with deep foundations.

For this reason, Song Wen decided to find another way to seek foundation building.

After all, Song Wen is different from ordinary cultivators. His mental power has been transformed into spiritual consciousness, and he does not necessarily have to rely on the foundation-building pill to successfully build a foundation.

The foundation-building process is divided into two steps.

The first step is to compress the spiritual power cyclone in the Dantian Qihai in the body into liquid spiritual power.

The second step is to refine the mental power into spiritual consciousness.

And now Song Wen has completed the second step directly, only the first step is left.

Song Wen speculated that even without the foundation-building pill, he would be able to build the foundation one day if he practiced step by step.

But this time might be very long, maybe several years, maybe ten years, or maybe even longer.

Song Wen naturally did not have time to slowly hone his cultivation, and still had to rely on external objects.

He learned from an alchemist in the underground black market that the Tianling fruit, one of the main ingredients of the foundation-building pill, was used to help the spiritual energy turn into liquid.

So, his attention turned from the foundation-building pill to the Tianling fruit.

As the main ingredient of the foundation-building pill, the Tianling fruit is also scarce in the world of cultivation. It is basically controlled by the major sects and used to refine the foundation-building pill. It is almost never sold on the market.

Song Wen then had the idea of ​​entering the withered blood secret realm.

Every time they entered the withered blood secret realm, in order to obtain more benefits, the disciples of the three major sects would fight to the death, with heavy casualties, and sometimes even only one in ten people would survive.

Such a low survival rate makes many disciples avoid it like snakes and scorpions.

Therefore, those who enter the secret realm are either confident enough in their own strength, or have to do so for various reasons.

The Corpse Demon Sect once forced those powerful disciples to enter, but most of those who entered unwillingly hid in a safe corner until the secret realm was closed in order to save their lives.

Although these people came out alive, they gained very little. For the Corpse Demon Sect, the low-level spiritual medicines that these people accidentally got were like rotten wood and dead plants, which were of no use at all.

After this, the Corpse Demon Sect could only relax the restrictions on the cultivation of disciples entering the secret realm. As long as the disciples reached the middle stage of Qi training, they were allowed to enter the Dry Blood Secret Realm.

Anyway, the powerful late Qi training disciples could not gather enough people, so it was better to send more people in, just in case someone was lucky and brought out some rare spiritual medicines by chance.

In order to encourage disciples to venture into the Dry Blood Secret Realm, the Corpse Demon Sect would take out 20% of the disciples' harvest in the secret realm as a reward.

Song Wen was not going for the 20% reward. He wanted to intercept the Heavenly Spirit Fruit, and the more Heavenly Spirit Fruit the better. What if the effect of the Heavenly Spirit Fruit was not as good as expected? One more would give him one more chance.

Even if the disciples got the Heavenly Spirit Fruit, the Corpse Demon Sect would not give it as a reward, but would exchange it for the equivalent of Spirit Stone.

In order to avoid the sect's search and secretly bring out the Heavenly Spirit Fruit, Song Wen had already thought of a plan.