Chapter 173: Eating People

The new mana flows slowly in the meridians, nourishing all parts of the body. The hidden injuries in the body are repaired bit by bit, the newly grown meridians become more tenacious, and the healed bones are like a reborn, emitting a solid luster.

The heart is the vital part of the human body, and it is also the place where the essence and blood gather. Li Chuyi's essence and blood are seriously depleted, and the heart veins around the heart are unhealthy dark red, and even a little atrophied. If it weren't for a wisp of "Daodian" breath guarding here, these meridians would probably really close, and it would take a lot of effort to open them again.

When the new mana came here, the breath of the same origin instantly let the "Daodian" breath guarding here disperse, not only without any obstruction, but also nourishing the heart veins together with the mana after the change.

Although there was no new essence and blood produced, the unhealthy dark red on the heart veins slowly disappeared and became fresh again.

When the heart beats strong again, a trace of blood suddenly appears in the heart veins from nowhere. With the beating of the heart and the recitation of the second scripture, it is compressed and refined bit by bit. After countless times of refining, the thick blood of about a small bowl was refined into an almost invisible tiny trace, which entered the atrium with the peristalsis of the heart veins and merged with Li Chuyi's life essence.

In the outside world, Li Chuyi, who was originally dyed into a bloody man by the blood mist, is now clean, and even the blood on his clothes has disappeared. Zi Yuan next to him looks at him with a strange face, wondering what he is thinking.

At the moment when the heart veins recovered and the heart became strong again, a strange suction suddenly came from Li Chuyi's body, sucking the blood on his body through the pores and sinking into the body. Even those dried blood stains turned into dark red powder under this strange suction, as if they were kneaded into powder by an invisible hand and swallowed by the pores one by one.

After these residual blood entered the body, they did not directly merge into the blood, but were refined by the flesh and blood with the breath of the "Tao Canon", removing the dross and retaining the essence, turning into strands of blood full of vitality, which then rushed straight to the heart under the push of the blood and became the raw material of blood essence.

The dross refined by the flesh and blood was discharged from the body through the pores, turning into dark brown residues that fell down. With the mist of the surrounding spiritual energy and impurities, Li Chuyi looked like he had been reborn, exuding a kind of immortal and illusory vigorous vitality.

The full-of-life Li Chuyi seemed no different from before, but Zi Yuan, a ghost cultivator, was particularly sensitive to vitality, especially after practicing the "Netherworld Book" for a long time. She could see at a glance that this vitality was completely different from Li Chuyi's previous vitality.

If the vitality of Li Chuyi before was like a deep pool, then the vitality at this time was like the water flow that was violently poured into the deep pool, instantly breaking the tranquility of the deep pool, and the whole pool of water became lively and fresh.

Looking at Li Chuyi who was unaware, Zi Yuan's beautiful eyes flickered, as if she was guessing something, or as if she had thought of something, and finally turned into calmness.

The little fat boy was just like her brother, as long as he was fine. As for what this weird scene meant, it didn't matter.

Even if he died, at most they could practice ghost Tao together!

With a calm mind, Zi Yuan closed her eyes again and sat quietly aside, with a calm and calm spirit in her ghost power ready to go.

There was no sun or moon in the cave, and after an unknown amount of time, the Dao seeds and the hidden injuries in her body had completely recovered. Although the blood and essence needed a long period of cultivation and condensation to be replenished, with the supplement of blood and qi, it finally recovered a little, making Li Chuyi's face slightly ruddy.

Unconsciously, the recitation of the second scripture of the "Daodian" became fainter and fainter, until there was no sound at all. Li Chuyi's tightly closed eyes moved slightly, and slowly opened his eyes.

Taking a deep breath, Li Chuyi smiled slightly at Ziyuan, who had also woken up and was looking at him with concern.

"How long have I been sitting here?"

Ziyuan pointed to the top of the cave.

"Do you see the sun here?"

Looking at Li Chuyi's speechless fat face, Ziyuan smiled and asked with some concern: "How are you? Have you recovered from your injuries?"

"Of course! I didn't die even when the turbulent void flow beat me into a sieve. This time I'm just a little exhausted. How could it be difficult for me!" Li Chuyi patted his chest hard, his face full of pride and complacency.

Ignoring his smug expression, Ziyuan continued to ask: "What about the essence and blood, how much has been replenished?"

The cold voice revealed concern, and Li Chuyi's face fell, and he sighed helplessly.

It doesn't matter if the body is damaged, and it's not a big deal if the mana is overdrawn. These can be quickly recovered with the help of the second chapter of "Daodian". The only difference is that every cultivator has their own essence and blood, which is the foundation of every living being. Once it is lost, it is extremely difficult to replenish it.

The essence and blood of life are not ordinary blood. Although they can be regenerated, it takes a long time and requires the nourishment of various spiritual objects.

If ordinary people's essence and blood are damaged, they will lose their lives at the least, and die on the spot at the worst. Although the vitality of cultivators is much stronger than that of ordinary people, they also need to be calm and recuperated to fully recover after their essence and blood are damaged. It's just that the recovery speed can be faster than that of ordinary people.

When a cultivator's blood and essence are depleted, it will not only affect the improvement of their own cultivation, but also affect their lifespan like ordinary people. Cultivators live longer than ordinary people, but they are not immortal. If their blood and essence are damaged when their lifespan is about to end, the lifespan that is already short will be quickly exhausted. If the damage is too serious, it is more likely that the lifespan will disappear in an instant, and the body will die directly.

The loss of lifespan is only one aspect. The most important thing is that the loss of blood and essence will directly affect the improvement of the cultivator's realm. Especially in the three realms of Jindan, Yuanying and Daotai, if there is not enough blood and essence to support, the three magical objects of Daodan, Yuanying and Daotai cannot be condensed at all.

In daily life, when cultivators fight and fight, unless they encounter an important juncture of life and death, almost no one will damage their own blood and essence to force an explosion. It was too difficult to replenish the lost blood and essence. Even though Yu Yao was at the Nascent Soul stage and had the huge resources of Taixu Palace to support her, she was injured after the battle of Huoyun Pit and could not come out before Li Chuyi left Taixu Palace. She had been in seclusion to practice hard and recuperate.

Thinking that he was now poor and unfamiliar with the place, and he didn't know when the lost blood and essence would be fully restored, Li Chuyi had a headache.

Silently sensing the place where the blood and essence gathered in his heart, his expression suddenly changed.

"Huh? No way, it was replenished a little?"

Thinking that he had sensed it wrong, Li Chuyi quickly calmed down and sensed it silently. After several times of confirmation, he finally confirmed that his blood and essence had really been replenished a little.

Although this little bit was very little, it was so conspicuous in the already small amount of blood and essence. Li Chuyi was stunned for a moment, wondering stupidly why this happened.

"Ziyuan, did I eat during my seclusion?"

Ziyuan frowned, not understanding what he meant.

After explaining for a long time with gestures, Zi Yuan finally understood what he meant. Knowing that his blood essence had recovered a little, thinking about the strange scene of the residual blood being sucked into his body before, Zi Yuan's face remained unchanged, but the depths of his eyes fluctuated slightly.

After thinking for a while, Zi Yuan gently asked: "Little Fatty, do you know that some skills can refine the essence, blood and flesh of others for your own use?"

"I know!" Li Chu nodded, "Many evil skills have this function. In the past, there was a Taoist priest who captured hundreds of babies who had just turned one month old in order to sacrifice his blood soul flag. Later, my master found out and hunted him for several days and nights. In the end, he risked his own cultivation to perform a blood escape method to escape his life."

After saying that, Li Chuyi looked at Zi Yuan in a strange way, and frowned.

"Why are you asking this?"

Zi Yuan did not speak, but just looked him up and down, and finally looked at him steadily. The inexplicable light in her eyes made Li Chuyi feel goosebumps all over.

Following Ziyuan's gaze, Li Chuyi also looked at his whole body, but found nothing. Just when he was about to ask again, his face suddenly changed.

Too clean!

Although his clothes were gray, they were much cleaner than when he came here!

Li Chuyi remembered clearly that he had not changed his clothes before entering into meditation, and his body was covered with blood mist from killing the monks of Xu Nan and his family. The sticky feeling of the residual blood soaking his whole body seemed to be vivid. He had always wanted to find a time to wash it, but the series of changes had not allowed him to find time.

But at this time, let alone clothes, even his exposed skin was clean, with only some dark brown dirt hanging on it, but there was no trace of blood.

Thinking of Ziyuan's strange question before, Li Chuyi's face turned pale, and he looked up at Ziyuan blankly.

"Um, have you changed my clothes?"

Ziyuan didn't say anything, and looked at him calmly.

Li Chuyi grabbed his hair fiercely and asked sternly, "Where's the blood? Where did my blood go?"

Zi Yuan still didn't say anything, but looked at him with a trace of pity in her eyes.

Li Chuyi, who guessed the answer, felt his head "buzzing" and stood there in a daze with a confused mind.

No wonder his blood essence was replenished so quickly, it turned out that he refined the remaining blood in his body. It's ridiculous that he thought he was gifted and wanted to show off to Zi Yuan.

Thinking about the source of the blood essence, a nausea of ​​eating people surged in his heart, and his stomach churned. Li Chuyi tilted his head and retched.

Since he was a child, he had followed the Taoist priests and had seen a lot of fighting and killing. He had no psychological burden to kill someone, but he was asked to use others as his own furnace to complete himself like the evil cultivators, or even to directly refine the blood and flesh essence of the cultivators to complete himself like now. Just thinking about it made him feel sick.

Killing people is not enough, but killing people and "eating" them is something he can't accept. If it was a demon cultivator, it would be fine. After all, they were of different races, and both sides were no doubt food in the eyes of the other. But as a human being, Li Chuyi could not accept the practice of "eating" people.

The skin on his body was obviously very clean, white and tender with a hint of healthy redness, but Li Chuyi always felt that it was full of disgust and dirt, as if there was a layer of invisible dirt tightly attached to it, and he couldn't get rid of it no matter how hard he tried, making him feel indescribably uncomfortable.

Thinking of the Taoist priest who was chased by the corpse ghost just because he killed many babies to sacrifice the ghost flag, and now he is "eating" people directly, Li Chuyi doesn't know what the Taoist priest will do after knowing it.

"I guess even if he doesn't slap me to death, he will peel off my skin."

Resisting the nausea and retching, Li Chuyi's face was full of helplessness and bitter smile.