The Against Heaven

Chapter 35: Penetrating to the Expansion of the Palace

The Third Blood Energy was the last level of the Palace Foundation. This level was just like its name, from the moment the blood of a cultivator finally condensed into a drop of longevity blood, this was a sign of a successful blood spike.

There was a widespread saying in the cultivation world: Physically growing one's Blood, Blood feeding one's Life Wheel, Life Wheel strengthening one's Fate Palace, Fate Palace, etc, in turn helping to strengthen one's Life Wheel, the Life Wheel supplementing one's Blood, Blood augmenting one's Physique, and Physiques then protecting one's Fate Palace.

Physique, Life Wheel, and Destiny Palace. These three existences are always interrelated. One thing cannot be lost from another.

A powerful physique allowed the blood energy to become powerful. The powerful blood energy would extend lifespan, the longer the lifespan, the stronger the Fate Palace, and the formidable Fate Palace allowed cultivators to obtain stronger Physiques.

The Fate Palace also lent its power to the Life Wheel. The Life Wheel would create the Longevity Blood, the Longevity Blood would strengthen the Physique, and, then, a stronger Physique could protect the Fate Palace.

However, no matter how this thing worked, the three of them definitely depended on one's blood energy. If a cultivator's rank was too high, his weaker blood energy would not be able to support his formidable Physique, Life Wheel, and Fate Palace, so there was a need for blood energy to become a Longevity Blood.

Longevity Blood was extremely valuable to any cultivator. Each drop of Longevity Blood was created through many purification cycles. They were not only the peak of blood energy, but they also contained mysterious laws.

There is another saying about blood: “Ten thousand blood one long life, one blood long life ten thousand years.” Many cultivators interpreted this differently during their training.

However, there was a similarity of intent with their explanation. It was that a single drop of Longevity Blood required ten thousand bits of blood energy to form, and a single drop of Longevity Blood from an Immortal Emperor could allow a human to live for ten thousand years.

Although no one had tried to use the Immortal Emperor Longevity Blood on an ordinary human to extend its lifespan, the sentence above had to explain how valuable it was regarding every drop of Longevity Blood.

To reach the Third Bloodsurge stage was not something impressive, a normal cultivator would only need a few months.

The important point of this stage was to use the Longevity merit law to increase blood energy, and Li Han Tian did just that.

The Life Wheel behind his back emitted a heavenly light while rotating Li Han Tian's blood energy in a circular pattern. Also in the middle of the rotation there is a vortex. As soon as this vortex appeared, its blood energy became stronger and faster, it flowed like a torrential rain.

Due to his Mortal Physique and Mortal Life Wheel, his blood energy was originally not at all impressive, yet at this moment, his blood energy reached the level of a Xiantian Physique and Xiantian Life Wheel.

His blood energy flowed like a river, never stopping. It quickly completed one revolution around his Upper Dantian to his Subordinate Dantian. It became faster and faster until there was a gigantic vortex formed on Li Han Tian's body, shaped like a round-blooded crescent moon.

This was a magical and frightening part of the Revolving Crescent Sun Merit Laws, this method could turn one's blood energy into an extremely powerful flow. Due to this incredible speed, the Fate Palace within Li Han Tian's True Fate suddenly came alive.

At this moment, Li Han Tian's True Fate had completely awakened. It was similar to the huge Kun that sucked up the swirling blood vortex due to his Revolving Crescent Sun Merit Law.

Kun continued to suck on the vortex with extreme speed, the written spell of the Six Variants of Kun Peng came alive with a dazzling light. This spell completely shattered the vortex that entered into small pieces in the refining process.

After the process, the blood energy becomes purer and more viscous with a crystallized luster. Then, the furious blood was thrown back into the Wheel of Life. True Fate became stronger as well as the Kun Peng spell. Each spell resembled a Kun Peng as if they were made of real meat, slowly splitting into smaller Kun Peng as they flew in four directions, filled with life.

The whole thing was so natural like this that it always happened.

The Revolving Crescent Sun Merit Laws actually purified the blood energy, making it stronger, as well as using it to strengthen the spells within his Fate Palace.

Over the years, countless disciples had tried to develop the Revolving Crescent Sun Merit Law, yet they failed because their methods were flawed and imperfect. They can only mourn failure.

Li Han Tian's ways were refined through years of effort and patience. It was something he could not do on his own, yet he succeeded with the help of the likes of Min Ren, Tun Ri, and the Black Dragon King.

After one day and one night of blood purification, he suddenly heard a thud, as if a very heavy object had fallen into his Life Wheel. At this moment, he felt his mind enlightened, everything was clear to him. His entire body was relaxed and surrounded by a golden aura, and his blood aura, at the back of his Life Wheel, was brighter than ever.

Li Han Tian inspected his body, he found a single drop of Longevity Blood flashing, it was red like fire and extremely beautiful like it was a creation from the heavens that appeared on the Life Wheel.

This drop of blood was proof that Li Han Tian had successfully broken through to the Palace Foundation stage and officially stepped into the Palace Expansion stage.

If one were to say that Li Han Tian took three months to reach the Second Awakening stage within the Palace Foundation, it would take him three months to reach the Second Awakening stage, then no one would believe that it only took one day and one night to make a drop of Longevity Blood, yet this was the terrifying power of the Revolving Crescent Sun Merit Law.

A genius could reach the Second Awakening in a day, but he would need at least ten days to form one drop of Longevity Blood. However, Li Han Tian only needed one day to complete this task, no one would calm down after hearing this news.

This was also why many geniuses chose the Revolving Crescent Sun Merit Law despite its flaws, due to its incredible cultivation speed.

The next day, when Nan Huairen saw Li Han Tian, he was very surprised and asked: “Senior... You... You.... You have already reached Palace Expansion?”

“I reached it last night.” Li Han Tian timidly replied.

If it was anyone else he would be extremely proud, only the most heaven-shattering geniuses could form a drop of Longevity Blood in a single day, however Li Han Tian knew that this was all because of his Law of Service. He personally had nothing to be proud of.

After hearing Li Han Tian's reply, Nan Huairen dazedly said: “Senior! I still remember that a few days ago, Your True Face still hasn't reached Second Awakening.”

“Two days ago, I reached Second Resurrection.” Li Han Tian replied as calm as the water in the well.

“You ... You really took three months to reach Second Awakening, but you only needed one day to purify your first Longevity Blood drops?” After knowing the full story, the frozen body of Nan Huairen asked weakly.

Li Han Tian simply smiled, speechlessly. After a while, Nan Huairen was scared as well as amazed at his speed: “The Revolving Crescent Sun Merit Law was truly an amazing method, no wonder many disciples in the past had tried to cultivate it.”

His voice, which was filled with regret, was also heard again: “It is unfortunate that the flaw of this method is also a fatal wound. Many geniuses tried to perfect this method, but nothing worked.”

Nan Huairen curiously asked again: “At what stage will you switch to a different Life Wheel method?”

From his knowledge, he knew that one could not cultivate with the Revolving Crescent Sun Merit Law forever because of his irreparable flaw.

The best way to cultivate from beginning to end, no matter if it was the law of the Life Wheel or the law of Fate, was to use the same method throughout, regardless of whether it was the law of the Life Wheel or the law of Fate, this was how one actually increased his cultivation.

A cultivator could change their existing cultivation method, but that would leave an irreparable flaw in the future for their great path of cultivation. One day when calamity comes, this flaw will become a fatal weakness.

Yet for many cultivators, not many learned the best merit laws when they first started their cultivation path. If one were to start with the Emperor merit law and persist with it all his life, that was a good thing, however if he started with a lower ranked Merit Law, it would be a good thing, his achievements in the future will be limited.

From Nan Huairen's point of view, although Li Han Tian had developed the Revolving Crescent Sun Merit Law, in the future he needed to change his methods. Otherwise, he would eventually be destroyed by this merit law.

Therefore, Nan Huairen politely reminded Li Han Tian: “Senior, you should immediately switch from this merit law, the sooner the better. Once you reach a dead end, it will be much harder to change. You will not be able to decide the effect of this method from your blood energy.”

Note:

the Palace Foundation,

- Expansion of the Palace,

physical Accumulation, Physical Accumulation,

the Palace of Provision,

- Inner Long Life,

the Commission of Heaven,

the Warrior Canopy,

- Purified Rebirth, the,

- Primal Heaven, the,

the Creation of the Soul, and

the Immortal Emperor