I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself-Chapter 256 - 115: The Path to Tier 4, Huo Chang Heads South (Double - Special)
With witch medicine and source stones, there was fundamentally no problem for Shen Can to advance to the Ninth Layer of the Celestial Vein; the only thing needed was time.
He hid in a place by the Guimu River and secluded himself for eight months straight.
Almost without any pause, he refined witch medicine and source stones, and the entire seclusion cave was filled with dense Five Elements Source Power.
All of this was a small portion that overflowed from his mouth while devouring witch medicine and source stones during his cultivation process.
Over time, quite a bit accumulated.
Rumble!
The ninth month.
Shen Can, who had been silent for a long time, surged forward like a Blood River with his accumulated blood energy, charging toward the ninth Celestial Vein.
With a series of ’crack’ sounds, the ninth Celestial Vein was successfully breached, accompanied by roaring thunders.
The blood energy within the nine Celestial Veins formed a circulatory trend, the rumbling and roaring continued for quite a while before it was subdued.
Through introspection, Shen Can felt the cracks appearing in the newly opened Celestial Vein.
However, there was still much medicinal power in the blood energy that had not been completely transformed, and at this moment, it began to gradually repair these wounds with the circulatory movement of the blood energy.
He also took out the bones of Miao Tuo and Jiang Zhen from his prior Ninth Layer of the Celestial Vein, starting to compare the differences between the three of them.
After scanning Jiang Zhen with his divine sense, Shen Can put it away again.
Too poor, no comparison value.
After comparing with Miao Tuo’s Celestial Vein, Shen Can found that his Celestial Vein’s strength and width were still somewhat inferior to Miao Tuo’s, though the gap was already quite small.
It makes sense, Miao Tuo has been nurturing his Nine Celestial Veins for over one hundred fifty years while he has just advanced to the Ninth Layer of the Celestial Vein.
According to widely spread information in Ji Land, whether it’s Xiaoyang or Human Race martial artists, the age of advancing to the Divine Treasure is generally around two hundred years old.
There are exceptions, but those who advance in fewer than two hundred years are very few.
According to the average lifespan of the Divine Treasure Realm in Ji Land, two hundred years is no longer considered young, but rather middle-aged.
If one doesn’t advance, at two hundred years in the Celestial Vein Realm, it also counts as entering the elderly stage.
The reason for this situation, besides the martial artist needing to solidify their foundation, is an important reason: advancing to the Divine Treasure is a major collective event of a tribe.
Even for the Jishan Bo Division, where generations of Divine Treasure Realm Martial Artists are born, every Divine Treasure Realm Martial Artist’s advancement requires the coordinated efforts of all resources.
From source power, witch medicine, to a suitable breakthrough environment.
An elder once said that the opening of the Divine Treasure is easily injured, and he recovered by taking treasure medicine.
At the least, the age of the treasure medicine must exceed a hundred years.
Herbs also have lifespans, which is the same as the lifespan of humans.
When the time comes, if the herbs are not harvested, they will wither away on their own.
To become treasure medicine, it requires the convergence of favorable weather and location, repeatedly breaking its own shackle, much like the cultivation of humans.
Theoretically speaking, even an ordinary wild grass, with enough luck, can transform into a treasure medicine under the test of time.
Just like the Five Elements Beast Pattern that martial artists evolve within their bodies during cultivation, the treasure medicine also has similar Five Elements Patterns.
This thing has already become initially sentient, knowing how to escape.
Seeing a treasure medicine doesn’t mean it can be harvested; this thing needs to be caught, for example, a fire attribute treasure medicine tied with a Water Witch Rope, captured by using the method of mutual aid and mutual extermination.
A treasure medicine with an age over a hundred years that has not become enlightened is just like a regular Celestial Vein Martial Artist stuck below the Divine Treasure Realm.
...
Shen Can re-stored Miao Tuo’s bones into the witch pouch; Miao Tuo’s Celestial Vein strength has far surpassed that of martial artists of the same tier.
The reason for not advancing to the Divine Treasure for so long was probably waiting for the internal assistance from the tribe.
But the Xiaoyang Race is immense, and the martial artists qualified for advancing to the Divine Treasure are not limited to just it.
As far as Shen Can knows, Muo Feilong, who guards the Heyang Ruins Market, is no worse than Miao Tuo, and they are in a competitive relationship.
Using the power of the Xiaoyang Race, the resources accumulated for advancement each time are often only enough for one individual.
Martial artists within the Xiaoyang Race qualified for advancement all desire it.
After all, once this chance is missed, no one knows how long it will take to accumulate the resources needed for the next advancement.
Already over two hundred years old, waiting a few more decades would nearly mean having no destiny with the Divine Treasure.
Currently, regarding Tier Four cultivation, Shen Can only knows a few simple basics.
In the Witchcraft Path, he only knows the most basic of condensing gas into liquid.
In the Martial Dao, he just knows to blast open the Divine Treasure in the dantian, plus a very risky Sealing Technique.
Actually knowing these can be enough to charge blindly; as long as the resources are sufficient, theoretically, the Divine Treasure Realm can be breached.
...
A few days later, in another water area by the Guimu River.
Within an underwater dark cave.
Shen Can sat cross-legged, eyes tightly shut.
[You spent ten years of lifespan, trying to use the Observing Dragon and Exorcising Method as a guide to open the Divine Treasure, causing a riot in blood energy, destroying the Celestial Vein, ruining the dantian, died suddenly]
[... sudden death]
[Dead]
...
[Not believing in evil, you began to modify the Observing Dragon and Exorcising Method, intending to transform the Blood Dragon of the Divine Treasure into your own Kui Ox or Five Unlikes Divine Form]
[You spent sixty years of lifespan and finally turned the Observing Dragon and Exorcising into the Kui Ox Exorcising, attempting to harness blood energy to open the Divine Treasure again, causing yet another riot, died torn apart]
[... torn apart]
[Sacrificial Master, you really know how to play]
...
[Your stubborn nature hit again, not believing in evil, starting by enhancing your Celestial Veins and physical body strength, pushing your body’s strength up to triple the current actual realm. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢
Once again using the Kui Ox Exorcising Method to blast blood energy into the dantian, boom, boom, didn’t blast open, the Divine Treasure stayed closed]
[In a flash of insight, you found that as your physical body strength increased, the strength of your dantian also improved, and blood energy couldn’t blast open the Divine Treasure]
