I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself-Chapter 273 - 121: I Have Achieved Divine Treasure, Let the Battle Begin!
The five elements blood energy surged into Shen Can’s dantian, instantly exploding it to a range of sixty zhang.
At the same time, the moment the blood energy burst open the dantian, Shen Can clearly felt a resonance force penetrating his entire body.
Whether it was his flesh, bones, or especially the nine celestial veins, the counter-shock from the blood energy reverberated back along the celestial veins.
Under this powerful backlash, if the martial artist’s strength wasn’t enough, the celestial veins would be torn apart, along with the flesh and bones, shattering them.
Fortunately, his celestial veins were wide, and his bones extremely strong, as the counter-shocking blood energy surged through his body, causing glowing beast patterns to appear all over.
Externally, it manifested as his entire body trembling violently at the instant of the divine treasure’s impact.
Within his divine sense, Shen Can introspected himself and reabsorbed the turbulent blood energy into his dantian with each breath, gathering it into a multicolored flood that once again descended towards the dantian.
Through his deduction, the most taboo thing when expanding the dantian was lacking follow-up strength, as it would only cause a break in the advancement process.
Rumbling sounds ensued as the five elements blood energy once more surged through the dantian. The shattered dantian fragments were devoured by the blood energy, rapidly transforming into an energy supplement, continuing to scour the surroundings of the dantian, constantly expanding the range.
The records of Lord Giant Wood stated that when he exploded open his dantian, he expanded a divine treasure of twenty-nine zhang.
The records of the Luo River Bo Division noted that the largest dantian ever developed by successive Lords of Luo River during their divine treasure advancement was sixty-nine zhang. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺
The larger the divine treasure opened, the stronger the foundation naturally becomes.
Shen Can invoked the celestial vein blood energy to descend three successive times, expanding the range of the dantian to one hundred zhang.
Crack!
A crack appeared on the edge of the dantian, with a trend of spreading throughout the body.
Shen Can was not worried about this; the blood energy surged towards the crack.
In an instant, the dantian’s range reached over one hundred and twenty zhang, and the dantian began to shake violently, as if it were about to collapse.
In anticipation of this, Shen Can quickly circulated the multicolored blood energy within the dantian, transforming the vibrant colors of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth into the azure breath of the wood element.
The vitality from the wood blood energy filled the dantian all at once, and the abundant vitality began to repair the cracks.
Feeling the stinging pain in the dantian easing, Shen Can let out a sigh of relief.
The manipulation of the five elements wasn’t for nothing after all.
The azure blood energy, like jade liquid, repeatedly scoured the newly expanded dantian, quickly closing up the large cracks, while the smaller ones were repaired to their original state.
The barriers surging at the periphery of the dantian appeared in a colorful expanse, resembling the celestial vein wall developed during the opening of the divine treasure.
Once the divine treasure was opened, the nine celestial veins had a place to converge, forming a complete circulation of the heavens.
Within the celestial veins, the blood energy flowed down steadily, continuously scouring the divine treasure, while the blood energy within the divine treasure surged into the celestial veins, creating an endless cycle.
However, upon completion of the advancement, the once seemingly tumultuous blood energy, having been consumed and scattered, became thin and unable to fully cover even the newly developed divine treasure.
Shen Can opened his eyes and quickly devoured the source stones and witch medicine before him, rapidly refining them into blood energy flowing into the celestial veins and divine treasure.
Soon the azure blood energy engulfed the entire divine treasure, and the circulation of the heavens began to nourish the flesh and bones.
Roar!
As the blood energy scoured the bones, beast patterns lit up.
In a trance, a Kui Ox emerged from within the beast pattern, exuding an aura of majesty.
Apart from the Kui Ox, four other wild beast marks appeared, albeit only in an illusory form compared to the Kui Ox.
The realm succeeding the divine treasure is the Beast Form Realm; thus, Shen Can wasn’t surprised to find a Kui Ox mark appearing within his body.
Although his advancement experiences did not mention forming wild beast marks after opening the divine treasure.
His cultivation differed greatly from that of these divine treasure martial artists.
The reason the Kui Ox mark was so clear was simply because during his initial transformation into a Kui Ox, in a dreamlike scenario, he had seen the form of the Kui Ox.
As for the other four types of wild beasts, the forms he saw were those of ordinary bloodline wild beast divine forms; to truly solidify the marks, he may need to observe the ancestors of the four wild beasts.
The unending wood blood energy scoured Shen Can’s entire body, and merely three days later, he felt that his advancement had stabilized.
He did not suffer the severe injuries as mentioned by the elder sacrificial spirit, similar to records of injuries in the experiences of the Lords of Luo River and Lord Giant Wood.
To say he wasn’t injured isn’t entirely true; however, the injuries sustained during the tier breakthrough were minor and quickly healed.
There are plenty of factors contributing to this situation. In Shen Can’s view, the main reason was simply one: others of the same tier had bodies too frail.
When assaulting the divine treasure, the violent energy rebounding upwards shattered the celestial veins and flesh, and downward tore at the dantian and divine treasure, leading to bodily explosion and death.
Even if the dantian could remain intact, the strength tearing the celestial veins, leaving them broken, how could one gather blood energy to continue the assault?
In short, while gaining the power to open the divine treasure, one must also be able to withstand it.
With weak strength, the divine treasure couldn’t be opened.
Given this, Shen Can reflected on his cultivation process.
Prior to this, he hadn’t realized the tempering of the body, from the Mountain Opening Realm condensing the power of one hundred and eight desolations to advancing the celestial veins, followed by the emergence of the Kui Ox Divine Form, and the development of beast patterns in bones and flesh, were all unexpected.
But it was precisely this unexpectedness that allowed him to easily withstand the backlash of ascending to the divine treasure.
