Phoenix Blood Pill

After deciding this, Xia Chun tried to turn to the second page but couldn't do it at all. It seemed as if an invisible field was blocking the passage.

'Is this like the Hegemonic Yin Yang Art, which has nine seals? To unlock them, you need to gain more power?'

Considering this possibility, he stopped trying.

Then, he put the book away and took out the red pill. As he examined it, Xia Chun grew even more curious. 'Is this really made from the blood of a phoenix?' Every new discovery made his heart race, increasing his desire to go to the Spiritual Heaven immediately.

But this desire would have to be temporarily suppressed. He still needed to return to the palace.

"Can the cyclone in my body refine this? According to the memories I obtained, I can refine any type of energy."

He wanted to try but was afraid of exploding.

"Come on... If it goes wrong, I'll use the Nirvana Rebirth Breathing Method as an emergency plan, even if it could be dangerous in the future."

Xia Chun was avoiding practicing the technique left by the princess for now. Without investigating its exact origin, he feared the consequences. He didn't intend to practice it until he found a way to merge it with the Hegemonic Yin Yang Art, which was engraved in his memories.

Having made up his mind, he removed the lid from the blue porcelain. In the next moment, a medicinal scent, mixed with fragrances of various herbs Xia Chun couldn't identify, flooded the cave. Then, he threw the pill into his mouth.

Executing the Hegemonic Yin Yang Art, he swallowed the pill, which quickly dissolved into a burning red liquid, descending through his body and destroying everything in its path due to its high temperature.

The pain was unbearable.

But for Xia Chun, who had forged his will in recent days, it was still tolerable.

He remained calm as the burning red liquid tore through his digestive system, descending at an extremely fast speed.

When it reached a certain point, the liquid suddenly froze, as if something had forced it to stop. A cyclone, located on the right side of his chest, opposite his heart, began to suck in the liquid like a whale swallowing its prey.

The red liquid, which was once tyrannical, seemed insignificant before the cyclone's power, unable to resist. It was immediately drained completely.

After absorbing all the liquid, the cyclone spun fiercely, releasing a golden energy.

On the outside, Xia Chun, who felt the entire process, was overjoyed. 'My body can really refine anything!' But his expression quickly changed as he felt a powerful energy spreading within his body.

Thinking fast, he executed the Hegemonic Yin Yang Art and controlled that intense energy, directing it to a region three fingers below his navel.

The location of the dantian. Since he didn't have one yet, he would need to create it. At that moment, he thought about the Nirvana Lotus but changed his mind. A deep instinct prevented him from following that path.

His subconscious had another idea. Using all the golden energy, he gathered it and started rotating it in circles. Gradually, the energy compressed, reducing in size to about five centimeters, where it finally stabilized.

This was his dantian: a golden vortex. Xia Chun didn't understand how it took that form but felt it was the best alternative for him, perfectly matching his physique.

'This is strange...'

He thought, filled with doubts. 'Am I really just a prince of a mortal heaven? Why do I have such a strange technique in my mind? Why do I possess such a powerful physique? And why did an instinctive thought arise in my subconscious, guiding me?'

Reflecting on all this, he concluded that it wasn't dangerous. On the contrary, he felt it wouldn't harm him at all. It was a feeling that came from within.

Even so, he would ask his father about his origin.

After stabilizing his cultivation, he would leave that cave. It was time to go.

Having outlined his next course of action, Xia Chun looked at his body. The first thing he noticed was that his senses had heightened: smell, sight, thoughts... Everything was sharper.

This filled him with excitement. He hadn't even entered the first realm yet, merely being at the half-step stage, but he was already superior to any mortal.

The Half-Step Cultivation Stage, which Xia Chun was at, is the stage where one forms the dantian but hasn't yet opened the body to the flow of Qi. The next stage is known as the Spiritual Opening Realm, divided into three phases:

First Phase: The opening of the nine meridians. Each opened meridian increases Qi capacity.

Second Phase: The opening of the ten main arteries.

Third Phase: The formation of the nine veins.

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Afterward, he stood up from the jade bed, its surface stained with coagulated blood. It was the blood Xia Chun had shed when he was semi-dead after facing the princess.

Upon leaving, he began punching the air, but to his dismay, nothing happened. A half-step cultivator is merely an enhanced human, still unable to cause phenomena.

This made him laugh. He was acting like an idiot.

After several sequences of random punches, Xia Chun left the cave. As the sunlight hit him, he placed his hands over his eyes, gradually removing them to adjust once more to the brightness.

Once accustomed to the sunlight, he looked up at the sky, painted in a beautiful blue, filled with clouds and illuminated by a sun that dominated the entire Mortal Heaven.

Whenever he looked at the sky, he wondered: 'Is there really another world above it?'

It was hard to believe but entirely true. No one knew how it was possible... How could one sky overlap another?

This was one of the great mysteries of the Azure Spirit World.

Gazing at the blue sky, Xia Chun spent hours reflecting. Then, he returned to the cave and picked up the note. Turning it over, he discovered the purpose of the pills.

"..."

'Am I stupid, or is this princess an idiot for putting this on the back?'

The note explained the pills' uses: the green ones were for healing, the yellow ones for replenishing Spiritual Qi, and the white ones contained pure Spiritual Qi, saving a lot of cultivation time.

Curiously, there was no mention of the Phoenix Blood Pill.

The techniques were the same, but the breathing was different.

'Did this idiot change her mind at the last minute and forget to mention it? Is she dumb? I think so... How can she talk about such a technique to a stranger?'

Xia Chun felt that avoiding practicing the technique was the best choice he had made. That princess was unreliable.

"Hmm..."

Letting out a sigh, he put the jade bed into the storage ring and left. He didn't use the pills because he wasn't in a hurry. Until he discovered a few things, he wouldn't leave that heaven.

Another thing that puzzled him was: Would this be enough for how long? He needed ten times more resources than an average person.

Moreover, cultivating normally in that heaven was almost impossible. The Qi was extremely scarce. If someone managed to open a single meridian, it would be enough to dominate that heaven.

Of course, this excluded those who descended from the Spiritual Heaven, like the princess, who, even with her power reduced, was still extremely powerful.