Cultivation begins with planting techniques

Chapter 197 Talent
There are only four Jindan masters in the four countries. Any one of them can dominate a country and establish a sect's foundation that will be passed down for many years.

Two Jindan-level fire beasts suddenly ran out of this damn place, and there might be even more in the lava palace!
This made the Lava Palace rapidly more dangerous in the eyes of the world. Not only did 80 to 90 percent of the monks who came to explore the secrets run away, but even the local Qi-cultivating monks in the Red Mountains also fled in large numbers like a migration.

The owners of some small hills didn't even want the spiritual land and ran away overnight.

The place suddenly went from being extremely bustling to becoming visibly desolate. Even the Sanhui Market, which housed a group of independent cultivators from the Dengyun Market, could only barely maintain some of its previous business.

In this way, Li Ye was actually happy to have some peace and quiet.

Without all the disturbances from the outside world, he didn't have to keep an eye on the lava palace all the time, fearing that any large-scale exploration would cause big trouble and force him to run away immediately to save his life.

Even my daily practice became much smoother and my progress became faster.

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In a spacious and empty hall.

Li Ye casually took off his robe, revealing his muscular body that looked like a sculpture.

But he put on a posture, and his body was extremely calm, as if his normal energy and blood were suddenly released.

The hot energy and blood radiated in all directions as his blood rushed, like a human-shaped scorching sun, causing the temperature of the entire hall to rise rapidly.

However, his body only showed a jade-like crystal clearness that gave off a sense of indestructibility. Even with the surging blood, it was only slightly blood-red.

At this time, the formation in the hall was activated, turning into various attack methods that came from all directions as external training.

Li Ye stood in the center, motionless.

He took out a blood-red spiritual pill and swallowed it, feeling the medicinal power surging in his body, but his movements were neither hurried nor slow, following some method to move and temper his qi and blood.

His movements were sometimes as ethereal and agile as a dragon, and sometimes as fierce and domineering as a tiger.

Even under the bombardment of various colored spiritual lights transformed by the formation, the faint sounds of tiger roars and dragon roars could not be concealed, and even gradually became louder.

As Li Ye's blood surged and continued to rise, the dragon and tiger spirit became stronger and stronger.

Magic power and blood intertwined, and the shapes of dragons and tigers evolved faintly behind him, and the idea of yin and yang, water and fire, mutual generation and assistance emerged.

The surrounding spiritual power was directly swallowed up by this, and with Li Ye as the center, it seemed as if a vortex of spiritual energy formed, continuously pouring into Li Ye's body during the fusion of dragon and tiger.

The pills he took, one internal and one external, became the nourishment for improving his qi, blood, and physique.

One can vaguely deduce the artistic conception of using the dragon and tiger method to temper the Qi and blood and create a perfect elixir!
However, the evolution has not yet taken a further step to achieve true success. The upward trend has stopped and reached a certain limit.

I can only barely maintain this state and continue to hone and temper my body so that it can gradually improve.

After such internal and external polishing, Li Ye was completely immersed in practice.

Until the medicinal power in his body was gradually exhausted and the formation assisting in cultivation stopped, Li Ye gradually gathered and tempered the rising blood and energy, and the dragon-tiger evolution that had never been able to achieve complete mutual growth and assistance from the beginning to the end gradually dissipated.

There was no regret in Li Ye's eyes. Instead, he was happy that his energy and physical strength had improved.

Compared with the practice of magic power, although there is no such skill as the Wood God Technique, Li Ye can still enjoy the benefits brought by the spiritual essence of the void in the practice of body training.

Over time, he replenished his physical vitality, allowing his talent in body refining to reach the genius level.

I guess he is not much worse than other people who have related spiritual bodies!
Therefore, even though he never truly refined the blood essence into his body, completing the most basic foundation of the Myriad Beast Body, he only took the dragon and tiger forms recorded in the text and some training methods, and in the initial practice, he used the tiger demon blood essence and dragon carp blood essence to refine pills to facilitate their respective introductory steps.

After that, he only used the Blood Gathering Pill to assist in tempering.

However, he raised his body refining skills to the middle stage of foundation building without any difficulty!

Although the progress in evolving the dragon and tiger artistic conception was somewhat slow, and there were no supernatural powers that should have been derived from refining the monster's blood essence to forge a corresponding physique, it was only the qi, blood and physique that could be continuously tempered and improved.

But this way, some freedom is retained to the greatest extent possible.

Even under the tempering of hard training day and night, relying on the improvement of his own foundation, this technique has evolved a little. Even though he has not yet refined the essence and blood of the monster, he has begun to show a trend of establishing his own foundation.

This is the opportunity to build the most suitable physique for oneself without relying on external forces.

However, these changes were too slow, and Li Ye did not hold much hope for them.

"Yang Yuqing truly kept her promise and relied on the formation diagram I provided to hunt down a tiger demon and bring back most of its essence to me. Wanze Water City also didn't refuse my transaction for the second-level dragon carp essence blood..."

"This gives me the opportunity to gather the dragon and tiger!"

"But what I'm after isn't a method of physical refinement. I'm hoping to use this method to construct the Dragon-Tiger state of mind, seeking auxiliary benefits for forming the elixir. Therefore, I can't rashly refine the essence and blood to complete the foundation of this physical body..."

"Otherwise, if it's ineffective, it will inevitably affect my chances of finding more suitable monster blood or body-refining techniques..."

Li Ye's thoughts turned.

He knew that his choice was somewhat willful.

But with the two skills of Wood God Art and Heavenly Craftsmanship Sutra, he has no shortage of fighting and protective means. Nowadays, body training is not practiced for combat power.

And judging from his physical condition, he does seem to have the qualifications to be willful!

Even without refining the essence and blood, it would not be difficult for him to practice with this body of ten thousand beasts. It was as if the body's own foundation made up for the need for essence and blood.

It is very similar to the state when the Elephant Armor Power was fully perfected!
Although there are some stagnation in evolving the artistic conception of dragon and tiger, he is always able to continuously improve and progress with the help of his attainments in alchemy, and has a tendency to truly form his own skills.

This has little to do with Li Ye’s own understanding, it all depends on his physical talent and instinct!

Even with less time spent on cultivation, Li Ye's progress in body refining was even faster than his progress in magic power cultivation!
Because of this, in his opinion, whether or not he could refine the dragon and tiger blood essence into his body might not be that important; it all depended on whether he could continue to practice.

"What I lack now is only guidance on how to make a golden elixir, or a golden elixir note to show me the secrets of forming a golden elixir!"

"As long as I fill in this gap, the other aspects of the secret of the Golden Elixir will be provided to me by the Golden Elixir chapters of the many techniques I have!"

Li Ye's fiery energy and blood were completely restrained and he turned back into an ordinary cultivator, like a dark lake whose depth was unknown.

"The only thing we can count on is any of the four sects' Golden Core ancestors to come and deliver a package..."

A hint of expectation appeared in his eyes.
"So many days have passed, I wonder what those Golden Core Elders have thought about it?"

"Everyone is nearing the end of their lifespan. Aren't you ready to come and fight?"

(End of this chapter)