Published: August 10, 2026
Chapter 1054: Refining Essence into Qi, Refining Qi into Spirit! Part 1
The Blood-Burning Divine Transformation Secret Technique was obtained after slaying "Qingshan Old Monster."
This art had an extremely lofty conception, and was suspected to have been created by an ancient demonic path giant. Its level was at least divine transformation.
Based on the principle of "refining essence into qi, refining qi into spirit," it could use blood sacrifices of living beings—body, essence blood, even soul and magical power—to convert them into special, attribute-less primordial qi, thereby raising one's cultivation.
It did not matter whether the sacrifice was a cultivator, a demonic beast, or some other foreign race.
The higher the cultivation of the sacrifice, and the better the quality of its essence blood and soul, the higher the quality of the transformed primordial qi, and the more cultivation it could provide.
Of course, if that were all, then for a yuan ying true monarch, the Blood-Burning Divine Transformation Secret Technique would only count as excellent, and would not be considered outstanding among so many demonic path secret arts.
What was even more crucial was that this secret art had the effect of breaking bottlenecks!
It could be used when assaulting bottlenecks at various realms. As long as the quality of the blood sacrifice target was high enough, it could even play a major role when breaking through the divine transformation bottleneck!
Its conception was extremely high, its effects were excellent, it was even useful for breaking through bottlenecks, and the price paid was low enough.
Thus, overall, "Blood-Burning Divine Transformation" belonged to the extremely rare and profound category of demonic path blood-sacrifice secret arts.
Precisely because he had obtained this art, the "Qingshan Old Monster" back then had been able to dominate a region for a time.
From a loose cultivator with terrible talent and no backing at all, he founded the "Mysterious Yin Sect" and became a notorious yuan ying demon monarch.
Otherwise, what would he have relied on?
In this world, other cultivation resources may have been hard to obtain, but as long as one had some strength and could cross certain boundaries, cultivators and demonic beasts were everywhere.
However, like most blood-sacrifice secret arts, because it took the shortcut of directly refining living beings to improve cultivation, even if the Blood-Burning Divine Transformation Secret Technique was as exquisite as it was, it still inevitably had some aftereffects.
From the methods Liu Yu understood, no matter how perfect the process of blood-sacrificing and refining "living beings" was, it still could not completely remove the "impurities" within.
The primordial qi obtained from it would still, to a greater or lesser extent, carry some imprint of the original owner.
For example, fragments of spiritual consciousness, magical power marks, or various impurities such as "aura."
As a result, the practitioner's foundation would become polluted, and the road ahead would grow narrower and narrower.
Pollution would accumulate bit by bit, and pollution of the foundation was especially difficult to remove. Generally speaking, for those who increased their cultivation in this way, the yuan ying realm was the limit.
Because the higher the realm, the more "pure" one's magical power, soul, and every other aspect needed to be.
That was why some demonic path techniques and secret arts had the qi refinement and foundation establishment realms as their limit, while others could still be used to raise cultivation until the golden core realm.
Liu Yu had the help of the Immortal Abode, and the higher his realm, the greater his advantage became. He did not lack ordinary cultivation resources, so naturally he would not take such a shortcut full of hidden dangers.
Therefore, ever since obtaining the secret art, he had sealed it away and never used it even once.
However, the divine transformation hurdle was like a mountain to him, because "divine transformation spiritual objects" that were effective against the divine transformation bottleneck were extremely difficult to obtain.