Poison Blood Refinement!

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Chapter 8 — Poison Blood Refinement!

The corpses laid on the ground let out a thick amount of green energy that got absorbed into my body.

Immediately, I realized it was their lifeforce I was gradually absorbing to change my body.

It started to gently wash my cells thoroughly, slowly increasing its density and richness with lifeforce. In the end, I could feel my affinity with life gradually improving.

My body started to contract and expand repeatedly, all of my muscles breaking down and getting reconstructed to pursue greater performance as it continuously squirmed hideously.

The nourishment was soon over after I absorbed every drop of lifeforce from the now hollowed and dry corpses.

"These changes are so amazing to the point of being horrifying…"

I could feel my whole body getting significantly stronger, faster, and tougher compared to before. It brimmed fully with vigorous vitality and stamina. Not only that, my reaction speed grew slightly faster since my nervous system was also washed by the lifeforce.

If my body's density was the same as a normal adult before, then now it is different since the density of my cells greatly increased, making my entire weight grow heavier.

After the advancement of technology, the field of biology also received a leap of growth. As such, there was now a solid and clear understanding about the human body.

It didn't only pertain to the acupoints and meridians, but also the advanced concepts such as DNA Blueprints and cellular level.

Now, it was known there existed three types of muscles in the human body: the red muscle type known for its long stamina but lack of explosive strength, the white muscle type known for its strong explosive strength but lack of stamina, and the pink muscle type that has the properties of both red and white muscle types.

For every martial artist, it was their wet dream to have their body composed entirely out of pink muscles since it was the perfect combination of power and stamina, as well as flexibility and agility.

However, the percentage of pink muscles in the body is known to not change no matter how much you train.

The three types of muscles are evenly distributed throughout the body. Due to my job as a blacksmith, I know my body was mostly composed of red type muscles with the rest being white and pink types muscles to support the red type muscle.

However, what if my entire body were composed entirely out of pink muscles?

The heart and brain were also created out of muscles.

At that rate, there would be no useless muscles on my body. It would be the epitome of a perfect body—the ultimate concentration of muscles!

And as you've guessed, the lifeforce I absorbed gradually reconstructed my other types of muscles to become pink muscles. Still, it was a slow yet steady process. Only a small percentage of my muscles were pink muscles. At this current rate, It would take time to completely make them entirely pink muscles.

As for how I know, I learned a lot of biology knowledges from my parents because they ran a small clinic. They were the sources behind my knowledge about poison, medicine, and human anatomy. Not only did I understand the essence to save someone, I also have a greater understanding on how to kill someone easily just by attacking their vital parts.

I improved a lot after absorbing the thick amount of lifeforce. And since it was my first absorption, the effect was more distinct since my body hadn't received such cleansing before. It was like a dry sponge that absorbs everything quickly.

The cold energy circulating inside of me began to cease away, causing my mind to suddenly become heavy and tired.

"The Devil's Power…" I stared at my own hands solemnly.

"Is the Devil still alive?"

No, I certainly defeated him on that day with Tang Help.

I still have no answer even after pondering for a long time. In the end, I thought it was pointless to think about it when there was not a single clear answer.

Although this power was helpful, it still proved quite dangerous to use since I couldn't control it.

"I shouldn't abuse this power…"

With that In my mind, I grew determined to become stronger.

I must now use that dark method…

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A few days later.

The mirror clearly reflected my new appearance. Now, I have a messy black hair frame that reached my shoulders with a pair of dead red eyes that were similar to blood. A grin rose creepily to reach both my ears, rows of sharp canines and fangs silently revealing themselves. My limbs were longer and slender than before. From the tip of my fingers, I could tell my nails were sharpened and hardened similar to sharp claws. My skin was extremely pale and seemed to lack blood and sunlight. It was soft as cotton, too. Yet my skin was made from a hard, dense material, including the rest of my body.

"I look more feral and scary now…"

Not only that, I was also taller and muscular than kids of my age by a lot. No one would think I was a five-year-old kid in terms of my appearance. Additionally, I was now as heavy as a normal healthy adult.

The Poison Blood Refinement was about ingesting poison to make it a biological weapon of the body. And the first level of this dark method was to ingest a hundred-years-old Spirit Fruits that had Poison Attribute and Medicine Attribute. It was also mentioned that it must be done without awakening the Martial Soul and Soul Power since it would no longer be possible to cultivate this dark method if those two entities were awakened.

From people's point of view, it was simply a suicide to ingest the Spirit Fruits without soul power to protect the body.

For three months, I had bought different kinds of common and uncommon poison herbs from the market. It was to develop a small poison resistance. I repeatedly ingested small bits of poison herbs every day while gradually increasing the amount as my body adapted. And of course, it came with severe pain as several aftereffects happened to my body like getting completely paralyzed, my mind and senses growing entirely numb, vomiting horribly, having terrible diarrhea, my insides flipping up and down, blood dripping down my body, etc.

However, I persevered and then managed to finally develop a small poison resistance. Still, I know my body is in a horrible condition now. The ingested poisons created many hidden injuries in my internal body that clearly won't heal normally.

The accumulated poisons and toxins were like a ticking bomb, waiting to instantly explode to kill me.

With the money I earned, I bought hundred-year-old Spirit Fruits called 'Heart Killing Poison' and 'Frenzy Blood Medicine'.

The Spirit Fruit with a Poison Attribute was a spirit poison that would first spread from the blood vessels before targeting the heart after weakening the body's immune system.

The Spirit Fruit with a Medicinal Attribute was a spirit medicine that would make the body extremely vigorous and resistant in a frenzy state.

To cultivate the dark method, I finally decided to rent an Inn to stay.

And so, I steeled my mind to finally practice the dark method.

Frenzy Blood Medicine was a Spirit Fruit normally harmful to normal people if used since they would just explode. However, if used to fight foreign invasive substances like spirit poison, it would turn into a medicine to fight against them by making the entire body extremely energized and active.

I crushed the two Spirit Fruits into pastes by using a mortar and pestle, mixing the two pastes together, making them into a purple drink on a cup.

Slicing my finger with a knife, I dropped my blood into the cup, causing its purplish content to let out gasses and bubbled erratically before eventually settling down.

The purple liquid now glowed dimly.

After I shoved it to my mouth, the sticky fluids flushed down my throat before quickly entering my stomach.

I felt nothing for a while, but I soon felt the drink taking immediate effect. My body began to grow hot as my skin gradually became purple as my veins hideously bulge outward with the same but deeper purple color.

My heartbeat started to peak with my lungs contracting painfully. With every circulation of my blood, it felt like thousands of horses galloping overvmy heart.

Cough!

I suddenly coughed out black foul blood as sweats oozed out from every part of my body.

The spirit poison was taking effect instantly!

It ravaged my body from the inside out like an army of ants gnawing away my insides piece by piece. If it spreads completely throughout my body before my heart can adapt, I would die.

I saw my skin gradually turning darkish purple starting from my chest and spreading to my limbs.

Gritting my teeth, I continued to endure the hellish pain while firmly believing I would survive through this.

Yes, like Tang Jin, I must believe even when things are hopeless.

Her faith was the reason I lived.

As if responding, I could feel my heart beating louder and louder to the point of resounding like a drum. A frenzy amount of spirit medicine was surging ragefully inside my blood vessels, all of it rushing towards my heart while bringing vigor along with it.

The spirit medicine was desperately trying to keep my body alive. It clashed repeatedly with spirit poison coursing through my body, causing more excruciating pain as my cells throughout my body began exploding and regenerating again and again due to their clashes.

My body eventually started to expand to the point of bursting as it was pushed beyond its limit. It pushed its cell division beyond its limits to adapt and survive the overwhelming amount of spirit poison and spirit medicine in my body.

I could sense hot white steams rising from my swollen skin as my blood rapidly circulated.

It was extremely painful, enough to make me bite my lips so hard to the point of bursting with blood.

As I was reaching a breaking point. I suddenly felt countless 'mouths' in my skin opening, quickly devouring the invisible energy floating in the atmosphere like hungry beasts.

I couldn't accurately sense the foreign energy, but I knew it was soul power. It followed the flow of my blood since I couldn't control it.

Along with the spirit medicine and spirit poison, the three foreign substances flowed inside my body, bringing a new higher level of torment to my mind and body.

I felt my heart swelling rapidly to the point of looking like a balloon that was close to bursting apart into pieces. It was the same for my body that expanded once more while being covered in sweat and hot steams that boiled the atmosphere. I feel like having an overwhelming fever powerful enough to easily drive someone to death.

Yet I still continued to persevere with my faith in myself growing firmer with each passing seconds of torment.

This pain was nothing compared to the pain I've suffered in the past.

For them, even if I get tortured in hell, I won't give up and surrender to pain.

Even in the face of death, I shall not fear pain!

My heartbeat was now bursting aloud with explosive sounds that resembled the sound of steel being hammered countless of times.

The sound of my heart rapidly pumping purple blood turned into a gushing raging river.

With my purple skin increasingly becoming hotter and hotter, I slowly feel myself losing senses over my body as my consciousness blurred and became foggy like the blazing steam surrounding me.

I resisted.

And resisted.

Until I lost all of my senses.

I persevered.

And persevered.

Until everything turned black.

Only the raging pain being the proof I was still alive.

Yet I still bitterly continued to believe in myself.

An unbreakable faith.

That I will survive.

Only by surviving this trial would I be able to change my life!

I must believe!

And believe!

Over and over!

Again and again!

THAT I WILL SURVIVE!

AND CHANGE MY FATE!

I will keep marching forward to survive and live in this hellish world.

The pain increasingly became more potent and difficult to handle over time even in this darkness.

I focused my mind to forget the pain I was constantly feeling. I remembered the time I spent on blacksmithing—recalling how I easily lost awareness of the outside world and my own body as I pounded the hammer thousands of times.

At that time, I couldn't feel anything other than pounding the hammer down the metal.

I pondered on how I could achieve such an extremely deep state of concentration and focus.

A light then appeared in the darkness before me.

I remembered—

It was by breathing to harmonize myself with the world. I was able to use the true essence of breathing by using my diaphragm and lungs to intake a huge amount of air to support my mind and body.

Upon realizing that, I started to breathe vigorously with the rest of my body functions gradually coming to a halt.

With every vigorous inhalation, I could feel a colossal amount of air pouring inside my lungs and diaphragm, traveling into my heart, being deposited in my blood, and then spreading to my other body parts, causing my cells to slowly awaken one by one.

The spirit poison, spirit medicine, and soul power were still clashing painfully inside of my heart.

I felt my mind becoming extremely focused to the point I felt all pain vanishing. No, it still existed, but just felt so distant to my mind.

I then managed to clearly see the internal state of my body using my mind. I was even able to see the foreign soul power that coursed inside of me.

My vigorous breathings that absorbed a lot of air made my body become energetic and resilient.

The cells that made my heart were repeatedly destroyed before creating new cells that were becoming resistant to the three forces clashing inside my heart. It then spread to the other cells that built my body under the increased regeneration brought by the spirit medicine and soul power.

At the same time, it consumed a lot of my stamina.

As my cells began to get destroyed and reconstructed, they grew more denser and of higher quality. It was soon able to contain the potent power of the spirit poison, spirit medicine, and soul power.

I felt my body finally deflating slowly from its previous balloon state. Now, I could examine that my adapted cells were able to naturally handle foreign energies despite still being unawakened. It was more attuned with foreign energy and wasn't unfamiliar to them anymore. I could tell that my affinity with nature improved. Each and every cell was brimming richly with vibrant vitality.

The purpleness of my blood began to fade away with every circulation it did. Its color got replaced by a faintly glowing dense red blood with a tinge of purple light that brought incredible vigor.

My heart underwent a new kind of mutation that made it pump blood with the characteristics of poison and medicine.

There was still a remaining soul power left in my body that helped greatly when regenerating my body. After everything subsided, the remaining soul power began to flow into my lower stomach before my senses over it suddenly vanished.

My body got cleansed by the new kind of blood that circulated, causing my body and skin color to return to normal.

It felt light and agile—full of vigor and

refreshing sensation.

Slowly opening my eyes, I saw my body being covered by smelly black dirt. I shook them away before standing up.

My body was completely transformed to a higher quality. I could feel my body and mind connection growing deeper and finer than previously. Not only did I feel light and flexible, I also seemed to become attuned with nature.

Body Cleansing!

This was the Legendary Body Cleansing that was said to cleanse the entire body thoroughly to raise innate qualities like the body's talent and aptitude. It also transforms the muscles, ligaments, and tendons to become extremely flexible and tougher.

All in all, it reconstructed my body to become very efficient and ideal when it comes to blacksmithing and fighting.

This was Poison Blood Refinement!

Not only didn't it change my heart, it also caused my muscles to grow firmer and defined, as well as my skeleton turning springy and very resilient since it had strong tensile strength.

As such, it can also be called as Poison Body Refinement similar to the legendary Ice-Fire Body Refinement.

Guuuu!

My Blood Essence coursed vigorously after the Poison Body Refinement. It now bore resemblance to a real surging raging river.

I bit my finger with my sharp teeth, causing blood to spill on the wooden floor. It started to sizzle and slowly rotted from my blood.

Success!

I now have poisonous blood!

At the same time, I saw my wound gradually healing quickly.

"My blood inherited the effects of the spirit medicine…?"

Not only a poisonous blood, it was also a medicinal blood that granted vigorous stamina and virility to my body similar to the spirit medicine, as well as increasing my recovery speed from fatigue and wounds.

Therefore, I named my new type of blood—the Purple Blood. A biological weapon that was poisonous to others, but like a medicine for myself.

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