Without even needing to touch the tree anymore, I suddenly heard its exclamation of shock, but I wasn't able to find it in myself to say anything in response, too much shocked to speak myself .
The second my glimmering droplet of blood fell on the seed that I had yet to bury under the ground, the seed glimmered for a second and like as if it dying from hunger and suffering from a severe drought, it instantly adsorbed the droplet of blood and the dead seed actually started to come back to life .
It still hadn't started to germinate, but it was a bit more vitalized than before and was actually shimmering, but if that was enough to shock the tree spirit, it wasn't what actually shocked me, what actually shocked me was the fact that I felt some sort of connection getting established between me and that seed .
Even though it vanished as soon as it appeared, I was clear about it actually happening, even in that little time I sensed it appearing in, I was able to see and sense the state of the seed in front of me clearly, it was starting to revitalize and its lost life force began to recover .
This gave me inexplicable feeling and hope for what is to come in the future, but I hadn't stopped the technique and urging it to produce more droplets of blood, normally a person could have no more than a filled cup size Blood Essence .
The technique required the use of that Blood Essence to water the plants, but how can be a cup size amount of Blood Essence enough to support watering a plant to maturity .
Not to mention maturity, the person using this method might as well lose his life expectancy if he tried to run this technique with full force, Blood Essence is not regenerative, it can be increased through consuming precious panacea and it was said that it's also could be increased through Martial Arts practice and the Realm of the practitioner .
I read about this and didn't grasp what exactly it meant at first, but now I'm starting to understand the importance of the Blood Essence, it might not be any less important than Blood Vitality .
I was able to sense my own Blood Essence and it was in a receding state similar to the case with my Blood Vitality, exhausting that Essence could lead directly to death and even using it sparely could lead to weakness and dire consequences, using one own blood to nurture these kind of treasure meant seeking death in both its simple and direct fashion .
The things that can recover some of the lost Blood Essence were mentioned to be extremely precious and priceless as well, so the dream of keeping on taking those things to recover then start nurturing the treasure again was nothing but a foolish dream that will end with the person who tried to do this losing his life, his Realm and Practice at that time would be irrelevant .
That's the reason to why this method was labeled as Evil, since it devised a way around the issue of being unable to use that much of Blood Essence over an extensive period of time to nurture these plants .
That way focused on extracting Blood Essence from the normal people, enemies, ferocious beasts, the latter was a pit problematic, due to the fact that it carried an aggressive nature that could end up destroying the plant instead of nurturing it .
As for the first two methods, one focused on normal humans and the other focused on enemies who had also practiced Martial Arts, but then another issue arose, the Blood Essence extracted through that method not only was impure, but was also completely swarming with resentment energy from the victims .
This was why all the resources that guy had on hands were filled with deep resentment, but this Resentment Qi wasn't stable and soon it would disappear on its own after a period of time .
But the seed of Cause and Effect had already been planted, the second the Resentment Qi from the suffering that was caused by him was able to finally catch him off guard, he was already a bygone .
But these doesn't have anything to do with me, instead of using my Blood Essence, I was able to use my normal Blood Circulation to condense droplet of blood through that method that were working as efficient as the Blood Essence ones .
Thanks to the Panel, normal people had a filled cup sized Blood Essence, stronger people should have much more, as for myself, well, I had a few droplets left of my Blood Essence meaning that I might actually die soon .
But I paid the threat of me dying no mind, even though I still have no clue about what to do in hope of solving this issue, I just decided to focus on my current situation first, the Panel helped me with preserving the remaining amount of Blood Essence .
But that method still needs the cost of Blood to work and even though it was still cost me quite a lot to even support nurturing those plants in my hand, the cost was still acceptable to me, I will just need to focus on acquiring medicine that can enhance my blood pressure and circulation .
Luckily, I had started with the heart for Organs Quenching, I can now sense that my heart is pumping Blood more efficiently and this was indeed a huge help with this method, not to mention that the plants nurtured by this method not only going to mature quickly, but they won't be tainted with Resentment .
The second droplet fell on the seed in front of me, then the seed started to shimmer even more, until the black outer shell like crust started to crumble, but the transformation didn't stop there, with the third droplet of blood, the crust finally cracked open and a bean sized purple seed that was releasing weird fluctuations finally came into our view .
How did you..... ? .
It took 3 droplets for the seed to completely get revived, with its revival, the tree spirit seemed to be unable to suppress its curiosity anymore and it directly burst out screaming in my mind and saying this .
Its voice was quite buzzing, even though I had getting accustomed to voices and noise sounding in my mind, I never would have expected that the tree scream almost made me cough Blood if not for the Panel help in regulating my breath .
It extended a branch towards me and healed me again on its own and didn't say anything more, I don't know if the connection between me and that tree spirit was a good or bad thing, but for now I had both good and bad opinions regarding it .
" You are at least sensible enough to know your mistakes and healing me up .
It didn't respond to me at first and soon the six droplet had already landed on the seed and it directly started to be split open showing a purple root that directly sunk into the earth after emerging, leaving an empty head, realizing that there might be an issue if someone were to come inside and see what was going on, even though this was unlikely to happen.
I still stopped urging that Evil Method and came out of the pit that tree had made for me with its help of course, the reason was quite simple, even for the current me, 6 droplet was the limit, if I tried to force condensing any more, I might risk myself collapsing from the loss of Blood .
Eating a Blood Qi Recovery Pill did not help much as I thought, maybe because Blood and Blood Qi shared a mutual relationship but that didn't change the fact that they were different still .
But I should be able to enhance my blood recovery through training so there shouldn't be much of an issue, my face and whole body had become quite pale, I looked at my hands and feet and noted the change in appearance, it didn't last long thanks to the help of the still silent tree spirit .
Seeing that that it didn't insist on asking about what exactly was I doing, I decided to take care of more important matters first, the guys at the Rejuvenating Hall, I had sealed the poison, but sooner or later someone might try to pull something off and the poised will end up backlashing again, so that need to be resolved first .
Also, I had a feeling that its curiosity will get the best of it sooner or later, stepping out out of the Hall, neither uncle Li nor the Senior Sister were in sight, skipping my way towards the intended Hall, I heard a few shouts that made me accelerate in my steps .
Soon the shouts died down and as I reached the Rejuvenating Hall, I saw the guys who are supposed to be inside was currently outside, seeing me approaching they all exchanged glances with one another, before shaking their heads in unison and falling on their knees and swore allegiance to me .
Ti Tu seeing my short bewilderment came and report that what I had feared, already happened, one of the Organ Quenching experts actually tried to use his strength to break through the restraint I left on his meridians and nodes .
The result was the poisen exploding inside his body, killing him and endangering the lives of those who were around him at that time, so they fled from the Hall in a hurry .
I guess this does explain the weird green smoke coming out of the window and them currently kneeling in front of me .
" So y'all have made up your mind, I believe, well then, let's get you all healed up before we finish arranging and assigning you to your new position, shall we go inside .
They were bewildered at me saying this and exchanged glances with each other and even Ti Tu looked at me with clear bewilderment in his eyes, finally someone stepped forward and explained why they were hesitant to me .
They were afraid to go back inside, as that meant imminent death, they even advised me against it, wanting to postpone this for at least until the situation inside get cleared .
I shook my head at their tries to persuade me and said while walking towards the doors of the hall and without even looking back at them :
" I hope that this will be the last time any of you showed this kind of hesitation in carrying out my orders .
I directly went in and directly began to use my Soul Power to condense the poison filled air around me through the use of the condensation technique written in the Records On Evil Ways Of Alchemy, using the Heaven and Earth as a furnace and the Soul Power as the fuel to condense all energies in the world .
A method that created the most buzzing notifications from the Panel to date, it carried the most potent side effects as well, Spirit Dispersing, Body Perishing, Soul Burning, Sanity Loss, Essence Loss, Destiny Loss, Fate Sealed and more .
But it also allowed me to experience the most disturbing state of mind and feeling there is, calling it disturbing wasn't an accurate description, disturbing but also most wonderful were the most accurate words to describe what I was feeling .
For a few seconds, I felt like I had left my body and was interacting with the world directly with my whole being, it filled me with awe, but awe wasn't the only thing I felt from this .
I also felt a sense of deep relief as if even if the world were to collapse now, I have more than enough strength to support it, yes I felt unprecedented confidence from sensing that I was more powerful than ever .
Sadly this only continued for a few seconds long, before I was forced to return to my body and experience the loss of that weird feeling, in front of me there was no longer poisonous smoke, with a thud sound, a few green ball shaped rolled towards me .
These things had unstable energy inside them, poisonous one too, the second it would be triggered, it will explode like a bomb and spread the poisonous gas all around, I couldn't help but find this a bit exciting .
After all, even though I don't like to use poison that much, to have such a strong hidden trick up my sleeves will ensure that I won't get bullied easily in the future .
I got 7 orbs of poison, the place had already been cleared from the poisonous gas and returned to normal, there was no trace of the person who was responsible for the outburst of poison this time around, his body probably had decayed .
I could have just sucked the poison around me completely, but I wanted to make sure of the methods written in the Alchemy guide working and I got quite the big surprise as well, so I believe this experiment was a success .
The only issue is that I had consumed my recently recovered Soul Power and now was in need of some recuperating before healing those guys outside, or I could go to the tree and ask for its help again, but I doubt that it would be willing to do so, but I guess no harm in trying .
I collected the item on the floor carefully and opened the entrance doors, seeing me finally coming out and after quite the short period of time, the whole process took no more than 5 minutes, their eyes lit up and their grave and tensed expression eased .
I understood what they were thinking, they weren't worried about me dying, they were more worried about what might happen to them, if I were to truly die, this what made them worry about my being .
I opened the doors behind me as wide as they allowed me to and saw that the look in their eyes as they gazed at the entrance of the Hall and back at me had undergone a slight change, before there was unmasked hint of defiance in their eyes .
Even though it was little and could be dismissed, but the fact was that it was there nonetheless, but now things were completely different, their eyes filled with deep shock and much awe, seeing how they looked at me, I nodded inwardly and understood that I had already successfully managed to conquer these guys .
Ti Tu was no difference, the only thing that made his gaze seem a bit different was the touch of concern for me that he had in his eyes, my current complexion was pale and I looked quite sickly, but there was no traces of me getting poisoned or anything even similar, so other than showing a little bit of worry, he didn't say or do anything else .
Seeing them like this, I nodded at them and gestured for them to get back inside, my actions managed to wake them up from their trance and they seem to have finally learned to listen to me, they began swarming the entrance of the hall without much hesitation like before .
I nodded at them and said that I will be right back before slipping away once more, leaving a few baffled guys who were still unable to grasp what was going on here .
I went back to the Garden and it seem that neither Uncle Li nor Chen Boa'er had come back, that was for the best, the second I appeared in the Garden, branches began to surround me as if greeting me .
Then one of those branches shimmered with light as it touched my forehead and regulated my state, healing me up and allowing me to recover completely .
I was a bit shocked at this happening, I came here and was fully expectant to bargain with it for a while and even prepared to use any and every method I have to persuade it, but it seem that this is no longer necessary .
What made me even more baffled was the fact that it hadn't even said anything, it just healed me up and helped me in recovering before letting me go, not a word had been exchanged, I couldn't help but squint my eyes at this behavior, but after a while I finally let go of this matter and decided to focus more on dealing with the in need of healing guys .
I will have the time to come and chat with it more later, after I recovered my Soul Power, I returned to the Rejuvenating Hall and directly ordered these guys to find a place to sit and wait for their turn .
One after another came and got treated, the number of poison orbs in my hand rose to a swooping 12 orbs of poison as I finished healing all those guys, after that, I told Ti Tu to go and find Mu Lu and lead these guys to where they will be staying .
After they got healed, their auras were released indiscriminately which made Ti Tu unable to hold his breath steadily, but they seem to be just wanting to intimidate him and nothing more, soon they calmed down after teaching him a lesson .
Tai Yu wanted to excuse himself, wanting to leave the Dojo, but I gestured for him to stay here for the time being, it took some persuasion, but he in the end agreed to accept my kindness .
They followed Ti Tu out of the hall and I couldn't help but notice that the latter was put in quite the uncomfortable situation, but for some reason, he was still able to compose himself quite quickly and that made me even more suspicious of him .
But I decided that currently I had no time to dwell much on this, I needed to start my practice of Alchemy .