After Li Yan's cultivation continued to grow, he no longer needed to be so careful when refining again. So in the later stages, he refined it half a drop, a whole drop at a time.
For the first few drops of essence blood, he had refined them a whole drop at a time without any abnormalities. But when the eighth drop entered his body, an unexpected problem occurred.
Li Yan suddenly realized at this moment that perhaps because he had cultivated several of the world's strongest cultivation methods and his cultivation was not weak, the essence blood had not yet reached its most abundant state after merging with him.
Refining someone else's essence blood was originally a slow fusion process. Li Yan's cultivation had been very smooth over the years, which made him gradually feel that refining essence blood was a very easy matter.
However, the fusion of external forces would always have a limit. It was impossible to fuse the power of others indefinitely.
If Li Yan himself had continued to refine it bit by bit in a grinding manner, as his power slowly grew, that limit would also be continuously raised, allowing him to fuse more external power.
But after repeatedly refining a whole drop at a time, a phenomenon that could not be suppressed appeared.
The power in this drop of essence blood could not be fused into Li Yan's blood in a short time. The excess majestic power began to expand in his meridians and flesh like blowing air.
It "puffed up" Li Yan's flesh and blood, even separating it from his bones. This was due to the immense power in his body.
Although the huge pain almost snapped Li Yan's nerves, the powerful endurance he had developed through long-term cultivation of body refining arts was now manifested.
Li Yan forcibly suppressed the heart-piercing pain and began to madly circulate the True Scripture of Gui Water. But at this moment, for every inch that those magical powers advanced in his meridians, Li Yan had a feeling of being torn apart.
This made his pain continuously intensify, impacting his divine soul again and again.
A large amount of sweat beaded on Li Yan's forehead. He still gritted his teeth and circulated his cultivation method bit by bit.
He knew that if he could not refine this drop of essence blood, all his flesh and blood might be torn from his body at any time, and even his bones might snap inch by inch, turning into a pile of fragments on the ground.
Just as Li Yan's magical power advanced bit by bit, and Li Yan was in so much pain that his teeth were chattering, suddenly, a ball of light burst out from the small golden Nascent Soul in his dantian.
At the same moment, the thin green line on his right arm, the thin red line on his right leg, and the yellow thin line on his left leg began to jump continuously. The wood, fire, and earth spiritual power on the small Nascent Soul began to gush out on their own.
The next moment, they converged into Li Yan's circulating magical power. The magical power in Li Yan's dantian, due to the True Scripture of Gui Water, usually existed in the state of Gui Water.
Only in this way could the power he unleashed when casting ordinary water system spells or the immortal arts of the Gui Water Immortal Sect be more pure and powerful.
Unless he deliberately converted it into a certain attribute of magical power, such as using fire system spiritual power to cast a fireball spell, otherwise the fireball spell he cast would still be composed of Gui Water magical power, but the fire system power would be much less.
When the wood, fire, and earth three-system spiritual power on the small Nascent Soul erupted and merged into the Gui Water magical power on their own, Li Yan's Gui Water magical power actually began to convert and divert on its own, merging into the three-system spiritual power.
At this moment, it was as if Li Yan's dantian was a vast river. There was a gap on the river, and Gui Water was constantly flowing out. And at the gap, a small golden person was guiding that Gui Water.
In an instant, that black spiritual power turned into three torrents of green, red, and yellow. The front of the three colors was in the shape of a triangular cone, and with the momentum of splitting bamboo, it rushed out.
Wherever the green wood spiritual power passed, it would cover the flesh and bones, and then follow the already cracked bones, continuously seeping in to repair those cracks.
At the same time, the yellow earth spiritual power formed a protective layer on the surface of the bones, blocking the majestic impact force from the flesh and blood.
Thus, the flesh and blood that had been peeled off and lifted began to "lie down" again, slowly sticking to the bones again, reattaching themselves.
The red spiritual power, on the other hand, was like the sharpest cone head. With this spiritual power, it was no longer advancing inch by inch, but whistling through the meridians. The power that rose from the essence blood like a series of fences was instantly drilled through with holes...
At this time, in Li Yan's senses, a cool feeling came from those wounds. Some indescribable thoughts suddenly appeared in Li Yan's mind.
But he was still subconsciously refining the "Undead Nether Phoenix" essence blood while circulating the heavenly cycle, so as not to explode.
But a part of his thoughts had already drifted away in a daze, to feel the feelings brought by the green wood spiritual power, red fire spiritual power, and yellow earth spiritual power.
Gradually, Li Yan had a new understanding from those rushing spiritual powers, and it was no longer the vague understanding he had of the other four systems of spiritual power before.
The five elements are born from each other. The life of heaven and earth is born from wood, has roots from earth, has spirit from water, has a soul from fire, and has qi from metal.
Every time the five elements rotate, it is the change of the four seasons, the waxing and waning of the moon, the cycle of heaven and earth, the transformation of the power of rules...
A roaring sound gradually appeared in Li Yan's mind, and this sound became louder and louder until it resounded throughout his entire mind, deafening.
The pain in his body had already disappeared, and the aura on his body was also rising steadily. It was the growth brought about by his state of mind...
"Boom!"
It was unknown how long had passed. Li Yan, with his eyes closed, suddenly had a black water pattern appear on his forehead. The water pattern was shaped like the seal character "chuan." The moment it appeared, it rippled like flowing water.
At the same time, another muffled sound erupted from within Li Yan's body. Li Yan's body shook violently, and then, the aura on his body rose again, continuing to climb upwards...
Nine days later, Li Yan, sitting cross-legged, slowly opened his eyes. The moment he opened his eyes, the water pattern in the middle of his forehead also disappeared in an instant, and Li Yan was completely unaware of this.
But at this moment, a smile appeared in his eyes. He had finally broken through to the Late-stage Nascent Soul. Feeling the indescribable power in his body, two sharp beams of light shot out from Li Yan's eyes.
"The five elements have no fixed form. I may have paid too much attention to the cultivation method I practiced before, thinking that the True Scripture of Gui Water should be based on the water spirit root. Otherwise, it would not be divided into the Five Immortal Sects."
"But, I was wrong. The true meaning of the Five Immortal Sects is to use your strongest spirit root as the foundation, and in the endless cycle of the five elements, to achieve the most perfect balance of the five attributes, rather than highlighting the strength of a certain attribute."
"Just achieving the balance of the five attributes should only be the preliminary stage. The final goal is to be able to transform the five elements as one wishes. And in the heaven and earth, there is no single plant or living being that survives on a single attribute."
"Even in an extreme place like the Black Demon Clan's 'Demon-Swallowing Abyss,' the demonic plants inside also rely on demonic qi to survive, and also need water and earth, and even fire."
"This is to say that metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, seemingly in an endless cycle, with only one appearing at a time, is actually not the case. When there is water, other attributes may also appear, or even all five elements may appear at the same time."
"This is the true law of heaven and earth of the five elements. When things reach an extreme, they reverse. A single attribute will go to an extreme, just like a sharp sword, too rigid and it will easily break."
"Senior Sister's three talents spirit root is the most stable of her cultivation attributes. This stability is also a special form of the five elements. I can feel that when these three systems are in a stable state, the power they erupt with complements each other..."
Li Yan felt the control of the other powers of the five elements of heaven and earth, and Li Yan believed that these were still just the surface. Although he now felt that he could see through these things, it was actually nothing remarkable.
But before the Late-stage Nascent Soul, even if he knew about them, he could not understand and apply them.
Now, he was still most proficient in the water system power. The wood, fire, and earth powers had been enhanced simultaneously. This made him slowly have a new understanding of the laws of these four attributes, and he began to fuse them. The weakest was the metal system power.
With this thought, Li Yan gently raised a hand and pointed at the empty space in front of him. A black water drop the size of a bean appeared in front of him.
This was a drop of "Nine Cauldrons Gui Water" that he had painstakingly refined. Then, the magical power supporting the water drop was withdrawn.
"Boom!"
With a loud noise, the cave where Li Yan was in seclusion shook violently. The surrounding formation restrictions also flashed wildly with light, finally blocking the commotion here.
Afterward, that drop of water smashed a deep pit the size of a head on the ground in front of Li Yan. After going deep into the ground for several tens of zhang, it was recalled by Li Yan's magical power.
Looking at the black water drop in his hand, Li Yan circulated his magical power and let go again. The surface of that drop of black water was covered with a layer of yellow light and fell to the ground again.
Another loud noise came out. This time, the cave shook even more violently. Beside the head-sized deep pit in front of Li Yan, a black hole the size of a washbasin appeared.
That drop of water with a yellow light on its surface disappeared again. After sinking into the ground for a distance, it was recalled by Li Yan again. The moment the water drop fell into Li Yan's palm, a strange light flashed in Li Yan's eyes.
Immediately, the yellow light on the surface of the black water drop in his palm faded, but a layer of white appeared. Then Li Yan gently threw it forward.
"Go!"
With a soft shout, the water drop fell rapidly again, quickly approaching the ground. But this time, it only made a soft "chi" sound. Beside the two pits, a small hole the size of a bean appeared.
If one did not look carefully, one would not even notice the existence of the small hole.
The next moment, Li Yan still beckoned with his hand. Amidst a flash of white light, that drop of water flew out from underground and returned to Li Yan's palm again.
Li Yan looked at the "Nine Cauldrons Gui Water" in his palm and raised an eyebrow.
"The same drop of 'Nine Cauldrons Gui Water' displays different powers. And I had this idea before and tried it many times, but the fusion of the several systems of magic was not ideal."
"At that time, I thought that this was an immortal art of the Gui Water Immortal Sect, and could only be activated with Gui Water magical power to display its true power..."
Li Yan had just used the "Nine Cauldrons Gui Water" three times. The first time was purely the weight of the "Nine Cauldrons Gui Water" itself. When it hit the ground, a head-sized deep pit appeared.
The second time Li Yan used it, he used a trace of the law power he had just comprehended to fuse a strand of earth system spiritual power into it, and it smashed a washbasin-sized deep pit.
And when Li Yan recalled it, that drop of "Nine Cauldrons Gui Water" was still sinking at an extremely fast speed.
In Li Yan's divine sense, the speed and sinking power of the water drop had both increased by forty percent. This was almost half the weight of a drop of "Nine Cauldrons Gui Water."
But when Li Yan infused the earth system spiritual power into his palm, he did not feel its weight increase at that time. It was not until it was smashed out that there was a change. This should be because the two forces were superimposed when the water drop was moving at an extreme speed.
The third time, Li Yan infused a strand of metal system power. This was the power he had the weakest comprehension of at present. But even so, with the comprehension of the fusion of different powers.
This time, that drop of "Nine Cauldrons Gui Water" fused with metal system power landed on the ground with almost no sound.
And its sinking speed was very fast in the early stage. When Li Yan went to recall it the next moment, that drop of water had already entered more than seventy zhang underground, unbelievably fast. It had reached that depth almost instantly.
But Li Yan also clearly felt that the speed of the water drop was then rapidly decreasing, and its power was consumed by seventy percent in just half a breath.
Li Yan guessed that this result was either because his comprehension of the metal system power was not enough, or because of the characteristics of the metal system power, which could not be sustained for too long.
Li Yan had had such an idea when he was diligently cultivating the "Nine Cauldrons Gui Water" cultivation method.
However, when he tried to infuse other attribute magical powers into a drop of "Nine Cauldrons Gui Water" that he had summoned, that drop of "Nine Cauldrons Gui Water" would either disperse in an instant, or become mottled and unsightly, causing the power distribution inside to be uneven.
There was a feeling that it would collapse at any time, making it very difficult for Li Yan to condense the true power of the "Nine Cauldrons Gui Water." And the force of its fall was greatly reduced.
After many attempts, Li Yan believed that this cultivation method could only be activated with Gui Water magical power. This was the orthodox way of casting spells. The immortal arts of the Gui Water Immortal Sect could not be used by other sects.
And after trying again today, a single drop of "Nine Cauldrons Gui Water" had already shown various different changes.
When activated with only Gui Water magical power, there was no change in its power compared to when it was usually cast. But after using a trace of the power of the rules, adding earth system spiritual power increased its weight exponentially, making it more suitable for winning with force.
And when attached with metal system spiritual power, the attack speed was significantly increased, and it was unstoppable. But it lacked stamina, lacking the feeling of endlessness when activated with Gui Water magical power.
"This is the power of the laws. Unfortunately, my 'Soul-Tugging Execution' should be related to the supreme law of life, but this time, my promotion and comprehension have nothing to do with this rule!"
Although Li Yan had advanced to the Late-stage Nascent Soul, it also made him not know whether to laugh or cry and feel depressed.
Because, this promotion should be related to Gong Chenying's three talents spirit root, but the other party did not have a water system spirit root.
This made Li Yan, who was originally based on the water spirit root and whose cultivation method was also water system, finally break through the shackles with the help of the three comprehensions of wood, fire, and earth.
And these comprehensions, he had only enlightened to the layer of the fusion of the five elements without a fixed form. He had no deeper comprehension.
Like the cultivation method "Soul-Tugging Execution," its power was unquestionable. It was to attack the soul of a living being, making it impossible to guard against. It was of a very sinister type, and it could even be said to be contrary to the way of heaven.
Li Yan knew that this should belong to the law of life. As for the law of life, in the classics that Li Yan could see, it was recorded that it was related to the wood and water attributes.
In his comprehension this time, although there was also the existence of the wood attribute, in the end, there was no further enlightenment, let alone a deeper understanding and improvement of this cultivation method.
If he could comprehend a trace of the law of life, then the "Soul-Tugging Execution" that Li Yan cast would have an incredible improvement.
And it would not be like the last time he dealt with the "Qionglin Sect's" First Elder, where in the end, he had to rely on chance and failed to even pull out the other party's "human soul!" That was what led to the second round of bitter fighting, which caused him and Gong Shanhe to almost perish.
"Three talents spirit root, why was the record of this kind of spirit root lost in the end? It is not more than the saint spirit root, but the benefits of the saint spirit root and some related cultivation methods have been passed down..."
Li Yan thought in his heart. He felt that there must be a special cultivation method in this world that targeted the three talents spirit root. If he could obtain it, it would definitely have an extremely important impact on Gong Chenying.