Chapter 498: Chapter 64: Blood Refining Skill, Refining the Soul
Watching the blood gush out from Yue Jinghua’s body, the Dun Qinglian Fire unable to approach, Mo Kang found a chance to catch his breath and couldn’t help but laugh uproariously.
"You brat, are you scared now? It’s too late for regrets."
But to his dismay, just as Mo Kang burst into loud laughter, a bizarre scene unfolded.
The blood flowing from Yue Jinghua’s major artery suddenly seemed to come to life, stopping the bleeding.
The blood that had already spilled out rushed towards Mo Kang’s Primordial Spirit like scattered soldiers following a command, with an imposing momentum.
The Primordial Spirit of a Dark Practitioner may seem fragile, but is in fact resilient; ordinary weapons and Dark Skill often can’t harm the Primordial Spirit, and only mental-type attacks can truly kill Mo Kang.
Yue Jinghua had only cultivated mental aspects of Dark Skill for a short while; it was impossible for her to kill Mo Kang.
At that moment, however, the blood was like snow seeing the sun.
A terrifying sensation, incredibly familiar and unforgettable for Mo Kang, eroded his memory.
The bloody water, as if it had grown limbs, climbed onto his Primordial Spirit, dissolving his will.
"How can this be, the Candle Dragon Heart Scripture, Dragon Blood... No... It can’t...be extinguished," Mo Kang screamed in agony, filled with both regret and hatred, never expecting that this girl would become his nightmare, but it was all too late.
The blood within Yue Jinghua ate away at his Primordial Spirit like bone-marrow worms, completely devouring it.
Yue Jinghua was dazed for a moment, not understanding how such a situation had occurred.
After the bloody water devoured Mo Kang, it withdrew into the artery as if it had a consciousness of its own, and the wound healed automatically; everything that had just happened seemed like a dream.
Yue Jinghua hesitated for a moment, then her Primordial Spirit immediately retreated back into her Dantian.
After her body’s Transformation Creation Technique circulated for a cycle, Yue Jinghua felt a warm current pour into her Primordial Spirit, and gradually, she began to feel her body, limbs, and breathing again.
After using Blood Refining to refine Mo Kang’s Primordial Spirit, Yue Jinghua was pleasantly surprised to find that her spiritual power cultivation had greatly increased.
Within Mo Xi’s Star Sea, the two stars representing her Dark Power cultivation, Jade Dark Star and Earth Dark Star, shone brilliantly.
A feeling of an imminent breakthrough grew stronger and stronger, as if it was about to happen.
Could it be that her breakthrough was also related to her spiritual power?
Yue Jinghua immediately thought of the barrel theory; in terms of Dark Power, she had long reached the Dark Earth Peak but had yet to achieve a breakthrough, as if there were an invisible barrier between Dark Earth Peak and Dark Heavenly.
Now it seemed that it was because of her spiritual power cultivation that she was unable to break through all this time.
Compared to the myriad of Dark Skills she cultivated, Yue Jinghua only practiced basic mental cultivation techniques like "Divine Stab" and "Demon Pupil."
Therefore, it was difficult for Yue Jinghua’s spiritual cultivation to make significant progress.
But this time, by unintentionally practicing the Blood Refining of the soul, it was as though she had opened a door to spiritual cultivation.
If she cultivated properly, her speed of cultivation would increase significantly. After receiving Mo Kang’s Primordial Spirit, not only did Yue Jinghua’s cultivation significantly increase, but she also received some hidden secrets about Mo Kang, the Mo Family, and the Sky Dragon Palace.
Among them were secrets about the Dragon Slaying Fist Technique.
Mo Kang, that sly and cunning old man, did not impart all his knowledge when teaching Yue Jinghua the Dragon Slaying Fist Technique; he deliberately concealed the most critical set of Fist Techniques related to the method.
Aside from killing various Dark Beasts, the Dragon Slaying Fist Technique can also reinforce a person’s muscles and bones throughout the body, cultivating a physique that could rival that of Dark Beasts.
Among these, included some personal wealth of Mo Kang’s, with the Sky Dragon Palace being part of it.
Through his life, Mo Kang had slain countless Dark Beasts, accumulating a vast amount of Mid-High Grade Dark Pills and various Spiritual Artifacts, all of which were stored within the Opportunity Transmission Array.
But all these treasures combined were not as precious as the Sky Dragon Palace.
Similar to Yue Jinghua’s Dragon Bone Great Wall, this Sky Dragon Palace built by Mo Kang was constructed using the hide, bones, and body of the mighty Jiao Long he personally killed.
Not only does it resemble a Jiao Long in appearance, but its internal structure also incorporates the Jiao Long’s body, expanded with numerous Spatial Arrays, making it a marvel built upon the wisdom of the finest craftsmen and Array Masters of the continent.
The Sky Dragon Palace can be regarded as the Mo Family’s greatest asset.
At the core of the Sky Dragon Palace, there is a mechanism only known to Mo Kang, which, once activated, allows the Sky Dragon Palace to move like a living dragon.
Apart from the Dragon Slaying Fist Technique and the Sky Dragon Palace, Yue Jinghua also discovered a hidden secret of the Mo Family.
This secret is somehow related to this Sky Dragon Palace adventure.
Mo Kang, truly a devious thief, had even begun to scheme against his own descendants.
After learning this secret, Yue Jinghua’s expression became solemn.
Yue Jinghua opened her eyes, flames of the Nirvana Fire Array licking around her without reserve, yet unlike the agonizing heat she felt upon first entering the array, she now felt a sense of warmth.
Could this be the feeling of rebirth through fire? Having stepped out of the Nirvana Fire Array, she lifted her hands, inspecting her body. She opened her palms, and a surge of life force unlike anything before seeped through her skin and hair, crying out to her.
This was the sensation of being resurrected, the new life gifted to her through Weiwei’s life sacrifice.
"Qing Pu," Yue Jinghua murmured thoughtfully, looking into the boundless, directionless Opportunity Transmission Array, "have you discovered something?"
At present, Yue Jinghua’s Dark Power was like water in a pool brimming after a torrential downpour, on the verge of overflowing, yet breaking through to Dark Heavenly was still just out of reach.
She was supposed to take advantage of Mo Xi’s Sea of Consciousness to meditate and directly breakthrough, then solidify her cultivation, but the secrets she had learned from Mo Kang’s Primordial Spirit wouldn’t allow her to meditate peacefully.
Based on what Yue Jinghua knew of Qing Pu, his re-emergence must have a reason.
"Wait, all we need to do now is wait, wait for the mastermind behind the scenes to reveal its vicious fangs," Qing Pu’s voice was ethereal and insubstantial, as if it could disappear at any moment.
Qing Pu had awakened precisely because, he had discovered an excellent opportunity for the Cannibal Little Qing Pu to recover.
Though the opportunity is fraught with unimaginable dangers, it was indeed a colossal fortune.
Yue Jinghua fell silent for a moment, calming the turmoil in her heart.
She walked slowly to where Weiwei had made her sacrifice, deeply bowing toward the direction where Weiwei had vanished.
Rising to her feet, Yue Jinghua’s eyes were filled with an unusual radiance.
She whispered softly, as if talking to herself, yet sounding like a vow: "Weiwei, reborn through fire, I will not let you down," Yue Jinghua stooped down, picked up a clump of earth, and held it tightly in her hand, "Those who plotted against me, who set traps for me, this time, I will make them pay their debts in blood."