C21 Rumble!

Thankfully, the oppressive force was fleeting, vanishing as quickly as it had appeared. Had it persisted, Yeh Hongchen, in his weakened state, would have stood no chance against it.

"Good, since you have kneeled, I shall impart to you the Asura Fiend Qi Technique. Remember, should the opportunity arise, you must kill Wang Xu," the black-robed man's rigid voice echoed once more. With those final words, his body and robe disintegrated into ash, vanishing from Yeh Hongchen's sight.

No sooner had the black-robed figure dissipated than a red light emerged where he had stood, hurtling toward Yeh Hongchen in an instant. Yeh Hongchen instinctively tried to evade, but he was trapped with no escape; the only path lay behind him, and there was no room to dodge.

The red light pierced straight into Yeh Hongchen's forehead, and the name Asura Fiend Qi Technique materialized in his thoughts. Asura, drawing upon slaughter as its essence, and fiendish energy, channeling the aura of murder into the foundation of power.

To cultivate this technique, one must first destroy their own power, only to rebuild from the ruins.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

A resonant voice thundered within his mind as the surrounding blood pool erupted into chaos. Columns of blood surged toward Yeh Hongchen, lifting his body into a slow, eerie levitation.

Boom!

A column struck him, and the vast sea of blue spiritual energy within his core shattered in an instant.

Puff!

Blood sprayed from Yeh Hongchen's lips, his gaze clouding over. "Is my cultivation to be forcefully stripped away?"

Just as he had anticipated, wave after wave of blood battered him, his dantian fracturing incrementally with each assault.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

On the eighth onslaught, a powerful surge coursed through Yeh Hongchen's body, scattering the blood in all directions.

This was the consequence of Yeh Hongchen's dispersal of his power. Luckily, in the moment of release, streaks of blue etched across his skin, spreading over his entire body.

The innate spiritual energy of the late period was relentlessly pushed to Yeh Hongchen's limbs and even to his eyes by the radiant light.

The source of the blue glow was the Meteor Tear's influence. Yeh Hongchen could sense its effect, yet its workings eluded him.

"With blood as the sacrifice, vitality as the measure, and the onslaught as the forge, the Asura is wrought!"

Before Yeh Hongchen could ponder further, that voice echoed in his mind once more!

Whoosh!

As the voice faded, the once-still blood pool churned violently, rushing into Yeh Hongchen's body!

Asura Fiend Qi Technique!

Without realizing it, Yeh Hongchen instinctively began to practice the newly acquired Asura Fiend Qi Technique.

The blood pool was rapidly absorbed by Yeh Hongchen! What was once an unfathomable depth had noticeably decreased.

Yeh Hongchen's cultivation level, which had plummeted from the early Acquired stage to the late Body Refining stage, was now advancing.

Boom! Whoosh!

Shortly after reaching the Qi Refining Stage, a fierce wind whipped through the cave, and a blood-red aura shield began to materialize around Yeh Hongchen!

Early Innate, Prana Stage!

"The Asura Fiend Qi Technique is astoundingly swift! Its terrifying efficiency must be linked to this blood pool."

Yeh Hongchen could feel his cultivation level rising. As he watched the blood pool dwindle, he sensed the underlying truth.

The more pronounced the blue patterns on his skin, the quicker the absorption from the blood pool!

Time passed indeterminately, and Yeh Hongchen's aura underwent another transformation! The once faint blood-colored light barrier around him had now solidified!

Innate middle period, Earthly Spirits Stage!

The Prana expanded, filling the entire inner cave, until it suddenly burst apart!

A surge of an even more potent energy wave emerged!

Innate late period, Celestial Stars Stage!