Cultivation through Skin Making

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Candle Land Secret Realm, the insect tide like a sea tide, rising and falling, carried a peculiar dark allure.

Song Yan sat on a cliff. The mountain he was on had no insect tide.

The boundary was a winding stream...

In the secret realm, the rivers were generally stagnant, but this river was exceptionally clear, with hints of exotic flowers and herbs purifying the source.

East of the river was where Ling Lady controlled the realm, gathering the insect tide there.

West of the river was the dwelling Ling Lady assigned to Song Yan.

This river, like a boundary, separated the two. During daily cultivation, neither was allowed to cross to avoid mutual disturbance.

Song Yan settled down, crossing his legs and focusing on the cultivation technique section on the Remnant of the Blood Fusion Technique.

After a moment...

An information line popped up:

[Please Select Life Force Investment]

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[You successfully extracted a thread of Night Candle Soul Worm Blood, simultaneously operating the Blood Fusion Technique. This time, since your physique has greatly improved, the poison did not kill you. But as the blood extraction increased, a subtle pain began to emerge in your heart, which you struggled to suppress. Three days later, you were poisoned to death.]

Song Yan opened his eyes.

Indeed, directly and brutally extracting this foreign blood was extremely lethal. It was like continuously directing poison into one's heart. Human Race cultivators, without the formula for the Crimson Palace Pill of this blood, absolutely dare not consume it.

The level of pill masters in a certain region also greatly restricts the power of cultivators in that area.

However, he was an exception.

Song Yan continued his attempts.

After dying hundreds of times, he finally completely extracted the Night Candle Soul Worm Blood.

[You skillfully operate the Blood Fusion Technique, simultaneously extracting profound qi, accommodating, and digesting the Night Candle Soul Worm Blood...]

[In the first year, you extracted 30 threads of profound qi, digesting a thread of Night Candle Soul Worm Blood...]

[In the hundredth year, you extracted 3000 threads of profound qi, the Night Candle Soul Worm Blood had merged into your body and was positioned in the Central Right Palace together with the Changwang Tiger Race Blood.]

Song Yan opened his eyes and glanced at the panel.

[Life Force: 31/14626]

Slaughtering pigs in Chao Li County added quite a bit of life force to him, now a hundred years was really insignificant.

He surveyed the surroundings.

The profound qi in this secret realm was quite ordinary, probably comparable to places like Cold Pool Valley and South Bamboo Peak.

Moreover, he hadn't used elixirs, furnaces, or profound jade, nor was he in an Evil Land or using secret medicines or techniques commonly utilized at the Crimson Palace Realm, but simply relied on extracting profound qi from the surrounding environment for cultivation, naturally progressing extremely slowly.

Now, he could feel two different mystical forces permeating around him, and although his body hadn't undergone significant changes, it was obviously stronger than before.

Once he finds suitable Central Left Palace Blood, he will breakthrough to mid-stage Crimson Palace in one go.

By then, Granma Fox's Multi-tailed Fox Race Essence Blood would be the fixed palace blood.

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Several days passed.

The trust between Song Yan and Ling Lady began to gradually increase.

formerly Song Yan appeared before Hua Linglong using a fake face, and now Hua Linglong absorbed a single thought from the insect cultivator, it could be said that both are no longer "Hua Rong" and "Hua Linglong."

Though neither spoke about it, there was always a silent vigilance in their hearts.

After successfully absorbing Night Candle Soul Worm Blood without any obstruction, Song Yan left the secret realm several times, but he encountered no obstacles entering and exiting.

Ling Lady controlling the secret realm did experience a noticeable weak state once, collapsing on the ground motionless, upon seeing it, Song Yan rushed over to offer assistance as much as possible.

The trust between them was rebuilt in these small daily details.

On this day, seeing Ling Lady nearly fully control the realm, Song Yan thought about gazing at Chao Li County from afar, then departed, standing on a distant hilltop, releasing his divine sense.

Upon releasing it, he couldn't help but frown.

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"I am the main wife, the master's property should be divided by me."

"We are all concubines, who is nobler than whom? Haha..."

"The master's money is mine."

"Mine!"

"I erected a clothes mound for him, what about you?"

"I even built a Changsheng shrine for him immediately!"

The two beautiful concubines of Master Li, regardless of how intimate they were with Master Li before, manipulating things on the bed, clearly had no feelings for Master Li.

After his death, neither cared, but now they were arguing fiercely for the family property.

While the two women quarreled, two officials approached outside of the Peach Garden Meat Shop.

The left-side official stroked his beard, looking stealthily at the shop door, glanced around, and whispered with the one on the right.

"Master Li is dead, only two unstable concubines are left in the residence. Why not... shall we go in and have a look?"

"Sure, let's go!"

If Master Li were alive, these officials wouldn't dare be so bold; but now, they walked enthusiastically, prepared to take advantage of the situation and perhaps even collect the two beautiful concubines.

However, the two officials had only taken a few steps when several people rushed out of the alley, blocking the door.

The officials looked closely at the newcomers, frowned, and said, "Flying Knife Gang people... why stop us?"

One person said, "On the orders of Leader Du."

"Leader Du?" The officials were puzzled for a moment, then burst into laughter.

The other laughed so hard he leaned forward and back, saying, "Which Leader Du, haha!!"

As soon as the words fell, footsteps were heard from afar, accompanied by an eerie sound like metal and stone.

"It's this Leader Du."

The officials turned to look, only to see a vicious man with protruding temples wrapped in brocade, approaching from a distance.