As for who wants to harm him?
Mu Jinyu doesn't even need to think; he knows who it is!
Where is the Blood Essence Pool? In the forbidden area of the Blood Sword Sect!
How could ordinary people have the qualification to come here?
Clearly, it is the high-level members of the Blood Sword Sect, who are either fearful of his prowess at the Ninth Layer of the Divine Realm, defeating the Fanxu Realm Dao Wuming, or covet the power of the Bi Fang Cauldron. They want to take the opportunity to kill him as he breaks through his bottleneck!
And if he dies like this, even if the Heavenly Sword Faction comes to investigate, they will only find that he failed to reach the Fanxu Realm and perished, not realizing that it was their secret assassination!
"Very well, if I don't die today, I will make you pay a heavy price one day!"
Mu Jinyu swore fiercely in his heart, yet secretly lamented.
At this moment, he was becoming increasingly overwhelmed by the massive impact of spiritual power, with more and more cracks appearing on his body, even faster than the healing speed of Life Source Energy!
"Am I really going to die here?!"
Mu Jinyu was filled with reluctance!
He hasn't helped Wen Rou and Jian Ruyan reclaim their bodies, he hasn't gone back to see his mother and Xiyan, he hasn't found Xiang Mantang, he doesn't have children yet...
"Buzz!!"
At that moment, the mysterious little tree in Mu Jinyu's Sea of Consciousness suddenly trembled slightly, then stopped absorbing the outside world's spiritual energy and began actively devouring the massive spiritual energy inside Mu Jinyu!
It seemed to perceive that the spiritual energy inside Mu Jinyu was too much for him to handle alone, so it started helping to devour it.
In the past, this mysterious little tree, although placed in Mu Jinyu's Sea of Consciousness, would not devour his True Yuan or Spiritual Thought but only absorb external spiritual energy and give a part back to Mu Jinyu as a reward.
Now, it unexpectedly began to devour the spiritual energy inside Mu Jinyu actively, which surprised and puzzled Mu Jinyu.
Does this mysterious little tree also possess spiritual wisdom?
Is there a potential danger in it residing within his body?
Mu Jinyu felt a bit anxious but then quickly chuckled silently.
No matter whether the little tree poses potential danger while residing in his Sea of Consciousness, he simply cannot expel it at this point.
Moreover, the mysterious little tree has saved him multiple times, and for now, the benefits outweigh the drawbacks, so what does he have to worry about?
Better to break through to the Fanxu Realm first!
Mu Jinyu set aside his distracting thoughts, suppressed his hatred and killing intent toward the Blood Sword Sect, and fully focused on practicing cultivation and refining spiritual energy to break through to the Fanxu Realm!
"Boom!!"
Soon, Mu Jinyu pushed forward vigorously, broke through the bottleneck, and officially stepped into the ranks of the Fanxu Realm!
"Huff huff huff!"
As he broke through to the Fanxu Realm, a phenomenon of heaven and earth occurred; a vortex of nature's spiritual energy nearly ten feet wide appeared above his head, drawing in endless spiritual energy and pouring it onto Mu Jinyu.
As Mu Jinyu entered the Fanxu Realm, the speed of refining spiritual energy increased several-fold, and the spiritual energy that had previously been overwhelming was quickly refined away. The spiritual energy flowing down from the vortex above his head no longer made him feel overwhelmed.
Instead, it allowed him to stabilize his realm in the Fanxu Realm even better!
Thus, the Life Source True Essence, originally presented as emerald green liquid in Mu Jinyu's body, began to thicken and gradually turned solid!
This is the difference between the Fanxu Realm and the Divinity Transformation Realm!
The Body Tempering Realm, also known as the Qi Refining Realm, is the realm at the stages of Mingjin, Dark energy, Energy Transformation, where the Qi Force trained is in a gaseous state.
After the Divinity Transformation Realm, as the martial artist breaks through, entering the Innate Realm, they can absorb Heaven and Earth Vital Energy, transforming all Qi Force into liquid True Yuan!
The Fanxu Realm is the step from liquid back to solid, refining impurities within True Yuan, with the remaining solid True Yuan being so concentrated that one drop surpasses a hundred drops of liquid!
As for the Unity Realm Stage, it is where step by step through the Fanxu Realm, the solid True Yuan is finally condensed into a single unit, forming a shape similar to Danwan, hence also known as the Golden Core!
This is the "Path" of Merging Paths!
It's also the ultimate pursuit of the Inner Alchemy Path!
By then, it may appear as just a small Golden Core, seemingly far less than the liquid True Yuan of the Divinity Transformation Realm, but with a slight turn, it could annihilate thousands of cultivators in the Divinity Transformation Realm!
After Mu Jinyu successfully broke through to the Fanxu Realm, feeling the faster refining speed, he breathed a sigh of relief, no longer fearing being overwhelmed, and continued to focus on consolidating his realm, leaving only a trace of Spiritual Thought outside to spy if anyone was coming to kill him!
"This..."
The two Supreme Elders hiding in the dark were dumbfounded upon seeing Mu Jinyu, whose body was cracking all over due to the activation of the formation, stabilizing all of a sudden and breaking through to the Fanxu Realm!
Then, the elder with a sinister face was immediately infuriated.
Dammit, he and another elder, plus the three hundred Spirit Stones lost before, made a total loss of more than a thousand Top-Quality Spirit Stones!
In the end, they couldn't kill Mu Jinyu and instead allowed him to drain the Blood Essence Pool and successfully break through to the Fanxu Realm!
How could this look anything but a great loss!
It's like losing your troops and your wife!
How could he tolerate such humiliation? He couldn't resist wanting to rush out, take advantage of Mu Jinyu consolidating his realm, and kill him with a slap!
"Stop!"
At this moment, a voice, like a whisper, reached the sinister elder's ears and immediately halted his impulsive steps.
Because this voice belonged to the Supreme Elder's first person in the Blood Sword Sect, also known as the Great Elder.
His strength was formidable, at the Fourth Layer of the Fanxu Realm, and once he spoke, the sinister elder dared not disobey the order.
"But, he is already in the Fanxu Realm, if we don't eliminate him now, he will become a great disaster in the future!"
Although the sinister elder stopped, he still said somewhat reluctantly.
The Great Elder said, "If your little tricks had killed him, when faced with the Heavenly Sword Faction's questioning, we could still explain that he acted recklessly, attempting to break into the Fanxu Realm and perished!"
"But now he is already in the Fanxu Realm, and if you go over there to kill him, you will inevitably leave battle marks on the scene. Moreover, he was on the brink of life and death just now, which has already alerted the people of the Heavenly Sword Faction, and they are coming to investigate. If you act again, the matter cannot be concealed, and it may lead to a war between the two sects, so stop!"
"Yes!"
Though the sinister elder was extremely unwilling to see his previous efforts wasted and the heavy loss, he also knew that it was not as easy to kill Mu Jinyu anymore!
Moreover, Mu Jinyu had just encountered a life and death crisis, which must have triggered the restrictions within him. Xie Chenkun and the others are sure to arrive as quickly as possible, and by then, he won't be able to clean up the scene, which might accidentally cause a war between the two sects!