Returning to the Heavenly Sword Faction.
Mu Jinyu felt a sense of urgency regarding the Blood Sword Sect's matters, and without spending much time with Wen Rou and the others, he entered closed cultivation again.
This time in retreat, although Mu Jinyu wasn't immersed in the Heavenly Sword Pool or the Blood Essence Pool, he had already unearthed Blood Essence Crystals, and still had a considerable amount of Sacred Wood Essence left, ensuring his cultivation environment remained excellent.
Mu Jinyu, after discovering the miraculous effects of the Sacred Wood Essence, intended to return to the Heavenly Sword Faction with the intention of returning a portion to Elder Lin Feng and Elder Cheng.
However, due to the urgent situation, he had to seize the time for a breakthrough, so naturally, he couldn't return any precious Sacred Wood Essence to them.
After all, even if he gave it to them, it would only elevate their strength to the first or second layer of the Fanxu Realm.
In the face of a possible counterattack from the Blood Sword Sect, it would be of no avail.
He could only compensate them later.
Arriving at an open space in the back mountain, Mu Jinyu set up restrictions to isolate others from spying or intruding and took a large chunk of Blood Essence Crystal out of the Bi Fang Cauldron.
"Boom!"
The Blood Essence Crystal, about the size of a basketball court, hit the ground with a dull thud, releasing an extremely dense Blood Essence Qi that quickly diffused around.
Mu Jinyu chose not to soak the Blood Essence Crystal in a pool but directly used it as an ice crystal bed, sitting on top to madly operate the "Green Emperor's Wood Emperor Art," devouring the vast Heaven and Earth Vital Energy like a sea!
"Boom!!"
As Mu Jinyu's cultivation technique operated, the Qi and Blood Power from the Blood Essence Crystal and the Heaven and Earth Vital Energy surged upwards, flooding into Mu Jinyu's body.
The commotion did not lose out to the grand scene when that sinister old man from the Blood Sword Sect used eight hundred Top-Quality Spirit Stones to refine the Blood Essence Pool.
This was because back then, Mu Jinyu was cultivating in the Blood Essence Pool, and he was at least a hundred meters from the Blood Essence Crystal at the bottom, naturally making his absorption of the Blood Essence Power significantly slower.
But now he was directly sitting on the Blood Essence Crystal, absorbing and cultivating, a huge difference indeed!
Fortunately, Mu Jinyu's cultivation was no longer at the Divinity Transformation Realm but the Fanxu Realm.
Therefore, facing this frenzy of Blood Essence surge, he initially struggled but then handled it with ease.
Mu Jinyu tensed his nerves, ready to refine this Blood Essence Power, turning it into his solid True Yuan, when suddenly, the mystical little tree in his sea of consciousness moved slightly.
"Rumble!"
Instantly, the tremendous Blood Essence Power stopped rushing into Mu Jinyu's dantian, and instead headed straight for his Zifu Knowledge Sea.
Where it was completely devoured by that mystical little tree!
"???"
Seeing this scene, Mu Jinyu was stunned for a moment, then felt like crying without tears.
What the hell, why did you absorb all my Blood Essence? How am I supposed to cultivate now?
You weren't this overbearing before!
Mu Jinyu was so angry he could spit blood, wondering if back when he was at the Blood Sword Sect and this little tree devoured some Blood Essence, it started learning to steal its master's Spiritual Energy?
Just as Mu Jinyu was maddened with rage and unsure what to do.
The mystical little tree in his sea of consciousness suddenly trembled slightly, and a large amount of refined liquid True Yuan surged into Mu Jinyu's dantian, easily converting into his solid True Yuan.
Compared to Mu Jinyu refining Blood Essence himself and then converting it into True Essence Power, it was countless times easier!
"This..."
Mu Jinyu was shocked, then carefully felt and discovered the True Essence Power returned by the mystical little tree was not much less than the Blood Essence Power it had absorbed.
You could say the mystical little tree was helping him convert Blood Essence Power to True Essence Power for free, without skimming anything.
Mu Jinyu felt both shocked and delighted, realizing the mystical little tree had such a function that could save him a lot of effort in cultivation.
In cultivation, extracting the Qi and Blood Power and Heaven and Earth Vital Energy from the Blood Essence Crystal was tumultuous like a sea, but due to its natural formation, the Qi and Blood Power and Heaven and Earth Vital Energy were somewhat impure, not directly convertible to a cultivator's True Yuan.
Thus, Mu Jinyu, in cultivation, actually had to first refine the Blood Essence Power, remove impurities, and then convert it into True Yuan matching his True Essence Power attribute.
The process was somewhat complex and boring.
But with the help of this mystical little tree, he no longer needed to refine step by step, filter out impurities, and then convert into matching attribute True Yuan, he could just wait for the mystical little tree to refine it once and easily convert it into his own True Yuan.
It could save him almost half his cultivation time.
If Mu Jinyu had to rely on himself to refine such a large piece of Blood Essence Crystal, it would take him more than a month, almost two months.
But with the help of the mystical little tree, he should be able to refine this large piece of Blood Essence Crystal effortlessly in about ten days.
Mu Jinyu was initially worried about the two-month cultivation period, whether the Blood Sword Sect would notice changes in the Blood Essence Pool, keeping his nerves taut.
But now, he wasn't so worried.
In about ten days, he thought the Blood Sword Sect wouldn't notice anything amiss so quickly.
He then had enough time to grow and develop, and by the time the Blood Sword Sect reacted, he would have enough power to contend with them.
Mu Jinyu relaxed, immediately operating the "Green Emperor's Wood Emperor Art" again to extract the Blood Essence Power from the Blood Essence Crystal!
Cultivating for half a day.
Mu Jinyu's strength had advanced from the initial stage of the First Layer of the Fanxu Realm to the middle stage, and it was steadily improving.
And in this extremely easy cultivation environment, Mu Jinyu's appetite unconsciously grew much larger.
Initially, he only dared to extract the Blood Essence Power for cultivation, but now, regardless of how much Blood Essence Power was extracted, the mystical little tree would easily convert it without any risk of feeling overwhelmed.
So why not also refine that blob of Sacred Wood Essence?
Mu Jinyu acted upon the thought, directly taking a drop of Sacred Wood Essence from the Bi Fang Cauldron and swallowed it without hesitation.
As expected, this drop of Sacred Wood Essence didn't flow into his dantian but was indeed devoured along with the surging Blood Essence Power by the mystical little tree.
Then, the mystical little tree again returned an equal amount of True Essence Power refined from the Blood Essence Power and Sacred Wood Essence to Mu Jinyu.
"Great..."
Mu Jinyu beamed with a bright smile.
He began absorbing the Blood Essence Power and Sacred Wood Essence even more boldly.
Two days passed, and Mu Jinyu's strength advanced from the First Layer of the Fanxu Realm to the Second Layer.
Another five days passed, and Mu Jinyu successfully advanced from the Second Layer of the Fanxu Realm to the Third Layer!
Another four days passed, and Mu Jinyu's strength reached the Peak Third Layer of the Fanxu Realm.
Just then, accompanied by a cracking sound.
The Blood Essence Crystal, retained by the Blood Sword Sect for nearly a thousand years, finally couldn't withstand Mu Jinyu's relentless exploitation and shattered with a thunderous crash!
If Mu Jinyu hadn't continuously extracted the energy from the Blood Essence Crystal without restraint, and had matched his cultivation with Top-Quality Spirit Stones, allowing it time to slowly recover, this Blood Essence Crystal could have supported Mu Jinyu's cultivation for another three to five years.
But where would Mu Jinyu get so many Top-Quality Spirit Stones? Where would he find so much time to cultivate slowly?
Thus it was destined to become nothing but a stepping stone on Mu Jinyu's cultivation path!