Chapter Ten: Thunderclap of the Heavenly Pulse

  For the sake of human self-improvement, everyone take out your votes and fight!

  Two Xian clan Qianfu commanders retreated in disarray, while the Human clan's Bone Forging Realm expert had a battle aura like thunder, capable of cutting off rivers with one strike, and was far from being an opponent for the two.

  Shi Zhuan made a single move and then stopped, sitting down on Wanli Ju, lightly treading on the void, his four hooves like fire, slowly descending.

  "Kill!"

  The black iron rod pointed, thousands of Bloodstone tribe people responded in unison, the bloody atmosphere surged to the sky, and less than two thousand remaining Blue Armor Immortal soldiers were instantly scattered, trampled, and turned into powder. After a brief moment, except for the two great immortal clan leaders and less than two hundred Blue Armor Immortal soldiers who escaped into the ancient forest, the mountain wall was stained with blood, and the broken limbs piled up. More than two thousand Blue Armor Immortal soldiers fell dead, their bodies severed from their heads.

  "Xiao Da Ge!"

  Shi Lei returned, his body stained with blood, the blood of the Xian tribe's soldiers drenched all over him. His face showed a few strands of excitement, his black hair stood up, and in his hand, the Qing Tie Gun hummed as he said: "Xiao Big Brother, I killed three Xian soldiers, and can refine and absorb the vital energy of three Xian soldiers."

  Then, Shi Lei looked up and down at Xiao Yi again, hesitating: "Xiao big brother, is your injury healed?"

  Xiao Yi nodded slightly, and now he was not only healed but had undergone a transformation. However, this was not the time for cultivation; otherwise, with one effort, there would certainly be great gains. But Xiao Yi did not say these things out loud. Sometimes, some things are better left unsaid, as speaking out might stir up trouble.

  "Old Man of the Rocks!"

  At this time, Xiao Yi saw Shi Gong walking towards him with a medicine bag on his back. The medicine bag behind him was already empty, and the herbs inside had all been used up. At this moment, thousands of Blood Stone Clan people were sitting cross-legged on the battlefield, and from each corpse of the immortal soldiers, strands of pure blood energy floated out and were absorbed by everyone. Some people's bodies transmitted a rumbling sound, and their heavenly pulse was opened.

  "Go ahead, I have a quota." Shi Gong arrived, he took a glance at Xiao Yi, his pupils slightly brightened, "You now, need it more than me."

  "Old Man of the Rocks!"

  Xiao Yi said in a low voice, his fists clenched slightly. The old man may not have given him much, but he had given him what he needed most - hope.

  He patted Xiao Yi's shoulder, Shi Gong turned around and walked into the tribe. The figure in the back was a bit hunched, but in Xiao Yi's eyes, it was towering like a mountain, deeply imprinted in his mind.

  No one noticed Xiao Yi, he came to the edge of the battlefield, chose a Xianbing relic bone and sat down cross-legged. The barbaric elephant's great power was circulating, in his mind, a barbaric elephant as strong as a high mountain, its long nose swept across, and a black hole seemed to appear between its nostrils. A huge devouring force enveloped the surroundings, and from this Xianbing relic bone, strands of bright red blood energy suddenly rushed out and merged into Xiao Yi's flesh and blood.

  "This is..."

  The next moment, Xiao Yi was shocked, because the immortal soldier's blood energy he absorbed was suddenly swallowed up by the stone mirror on his chest. After a few breaths, a strand of fine hair-like blood energy was spat out, which was crystal clear and radiant with red light, reaching an extreme level of purity. Although the quantity had decreased by hundreds or thousands of times, the purity had far surpassed the previous hundreds or thousands of times, reaching an unimaginable level.

  This crystal clear blood energy merged into his bones and blood, but Xiao Yi didn't absorb it. He wanted to see how many Heavenly Veins he could penetrate with his current physical body's blood energy. At this moment, he felt that one of the Heavenly Veins had started to jump violently, with surging blood energy, as if it would merge and penetrate at any time. Looking at the Stone Mirror again, there was no change; the blood energy of an ordinary immortal soldier was far from enough to show any obvious signs of repair.

  "Absorbed the vital energy of a celestial soldier and yet didn't even manage to open up a single heavenly vein, what a waste!"

  Xiao Yi opened his eyes, ten zhang away, a young man, Shi Qian, sat cross-legged between two skeletal heavenly soldiers, coldly staring at him. Around him, the air was turbulent and surging, having just killed two heavenly soldiers and absorbed the residual blood essence from their bodies. Shi Qian instantly reached the edge of a breakthrough. The next moment, two massive rumbling sounds echoed within his body, and on his surface, twelve pale blue battle auras emerged, entwining each other before finally merging into one.

  Twelve Heavenly Veins!

  This stone thousand connects two heavenly veins, already comparable to the previous Stone Thunder, with one's own strength, can possess twelve kilograms, in the Bloodstone tribe, a thousand catties is one kilogram, ten thousand two thousand catties, is twelve kilograms of divine power.

  Xiao Yi stood up, and was not bothered by Shi Qian's words. In the Bloodstone Tribe, he only owed one person - Shi Gong.

  "Shi Lei, Shi Lei is about to break through!"

  Suddenly, a shout came from not far away. Shi Qian's heart was startled, and he turned his head to look. Dozens of feet away, Shi Lei stood up tall, with black hair dancing in the wind, and an aura of powerful momentum radiating from his body. Four muffled thunder-like rumbles echoed within him, and sixteen pale blue battle auras surrounded his body. Those battle auras were even more profound and dense than Shi Qian's before.

  "Absorbing the blood essence of three ordinary celestial soldiers, he actually penetrated four heavenly meridians. Indeed, a tiger father begets a tiger son. Back then, Shi Qiren became a hundred-man commander at the age of thirty, and his son is already sixteen years old this year, having penetrated sixteen heavenly meridians. The clan leader back then had penetrated thirty-six heavenly meridians at the age of twenty and achieved minor completion in the Blood Refining Realm. I wonder if Shi Lei has that possibility."

  "If that's the case, then with his innate talent and physical constitution, it's possible that in a few decades, our Blood Stone Tribe may give birth to another strong practitioner of the Tempering Bone Realm."

  Some members of the Bloodstone clan were discussing their views on the younger generation within the clan, and at this moment, they were predicting their future based on their breakthroughs on the battlefield.

  "However, Shi Qian was not ordinary either. Although his cultivation was slightly inferior to Shi Lei's, his combat skills had reached the level of 'lifting heavy as light'. Among the young generation, only he had achieved this, and in my Blood Stone Tribe's war division, usually only a Wuzhang who had reached the Small Completion of Refining Blood could comprehend it."

  As light as a feather!

  Xiao Yi's eyes slightly condensed, Shi Gong had said that the Blood Refining Realm has three checkpoints. The Small Success of Blood Refining requires breaking through 36 Heavenly Veins, the Great Success of Blood Refining requires breaking through 72 Heavenly Veins, and the Minor Completion of Blood Refining requires breaking through 108 Heavenly Veins, condensing the Zhou Tian Qi Hai. To break through these three checkpoints, one must comprehend the Three Realms of Battle Methods. The first realm is "Lifting Heavy as Light", the second realm is "Lifting Light as Heavy", and the third realm is "Light and Heavy are Natural". Shi Qian had actually comprehended the realm of "Lifting Heavy as Light", meaning that before his Great Success in Blood Refining, he only needed to accumulate battle energy, with no obstacles in his cultivation.

  Take a deep breath, Xiao Yi calmed down and no longer cared about anything else. The first rotation of the Blood Refining Volume of the Barbaric Elephant Great Strength Technique began. As a top-notch martial art, the Barbaric Elephant Great Strength Technique relied on the Barbaric Elephant Divine Form to comprehend and cultivate the power of the Barbaric Elephant, tempering one's battle spirit. Without that painting of the Barbaric Elephant, even if one possessed the technique, they would be unable to cultivate it because they couldn't observe the true meaning of the Barbaric Elephant.

  Roar!

  In Xiao Yi's mind, the green scales of the barbaric elephant rose to the sky and let out a long roar. The elephant's trunk was like a whale sucking water, stirring up the blood and energy in his entire body violently. At this moment, Xiao Yi could see that every inch of his muscles, bones, and flesh had sparkling blood energy boiling, one hundred and eight heavenly pulses appeared, as if they were connected to the heavenly axis, linking the limbs and joints of the human body, deep into the top of the head and the hundred meetings.

  Rumble!

  A rumble of thunder sounded from Xiao Yi's body, and on the battlefield, some nearby Bloodstone Tribe members were taken aback, their eyes immediately filled with a shocked expression.

  "Heavenly Pulse Thunder Sound! Who is it that has traversed the Heavenly Pulse and actually stirred up the Heavenly Pulse Thunder Sound?!"

  Shi Qianyi was stunned, and immediately he turned his head back, his eyes suddenly revealing an unbelievable expression. He saw something that made him incredulous - that weakling who didn't even have the strength of a small child had actually begun to circulate the Heavenly Pulse, and had even triggered the Thunderclap of the Heavenly Pulse! The Thunderclap of the Heavenly Pulse was something that only those with robust physiques and vast amounts of spiritual energy could trigger when they broke through. In the entire Bloodstone Tribe, there were no more than five people who possessed this ability, and among the younger generation, only Shi Lei had barely managed to reach it.

  "Xiao Da Ge, he has started to connect with the Heavenly Pulse!"

  Shi Lei's expression changed, with a hint of disbelief in his eyes. Although he was familiar with Xiao Yi, it had only been half a month since they met, and even regarding Xiao Yi's physique, he thought to himself that it was impossible for him to have the opportunity to penetrate the Heavenly Pulse.

  Bloodstone Tribe

  He suddenly stopped in his tracks, his hunched body straightening abruptly as he slowly turned around. A flash of deep blue light flickered in his eyes, and he gazed out at the countless corpses beyond the village, where a lone figure stood like a boulder connecting heaven and earth. The figure's black hair moved without wind, its body seemingly there yet not quite there, emitting an aura that seemed to come from the wilderness itself.

  "Mahatma Dali Ke!"

  ……

  When all the qi and blood in his body were boiling over, Xiao Yi could no longer suppress it, and the crystal clear blood gas, like a fiery jade, burst into the sky.

  Boom!

  His entire body shook violently, and a Heavenly Meridian was instantly penetrated. In this blood-colored Heavenly Meridian, a faint blue light suddenly emerged, and strands of faint blue battle energy were generated. This faint blue battle energy was different from Shi Lei's, crystal clear and flawless, emitting a gemstone-like luster, and subtly releasing an ancient aura. In an instant, a powerful force spread throughout his limbs and bones.

  Rumble!

  The second thunderous sound rose, and Shi Qian's expression changed slightly. It was another heavenly vein thunder sound, and it seemed to be full of energy, as if it had not yet reached its peak. This was already the second heavenly vein.

  Bloodstone Tribe, ordinary tribe members can only open up one heavenly vein when they first start practicing, those with extraordinary physique can open up two heavenly veins. After many years, almost all of them can become a warrior, while those with exceptional physique can open up three heavenly veins, and it's not impossible for them to become a Wu Zhang in the future. As for four heavenly veins, it's rare to see one in decades, and in the thousand-year history of the Bloodstone Tribe, there are only about ten people who have achieved this. Those with more than four heavenly veins, only the current tribe leader Shi Zixuan has six heavenly veins, and is now a strong practitioner at the Tempering Bone stage.

  However, just as Shi Qian was drumming in his heart, the boiling blood energy on Xiao Yi's body gradually subsided, and after a few breaths, Xiao Yi opened his eyes, and a strand of crystal clear pale blue divine light flashed by.

  With a sigh of relief, Shi Qian's eyes turned cold again. It was just two heavenly veins after all, plus the blood energy absorbed from the Xianbing earlier. With this mediocre physique, he could at most open up one heavenly vein, and might even be inferior to others in the future. His achievements would likely be on par with those of ordinary Bloodstone tribe members. However, for some reason, Shi Qian felt a sense of unease in his heart, as if he had overlooked something important. For the sake of humanity's unyielding self-improvement, let us take out our votes and fight!