After entering the Blazing Sun Continent, Bai Yue and Zhan Tieshan travelled to a space safe for them to live for a few more years. They quickly found a deserted village where the highest cultivation was foundation establishment and it was a relatively safe area to spend entire life as no dangers might come here but behind this village is a dense forest where wild beasts are moving and the village faces danger when the beasts enter in the mating period.
But this area is still the safest they found so they settled here. Bai Yue explained to Tieshan the reason that this continent is filled with rich Yang energy which is why it is called Blazing Sun Continent. The village they are residing in is called Xiao village.
After entering this village, Bai Yue also started focusing on his spiritual energy cultivation. Since he already destroyed his foundation it was difficult at first but not impossible as his body has already become strong. He also improved the blood and energy fusion realm and explained this to Tieshan,
"The blood and energy fusion realm is about merging spiritual energy with the blood and creating a new type of energy that flows through the body. The body cultivators treat their body as the dantain, like how the spiritual cultivators store their spiritual energy in dantain in their early stages of cultivation. The body cultivators treat their entire body as the dantain because all they are cultivating lies inside their body. They gain the recognition of heaven and earth by cultivating higher and they don't follow the blessings of heaven and earth like how spiritual cultivators do. Instead, they let Heaven and Earth acknowledge them, their cultivation and their hard work. The first step toward that path is the blood and energy fusion realm."
"To step into this realm, the body cultivators have to complete their bone marrow cleansing to perfection. In perfection means that they have to complete their blood purification; this is the true peak of bone marrow cleansing. After that they all enter a place where the spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth pressurize them. From that pressure they started to merge the energy into their blood and create a new type of energy that I call blood energy. This energy flows into every part of their body and the denser it becomes, the stronger they will be. This realm is divided into four parts."
"Blood energy like a pond is where the blood energy inside our body is as dense as a pond. Then comes the stream where the blood energy can be circulated throughout the body freely without any issues. The third stage is the river where the blood energy becomes so dense that it starts to overflow without being properly controlled. That is why this blood energy can be shown outside the body. The final stage is the sea of blood energy where the blood energy is vast and dense as an ocean."
"I am currently at the peak of blood energy as a pond and just a step away from the stream of blood energy." Bai Yue replied while smiling.
Tieshan was shocked when he learned about this realm and its different stages. He asked "A-Yue, but how will we be able to fight a golden core cultivator since we don't have different arts like them and they can even fly in the air but not us."
"You don't have to worry about that, these things are mentioned in the next realm and we can also fly in the air for some time. " Bai Yue replied. After discussing other things they went inside the house to rest and after a while they started cultivating.
Bai Yue focused on his spiritual cultivation. Unlike the path that others follow, he wants to draw his own path. He divided the spiritual gathering realm into 5 stages where the spiritual energy sensing is the first stage where the cultivator has to sense the spiritual energy in Heaven and Earth and they have to sense the elements of the spiritual energy whether they are of water, fire, air, earth and so on.
Then comes the spiritual gathering stage where they have to gather the spiritual energy that they need or just raw in their dantain and then advance.
After gathering came the refining where they have to refine the spiritual energy into their own and then use that.
After refining came the polishing where they have to compress that spiritual energy and polish them by constantly compressing and loosening them.
After doing this they can advance to next realm. But Bai Yue added the perfection stage in this realm which is to transform that spiritual energy in dantain into liquid state and transform the energy level to high quality. By doing this he can fight at foundation establishment realm cultivators with ease.
Bai Yue started his cultivation by entering the first stage sensing and he had some difficulties but he succeeded in the end. When the sensed the different elemental threads in the heaven and earth he was shocked because besides the 5 elements there are many more like space, darkness, Yang, yin, and many more and he also sensed a particular spot when he looked closely, he was horrified because this element was time which is the most difficult and hard to comprehend.
He asked himself which path should be taken. Then he came with a bold idea. He sensed all the elements he could where he could sense the corrosion, devour, fire, light, lightning, ice, illusion and many more just these and when he carefully sensed them with patience he realised that there are more than 138 and more elements in the surroundings.
What horrified him was that there were two that are not elements but they are not rejected by heaven and earth. One he was familiar with the- void. This is something that overlaps above space. It exists but it rejects the existence. Both the others floating near it give the feeling of nothingness as if it is nothing, there is nothing, it has nothing, it becomes nothing.
In horror he immediately stopped sensing, and then he realised that his eyes were bleeding and he felt dizzy when he suddenly fainted.
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(Tieshan point of view)
Tieshan also focused on his body cultivation. He is currently on the perfection of bone marrow cleansing. His next step would be the blood and energy fusion realm. He still remembers when A-Yue told him to wait for him to break through this stage because he is different from others when it comes to physical body.
"In the past, A-Yue one told me that I have to create my own path if I want to walk side by side with him but I have no knowledge regarding cultivation and I have no talent for cultivation so what should I do?"
Tieshan muttered worriedly to himself.
"Should I go and meet him and ask him to tell me the future cultivation path in detail so that I can move forward on my own in my body cultivation?"
Suddenly he remembered something, and muttered cautionary
"A-Yue once mentioned that they can condense big avatars from their understanding of their laws. What if I were to transform my body as big as them and control my size at my will." As he thought it he realised it was possible and he is not going to tell A-Yue about this and he would give him a big surprise.
Suddenly he thought 'what if, In the future I can control any of my body parts according to my will and make them large and small. Then I can make A-Yue more happy when we spend our time together.'
Till the end of his thoughts he blushed heavily. But suddenly he felt his heart palpitate loudly and faster. He was shocked and horrified because he felt a gaze on him just now but it disappeared instantly. But it still left him trembling. After calming him down he decided to go and meet A-Yue.
When he came to Bai Yue's room and entered he was once again horrified because he saw Bai Yue lying on the ground with blood from his eyes and half of his body covered in blood.