I'm in Shrouding the Heavens Practicing Eternal Life

The fact that his own creation of the method did not achieve the expected results was not unexpected to Luo Mo. It would have been too strange if it had succeeded on the first try.

Innovation always requires many attempts, so he had fifty tool people from the Dao Palace Realm modify his Yin-Yang Emperor Scripture co-cultivation method. After they completed it, he began to use secret techniques to change their bloodlines.

This was a secret technique derived from integrating the Grand Five Elements Technique into the Shrouding Heaven method. Luo Mo used it to fuse the Five Elements divine materials, turning the Five Elements Qi into the bloodline, equivalent to those with special constitutions.

Yin-Yang transforming into Chaos was too difficult, especially since this was only the first realm of the Shrouding Heaven method. The ordinary-bodied cultivators at this stage had no foundation or accumulation, so directly transforming into a Chaos Body was somewhat of a pipe dream and couldn't be done.

However, transforming into a Five Elements bloodline, or even just one of the Five Elements, Luo Mo felt the probability should be much higher.

He had prepared all kinds of Five Elements divine materials. He didn't need to be too extravagant at the start. Yaochi's water had ample Water essence and was easy to refine, much better than Taiyin's water.

The Purple Qi East Coming Flame from the sixth layer of the Fire Region was a bit too violent, so Luo Mo refined it himself first into pure Fire essence for the tool people to use, making it convenient for them.

There was even more Wood essence. He transplanted all kinds of spiritual herbs and ancient trees from the Immortal Mansion Small World to Yaochi, except for the Fire Tree King, because there were three Golden Crow eggs on the Fire Tree King, and he didn't plan to raise Golden Crows himself.

He also prepared Earth and Metal essences, watching the tool people begin to refine and integrate the Five Elements essence into their bloodlines.

Puff, puff, puff...

Several tool people's bodies suddenly exploded, blood splattering, accompanied by flames or water vapor. The Five Elements essence and blood had a violent conflict, failing to merge peacefully.

This explosion was enough to make them miserable, almost dying, but fortunately, the Divine Spring was supplied without limit, allowing them to repair their bodies and continue to try and err, seeking a correct path.

The Bodhi tree in the Divine Imprint Purple Gold Pagoda swayed, scattering clear light, providing enlightenment blessings to everyone, hoping they could go further.

Finally, eight days later, Yaoguang succeeded, successfully incorporating the Fire essence into his blood, allowing the blood to flow like magma. The Heart Divine Treasure shone brightly, and chanting sounds echoed within the Dao Palace, with the radiance of the sun and moon overflowing.

"How is it?"

"Successfully refined Fire into the blood, but I feel it was with the help of that body tempering elixir, and the help of the two secret techniques was great. Without first strengthening the blood and soul, there is no way to refine the Five Elements essence into the bloodline."

The former Holy Son was indeed a genius. After transforming his origin into an ordinary body, his re-cultivation was even better than the other tool people. His perspective on problems was more insightful, finding the key to the problem.

"Strengthen the blood and soul... That makes sense."

The two secret techniques were adapted from the Grand Bloodthirst Technique and the Grand Soul Technique, strengthening the blood and soul. Blood Qi was undoubtedly one of the foundations for fusing the Five Elements bloodlines, while the strength of the soul represented perception and control, helping cultivators to better fuse.

They couldn't consider it from Luo Mo's perspective. His foundation was too good, so everything he wanted to do was a natural progression, understanding everything with a single point. He could transform into a Chaos Body if he wanted, and transform into a Five Elements bloodline if he wanted, but other ordinary bodies couldn't, even with scriptures and secret techniques.

Moreover, not to mention anything else, they couldn't even cultivate the secret techniques adapted from the Grand Bloodthirst Technique and the Grand Soul Technique.

When Luo Mo adapted them, he followed the Dao pattern method in the Shrouding Heaven method, incorporating parts of the two Three Thousand Great Daos.

Divine patterns were used in the Shrouding Heaven method to temper weapons. They were produced by the essence of the cultivator's blood Qi, so the forged weapon was one with the cultivator's mind, as easy to control as an arm.

When Luo Mo transformed the Grand Bloodthirst Technique, he used the Divine pattern method, allowing the body to produce more Divine patterns but not forging them into a weapon, instead storing them throughout the body, transforming it into a great flesh and blood array, strengthening the blood Qi.

However, the materials for constructing this great array were not external objects, but had to be produced by the cultivator themselves. But where would ordinary bodies get such an exceeding amount of blood Qi? Moreover, this was adapted from the Grand Bloodthirst Technique among the Three Thousand Great Daos, so even if it wasn't as good as the original Grand Bloodthirst Technique, the amount of blood Qi required for cultivation was relatively huge.

The former Holy Son was able to successfully cultivate the Bloodthirst secret technique because he obtained a precious elixir refined from Fire Essence Lotus and Tyrant Dragon essence blood, which strengthened his blood Qi. This also allowed him to succeed in one fell swoop, integrating the Fire attribute essence into his bloodline, taking the first step from an ordinary body towards a special constitution.

However, if everyone who cultivated this technique needed vast resources to first lay a good foundation, then undoubtedly the difficulty of cultivating this technique would be very high, but it could be considered a path.

As for the strength of the soul, Luo Mo's tool people were undoubtedly relatively strong because of the existence of the Grand Pudu Technique.

Although they were converted by the Grand Pudu Technique, the Grand Pudu Technique also had the effect of washing the spirit. They prayed together for several years, generating wish power, which nourished the Divine Imprint Purple Gold Pagoda and also washed their souls, allowing the souls to be strengthened, and their spiritual thoughts were far stronger than cultivators of the same realm.

"In comparison, the Grand Soul Technique is difficult to cultivate. The method of generating wish power in the Grand Pudu Technique is quite suitable for cultivating the spirit, and it doesn't need to be too high, just enough to change one's own bloodline."

He then took out a precious elixir and had a tool person swallow it, watching him cultivate the Bloodthirst secret technique.

The elixir entered the abdomen, and the medicinal power of the Fire Essence Lotus, Tyrant Dragon essence blood, and Immortal Pool spring water was released, immediately making his body like a volcano erupting, with blood Qi rolling like wolf smoke.

The tool person held his mind, refining the blood Qi with the Bloodthirst secret technique. A large number of red and bright Divine patterns were immediately produced in the Wheel Sea, transforming into countless tiny runes, imprinted into the flesh, strengthening muscles, bones, skin membranes, and internal organs, while forming a great array, dominating the blood Qi throughout the body, condensing it into one.

Roar—

A lithe blood-colored dragon shape rose from the top of the tool person's head, circled once, and then submerged into the heavenly spirit.

This was the scene of the Bloodthirst secret technique being cultivated, using Divine patterns to inscribe a great array in one's body, with blood Qi like a dragon, condensed into one.

The tool person successfully cultivated the secret technique, and the blood Qi was strengthened. Luo Mo then had him try to fuse blood with fire.

Both the "All" character secret and the "Zhe" character secret were surpassed.

After circulating the Fire essence for twelve cycles in the body with the Five Elements secret technique, the tool person finally refined this wisp of Fire essence into the bloodline, allowing the blood to flow like magma, containing powerful Fire energy, greatly enhancing the physique and combat power.

Success!

It's just that the price was not cheap. Even if he was good at alchemy, no matter how streamlined it was, at least the essence blood of the Sendai Realm was needed to assist in cultivating this secret technique. Looking at it this way, the price was quite high, and ordinary cultivators simply couldn't afford it.

"It's still achieved in one fell swoop, without a gradual process."

It had not yet been optimized to the point where ordinary people could successfully cultivate it. Luo Mo's idea was that it could be cultivated by relying solely on basic resources such as Heaven and Earth essence, even if it was slower. He didn't expect this time it only became an elite technique.

Luo Mo obtained valuable data and experience, and decided to temporarily delete the Grand Soul Technique from his scriptures.

There was no way, the cultivation requirements of most of the Three Thousand Great Daos were too high. Collecting essence usually started at decades, and hundreds of years was normal. It was simply not suitable in a place like Shrouding Heaven where cultivators did not have a long lifespan, and besides, there was a secret technique adapted from the Grand Bloodthirst Technique that was enough to consume resources.

He deleted the method of rapidly and steadily strengthening the power of the soul from the Grand Soul Technique that consumed extremely high resources from the scriptures and replaced it with the method of washing the spirit with wish power from the Grand Pudu Technique.

In this way, cultivators could use the wish power generated by their own prayers to strengthen their spirit, and basically achieve minor success in three years without the help of external objects, at least reaching the standard for cultivating the Five Elements bloodline.

The Four Extremes Realm was even more outrageous. Luo Mo had used the Demon God Flower, and it was difficult to find a second plant of this Heaven and Earth divine object.

Moreover, the Three Thousand Great Daos integrated into this secret realm are the Great Azure Firmament Art. The Great Azure Firmament Art was cultivated using World Stones, which are produced when a Saint opens up a small world. It's not exactly a cheap resource.

The Three Thousand Great Daos are good, but they all consume too many resources. To need Saint-level resources at such a low realm, where is one supposed to find them?

“If I can solve the problem of the mortal body's blood energy, then transforming the Five Elements bloodline will be simple.”

It can't be that every cultivator who practices his techniques, upon reaching the Dao Palace secret realm and wanting to integrate the Five Elements bloodline, has to hunt down a savage beast at the Immortal Platform realm, right? That's not realistic.

During this period of secluded cultivation in the Yao Guang Holy Land, besides visiting Yao Chi, Luo Mo also continued to have the Yao Guang, Tai Xuan, and Ji families help him collect various resources needed in the Eastern Wilderness.

He had already entrusted the Jiuli Dynasty in Zhongzhou to find materials. When they sent things over, they also sent a royal uncle, along with a prince and princess, to visit Yao Guang, so the younger generation could get to know each other.

Since the problem with the cultivation method couldn't be solved for the time being, Luo Mo let the tool people research it themselves. All the scriptures and secret techniques had long been made public to them, allowing them to experiment on their own. Perhaps inspiration would strike at any moment.

As for himself, after the Jiuli sent over many divine materials, he set off one day, heading to the Fire Region.

The Fire Region is rich in fire energy, perfect for refining artifacts.

“Where did Xia Jiuyou go?”

He had been searching for several months without a trace. Luo Mo was still planning to find Old Gai to go to the Yu Hua Dynasty.

The Transformation Immortal Pond was the same. That place had a special terrain, only opening once every ten thousand years, and there were powerful Holy Spirits. Without Old Gai, both places were unsafe.

Fortunately, the Jiuli Dynasty sent over the materials, and they had tried their best to find all kinds of rare materials, except for the most rare Royal Blood Soil, which was a treasure formed from the blood droplets of ancient emperors. It was too rare.

With so many materials, he could refine the Undying Heavenly Emperor's human skin in the future. However, Luo Mo's purpose in coming this time was not to refine the human skin, but to refine the Undying Mystical Tree.

The ninth level of the Fire Region.

Nine-colored divine fire churned within the Li Fire Furnace, and the Undying Mystical Tree floated within.

This Undying Mystical Tree had seven branches, each branch bearing seven jade leaves. When swayed, it could brush out innate Dao diagrams, possessing infinite power. Because it had innate Dao diagrams engraved as Dao patterns on the inside, its power was not weaker than a quasi-emperor weapon. It could be considered that Luo Mo had refined a powerful weapon through ingenious methods.

If it were a normal Undying Mystical Tree, it would at most be equivalent to a Saint weapon.

However, this Undying Mystical Tree was not purely refined using the Shrouding Heaven method. Luo Mo also used the Great Treasure Refining Art from the Eternal Life method. Only by combining the two methods could he perfect it.

Within the Undying Mystical Tree, a purple little dragon was quietly staring at Luo Mo, its eyes unfriendly.

After all, it was originally a spirit born from an ancestral vein. Not only did Luo Mo drain its dragon vein to replenish the Undying Mystical Tree, but even it was captured into the Undying Mystical Tree to be the artifact spirit.

Therefore, its attitude was naturally not very good, but it didn't resist or run away. After all, life was still pretty good now, and it couldn't escape anyway.

“Purple Dragon, are you ready?” Luo Mo asked.

This was an artifact spirit, possessing its own will and capable of communication.

“I'm ready.” The purple little dragon flicked its tail, swimming within the Undying Mystical Tree. Although it was an artifact spirit, it couldn't cause any trouble. Currently, it was still imprisoned within the artifact body, unable to fully control even this Undying Mystical Tree.

Firstly, because it wasn't born from the Undying Mystical Tree, and secondly, from the perspective of the Eternal Life method, it couldn't be considered a Dao artifact yet, only a quasi-Dao artifact. This was because Luo Mo didn't have the strength to refine a Dao artifact yet. It was only the combination of the Undying Mystical Tree and the innate Dao diagrams that forcibly raised the quality of this magical treasure.

His purpose in coming this time was to have the artifact spirit, Purple Dragon, exert its strength, using the environment of the Fire Region to completely refine the Undying Mystical Tree into a Dao artifact!

Dao artifact, a vessel that has attained the Dao. The artifact spirit must have Dao attainment!

If it were other magical treasures, they wouldn't have an artifact spirit until they were promoted to a Dao artifact. Without an artifact spirit, there was naturally no way to ask the magical treasure to work hard on its own and upgrade itself.

However, the Undying Mystical Tree was also a Shrouding Heaven magical treasure, possessing what the Shrouding Heaven method called a divine spirit, which was the artifact spirit. Therefore, it could work hard on its own to improve itself.

“Then let's begin.”

Luo Mo circulated the Great Treasure Refining Art, injecting countless runes, controlling the divine fire of the Fire Region to pour into the Undying Mystical Tree, further refining its material. At the same time, he threw all kinds of materials into the Li Fire Furnace, refining them into pools of divine liquid, which flowed towards the Undying Mystical Tree.

This was also the difference between the Shrouding Heaven method and the Eternal Life method. Shrouding Heaven artifact refining basically only required one sufficiently good material, using only one material throughout the entire process, while the Eternal Life method used many materials, complementing each other.

Among these materials, the most dazzling was a piece of red Immortal Gold, which Luo Mo threw in together to refine the Undying Mystical Tree, turning it into a Dao artifact. This was the Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold that Ye Fan had given him.

Within the Undying Mystical Tree, Purple Dragon also circulated the profound art that Luo Mo had taught it, assisting in refining the Undying Mystical Tree. After all, this would be its body in the future, and it couldn't help but care.

The Phoenix Blood Crimson Gold absorbed the fire energy of the nine-colored divine fire, becoming translucent and softly sticking to the Undying Mystical Tree, gradually melting into it.

Red appeared within the pure white Undying Mystical Tree, spreading like blood vessels.

At the same time, the branches of the Undying Mystical Tree converged, and the leaves stuck to the main trunk like dragon scales, bearing the patterns of phoenix feathers.

“Transformation of All Things into a Dragon!”

Luo Mo used the Great Treasure Refining Art to engrave formations within the Undying Mystical Tree. Because Purple Dragon was originally a dragon vein spirit, the Great Dragon Appearance Art was extremely compatible with it.

Tens of millions of arrays were engraved into the interior of the Undying Mystical Tree, causing the entire Undying Mystical Tree to undergo transformation, its white jade-like body gradually transforming into a dragon shape.

Seeing this, Luo Mo simply took out another magical treasure and threw it into the Li Fire Furnace.

That was the Dragon Pattern Black Gold Spear he had refined before, but rarely used. It was better to let it be reborn here.

The Dragon Pattern Black Gold Spear was thrown into the Li Fire Furnace and immediately decomposed into various materials, melting into the Undying Mystical Tree.

The jade leaves attached to the Undying Mystical Tree opened and closed like scales, absorbing the divine liquid transformed from the materials into its body, distributing it to various positions under the operation of numerous arrays.

Gradually, a white jade dragon appeared in the Li Fire Furnace. As it absorbed the materials, a section of black blade extended from the dragon's head.

The Dragon Pattern Black Gold Spear had now become the Undying Dragon Spear. The Immortal Gold it originally contained was too scarce. Now, its material had finally increased a lot, and it also had an additional artifact spirit.

The artifact spirit, Purple Dragon, also shook its body, and the Undying Dragon Spear suddenly extended dragon claws like a dragon reaching out, restoring itself to the Undying Mystical Tree, switching between the two forms.

Purple Dragon switched its own form without any hindrance. This was its body. It had perfectly merged with this magical treasure, transforming into the artifact spirit.

Luo Mo injected an unknown number of runes and engraved an unknown number of formations. At this moment, it was completed. The Undying Mystical Tree brushed out, and a piece of innate array diagram sprinkled out, extinguishing a piece of the divine fire on the ninth level of the Fire Region.

Then, it transformed into the Undying Dragon Spear and stabbed out with a spear, shattering the clouds in the sky.

Purple Dragon was having a lot of fun, adapting to its own power, but Luo Mo was a little surprised.

Because this magical treasure could revive on its own and exert its divine power on its own. It wasn't even an extreme Dao Emperor weapon!

It should be known that even extreme Dao Emperor weapons, for the most part, could only slumber when no one was controlling them, rarely reviving. Only when they received extreme stimulation would they revive on their own, usually accompanied by a huge demand for divine power, and ordinary cultivators would even be sucked dry alive.

However, after the Undying Mystical Tree was refined by Luo Mo into a magical treasure with two forms, it was actually a living weapon. The weapon itself was absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, wielding divine power.

Was it the power of that innate Dao diagram or something else?

Luo Mo wasn't clear for the time being. The current priority was to call this magical treasure back. It had its own intelligence and power. If it ran away, it would be fun.

“Purple Dragon, come back.”

Luo Mo summoned it with the Art of Controlling Artifacts. The Undying Mystical Tree hesitated for a moment, but still flew back to him. It should be known that Luo Mo had already secretly prepared the Heaven Swallowing Demonic Cover, and even prepared to summon Yao Guang's Dragon Pattern Black Gold Cauldron. If it didn't come back, he could only suppress it forcefully and then convert this artifact spirit.

After all, artifact spirits could also be converted.