It could repair physical injuries, strengthen vitality, and remove illness.

In modern terms, this would be extremely impressive.

But in this cultivation world, where a single Life Rejuvenation Pill could solve all these problems, it was truly quite useless.

That was why even after mastering it, Xiao Shou had never used it once.

As for the Foundation Establishment, Golden Core and variant spiritual root techniques, Xiao Shou had not had the chance to learn them before.

Now, with time running out, he first set aside the illusion spiritual root technique, which had no offensive power against blood shadows.

The Minor Earth Shatter Art and Minor Spiritual Purification Art, however, had to be mastered as soon as possible.

If his guess was correct, these two secret techniques would be far more useful than sword energy.

The Minor Earth Shatter Art worked by extracting rigid spiritual particles from water and wood spiritual energy, refining them through his cultivation method, and infusing them into earth spiritual energy.

At the first layer of Foundation Establishment, it could cause ten cubic meters of land to shatter into countless fragments less than half a meter in size.

At the Golden Core stage, its power would be even more terrifying.

After all, secret techniques were not strictly limited by realm.

Their requirement was determined by their power, which meant only cultivators of sufficient level could learn them.

Whether it was a technique or a secret technique, its power depended on the amount of spiritual energy infused.

However, attack speed, direction precision, and control all depended on hand seal speed, divine sense strength, and overall control ability.

The Minor Spiritual Purification Art worked by extracting gentle spiritual particles from water and earth spiritual energy and infusing them into wood spiritual energy.

Through hand seals and divine sense control, it transformed spiritual energy into a special form of wood energy under the user’s control.

It could purify impurities and malice from the earth and air.

Its range and effectiveness depended on the amount of spiritual energy used.

At the first cycle of the Golden Core stage, it could purify up to one hundred cubic meters.

The second cycle of the Golden Core stage corresponded to one thousand cubic meters, the third cycle to ten thousand cubic meters.

Moreover, this purification was different from the Evil Breaking Eye’s purification.

The Evil Breaking Eye targeted demonic energy, ghost energy, and evil energy, completely erasing those negative forces from heaven and earth.

Minor Spiritual Purification Art, however, used pure and gentle wood spiritual energy to transform all impure particles into wood spiritual energy.

Furthermore, it could be absorbed by him.

In this way, one could imagine how powerful the technique would become after reaching the ninth cycle.

However, Xiao Shou was currently only at the third cycle.

With full output, he could purify up to ten thousand cubic meters at a time.

If it worked as he expected, the effect would still be quite impressive.

Outside, Yao Heng anxiously waited for what felt like an eternity.

After nearly half an hour, Xiao Shou suddenly appeared before it.

Delighted, it flew over at once while flapping its small wings.

"Master, did you succeed?"

"If I did not succeed, why would I come out?" Xiao Shou smiled lightly.

His fox like eyes blinked playfully and his entire aura felt more refined and rounded.

It was clear that he had not only mastered the secret techniques but likely gained other benefits as well.

Hearing this, Yao Heng immediately flew up excitedly.

"Then let us hurry! We only have two days left."

"You really are impatient."

In truth, Xiao Shou had told it that the total time in the secret realm was seventy days.

However, due to some miscalculations in his earlier timing inside the cocoon space, there was likely an error of one to two days.

Whether Yao Heng would be upset did not matter much.

What mattered was that he needed to kill as many blood shadows as possible within the confirmed time.

Enough for both him and Yao Heng to awaken and if there was still time left, he would look for Young’er as well.

He still felt that the voice he heard before entering the realm was not an illusion.

Perhaps Young’er was also inside this Hell Flame Beast.

These thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant.

Without finishing his words, Xiao Shou leapt into the air and formed hand seals.

A thick surge of spiritual energy shot from his hands and crashed into the ground.

In an instant, centered on the point of impact, about a hundred meters of blood stone pillars and blood-red ground simultaneously cracked apart, splitting into evenly sized fragments.

Large amounts of blood water surged out and rapidly formed over twenty Nascent Soul level blood water figures, which mindlessly charged toward Xiao Shou.

"As expected, just like I thought. Even after evolving into a Hell Flame Beast its nature is still the same as those big stone beasts outside, a soil and stone type. The Minor Earth Shatter Art works perfectly here. If the Minor Spiritual Purification Art also works as I expect, then we can start a farming mode."

Xiao Shou said happily to Yao Heng.

Looking at the twenty-three blood shadows rushing at him, he prepared to withstand the group attack.

Then he formed a more complex set of hand seals.

When the seals ended, a faint green spiritual energy surged out from his body and spread in all directions, enveloping every blood water figure.

In that instant, the blood water figures reacted as if they had encountered a natural enemy. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

They immediately dispersed and melted into fluid masses, then flowed toward Xiao Shou’s body.

Green and red intertwined, making the surrounding area even more eerie and distorted.

Xiao Shou allowed his body to automatically absorb the evolution energy being transmitted through the contract while focusing on refining the transformed wood spiritual energy.

As he did, Yao Heng who was enjoying the steady flow of evolution energy asked curiously, "Master, was that spell just now the minor spiritual purification art you mentioned? And what does farming mode mean?"