Realm-Hopping Martial Master-Chapter 748 - 416: Heading to the Eternal Tower! Genius of the Ten Thousand Clans!

The piercing pain spread throughout the body, Jiang Shu felt his soul shaking violently, an indescribable pain lasting almost an hour.

The entire soul power seemed to be separating from the flesh.

"Huff..."

Jiang Shu breathed heavily, his eyes cold and terrified; he couldn't believe how difficult it was to fuse the fiftieth blood crystal after the forty-ninth.

His face was contorted, completely beyond his control, his whole body enveloped in blood mists, fortunately within the Jiuyu Commerce Alliance.

If outside, it would undoubtedly put him in an extremely dangerous situation.

At this moment, he had no ability to resist.

Even wanting to stop the fusion was impossible; he seemed to have lost control of his body, only feeling the surging power of the blood crystal constantly washing through every corner of his body.

"Pfft!"

Jiang Shu endured everything, using his Forget Self Realm Peak spiritual power to prevent his soul and flesh from separating, until the last moment when a mouthful of blood spurted from his mouth.

His face was as pale as a sheet.

Blood oozing from every pore on his body, each bone cracking, meridians severing, injuries severe.

The blood crystal in his hand changed from nearly transparent to red, then surged and suddenly exploded.

"Failed..."

By operating the Immortal Acupoint Technique, three hundred sixty-five acupoints emitted an immortal aura, healing Jiang Shu's body, and within hours his injuries were seventy to eighty percent recovered.

"This blood crystal, like the previous ones, contains surging energy and the Blood Essence Dao Prototype, yet upon fusion, my body showed no progress and instead began to backfire. My understanding of the Blood Essence Dao remained stagnant, mastering the Blood Essence Dao Prototype unchanged from before."

"Could it be... only able to fuse up to the forty-ninth? What does the fusion of this blood crystal test? It's not the soul, the Blood Essence Dao is related only to the flesh. Even with Forget Self Realm Peak spiritual power, it's useless."

"In terms of the flesh, having cultivated Divine Skills, Five Elements Chaotic Thunder Tribulation Dragon Transformation Technique and Ten Thousand Treasures Cross-Integration Technique, my physical strength far surpasses the average Nirvana Realm True Monarch, comparable directly to the Demon Race."

"If even I can only fuse fifty blood crystals, how could the Demon Sect's practitioners possibly fuse more? Was my initial thought wrong? Can Nirvana Realm True Monarch not comprehend the entire Blood Essence Dao through blood crystal fusion?"

Jiang Shu frowned slightly, something he had never considered. In his view, the difficulty should lie in finding blood crystals, not in their fusion.

It seems now, if this step is not solved, even collecting hundreds of blood crystals would be futile, using them only as resources for other Nirvana Realm True Monarchs to quickly comprehend parts of the Blood Essence Dao Prototype.

Not hurried to fuse more blood crystals, Jiang Shu took out a blood crystal, carefully sensed it, and stored the remaining ones within space.

Sitting cross-legged, Primordial Power surged, seated above the Undying Spring Eye, Jiang Shu repaired himself repeatedly, the Forget Self Realm Peak soul reuniting with the flesh to achieve perfection.

This time returning to the Jiuyu Commerce Alliance, he had only ten days left before departure.

Fusion failure, he no longer had time for trial and error, only to wait to slowly consider fusion upon reaching the Eternal Tower.

Immersed in cultivation, Jiang Shu recalled the fusion process of forty-nine blood crystals, constantly comprehending the Blood Essence Dao from Divine Skills.

Days later.

A gentle knocking sound echoed repeatedly.

Tucker stood outside the door, respectfully waiting.

Today, he received a transmission from Squad Leader Shang, coming to notify Lord Jiang Shujiang.

Though it had been five years since he first met Lord Jiang Shujiang.

Yet, his understanding of Lord Jiang wasn't much.

The two had virtually no exchanges since then, nor did he know what Lord Jiang did upon leaving Jiuyu Commerce Alliance years earlier.

The only thing noticeable was Lord Jiang's strength seemed to have changed again.

The change wasn't in spiritual power, but the flesh!

"Is it time?"

Hearing the knocking, Jiang Shu slowly opened his eyes.

Time flowed like water, days of cultivation merely restored his flesh and soul power to their peak. He still had no clue about blood crystal fusion.

He even dared not forcibly fuse again.

First, his blood crystals were always limited, vaguely guessing fifty would only push his Blood Essence Dao Prototype further, not immediately quality change. Trying with more crystals, causing shortage, would be troublesome.

Second, soon to embark to the Star Ruins Realm's Inner Circle, originally from Xuanxing to Star Ruins Realm, aiming for the three great secret places within the Inner Circle. Eternal Tower, Deep Space Sea, Immortal Stairs.

Now given the chance to approach the first Eternal Tower, he naturally wouldn't miss it.