There were two ponds here, one high and the other low. There was colorful liquid in the ponds, and upon closer inspection, it was actually different spirit energy. The lower ponds were filled with blood, and between the ponds, there was a channel connecting them.
"Congratulations, you have entered the rear claws area. Right now, what is in front of you two is a reward, and only by accepting the reward and strengthening your own strength can you enter the abdomen through the Vermillion Bird Ridge's front claws!" Just as Chen Zhan and Chen Guang were hesitating, a voice sounded beside their ears.
The two of them looked towards the source of the sound at the same time and a stone golem appeared in front of them. The two of them knew that this was a puppet and Chen Zhan spoke: "Senior, you are a puppet left behind by the Vermillion Bird Grandmaster, right?"
"No!" However, the golem shook its head and said: "I am not a puppet, but rather a Spirit Stone from the Vermillion Bird Ridge. The Vermillion Bird Ancestor sent a strand of his spirit into my body, letting me take human form and wait for the people from the Chen family who brought the Vermillion Bird Bow or Vermillion Bird Imperial Decree over to receive the inheritance from the Vermillion Bird Ancestor!"
"Senior, I'm really sorry, I just recognized you as a puppet!" Chen Zhan said apologetically.
"I'm fine!" The statue smiled and shook his head, saying in a very casual manner, "You guys should quickly enter the pool to strengthen yourselves!"
"Plop!" Chen Guang jumped into the first pool first, while Chen Zhan asked the golem: "Senior, how exactly did this spirit energy pool and blood pool form?"
"Take a look for yourself!" The statue was not impatient at all. It pointed downwards, under its front claws. There was actually a large amount of bones. The spirit energy pool and the blood pool, were all brought by those people who did not bring along Vermillion Bird Bow and Vermillion Bird Bow, and hastily entered the Vermillion Bird Ridge. Their spirit energy and blood had all turned into ownerless objects, and they were now given to Chen Zhan and Chen Guang Tu as bridal clothing.
"Understood, hurry up and enter the pool to strengthen yourself!" Otherwise, it'll be hard for you to get through from the front claws all the way to the thighs! " The golem urged Chen Zhan.
"Senior, I still have one last question!" However, just as Chen Zhan finished speaking, he was slapped into the spirit energy pool with a stone. Chen Zhan was shocked. Under the palm of the golem, he could not resist at all, and the golem's cultivation was deep and unfathomable.
The moment Chen Zhan entered the spirit energy pool, different types of spirit energy entered his body together. He immediately started to worry about Chen Guang. Because different types of spiritual energy would enter his body, different types of spiritual energy would collide within his dantian. If so, it was very possible that his dantian would explode from the impact. Chen Zhan was not worried though, because he had the blood pool. When he was refining the blood pool, any familiar spiritual energy would turn into non-elemental spiritual energy.
"Try out the pain, you can taste the sweetness!" At this moment, the statue's voice rang in his ears.
Chen Zhan curled his lips. He already understood that the spirit energy pond was also a test, only by surviving the collisions of spirit energy of different attributes would he be able to taste some of the sweetness in the spirit pond. He guessed that besides spiritual energy of different attributes, the spiritual energy pool must also contain other things.
Chen Zhan did not care about the spiritual energy that was of different attributes being poured into his body crazily. He started to search for different substances in the spirit energy pool that could help him cultivate according to his own guesses.
"Power of rebirth!" Chen Zhan was the first to think of the materials that would be needed to an expert in the Mysterious Spirit Realm to break through. His next goal was to find new life. Only by increasing his strength in the spiritual energy pool could he be considered as sweet.
"There!" After an hour of searching, Chen Zhan discovered a place at the center of the pool where a large amount of new energy was gathered. Upon realizing this, he immediately walked towards that direction.
The golem outside the pool had seen all of their actions, and when it realised that Chen Zhan was not affected in the slightest by the different kinds of familiar spirit energy, it made him especially surprised.
Chen Zhan came to the spiritual force that held the power of rebirth, and when he felt it, he frowned. He realized that the power of rebirth was actually different as well, and was different from his own rebirth, and it was only at this moment that he realized that the rebirth ability of each person was different as well.
"It seems that I can't imitate others and can only learn from them. I can only use the power of many different types of Freshmen to verify and collide with each other. Combined with my own spirit seed shards, I can burst with inspiration and help me break through!" Chen Zhan immediately gave himself a direction to cultivate.
The spirit energy in this place was also devoured by the blood pool, but the new energy contained within the spirit energy did not directly enter the body to become his, but instead stayed within the body. Not the power of rebirth, once it enters the dantian, once it collides with the power of rebirth, something unpredictable could happen.
"There's a total of three thousand types of new strength. It seems that three thousand experts of the Mysterious Spirit Realm have accidentally barged into Vermillion Bird Ridge!" This was what Chen Zhan thought.
Beside the pond, the golem said with a face full of shock: "I never thought that he would find the power of 3000 new students so quickly. This was done intentionally by the Vermillion Bird Ridge, to allow him to use the power of 3000 new students, to beat his own power of 3000 new students to achieve the charm of 3000 Great Dao!"
Chen Zhan looked at the new energy in the blood pool, he carefully observed the new energy, but he realized that every type of energy was different. Every cultivator's new energy was unique, it seemed like Chen Zhan's method to confirm it was not feasible.
"That won't work. There's no way the power of 3,000 streams of new life wouldn't be useless!" Chen Zhan fell into deep thoughts.
"Three thousand streams of power of rebirth. Three thousand great Daos. Three thousand major worlds!" Chen Zhan kept on chanting these three words, but he kept on having a feeling that the three thousand streams of new energy left in the spirit energy pool must have some sort of use.
Chen Zhan pondered for an entire two hours, but he still could not think of how to use the power of three thousand new students. How to use the power of three thousand new students to increase his own cultivation?
"Could it be that he's using the three thousand new energies as nourishment for his own power of rebirth?" In the next fifteen minutes, Chen Zhan suddenly had this thought.
Chen Zhan started to hesitate. If he were to directly place the three thousand strands of power of rebirth into his dantian, if he did not control it well, it would conflict with his own power of rebirth. At that time, who knew what would happen? If he destroyed the spirit seed shards, he wouldn't gain the upper hand. Not only would his cultivation regress, he might not be able to advance another step from now on.
"Let's give it a try. If we succeed, there might be an incomparable power of rebirth. In the future, when the fragments turn into fields, they might be even greater than anyone else!" In the end, Chen Zhan gritted his teeth and decided to give it a try.
"3000 streams of new energy, burn them for me!" Chen Zhan roared angrily as he used his new flame to ignite the power of three thousand new students. Flames continued to surge out of the blood pool one after another.
Under Chen Zhan's powerful soul force and consciousness, the three thousand flames circled around the spirit seed shards and started to use the flames of the new life force to calcinate the spirit seed shards, forcing the new life contained within the destruction of the spirit seed shards to manifest.
"It hurts!" In the next moment, Chen Zhan screamed in pain, his entire dantian feeling as though it was being torn, as though it was suffering the same pain he felt when his dantian was crippled. But the pain was now even more intense, and he had no choice but to clench his teeth and endure.
However, Chen Zhan was simply unable to focus on comprehending it at the moment, and could only wait for the three thousand strands of new energy to be completely exhausted.
Three days later, Chen Guang had directly entered the seventh level of the Profound Spirit Realm, and he had already jumped into the blood pool from the spirit energy pool. The method he used was completely different from Chen Zhan's. While he was enduring the spirit energy, he was actually researching on the power of rebirth, and in the end, his comprehension power suddenly increased as well.
At this time, only some liquid remained of the three thousand streams of new energy in Chen Zhan's dantian. This was the most essence of the new energy, the most basic component of the new energy. Only by being burned by the flames could it be seen by others.
"Go ahead and fuse them!" Chen Zhan roared angrily as he gathered the most important parts together. Then, he sprinkled them all on top of the fragments and fused them with his new strength.
After comprehending the power of rebirth from all the spirit seed shards, he then stepped into the ninth level of the Profound Spirit Realm. The next step was to learn how to release the power of rebirth and then gather the power together with the spirit spring.
Chen Zhan did not continue to cultivate. He felt that now was not the time to do so, although training and tempering his foundation more would strengthen him, allowing him to accumulate a deep level of breakthrough. Only after that would he be able to step into the Earth Spirit Realm alive.
When one was about to break through to the Mysterious Spirit Realm, many cultivators would encounter something especially mysterious. Sometimes, it was as if they were a mountain that had passed through the clouds and fallen directly to the opposite side. Since ancient times, almost a third of practitioners had fallen into the Mysterious Spirit Realm. The lives of those who did so were usually within a line.
Chen Zhan walked out of the spirit energy pool and entered the blood pool. The moment he entered the blood pool, he began to let the blood pool in his body quickly devour him.
The reason why Chen Zhan did this, was because he had thought of a way to use his own blood to cultivate, refine it, and fuse it with his body to increase his physical strength. He hoped to tear apart the fourth physical shackle in one go, so that he could use his physical body to fight against the feudal powerhouse.
The devouring speed of the blood pool was extremely fast, and Chen Zhan's refining speed was extremely fast. His physical strength was also increasing rapidly, and everything was approaching the goal that Chen Zhan had expected.
At this moment, the golem was completely shocked and could not help but take a few steps back. This was because the location of Chen Zhan was now a densely packed vortex that affected almost half of the blood pool.