Chapter 54: Fortune After the Calamity

Chu Xing’s body trembled violently as a torrent of information surged into his mind. After a long while, he instinctively muttered in a low voice.

"Blood-Devouring Strike..."

This... This Blood Curse Spirit actually contained a martial skill!

His consciousness sank into that brand, and several key pieces of information instantly became clear.

Earth-tier, lower grade!

This was actually a genuine Earth-tier martial skill!

This martial skill consisted of only a single move, yet it was a pure and explosive killing strike. It could condense true energy into a single point, forcibly piercing through the opponent's protective defensive barrier! Upon hitting the target, it could also devour a small amount of the enemy's vital blood to nourish the user!

If practiced to mastery, it could even trigger a blood-qi detonation inside the enemy's body, causing secondary, severe trauma.

"An Earth-tier martial skill!"

Chu Xing’s heart pounded wildly, and his breathing became rapid.

Throughout the entire Profound Star Pavilion, this was a treasure that would make even the inner sect elders look twice!

Previously, when he obtained a high-grade Profound-tier Phantom Flowing Wind Step, he already considered it a supreme stroke of fortune. But compared to this offensive technique right before his eyes, that was merely a drop in the bucket!

He had been worrying that despite possessing a formidable physical body and peculiar movement techniques, he lacked a truly decisive killing blow. This martial skill was simply tailor-made for him!

He had struck it rich... This time, he had truly struck it rich!

This was not a life-and-death crisis at all; it was clearly an immense stroke of divine fortune!

He laughed for a long time before slowly stopping, the pent-up frustration and exhaustion from the fierce battle instantly swept away.

He stood up, stretched his limbs, and felt the unprecedentedly profound foundation within his body. With burning eyes, he cast his gaze once again toward the huge bronze pill cauldron not far away.

"To be able to suppress such a fierce entity, this pill cauldron is definitely not an ordinary item."

Chu Xing thought to himself, a trace of fiery heat flashing in his eyes.

Taking a deep breath, he stepped over the shattered floor tiles beneath his feet and walked toward the bronze pill cauldron. The closer he got, the more distinct that heavy, oppressive aura became, causing the blood-qi in his body—which had just calmed down—to experience a slight stagnation.

Looking at the profound patterns carved on the cauldron's body, a sharp light flashed in Chu Xing's eyes. Instantly, one of the fifteen Source-Devouring Drops in his Dantian was activated!

A pure and domineering devouring force flowed along his arm, turning into a pitch-black current that pressed directly against the pill cauldron!

The moment this force came into contact with the cauldron's body!

Boom!

The pill cauldron emitted a low roar, and the patterns on its surface suddenly lit up!

Beneath the pill cauldron, on the shattered floor tiles that had long been covered in dust, array patterns were reactivated. With flowing light, they slowly outlined a downward-spinning vortex entrance!

A medicinal fragrance a hundred times richer than that of the outside world gushed out from the vortex!

"There is a whole different world below!"

Wild joy surged in Chu Xing's heart. He could sense that this medicinal fragrance originated from the same source as the pill miasma he had felt earlier when refining the Blood Curse Spirit, yet it was ten thousand times purer!

Without further hesitation, he leaped forward, diving directly into the vortex.

When Chu Xing steadied himself again, he found that he was already inside a huge, artificially excavated stone chamber.

A faint light filtered down through the dilapidated dome overhead. The fragrant medicinal fragrance in the air had almost condensed into a substantial white mist; just taking a single breath of it eased the remaining injuries in his body significantly.

Complex array diagrams were carved on the surrounding walls of the stone chamber, all patterns ultimately pointing toward the very center of the room.

Chu Xing looked in the direction guided by the array diagrams, and his pupils suddenly constricted!

He saw that in the center of the stone chamber, there was a jade pool carved entirely from a single piece of white jade, filled to the brim with milky-white, viscous liquid.

The refreshing fragrance that invigorated the spirit emanated precisely from this pool.

This... This is...

Chu Xing hurried to the edge of the jade pool and saw that the jade stones along the rim were similarly covered with profound array runes. Overhead, a visible pillar of radiant energy was continuously pouring into the pool from above.

He finally understood.

This hidden space was the true core of this entire ruin!

Over the past thirty years, the countless discarded pills and medicinal ingredients thrown down here had not had their medicinal efficacy dissipate. Instead, they had been gathered here by this miraculous array, and through the transformation and precipitation of time, they had ultimately formed this pool of supreme precious liquid!

Chu Xing cautiously extended a finger and dipped it into the milky-white liquid.

The liquid felt warm and smooth against his skin. The moment he put that finger into his mouth, a pure surge of vitality rushed to burrow into his body from his fingertips.

Melting the instant it touched his tongue, a warm and majestic torrent of warmth instantly surged into his bodily meridians!

Chu Xing felt his entire body shake violently. Under the scouring of this warm current, the hidden injuries left in his body from the previous fierce battle were being repaired at an unimaginable speed!

Injuries that would normally have required days to recover from were healed by seven or eighty percent within just a few breaths!

What alarmed him even more was that this force seemed to be cleansing his physical body. Although it was only a tiny trace, it already caused his flesh and blood to vibrate slightly, as if some deeper transformation was brewing.

"Good stuff!"

Chu Xing's expression was filled with wild joy as he gazed with burning eyes at this pool of precious liquid.

This was no mere spiritual liquid; this was practically a treasure mountain flowing with the essence of medicinal pills! Its value was immeasurable!

"Gathered from tens of thousands of pill wastes, it can truly be called the essence of spiritual liquids... From now on, I shall call you Myriad Pill Spiritual Liquid."

Chu Xing thought to himself, forcefully suppressing the agitation in his heart. With such a treasure, he had to take every last drop!

Without delay, he sat cross-legged at the edge of the jade pool and plunged his entire palm into the liquid.

"Collect!"

With a low shout, the entire pool of milky-white primordial marrow formed a rapidly spinning vortex centered around Chu Xing's palm!

A thick white pillar of water was forcibly extracted, continuously plunging into the space of the Source-Devouring Pearl within his Dantian!

The liquid level in the jade pool dropped frantically at a speed visible to the naked eye!

If an outsider were to witness this scene, their jaws would likely drop in shock, and they would curse him as a bandit!

This was the accumulation of thirty years of medicinal pill essence! Over the course of thirty years, who knew how many wastes of rare spiritual herbs and high-tier pills had been dumped here? The total amount of medicinal power contained within was enough to make even an ordinary sect turn green with envy!

If an ordinary disciple happened to stumble upon this place and obtain a single jade bottle's worth, it would already be a supreme fortune, sufficient to serve as the foundation for breaking through a major realm, and they would wake up smiling in their dreams.

Yet Chu Xing's actions bore not the slightest bit of reverence for this stroke of fortune. This wasn't called gathering a treasure; this was called robbery! It was called scraping the ground clean!

In just a dozen breaths' time, the spiritual liquid in the pool had already decreased by half. Chu Xing felt an even greater surge of heat in his heart, prompting him to drive the Source-Devouring Pearl with all his might to accelerate the absorption rate.

Soon, the liquid level rapidly bottomed out. Finally, even the jade stones at the bottom of the pool were exposed, sucked completely clean without a single drop remaining!

Having finished all this, Chu Xing glanced at the stone chamber—which had been plundered cleaner than a freshly washed face—and stood up with utter satisfaction.

"It's about time, let's head out."

With that, he didn't linger any longer. He leaped upward and, following the entrance, returned to the ruins above.