As the vast amounts of Qi and blood were absorbed by Su Jie’s technique, his entire skin gradually reddened and heated up, with steam swirling from the top of his head. The restless Qi and blood rampaged through Su Jie’s meridians and acupoints like wild horses, eager to break free from the constraints of the physical body. If Su Jie were not of Purple Mansion cultivation, a Dao Platform Realm cultivator undergoing such an impact would have had their body explode on the spot into pieces. However, Su Jie was nonetheless uncomfortable at this moment. The Qi and blood of the thousand-hand centipede were overwhelmingly powerful, with its three-thousand-meter-long body weighing in billions of tons due to its dense flesh and bones. These are extraordinarily exaggerated figures, naturally leading to the immense strength of the thousand-hand centipede’s Qi and blood; even a slight spill can ignite the Xuantian Mine Vein, let alone such fierce feedback. Su Jie’s body turned into a massive furnace, like parched earth after a drought, his skin cracking open with blood spilling out all over. The thousand-hand centipede sensed Su Jie’s condition, instinctively slowing down the feedback of Qi and blood, calling out with some concern. "Xiao Qian, continue." Su Jie opened his eyes, instructing the thousand-hand centipede to increase its power. Such pain could not shake Su Jie’s will; he focused all his energy on refining the upper elixir within his sea of consciousness, commanding the thousand-hand centipede to continue the influx of Qi and blood. Within the upper elixir of the sea of consciousness! Su Jie’s Yang God condensed into a hundred-meter-tall golden-armored god, wielding a thunder axe constructed of Purple Cloud Divine Thunder, forcefully striking into the empty void. Behind him, the surge of Qi and blood transformed into smoke waves, feeding back from Xiao Qian’s body, rising like tides with each of Su Jie’s strikes, relentlessly pounding into the void’s darkness. The upper elixir is not a certain acupoint in the human body; it is hidden deep within the sea of consciousness, also known as the mud ball, Primordial Spirit Mansion, and Palace of Sex. This is the mansion of hidden spirits, the storage of the body’s innate Qi, concerning the foundational spiritual roots of the human body, breaking through it is inherently extremely difficult. Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! One axe after another, Su Jie wielded, the Qi and blood flowed like inexhaustible tides. In the dark and empty void, the intertwining of electricity and Qi and blood gradually began to change. Originally dull and lightless, the void gradually revealed a faint multicolored sheen. It was as if a barrier had been chiseled open, allowing Su Jie to begin observing the interior landscape beyond. The multicolored halo exhibited surging vitality, ultimately producing more and more cracking sounds, opening a person-sized gap in the darkness by Su Jie’s strikes. In the external world, the sky dropped the essence of sun, moon, and starlight around Su Jie’s body, while the ground produced blooming fire lotuses and flowing sweet springs. The sky has three treasures: the sun, moon, and stars; the earth has three treasures: water, fire, and wind; humans have three treasures: spirit, Qi, and essence. Where the upper elixir resides, within lies the treasures of spirit, Qi, and essence. The three treasures of heaven, earth, and man are one; as Su Jie refines the upper elixir, heaven and earth resonate, revealing various phenomena around Su Jie’s body. As the phenomena reveal, streams of innate Qi surged from the upper elixir into Su Jie’s limbs and bones. The originally damaged body of Su Jie underwent an earth-shattering change under this injection of innate Qi. In the void, the essence of sun, moon, and starlight wrapped around Su Jie’s flesh and blood, forming Su Jie’s heart with sunlight, transforming it into a mighty sun that radiated limitless power. The moonlight formed Su Jie’s blood, with each drop of silver-tinted blood falling to earth like the reflection of a cold moon, filling the area with brilliance. Starlight entered Su Jie’s seven orifices, refining them into star acupoints, where abilities like the Thousand-Mile Eye and Sharp-Hearing Ear became the most basic capabilities. The fire lotuses and Ganlu emerging from the ground composed Su Jie’s flesh and bones, merging with the innate Qi and reshaping Su Jie’s physical body. Su Jie’s physical form was reversing from acquired into an innate divine body. Reaching this step indicated that Su Jie had successfully traversed the path of the Purple Mansion Middle Stage, and with orderly progress, as his body remodeled and reshaped, he could smoothly refine the upper elixir and achieve the Purple Mansion Middle Stage. "Not enough, still not enough!" However, Su Jie’s ambition did not stop there. Eyeing the gap in the void’s darkness before the sea of consciousness, Su Jie withdrew large jars full of blood from his Storage Bag. This blood comes from the cultivators of Qingzhou, Qing Province, and Chongzhou, their quality beyond that of ordinary mortals. This essence blood was naturally provided under the request of Ghost Ridge Palace. From disciples of the Secret Realm to sect masters of the Dao Platform Realm, faced with the demand of the Purple Mansion True Demon, Su Jie, the terror of the Three States, no one dared to refuse. After all, giving blood wasn’t the same as draining their bodies; offering just a portion of their blood had no impact on their health, and was far better than rejecting and having Ghost Ridge Palace come at their doorstep. If that time came, the extraction wouldn’t be just a little blood, their lives could be at risk, potentially being drained entirely dry. "Blood Sea Devouring Sky Demon Skill!" With a low shout, Su Jie activated the Blood Sea Devouring Sky Demon Skill, refining and absorbing all this essence blood from the cultivators. Su Jie’s Blood Sea Devouring Sky Demon Skill, after obtaining the essence blood of these cultivators and the accumulation from Blue Star, has once again broken through, reaching the eleventh level. The Holy Blood surged fiercely in continual refinement; Su Jie, with Blood Sea Devouring Sky Demon Skill empowered, wielded the Thunder Axe, slashing viciously at the void in his sea of consciousness, gradually widening the upper elixir gap, causing more innate Qi to flow out, maximizing the benefits of this breakthrough ascension. Gradually, the gap in the sea of consciousness expanded from the size of a person to several times larger, turning into a circumference of ten feet. Yet, that was not the end, as the Thousand-Handed Centipede absorbed and emitted essence blood, mingling with a trace of Tao River’s aura. This was its evolutionary trait as a Tao Chaos Creature; because Su Jie’s body was starting to transform into an Innate Divine Body, he could bear more of its essence blood empowerment. In terms of human body strength, naturally, it is not comparable to the Thousand-Handed Centipede with its growth traits dictated by nature, measured in million tons. Just like on Blue Star, human body strength is nowhere near a gorilla’s; even if a silverback gorilla is caged in a zoo, eating well and sleeping all day, and a human exercises tirelessly from childhood, by the time they grow up, the difference in physical fitness is still visible to the naked eye. The Thousand-Handed Centipede’s essence blood feedback became increasingly intense, with the gap of the upper elixir in the sea of consciousness expanding to thirty feet in circumference. It had reached Su Jie’s limit; going further would be too much, overwhelming both the body and the soul. The sunlight and starlight descending from the sky were purer, as were the fire lotus and spring from the ground, offering more benefits to Su Jie’s physical body. Every heartbeat triggered ripples in the surrounding void, with the blood flowing through his limbs and bones causing the spiritual power within a thousand-mile radius to rush into Su Jie’s body like the sea accepting a hundred rivers. This process lasted for three whole days! After three days, when the final transformation was complete, Su Jie suddenly opened his eyes and stood up from his seated position. Just this slight movement sent web-like cracks spreading to the edge of vision. Su Jie perceived the changes within his body, looking down at his palm. The skin of his arm was crystal clear and delicate, without any impurities, like jade, with jade bones and golden muscles. He clenched his fingers tightly into a fist and swung it forward. The void cracked, the fist wind enveloped with Gang Qi, plowing out a vacuum tunnel tens of thousands of meters wide through the clouds. The landscape ahead surged with dragons and snakes, forests of ten thousand hectares collapsing like dominoes, the earth’s crust boiling like asphalt, cracking into a bottomless abyss, with underground rivers and magma spurting up, forming towering waves of turbid water and burning lava, mixing with hot river water to produce steaming vapors that obscured everything in sight. The sky, like a piece of xuan paper crumpled by a giant hand, with earth fragments falling into the cracked abyss. The force of one punch had rewritten a hundred miles of terrain. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵※𝖿𝗂𝗋𝖾※𝙣𝙚𝙩 This was the power of the Middle-stage Purple Mansion Realm’s Innate Divine Body; every punch and kick carried the might of the Ancient Heavenly People. Su Jie was not just any Middle-stage Purple Mansion, because with the deepening refinement of the upper elixir, his physical combat power improved more than ordinary Middle-stage Purple Mansion cultivators. "Middle-stage Purple Mansion, achieved." Su Jie’s smile widened as he looked at the punch he casually threw; this supreme boost in combat power rewarded all of his hard preparation, elevating his power significantly. The Thousand-Handed Centipede climbed onto Su Jie’s shoulder, its antennae twitching, excitedly taking credit for itself. "Xiao Qian, you are the chief contributor!" Su Jie smiled and patted the head of the Thousand-Handed Centipede, causing it to squint with joy, overjoyed to the point of ecstasy. Its happiness was simple; the recognition from its master was the greatest praise. "Congratulations, husband." Han Ruyan drifted over, observing the transformation in Su Jie’s body; at this moment, Su Jie’s body could indeed be described as a Divine Body. "With a stronger body, I can better be with my wife." Su Jie raised an eyebrow, smiling as he spoke. Han Ruyan seemed to think of something, her pretty face slightly flushed. As for the annual ring worm, it looked at Su Jie with a mature nod, muttering a few sounds. "Oh, I’m the strongest sect master you’ve ever seen, naturally, for I am Su Jie!" Su Jie laughed heartily, the Middle-stage Purple Mansion cultivation, Blood Sea Devouring Sky Demon Skill at level eleven, coupled with Ninth Grade Fierce Ghost Han Ruyan and top-grade Nine Refinement Gu Worm Thousand-Handed Centipede, Su Jie was undoubtedly content, feeling that the world was vast and he could reach it. "Being so strong at Middle-stage Purple Mansion, I wonder what the Heavenly Palace at Late-stage Purple Mansion would be like." Su Jie murmured to himself, refining the upper elixir to its utmost would lead to opening the Sensing Heaven Palace, the Late-stage Purple Mansion Realm. The Purple Mansion is the title for the celestial residence, a palace where immortals dwell. Late-stage Purple Mansion requires refining void into reality in the sea of consciousness, establishing a celestial palace within the body for the Yang God to reside, only then can one ascend high to become an emperor, ruling over all life as a supreme master. All life refers to the cells in one’s body; a grain of sand is a world, a leaf a Bodhi, once Su Jie excavates the potential of his human cells, his body functions will usher in another earth-shaking transformation.