Chapter 117: Blood Extraction

"Ji Xue Shu?"

Mo Hua paused, then asked Bai Zixi, "Is Ji Xue Shu difficult to learn?"

Bai Zixi shook her head, "It's not difficult to learn, but it's difficult to use."

"Ji Xue Shu is a simplified form of Shen Shi Yu Wu, which allows you to draw demon blood with Shen Shi. Shen Shi Yu Wu is a skill of Foundation Establishment stage cultivators. Although Qi Refining cultivators can manage to use it, they can't do it from a distance, and it consumes a lot of Shen Shi," Bai Zixi explained.

If it was just a matter of high Shen Shi consumption, Mo Hua wasn't afraid. After all, his spiritual roots and physical training weren't very good, but he did have some strengths in Shen Shi.

Mo Hua's pair of dark, bright eyes looked at Bai Zixi expectantly.

Bai Zixi understood and sighed slightly, then took out another book from her phoenix-patterned storage bag.

The cover of the book read "Ji Xue Shu."

"Drawing blood is quite strenuous and consumes a lot of Shen Shi. Most cultivators won't learn it. Be careful yourself," Bai Zixi said.

"Okay!" Mo Hua said happily.

Then he also took out a mahogany food box from his own storage bag. Inside the food box were several pieces of Fei Cui Gao and a pot of Li Hua Niang.

The Fei Cui Gao was sweet and fragrant, and the Li Hua Niang was clear and sweet. Mixed together, they had a rich aroma.

"My mother just made it. Have a taste."

Bai Zixi was startled, the corner of her mouth slightly curled up. She didn't stand on ceremony with Mo Hua, and with her slender fingers, she picked up a piece of Fei Cui Gao and ate it in small bites.

Perhaps it was the good taste, as her bright eyes narrowed slightly.

Bai Zisheng smelled the fragrance and suddenly sat up, sniffing a few times, and looked at Mo Hua:

"Where's mine?"

"Weren't you having a headache?"

"It doesn't hurt now," Bai Zisheng said.

"You should rest more."

"Rest after eating."

Mo Hua shook his head and also took out a plate of beef for him.

"This is cooked with spicy seasoning, so it will be a bit spicier."

Bai Zisheng picked up a few slices of meat, crammed them into his mouth, and immediately hissed, saying, "So spicy!"

After chewing a few times, he nodded again, "Delicious!"

Bai Zisheng said it was spicy and fragrant at the same time. The plate of beef was quickly empty. Only then did he speak:

"What were you going to ask just now?"

"I'm done asking."

"I can't eat your food for free. Ask something else!" Bai Zisheng insisted.

Mo Hua thought for a moment and then asked:

"Ji Xue Shu is a simplified form of Shen Shi Yu Wu... What is Shen Shi Yu Wu then?"

Bai Zisheng said in confusion, "You don't even know Shen Shi Yu Wu? All Foundation Establishment stage cultivators know it."

"Is it not normal for me, a Qi Refining cultivator, not to know the abilities of Foundation Establishment stage cultivators?" Mo Hua said.

Bai Zisheng couldn't find anything to refute for a moment. He nodded and explained:

"So-called Shen Shi Yu Wu means you can control external objects from a distance by relying on Shen Shi, like these small stone tables and stools. You can move them with your Shen Shi from a distance."

"This doesn't seem like a big deal..."

"How could that be?" Bai Zisheng snorted, "Controlling these tables and stools is certainly not a big deal, but you can control swords!"

Bai Zisheng's eyes lit up, "Think about it, Shen Shi Yu Jian! From far away, with a thought, the sword flies out with a whoosh, killing the enemy from a thousand miles away! Isn't that amazing?"

"Is it really a thousand miles?"

Bai Zisheng looked speechless and said, "Are you being argumentative?"

"A Foundation Establishment stage cultivator's Shen Shi couldn't possibly extend a thousand miles," Mo Hua said factually.

Bai Zisheng reluctantly admitted, "Yes... It's good to have ten or a hundred miles."

Mo Hua had an expression of "just as I thought."

"Cultivation must be rigorous. A slight deviation can lead to a thousand miles of error. If you don't calculate clearly, you can easily lose your life when fighting others," Mo Hua said with a serious little face.

Bai Zisheng: "..."

"Besides, this controlling swords a thousand miles away is nearly ten or even a hundred times different from the actual situation. With such a large error, if you really start fighting, you'll definitely be finished!" Mo Hua added.

Bai Zisheng was helpless, "Shen Shi Yu Jian, aren't you excited?"

"Swords are so expensive, and I can't afford them. What's the use of being excited?" Mo Hua said pragmatically.

Bai Zisheng: "..."

Mo Hua thought for a moment and then said to Bai Zisheng, "You're a body cultivator, right?"

"Yes..."

"Do body cultivators also control swords?"

"Generally... they don't control swords."

"You can't control swords either, so what are you excited about?" Mo Hua asked.

Bai Zisheng took a deep breath, and a sense of powerlessness welled up in his heart.

He lay down on the ground and said seriously to Mo Hua:

"Mo Hua, in the future, there will definitely be someone in this world who gets infuriated to death by your words!"

Mo Hua looked puzzled, "How could that be? After all, they are cultivators, with strong Dao hearts. How could they be infuriated to death by just a few words?"

"You'll see, there definitely will be!"

Bai Zisheng said confidently.

After parting ways with the Bai siblings, Mo Hua went home and started learning Ji Xue Shu.

Ji Xue Shu was not considered a spell, nor could it really be considered a secret art. Instead, it was a cultivation skill similar to herb gathering, mining, or spiritual plant cultivation.

Some cultivators would rely on this skill to extract fresh demon blood and sell it to merchant houses or other cultivators who needed demon blood.

The process of drawing blood was not difficult, but the Shen Shi burden was heavy, and it was quite strenuous.

Cultivators who drew blood were similar to the body cultivators who did hard labor moving goods at Ling Yun Wharf, except these body cultivators used physical strength to transport goods, while blood drawers used Shen Shi to transport demon blood.

But physical strength is easy to recover, while Shen Shi is not. Therefore, the amount of demon blood a cultivator could draw each day was limited, and the income was not high. At least near Tong Xian City, there weren't many cultivators who knew Ji Xue Shu.

Mo Hua speculated that there might be cultivators in some states or regions who could draw large amounts of demon blood and make a living from Ji Xue Shu. Otherwise, with scarcity determining value, the spiritual ink used by formation masters would be much more expensive.

But this was just speculation. Mo Hua's experience in the cultivation world was limited, so he couldn't be completely certain.

Ji Xue Shu was not difficult to learn. Mo Hua learned it after practicing a few times according to the book.

As Bai Zixi said, Ji Xue Shu was a simplified version of Shen Shi Yu Wu. However, this kind of control couldn't be done from a distance. One had to press their palm against the demon beast's fur, sense the flow of the demon blood, and then use Shen Shi to control the demon blood, drawing it out from the demon beast's blood vessels.

There were no live or recently deceased demon beasts in Tong Xian City for Mo Hua to test Ji Xue Shu on.

Mo Hua had to ask Mo Shan to cut off a piece of fur from a wild ox demon, and then pour water on it. He then used his Shen Shi to draw the water through the fur.

Although it was quite different from real Ji Xue Shu, it was better than nothing.

Mo Hua practiced it a few times and mastered the technique.

However, the biggest problem was that even though he had learned Ji Xue Shu, there were no demon beasts for Mo Hua to draw demon blood from.

Without demon blood, he couldn't prepare spiritual ink. The problem of spiritual ink scarcity still couldn't be solved.

Mo Hua thought for a few days and finally came up with only one solution:

Go into the mountains to hunt demons!

Find a way to enter Da Hei Shan, hunt demon beasts, and then, while the demon beast had just died and its blood hadn't congealed, draw the fresh demon blood from its blood vessels.

This was the only way to obtain demon blood stably and in large quantities.

Mo Hua looked up, his gaze passing over the houses and streets of Tong Xian City, towards the dark and deep Da Hei Shan in the distance.

The mountains were treacherous, filled with poisonous mist, shrouded in clouds, and permeated with demonic energy.

That was the habitat of powerful demon creatures, and also the place where countless demon hunters in Tong Xian City had made their living and been buried for thousands of years...