"It's time to improve my physical strength and body quality."
Ye Yunfei waved his hand, and over a thousand jade bottles flew out.
What these jade bottles contained were all the Bloodline Essence Ye Yunfei had collected over the previous period.
He had collected the Bloodline Essence of any martial artist with cultivation at the Star Bridge Realm or above.
There were those from the Star Bridge Realm, the Sea Splitting Realm, and even the Lightning Tribulation Realm!
"I wonder what level I can reach in the Heavenly Demon Blood-Refining Body Art with all this Bloodline Essence," Ye Yunfei wondered with anticipation.
Over a thousand bottles of Bloodline Essence from cultivators of Star Bridge Realm and above were terrifying both in quantity and quality.
Ye Yunfei felt that this time, he might be able to break through several levels consecutively in the Heavenly Demon Blood-Refining Body Art!
Furthermore, Ye Yunfei had already cultivated his Greenwood Emperor Body to a half-step perfection realm, and his current physical strength was roughly one-Jiao force.
Ye Yunfei was very much looking forward to seeing how much his physical strength could increase during this cultivation session.
"Let's begin."
Ye Yunfei took out a large iron cauldron. With a point of his finger, the more than a thousand jade bottles flew above the cauldron and poured all the Bloodline Essence inside.
Then, Ye Yunfei took out a large batch of pills, medicinal herbs, and various Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that aided in body tempering, throwing them into the cauldron.
Finally.
"I'll use Earth Flame to assist with the body tempering this time."
Ye Yunfei flicked his finger, and a sphere of fiery-red flame flew from his fingertip, landing inside the cauldron.
When cultivated to high levels, the Heavenly Demon Blood-Refining Body Art could utilize abnormal flames to assist in body tempering, yielding better results.
Moreover, Ye Yunfei had already refined and mastered the Earth Flame, allowing him to control its temperature at will, posing no danger.
Boom! Rumble…
As the Earth Flame entered the cauldron, terrifying roars began emanating from within. Surging blood-colored light shot skyward, making it look like a hellish crimson dimension.
Ye Yunfei leaped into the cauldron, activated the Heavenly Demon Blood-Refining Body Art Tempering technique, and began refining his body.
"Ah…"
Ye Yunfei's screams of agony began echoing from within the cauldron.
The body tempering process involved repeatedly tearing apart and restructuring the physical body. It was excruciatingly painful.
Unconsciously, five days passed.
"Heavenly Demon Blood-Refining Body Art, the eighth level!
However, the medicinal efficacy is far from exhausted!
Continue!"
Ye Yunfei's voice rang out from within the iron cauldron.
Another ten days passed.
"Heavenly Demon Blood-Refining Body Art, the ninth level!"
Ye Yunfei's voice rang out again.
After another ten days.
"Heavenly Demon Blood-Refining Body Art, the tenth level!"
Ye Yunfei's excited voice rang out once more.
"The medicinal power is finally used up."
Ye Yunfei slowly rose from within the iron cauldron and landed beside it.
"I actually cultivated the Heavenly Demon Blood-Refining Body Art straight through to the tenth level!
My current physical strength has reached five-Jiao force!"
Ye Yunfei clenched his fists, sensing the surging, unceasing physical strength within his body, and spoke to himself.
"Let's test my current physical body divine ability."
A thought crossed Ye Yunfei's mind.
Rumble!
In the next moment, Ye Yunfei's body continuously grew taller and thicker.
Moments later.
He transformed into a giant over seventy zhang tall!
"With my current physical strength, after activating this physical body divine ability and combining it with the True Demon Demon-Slaying Fist, the combat power I can unleash should be quite significant.
I should be able to face Sea Splitting Realm cultivators head-on now.
Additionally, with my half-step perfected Greenwood Emperor Body, simply relying on my physical power alone, it shouldn't be difficult to crush Sea Splitting Realm opponents."
Ye Yunfei internally assessed his current combat power based on his physical strength.
It had to be understood that for all body-tempering techniques in this world, the later the stage, the harder it became to cultivate and advance.
However, once a breakthrough was successfully achieved, the increase in physical strength was often astonishingly great!
In fact, when body-tempering techniques were cultivated to the later stages, it wasn't that their power was weak—quite the opposite, the power would become increasingly formidable!
It was just that the cultivation difficulty was simply too great!
Hence, many martial artists in the world were unwilling to cultivate them.
"Next, I should properly improve my Soul Power."
Ye Yunfei's body continuously shrank, returning to its normal state. He put away the iron cauldron and sat cross-legged.
Then, Ye Yunfei took out a large batch of pills specifically used to enhance Soul Power and began ingesting and refining them.
During the previous period, Ye Yunfei had harvested many treasures rich in Soul Power energy, all of which he had refined into pills.
As he consumed and refined more and more pills, Ye Yunfei's Soul Power intensity began to rise.
"It's been a long time since I cultivated the Eighteen Soul Immortal Art.
Let's practice it a bit."
Recalling the Eighteen Soul Immortal Art, Ye Yunfei began cultivating it while simultaneously ingesting and refining pills.
Unconsciously, one month passed.
A month later.
Ye Yunfei had already finished consuming and refining all the Soul Power-enhancing pills.
His Soul Power intensity had increased by a large margin!
"Alright, time to raise my spiritual energy cultivation realm.
My physical strength has improved this much; raising my spiritual energy realm shouldn't lead to an unstable foundation.
Besides, for the sake of rescuing Mother and Little Sister, I can't worry about that for now."
Ye Yunfei decided to advance his spiritual energy cultivation realm.
For the time that followed, Ye Yunfei began assaulting the cultivation barrier.
Approximately three months later.
Boom!
Ye Yunfei successfully broke through to the early Star Bridge Realm!
Another three months later, he broke through once more.
The middle Star Bridge Realm!
"That's enough."
Ye Yunfei stood up, sensing the surging, turbulent spiritual energy within his body, and said to himself.
With his spiritual energy cultivation realm improved, the power of the various spiritual energy martial techniques Ye Yunfei could unleash would also increase significantly!
"Now, I have a certain amount of confidence to go rescue Mother and Little Sister!
It won't be long before our family can reunite!"
This thought passed through Ye Yunfei's mind.
During this period, rescuing his mother and sister was the thought that occupied Ye Yunfei's mind every single moment!
"Hu Miao, head toward the next Miao Clan Branch Stronghold."
Ye Yunfei sent a voice transmission to Hu Miao, who was currently piloting the spaceship.
"Okay."
Hu Miao nodded and immediately controlled the ship to head toward the nearest Miao Clan Branch Stronghold.
Two days later.
They arrived within a star domain called the Yuefu Star Domain.
The main star in this domain was called Yuefu Star.
Upon Yuefu Star was a city of massive scale called Miao City.
This Miao City was a stronghold of the Miao Clan.
Since fifteen Miao Clan Branch Strongholds had been destroyed during this period, every remaining branch outpost of the Miao Clan was now heavily fortified.
Boom! Rumble…
The land upon which Miao City on Yuefu Star was located trembled incessantly, as if struck by a massive earthquake.
"Look!
Heavens! There's a giant reaching for the heavens and standing firm on the earth!"
At the main gates of Miao City, several dozen sentries responsible for guarding the entrance stared into the distance with shocked eyes.
In the distance, a giant over seventy zhang tall was striding quickly toward Miao City.
Every step left a gigantic, deep footprint in the ground!
In the blink of an eye, the giant arrived before Miao City. It stood tall, looking down upon the city.
Th-thump…
The several dozen gate guards trembled in fear, their throats rattling yet unable to produce a single word.
Rumble!
The giant suddenly lifted its leg and stomped, completely crushing the section of the city wall where the gates were located into rubble.
Then, the giant walked into the city.
Crash! Boom!
Wherever the giant went, it stomped buildings into dust and trampled martial artists into bloody paste.
"Attack!"
Within Miao City, the Miao Clan forces were initially stunned, but then gritted their teeth and charged toward the giant.
"Stop your madness! Hand over your life!"
A mid Sea Splitting Realm expert soared through the air, brandishing a long spear, and thrust it at the giant.
Instantly, the air in the area filled with a dense, intricate web of sharp spear shadows, surging toward the giant like a tidal wave.
Bang! Bang!
The giant threw its fists.
After two punches.
Splat!
That mid Sea Splitting Realm expert was shattered into pieces by a single fist strike, perishing on the spot!