Inside this storage ring, there were three bodies of orc powerhouses in total.
Lin Yun entered the space of the One Thought Clear Heart Tower directly, then began extracting their essence blood.
He quickly drew out the essence blood from the three bodies, filling three jade gourds completely.
With the essence blood now extracted, he could finally begin formal cultivation.
“Let’s start.”
Lin Yun closed his eyes, circulated his inner force, and followed the route of the seventh divine vein described in the Divine Vein Technique, guiding his inner force to open the pathway.
Under the immense power of a Supreme’s inner force, the process went very smoothly, and progress was rapid.
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While Lin Yun was in seclusion, the Dao Alliance and the six major forces had naturally learned of the completion of the Wuji Heavenly Palace.
The Supremes of the six major forces were well aware that attacking the Wuji Heavenly Palace in the Ancestral Heart Realm would be extremely difficult. After all, Lin Yun had the elf race and the orc race as his backing.
A forced assault would certainly lead to heavy casualties.
This was completely different from attacking the former Wuji Heavenly Palace. Back then, although it was powerful, it lacked the support of the elves and the orcs.
Even though they had received orders from the Heavenly Dao, they were unwilling to pay such a steep price in lives, nor did they wish to risk being killed themselves in a counterattack.
So they waited for an opportunity.
They waited for Lin Yun to enter the nine domains of the human race, and only then would they strike against him.
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Wuji Heavenly Palace.
Inside the One Thought Clear Heart Tower.
Ten days later, the seventh divine vein had taken initial shape. The next step was the most crucial.
Lin Yun brought out a jade gourd filled with essence blood and swallowed its entire contents in one gulp.
As soon as the essence blood entered his body, Lin Yun guided it toward the seventh divine vein.
The newly formed seventh divine vein encountered the essence blood and immediately began absorbing it voraciously.
Under the influence of the essence blood, the vein underwent a qualitative transformation and steadily took shape.
About half an hour later, the first gourd of essence blood was completely absorbed, yet the seventh divine vein was still not fully opened.
Lin Yun immediately took out a second gourd, swallowed all of it, and once again directed the essence blood toward the vein.
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When half of this second gourd had been absorbed, the seventh divine vein could take no more.
The seventh divine vein was now fully formed.
“The process of opening the seventh divine vein went quite smoothly.” Lin Yun sensed the seven divine veins within his body, and a faint smile appeared on his lips.
Before reaching the Supreme realm, even if Lin Yun had gathered sufficient essence blood, opening the seventh divine vein would have been extremely difficult because his realm was not high enough.
The first step in opening a divine vein is to use inner force to clear the pathway. The second step is to irrigate it with essence blood, thereby forming the vein.
The final three divine veins simply cannot be opened without the Supreme realm. The quality of a Supreme’s inner force is vastly superior to anything below that level.
“Continue.”
Half a gourd of essence blood from the second flask still remained unused inside Lin Yun’s body. He decided to attempt opening the eighth divine vein directly.
Lin Yun first studied the route of the eighth divine vein in the Divine Vein Technique within his mind, then circulated his inner force and began guiding it along that route to clear the pathway.
At his early Supreme realm, opening the eighth divine vein proved somewhat strenuous.
The speed was noticeably slower, but it was still effective. Even though progress was gradual, it moved forward bit by bit.
This time, Lin Yun spent a full three months before the eighth divine vein finally took initial shape.
He then directed the remaining half-gourd of essence blood toward the eighth divine vein.
That remaining essence blood was swiftly absorbed.
Lin Yun immediately took out the third gourd and swallowed its entire contents.
The essence blood from the third gourd was also quickly absorbed by the eighth divine vein, but it still fell short of fully forming it. There remained a noticeable gap.
The three gourds of essence blood were of similar quality. Opening the seventh divine vein had required one and a half gourds.
Yet the remaining one and a half gourds were not enough to complete the eighth.
The essence blood from the three orc bodies that Mu Li had given Lin Yun was now completely used up.
Clearly, the eighth divine vein demanded even more essence blood.
Lin Yun flipped his hand once more and produced another jade gourd.
The essence blood inside this gourd had been extracted from the body of a legendary orc powerhouse who, decades ago, had dominated the orc race for many years. It came from the time when Lin Yun had helped Mu Li search for the Red Cloud Heart.
